Spring Student Choreographic Concert Directed by Chris Martin Tedford Stage, Scales Fine Arts Center The Spring Student Choreographic Concert will feature selected work by student choreographers under the direction of dance faculty. The Spring Concert gives WFU students the opportunity to present their choreography across a range of dance styles.
She Loves Me Book by Joe Masteroff, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and Music by Jerry Bock Directed by J.K. Curry Tedford Stage, Scales Fine Arts Center She Loves Me is a charmingly old school, full orchestra musical about trying to find a perfect match in an imperfect world. Based on Miklós László's play Parfumerie, this warm and intimate romantic comedy is set in 1930s Budapest. Debuting on Broadway in 1964, with major revivals in 1993 and 2016, She Loves Me speaks to the timeless challenge of finding true love.
Awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 2009, American jazz singer Stacey Kent is one of the world’s premiere exponents of the Great American Songbook. Backed by a superb band headed by saxophonist Jim Tomlinson, they will perform selections from a repertoire including American classics, French chansons, and original songs written in collaboration with Nobel-prize winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro.
Grammy Award-winning American soprano Dawn Upshaw joins with the Brentano String Quartet in a program of early and contemporary music based on the myth of Dido from Virgil’s Aeneid. The concert includes a World Premiere work co-commissioned by the Secrest Artists Series, “Dido Reimagined” by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann.