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Micky Dolenz is an actor, singer, director, producer, writer, radio DJ, inventor, and all-around performer extraordinaire, and stands tall as a paragon of taste and accomplishment in the rough-and-tumble world of show business and entertainment. Micky is best known as a vocalist and drummer of the 1960’s pop legends The Monkees. The Monkees not only achieved great success as a TV show, but also as recording artists; selling in excess of 65 million units, and achieving worldwide success. Their first four albums – THE MONKEES (1966); MORE OF THE MONKEES (1967); HEADQUARTERS (1967); and PISCES, AQUARIUS, CAPRICORN AND JONES, LTD. (1967) all reached the number-one position on the charts and launched three number-one singles: “Last Train to Clarksville,” “I'm a Believer” (both with lead vocals by Micky), and “Daydream Believer.”
The group's first five albums also went platinum. Micky has also released several critically acclaimed solo albums: KING FOR A DAY; REMEMBER; and A LITTLE BIT BROADWAY; A LITTLE BIT ROCK AND ROLL. The Monkees also re-grouped for a 50th anniversary album in 2016 entitled GOOD TIMES on Rhino. Micky toured in 2019 as part of the It Was Fifty Years Ago Today; a celebration of The Beatles WHITE ALBUM with Christopher Cross; Todd Rundgren; and Joey Molland of Badfinger. In March of 2019, he released the award-winning DOLENZ SINGS NESMITH on England’s 7a Records.Micky has also toured extensively on his own and earlier this year fronted Micky Dolenz Celebrates The Monkess which was a sell-out at every stop. He also recently performed at the annual James Burton event, this time in England, which also featured Ron Wood; Brian May and Van Morrison.On November 3, Micky releases the EP Dolenz Sings R.E.M. (7a Records) featuring 4 songs from R.E.M. Later that year, he releases the book I’m Told I Had A Good Times: The Micky Dolenz Archives-VOLUME 1.
In November of 2024, Micky released his first live album in seven years: MICKY DOLENZ: LIVE AT THE TROIUBADOUR. The album was recorded at the famed L.A. club in April and debuted Dolenz’s current stage show, MICKY DOLENZ: SONGS AND STORIES.
Tickets: Gold Circle: $75Rear Orchestra: $67Front Loge: $57Rear Loge | Accessible: $45
Discounts:Senior citizens and William Paterson employees and students are eligible for 10% discount. Groups of ten or more can get 15% off
A WP audience favorite, singer Catherine Russell has had a career that has spanned numerous decades and musical styles. Early on, she sang background vocals for Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, David Bowie, Madonna, and many more. When she embarked on a solo career, she reached for standards like “Harlem on My Mind” and appeared in a biopic about early jazz leader Buddy Bolden. She has received three Grammy Award nominations and continues to collaborate with performers like Sean Mason and John Pizzarelli, with whom she performed here on the Jazz Room. Her amazingly flexible voice will bring a great message of warmth and blues to the Jazz Room stage again.
Tickets:Public: $25Senior/WP Community: $22Non-WP Student: $15
Free for WP Students with show of ID
All prices include fees.
The WP New Music Series kicks off the season with a world-premiere performance of Gabriel Schmid-Doyle's interdisciplinary composition, Sketches from the Cocoon, centered on the theme of metamorphosis between formal composition and improvisation.
Song in Bloom explores the beauty of nature and human connection through wind ensemble works by Gala Flagello, and Percy Grainger, Aaron Perrine and Caroline Shaw. From wildflowers and roses to folk tunes and love songs, this program invites listeners into a soundscape of reflection, joy, and peace.
Tickets:$20 suggested donation for adults$15 suggested donation for seniors, children, and non-WP students.
Living legend Eva Ayllón is celebrating fifty-five years of spreading the joy of Peruvian music around the world. She is accompanied by the young, exuberant talent of Daniela Darcourt; together they will transform stages into a pure musical explosion.
Tickets:Gold Circle: $132Orchestra: $112Front Loge: $102Rear Loge: $92
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The Shea Center for Performing Arts is celebrating its 60th birthday by bringing back the Dead! We welcome the premier Grateful Dead tribute, Dead On Live, to join us in the celebration by recreating the historic show, song for song, that was performed by the Grateful Dead here at the Shea Center 55 years ago on October 11th, 1970!
