THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 2020
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Don’t let the title throw you – this winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is about acceptance, the importance of kindness, understanding and friendship. Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tonywinning score by Cyndi Lauper, and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein. The heart of the musical is about families, friendship and love – something for all ages, a show that families can share together. Kinky Boots will have you dancing in the aisles and discovering why, sometimes, the best way to fit in is to stand out! Don’t miss this surefire crowd pleaser featuring the incredible Hub City Players.
MANNONI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
JUNE 4 - 6, 2020
THIS SUMMER
MANNONI PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AUDITORIUM
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MUSIC presents
7:30 P.M.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES THE MUST SEE AND MUST HEAR EVENT OF THE SEASON!
Verdi Requiem
Greg Fuller, conductor March 31, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Main Street Baptist Church SYMPHONY SEASON FINALE! SPECIAL SURPRISE GUEST!
Night of a Hundred Stars!
Michael Miles, conductor William T. Gower Competition Winners May 7, 2020, 7:30 p.m., Bennett Auditorium Featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
Musicals are part of the legacy of Southern Miss music. This performance takes you behind-the-curtain and through some of the history of a program which has produced performing artists around the globe.
You Will Be Found l Dear Evan Hansen
You Can’t Stop the Beat l Hairspray
Estic Rodigez-Jackson Meredith Johnson Mackenzie Kuykendoll Nolan Lee Rohini Malkani Harlan Mapp John Mathre Pitchayah Muangsukham Cody Nelson Eva Russell Caitlyn Smith David Walker Danielle Watson
Dr. Mike Lopinto, Director/Lighting Dr. Michael Miles, Music Director Ryan Anthony, Choreographer Tammy Mansfield, Music Arrangements Oneil Jones, Stage Manager
CREATIVE
Kathlyn Arcemont Patrick Berry Justin E. Bell Aubry Benefield Edison Brown Kassidy Chandler Olivia Conforti Katrina Cox Sierra Davis Lee Fortner Sarah Hamman Jaden Hatcher Wesley Hodges
CAST
Clarinet Heather Gering Brandon Rodriguez
Flute Lauren Lopez Erin Freeman
Bass Pedro Areco
Cello Ana Ruth Cortez
Viola Juan Camilo Pena
Second Violin Adelle Paltin
First Violin Andres Alean
Southern Miss alumna Nikisha Williams is a singer/actress originally from Mobile, Alabama. At Southern Miss, she had extensive training in classical singing and participated in many operas and musicals, including
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This evening’s performance also includes alumni of musical theatre productions at the Southern Miss School of Music. We welcome them back home and are excited to feature them in our finale this evening!
Keyboard Alison Post Tammy Mansfield
Percussion Matt Fera Alex Ocon
Trombone Nathan Tubbs Sage Michael
Trumpet Matt Soderberg Mathew Thomas
Saxophone Brianna Humphrey Aaron Manigault
ORCHESTRA
With an active career in both City. She will also be featured in the next opera and musical theatre, season of Articulate, where her story of fusing performance with her survival job will air on alumnus Ezekiel Andrew has PBS. In September 2017, Nikisha joined the been seen in productions of cast of the Broadway national tour of The Color both genres across the country. Purple as a female swing and Celie understudy. He is garnering nationwide She is now part of the Hamilton Broadway attention for his portrayal of the (Philip Company) touring company, where character Coalhouse Walker Jr. I Pagliacci, La Boheme, Smokey she is part of the ensemble and understudies in the timeless classic, Ragtime. Joe’s Café, Sweeney Todd and Ragtime. As a powerful and experienced “cross-over” Eliza Hamilton, Angelica Schuyler and Peggy In Memphis, she performed in Don artist, Ezekiel has performed theatre repertoire Schuyler/Maria Reynolds. Giovanni and Pagliacci at Opera Memphis, favorites on opera stages throughout the and Hairspray and Memphis at Playhouse country, including Phantom in The Phantom on the Square, the latter garnering her a of the Opera with the Southern Opera and Musical Theatre Company; Quasimodo in nomination for Leading Actress in a Musical at Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame with the the 2016 Memphis Ostrander Awards and a Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre; win as Best Female Actor in her performance as and Bernardo in West Side Story with the Felicia Farrell in Memphis at the 2017 Diversity on Stage and Film Awards. Southern Mississippi Opera and Musical Nikisha is the winner of Season Theatre Company. Ezekiel is a proud native 12’s “So You Think You Can Belt” competition, of Mississippi and currently resides in New held at the West End Lounge in New York York.
Not a Day Goes By l Merrily We Roll Along
I Believe l Book of Mormon
Special guest artist Ezekiel Andrew
Music of the Night l The Phantom of the Opera
No Bad News l The Wiz
Sweeney Todd Medley
Special guest artist Nikisha Williams
I’m Here l The Color Purple
America l West Side Story
Luck Be a Lady l Guys and Dolls
Agony l Into the Woods
Rodgers & Hammerstein Medley
Special guest artist Nikisha Williams
What About Love l The Color Purple
Special guest artist Ezekiel Andrew
Mary Poppins Medley
Paris Original l How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Southern To The Top l Hey Daze
If I Can’t Love Her l Beauty and the Beast
Ragtime Medley
Broadway Opener
PROGRAM