Brian Stokes Mitchell Plays the Kennedy Center, 5/12
By: Charles Shubow May. 07, 2013
I'm not sure if I've ever looked more forward to a Mother's Day in a long time. This Sunday, May 12 at 5 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Tony Award-winning Broadway, television and film star Brian Stokes Mitchell and the Choral Arts Chorus will be entertaining what I'm sure will be a sold-out audience.
Mitchell has to be one of my all time favorite performers. Ever since RAGTIME, then KISS ME KATE, and then MAN OF LA MANCHA, I have been mezmerized by his amazing talent. Choral Arts Artistic Director Scott Tucker will be conducting this performance sponsored by the Washington Performing Arts Society.
"Stokes" as he is known, will feature his signature song "The Impossible Dream" from MAN OF LA MANCHA, as well as a medly of Gershwin songs as well as numbers from SOUTH PACIFIC, KISS ME KATE, CAMELOT, and PORGY AND BESS.
The 160 member Chorus will begin the afternoon with numbers from STATE FAIR, Jerome Kern's A CHORAL PORTRAIT, and Stephen Sondheim's A CHORAL PORTRAIT.
If you have never seen Mitchell perform in person, this is your chance.
I can't think of a better way to celebrate "Mother's Day".
Tickets range from $29 to $85 and are available at Choral Arts:www.choralarts.org or 202-244-3669,or WPAS:www.wpas.org or 202-785-9727 or the Kennedy Center:www.kennedy-center.org or 202-467-4600.
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