MUSIC

Society for the Performing Arts (SPA), bringing the world’s best to Houston, presents  From Broadway to Hollywood: Marvin Hamlisch & Joel Grey in Concert, as part of the SPA Music Series.  8 pm, Saturday, March 27, 2010, in Jones Hall. Legendary Broadway and film artists and former child performers—composer Marvin Hamlisch (The Way We Were and A Chorus Line) and actor Joel Grey (Cabaret)—team up for this one-of-a-kind concert experience.

The composer of the musicals A Chorus Line, They’re Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl, and Sweet Smell of Success and films including The Way We Were, The Sting, Sophie’s Choice, Ice Castles, and Bananas, Marvin Hamlisch has become the preeminent pops artist of our time. He has won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammies, three Emmys, a Tony, three Golden Globe awards and the Pulitzer Prize.

Academy and Tony Award-winner Joel Grey takes the audience on a virtual tour of his career – singing, dancing and story-telling – about shows like Cabaret, George M!, and Chicago, tells autobiographical tales regarding his father, the legendary Yiddish comedian Mickey Katz, and sings songs by Kander & Ebb, Rodgers and Hart, Billy Joel, and more. He considers the audience his co-star – in other words, you won’t see a line of dancing girls behind him.

It’s a natural for Joel Grey and Marvin Hamlisch to share the same stage, as their friendship goes back many years to when they worked together on the very first tour Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey tour in 1973. Here is your exclusive chance to join them for one special evening!