Hat City Music’s ‘Broadway Tonight!’

Will Hit The Stage March 4 & 5

DANBURY — David Katz’s Hat City Music will present a hand-picked cast of award-winning young professionals singing popular hits from great musicals in Broadway Tonight! to be performed Saturday, March 4, at 7:30 pm, and Sunday, March 5, at 5 pm.

Performances will be at St James Church, 25 West Street. Tickets are $12 in advance and $15 at the door, and are available by calling 746-2694 or online at www.BrownPaperTickets.com.

Featuring beloved classic songs from such Broadway blockbusters as Phantom, West Side Story, The Producers, My Fair Lady, Annie and more, Broadway Tonight! will be accompanied by the man who was himself the Broadway music director for Annie, New Fairfield resident Arnie Gross.

Patrons who would like to combine their Broadway Tonight! ticket with fine dining before or after the show are invited to take advantage of Hat City Music’s new Dinner & A Show package. For $28 per person attendees can enjoy the performance of their choice and then select from a variety of delicious dinner entrees at Ciao Cafe and Wine Bar, 2 Ives Street in Danbury. Reservations are required for Dinner & A Show; call Hat City Music at 746-2694.

The stage director for Broadway Tonight! is Hat City Music founder and music director David Katz, who directed the company’s acclaimed pops concert on the Danbury Green last summer. Returning from that performance to sing in Broadway Tonight! are audience favorites Paris Cheffer, baritone; Brian Cheney, tenor; and Culver Casson, soprano, who was most recently heard in Danbury as soloist at Candlewood Symphony’s Happy Holiday Pops in December.

Joined by New York soprano Jennifer Toohey and The Hat City Singers, Broadway Tonight! will also feature the debut of the Hat City Kids, a brand new children’s chorus, singing favorites from Annie, Oliver! and The Sound of Music.

“There is nothing like the power of live professional performers,” said Mr Katz. “At Broadway Tonight! when Paris Cheffer launches into ‘The Impossible Dream,’ or Jennifer Toohey dazzles with ‘I Could Have Danced All Night,’ or  Culver Casson soars through ‘I feel pretty,’ the excitement of having such talent right there in front you, performing just for you at that moment, can’t be matched by any recording, video or film. The excitement of live professional performance is what makes Hat City Music so compelling and so wonderful.”