Arts & Culture

UK Choristers Invites Bluegrass to Join Them for 'A Night on Broadway'

UK Choristers perform "Pandemonium" from "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" in 2013. 

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Feb. 1, 2016) — The thrills and trills of New York's biggest musicals will light up the stage as the University of Kentucky Choristers step into the spotlight for "A Night on Broadway" this weekend. The popular annual musical revue, including show-stopping selections from "Les Miserables," "Wicked," "Ragtime" and more, will begin with five-star appetizers at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, in the Singletary Center for the Arts lobby prior to the one-act performance at 8 p.m., in the Recital Hall. Dessert will be served in the lobby after the show.

The Choristers, conducted by Beth Wilson, is the oldest performing organization on campus. Filled with underclassmen and representing a wide variety of majors, the group frequently performs on and off campus. The 60-voice mixed choir specializes in choral repertoire of all periods and styles, both a cappella and accompanied, and also performs a major work each year with the UK Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, UK Choristers have been featured with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra in its "Unplugged and Untied" Concert Series.

Admission to UK Choristers' "Night on Broadway" is $10 for UK students with valid student ID, $15 for UK faculty and staff, $25 for general admission, and $35 for VIPs, which includes courtesy parking pass for early ticket purchases. Tickets are available at the Singletary Center ticket office at www.scfatickets.com, by phone at 859-257-4929 or in person at the venue.

For more information on the UK Choristers or other UK Choirs' events, contact Joseph Wrightson, administrative assistant to UK Choirs, at wrightson.joseph@gmail.com.

The UK Choristers are part of the UK School of Music at UK College of Fine Arts. The school has garnered a national reputation for high-caliber education in opera, choral and instrumental music performance, as well as music education, composition, and theory and music history.

MEDIA CONTACT: Whitney Hale, 859-257-8716; whitney.hale@uky.edu