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This Week in The Arts
Groovelily leads a full weekend of area music
Groovelily performs 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Tulsa PAC.
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By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer
Published: 9/24/2009 2:26 AM
Last Modified: 9/24/2009 10:03 AM
Decisions, decisions, decisions — especially when it comes to music this weekend. For example:
Groovelily
performs 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Tulsa PAC, 110 E. Second St. This trio of violinist-vocalist
Valerie Vigoda
, keyboardist-vocalist
Brendan Milburn
and drummer-vocalist
Gene Lewin
have carved a unique niche for themselves by creating self-contained musical theater pieces that toy with familiar stories — "Sleeping Beauty" set in a sleep disorder clinic, for example.
It will perform songs that span its career — along with maybe a cover song or two, such its reworking of "I Want To Know What Love Is" that gives that song a welcome shot of life.
That same evening, on the other side of town, the
Signature Symphony
at Tulsa Community College will be offering up its own show of musical theater music — with Broadway stars
Julie Hanson
and
Larry Wayne Morbitt
supplying the vocals.
Both performers have Tulsa roots: Hanson is a Tulsa native, and Morbitt studied at Oral Roberts University. And both have had lengthy careers as members of the cast of "The Phantom of the Opera." The concert starts at 8 p.m. Friday at the VanTrease PACE, 10300 E. 81st St.
The Signature Symphony's concert will be repeated on Saturday, which is also the night that the
Tulsa Symphony
opens its concert series, 7:30 p.m. at the Tulsa PAC, 101 E. Third St. TSO, under the direction of guest conductor
Andrew Massey
, will present an evening of music from Germany and Austria as part of its "Hear the World" season.
The concert will feature the Symphony No. 29 by Mozart and the Symphony No. 4 by Brahms, along with Webern's arrangement of the Ricercare from Bach's "The Musical Offering."
Luigi Balletto
has been performing for Tulsans since the Toronto native moved here in 1962. Some of the places where he was the top draw — the Red Lion Club in the Camelot Hotel, St. Michael's Alley — are no more, but Luigi endures. He'll make his debut at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, performing his Sinatra tribute show, "Let's Be Frank," as a fundraiser for the hall. The show begins at 5 p.m. Sunday Sept. 27 at the Jazz Depot, 111 E. First St.
For the young and young at heart, the
Tulsa Children's Museum
is presenting the Austin, Texas, band
The Jellydots
in concert, with shows at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday at the Tulsa PAC. The band handles everything from pop to punk, reggae to rock, with lyrics that talk about the essential elements of childhood in clever and inventive ways.
The jazz band
Score
, led by Chuck and Sandy Gardner, will be joined by vocalist
Pam Van Dyke Crosby
for a show 5:30 p.m. Friday at Baxter's Interurban Grill, 717 S. Houston Ave.
The newly opened Broken Arrow Performing Arts Center, 701 S. Main St. in Broken Arrow, begins its "Broadway, Branson and the Blues" concert season with a performance 7 p.m. Tuesday by students from Broken Arrow schools, along with guest stars
Kathryn Zaremba
, who starred in the original New York production of "Annie Warbucks," noted drummer and percussionist
Russ McKinnon
and arranger-conductor
J. Barrick Griffiths
— all Broken Arrow alumni.
By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer
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