Overture Magazine: 2017-2018 Season September-October 2017 | Page 28

CIRQUE GOES BROADWAY
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, October 12, 8pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, October 13, 8pm
Saturday, October 14, 8pm
Sunday, October 15, 3pm
Jack Everly, Principal Pops Conductor
Troupe Vertigo
Ben Crawford, vocalist
Ron Remke, vocalist
Christina DeCicco, vocalist
PROGRAM TO INCLUDE:
Sondheim
“Comedy Tonight” from A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum
Adler “Whatever Lola Wants” from Damn Yankees
Lloyd Webber “The Jellicle Ball” from Cats
Schönberg/
Boublil
“Stars” from Les Misérables
Lloyd Webber “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” from Evita
Schwartz “Triplets” from The Band Wagon
Kander Chicago Medley
Rodgers Overture to Flower Drum Song
Bernstein “Times Square, 1944” from On the Town
Rodgers/
Hammerstein “Some Enchanted Evening” from South Pacific
Lloyd Webber “Buenos Aires” from Evita
Lloyd Webber “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera
Townsend “Pinball Wizard” from The Who’s Tommy
Bernstein Overture to West Side Story
Schwartz “Defying Gravity” from Wicked
This program will include a 20-minute intermission.
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About the Artists
Jack Everly
Jack Everly is the
Principal Pops Conductor
of the Indianapolis and
Baltimore symphony
orchestras, Naples
Philharmonic Orchestra and the National
Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa). He has
conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic
at the Hollywood Bowl, The New York
Pops at Carnegie Hall and appears regularly
with The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom
Music Center. Everly conducts over
90 performances in more than 22 North
American cities this season.
As Music Director of the National Me-
morial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth
on PBS, Everly proudly leads the National
Symphony Orchestra in these patriotic
celebrations on the National Mall. These
concerts attract hundreds of thousands of
attendees, and the broadcasts reach millions
of viewers and represent some of the highest-
rated programming on PBS.
Everly is the also Music Director of the
Duke Energy Yuletide Celebration, an
over-30-year tradition. He led the ISO in its
first Pops recording, Yuletide Celebration,
Volume One, that included three of his
own orchestrations. Other recordings
include In The Presence featuring the Czech
Philharmonic and Daniel Rodriguez, Sandi
Patty’s Broadway Stories, the soundtrack to
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame and
Everything’s Coming Up Roses: The Complete
Overtures Of Jule Styne.
Originally appointed by Mikhail
Baryshnikov, Everly was conductor of
the American Ballet Theatre for 14 years,
where he served as Music Director. In
addition to his ABT tenure, he teamed with
Marvin Hamlisch on Broadway shows
that Hamlisch scored. He conducted Carol
Channing hundreds of times in Hello, Dolly!
in two separate Broadway productions.
Everly, a graduate of the Jacobs School of
Music at Indiana University, is a recipient of
the 2015 Indiana Historical Society Living
Legends Award and holds an Honorary
Doctorate of Arts from Franklin Col-
lege in his home state of Indiana. He has
been a proud resident of the Indianapolis