Liz Callaway and the CSO Celebrate Milestones of Sondheim and Loesser

Broadway sensation and celebrated vocalist Liz Callaway joins the Columbus Symphony for an evening of music by two true legends of the Great White Way, Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser. Conducted by CSO Resident Staff Conductor Albert-George Schram, the program commemorates the 80th birthday of Stephen Sondheim and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Frank Loesser.

The Columbus Symphony presents the Sondheim & Loesser Songbook with Liz Callaway at the Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.) on Saturday, February 19, at 8pm. Tickets are $20.50-$66.50 for adults and $11.50-$33.50 for children, and can be purchased at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 228-8600 or (800) 745-3000. The Ohio Theatre Ticket Office will also be open two hours prior to each performance.

About vocalist Liz Callaway
Award-winning actress, singer, and recording artist Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along. She received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and appeared as Grizabella in CATS for five years. She has also starred in the original casts of Miss Saigon, The Three Musketeers, and The Look of Love.

Off-Broadway, she received a Drama Desk nomination for her performance in The Spitfire Grill, and also appeared in No Way to Treat a Lady, Marry Me a Little, Godspell, and Brownstone. Other New York appearances include "Hair in Concert," the legendary "Follies in Concert at Lincoln Center, A Stephen Sondheim Evening," and "Fiorello! at Encores!" She also starred as Venus in the Chicago Ovations! production of One Touch of Venus, and in Elegies at Reprise! in Los Angeles.

The award-winning "Sibling Revelry" (created with sister Ann Hampton Callaway) was presented to great acclaim at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Originally produced at New York's Rainbow and Stars, the show was recorded live by DRG Records. "Relative Harmony" (also created with her sister) opened to rave reviews in New York and Los Angeles. She had the pleasure of co-starring with Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed engagement at Feinstein's in New York. Her extensive concert and symphony work includes appearances at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, The Hollywood Bowl, and on tour with the Boston Pops. Worldwide, she has performed in China, Iceland, Estonia, France, Slovenia, Seoul, South Korea, and Barcelona, Spain, where she premiered a new concert featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim at Gran Teatre del Liceu.

Callaway sang the Academy Award-nominated song "Journey to the Past" in the animated feature Anastasia. She is also the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar. Other film work includes the singing voice of the title character in The Swan Princess, Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, Beauty and the Beast, and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars.

She received an Emmy Award for hosting "Ready to Go," a daily, live children's program on CBS in Boston. Other TV credits include "In Performance at the White House," "Inside the Actor's Studio: Stephen Sondheim," "Christmas with the Boston Pops," "The David Letterman Show," and "Senior Trip" (CBS Movie of the Week).

Callaway just released her fourh solo album, Passage of Time, for PS Classics. She has three other solo recordings-The Beat Goes On (featuring music of the 60's), The Story Goes On: Liz Callaway On and Off-Broadway, and Anywhere I Wander (the music of Frank Loesser). Her numerous other recordings include Unsung Sondheim, Unsung Irving Berlin, Lost in Boston, The Maury Yeston Songbook, Hair in Concert, and the complete recording of Allegro produced by the Rodgers and Hammerstein Organization.

About Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930)
Stephen Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, eight Tony Awards (more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, eight Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.

About Frank Henry Loesser (1910-1969)
Frank Loesser was an American songwriter who scored the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, earning Tony Awards for the music and lyrics of both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. He scored several other Broadway musicals and also wrote numerous songs for films and Tin Pan Alley, many of which have become standards. Loesser was nominated for five Academy Awards for best music/original song, winning once in 1950 for "Baby, It's Cold Outside."

The Columbus Symphony presents the Sondheim & Loesser Songbook with Liz Callaway
Saturday, February 19, 8 pm
Ohio Theatre (39 E. State St.)
Broadway sensation and celebrated vocalist Liz Callaway joins the Columbus Symphony for an evening of music by two true legends of the Great White Way, Stephen Sondheim and Frank Loesser. Tickets are $20.50-$66.50 for adults and $11.50-$33.50 for children and can be purchased at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), all Ticketmaster outlets, and www.ticketmaster.com. To purchase tickets by phone, please call (614) 228-8600 or (800) 745-3000.

 

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