Kim Criswell will be performing at the Cheltenham Music Festival. She is taking part in the A Rodgers & Hammerstein Gala.
http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/music-2010/a-rodgers-and-hammerstein-gala/
Following John Wilson’s outstanding appearance with his own orchestra in the 2009 Festival, he returns with the CBSO for a celebration of the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. From their first collaboration in 1943, Oklahoma!, to their last in 1959 with The Sound of Music, Rodgers & Hammerstein created some of the 20th century’s most attractive and enduring stage works.
In the John Wilson Orchestra’s televised Prom this August, Kim Criswell’s powerful charisma and vocal riches contributed significantly to a remarkable evening. Together with fellow American Brent Barrett — currently starring in the Broadway production of Chicago — they perform beloved songs such as ‘Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’’ (Oklahoma!), ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ (South Pacific), ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ (Carousel) and, of course, favourites from The Sound of Music.
HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival (2-17 July 2010)
Cheltenham Town Hall, Imperial Square, GL50 1QA
The 2010 programme for the HSBC Cheltenham Music Festival is its most diverse and richly-layered yet: performances range from a new choral work composed using DNA coding, to a Schumann celebration featuring Steven Isserlis, and a performance by James Rhodes – a classical pianist with ‘a rock-star attitude’ (Classic FM Magazine).
The Festival’s musical riches encompass names as diverse as Alfred Brendel, Jan Garbarek, Steven Isserlis, Alfie Boe, Fascinating Aida and Robert Fripp. Over 20 performances take place in the Regency spa town’s Pittville Pump Room, and the brand-new Parabola Arts Centre at Cheltenham Ladies College joins the festival’s roster of venues alongside the much older spaces of Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey.
‘Musically you’ll be spoilt for choice,’ says Festival Director Meurig Bowen. ‘There aren’t many festivals around where you can hear top-rank classical musicians like Imogen Cooper, Steven Isserlis, Sarah Connolly and the Philharmonia alongside jazzers Jan Garbarek and Gwilym Simcock, prog-rock legend Robert Fripp, cabaret queens Fascinating Aida and some chanting Tibetan monks’.
Please join us from 2 – 17 July 2010: the full programme is now available at http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/music
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3 Nov 2006, 7.30pm
The 60s Show
The decade when pop hit Britain and the music scene changed forever...Join the swingin' BBC Concert Orchestra and special guests for the time when those great tunes from film, TV, radio, musicals and pop made their mark. It's roll over Beethoven, Bach and Brahms: here come Barry, Bacharach and Bart.
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**03/30/06 - KIM TO PERFORM IN INTO THE WOODS! Kim will, ofcourse, play the Witch singing "Last Midnight" and "Children Will Listen." Into The Woods' is directed by Karen Louise Hebden, director of last year's production of Stephen Sondheim's 'Company' which was a big hit with both audiences and critics.
'Into The Woods' is showing from Saturday 22 April to Saturday 20 May at
7.30pm (matinees on Saturday 29 April, Wednesday 3 May, Saturday 6 May,
Wednesday 10 May and Saturday 13 May at 2.30pm).
**09/16/04 - KIM CRISWELL IN JULE STYNE GALA WITH THE BBC CONCERT ORCHESTRA
Broadway and West End stars KIM CRISWELL ("Cats", "Nine", "The Threepenny Opera"), Anna-Jane Casey ("West Side Story", "Chicago"), Ron Raines ("Man of La Mancha", "Follies") and conductor Kevin Farrell join the BBC Concert Orchestra to celebrate Styne's centenary with music from his most successful shows including "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Funny Girl", and "Gypsy" and collaborations with Sammy Cahn, Stephen Sondheim, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Frank Sinatra and Frank Loesser.
To get 20% off all ticket prices (usually £10, £20, £25 and £30) plus a free concert programme, call the BBC Concert Orchestra booking line on 020 8752 7082 and quote 'Dress Circle email offer'. This statement calls for some explaining. Berlin wrote this score for Merman, and Merman recorded it during the Broadway run, didn't she? Well, yes. But RCA Victor, the principal backer of the stage show, was unable to borrow Merman from Decca (with whom she had an exclusive contract). Decca gladly brought out its own collection, Ethel Merman: 12 Songs from "Call Me Madam" [Decca Broadway 0881 10521], and did very well with it. But this is not the Broadway Call Me Madam; it features decidedly non-theatrical arrangements by Gordon Jenkins. We get the Merman voice, yes, which you'd think would be more than enough; but a cast album it isn't.
