The 60 members of ChoralSounds Northwest strike just the right balance of Christmas inspiration and cheer every year with their December holiday concert.
They have also found just the right formula for their spring concert with their third annual salute to the Great White Way.
This spring's performance, "Give Our Regards to Broadway 3," comes to the Highline Performing Arts Center, 401 S. 152nd Street in Burien, Saturday, May 19, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 20, at 2 p.m.
David Spring directs the chorus, with the exuberant choreography directed by John Edwards.
As usual for the spring show, ChoralSounds combines excerpts from old classics with newer, edgier musicals.
You can't get much more traditional than The Music Man, which opens the concert.
Part of the fun of a ChoralSounds performance is seeing individual choir members step out to spotlight their individual talents, and newcomer Royce Napolitino makes an enthusiastic and hilarious con man as Professor Harold Hill.
ChoralSounds veteran Kathleen Rogers is the lovely Marion the Librarian.
All the classic tunes you remember from The Music Man are performed, including "Ya Got Trouble in River City," "Seventy-six Trombones," and "Till There Was You."
Next up is The Phantom of the Opera, first performed in 1986.
Chuck Tobin is the mysterious Phantom and Carrie Turnell is his beautifully-voiced prot/g/, Christine.
The title song plus the haunting "Music of the Night" are among the highlights.
A dozen dancers show off their steps during "Masquerade."
After intermission, the performance turns Wicked with the 2003 musical detailing the untold story of the witches of Oz.
Mandy Skey as the perky blond Glinda sings "Popular" while Lauren Balestreri as Elphaba laments that it is not easy being green in "I'm not that Girl."
Balestreri, backed by the chorus, finishes up the Wicked excerpts with a show-stopping "Defying Gravity/No One Mourns."
What better way to close out a Broadway tribute than tunes from the 1955 show, Oklahoma.
Bill Houser is cowboy Curley and Kivela is the object of his hankerin', Laurie.
Of course, the chorus sings "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" and "Surrey with the Fringe."
The concert ends with a rousing "Oklahoma" sure to send audience members out of the theater humming.
Reserved seat tickets for the Saturday night show and Sunday matinee are $25, $18 and $15. Young people 13 and under are admitted free when accompanied by a paying adult.
The tickets are available online at www.nwassociatedarts.org or by calling 206-246-6040. Discounts are available for groups of ten or more, and a $1.50 per ticket handling charge is added to all tickets including the youth tickets.
The performance is supported, in part, by 4Culture, City of Burien, Charlotte Martin Foundation, Glaser Foundation, Horizons Foundation, Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs, Qwest Foundation, Target and Fred Meyer Foundation.