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Follow on Google News | Pop music from 100 years ago gets another go.Free Range Opera presents historic music and theater. Vocal Gems of the Ragtime Era contains enduring favorites from the era along with "lost gems". By experiencing the popular music of the day, the audience learns what life was like 100 years ago.
By: Free Range Opera Theater, Inc. Opening January 19th, Vocal Gems of the Ragtime Era contains enduring favorites from the era along with "lost gems". By experiencing the popular music of the day, the audience learns what life was like 100 years ago. As with today’s music; love, technology, local pride, dance, popular culture, and social issues are all hot topics a hundred years ago. Free Range Opera presents an historic sampler of songs from the ragtime era including enduring hits of the day, novelty songs, and works from stage luminaries including selections from Scott Joplin’s opera Treemonisha and songs from the 1919 Broadway hit Irene. We take a musical view of relationships, entertainment icons, technology, and the influence of classic and popular culture. Composers include Scott Joplin, Irving Berlin, Harry Tierney, Sigmund Romberg, Percy Wenrich, Harry Von Tilzer and others. Special Guests and well known members of the ragtime community, Sean Sharp and Larisa Migachyov join eight of our favorite performers to bring these gems to the stage for your Performances & Tickets Seats for all performances are $25 The Empire Fire House History Park in San Jose 635 Phelan Avenue, San Jose 95112 Saturday and Sunday, January 19–20 at 2 p.m. • Join the cast for refreshments after the show. An intimate venue, seats may sell out early! Unitarian Universalists of San Mateo 300 East Santa Inez Avenue, San Mateo 94401 Saturday, January 26 at 2 p.m. • Join the cast for refreshments after the show. Tickets for the above venues are available at www.brownpapertickets.org (Search for “ragtime”.) Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek Sunday, January 27 at 2:15 p.m. http://lesherartscenter.org 1-925-943-SHOW [7469] You may also get additional show and venue details at www.freerangeopera.com Titles include popular hits like: Some of These Days Alexander’s Ragtime Band Alice Blue Gown Bird In A Gilded Cage Red Rose Rag Come Josephine, In My Flying Machine I Love You, California Along with less often heard titles and rare gems like: Anti-Ragtime Girl Galli-Curci Rag I’m After Madame Tetrazzini’s JobA They Go Wild, Simply Wild Over Me I Don’t See Your Name Stamped On Any Cigars A Real Slow Drag (from Treemonisha) and many more! Starring: Adrien Gleason, Carol Ann Parker, Chris Fernandez, Diane Squires, Jessica Golden, Katie Chapin, Scott White, and Tom Caldecott. On piano: Bruce Herman, Neil Midkiff, and Paul Zawilski The mission of Free Range Opera Theater, Inc. is to research, revive, and preserve our historic musical heritage including operetta, music hall, vaudeville, and musical theater...for a cause! Inspired by the charity model of The Savoy Company in Philadelphia, and Blue Hill Troupe in New York, Free Range Opera pledges to donate the profits collected by way of ticket sales from our main-stage operettas and musicals to a worthwhile charity chosen by a panel at the start of each production cycle. We are a non-profit corporation which partners with other local non-profits to use our staged musical revivals as fundraising opportunities for the community good. We are recognized by California and the IRS as a 501(c)(3) charity; donations are tax-deductible. End
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