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3/21/06
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Broadway Revue presents Spring Spectacular

Step into spring when Jackson Community College's Broadway Revue Jazz/Show Ensemble presents its year-end Spring Spectacular of music, at 8 p.m. Friday, March 31, in the Harold Sheffer Music Hall, Potter Center.

The Broadway Revue Jazz/Show Ensemble is comprised of area music students, some of Jackson Community College's finest, including music and theater students. This group and similar groups that Keith and Joann Drayton have directed have been well-known to the community for 25 years. Dr. Steven R. Murphy (ASCAP) is also directing.

Enjoy Broadway's greatest hits from "Chicago," "42nd Street," "Jekyll & Hyde," "Ragtime," "Fame" and more, as well as popular favorites like "The Prayer," "Longer," and "One Moment in Time." Thrill to jazzy showstoppers like "Anything Goes," "S'Wonderful," "Embraceable You," and a patriotic finale! The Broadway Revue will welcome a special guest artist, Bryan Lynn Fowler.

Reserved seating tickets are available for $10 and $12, and special rates are available for students, seniors and groups. Call the Potter Center Box Office at (517) 796-8600 for tickets.

 

Our Special Guest Artist

Bryan Lynn Fowler, a native of Jackson and a familiar face and voice to the music community here and around the State of Michigan, began singing in church as a child and in choirs in the Jackson Public School system. After graduating from Jackson High, he attended Jackson Community College and received a scholarship from the nationally known Starfleet Ambassadors, with whom he sang for two years.

In 1997, Fowler began to pursue his vocal studies at Western Michigan University. While there, he participated in many of the vocal ensembles, receiving highest awards in three NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competitions. In the summer of 2000, he took advantage of a prestigious scholarship to study voice in Graz, Austria, where he was a part of the Opera Workshop program and was a semi-finalist in the Meister Singers Competition.

Fowler has performed numerous times as a guest soloist with the Jackson Symphony Orchestra in their Summer Pops concerts and in 2001 in a "Tosca" performance. Fowler received his bachelor's degree in social work with a minor in vocal performance from WMU in 2002, and recently received his master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan.