From comedian heckling to a musical revue about baseball to Broadway songs that got the axe before making it to the stage, the ESL Rochester Fringe Festival had plenty to offer. Rochester Overture writers caught several shows on Friday and Saturday, some of which you can still see later today.
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An in-development folk opera by Geneseo-based composer Glenn McClure explores an overlooked chapter in the life of Civil War nurse and American Red Cross founder Clara Barton: the decade she spent in Dansville, New York and the emotional reasons that brought her there. The opera was given a concert-style workshop in late August at the Geneseo Riviera.
On a picture-perfect evening, regional Josh Groban fans came out to the Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center on Tuesday evening for a well-attended concert of his latest tour, 'Stage, Screen, Symphony,' promoting his recent album, "Cinematic." The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra provided the backing track for his soaring vocals.
Josh Groban is a multi-platinum recording artist, multi-Grammy-nominated singer, and Tony Award-nominated Broadway actor—and he comes to the Rochester region on Tuesday, August 18 to perform at the Constellation Brands-Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center. He won’t be alone, though, or with a touring band. A familiar group of musicians will be on stage with him: members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Gangsters and religious missionaries sound like opposing crowds. But in Happy End, the Kurt Weill, Bertold Brecht, and Elisabeth Hauptmann musical theater work from 1929, they are far more alike. They are both wayward groups fighting capitalist injustices, albeit from opposing vantage points, and they both struggle to hold onto…