Conductor Geoffrey Robson and the ASO perform beloved hits from the big stage with featured soloists Melissa Errico and Ryan Silverman.
Children kindergarten through 12th grade can attend our Sunday matinee performances for free (with the purchase of an adult ticket) using the Entergy Kids Ticket – available for download at http://www.arkansassymphony.org/. Adult single tickets range from $20-$52 and can be purchased online at http://www.arkansassymphony.org/ or over the phone at (501) 666-1761. Student and military tickets are $10.
Program Details
VALENTINES IN NEW YORK
Saturday, February 11 at 8 p.m.
Sunday, February 12 at 3 p.m.
Robinson Center Music Hall
Featuring
Melissa Errico, soloist
Ryan Silverman, soloist
Geoffrey Robson, conductor
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
Program:
Funny Girl Overture
Another Opening/No Business Like Show Business
Luck Be A Lady
A Wonderful Guy
Put On A Happy Face
The Summer Knows
Mame Overture
Just In Love
How Are Things in Glocca Morra?
Maria
I Got Rhythm
INTERMISSION
Guys and Dolls Overture
Be Our Guest
It Only Takes a Moment
Vanilla Ice Cream
All I Care About Is Love
Getting Married Today
Mamma Mia Medley
Jesus Christ Superstar Overture
I Dreamed A Dream
Music of the Night
Melissa Errico, soloist
Melissa Errico is one of the most versatile women to have come out of this Broadway's young generation, proving herself both a great interpreter of classic musicals and modern music alike, as well as a gifted recording artist and film/television presence. She has starred in seven Broadway musicals and released two major solo cds: Blue Like That (EMI) and Lullabies and Wildflowers (VMG/Universal). She has been called everything from "divine" to "the voice of enchantment" to "one of the most valuable assets of the musical theater" by the NY TIMES as well as "incandescent" (Daily News) and "blessed with every attribute a grand dame of Broadway requires: star power, voice, looks, ability, personality, technique. An aphrodisiac, as it were, that galvanizes a musical into life." (Clive Barnes). "Our most earthy and soulful ingenue... She both sparkles and is unmannered." (USA Today) Her recordings have been praised as "intimate exhalations, sung with her heart-on-sleeve" (Billboard) and "a classy classic sound, with taste and imagination" (Washington Post) and "...ethereal, gorgeous, elegant, popular. Delivered with inward emotion and real artistry" (NY TIMES). Upon coming to hear her sing the role of Fiona in BRIGADOON in a one-night only concert on Broadway in June 2010, Ben Brantley of THE NY TIMES wrote "this beautifully sung performance had the bewitched aura of the exquisitely ephemeral. I left the Shubert feeling blessed and privileged, and I knew many of my friends would feel envious when I described what I had seen."
In 2003, Melissa won a Tony-nomination for Best Leading Actress in the Broadway musical AMOUR, composed by multi-Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand (Yentl), her musical idol, who went on to orchestrate and conduct a 100-piece symphony for the recording of Legrand Affair produced by Phil Ramone, to be released October 18th 2011. This recording is a true celebration of his songs and rare occasion for her to collaborate with Michel in the way he has only done a handful of times, including for singers such as Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughn and Johnny Mathis. AMOUR happily reunited Melissa with author/director James Lapine as she had starred the year before at The Kennedy Center opposite Raul Esparza in The Sondheim Celebration's SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE where Stephen Sondheim wrote some new lyrics for her interpretation of Dot.
Melissa's career began as Cosette in LES MISERABLES when she was only 18, for which she took a leave of absence from Yale University and returned to graduate with high honors and an art history/philosophy degree. That year, she went on to star as Eliza Doolittle in Howard Davies' daring and unusual revival of MY FAIR LADY on Broadway, and was called "beguiling" in the opening sentence of the NY Times review. Melissa revived her spunky and "frisky" (NY Times) portrayal of Eliza in 2003 opposite John Lithgow in Los Angeles. She has also starred on Broadway in HIGH SOCIETY, ANNA KARENINA and DRACULA. It was at The Hollywood Bowl in 2006 where Melissa first starred opposite Jeremy Irons in CAMELOT (a production which Variety praised as "fast, funny, inspired and deserving of a long run") and the next year in an acclaimed SOUND OF MUSIC.
