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Username: Elizabeth
Post Number: 332
Registered: 7-2002
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If you’re looking for something to tide you over until your June '07 date with "Jersey Boys," get a ticket to “Pop Goes the Musical”—the annual New Voices Concert of Paper Mill’s Summer Conservatory Program being held this Friday and Saturday Aug 4 & 5.
The concert features approximately 120 amazingly talented New Jersey musical theatre students performing songs and dances from musicals inspired by (or derived from) pop music. The Beatles, The Who, The Four Seasons—if a pop song has made it into a Broadway musical, it’s likely to be included in this concert.
Don’t like juke box musicals? This concert may make you glad they were invented.
Don’t believe me that these kids are talented? Paper Mill Summer Conservatory alums include Anne Hathaway, Samantha Futterman (Memoirs of a Geisha) Matthew Scott (Jersey Boys) Christine Danelson (Tracy in National Tour of Hairspray)—to name a few; and quite a few of the current students already have Broadway credits!
The concert features fully-staged musical numbers and Paper Mill’s first rate production values. At last year’s concert I got teary-eyed at least 10 times during the evening—and I didn’t know a single kid performing.
Full disclosure requires me to admit that I work at Paper Mill—and I usually don’t post anything about our shows no matter how spectacular they are. But the "New Voices" concert is different: there is something uniquely magical and inspiring about watching 150 remarkably talented kids perform in a professionally produced show designed just for them.
Hmmm. I hear them rehearsing "Let It Be/Imagine." Sounds like a good time to sneak into the theatre for a peek . . .
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“Pop Goes the Musical”—directed by Maplewood resident Mark S. Hoebee. Mark directed the just-closed “Hello, Dolly!” at Paper Mill and will direct the Actor’s Fund Benefit performance of “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” at the August Wilson Theatre this October.
Paper Mill Box Office 973-376-4343
Or online at www.papermill.org
Friday, August 4 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 5 at 3 & 7:30pm
Tickets: $20-$37
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