NewsPHOTO CALL: Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Jekyll & Hyde Stars Sing The Broadway Musicals of 1997The 11th season of the acclaimed Broadway By The Year concert series concluded June 20 with The Broadway Musicals of 1997.
By
Matthew Blank
June 21, 2011
The evening featured the Tony-winning stars of The Life, Lillias White and Chuck Cooper; Contact Tony winner Karen Ziemba, also a Tony nominee for 1997's Steel Pier; The Scarlet Pimpernel's Christine Andreas; Christina Bianco (Forbidden Broadway, Newsical, The Musical); David Burnham (The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, Wicked); Erin Denman (42nd Street); Drew Humphrey (Irving Berlin’s White Christmas); Jennifer Rias (Broadway by the Year: 1921);Tyler Maynard(Mary Poppins); and the three stars of Jekyll & Hyde, Robert Cuccioli (Tony nominee), Linda Eder (Drama Desk nominee) and Christiane Noll; the latter also directed the evening with choreography by Jeffry Denman.
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Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Jekyll & Hyde Stars Sing The Broadway Musicals of 1997
Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Jekyll & Hyde Stars Sing The Broadway Musicals of 1997
The 11th season of the acclaimed Broadway By The Year concert series concluded June 20 with The Broadway Musicals of 1997. Lillias White, Chuck Cooper, Karen Ziemba, Christiane Noll, Linda Eder, Robert Cuccioli and more took part in the evening. Read the Playbill.com story.
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Robert Cuccioli sings "This Is the Moment"
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Robert Cuccioli sings "This Is the Moment"
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Christine Andreas sings "Storybook"
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Christine Andreas sings "Storybook"
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Karen Ziemba
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Karen Ziemba
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Jeffry Denman and Erin Denman
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Jeffry Denman and Erin Denman
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Tyler Maynard sings "Easy Money"
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Chuck Cooper sings "Don't Take Much"
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Chuck Cooper sings "Don't Take Much"
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Drew Humphrey, Jeffry Denman, Jennifer Rias and David Burnham
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Jeffry Denman, David Burnham and Drew Humphrey
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Jeffry Denman, Jennifer Rias, David Burnham and Drew Humphrey
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Christina Bianco sings "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
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Christina Bianco sings "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?"
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Christiane Noll
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Christiane Noll
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Christiane Noll
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David Burnham
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Tyler Maynard and David Burnham sing "Who Will Love Me As I Am?
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Tyler Maynard and David Burnham sing "Who Will Love Me As I Am?
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Linda Eder shows off the original hat she wore in Jekyll & Hyde
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Linda Eder sings "Someone Like You"
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Linda Eder sings "Someone Like You"
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The cast sings "Godspeed Titanic"
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Christine Andreas, Jeffry Denman and Christiane Noll sing "Godspeed Titanic"
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The cast sings "Godspeed Titanic"
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The cast sings "Godspeed Titanic"
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Erin Denman, Jeffry Denman, Drew Humphrey and Jennifer Rias
Audiences heard tunes from such shows as The Lion King, Jekyll & Hyde, Titanic, The Life, Side Show, Triumph of Love, Dream, Steel Pier and The Scarlet Pimpernel.
The evening featured musical direction by Ross Patterson.
The musical is the newest project by Hunter Bird, one of the creative minds behind the immersive Off-Broadway revival of The Phantom of the Opera, Masquerade.