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Soprano Ira Lauren & Pianist Dale Gonyea Join BROADWAY ON ICE at Kravis Center

By: Dec. 08, 2015
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The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts today announced that Austrian soprano Ira Lauren and piano virtuoso/comedian Dale Gonyea are set to be the musical guests with Olympic Skating Champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White along with Phantom of the Opera's Davis Gaines in Willy Bietak's Broadway on Ice, which begins a special limited three performance engagement at The Kravis Center, December 22-23.


The internationally, critically acclaimed Broadway On Ice musical extravaganza, created and produced by Willy Bietak, is a celebration of beauty, grace and artistry of figure skating, embraced by the magic of the Broadway Musicals. The show features a dazzling cast of international skating champions, singers, acrobats and musical artists, performing to memorable songs of such Broadway hits as West Side Story, Rent, Phantom of the Opera, Chicago and A Chorus Line among others.


Austrian Soprano Ira Lauren was born in Salzburg and lived in Cairo for 16 years where she originally started to play violin. Later in life she took singing and dancing lessons and graduated from the Lee Strasberg School in Los Angeles. Ira has taken part in several recitals and Opera Productions in Austria, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Egypt, Spain, Scandinavia as well as the USA. One of her many career highlights include when she sang operetta arias at the First Viennese Opera Ball in Dubai.

Piano virtuoso and comedian Dale Gonyea began playing spontaneously and without a single lesson at the age of 5. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Gonyea is an Emmy Winner, a Clio nominee and his song spoof, I Need Your Help Barry Manilow, was Grammy nominated for Comedy Record of the Year. He has written numerous songs for Disney, as well as performed songs on Rosie O'Donnell, Kaye Ballard, and Ray Stevens among others as well as his Cher parody was featured on Catskills on Broadway. The Los Angeles Times proclaimed him, "Heir to the piano-comedy throne."

Broadway on Ice co-headliners Meryl Davis and Charlie White, the amazing American Ice Dancing Champions of the 2014 Olympics, will be showcasing their prize winning choreography and dancing synchronization, recently featured on ABC's Dancing with the Stars. The skating duo that thrilled international audiences with their unique artistry on ice currently holds the world record for the ice skating short dance, free dance and total combined score.


Davis Gaines has headlined more than 2.000 times as the star of Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, in Los Angeles, San Francisco where he won the Bay Area Critics' Award, and at the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, DC among others. In addition, he has starred in a number of other Broadway and National Touring Musical productions including, Hello Dolly, Camelot, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and most recently starred in the musical production of Kiss Me Kate at the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, CA.
The stage of the Kravis Center's Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall will be transformed into a spectacular ice rink for this production. Tickets start at $30 and the performance is being presented with support from CBS12.


How to Get Tickets: Advance tickets for Broadway on Ice are available for purchase at the Kravis Center's box office, 701 Okeechobee Blvd. in downtown West Palm Beach; online through the Kravis Center's official website at kravis.org; or by phone at 561-832-7469 or 800-572-8471. For Group Sales, please call 561-651-4438 or 561-651-4304.



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