Dead On Live is nationally known for their unique approach to the Dead tribute scene by recreating entire albums, iconic shows, as well as specific eras of the Dead’s stylistically diverse musical career, absolutely note-for-note! Phil’s rootless syncopations, Bob’s “Weir’d” chords, the heart and soul of Pigpen, and the magical touch and tone of Jerry, all recreated with true dedication and reverence for the artists that created it
Relive the magic and the history of the one show performed by the Dead, here at the Shea Center in 1970, with Dead On Live!
Tickets: Gold Circle: $45Rear Orchestra: $39Front Loge: $35Rear Loge/Accessible: $29
Discounts:10% off for senior citizens and WP employees and students. 15% off for groups of ten or more.
Career discussion with WP alumna Ashley Pettet
Vocal Masterclass, featuring WP voice students and faculty
What comes to mind when a father, his two sons, and their two high school classmates get together and create a show? For starters, you can say a diverse recipe of hilarious personal stories, a vast repertoire of songs through multiple decades and genres, and one family's journey together through life and music. The Bronx Wanderers pride themselves on being one of the only shows able to entertain grandparents, their children, and the grandchildren all in one sweeping musical tour de force. The chemistry and energy they exert show after show proves they are still having the best time together on stage and you can tell they perform each show like it's their first or last.
The show's founder and patriarch, Yo' Vinny, takes you on a musical journey through his illustrious career in the record business. He's worked with too many artists to mention, but what he says in the show is "each song you hear tonight, is someone I've either had the pleasure to produce, sing back up for, or worked with…" You'll hear songs by Dion and The Belmonts, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Billy Joel, The Animals, Queen, and even an artist or two from today's generation.
The Bronx Wanderers have been going strong for over 16 years and have amassed many accolades and touring around the country. During their Las Vegas residency, The Bronx Wanderers were a top ten show on Trip Advisor, received the "People's Choice" Award from Vegas.com, received a 5-star Yelp Award, and received the Bronze Award for "Best New Show" their first year (coming in 3rd behind Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys). The Bronx Wanderers certainly has an interesting, unique dynamic and has proven to be a long-lasting success in the ever-changing entertainment business.
Tickets: Gold Circle $55Rear Orchestra $50Front Loge $45Rear Loge/Obstructed/Accessible $35
Sponsored by Keith Danish
Ted Rosenthal has collaborated, toured, and worked with some of the jazz greats of the past 40 years, including Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Jon Faddis, Phil Woods, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Bob Brookmeyer. Early in his career, he was winner of the 1988 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition, and his appearance on Marian McPartland’s NPR Piano Jazz program is well known. His CDs show his approaches to the American popular song and Broadway classics. Today’s concert will showcase his trio’s versions of the compositions of one of the greatest American composers of any genre, George Gershwin, including Rosenthal’s unique version of Gershwin’s iconic “Rhapsody in Blue.”
Tickets:$25 – Public$22 - Senior/WP Community$15 – Non-WP StudentFree for WP Students with show of ID
Jordan Klepper is perhaps best known for his work with The Daily Show and his multiple Emmy nominated specials focusing on the political world. From covering the gun safety debate(Jordan Klepper Solves Guns) to his docuseries on the world of activism (Klepper on ComedyCentral) Jordan has witnessed an insurrection, capsized a boat with pipeline protestors, interviewed a President and been arrested and locked up in Fulton County Jail. He also travels the globe with his segment “Fingers The Pulse” which has racked up hundreds of millions of views.
Klepper wrote, starred and executive produced “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Into The MagaVerse,” “Fingers The Midterms” (the most watched special on Comedy Central) and “Hungary for Democracy,” the latter of which garnered him a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in TV Political Journalism. He executive produced and hosted “The Opposition” and “Klepper” on Comedy Central, which was called “A fresh, powerful interpretation of news” by the Detroit Free Press.
In addition to being a correspondent on the Peabody Award Winning Daily Show for nearly a decade, and co-hosting this election year, he’s branched out into the podcast space co-hosting StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson, co-hosting Kasich and Klepper (with former Governor John Kasich) as well as the Webby award winning “Fingers The Conspiracy” which took a deep dive into the world of conspiracy. Beyond his work in comedy, Klepper has chronicled his experiences in the world of politics from essays on CBS Morning to Op-Ed’s in the Boston Globe. He’s also been seen on CNN, MSNBC, Showtime's "The Circus," HBO’s “Night of Too Many Stars,” Netflix’s “The Who’s Who Show” and voices Pete on Disney’s “The Ghost and Molly McGee.”
