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Back to Rialto Series - Broadway/Cabaret

Christine Ebersole

Saturday, October 23, 8:00 PM
Price $32, $42, $56

Christine Ebersole has enchanted audiences from the Broadway stage to numerous films, television series', concerts, and recordings. She has stared in Broadway hits such as “I Love My Wife”, “On the 20 th Century”, and “ Oklahoma ”. Her film credits include the Academy Award- winning Best Picture of 1984, “Amadeus”, “Tootsie”, “My Girl 2”, “Folks!” and “Til There Was You”. She won the coveted 2001 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical and the 2001 Outer Critics Circle Award. Ebersole also received an Emmy Award nomination during her one-year stint as Maxie McDermott on the ABC daytime drama “One Life to Live.” Upon returning to the East Coast after a 14-year absence, Broadway welcomed her back with open arms.

http://www.christineebersole.com/

"Christine Ebersole is smasching...her great voice too long absent from Broadway musicals." - New York Daily News

"Every time she opens her mouth, it’s like an antidote to all that youthful exuberance on stage beside her.” — The New York Times

Marvin Hamlisch

Saturday, March 5, 8:00 PM
Price $36, $46 $62

As composer, Marvin Hamlisch has won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammies, four Emmy's, a Tony, and three Golden Globe awards; his groundbreaking show, A Chorus Line, received the Pulitzer Prize. Among the Broadway shows Hamlisch has composed are They're Playing Our Song , The Goodbye Girl, Sweet Smells of Success , and Imaginary Friends . He is the composer of more than forty motion picture scores including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin's music for The Sting , for which he received his third Oscar.

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"Brilliant! Clever! Had the audience in stitches.” — The New York Times

"A wonderfully varied and entertaining musical evening.” — The Toronto Globe/Mail

"A blockbuster evening of laughs and top-notch music. Hamlisch is not only a talented composer, but also a natural comic.” — The Syracuse Post-Standard

Harold Lloyd Film Project

Accompanied by Paragon Ragtime Orchestra

Saturday, April 9, 8:00 PM
Price $26, $36, $52

Silent film star Harold Lloyd was the most popular film comedian of the 1920's, appeared in over 500 films, including many shorts, spanning both the silent and sound eras. Famous for his comic portrayals of a wistful innocent with horn-rimmed glasses who blunders in and out of hair-raising situations, Lloyd had a natural style of acting that made his character believable.

Two of Lloyd's classics will be screened: Safety Last (1923) and High and Dizzy (1920). Matthew Bernstein, who teaches Film Studies at Emory University, will hold a pre-show talk at 7:00 PM.

The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra was born after a long lost collection of orchestra scores, including those for silent films, was discovered. Rick Benjamin gathered Julliard colleagues to perform these turn-of-the-century treasures and recordings soon followed. The PRO's repertoire encompasses blues, waltzes, operatic parodies, novelty numbers, marches and popular songs of the era.

www.paragonragtime.com

“Listening to a full band perform the complete scores, written and timed to the action, proved to be a surprising delight.” — Washington Post

“The concert came off not as a dry musicological dig, but as an evening of superannuated but abidingly energetic fun.” — New York Times

Johnny Mercer Review

Friday, May 13, 8:00 PM
Price $36, $46, $62

It is almost impossible to go an entire day without hearing at least one of Johnny Mercer’s songs, whether on radio or television, in movie theaters, as background in shops and restaurants, or from cabaret stages around the world. Known as “the Bard of Savannah,” Georgia’s own Johnny Mercer wrote songs for 90 motion pictures, won four Academy Awards, wrote six Broadway musicals, founded Capitol Records, and created the Songwriters Hall of Fame. E.Y. Harburg, the man who wrote “Over the Rainbow,” said of Mercer, “He was America’s folk poet.” Some of his best-known tunes include “Moon River,” “Days of Wine & Roses,” “Black Magic,” and “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.” In honor of the 95th anniversary of his birth and his extraordinary place in the annals of American song, a special musical revue will feature the legendary Margaret Whiting, one of Mercer’s earliest discoveries and one of the first recording artists signed to Capitol Records.

http://www.johnnymercerfoundation.org/default2.html

"He was the best of them all. He could write in any style—write happy, write sad, everything…That’s the fella who rhymed ‘palace,’ ‘chalice,’ and ‘aurora borealis.’” — Cabaret Legend - Julius LaRosa