RCA plugged singing star Dinah Shore into the role, surrounding her with the rest of the original cast, supported by musical director Jay Blackton conducting the original orchestrations (almost). This album — now available, if you can find it, from the British label Flame [ROYCD 222] — sounds far more theatrical than the Decca. It also brings us leading man Paul Lukas (who is not much of a singer), ingenue Galina Talva (with her ocarina), and the personable performance of Russell Nype, who all but stole the show from Ethel and took home his own Tony Award. But there is a problem with this recording; there is an extra orchestrator billed, one Hugo Winterhalter, who is known for his "easy listening" style. He quite obviously provided special charts for Ms. Shore, although which and what was impossible for the listener to tell until 1995.
Until 1995, that is, thanks to the concert version of the show given by City Center Encores! and recorded by DRG [DRG 24761]. Finally, we had the entire show with the authentic orchestrations, giving us a good idea of what the show sounded like when Berlin was standing at the back rail of the Imperial. At least, we got an idea of how the ensemble numbers sounded. Rob Fisher and his merry band played everything as it must have been, but we weren't hearing the Merman role. Tyne Daly played the part, and she did quite well within the context of the concert version; but she wasn't singing, not in the manner that Berlin intended. So in 1995, we got to hear everything meticulously performed, except the star vocals.
Jay Records, now, finishes the task. They take the original orchestrations (apparently using the reconstruction prepared for Encores!) and add a singer who can sing these songs like they are supposed to be sung. Kim Criswell can sing, certainly; I might not be her biggest fan, as I usually find her overly mannered, but she knows what to do with a song (and the mannerisms are in this case very much in control). Criswell does extremely well by Call Me Madam, with just a little touch of the inevitable Merman here and there. Call Me Madam is not my favorite Berlin score, either; but the Merman songs are robust, and it's a pleasure to hear them on this recording.
The selections omit one of the Merman songs, "Can You Use Any Money Today?" while including "Mr. Monotony." This is one of the most interesting of the songs; one of Berlin's most interesting, to me, and quite unlike anything else he wrote. It was neither written for nor (in the end) heard in Call Me Madam. An unused song intended for the 1948 film "Easter Parade," Berlin incorporated it into his 1949 musical Miss Liberty. The sinuously jazzy number — about a gal who leaves her monotonous trombonist for a snappy clarinetter, because, in Berlin's words, "trombone players don't last long" — must have seemed out-of-place in a show taking place in 1885. But no matter; choreographer Jerome Robbins and dance arranger Genevieve Pitot worked it into what must have been quite a number. Out it went on the road, for obvious reasons, but Berlin and Robbins reinstated it a year later in Madam. Cut once more, it finally reached Broadway in the 1989 anthology revue Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
"Washington Square Dance" and "Something to Dance About," two of Robbins' three big showpieces in the affair, come off especially well, giving us an audio snapshot of what the production numbers in Abbott-Robbins musicals sounded like. No, Merman didn't lead the "Square Dance"; but she launched the song, sat back while the girls and boys did their stuff to musical variations, and returned for the finish.
The orchestrations are suitably flavorful throughout, if not particularly distinguished. (Pretty much the same can be said for the Berlin's score.) The orchs are herein credited to Don Walker, which is not especially accurate. Walker, for reasons unknown and to his surprise, was replaced during the tryout; sitting at home in New Hope, he got a phone call telling him that Joe Glover was doing new charts. "You're Just in Love" (here done in duet with Matt Bogart) and "Something to Dance About" are definitely by Glover, as they were written after Walker's departure.
Glover wound up with "additional orchestration" credit, and apparently with no hard feelings; Walker, who had used Glover as early as Carousel in 1945, invited him into several of his next shows. Glover did quite a bit of ghosting over the years, as well as being credited on a few shows (the most important being Arthur Schwartz's A Tree Grows in Brooklyn). His work was typically adequate and sometimes even better. The best charts of his that I've positively identified are "Wrong Note Rag" and "The Man I Used to Be"; he also did "Chop Suey," so help us.
Something to Dance About, the CD, is filled in with Criswell singing assorted numbers from the Berlin song bag, but the value here — at least for musical comedy fans — is Call Me Madam.
