By: centraljersey.com
Friends of The Princeton Festival gathered at the Theobold Smith House in Princeton Landing on Dec. 4 for an afternoon of festive song, wine, and hors d’oeuvres. Bob Egan cabaret pianist, provided entertainment – show tunes, holiday music, and audience requests to the guests’ delight.
A highlight of the event was Artistic Director Richard Tang Yuk’s description of the forthcoming Festival in June 2011. The beloved favorites will be there: chamber music by the Concordia Players, musical theater (for 2011, Sandy Wilson’s "The Boy Friend"), a jazz afternoon, a piano competition. Bob Egan, who seems to have an endless repertoire, obligingly played a tune from "The Boy Friend," and Maestro Tang Yuk joined in the lyrics.
The Festival’s centerpiece, as always, will be an opera – this year, Igor Stravinsky’s English-language masterpiece "The Rake’s Progress," inspired by the English painter/printmaker William Hogarth’s etchings of 1700s London.
The Festival continuously expands its horizon. In the 2011 season, it will present dance for the first time. Graham Lustig will lead his LustigDanceTheatre in a premiere performance of a new program.
Details of dates and casts will be available in January.
For information, call 609-759 0379.
The Princeton Festival aims to enrich the cultural life of central New Jersey, Bucks County and the surrounding region during the summer by offering a variety of performing arts productions of the highest professional quality.
For more information about The Festival and the upcoming season, visit www.princetonfestival.org. For more information about Bob Egan, visit bobeganentertainment.com.
