"Songs from Broadway and Hollywood"

This event is part of the Danforth University Center - Chamber Series.

This cabaret show features songs written for Broadway and Hollywood, musicals by George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim,  Johnny Mercer, Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern, and Harold Arlen, together  with stories of the songwriters at work.

Free Admission.

Kelly Daniel-Decker and Todd Decker have been performing together for over twenty-five years, sharing music from Bach to Berlin, Mozart to Gershwin, Richard Strauss to Stephen Sondheim. Kelly (soprano) has sung leading roles in operas such as Die Fledermaus and Don Giovanni and musicals such as Oklahoma! and The Music Man. She holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan and has a private voice studio in Kirkwood. Todd (piano) is Associate Professor of Music at Washington University and has written books on Fred Astaire, Show Boat, and the song "Ol' Man River." Before moving to St. Louis, the Deckers spent seven years co-directing, designing, vocal coaching, and choreographing musicals and plays with high school performers in Napa, California. Among the shows they created were Gypsy, Evita, West Side Story, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (in repertory), The Matchmaker, and the original extravaganza The Terrifying Travels of Theseus, Greek Hero.