The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and his Tony Friends brings Broadway's best!

Mar 7, 2007

For Immediate Release

Contact: Annie Matlow 326-3136

The Tony-award-winning music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and other great music by Tony Award winners, reaches across the spectrum of music listeners with wonderful and exciting melodies. On Saturday, March 17, in Spokane and again on Sunday, March 25, in Coeur d'Alene, Maestro Morihiko Nakahara and the Spokane Symphony will play a selection of Webber's greatest hits rounded out by other Tony Award winners.

The concerts will be Saturday at 8 p.m. in the INB Performing Arts Center and Sunday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Boswell Hall on the campus of North Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene.

Andrew Lloyd Webber is arguably the most successful composer of our time. He is best known for stage and film adaptations of his musicals Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Evita and The Phantom of the Opera. In addition to music from all four of these musicals, the program will include music from Aspects of Love, Company. Les Miserables, Kiss Me Kate, and others.

Andrea Dawes and Quincy Marr will add vocals. Webber won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Music, Original Song for Evita , and received two more Oscar nominations. Also among his many awards are seven Tonys and three Grammys. In 2006 Andrew Lloyd Webber was given Kennedy Center Honors.

Dawes is a popular performer in both Spokane and Coeur d'Alene. A graduate of Eastern Washington University, she has appeared in productions by Opera Buffs, Lake City Playhouse, Spokane-Coeur d'Alene Opera, Opera Plus and many more. She recently performed in a concert version of Evita presented by Spokane Civic Theater.

Marr, a 2002 Hope College graduate hailing from Brooklyn, NY, has recently returned from an international tour of "In The Mood" during which he sang with a 13-piece big band to sold out houses everywhere from Honolulu, Hawaii to Seattle. After getting a degree in Musical Theatre, he began a professional acting career in New York City while returning each summer to his alma mater to perform with the Hope Summer Repertory Theatre Company. Last June he was the guest soloist for the Holland Symphony Orchestra.

This concert has been made possible by the generous donations of Washington Trust Bank.

Tickets for the Spokane concert range from $17 to $39 and are available Monday through Friday from 9:30-5:00 p.m. at the Spokane Symphony Ticket Office at 818 West Riverside Avenue or by calling (509) 624-1200. Tickets are also available, with a service charge, at www.spokanesymphony.org or through TicketsWest at 325-SEAT or 1-800-325-SEAT. Tickets for the Coeur d'Alene concert are $20 and $28 and are also available at the NIC Box office, 208-769-7780.