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X-WR-CALNAME:Broadway ROCKS! Randall Craig Fleischer\, conductor Chris
	tiane Noll\, Capathia Jenkins\, Hugh Panaro & Rob Evan\, vocalists\; G
	lenn Donnellan\, electric violin City Choir of Washington NSO @ Wolf T
	rap in Vienna\, VA at The Barns at Wolf Trap - Eventful
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SUMMARY:Broadway ROCKS! Randall Craig Fleischer\, conductor Christiane
	 Noll\, Capathia Jenkins\, Hugh Panaro & Rob Evan\, vocalists\; Glenn 
	Donnellan\, electric violin City Choir of Washington NSO @ Wolf Trap
DESCRIPTION: Hairspray\, Jekyll and Hyde\, Jesus Christ Superstar\, Ph
	antom of the Opera\, Lion King\, Wicked\, Tommy\, and more!TicketScale
	BoxesFrontOrchRearOrchLogeLawnB$4848383220Fusions in nature have been 
	going on ever since the Big Bang. In fact\, none of us would be here i
	f it weren't for the combination of disparate elements. Fusions in foo
	d occurred a little more recently-in my home state of California. We h
	ave everything from Asian to Latin to Swedish fusion-all at the same t
	able. Not to mention the granddad of them all – Reese's® Peanut But
	ter Cups® in 1923. Composer Gustav Mahler was a fusion artist himself
	\, combining gypsy\, military band\, and klezmer music to create a ser
	ies of Woody Allen-like symphonic psychodramas (Mahler and Sigmund Fre
	ud were close friends\, after all). Leonard Bernstein didn't shy away 
	from musical borrowings either. His hit musical West Side Story was on
	e of the first to incorporate popular Latin musical styles\, and the s
	ultry heat of those mambo drums mixes effortlessly with Bernstein's Up
	per West Side Copland-meets-Rodgers-meets-Cugat aesthetic. You could h
	ardly imagine the swaying samba rhythm of "Tonight" being replaced wit
	h the bouncy beat of a Lawrence Welk polka. Tonight we celebrate anoth
	er musical fusion-that of Broadway and rock 'n' roll. It seems perfect
	ly natural now\, but it caused a sensation 42 years ago when something
	 called Hair-The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical\, with its songs of
	 hippie "free love\," anti-war protesting\, and nudity\, burst on the 
	scene. Three years later we had the first Rock Opera with the young An
	drew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. Lord Lloyd Webber comes fr
	om a family of classical musicians (his brother is the famous cellist 
	Julian Lloyd Webber)\, and he is probably the single most popular comp
	oser for the theater alive today. Along with rock influences\, there i
	s always a strong classical and operatic undercurrent in his music. Hi
	s biographer has noted the strong similarity between J.C. Superstar's 
	"I Don't Know How To Love Him" and the slow movement of the Mendelssoh
	n violin concerto: "Lloyd Webber brings a new dramatic tension to Mend
	elssohn's original melody through the confused emotions of Mary Magdal
	ene." That's some fusion!The Tony Award-winning musical The Wiz\, alon
	g with Dreamgirls\, is in part a Motown/Broadway fusion that goes back
	 to the first African American productions of Eubie Blake and Noble Si
	ssle and their 1921 landmark musical Shuffle Along. Fusion musicals li
	ke Wicked and Lion King exist happily side-by-side with the more tradi
	tional South Pacific and Mary Poppins. It is exactly this reinvention 
	of the Broadway musical that has reinvigorated the American art form. 
	Just as our culture thrives on a regular interjection of new ideas\, s
	tyles\, languages\, and music\, the arts and theater thrive on new way
	s of looking at old forms and stories. Who would have guessed that Bal
	timore's "King of Trash" John Waters and his movie Hairspray\, featuri
	ng a 300-pound drag queen\, would be the source for Broadway's runaway
	 hit of 2002? The music you are listening to tonight has become\, for 
	the most part\, like an old friend. Now "Pinball Wizard" and "Dancing 
	Queen" are about as edgy as a rousing rendition of Perry Como's "Hoop-
	de-doo." So what will be the next wave to hit Broadway? Look no furthe
	r than last year's Tony winner In The Heights\, a joyful mixture of mu
	sical theater and hip-hop\, with salsa\, meringue\, and soul music thr
	own in for good measure. Maybe next summer we'll have a program called
	 Broadway Raps. I'll probably be at home watching my director's cut DV
	D of Pink Flamingos. -Emil de Cou\, NSO@Wolf Trap Festival Conductor \
	n
LOCATION:The Barns at Wolf Trap @ 1624 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia 221
	82 United States
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