“The Three Phantoms” will open the Broadway Series for the UCA Public Appearances season Tuesday, Sept. 28.
Craig Schulman, Brad Little and Gary Mauer, who have combined for more than 8,000 performances, including 3,000 performances of Andrew Lloyd Webber’ s The Phantom of the Opera, will perform with the Conway Symphony Orchestra. The show begins at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will feature songs from The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys & Dolls, Jubilee, Kiss Me Kate, Company, And the World Goes Round, Paint Your Wagon, Jekyll & Hyde, The Most Happy Fella, Secret Garden, Man of La Mancha, Camelot and Damn Yankees.
“These three gentlemen are the latest in a string of national artists that we’ve brought in to work with the CSO,” said Israel Getzov, music director of the Conway Symphony Orchestra.
Besides Broadway, Schulman, Little and Mauer also have a wide range of roles and experience in television, movies and concerts. They have also combined for 2,000 performances of Les Miz.
Schulman is the only performer in the world to have performed three of the most extraordinary musical theatre characters ever written. Besides Phantom, he has also appeared in the title role of Jekyll & Hyde and in nearly 2,000 performances of Jean Valjean in Les Miz on Broadway and around the world. He moves freely among the worlds of Broadway, opera and symphonic pops programs.
Little has played the role of the Phantom in theatres across America, on Broadway and in Asia. He has performed with the symphony orchestras of Green Bay, Oregon, Seattle, Indianapolis, Des Moines, Cincinnati Pops, with Marvin Hamlisch in appearances with the Pittsburgh and National Symphony orchestras and with the Orchestra Symphonic of Brazil and Rio de Janeiro.
Mauer was a featured soloist in the world tour of “The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber,” with Michael Crawford, which took him to Japan, Australia, England, Scotland and back to the U.S., where he performed for two weeks at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Regional credits include Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar, Frederick in The Pirates of Penzance, Anthony in Sweeney Todd and Tony in West Side Story. He has performed with symphony orchestras all over the world, including Rio de Janeiro, Cleveland, Colorado, Utah, Buffalo, Phoenix, San Diego and the Chicago Symphony with Hamlisch.
“Everybody knows and loves these great classics of the Broadway repertoire, and it’s going to be just as much fun for the musicians as it will be for the audience,” Getzov said. “These Three Phantoms have amazing voices, and it’s going to be a treat to work with them.”
Tickets, available at the UCA Ticket Central Box Office, are $30-$40 for adults, $27-$37 for senior citizens, $25-$35 for UCA alumni, $23-$33 for UCA faculty and staff, $10 for students with a current student I.D. For tickets, call (501) 450-3265 or toll free from anywhere in Arkansas at 1-866-810-0012 or visit www.uca.edu/tickets.
For more information, contact Getzov at Israelg@uca.edu or (501) 450-5761.