Tickets: Gold Circle $42Rear Orchestra/Front Loge $38Rear Loge / Accessible $32
Discounts:10% off for senior citizens and William Paterson employees and students. 15% off for groups of ten or more.
Tickets: $28 Public $18 Seniors & WP Community $8 Non-WP student Free for WP students
Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Music and a Macarthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship, Tyshawn Sorey is a jazz alumnus of William Paterson University, and of the famed Newark Arts High School. Althoughhemaybebetter known worldwide for his compositions, he is a virtuosic and imaginative, powerful drummer who is a steady fixture on today’s jazz scene, collaborating with Aaron Diehl, Greg Osby, Marilyn Crispell, Roscoe Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, and many more. He is on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, formerly taught at Wesleyan University, and his doctorate in composition is from Columbia University. We are proud to bring Tyshawn Sorey back to the Jazz Room stage.
Tickets:$25 – Public$22 - Senior/WP Community$15 – Non-WP Student
WP Music 2025 Collage bursts upon the stage with engaging and thrilling performances by a variety of our top student ensembles, including jazz, classical, and popular music!
Tickets:$25 for adults$15 for seniors, children, and non-WP students.
SUGAR SKULL! A Día de Muertos Musical Adventure is a touring bilingual/bicultural musical for young audiences and families that uses traditional regional music and dance from Mexico to tell the story of twelve-year-old Vita Flores. Vita thinks her family has gone loco planning a celebration for deceased loved ones. Why throw a party for the dead? But when a spirited candy skeleton suddenly springs to life, Vita finds herself on a magical, musical journey to unravel the true meaning of Día de Muertos.
Meet Sugar Skull, a charismatic skeleton with a secret or two. With her skeletal new friend, Vita dances with ancient ancestors, sings with a sorrowful sorceress, escapes the trickster Chaneques, and even meets the famous Catrina Calavera. But can this clever youth gather the missing pieces needed for her family ofrenda before it’s too late?
En Español:
SUGAR SKULL! Una aventura musical de Día de Muertos
Síguele a Vita Flores, una niña de doce años, en esta cautivadora musical bilingüe. Guiada por una carismática calaverita de azúcar, descubre la verdadera esencia de Día De Muertos a través de la música, la danza, y la tradición Mexicana.
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Tickets:$15 (includes fees)
Bat Out Of Hell is the 1977 debut album written and composed by Jim Steinman and performed by Michael Lee Aday A.K.A. Meat Loaf. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, selling 43 million copies worldwide and 14 times platinum.
Considering himself an actor before a singer, Meat Loaf was pictured in the 1975 cult classic film, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and is featured on several songs in the film, such as “Hot Patootie” and “Time Warp”. At any given Meet Loaf tribute show, expect these smash hits to be performed flawlessly.
Aside from evoking the heartfelt nostalgia of the 1977 Bat Out of Hell album as well as various other Meat Loaf Hits, Meet Loaf also tributes the genius of Jim Steinman, known for his superior songwriting and outstanding composition. Steinman hits performed in this spectacular concert, include but are not limited to, “It’s All Coming Back to Me Now” by Celine Dion, “Total Eclipse of the Heart” and “Holding Out for a Hero” by Bonnie Tyler, “Dead Ringer for Love” featuring Cher, and “Making Love Out of Nothing At All” by Air Supply.
The “Meet Loaf” tribute show epitomizes the Meat Loaf experience in a look-a-like and sound-a-like event, that leaves audiences awestruck. A world-class show that delivers the powerful wide-ranging male and female operatic lead vocals, along with the epic theatrical elements that Meat Loaf fans have come to love, in an unforgettable evening of smash hits. If you love the music of Meat Loaf, get revved up, because Meet Loaf really ignites!
For crying out loud, and in the words of the Meat Loaf legend himself, “Keep Rockin’!”
Tickets: Gold Circle: $40Orchestra/Front Loge: $37Rear Loge/Accessible: $35
10% off for senior citizens and WP employees and students. 15% off for groups of ten or more.
