SAN FRANCISCO, September 15, 2010- 42nd Street Moon proudly presents ONCE IN A MILLION MOONS: A Jerome Kern Salon on October 28 at the Alcazar Theatre. This one-night-only event features Broadway star Rebecca Luker, as the company's multi-year celebration of composer Jerome Kern continues.
"We've been privileged to bring many rarely seen Kern musicals to San Francisco audiences - Sitting Pretty, Sweet Adeline, The Cabaret Girl (an American premiere), Roberta, Cat & the Fiddle, Very Warm for May - and we've still only dipped our toes into his amazing canon of songs," said Moon Artistic Director Greg MacKellan. One of America's most beloved composers, Jerome Kern had a career that spanned more than 40 years. He started writing turn-of-the-century two-steps, and his music evolved through ragtime, operetta, jazz and swing. His "Princess Theatre" shows set the template that musical theatre follows to this day. "Bill," "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," "Pick Yourself Up," "The Way You Look Tonight," "Who?" "In Love in Vain," "All the Things You Are," "Till the Clouds Roll By" - the list of great Kern melodies is limitless.Greg MacKellan, founder and artistic director of 42nd Street Moon, will host the evening. He has had a long history producing, directing, and performing Jerome Kern's works. Kern's daughter, Betty, advised him when he produced two Kern CDs (Early Kern and Jerome Kern in London in Hollywood) with performers Rebecca Luker, Judy Kaye, Jason Graae, Paige O'Hara, Patricia Morison, Craig Bierko, among others. His Kern directing credits include Sitting Pretty, The Cat & the Fiddle, and Roberta, and he'll be restoring and directing Kern and Hammerstein's Three Sisters for Moon next season. His favorite non-Kern directing assignments include Gay Divorce, Paint Your Wagon, Li'l Abner, Goodtime Charley, The Grass Harp and Do I Hear a Waltz? Greg's rewrite of Cole Porter's Out of This World won a Goodman Award, and has been produced at Moon twice, as well as at the Chichester Festival in England (where it earned raves from the London critics), Seattle, Los Angeles, and next year in Vancouver.
Tickets for the Kern Salon are priced at $70, and may be purchased through the Box Office at 415/255-8207 or online at www.42ndstmoon.org. The Alcazar Theatre is located at 650 Geary Street, San Francisco.Videos