SU Singers' Showcase Concert 'Broadway and Beyond' available March 19-21

SALISBURY, MD---Award-winning Salisbury University students perform in this semester’s Singers’ Showcase concert, “Broadway and Beyond,” available for viewing 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, through 11 p.m. Sunday, March 21.

Zoe Michelle Bradshaw, Olivia Davidson, Michelina DeVeas, Kadie Laramore, Sophia Merbaum, Kathleen McLoughlin, Sara Miller and Caroline Pekrul perform in the concert, directed by Dr. John Wesley Wright, along with pianist Veronica Tomanek.

Pekrul, a soprano, performs Amy Beach’s The Year’s at the Spring, Op. 44, No. 1 and Ah, Love but a Day! Op. 44, No. 2 from Three Browning Songs.

McLoughlin, a soprano, performs Robert Schumann’s “Widmung” from Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 1.

Merbaum, a soprano, performs Vincenzo Bellini’s “Ma rendi pur contento” from Sei Ariette, No. 6; Samuel Barber’s “Sea-Snatch” from Hermit Songs, Op. 29, No. 6; Stephen Sondheim's “Green Finch and Linnet Bird” from Sweeney Todd; and William Finn's “Holding to the Ground” from Falsettos.

Laramore, a soprano, performs Ned Rorem’s “Are You the New Person?”

Davidson, a lyric mezzo-soprano, performs Manuel de Falla’s “El Paño Moruno,” No. 1 from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas; Johannes Brahms’ “Dein blaues Auge” from Acht Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 59, No. 8; Paul Bowles' “Sugar in the Cane” from Blue Mountain Ballads; David Kirshenbaum’s “Fly into the Future” from Vanities, A New Musical; and Justin Paul and Benj Pasek’s “Pretty Funny” from Dogfight. 

Miller, a soprano, performs Lili Boulanger’s “Elle est gravement gaie” from Clairières dans le ciel, Victor Herbert’s “Art Is Calling for Me” from The Enchantress, Barbara Anselmi and Brian Hargrove’s “Beautiful” from It Shoulda Been You, and Maurice Yvain and Channing Pollock’s “My Man” from Ziegfeld Follies.

Bradshaw, a soprano, performs Laurence O'Keefe and Kevin Murphy’s “Lifeboat” from Heathers: The Musical.

DeVeas, a mezzo-soprano, performs Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin’s “Little Girls” from Annie, John Kander and Fred Ebb’s “Maybe This Time” from Cabaret, and Cy Coleman and David Zippel’s “With Every Breath I Take” from City of Angels.

The concert is free and the available to the public. To view the performance, visit the online ticket office at www.showtix4u.com/event-details/46226.

For more information call 410-543-6385 or visit the SU website at www.salisbury.edu.