Westminster Music Theater Presents Oklahoma!
Westminster Music Theater will present Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” on Friday, February 29 at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 1 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March 2 at 3 p.m. in the Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center at Princeton High School. Awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944, Oklahoma! is the treasured tale of a cowboy and farm girl finding love on the American frontier and features such classic songs as “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” and “The Surrey With the Fringe on Top.”
The cast is composed of students at Westminster College of the Arts. Ginger Thatcher is director and choreographer and Steven Gross is music director, for what promises to be a vibrant and creative production.
Ginger Thatcher is a former principal dancer with the Cleveland Ballet and a former member of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Co. Both an acting and dance professional, throughout her career she has choreographed over 30 works for television, Broadway, and film, including a self-production of her own works in Lincoln Center and for Princeton’s American Repertory Ballet. Her Broadway credits include “The Red Shoes,” “Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake,” and “Carousel.” As the founding director of “New Steps Choreography Project” in Cleveland, Ohio, Thatcher received an Achievement in the Arts Award nomination.
Steven Gross has numerous national and international theater, conducting and arrangement/orchestration credits throughout his impressive career. Some highlights include “Les Miserables” and “Sweeney Todd” in New York City, “Miss Saigon” and “Phantom of the Opera” in London’s West End, and “Carmen” in Hamburg, Germany. Steven Gross has taught master classes at New York University, The New School, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and several universities throughout Europe. A Fulbright and Rotarian Scholar, he received a doctorate in conducting from Yale University.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. All tickets can be reserved by calling the Westminster Box Office at (609) 921-2663 weekdays between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The Princeton Regional Schools Performing Arts Center is located in Princeton High School on Walnut Lane at Franklin Street in Princeton.
