JERSEY SHORE POPS presents “Broadway’s Irish Tenor” at the PAC

Middle Township Performing Arts Center has announced that The Jersey Shore Pops will present ‘BROADWAY’S IRISH TENOR” on Saturday, October 16, 2010. The program which begins at 7:30PM features a nationally recognized Irish tenor Colm Fitzmaurice who will make his Cape May County concert debut with the Pops. The concert will feature Broadway music from such musicals as “ Phantom of the Opera,” “Les Mis”, “Brigadoon”, “South Pacific”, “My Fair Lady”, “Westside Story”, “Chorus Line”, and “The Sound of Music.
Irish tenor Colm Fitzmaurice began making his mark in Operetta, Opera and Music Theater throughout the United States and in Europe. In 2010, Colm returned to Opera Naples, singing Tamino in The Magic Flute. He maintains a busy schedule of Gilbert and Sullivan leading roles (his specialty) in New York City and throughout the United States. Colm tours regularly with The Three Waiters, bringing opera standards to new and unusual venues throughout the United States and neighboring countries.
Colm’s leading man looks and vocal charisma in the light opera repertoire have brought particular acclaim. In his debut with Virginia Opera in The Mikado, the Washington Post proclaimed him “a particularly golden-voiced and unflappable Nanki-Poo.” Regarding his debut with Dayton Opera in the title role of Candide, The American Record Guide noted “Colm Fitzmaurice’s Candide was solidly virile and virtuous, elegantly sung.” He is regularly featured in a number of leading roles with New York’s Gilbert and Sullivan Players including Ralph (HMS Pinafore), Frederic (The Pirates of Penzance), Hilarion (Princess Ida) and Marco (The Gondoliers). As Hilarion, The New York Times proclaimed him a “sweet voiced tenor,” and in Pirates, “a strong, likable portrayal of Frederic.
Recently Colm returned to Milwaukee’s Skylight Opera as Henry in The Midnight Angel, a contemporary American opera. At Skylight, he has also appeared as Valére in Tartuffe and Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, a performance which was broadcast on Public Television. Other recent performances have included Alexis in The Sorcerer and Don Luis in El Barberillo de Lavapiés with Light Opera Oklahoma, The Merry Widow and HMS Pinafore with Chicago Light Opera Works, and a concert of Zarzuela and Spanish song in Pontevedre, Spain.
Colm made his European debut as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte in Paris. He returned to Europe, touring Germany as Tony in West Side Story, playing the main opera houses of Frankfurt, Baden-Baden, and in Bern, Switzerland. As Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Colm has appeared at The Ravinia Festival with Highland Park Opera and at the Bay View Festival. Other roles include Ferrando in Cosí fan Tutte, Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and various 20th century works.
In New York, Colm has appeared several times with City Center Encores!, including their revival of Wonderful Town, where his role as the singing Cop required not only an Irish tenor, but a little Irish clogging as well. He was heard in a broadcast from Town Hall, NYC of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion. Other solo concert appearances include One World Symphony (in their New York Town Hall debut), The Aspen Music Festival under James Conlon, The Johnstown Symphony (PA), The Marion Symphony (IN), Missouri Symphony and The South Bay Master Chorale in Los Angeles.
Certain CMC restaurants will offer a 10% dining discount to all patrons that purchase tickets to any of the four season concerts that the Pops will be performing at the Middle Township Performing Arts Center.The following restaurants are participating in this special, DINNER AND A SHOW promotion: ISLAND SHORE of Marmora ,609-390-7320 , AVALON GOLF CLUB, 609-465-4653 , MAMA MIA’S of Seaville 609-624-9322, J-OTTENS of Cape May Courthouse, 609-465-3200 and ATKINSON’S of Cape May Courthouse 609-465-5641.
Tickets for “BROADWAY’S IRISH TENOR” are now on sale and can be purchased by calling the box office at 609 463-1924 or ordering online at www.JerseyShorePops.org. Individual advance tickets are now on sale at $20 for adults, $18 seniors and students and a special $16 group rate for ticket purchases of 20 or more. These prices are only for advance ticket sales. All tickets the day of the performance are $25 for both adults and seniors with no discounts offered. The box office is open Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM which is located at the Middle Township High School off exit 10 ( GSP).