Beaver Falls concert series announces ’22-’23 season Scott Tady – Beaver County Times https://www.timesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2022/07/19/beaver-falls-concert-series-announces-22-23-season/65376687007/ Beach Boys, Jersey boys, Kenny
Rogers, Jackie Wilson and Broadway. Announced this week, the 2022-23 season includes: “We are so excited to kick off our season with the Atlantic City Boys,” Ficca said. “Their ’50s and ’60s (style) will thrill all. Nick and Desi will entertain us next, with song and dance and romance, a theatrical group that tours the world with music and many dances. The Beach Boys tribute is show No. 3. With lots of sun and fun, they’ll pay homage to the iconic band. The performance of
Rogers classics like “The Gambler” and “Lucille” features vocalist Gatlin, who along with his brother Darryl Gatlin, were national recording artists from Beaver County in the early 1990s. Nic and Desi sing, dance and share their love story in a celebration of classic and contemporary Broadway. Following star turns on Broadway and in numerous nationally touring musicals, theatrical power couple Nicolas Dromard and Desireé Davar created this new duo act to share their love of song and dance. Song selections include favorites fromGreat American Songbook standards (“Shall We Dance,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “I Won’t Dance”) to hits from their favorite roles in Broadway’s “Jersey Boys,” “West Side Story,” “Oklahoma!” and “Wicked.”Gregory is a multi-award-winning actor and singer who played the lead role in the critically acclaimed stage play “The Jackie Wilson Story,” which had a three-year run at the Black Ensemble Theatre in Chicago and culminated at New York’s legendary Apollo Theater, receiving rave reviews from the New York Times. In 2003, Gregory’s award-winning depiction of Wilson, a soul music pioneer whose string of 1950s and ’60s hits included “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)Higher and Higher” gave him the opportunity to perform for the famed Michael Jackson, who gave Gregory a standing ovation. That same week, Gregory made his Broadway debut as Seaweed in the Tony Award-winning “Hairspray,” and he went on to originate and star in many Broadway musicals including “Tarzan,” “Cry-Baby,” “Sister Act” and August Wilson’s “Fences” and “Two Trains Running.” They get around Scott Tady is entertainment editor at The Times, and easy to reach at . |