Memories of Old Broadway: a Concert of American Operetta 1890-1928 October 16, 2010

The Palm Beach Light Opera Company will present “Memories of Old Broadway: a Concert of American Operetta 1890-1928” on Saturday, October 16 at 7:00 pm. The concert will be performed at the North Palm Beach First Presbyterian Church, 717 Prosperity Farms Rd. North Palm Beach, FL 33408. Tickets are $10 general admission. Tickets can be purchased at www.pblightopera.com or by calling 561-283-2400.

The concert will feature selections from operettas by Sigmund Romberg, Victor Herbert, George Gershwin, Rudolf Friml and more performed by soloists James Arnn, Lisa Allen MacMullen, Juliana Kleijn, and Michael MacMullen. Beginning in 1890 with Reginald De Koven’s Robin Hood and ending with Sigmund Romberg’s The New Moon in 1928, this concert will take audiences through the 38 years of Broadway’s heyday when operetta was king. Selections from both well-known and forgotten operettas will be rendered including The Desert Song (1926), The Prince of Pilsen (1903), The Firefly (1912), The Vagabond King (1925), The Student Prince (1924). The concert will include a historical overview of American operetta by leading operetta authority and Palm Beach Light Opera Co. Executive Director, Joseph N. Rubin.

The Palm Beach Light Opera Company’s 2010-2011 season will continue with a concert reading of George M. Cohan’s LITTLE JOHNNY JONES on January 16, 2011 at 8:00 pm. The performance will be at the Eissey Campus Theatre, Palm Beach State College, 11501 Campus Drive in Palm Beach Gardens. Tickets are $15 and available by phone 561-283-2400 or at www.pblightopera.com. A groundbreaking musical comedy that forever changed the history of the American stage, LITTLE JOHNNY JONES was George M. Cohan’s first successful Broadway show and features such standards as “Give My Regards to Broadway” and “Yankee Doodle Boy.” The Palm Beach Light Opera Company’s production of LITTLE JOHNNY JONES will be the first of the original version in over 80 years.