—Steven Suskin, author of the forthcoming "A Must See! Brilliant Broadway Artwork," the "Broadway Yearbook" series, "Show Tunes" and the "Opening Night on Broadway" books. He can be reached by e-mail at Ssuskin@aol.com.
In the Irving Berlin classic, Sally, the famous party-giver, is named Madam Ambassador to fictional Lichtenburg, where romance blossoms. The authors denied the character and situation were loosely based on Mrs. Perle Mesta, President Truman's pick as ambassador to Luxembourg.
The 1950 score, which includes the standard, "You're Just in Love," is by composer-lyricist Irving Berlin, with book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. James Brennan directs and choreographs the show that Ethel Merman helped make famous. Russell Nype, who appeared as Kenneth on Broadway with Merman, will attend the first preview as a guest of Goodspeed.
Criswell, whose voice is known for its brass, has sung on studio recordings of scores that Merman first sang: Annie Get Your Gun and Anything Goes (both on the EMI label under the baton of John McGlinn). The Madam score includes "It's a Lovely Day Today," "The Best Thing for You," "Marrying for Love," "Something to Dance About" and more.
The Goodspeed Madam cast includes the respected Broadway actress Catherine Brunell (remembered as understudy to Sutton Foster in Thoroughly Modern Millie) as Princess Maria, Zachary Halley as Kenneth Gibson, David Hess as Cosmo Constantine, Stephen Temperley as Pemberton Maxwell, with Jay Bodin, Nicole Debace, Michael Dionissiou, Kendra Doyle, Jerold Goldstein, Kevin Covert, Joan Hess, Ashley Fox Linton, Mark Manley, Marci Reid, William Ryall, Ryan Swearingen, Kristen Beth Williams, Scott Willis and Branch Woodman.
Opening is May 19. The musical director for Call Me Madam is Michael O'Flaherty; F. Wade Russo will be assistant musical director with orchestrations by Dan DeLange.
Designers are Howard Jones (sets), Gail Baldoni (costumes), David Segal (lighting).
Call Me Madam is produced for Goodspeed Musicals by Michael P. Price.
Tickets are $24-$53, available through the Goodspeed box office at (860) 873-8668. For more information, visit www.goodspeed.org.
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Sally, the famous party-giver, is named Madam Ambassador to fictional Lichtenburg, where romance blossoms. The authors denied the character and situation were loosely based on Mrs. Perle Mesta, President Truman's pick as ambassador to Luxembourg.
The 1950 score, which includes the standard, "You're Just in Love," is by composer-lyricist Irving Berlin, with book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. James Brennan directs and choreographs the show that Ethel Merman helped make famous.
Criswell, whose voice is known for its brass, has sung on studio recordings of scores that Merman first sang: Annie Get Your Gun and Anything Goes (both on the EMI label under the baton of John McGlinn). The Madam score includes "It's a Lovely Day Today," "The Best Thing for You," "Marrying for Love," "Something to Dance About" and more.
The Goodspeed Madam cast includes Catherine Brunell (Big River, Thoroughly Modern Millie) as Princess Maria, Zachary Halley as Kenneth Gibson, David Hess as Cosmo Constantine, Stephen Temperley as Pemberton Maxwell, with Jay Bodin, Nicole Debace, Michael Dionissiou, Kendra Doyle, Jerold Goldstein, Gary Harger, Joan Hess, Ashley Fox Linton, Mark Manley, Marci Reid, William Ryall, Ryan Swearingen, Kristen Beth Williams, Scott Willis and Branch Woodman.
The musical director for Call Me Madam is Michael O'Flaherty; F. Wade Russo will be assistant musical director with orchestrations by Dan DeLange.
Designers are Howard Jones (sets), Gail Baldoni (costumes), David Segal (lighting).
Call Me Madam is produced for Goodspeed Musicals by Michael P. Price.
Tickets are $24-$53, available through the Goodspeed box office at (860) 873-8668. For more information, visit www.goodspeed.org.
During his lifetime, Richard Rodgers penned over 900 songs. His partnerships with Lorenz Hart and later with Oscar Hammerstein II produced some of the most successful musicals in Broadway history. His works with Hart included On Your Toes, Babes in Arms, I Married an Angel, The Boys from Syracuse, Pal Joey and By Jupiter, and the Rodgers-Hammerstein collaboration spawned Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song and The Sound of Music.
Amazon.com is currently accepting pre-orders for the Image Entertainment DVD, which will be available beginning Nov. 18.
