A Grand Night for Singing 2

Brought to the Benton Civic Center stage by the same troupe that brought you "Nunsense" and "Steel Magnolias",  "A Grand Night for Singing" promises two hours of Rodgers and Hammerstein favorites presented as a musical revue.  The show features the voices and talent of Karen King, Marianne Kaak, Kevin Webster (all from Benton), Jodi Deichman, Shannon Owens and members of the Center Stage dance studio (all from Mt. Vernon) and Yuting Zhang (Dahlgren).

Over three decades after the duo's final collaboration, The Sound Of Music took the world by storm, it was this new R&H musical that opened the 1994 Broadway season, gaining wildly enthusiastic reviews.  Rodgers & Hammerstein probably never imagined Shall We Dance? as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminutive admirer, nor did they suspect that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria? but with innovative musical arrangements including a sultry Andrew Sisters-esque I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair, a swingin' Honeybun and a jazzy Kansas City this exhilarating revue leaves no question about how terrifically up-to-date the remarkable songs of R&H remain.