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For more
information about the
Ocean City POPS summer concerts please call
the POPS hotline at 609-525-9245 ext.13
For tickets call the Music Pier Box Office (609) 525-9248
2009
Ocean City POPS
Summer Concerts at the Music Pier
William Scheible Artistic Director
JUNE
Ocean City POPS
81st Anniversary Season - 2009
June 19 - Friday
Friends of
the Ocean City Pops’ Gala -
Celebrate the opening of the POPS’
2009 Summer Season by dining and dancing at Greate
Bay Country Club at
6:30pm. Tickets $85. For information call
609-399-2566. Tickets
$85
June 28 - Sunday
Season Opening Concert! Chita
Rivera with the POPS!
Don’t miss this sensational legendary dancer,
singer, Tony Award Winner (twice!) and Kennedy
Center Award honoree in an exciting program of
energetic and memorable music selections.
Sponsored by CapeBank Charitable Foundation.
8:00pm
Tickets $25/20
JULY
2009
July 1 - Wednesday
Fairmount Brass!
Fairmount
Brass comes to the Pier with a program of light
classics, Americana, and patriotic march tunes.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Ocean City Pops,
Inc.
8:00pm Tickets $10
July 4 - Saturday
Singer Steve Amerson
from
California brings his national new tour program
Amazed by America to the Music
Pier plus patriotic favorites. Sponsored by
Jilly‘s.
7:30pm
Tickets $20/12
July 5 - Sunday
American Tribute!
Steve
Amerson joins the Pops again in another program!
Also featuring Casey at the Bat.
Sponsored by Mack
and Manco in memory of Ensign John Elliott
. 8:00pm Tickets
$20/12
July 7* - Tuesday, July
8 - Wednesday and July
9 - Thursday (2pm & 8pm)
Hello Dolly!
(4 shows only!) Fully staged Broadway musical
(winner of 10 Tony Awards and almost 3,000 nonstop
performances) directed by Michael Hartman. Hughes
Performing Arts Center, 6th Street and
Atlantic Avenue. Sponsored by: Tuesday - Ocean
City Sentinel; Wednesday - The McMahon Agency;
Thursday (2pm) - Blue Diamond Disposal; Thursday
(8pm) - John W. C.
Brooks. 8:00pm
(matinee Thursday 2pm) Tickets $25
July 12 - Sunday
Carmina Burana!
Joining the POPS and Maestro Scheible are the
Brandywine Singers Chorale, Jon Kreamer, Director,
plus tenor Jeffrey Halili, baritone Eric Dubin and
soprano Ailyn Perez. Hughes Performing Arts
Center, 6th Street and Atlantic Avenue.
Sponsored by Primo Pizza.
8:00pm
Tickets $15
July 14 - Tuesday
Hooray
for Hollywood!
Featuring
talented vocalist Diane Penning in a light program
of the greatest songs from countless movies over the
years. Sponsored by Ocean City Home
Bank.
8:00pm Tickets
$15/10
July 15 - Wednesday
Children’s Lollipop
Concert! Singer Diane Penning sings Mary Poppins
favorites. Ocean City children’s chorus joins the
Pops for fun selections, and crowd favorite
The Cat’s Pajamas create a sing-a-long
party! Sponsored by Gillian’s Wonderland
Pier.
7:30pm Tickets Adults $5/Children Free
July 19 - Sunday
Stephen Costello &
Ailyn Perez in Concert!
Hear Ocean City’s
favorite singers in a new recital program which
received rave reviews in London! Mr. Costello and
Ms. Perez have recently starred in productions to
much acclaim at the Academy of Music, Dallas Opera,
Metropolitan Opera and have toured Europe this
year. This program is made possible in part by
funds from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the
National Endowment for the Arts. The funds were
administered by the Cape May County Cultural and
Heritage Commission, under the authority of the
County Library Commission, for the Board of Chosen
Freeholders. Sponsored by
Shriver’s Salt Water Taffy
& Fudge & Gelato and the Friends of the Ocean
City Pops, Inc.
8:00pm
Tickets $27.50/17.50
July 21* - Tuesday and July
22 - Wednesday
Piano Pops Plus.
Pianist Rich Ridenour
returns with
trumpeter son, Brandon, newest member of the
Canadian Brass! Enjoy a fast
paced program with highlights from the Beatles,
Piazzolla, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and
other great tunes. Sponsored by: Tuesday - Kohr
Bros. Frozen Custard; Wednesday - Joel A. Mott, III
- Ocean Abstract
Company.
8:00pm Tickets $20/12
July
26 - Sunday
Our Three Tenors I.
Hear
tenors Stephen Costello, Christopher Hux and Michael
Galant raise the roof of the Music Pier! Also
playing is Lois Herbine premiering a short piccolo
flute piece written by former director Joseph
LaMonica in 1927. Sponsored by
Gold Gocial Gerstein
LLC. 8:00pm
Tickets $20
July 28* - Tuesday and July
29 - Wednesday
POPS‘ Favorites!