Entitled New York, New York!, the 7:30 PM concert will feature the BBC Concert Orchestra under the direction of John McGlinn; Artur Pizarro will be featured at the piano. Billed as "a gala concert to celebrate the music and personalities of New York," the evening will include such songs as "New York, New York," "Manhattan" and Cole Porter's "Love for Sale" as well as excerpts from On the Town, Pal Joey and Guys and Dolls. Concertgoers can also expect to hear George Gershwin's famed "Rhapsody in Blue."
Brent Barrett is currently portraying slick lawyer Billy Flynn in the hit Chicago revival at the Ambassador Theatre. The singer-actor received an Olivier Award nomination for his role in the London company of Kiss Me, Kate, and his other theatrical credits include the Broadway productions of Annie Get Your Gun and Candide.
Kim Criswell has appeared in a slew of musicals in the U.S. and in London. Among her theatre credits are Annie, Man of La Mancha, Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Nine, Baby, Of Thee I Sing, On the Town, Cats, Dames at Sea, Guys and Dolls and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Tickets for New York, New York! £8-£20. The Royal Festival Hall is located on Belvedere Road in London. For more information visit www.rfh.org.uk.
Can you tell us something about Hollywood Party at the Queen Elizabeth Hall?
Is this a change of direction for you? You're mainly thought of as a musicals star yourself, given your roles in Cats, Annie Get Your Gun, Dames at Sea, Side By Side By Sondheim...
Are you going to wear a "period" outfit?
Speaking of cabaret, how do you find London as a cabaret city?
Do you have to use different vocal techniques to sing songs from different decades?
Hollywood Party is a one-off event. Have you any longer-term projects lined up? A musical, for example?
Can you give us a clue as to the songs you'll sing in Hollywood Party?
Theatre: Queen Elizabeth Hall South Bank Centre, Waterloo SE1
The event will boast the European concert performance of Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' Ragtime The Musical accompanied by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, a concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel with the BBC Concert Orchestra and a gala performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.
Also featured will be the United Kingdom premiere of the children's performance of Les Miserables and nine new musical theatre works that are being selected from 186 submissions from 16 different countries.
Each Festival will feature a particular composer or lyricist. For this first Festival Richard Rodgers, whose centenary it is this year, is spotlighted. Some of the productions and events which feature his music including a concert version of Carousel at St David's Hall and National Youth Music Theatre's Oklahoma! The festival's new musical revue, Ten Cents A Dance by John Doyle's award winning company, features the music of Rodgers and Hart, who also wrote the festival's main musical - a new production of Babes in Arms.
Artists confirmed include: Tracie Bennett , Graham Bickley, Zoe Curlett, Anita Dobson, RUTHIE HENSHALL, Peter Karrie, Laura Michelle Kelly, Ria Jones, Barbara King, Jessica Martin, JEROME PRADON, Clive Rowe, Claire Sweeney and Gary Wilmot.
Other composers' works are also spotlighted. Stephen Sondheim's Anyone Can Whistle, considered the bravest show Stephen Sondheim wrote, at least until Assassins. It was also a spectacular flop when it first hit Broadway in 1964, running only nine performances before closing. It opened April 4, 1964 at the Majestic Theatre and closed April 11, 1964. The stars included Angela Lansbury, Lee Remick, and Harry Guardino.
Also featured in the festival is the Tony Award-winning show Ragtime the Musical, and Cole Porter's Jubilee, as well as international productions, such as Joan of Arc, the current hit musical from Prague.
Coleman, the legendary writer of great Broadway shows including Sweet Charity, Seesaw, City of Angels and Little Me, will host an evening of songs from his own award-winning shows.
Artists participating include; Tracie Bennett, KIM CRISWELL, Janie Dee, Barbara Dickson, Anita Dobson, Kathryn Evans, Maria Friedman, Patricia Hodge, Ria Jones, Dillie Keane, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jane McDonald, Jessica Martin, Grania Renihan, Frances Rufelle, Claire Sweeney, Leigh Zimmerman, Graham Bickley, David Burt, Brian Conley, Jim Dale, Daniel Evans, Tim Flavin Jerome Flynn, Henry Goodman, Peter Joback, Aled Jones, Keith Michell, Petr Muk, Jerome Pradon, Clarke Peters, Nigel Planer, Philip Quast, Denis Quilley, Ian Richardson and Clive Rowe
The festival is being presented with support firstly from BBC in Wales and the City of Cardiff as well as from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization, the Cole Porter Trusts, the Gershwin family, Music Theatre International and the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. Among the festivals patrons are Sir Cameron Mackintosh, Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and Michael Grandage.