Sponsored by Thomas Larson
This concert brings to the stage one of the main solo voices of the legendary Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, trumpeter Scott Wendholt. He has been the lead soloist on many of the Vanguard Orchestra’s most famous pieces, including “Mean What You Say,” and a newer composition written for him by the great Bob Brookmeyer. Wendholt has also performed or recorded with Bobby McFerrin, Chris Botti, Toshiko Akiyoshi, the Mingus Big Band, Christian McBride, Cyrus Chestnut, and led the house band at the famous Augie’s Jazz Club in New York in the early 1990s. He has been featured on more than 120 CDs. His virtuosity will be paired with the William Paterson Jazz Orchestra, led for the first time by Dr. Mitch Butler, WP’s new coordinator of jazz studies.
Tickets: Public: $25Senior/WP Community: $22Non-WP Student: $15
This 70-minute work is a celebration of noise as a metaphor for turbulent phenomena in the world around us, and a gateway to ecstatic experience. Grounded in the elemental violence of nature and the self-similar forms of linear fractals, this music is a convergence of sonic geography and sonic geometry. Each piece in the cycle is conceived as its own distinct and separate sound world, evoking the immediacy and presence of a place.
Celebrating Shea Center’s 60th Anniversary, this concert is a nod to Billy Joel’s performance, with members of The Lords of 52nd Street, at the Shea Center on May 30, 1977.
Lords of 52nd Street - Legends of the Billy Joel band featuring saxophonist Richie Cannata, drummer Liberty Divetto and guitarist Russell Javors. In 1975 when Billy Joel was looking for a new band, these musicians were selected by Billy Joel and Phil Ramone to record and tour the album Turnstiles and were coined The Lords of 52nd Street.
They also recorded the album The Stranger which was a commercial success, it holds a RIAA diamond certification (10x platinum), and several #1 singles including, “Only The Good Die Young” and “Just The Way You Are.” The Lords of 52nd Street helped Joel establish a popular music career and his formidable sound.
Joel and The Lords of 52nd Street returned to the studio, and recorded Grammy award winning albums including, 52nd Street, Glass Houses, and The Nylon Curtain. The band recorded and toured with Joel for over a decade.
They are New York’s favorite band, and they continue to perform their legendary hits still to this day.
Tickets: Gold Circle: $49Rear Orchestra: $45Front Loge: $45Rear Loge/Obstructed/Accessible: $39
The great pianist, singer, and arranger Eliane Elias came to New York from her native Sao Paolo, Brazil to attend Juilliard, but a year later joined the powerful acoustic fusion band Steps Ahead with Michael Brecker, Mike Mainieri, and others. Aside from her long relationship with Steps, she has collaborated with Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock. Her main influences are Antonio Carlos Jobim and Bill Evans; she has dedicated albums to both, including one recording that featured unrecorded Evans compositions. Her deep dedication to the tradition of the bossa nova continues to showcase her as a vocalist as well as at the piano. A multiple Grammy Award winner, she continues to create albums at the highest level, including her newest release Time and Again. We welcome her return to the Jazz Room for the finale of our fall season.
Tickets:Gold Circle: $50Rear Orchestra: $45Front Loge: $40Rear Loge: $35
End of Semester Bash presents music from the 20th and 21st Century performed by WP Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends.
WP piano students, faculty, alumni and special guests continue to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel, with Part II of the French Composer's complete piano music! Featuring works for piano duo, including Ma mère l'Oye, La Valse, and the rarely heard Frontispice. Solo works include Valse nobles et sentimentales, Gaspard de la nuit, and more!
WP’s 2025-2026 Composer-in-Residence, Omar Thomas, is an award-winning American composer and educator known for his vibrant, socially conscious works that blend classical, jazz, and Black musical traditions. In this concert, Dr. Thomas’s music is featured by the WP Wind Ensemble, with guests from the Bergenfield High School Honors Wind Ensemble and in collaboration with musicians from the Paterson Music Project and the WP Music Mentors program.
Originally scheduled for Saturday, December 13, 2025, at 8:00 PM.
If you purchased tickets for the December 13th date, then your tickets and exact seats have been automatically transferred to the new date. No action is required. If you are unable to attend, then please contact the box office at 973.720.2371.
