PROHIBITION PARTY

Jay Gorney

Harry Warren

Fabian Andre/ Wilbur Schwandt

James Campbell/ Reginald Connelly/ Harry M. Woods

Jimmy McHugh

John Hart/Tom Blight

Irving Berlin Brother, Can You Spare a Dime

We’re in the Money

Dream a Little Dream of Me

Midnight, the Stars and You

On the Sunny Side of the Street

Shout for Happiness

Puttin’ on the Ritz

Arrangements by Jeff Tyzik. All arrangements and imagery licensed by Schirmer Theatrical, LLC

CREATIVE TEAM: Robert Thompson, creative producer Jeff Tyzik, producer & arranger Jami Greenberg, producer & booking agent Alyssa Foster, producer Mary Helen Gustafson, assistant producer Tyler Hanes, choreographer Adam Grannick, video designer & consultant

ARLENE SCHNITZER CONCERT HALL

MARCH 30 T H E N E U R O S C I E N C E OF PLEASURE

How your brain responds to music, love and chocolate

Newmark Theatre

Brain Awareness Lecture Series 2020

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Biographies

Olivia Hernandez

Olivia Hernandez got her start in her parents’ living room in southern California, singing “Somewhere over the Rainbow” in exchange for quarters. She began her formal music training in piano but was promptly bitten by the theater bug and never looked back. She studied both musical theater and classical voice throughout her formative years with her longtime mentor, the late Tim MacDougall. At 17, Hernandez was a grand-prize finalist in the nonclassical voice category of The Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, hosted by John Lithgow. Following Spotlight, she joined the Music Center in their collaboration with Crystal Cruises, singing throughout Scandinavia as a part of the Emerging Artists program.

Hernandez studied at The University of Michigan, graduating with a bachelor of fine arts from the renowned musical theater department.

With a knack for grounding her characters “with a sense of realism” (Houston Chronicle), Hernandez particularly enjoys reexamining the ladies of the golden age of musical theater for today’s audiences. She played Laurey in Oklahoma! in a collaborative production between the Houston Ballet and Theatre Under The Stars, starring Priscilla Lopez as Aunt Eller, under the direction of Kevin Moriarty, and music direction of Kimberly Grigsby. Hernandez went on to play Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls at The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, directed by Kent Gash. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said of her performance as Sarah Brown, “…Hernandez’s Brown is a charmer who’s presented as easily the most together person onstage.” Most recently, she played the role of Elizabeth Bennet in Austen’s Pride, a new musical of Pride and Prejudice, at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre alongside Laura Michelle Kelly as Jane Austen. Other favorite roles include Maria in West Side Story, Guenevere in Camelot, Mary Poppins in Mary Poppins, and Cinderella in Into the Woods. Hernandez dedicates all of her performances, with deepest gratitude, to Tim MacDougall.

Myra Maud

Spreading her “Joie de Vivre” with charm and generosity, Myra Maud’s voice touches the soul and the world is amazed.

Her intriguing personality and captivating artistry are as diverse as her origins. Living between New York City and Hamburg, Germany, born and raised in Paris, France, with roots in Madagascar and Martinique, Maud is a real citizen of the world.

The singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer started her career in Paris, where she studied piano, saxophone, and dance at the Conservatory. Like many singers, Maud developed her singing and musical craft in church. After several shows as a singer and master of ceremonies at Disneyland Paris, she was invited to travel the world as a soloist with the Claude Bolling Jazz Big Band and the Orchestre national de France. Throughout the years, Maud shared the stage with superstars such as Mireille Matthieu, Johnny Hallyday, Céline Dion, and Enrique Iglesias. She starred as the great Josephine Baker in the French movie Les enfants du pays with Michel Serrault. In 2001, she left Paris to play the lead role of Nala in The Lion King musical in Hamburg.

In 2010, Maud received her first platinum record in South Africa for the album AfriFrans, a project that presents traditional South African folk songs in French. The second album reached Gold Status.

Maud’s international acclaim tremendously grew when she was invited to be the lead singer of the opening ceremony of the 2011 fifa Women’s Soccer World Cup in Frankfurt, an event that had in excess of 130,000 spectators.

In 2014, she released her first jazz album entitled Salt – La Solution, a project in collaboration with acclaimed producer Lutz Krajenski. From 2016 to 2019, Maud starred in a series of tribute performances honoring the life and legacy of the legendary Whitney Houston accompanied by the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra.

Bronson Norris Murphy

Recognized for his “prodigious acting abilities” and a voice that has been acclaimed as “masterful, passionate and soaringly beautiful,” Bronson Norris Murphy is best known for premiering the role of The Phantom in the first North American production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies: The Phantom Returns. Other notable performances include Raoul

in the long-running production of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway; the world premiere of unmasked: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Playhouse; the 2019 New York City Center revival of Evita; the 30th Anniversary National Tour of Cats as Gus, Growltiger, and Bustopher Jones; and multiple us productions of West Side Story as Tony. In just over a decade of performances, some of his other credits include New York City developmental productions of Faustus, the Musical (mtm’s Best Actor Award); I Hate Holmes; Joan of Arc; Catch the Wind; Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David; and Maybe One Day: A Fable for the York Theatre. Concert work includes I Am Harvey Milk at The Avery Fisher Hall, Music City Christmas with the Nashville Symphony, West Side Story in Concert with Norwalk Symphony, The Music Man in Concert with Orchestra Kentucky, The Ocean City Pops Tribute to the American Songbook, and as a soloist for Bach’s Cantata No. 140, Ramirez’ Misa Criolla, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, and Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ. In addition to his work onstage, Murphy is an advocate for music literacy, maintaining regular classroom hours as an active voice and acting teacher in New York City while hosting workshops on vocal production, song interpretation, music theory, and musical theater audition techniques at New York University, The New York Film Academy, The Joffrey School of Ballet, Broadway Classroom, and The Institute for American Musical Theatre. Please follow @BronsonBiz for the latest information! Portland State University Opera Presents

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