Singers
Christopher Hux, Steven LaBrie and Kristen Plumley
sing new show medleys with the Pops. Violinist
Joanna Frankel plays Summer from the Four
Seasons. Sponsored
by: Tuesday - Ocean City Coffee Company;
Wednesday - Ocean City Board of REALTORS.
8:00pm
Tickets $15/10
AUGUST
2009
August
2 - Sunday
Bruch and the Brits!
Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster,
David Kim, plays the lush romantic favorite Bruch violin
concerto. Second half features music from the British Isles..
Sponsored by Primo
Pizza.
8:00pm Tickets $15/10
August - 4* Tuesday and August
5 - Wednesday
Night at the Cabaret!
Sensational violinist
Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel Hoya in a new program, also
featuring young, new talented singers in an array of Broadway
tunes…sure to delight.
Sponsored by: Wednesday - Johnson‘s Popcorn. 8:00pm
Tickets $15/10
August 9 - Sunday
The Chocolate Soldier -
Philly's Concert Operetta Theater
brings Oscar Straus' The Chocolate Soldier to the Music
Pier! Starring Jenifer Graf as Nadina and Neil Darling as
Biermerli, the "chocolate soldier", in a fully staged/concert
production by Dan Pantano, conducted by Jeffey Gil.
Sponsored by TD Bank. 8:00pm
Tickets $15/10
August
11 -
Tuesday
Klezmer and All That Jazz
in a rollicking tribute to Benny
Goodman! Shelley Hanson and her Band join Maestro Scheible
as he revisits some of the best musical moments of the Big Band
era and the King of Swing! Sponsored by Raymond N. Beebe,
Esq. 8:00pm Tickets $20/15
August
12 - Wednesday
Best of Andrew Lloyd
Webber!
With singers. Phantom, Aspects of Love, Evita, Superstar,
CATS and others. Don’t miss this one.
Sponsored by Mack and Manco.
8:00pm
Tickets $25/20
August
16 - Sunday
Operatic Delights!
Hear some of the best singers from the East Coast in thrilling
operatic excerpts. Sponsored by Dr. Elizabeth M.
Bowden. 8:00pm Tickets $15/10
August
18 - Tuesday, August
19 - Wednesday and August
20 -
Thursday
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer!
Fully staged Broadway musical for the entire family. Michael
Hartman directs. Hughes Performing Arts Center, 6th
Street and Atlantic Avenue. Sponsored by Gillian’s
Wonderland Pier.
7:30pm
Tickets Adults $20/ Children $12
August 20 - Thursday
Friends of the Pops’
Twentieth Annual Luncheon at Greate
Bay Country Club. For tickets call 609-399-2566.
12 Noon Tickets $35
August
23 - Sunday and August 25* - Tuesday
The Rat Pack is Back!
Two nights only. Frank, Dean and Sammy appear with the POPS!
This nostalgic and popular show reminisces about the songs and
antics of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.
Feature Broadway stars Sal Viviano, Nat Chandler and Eric
Jordan Young. Sponsored by: Sunday - Mack and Manco; Tuesday
- Bill Whiteside in memory of Eileen Whiteside.
8:00pm Tickets $25/20
August 26 - Wednesday
Barbone Street Jazz Band!
Back by popular demand. A night of New Orleans
style swing and jazz tunes. Sponsored
by the Friends of the Ocean City Pops,
Inc.
8:00pm Tickets $10
August
30 - Sunday
Our Three
Tenors II.
These tenors raise the roof! Plus, the Kwon sisters playing
Mendelssohn. Sponsored by the Bart
Greenspan and Stan Meltzer Families.
8:00pm
Tickets $20
SEPTEMBER
2009
September
8* Tuesday
and September
9 Wednesday
Carousel!
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s all time favorite
musical in concert version. Hear great American songs like
If I Loved You, Soliloquy, You’ll Never Walk Alone. Full
cast of singers. Sponsored by: Tuesday - The Original Fudge
Kitchen; Wednesday - Doris Coates-Ollis in memory of Ray Ollis
7:30pm Tickets $20/15
September
13 - Sunday
Salute to America!
Keystone State Boychoir returning from
their world tour - in a boisterous program joined by baritone
Justin Gonzales. Sponsored by New Jersey American Water
Company. 7:30pm
Tickets $15/10
September
16 - Wednesday
Night in
Old Vienna!
An annual POPS crowd pleaser
paying homage to the Waltz King!…Johann Strauss, Jr.
Polkas, marches and waltzes in grand style. Singers TBA.
Sponsored by Mack and Manco in memory of Frank
Ruggieri. 7:30pm Tickets $15/10
September 20 - Sunday
East Meets West.
Experience
beautiful poetic gems and great dramatic music from China,
France, Spain, Russia and the USA. Dazzling pianist Claire
Huang-Ci returns. Also featuring virtuoso trumpeter Stanford
Thompson playing Arutunian concerto. Hughes Performing Arts
Center, 6th Street and Atlantic Avenue.
Sponsored by Comcast.
7:30pm
Tickets $15
*Denotes 6
Tuesdays series
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