In 1996, in what many recall as a major breakthrough, Melissa's witty sensual portrayal of Venus at City Center in Weill's ONE TOUCH OF VENUS took NYC by storm ("an overnight sensation! a star is born"- "divine" NY Times). She has a long resume of Broadway and off- Broadway starring credits, including the 2009-2010 Broadway revival of WHITE CHRISTMAS in which she played the Rosemary Clooney role. Over the years, she has regularly won acclaim in non-musical plays by Shaw, Wilde and modern works such as by Wally Shawn. In 2010, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Play at the Drama Desk Awards for her work in the title role of George Bernard Shaw's CANDIDA, and starred in an independent film called PATRIMONY opposite Robert Vaughn. Her other film credits include Frequency and Life Or Something Like It (opposite Angelina Jolie) and her TV credits include a series regular on Darren Starr's CBS show Central Park West and many network guest star roles including Six Degrees and Miss Match.
During the summer of 2011, Melissa co-starred with Alec Baldwin in GIFT OF THE GORGON by Peter Shaffer, and reprised CAMELOT with Jeremy Irons for one-night only on Broadway at The Shubert Theater. Melissa has sung solo engagements at The Cafe Carlyle and The Algonquin's Oak Room and has sung on many of America's most esteemed concert halls as well as on smaller stages and readings supporting developing new modern musicals. She is active in several charities, especially The Bowery Babes, a NY 501c3 non-profit she founded in 2005 which supports parents in downtown Manhattan, and provides education, counseling and connection. Since becoming a mother (to Victoria in 2006; and Diana and Juliette in 2008), Melissa has appeared with symphonies all over the country, including The Cleveland Orchestra and The New Jersey Symphony with Steven Reineke. She made an acclaimed London debut in the summer 2008 (while pregnant with twins!) with The Royal Philharmonic at The Palladium Theater with Angela Lansbury in celebration of Jerry Herman, a concert she reprised to great acclaim at The Kennedy Center in March 2009 with The National Symphony. She has toured with such conductors as Michael Tilson Thomas, and concert artists like Brian Stokes Mitchell and Michael Feinstein. Errico is married to Patrick McEnroe and they live in Manhattan. For more: http://www.melissaerrico.com/
Ryan Silverman, soloist
Ryan Silverman most recently starred in the Broadway and Las Vegas productions of “The Phantom of the Opera” as Raoul. With a beautiful voice and extraordinary range, Ryan has moved smoothly across various genres including opera, pop musicals, traditional music theater , big band, and symphony concerts. Other Broadway/NYC credits include Music In The Air (Karl) Encores!, Cry baby (Cry Baby u/s), Most Happy Fella (Al)-NYC Opera. His portrayal of Tony in the Oliver nominated 2008 West End production received universal raves. Concert work includes the Cincinnati Pops, NY Pops (Carnegie Hall), Philadelphia Orchestra, Utah, Vancouver, Edmonton, Modesto, Hartford, and Fort Worth symphonies. Cabaret appearances include Feinstein’s and the Café Carlyle.Touring credits include: Phantom (Raoul)-Las Vegas, Mamma Mia (Sky) 1st National Tour, Wicked (Fiero u/s) Chicago. He is featured in the upcoming feature film “Five Minarets” with Danny Glover and Gina Gershon. Ryan’s next project is to star in a new theatrical musical entitled “The Secret Life of Nora” which opens in Malaysia opposite Malaysian superstar, Tiara Jacqueline, in Fall 2011. Ryan originally hails from Alberta, Canada. www.facebook.com/RyanSilvermanonline.
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 46th season in 2011-2012 under the leadership of Music Director Philip Mann. ASO is the resident orchestra of Robinson Center Music Hall, and performs more than thirty concerts each year through its Stella Boyle Smith Masterworks Series, ACXIOM Pops LIVE! Series and River Rhapsodies Chamber Series, in addition to serving central Arkansas through numerous community outreach programs and bringing live symphonic music education to over 20,000 school children and over 200 schools.
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