**05/21/10 - KIM TO PERFORM AT THE CHELTENHAM MUSIC FESTIVAL JULY 2-17, 2010
**11/12/07 - KIM TO PERFORM IN LONDON ON NOVEMBER 15th, 2007
**10/18/06 - KIM TO PERFORM IN BBC ORCHESTRA CONCERT ON NOV 3rd
Ticket prices: £20, £16, £12
Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London
Hosted by Ken Bruce
Kim Criswell vocalist
Matt Ford vocalist
John Wilson conductor
Kim Criswell will be performing as in Sondheim and Lapine's INTO THE WOODS at the Derby Playhouse in the UK.
**03/18/06 - KIM TO PERFORM IN CANDIDE!
A new major production of CANDIDE will be performed the Chatelet in Paris. It's an old school fancy opera company with no microphones! There's rumored to be 10 performances in December, Kim will be playing the Diva Old Lady. More news to follow.
The Concert takes place Thursday 23rd September at 7.30pm at The Hackney Empire, 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ
**08/25/04 - KIM CRISWELL'S NEW CD SOMETHING TO DANCE ABOUT
FEATURES SONGS FROM HER RECENT MUSICAL, CALL ME MADAM!! 
With three American cast recordings of Irving Berlin's Call Me Madam on the shelf, Something to Dance About, a British showcase of the singer Kim Criswell which incorporates seven Madam selections, seems unlikely to add anything to the mix. But appearances are deceiving. No sooner do they launch into "The Hostess with the Mostes'" than we realize that Ms. Criswell — and her producer, John Yap — are now, for the first time, demonstrating what this show must have sounded like in the theatre.
**04/30/04 - KIM CRISWELL INTERVIEWED FOR CALL ME MADAM!!
**04/16/04 - KIM CRISWELL SAYS CALL ME MADAME, AT GOODSPEED, WITH BRUNELL AS ROYALTY, STARTING APRIL 16
Kim Criswell is Sally Adams, the Washington, DC, hostess with mostes' in Goodspeed Musicals' Call Me Madam, April 16-July 3 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.
**03/09/04 - KIM CRISWELL FEATURED IN DIVAS...IN THEIR OWN WORDS BOOK
You've read interviews with divas, but how often have they answered the questions you'd really like to ask?
'How much does your voice vary from day to day?'
'Do you resent being categorised as a particular type of singer?'
'How high (and low) can you actually sing?'
'What parts would you like to sing if you had the opportunity?'
'Which singers do you like to listen to?'
**03/04/04 - KIM CRISWELL SAYS, CALL ME MADAME, AT GOODSPEED, WITH CATHERINE BRUNELL AS ROYALTY
Kim Criswell will play Sally Adams, the Washington, DC, hostess with mostes' in Goodspeed Musicals' Call Me Madam, April 16-July 3 at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT.
-By Kenneth Jones of playbill.com
**09/11/03 - KIM CRISWELL, RUTHIE HENSHALL, JUDI DENCH AND MORE SALUTE RICHARD RODGERS ON UPCOMING DVD
An all-star salute to late composer Richard Rodgers will be available on DVD in November.
"Richard Rodgers: An Enchanted Evening," which was filmed in May 2002 at London's Theatre Royal, Haymarket, features stage stars Judi Dench, Ruthie Henshall, Maureen Lipman, Lesley Garrett and Kim Criswell. Directed by Simon Callow, the 80-minute recording includes such Rodgers classics as "Sixteen Going on Seventeen," performed by Dench, and "My Funny Valentine," sung by Henshall, as well as "Some Enchanted Evening," "Johnny One-Note," "Getting to Know You," "I Have Confidence, " "To Keep My Love Alive," "If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone," "Oklahoma!" and more.
-Andrew Gans of playbill.com
**09/02/03 - KIM CRISWELL IN YET ANOTHER CD, THE MUSICALITY OF KANDER & EBB!
KIM CRISWELL sings "The World Goes Round."
**08/13/03 - ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL PRESENTS BRENT BARRET AND KIM CRISWELL IN NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
Brent Barrett, the current Billy Flynn of Broadway's Chicago, will join singer-actress Kim Criswell for a Sept. 24 concert at London's Royal Festival Hall.
