The National Operetta Theatre âIon Dacianâ Presents âA Medley of Sondheimâ â 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 âLife is Beautifulâ 4th edition Bucharest, Romania BUCHAREST, ROMANIA â An impressive all-Filipino ensemble of Broadway stars are traveling to Romania to perform A Medley of Sondheim, a concert of Stephen Sondheimâs iconic musical numbers, presented within the framework of the 4th edition of the International Festival for Musical Performing Arts âLife is Beautiful.â 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 (Sondheimâs 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, Sondheimâs 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 showâs 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 Americaâs Greatest …
