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Bid a rousing adieu to 2015 on a high note
The stage is set to say farewell to another year. It’s time to don those party hats and make way for 2016. Here are some suggestions on how and where to celebrate in style.
Long Island Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve Spectacular
The Long Island Philharmonic is always ready to ring in the New Year with plenty of gusto at its annual musical extravaganza. Join Maestro David Stewart Wiley, music director and conductor, and his orchestra at Tilles Center for a stirring send-off to 2015, beginning at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 31.
The New Year’s Eve concert continues to be a welcome year-end tradition for the orchestra and its many fans. With this year’s festive concert, the Philharmonic — despite its financial woes over the years — marks 25 years of sharing its musical New Year’s salute. This year the orchestra reaches out to the Lerner and Loewe songbook, in “My Fair Broadway,” in a tribute to the iconic songwriting team and their contributions to the Great White Way.
The glittering year-end extravaganza includes selections from “Camelot,” “Paint Your Wagon,” “Gigi,” “Brigadoon,” and of course, “My Fair Lady.”
“Our New Year’s Eve concert has become an amazing and successful tradition,” Wiley says. “It is wonderful and gratifying to see that it has grown into such a big annual event. Each year we make it as artistic and vibrant as we can. And what I love about it this performance is that it moves quickly with a great cast.”
Joining Wiley and his orchestra on stage are four Broadway performers who bring a dynamic range of talents to the gala concert. Jennifer Hope Wills, who last appeared with the Philharmonic in 2013, won audiences’ hearts for four years as Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera,” before moving on to other Broadway and regional theater productions. Sean MacLaughlin, who performed with the orchestra in 2012, is another “Phantom” alum, among his many theater credits; and Eric van Hoven has performed leading roles in opera and operetta, as well as on Broadway. Vocalist Alicia Hall Moran, making her Philharmonic debut, rounds out the cast.