Judy Collins has long inspired audiences with sublime vocals, boldly vulnerable songwriting, personal life triumphs, and a firm commitment to social activism. In the 1960s, she evoked both the idealism and steely determination of a generation united against social and environmental injustices. Five decades later, her luminescent presence shines brightly as new generations bask in the glow of her iconic 55-album body of work, and heed inspiration from her spiritual discipline to thrive in the music industry for half a century.
The award-winning singer-songwriter is esteemed for her imaginative interpretations of traditional and contemporary folk standards and her own poetically poignant original compositions. Her stunning rendition of Joni Mitchell's “Both Sides Now” from her landmark 1967 album, Wildflowers, has been entered into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Judy’s dreamy and sweetly intimate version of “Send in the Clowns,” a ballad written by Stephen Sondheim for the Broadway musical A Little Night Music, won "Song of the Year” at the 1975 Grammy Awards. She’s garnered several top-ten hits gold- and platinum-selling albums. Recently, contemporary, and classic artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Shawn Colvin, Dolly Parton, Joan Baez, and Leonard Cohen honored her legacy with the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins.
The cultural treasure’s 55th album, Spellbound, was released in February 2022, finds Judy enjoying an artistic renaissance. The 13-song album is a special entry in her oeuvre. It marks the first time ever she wrote all the songs on one of her albums. Spellbound was nominated in the Best Folk Album category at the 65th Recording Academy Grammy Awards in 2023.
Tickets: Gold Circle $72Rear Orchestra $68Front Loge $63Rear Loge/Obstructed/Accessible $53
Tickets:Gold Circle: $48 Orchestra: $43Loge: $38
One of Rock & Roll’s founding vocal groups The Drifters have provided a half century of classic American music, including solid gold hits: Up on the Roof. Under the Boardwalk. This Magic Moment. There Goes My Baby. Dance with Me. Spanish Harlem. Stand by Me. The list of hits goes on and on.
From their inception in the early 1950's and up until recently, THE DRIFTERS are considered the second most successful recording artist of all time, according to Billboard Magazine. They enjoyed twenty years straight in the music business with uninterrupted hits.
Through an historical journey, which included no less than 5 legendary lead singers, including Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Clyde McPhatter and Ben E. King the group's ongoing story has covered the entire spectrum of Rock & Roll. They were the first musical group to include string instruments into Rhythm & Blues music with their hauntingly beautiful song, "There Goes My Baby". They were the first musical group to sell 2 million records with their pop classic, "Up On The Roof". They were the first African American vocal group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Along with fellow inductees the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Bob Dylan and the Supremes, the Drifters were in the first class of Rock & Roll legends to be initiated into the Hall of Fame. Their classic tune "Under The Boardwalk" is the most played R & B record of all time. 20 other million sellers followed.
Their songs have been penned by such historic songwriters as Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller, Carol King, Jerry Goffen and Phil Spector. They have played at the White House on 3 different occasions, give a benefit concert in Berlin the day the wall fell, performed for the Pope, the Queen of England, Nelson Mandella and toured the world for the USO in 3 different war zones from Korea to Iraq. And behind it all was George Treadwell and his family, guiding the career of this historic group.
Tickets: Gold Circle: $63Rear Orchestra: $58Front Loge: $48Rear Loge / Obstructed / Accessible: $43
Branford Marsalis continues to thrill audiences around the world while racking up achievements across diverse musical platforms, even after four decades in the international spotlight. From his initial recognition as a young jazz lion, landing his first major jobs with trumpet legend Clark Terry and alongside his brother Wynton in Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, he has expanded his vision as an instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and educator, crossing stylistic boundaries while maintaining an unwavering creative integrity. Branford went on to form his own quartet and it remains his primary performance vehicle. Known for the telepathic communication among its uncommonly consistent personnel, its deep book of original music replete with expressive melodies and provocative forms, and an unrivaled spirit in both live and recorded performances. The Branford Marsalis Quartet has long been recognized as the standard to which other ensembles of its kind must be measured.
Along Branford’s musical journey, he has become an avatar of contemporary artistic excellence winning three Grammy Awards, a Tony nomination for his work as a composer on Broadway, a citation by the National Endowment for the Arts as Jazz Master, and a 2021 Primetime EMMY nomination for the score he composed for the Tulsa Burning documentary.
As for other public stages, Branford spent a period touring with Sting, collaborated with the Grateful Dead and Bruce Hornsby, served as Musical Director of The Tonight Show Starring Jay Leno and hosted National Public Radio’s widely syndicated Jazz Set. The range and quality of these diverse activities established Branford as a familiar presence beyond the worlds of jazz, classical, and beyond.
