Performance Riverside Salutes Broadway with Sensational Showtunes: Up Close and Personal

Sensational Showtunes: Up Close and Personal opens March 27 at Performance Riverside.  It’s is an elegant salute to the Great White Way, featuring lovingly crafted renditions of the best in Broadway showtunes, a look forward to Performance Riverside's 2009-2010 season, and a personal look at just what goes into the making of those who make the theatre their life's work.

Sensational Showtunes features a cast headlined by Broadway veteran and Redlands native Byron Nease, who made his Broadway debut across from Angela Lansbury in Mame. Neaseis notable for having portrayed both Raoul in Andrew Lloyd Weber's Phantom of the Opera, and the titular role in the successful Kopit/Yeston production Phantom. The cast also features four of Performance Riverside's loveliest songbirds:  Vonetta Mixson, of 2006's Dreamgirls;  Jamie Hartmann of 2008's Thoroughly Modern Millie and Annie Get Your Gun, and Lisa Livesay and Renee Jensen, fresh from this year’s Peter Pan.

A limited number of cabaret-style VIP seats to Sensational Showtunes are available.  This unique experience is the ultimate treat for theatre-buffs, who sit onstage in the very best seats in they house as they are treated to lovingly crafted renditions of award-winning showstoppers up close and personal.

The Landis Performing Arts Center is located on the Riverside City College campus at 4800 Magnolia Avenue. Performances of Sensational Showtunes:  Up Close and Personal are March 27, 28, April 3 and 4 at 8pm and March 28, 29, April 4 and 5 at 2pm.  Tickets are $25, $30, $37, and $43.  A specially priced “Discovery Theatre” performance for school and senior groups is also available March 27at 10am.  For more information and to purchase tickets contact the Landis Box Office at 951-222-8100, or purchase online at www.performanceriverside.org.