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The National Operetta Theatre “Ion Dacian” Presents “A Medley of Sondheim“ — a special concert tribute performance Featuring Broadway star performers Joan Almedilla, Ali Ewoldt, Angel Desai, Jose Llana and Orville Mendoza Tuesday, 17th of November 2011 within the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts “Life is Beautiful” 4th edition Bucharest, Romania BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — An impressive all-Filipino ensemble of Broadway stars are traveling to Romania to perform A Medley of Sondheim, a concert of Stephen Sondheim’s iconic musical numbers, presented within the framework of the 4th edition of the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts “Life is Beautiful.” Performing 7 p.m. Thursday November 17th at the Metropolis Theater in Bucharest, this sexy Sondheim concert celebration puts forward the award-winning musical talents of Joan Almedilla (Miss Saigon, Les Miserables); Angel Desai (Sondheim’s Company); Ali Ewoldt (Les Miserables, West Side Story); Jose Llana (The King & I, Spelling Bee, The Flower Drum Song, Wonderland); and Orville Mendoza (Pacific Overtures, Sondheim‘s Road Show, The Romance of Magno Rubio in Romania). Jose Llana serves as the director of A Medley of Sondheim. Randy Gener, an internationally renowned editor, critic and artist, serves as the show’s American producer and co-director. With Albin Konopka serving as musical director, A Medley of Sondheim includes songs from such legendary Sondheim musicals such as Anyone Can Whistle, Company, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, West Side Story, among others. A Medley of Sondheim is based on but independent from an original idea for a gala concert by director Victor Lirio (who has given his approval and his blessings) at the prestigious Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York. In addition, Gener will give a lecture presentation, entitled Sondheim And After: A Listening Party on America’s Greatest …