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The Great White Way continues to turn out great songs from great new musicals every year. There are hot numbers from Rent, Wicked, The Wiz, Hairspray, and even Little Shop of Horrors! From Pinball Wizard to Mamma Mia!, from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Billy Joel, this high-energy night of some of Broadway’s biggest hits of the last few decades will have you humming along with four of Broadway's hottest young stars, and Edmonton’s Òran and Kokopelli youth choirs, and dancing all the way home. A BRAVO Broadway! production.

*These performances are dedicated to the memory of Erich Kunzel, a friend and colleague of the ESO for over thirty years, who was originally scheduled to conduct them. Maestro Kunzel died on September 1, 2009, and his protégé Steven Reineke has graciously agreed to take his place on the ESO podium.

Our friends at the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra invite you to leave your thoughts, remembrances and tributes for Maestro Erich Kunzel here.

 

$79 Dress Circle (A)
$69 Terrace (B)
$58 Orchestra (C)
$49 Upper Circle (D)
$36 Gallery (E)
$24 Orchestra Front (F)
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Tickets subject to applicable service charges.

Thank you to the generous supporters of this series: Bill & Mary Jo Robbins

Thank you to our Saturday performance sponsor:

The next Robbins Pops performances are March 12 & 13, 2010.

Program Information

Program to include:

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Jesus Christ Superstar Overture

CHARLES SMALLS
"Everybody Rejoice" (The Wiz)

WILDHORN / BRICUSSE
"This Is The Moment" (Jekyll and Hyde)

SHAIMAN / WITTMAN
"Good Morning Baltimore" (Hairspray)

BILLY JOEL
"Movin' Out" (Movin' Out)

STEINMAN
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" (Dance of the Vampires)

JOHN / RICE
"Circle of Life" (The Lion King)

CHARLES SMALLS
"Home" (The Wiz)

MENKEN / ASHMAN
"Suddenly Seymour" (Little Shop of Horrors)

JONATHAN LARSON
"Seasons of Love" (Rent)

SHAIMAN / WITTMAN
"You Can't Stop the Beat" (Hairspray)

LLOYD WEBBER / ELLIOT
Jellicle Ball (Cats)

PETE TOWNSHEND
"Pinball Wizard" (Tommy)

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
"For Good" (Wicked)

BENNY ANDERSSON / BJORN ULVAEUS
"Anthem" (Chess)

FEKARIS / PERREN
"I Will Survive" (Priscilla Queen of the Desert)

LLOYD WEBBER / RICE
"Jesus Christ, Superstar" (Jesus Christ Superstar)

STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
"Defying Gravity" (Wicked)

BENNY ANDERSSON / BJORN ULVAEUS
Mamma Mia! Medley

KRIEGER / EYEN
"And I Am Tellin' You I'm Not Going" (Dreamgirls)

LLOYD WEBBER / HART
"Music of the Night" (The Phantom of the Opera)

Program subject to change

Artist Information

 

Steven Reineke, conductor

 

Steven Reineke begins his tenure as Music Director of The New York Pops in the 2009-2010 season. Mr. Reineke conducts the orchestra’s annual concert series at Carnegie Hall as well as tours, recordings, and nationwide telecasts, including the Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks Spectacular on NBC Television. New York’s only permanent and professional symphonic pops orchestra, The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States.

Mr. Reineke begins as Principal Pops Conductor of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra in 2009-2010 and he retains that title with the Modesto Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he holds the title of Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, where for more than thirteen years he has served as a composer, arranger, and conducting protégé of the celebrated pops conductor Erich Kunzel.

Steven Reineke’s recent guest conducting appearances include the orchestras of Los Angeles, Toronto, Houston, Detroit, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Vancouver and Edmonton. In 2009 he made his Boston Pops and Philadelphia Orchestra debuts. In 2008 Mr. Reineke made his Carnegie Hall debut conducting The New York Pops 25th Birthday Gala. Mr. Reineke makes his Asian debut conducting the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra in 2009. He made his Hollywood Bowl debut in 2007 with the multi-faceted entertainer Wayne Brady and returned to the Hollywood Bowl in 2008 to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition, Mr. Reineke conducted, arranged and orchestrated the music for Mr. Brady’s orchestral show and played the same role in his collaboration with rock legend Peter Frampton.

As the creator of more than one hundred orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Mr. Reineke’s arrangements have been performed worldwide, and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. Mr. Reineke is also an established symphonic composer. His works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently in North America, with the most recent performances by the New York Philharmonic and Los Angeles Philharmonic in July 2008. In August 2008 his Sun Valley Festival Fanfare debuted with the Sun Valley Summer Symphony to commemorate the opening of the orchestra’s new pavilion. In 2005 his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were performed by the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops respectively. The Cincinnati Enquirer had this to say about Festival Te Deum: “Melodious and joyous, it had antiphonal brass in the balconies, organ, full orchestra and wonderful choral passages.” His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands around the world.

A native of Ohio, Mr. Reineke is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio, where he earned bachelor of music degrees with honors in both trumpet performance and music composition. He currently resides in New York City. Mr. Reineke is represented by Peter Throm Management, LLC.

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