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About the Performers and Productions by UApresents:


Liza Minnelli

She took Broadway by storm in 2008 in her acclaimed New York run of Liza's at the Palace. Her spectacular performances earned the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event and a prestigious 2009 Drama Desk Award. Now in her fifth decade as an internationally celebrated entertainer, she is one of only eight living artists to have won every major show business honor including an Oscar, an Emmy, a Grammy and four Tony Awards.

Joshua Bell

His playing “does nothing less than tell human beings why they bother to be alive,” declares Interview Magazine. For more than two decades, Bell has enchanted audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty. He came to national attention at the age of 14 in a highly acclaimed orchestral debut and today he's equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestra leader. His restless curiosity has taken him in new directions that have earned him the rare title "classical music superstar." The Boston Herald simply proclaims him "the greatest American violinist active today."

Wicked

Wicked was destined for greatness with the all-star team of collaborators who have made it an unsurpassed phenomena. Double Tony-Award-winner (Take Me Out, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Glengarry Glen Ross) Joe Mantello is the ingenious director behind the scenes of Wicked, which features music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin, Academy Award-winner for Pocahontas and The Prince of Egypt). “Wicked” the book was by Winnie Holzman (“My So-Called Life,” “Once and Again” and “thirtysomething”), and is based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire. Musical staging by Tony Award-winner Wayne Cilento (Aida, The Who’s Tommy, How To Succeed…).