On Friday, August 19, the Marion Concert Band will continue its Friday evening concert series with a program of music from the Broadway stage. The program, which includes a soprano soloist and highlights from some of Broadway’s most memorable shows, is as follows:
Lohengrin (Introduction to Act III) – R. Wagner
Broadway Show-Stoppers Overture – arr. W. Barker
Someone to Watch Over Me – G. Gershwin
Tracy Fiore, soprano
Selections from Wicked – S. Schwartz
Opening Night on Broadway – arr. M. Brown
Selections from Into the Woods – S. Sondheim
West Side Story Selections – L. Bernstein
Over the Rainbow – H. Arlen
Tracy Fiore, soprano
Selections from My Fair Lady – F. Loewe
American Legion March – C. Parker
Tracy Fiore is a cantor at Holy Name Church (Fall River) and teaches Musical Theatre at the Onstage Academy of Performing Arts in Fall River. Her recent theatrical credits include Glinda/Auntie Em for the Little Theatre of Fall River’s performance of The Wizard of Oz, The Baroness in The Sound of Music, the Mother in the opera Amahl & the Night Visitors, and Maggie in Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (all with LTFR). Ms. Fiore has sung in an American Pop review in Downtown Disney, Orlando, FL for the Magic Music Days program, the Rockin’ America review at Disney (2009) as well as the Swingin’ on a Star Musical review in several venues in TN (2007).
The concert, under the direction of Tobias Monte, will begin at 7:00 pm at the Robert Broomhead Bandstand, Island Wharf off Front Street in Marion. All concerts are free and open to the public. “Like” us on Facebook at “Marion Town Band” for up-to-date announcements and rain cancellation notices.