Scranton Shakespeare Festival Presents Sondheim

Get ready to be swept away by the magic of musical theatre as the Scranton Shakespeare Festival brings you an intimate concert featuring some of Stephen Sondheim’s most beloved and iconic anthems. Performers will transport you to a world of drama, romance and pure joy through song – from “Send in the Clowns” to “Being Alive.” So reserve your seats and get ready to tap your toes, hum along, and experience the unforgettable music of one of the greatest composers of our time. Don’t miss out on this spectacular event that is sure to leave you singing all the way home!

Performances will take place at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM at The Shake Space in the Marketplace at Steamtown.

General admission price is $30.00.
Premium ticket option is available for $60.00

Premium ticket holders will enjoy priority seating and an invitation to attend a reception at 5:45 p.m. (post the 3 p.m. performance/pre the 6 PM performance) with a Sondheim-inspired fare (The Witch’s Garden Crudité, Bobby’s 35th Birthday Cake, Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pies, beverages and more) as they mingle alongside the talented performers.

Stephen Sondheim, under the tutelage of a family friend, Oscar Hammerstein II, studied musical theatre. In the early 1950s, Sondheim wrote scripts in Hollywood for television. After returning to New York City, Sondheim made his first significant mark on Broadway as the lyricist for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story, which opened in 1957, and then wrote the lyrics for Gypsy (1959; music by Jule Styne). A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum—based on comedies by the Roman playwright Plautus—opened on Broadway in 1962, with music and lyrics by Sondheim and won the Tony Award for best musical. Two years later, however, his Anyone Can Whistle closed after only nine performances. Sondheim focused solely on shows in which he wrote both music and lyrics. He won Tony Awards for best score for Company (1970), on contemporary marriage and bachelorhood; Follies (1971), a tribute to early 20th-century Broadway that includes many pastiche songs; A Little Night Music (1973; film 1977), based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955); and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979; film 2007), a macabre tale set in Victorian-era London. and Merrily We Roll Along (1981), adapted from a 1934 play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Sunday in the Park with George (1984), a musical inspired by
the painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by pointillist Georges Seurat. Sondheim and Lapine paired again for Into the Woods (1987; film 2014), which deconstructs and interweaves the plots of familiar fairy tales, and Passion (1994). Assassins (1990) explores the lives of nine historical characters, such as John Wilkes Booth, who either assassinated U.S. presidents or attempted to do so. He also notably wrote five songs for the movie Dick Tracy (1990), winning an Academy Award for “Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man).”

The Cast of Performers Include:
T.J. Capobianco
Madelyn Casey
Ren Cementina
Nina Collarini
Agnes Cummings
Simone Daniel
Estella DeJesus
Julie Dzikowski
Victoria Rose Ferentino
Michael Bradshaw Flynn
Jahsier Gillette
Kelly Jean Graham
Colin Holmes
Burke Michael Hutchinson
Tierney Violet Joyce
Jeremy and Jillian Kemmerer
Erin Malloy
Maura Malloy
LaToya Martin
Violet Dawn Martin
Michele Conaboy McGrath
Stephen Murphy
Theodore Novak
Abby Olander
Juliana Pillets
Giana Porfano
Lorenzo Pugliese
Brielle Scheland
Isabella Rose Snyder
Billie Aken Tyers
Nadja Tomaszewski
John Roman Vachino
Alanna Yeugelowitz

Proceeds for this fundraising event will go towards ScrantonShakes’ twelfth season of FREE professional theatre. For tickets and more information visit www.ScrantonShakes.com.