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Festevents, Norfolk, Va. Presents:

An Enchanted Evening - A Concert Featuring the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein

Classics from the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein on the Downtown Norfolk Waterfront featuring the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Chorale and a cast of Broadway singers.

Produced in partnership with the Virginia Stage Company

Towne Point Park, Norfolk, Va. Sunday May 15th, 2011

Broadway Singer Bios

SHERRY BOONE Broadway: Jelly's Last Jam, Master Class, Carousel, Marie Christine. National Tours: Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables. Opera Credits include The Scrimshaw Violin; Green Eggs and Hamadeus; And Furthermore, They Bite!; Two By Seuss. Ms. Boone is founder and Artistic Director of Opera at Home, a cutting edge Opera Company dedicated to increasing the audience of opera all over the globe. She has also collaborated with composer Sean Jeremy Palmer to produce and direct Ellen Craft: A New American Opera.

CHUCK COOPER Broadway: The Life (Tony Award, Best Featured Actor in a Musical); Finian's Rainbow; Lennon; Caroline Or Change (Audelco Award, Best Featured Actor); Chicago; Passion; Someone to Watch Over Me; Rumors; Amen Corner; Getting Away With Murder. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid; Eubie; and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Caroline Or Change (the Public Theatre); Thunder Knocking On The Door (Minetta Lane, Audelco Nomination); Marco Polo Sings a Solo (Signature Theatre); Avenue X; Police Boys; Four Short Operas (Playwrights Horizons); Colored People's Time (Negro Ensemble Co.). Mr. Cooper has many Regional theatre credits, as well as television and film credits.

JARROD EMICK Broadway: Himself in Ring of Fire, Greg in The Boy From Oz with Hugh Jackman, Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees (Tony, Drama-Desk and Theatre World Award winner), Jerry in West End premiere of The Full Monty, Brad in The Rocky Horror Show-Live, Chris in Miss Saigon. National Tours: Enjolras in the 3rd Nat'l Tour of LES MISERABLES, Chris in Miss Saigon. Regional: Alive and Well (Virginia Stage Company), Michael Wiley in Contact, F. Scott Fitzgerald in the world premiere of Waiting for the Moon, the title role in Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Jimmy in the world premiere of Gods of Autumn. Television credits: Josiah Day in the TNT mini-series Andersonville directed by John Frankenheimer, LA Firefighters, Pacific Palisades, It's True!

JAYNE PATERSON Broadway: Mrs. Nordstrom in A Little Night Music (original revival company and cast album); Billy Elliot (original company); Fantine in Les Miserables; Mary Poppins; Helen in Jane Eyre (original company, Associate Director, original and Broadway cast albums). Off Broadway: Jacques Brel... Paris. National tour: Fantine in Les Miserables. Regional theaters include Goodspeed Opera, Sacramento Music Circus, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and the world premiere of SCKBSTD at Virginia Stage Company. TV and film: Law & Order: SVU, Outer Limits, The Drive.

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