Join Principal Pops Conductor Jerry Steichen and his Broadway friends Mary Illes and Curt Olds, as they perform timeless Broadway favorites from the Golden Age and recent hits of the Great White Way. The NHSO will perform Broadway Bound: from Oklahoma! to Rent on Saturday, September 24, 2:30pm, at Hamden Middle School and Sunday, September 25, 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. Broadway Bound is made possible in part by concert sponsors Whitney Center, R.D. Scinto, and season media sponsor New Haven Register.
To honor his last 15 years of service the concert celebrates Maestro Steichen’s appointment as Principal Pops Conductor. Jerry has established himself as one of America’s most versatile young conductors and has conducted the Boston Pops and the New York Pops. He travels internationally to lead magical programs of American music.
Broadway Bound follows Maestro Steichen’s own musical journey from a small town in Oklahoma to the fast paced world of New York City. Enjoy stories from the past 15 seasons with your New Haven Symphony Orchestra Pops and many of your favorite show tunes sung by Broadway actors Mary Illes and Curt Olds.
MARY ILLES, Soprano is currently an understudy in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, her other Broadway credits include The Music Man, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Steel Pier, and She Loves Me. She has performed at City Center’s acclaimed Encores! Series, in Music in the Air, Finian’s Rainbow, and Lost in the Stars. Ms. Illes has toured in The Secret Garden, and played the role of Betty Shafor in Toronto’s Sunset Boulevard.
CURT OLDS, Baritone recently made his New York recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Jerry accompanying on the piano. Curt returns to the NHSO amidst a busy career in both musical theatre and opera, performing and directing in the U.S. and abroad. He has been seen in Don Pasquale, The Magic Flute, A Little Night Music (with Donna McKechnie), the original German production of CATS, and in Broadway’s Riverdance. Curt performs many orchestras in Broadway Pops concerts across the country.
Tickets for the Hamden ($35 & $45) and Shelton ($35) performances can be purchased by contacting the NHSO Box Office at 203.865.0831, ext. 10 by CLICKING HERE.
All programs subject to change without notice.
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