Broadway at the Movies

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Tickets: Call The Shedd box office at 541.434.7000 or email tickets@theshedd.net to get tickets. Your very own This Week in Eugene founder, Peter Hollens, will be one of the main soloists! Over the past two decades, Broadway has increasingly turned to film for its source material, and the best of these adaptations do something more interesting than transferring a movie to the stage: they hand a beloved film to a composer and ask for an entirely new score. The Outsiders is not the Coppola movie with songs added; it's Jamestown Revival writing an Americana score for a story audiences already carry with them. The same is true of The Notebook, Waitress, Death Becomes Her, and the rest of this program. Evynne Hollens has built this 12th edition of her Contemporary Songbook Project like a film festival, moving from one genre to the next: the tearjerker, the romantic drama, the tall tale, the coming-of-age story, the spoof. The tonal range is wide by design, from Jason Robert Brown's aching score for The Bridges of Madison County to Andrew Lippa's Big Fish, from the small French charm of Amélie to The Rescues' rock score for The Lost Boys, which opened on Broadway earlier this year and makes its regional debut here! And there's Spamalot, Eric Idle's gleeful send-up of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and one of the funniest scores ever written for the Broadway stage. Evynne is joined on her journey by Adriana Ripley, Siri Vik, Calen Joseph, Bill Hulings, Peter Hollens, a talented young chorus and a fabulous band under the direction of Vicki Brabham. This annual production gives The Shedd's stage entirely to contemporary Broadway, and this year's program is among the newest we've assembled, with the majority of the material written in the last twenty years. PROGRAM The Tearjerker — The Notebook (2024). Words and music: Ingrid Michaelson. • Time • Leave The Light On • If This Is Love • Kiss Me • My Days The Backstage Dramedy — Mr. Saturday Night (2022). Words: Amanda Green. Music: Jason Robert Brown. • A Little Joy The Romantic Drama — The Bridges Of Madison County (2014). Words and music: Jason Robert Brown. • Almost Real • Another Life • It All Fades Away The Tall Tale — Big Fish (2014). Words and music: Andrew Lippa. • Be The Hero • Stranger The Indie Rom-Com — Waitress. Words and music: Sara Bareilles. • When He Sees Me (2016) • A Soft Place To Land (2015) • You Matter To Me (2016) • She Used To Be Mine (2016) The Spoof — Spamalot (2005). • The Song That Goes Like This — words and music: Eric Idle, John Du Prez. • Find Your Grail — words and music: Eric Idle. — Intermission — The Coming-of-Age Drama — The Outsiders (2024). Words and music: Jonathan Clay, Zach Chance, Justin Levine. • Tulsa '67 • Throwin' In The Towel • Great Expectations The French Film — Amélie (2017). Words: Nathan Tysen. Words and music: Daniel Messé. • Times Are hard For Dreamers The Dark Comedy — Death Becomes Her (2024). Words and music: Noel Carey, Julia Mattison. • If You Want Perfection • For The Gaze • Hit Me • The Plan • Alive Forever The Comedy Horror — The Lost Boys (2026). Words and music: The Rescues. • No More Monsters • Take My Heart With You • Take My Heart With YouBelong To Someone • Secret Comes Out • If We Make It Through The Night Curtain Call/Bows About Peter: Visit en.wikipedia.org

Performers

• Evynne Hollens
• Peter Hollens
• Adriana Ripley
• Siri Vik
• Calen Joseph
• Bill Hulings
• Vicki Brabham

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