**08/05/03 - KIM CRISWELL IN ANOTHER CD, THE MUSICALITY OF ROGERS
& HART
Kim Criswell sings "Blue Moon" KIM CRISWELL SINGS "BLUE MOON"
**02/10/03 - KIM CRISWELL CHATS ABOUT HER HOLLYWOOD PARTY AT COVENT GARDEN**
Kim Criswell is starring with the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Feb. 13. Theatrenow met her at the Covent Garden Hotel.
"It's an evening of songs from the movie musicals, hence the title, and it'll be presented by Malcolm Laycock, who also presents BBC2's Big Band program, with me as the singer and the Piccadilly Dance Orchestra as the band. Ruth Leon is directing it."
"I've been in a lot of musicals, certainly, but I've actually done a lot of concerts in recent years. It's something I enjoy very much, and in the ten years or so that I've lived in London, I've done a fair amount of them."
"The songs and the styles that we cover range over several decades, focussed on the 20's, 30's and 40's, so I'll have something that looks fairly period in the sense of pre-war, without being too specific. It certainly won't be the sort of slinky number you'd wear for a cabaret evening, though."
"It isn't really! There's only Pizza on the Park. But that isn't a criticism of London, as such. I think there's really only one cabaret city, and that's New York. With cabaret, you need tables, you need champagne, you need to be able to eat as well. That sort of venue is hard to find, whereas with a concert, like Hollywood Party, you need a theatre or a concert hall, a band, and you're away!"
"The change in music from, say, 20's to 30's to 40's and on is really one of orchestration. Different times had different styles, which is why period songs are often done differently from the way they were originally intended to be performed. So it's not really a question of changing my voice. After all, Fred Astaire had the same singing voice through his career — it was the orchestration that changed. If I want to get a song right, then I listen to records from the time when they were first written and performed, and that gives me the key to how they should be sung."
"Yes, there's something in the pipeline, in which — speaking of Fred Astaire — I'd appear alongside a very well-known dancer. And a sexier one than Fred! But I can't really say any more about that at the moment; other than that, he would be dancing and I would be singing — that's how our respective characters would communicate."
"That should be a surprise, too! But "Lullaby of Broadway," "They Can't Take That Away From Me" and "Let's Face the Music and Dance" will be there among the other classics. Book a ticket and see!"
Dates: 13/02/2003 ONE NIGHT ONLY
Times: Feb 13 at 7.30pm
Prices: Phone Box Office For Details 020 7960 4242
The Plot: West End guest star vocalist Kim Criswell will join the 12-piece orchestra for a non-stop swell party that will include Happy Feet, Puttin' On The Ritz, Making Whoopee, My Baby Just Cares For Me, Lullaby Of Broadway, Let's Face The Music And Dance,They Can't Take That Away From Me, Chattanooga Choo Choo and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
-Paul Webb, www.theatrenow.com
**01/16/03 - KIM CRISWELL TO TAKE PART IN THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC**
The inaugural International Festival of Musical Theatre in Cardiff, Wales - known as "Europe's Youngest Capital" - is mapping out to be where the action is Oct. 14 - Nov. 3.
The Festival will be the world's first-ever major international event to celebrate one of our most popular live art forms, presenting the best of musical theatre, old and new, large and small.
**12/09/02 - KIM CRISWELL TO PERFORM IN PAL JOEY & ON YOUR TOES ON BBC RADIO**
Kim Criswell will take part in
BBC Radio 3's performances of
'Pal Joey' and 'On Your Toes' - Rodgers and Hart Thursday, Decmeber 26th, at 7.30pm. Those participating in the concert event will be: Honor Blackman, Kim Criswell, Bonnie Langford, Adam Cooper, Sophie-Louise Dann, Tim Flavin, Maida Vale Singers, Robert Ziegler (conductor)
**10/09/02 - KIM CRISWELL TAKING PART IN NEW YEARS MUSICAL CELEBRATION!**
New Years Eve Concert with Sir Simon Rattle, KIM CRISWELL, Audra McDonald, Thomas Hampson, Brent Barrett, Karl Daymond, Timothy Robinson, Michael Dore, and Simone Sauphanor. They will sing the music of
Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin,
Kurt Weill and more!
No final info on where the concert will take place.
