[NEohioPAL] STOCKER ARTS CENTER PRESENTS "ETHEL MERMAN: LOUD BUT HONEST"

Tue Sep 16 07:36:29 PDT 2014

STOCKER ARTS CENTER PRESENTS TMTP'S 

"ETHEL MERMAN: LOUD BUT HONEST"

CLEVELAND, OH- The Musical Theater Project honors a legendary Broadway
performer in "Ethel Merman: Loud but Honest," to be presented at Stocker
Arts Center on the campus of Lorain County Community College. Curtain
time is 2 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 12. 

Co-hosted by TMTP artistic director Bill Rudman and music director Nancy
Maier, the concert will showcase many of Merman's signature songs - all
of them from musicals -  including "You're the Top," "I Get a Kick Out
of You," "Everything's Coming Up Roses" and "There's No Business Like
Show Business."

Since Merman's career spanned more than 40 years, her songs will be
divided between two vocalists: Cassie Goldbach (the younger Merman) and
Adina R. Bloom (the older Merman). Rudman will provide commentary.

In act one, Goldbach takes audiences from Merman's stunning Broadway
debut at 21 years old singing "I Got Rhythm" in the Gershwins' "Girl
Crazy" (1930) through her triumph 16 years later in Irving Berlin's
"Annie Get Your Gun."  Then in act two, Bloom covers the later years in
selections from "Call Me Madam," "Happy Hunting" and one of Broadway's
masterworks: the Jule Styne-Stephen Sondheim "Gypsy," which premiered
when Merman was 51. 

Merman is the singer Cole Porter once compared to "a band going by." But
her legacy goes beyond vocal power. Merman was one of the most important
and influential vocalists of the 20th century, liberating herself by
presenting a new kind of woman on Broadway - a woman she christened the
"brassy dame." Her trademark "belt" was celebrated by the master
composers and lyricists of the American musical.

TMTP's multi-media concert includes dozens of still images and rare film
clips of Merman in her 20s.  "Above all it's a cavalcade of sparkling
music and lyrics," says Rudman. "The fact is that second only to Fred
Astaire, Ethel Merman inspired more pages of the Great American Songbook
than any other Broadway or Hollywood star."

Stocker Arts Center at LCCC is located at 1005 N. Abbe Road in Elyria.
Tickets are priced at $15 for adults and $10 for children 18 and under.
Tickets are available through the Stocker Arts Center box office at
440-366-4040 or online at www.StockerArtsCenter.com.

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