Performing “All That Jazz” at SELREC’s musical revue are, from left, Julie Pavlock, Martha Cox, Staci Vincent, Marti Katz and Aubree Cox.
7/4 Letter from Bill Boehm/founder and director of the Singing Angels, Cleveland, OH
Dear Members of SELREC:
Congratulations on your performance in “Forty and Fabulous”. Your love of theatre shone through. Despite the lengthy and difficult demands for family and employment, you've kept a flame alive to act and sing on stage. You do it with skill and dignity. You are an inspiration to otherswho may wonder if they still “can do it”. You are the Best Independent Community Theatre in Northern Ohio, in my opinion, with high standards in Production – Directing, Conducting, Choreographing, Singing, Acting and Stage Effects, including costuming. Bravo SELREC – Long may you flourish!
Bill Boehm
Cavalcade for 6/15
BY: VIOLET SPEVACK Columnist
‘Spirit of Broadway’ …
It was
“another opening, another show” for the multitalented,
toe-tapping, body-swaying, high-spirited, 36-member SELREC Singers,
who sang their hearts out in the troupe’s June extravaganza
“Spirit of Broadway.”
The musical revue had three performances last weekend
at Brush High School Performing Arts Center. Against the backdrop of
a glittering 42nd Street and Broadway marquee with special lighting;
gorgeous, glitzy costumes; and a terrific orchestra, the troupe
saluted Broadway musicals of the past century.
In marvelously
choreographed musical numbers, they pealed out with such memorable
favorites as “You’ll Never Walk Alone” and “All
That Jazz.” The SELRECs have an incredible edge with fabulous
soloists endowed with exquisite voices and superb performing skills.
To mention just a few: Laurel Angie, the gorgeous, red-haired soprano
who scripted the show, to peripatetic singer, performer and
journalist Staci Vincent and actor Wayne Merholz, a guest performer
who dialogued between scenes.
Outstanding numbers included “Do
You Hear the People Sing?” and a dazzling finale of “Give
My Regards to Broadway” with the troupe high-stepping with
canes and wearing gold derbies. Most towering applause at the closing
Saturday-night performance came with a surprise offering of a
powerful, emotionally tinged solo of “This Is the Moment”
by multigifted R. Scott Posey, his swan song to the SELREC Singers he
has led as musical director for the past three years.
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Performing “All That Jazz” at SELREC’s musical revue are, from left, Julie Pavlock, Martha Cox, Staci Vincent, Marti Katz and Aubree Cox. |