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Festival Napa Valley joins with Napa Valley College (NVC) Performing Arts Department of Music to co-present Musicals Go To the Movies, a musical theater revue starring acclaimed Broadway performer Ryan Silverman in a special performance alongside Napa Valley College music students.
With noted Broadway choreographer Kim Craven, Silverman is Festival Napa Valley’s featured artist/educator in residence this spring, working with NVC students in a week-long intensive workshop as part of a college credit musical theater class led by Napa Valley College Coordinator of Music and Director of Vocal Studies, Dr. Christina Howell.
Tonight’s performance at the NVC Performing Arts Center is a culmination of that workshop and features movie musical favorites “Moon River” from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, “Y’a Got Trouble” from The Music Man, “Everybody Rejoice” from The Wiz, “Come Alive” from The Greatest Showman, “Your Song” from Moulin Rouge, “Gee, Officer Krupke” from West Side Story, and “I’ve Got Rhythm” from An American in Paris.
Tickets (Adults $15, Seniors $10, Students with ID - $0) on sale through the Napa Valley College Performing Arts box office, 707-256-7500.
Please Note: Performance takes place indoors in the Main Theater and will follow all Napa County and Napa Valley College masking and vaccination requirements in place at the time of the performance.
Performers
Choreographer Kim Craven has choreographed and toured nationally with critically acclaimed musical theatre productions including Cats, Honeymoon in Vegas, Mamma Mia, and many more. She began her training at Westside Ballet in Los Angeles, and spent summers at the San Francisco Ballet School and The School of American Ballet. She moved to NYC to study full time at SAB in her senior year of high school and began her professional career dancing with The Pennsylvania Ballet Company. She moved to LA to pursue commercial dance and eventually returned to NY when she earned her first Broadway show.
Ryan Silverman has been praised as the “smoothest, most assured bari-tenor, leading-man theatre voice at the moment” (Playbill). He has received multiple Drama Desk and Drama League nominations, with credits that include starring as Raoul in The Phantom of the Opera, Tony in West Side Story, and Billy Flynn in Chicago, and has appeared with the New York Pops, Seattle Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and many others.
Venue
Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center
Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center is dedicated to theater and music instruction and performance. It offers professional quality theater in a college setting, featuring a five-show season as well as acting, music and production courses led by industry professionals. It is the official home of Frost School at Festival Napa Valley's Blackburn Music Academy.
