Broadway singers join Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra for special themed finale

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Broadway’s Chelsea Packard and Matt Bogart will join Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) musicians and members of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Department for a showstopping season finale on Saturday.

At 8 p.m., A2SO will end its 2023-2024 Pops concert season with a Broadway and Hollywood-themed concert at the Michigan Theater.

Packard is known for her performances in the musicals “Wicked” and “Promises, Promises,” and is an assistant professor of musical theatre at the University of Michigan. Bogart has performed in several Broadway musicals, off-broadway tours and TV and film roles including “Jersey Boys” (2014) and “VINYL” (2016).

Guest conductor Lucas Waldin will lead musicians and performers through a program with numbers from popular musicals including “Oklahoma!,” “La La Land,” “Wicked,” “Les Misérables” and “West Side Story.” Waldin, who has collaborated with internationally known artists, will reveal his own arrangements of popular show tunes based on popular Broadway musicals.

At 7 p.m., Michigan Theater Foundation Executive Director Russ Collins will have a discussion event with award-winning musical theater veterans Joan Morris and Judy Dow Rumelhart before the concert.

Here’s the program:

• John Kander/Fred Ebb: Selections from Chicago
• Cole Porter: “Another Openin’, Another Show” from Kiss Me Kate
• Rodgers/Hammerstein: “People Will Say We’re in Love” from Oklahoma!
• Justin Hurwitz: La La Land Epilogue
• Leonard Bernstein: Selections from West Side Story
• Boublil/Schönberg/Natel/Kretzmer: “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables
• Andersson/Ulvaeus/Anderson: ABBA Medley
• Jonathan Larson: “Season of Love” from RENT
• Stephen Schwartz: “Defying Gravity” from Wicked

Tickets cost $17.50 to $50 each. Discounts are available for children under 18, students and large groups over 10.

Find tickets here.

Michigan Theater is at 603 E. Liberty St.