Lesher Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek
Friday, November 29th – Saturday, December 7th, 2013
7:30pm(November 12, 2013) WALNUT CREEK—As a holiday treat, Diablo Theatre Company offers up the delightful A Grand Night for Singing, a romantic, entertaining revue of music by Rodgers and Hammerstein, the duo who created songs that are standards of musical theater and American popular culture. The show will run November 29–December 7 at Walnut Creek’s Lesher Center for the Arts.
“Some Enchanted Evening,” “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” “Hello, Young Lovers,” “If I Loved You,” and “Maria” are just a few of the songs from landmark Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals—South Pacific, Oklahoma! The King and I, Carousel, and The Sound of Music—that are featured in this Tony Award–nominated revue.
A talented cast of five will bring these exquisitely crafted works to life through innovative arrangements that take the form of a ballroom dance send-up performed to “Shall We Dance,” a sultry Andrews Sisters version of “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair,” and a jazzy “Kansas City” from Oklahoma!
A Grand Night for Singing started as a cabaret show that Tony Award–winning director and choreographer Walter Bobbie expanded into a two-hour revue. Five performers run seamlessly through more than three dozen works from the Rodgers and Hammerstein canon. The Broadway production opened in 1993, and was nominated for two Tony Awards—for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical—and for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revue.
