Spokane Symphony celebrates Rodger and Hammerstein

Jan 26, 2011

For Immediate Release

Contact: Annie Matlow 4647071

SPOKANE—The Spokane Symphony and Resident Conductor Morihiko Nakahara will celebrate the brilliant musical collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein at Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, at 8 p.m. Renown Broadway singers Teri Dale Hansen and Nat Chandler will give voice to an amazing line up of songs.

The legendary team of Rodgers and Hammerstein created hit after hit during the 1940s and 50s, the Golden Age of Broadway. The stage and screen versions of their hits garnered 34 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, the Pulitzer Prize and 2 Grammies. Before their collaboration, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had enjoyed successful careers as part of other teams, but teamed up to write “Oklahoma!” based on the stage play “Green Grow the Lilacs.” Together they transformed the musical genre, using song and dance to convey plot and character rather than act as a diversion from the story and the firm integration of every song into the plot-line.

The concert will feature song selections from six of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s greatest musicals, including State Fair, The King and I, Carousel, SouthPacific, The Sound ofMusic, and of course, Oklahoma!  Two fabulous Broadway performers, Teri Dale Hansen and Nat Chandler, will sing and dance many of the songs that made these shows so unforgettable.  

Teri Dale Hansen made her Broadway debut in The Boys From Syracuse and began her career starring in London’s West End as Magnolia in Hal Prince’s Tony award winning production of Show Boat. She starred as Rose in the film version of Kurt Weill’s Street Scene (BRAVO! Channel as well as the Premiere production in Berlin at the Theatre Des Westens). Hansen starred in the Broadway national tours as Marian Paroo in The Music Man, as Guenevere in Camelot, as Magnolia in Show Boat, and most recently, in the world premiere of Broadway Dreams at the Kurt Weill Festival in Dessau, Germany. She returned to the Festival again to reprise her role of Rose for the world premiere of “Street Scenes”.  Hansen appears regularly at the LincolnCenter where she performs Gershwin as a part of their prestigious “Meet the Artist” series. She is a Kennedy Center Irene Ryan Award nominee, graduate of FloridaStateUniversity and alumnae of the Houston Opera Studio. Her solo CD “Into Your Arms…Love Songs of Richard Rodgers” is available  through her website www.terihansen.net.

Nat Chandler has starred on Broadway in Scarlet Pinpernel (Pimpernel), Encores!,  The Ziegfeld Follies Of 1936, and has toured with The Phantom Of The Opera (Rauol), The Music Of Andrew Lloyd Webber with Sarah Brightman, Into The Woods (Rapunzel’s Prince), The King And I with Yul Brynner (Lun Tha), Camelot with Robert Goulet (Sir Lancelot). Off Broadway he has starred in Anything You Say, Counsellor At Law, and Tales Of Tinseltown. Regionally, he has starred in Phantom! (Phantom - Barrymore Award nom), Carousel starring Shirley Jones as Aunt Nettie (Billy Bigelow), Beautiy And The Beast (Gaston), Inherit The Wind, Show Boat (Ravenal), The Most Happy Fella (Joey), A Little Night Music (Carl Magnus), Pirates Of Penzance, A Funny Thing…Forum (Miles Gloriosus - Kevin Kline Award nom), Oklahoma (Curly), Cabaret (Cliff), Desert Song (Red Shadow), The Merry Widow (Danilo), Kismet (Hajj), and South Pacific with Howard Keel (Joe Cable).

Tickets range from $25 to $52 and are available in advance at the Spokane Symphony Ticket Office at Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague, or by calling 509-624-1200. Tickets may be purchased online at www.spokanesymphony.org Tickets are also available at all TicketsWest outlets or by calling 1-800-325-SEAT

This concert is sponsored in part by Latah Creek Wine Cellars.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration Pops Concert; Morihiko Nakahara, conductor and Teri Dale Hanson and Nat Chandler, vocalists, with the Spokane Symphony; Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011 at 8 p.m. in Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. Tickets are $25 to $52. Call the Spokane Symphony Ticket Office at (509) 624-1200 or purchase in person at Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, 1001 W. Sprague; tickets are also available through TicketsWest outlets or by calling 325-SEAT or 1-800-325-SEAT or online at www.spokanesymphony.org