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The Carole King Songbook

Michael Krajewski, Conductor

Verizon Hall, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts

300 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Feb 5-7, 2016
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Featuring

Liz Callaway, vocalist

Allison Blackwell & Bryce Ryness, vocalists

Grammy Award winner Carole King was one of the most prolific singer-songwriters of the ‘60s and ‘70s.

Sit back and enjoy Broadway’s Tony-nominated Liz Callaway covering King’s chart-topping hits from Tapestry, one of the all-time best-selling albums — You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, It’s Too Late, I Feel the Earth Move — as well as songs she penned for other artists like Aretha Franklin’s Natural Woman, The Drifters’ Up on the Roof, and The Shirelles' Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow. The POPS orchestra will continue to delight you with favorites from King’s fellow Gershwin Prize winners, including Paul Simon, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and more. 

Helpful Information

This program, including intermission, is approximately two hours in length. Artists and program are subject to change without notice.

Discounted parking passes are available from select garages. For more information, please call 215.893.1999 or add a parking pass during checkout when purchasing your tickets.

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Enjoy the show!

Guest Artist

Liz Callaway, vocalist

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Tony nominee and Emmy winner Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. She has gone on to star in Baby, Miss Saigon, The Look of Love, The Three Musketeers, and for 5 years appeared as Grizabella in Cats.  Off-Broadway credits include The Spitfire Grill (Drama Desk nomination), Marry Me a Little and Brownstone.  She also appeared in A Stephen Sondheim Evening, the legendary Follies in Concert at Lincoln Center, and Inside the Actor’s Studio: Stephen Sondheim. Regional and international credits include the one-person play Every Brilliant Thing, Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, Eva Peron in Evita, Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, and the European premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim at London’s Royal Festival Hall.

Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia. Other film work includes Jasmine in the two Aladdin sequels, The Swan Princess, Beauty and the Beast, and The Rewrite with The Hugh Grant.

Her extensive concert and symphony career has included appearances in London, Paris, Iceland, Vietnam, Australia, China and nearly every major city in the U.S. She performs regularly with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway, as well as composer Stephen Schwartz, and has had the great pleasure of singing with Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams and the legendary Johnny Mathis.

Liz has seven solo recordings including her newest CD, Comfort and Joy—An Acoustic Christmas. www.lizcallaway.com

"...Carole King is without question the most successful and revered female songwriter in pop music history."
— caroleking.com
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