The National Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian”
and Randy Gener
and Randy Gener
Present
“A Medley of Sondheim“ — a special concert tribute performance
Featuring Broadway star performers
Joan Almedilla, Ali Ewoldt,
Joan Almedilla, Ali Ewoldt,
Angel Desai, Jose Llana and Orville Mendoza
19.00, Tuesday, 17th of November 2011
at the Metropolis Theater
at the Metropolis Theater
within the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts “Life is Beautiful”
4th edition
Bucharest, Romania
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — An impressive all-Filipino ensemble of Broadway stars are traveling to Romania to perform A Medley of Sondheim, a concert of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical numbers, presented within the framework of the 4th edition of the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts “Life is Beautiful.”
Performing 7 p.m. Thursday November 17th at the Metropolis Theater in Bucharest, this sexy Sondheim concert celebration puts forward the award-winning musical talents of
- Joan Almedilla (Miss Saigon, Les Miserables);
- Angel Desai (Sondheim’s Company);
- Ali Ewoldt (Les Miserables, West Side Story);
- Jose Llana (The King & I, Spelling Bee, The Flower Drum Song, Wonderland); and
- Orville Mendoza (Pacific Overtures, Sondheim‘s Road Show).
Jose Llana serves as the director of A Medley of Sondheim.
Randy Gener, an internationally renowned editor, critic and artist, serves as the show’s American producer.
With Albin Konopka serving as musical director, A Medley of Sondheim includes songs from such legendary Sondheim musicals such as Anyone Can Whistle, Company, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, among others.
This international musical festival is unique in Romania, organized by the National Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian,” a public cultural institution funded by that country’s Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. This fourth edition of the festival takes place November 10 to 20, 2011 in several locations in Bucharest. The diversified program includes musicals, operetta performances; ballets; concerts of international artists like The Tiger Lillies, Emma Shaplin (France), Richard Galliano (Italy), Ornella Vanoni (Italy); workshops for children; book launches; exhibitions and conferences, performed and presented by Romanian and foreign artists from more than 10 countries around the world.
In 2008 (the first edition), and now, perhaps more than ever, the International Festival of the Musical Performing Arts aims to offer the public a series of shows and events under the sign of Beauty in Music and Theater, proving that life is still beautiful.
Tickets are now on sale at the National Operetta Theatre "Ion Dacian" and online (www.opereta.ro), the sites www.eventim.ro and www.vandbilete.ro . For more information or to obtain press credentials, please contact us at the address madalina.matei @ opereta.ro or the number of phone 021/314.11.87.
Biographies
JOAN ALMEDILLA has performed the leading role of Kim in the Broadway musical Miss Saigon. She played Fantine in the National tour of the Broadway musical Les Miserables and as Soul Girl/Mary Magdalene in the National Broadway tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. She performed the role of Imelda Marcos in David Byrne and DJ Fatboy Slim's Here Lies Love at Carnegie Hall. She will appear in the feature film Commencement in 2012. www.joanalmedilla.com.ALI EWOLDT just returned from a year on the road as Maria in the National Tour of the Broadway musical West Side Story (music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim), directed by David Saint and Arthur Laurents. She made her Broadway debut in the 2006 revival of Les Miserables in the role of Cosette. Her other credits include Les Miserables (National Tour, Cosette), West Side Story (Maria, Pittsbirgh CLO, Joey McKneely’s international tour), Disney's Aladdin (Jasmine), and workshops of the musical version of the film Giant (written and composed by Michael John LaChiusa).
ANGEL DESAI recently completed the world premiere of Phaedra Backwards at the McCarter Theater. She played Marta in the 2007 Tony Award ®-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company. Off-Broadway credits include The Tempest, opposite Mandy Patinkin, and The Winter's Tale with David Strathairn, both at CSC; Playwrights Horizons, NYTW, Ma-Yi, Public/NYSF, and MCC. Her recent TV credits include "The Good Wife," and recurring roles on "The Event," "Dollhouse," "Kings," and all three "Law and Order"'s. She holds an MFA in Acting from NYU.
ALBIN KONOPKA has enjoyed a long and successful international career. Besides his credits on numerous Broadway shows, he has performed in over 24 countries on 6 continents. He has worked as a producer, composer, musical director/supervisor, vocal and dance arranger and orchestrator. He has written two musicals: Ambra (in Italian) and She Schtups To Conquer. He is fluent in 5 languages and has a Masters from the Juilliard School of Music.
JOSE LLANA most recently appeared on Broadway as El Gato in Frank Wildhorn’s Wonderland. Other Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling as Chip Tolentino (dir. James Lapine, Drama Desk Award), Wang Ta in Flower Drum Song (dir. Bobby Longbottom), Angel in the Broadway musical Rent (dir. Michael Grief), and Lun Tha in the 1996 Revival of The King and I opposite Lou Diamond Phillips and Donna Murphy. Off-Broadway: Adam in Falling For Eve at The York Theatre, Gabey in the musical On the Town (dir. George C. Wolfe, Delacorte Theater in Central Park) and Adam Guettel’s Saturn Returns (dir. Tina Landau, Public Theater). This is Jose's second consecutive participation in the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts "Life is Beautiful!" in Bucharest. www.josellana.com
ORVILLE MENDOZA is thrilled to be back in Bucharest having performed in 2008 at the Odeon Theater and the Sibiu International Theatre Festival with Ma-Yi Theatre Company’s production of The Romance of Magno Rubio. A professional actor in the U.S. for over 15 years, Orville has performed everything from Shakespeare to Chekhov to Rodgers & Hammerstein to Sondheim. He has appeared on Broadway and many Off-Broadway theatres in New York. He had the great honor of being in the original cast of Stephen Sondheim’s newest musical, Road Show, which premiered at The Public Theatre in NYC and recently had a successful run at London’s Menier Chocolate Factory this year.
RANDY GENER is the Nathan Award winning editor, writer, critic and artist based in New York City. He is the author of the plays Love Seats for Virginia Woolf, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, and other theatre works. His visual-art installation, in the garden of One World, recently debuted at LaMaMa La Galleria in New York. Widely acclaimed in the U.S. press as “an internationalist, a champion of cultural exchange and dialogue“ (New York Daily News) and as "unequaled among his contemporaries" (American Theatre magazine and Theatre Communications Group), Gener has received grants from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Ford Foundation/Institute for International Education for his advocacy of U.S. performing arts in Eastern Europe. Gener's website is theaterofOneWorld.org.
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