Tickets: Gold Circle $75Rear Orchestra $67Front Loge $57Rear Loge/Accessible $47
Combine an intelligent interviewer with a roster of guests that, according to the Chicago Tribune, would be prized by any talk-show host, and you’re bound to get an interesting conversation. Fresh Air interviews, though, are in a category by themselves, distinguished by the unique approach of host and executive producer Terry Gross. “A remarkable blend of empathy and warmth, genuine curiosity and sharp intelligence,” says the San Francisco Chronicle. Gross, who has been host of Fresh Air since 1975, when it was broadcast only in Greater Philadelphia, isn’t afraid to ask tough questions. Fresh Air not only covers popular culture, it’s become part of it. The program and Gross have been name-checked on Saturday Night Live, Girls, HBO’s Eastbound and Down, and How I Met Your Mother. Gross played herself on an episode of The Simpsons and has been a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Gross began her radio career in 1973 at public radio station WBFO in Buffalo, New York, where she hosted and produced several arts, women’s and public affairs programs, including This Is Radio, a live, three-hour magazine program that aired daily. Two years later, she joined the staff of WHYY-FM in Philadelphia as producer and host of Fresh Air, then a local, daily interview and music program. In 1985, WHYY-FM launched a weekly half-hour edition of Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which was distributed nationally by NPR. Since 1987, a daily, one- hour national edition of Fresh Air has been produced by WHYY-FM. The program is broadcast on nearly 600 stations and became the first non-drivetime show in public radio history to reach more than 5 million listeners a week.
Fresh Air with Terry Gross received the Peabody Award in 1993 for its “probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insight.” In 2022 the show was awarded the Peabody Institutional Award “for their enduring body of work and their iconic impact on both the media landscape and the public imagination.” Terry Gross has received a Gracie Award in the category of Outstanding Radio Personality from American Women in Radio and Television; the Edward R. Murrow Award for her “outstanding contributions to public radio;” the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for outstanding service to the American literary community; the 2008 Columbia Journalism Award given in recognition of exceptional journalistic performance; the Modern Language Association’s Phyllis Franklin Award for Public Advocacy of the Humanities; the Authors Guild Award for Distinguished Service to the Literary Community; the National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the Audio Vanguard Award. In 2015, Grosswas elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023 she was named the PEN/Faulkner Literary Champion, an award presented by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation; this commendation is presented in recognition of devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers. Gross is the author of All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians and Artists, published by Hyperion in 2004.
Tickets: Gold Circle: $58Orchestra: $53Loge/Accessible: $43
The Lettermen are the first group on record to perform in the Shea Center when it was erected in 1965. We cap off the Shea Center’s 60th anniversary celebration with the group that started it all.
The Lettermen are defined by their beautiful harmonies or as they call it “Lettermenizing.” Since the groups inception The Lettermen have always taken a current song of the day and put their 3-part harmony. Donovan Tea, Bobby Poynton and Rob Gulack, each of whom are entertainers, have kept the meaning of harmony alive with their soft, romantic, harmonic blend of music which is as popular with their fans today as it was in 1961 when The Lettermen recorded their first hit, “The Way You Look Tonight”. The group’s second single that year did even better. “When I Fall In Love,” another soft, slow ballad hit No.7, establishing The Lettermen as the most romantic singing group of a generation.
The Lettermen have recorded over 75 albums - eighteen gold records internationally – and a myriad of hits including “When I Fall In Love”, “Goin’ Out Of My Head/Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You” and “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” to name just a few. They continue to perform interesting, updated arrangements of several classics such as “The Way You Tonight” and “Theme From A Summer Place”. While always honoring their roots, audiences are showing a resounding love for the “Letterminized” new arrangements of “Never Enough” from the mega-hit The Greatest Showman, “Sugar” Medley (“I Can’t Help Myself”, “Sugar”, “How Sweet It Is”) and “Happy” Medley (“Happy”, “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy”, “Happy Together”). Their amazing vocals have stood the test of time, continuing their legacy and mesmerizing audiences all over the world.
Prices: Gold Circle: $63Rear Orchestra: $58Front Loge: $48Rear Loge / Obstructed / Accessible: $43
