Rain Date Event!!
Broadway Comes to the Mountain is coming to OSPAC.
Carter Calvert, Andrea Revet, Charlie Pistone, Roy Chicas will be performing. Read on to learn more about the performers...
Cater Calvert
Carter Calvert is best known for originating her role in the Tony nominated, "It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues" on Broadway. The "New York Times" wrote, "Carter Calvert effervesces: her voice echoes chimes in the night" and "Her smoldering grip on "Fever" is positively dangerous". Previously Ms. Calvert appeared in the World Premiere of "Forbidden Vegas" in a role she originated. New York credits include the Broadway, Original Cast Album and touring productions of "It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues". Off-Broadway she appeared in "Forbidden Broadway" and "The Thing About Men" at the Promenade Theatre. Ms. Calvert toured Europe in "Smokey Joe's Caf�," played Grizabella in the national tour of "Cats," and appeared as the title role in "Always, Patsy Cline". She has appeared in numerous roles in regional theaters around the country.
Television credits include: "The David Letterman Show", "Rosie O'Donnell Show", and "The Today Show". She has opened for Liza Minnelli, The Temptations, Chubby Checker and Marilyn McCoo. In 1993, Songstar Records named her Best Female Vocalist of the Year. Downbeat Magazine named her Best Female Jazz Vocalist while she was still in high school. Ms. Calvert is also an accomplished voice-over artist and can be seen in numerous national commercials including Wendy's, Voom, MTV, Ditropan and Charles Schwab. She is currently the voice of Yellowbook.
Andrea Rivette
Andrea Rivette is happy to be part of the Neil Berg family once again this season! Her Broadway credits include Emma Carew ("Jekyll and Hyde;" starring David Hasselhoff, performance filmed for HBO and DVD), Ellen ("Miss Saigon"). Andrea has had the opportunity to perform in many concerts nationwide as well as in the National tours of "Miss Saigon" (Ellen) and "Jekyll and Hyde" (Emma Carew), starring Chuck Wagner. This past year, she had the honor of playing her dream role, Fantine at Sacramento Music Circus in "Les Miserables," directed by Glenn Casale.
Regional credits include: Magnolia ("Showboat"), Christine ("Phantom"), Luisa ("The Fantasticks"), Rita LaPorta ("Lucky Stiff") and the Narrator ("Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat").
Website: www.myspace.com/andreatheriv
Charles Pistone
Mr. Pistone’s extensive acting credits include Joe in the Broadway revival of Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella (Cast Album), Frank Manero in the Broadway production of Saturday Night Fever, Valentin in Kiss of the Spiderwoman (London and New York productions), Javert in the First National Company of Les Miserables, and the title role in Phantom at the Westchester Broadway Theatre. Recent credits include Matt Friedman in SUNY New Paltz’s production of Talley’s Folly, and Sal Penza in Romeo and Bernadette at the Papermill Playhouse. Recordings include the recently released cast album of “The Gig”, “Billion Dollar Baby”, and the soundtrack for “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”. He has also been featured in numerous Off-Broadway, stock, and regional theater productions, including Chess (Alliance), Captains Courageous (Goodspeed), The Secret Garden (CLO), Wuthering Heights (Olney), Jane Eyre (Studio Arena), Guys and Dolls (Casa Manana), South Pacific (MUNY), and The Seahorse (Hartman). Charles has participated in the development of new works under the auspices of the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, New York Shakespeare Festival, Livent of Canada, Manhattan Theater Club, York Theater, ASCAP, and BMI. Concert work includes appearances with the Hartford Symphony, BBC Radio Orchestra, Neil Berg’s “100 Years of Broadway”, and a concert with Michael Feinstein at Carnegie Hall. On television, he has been featured on Law and Order, All My Children, One Life To Live, Another World, and in the NBC movie: Howard Beach: Making the Case for Murder. Mr. Pistone was the 2006 Artist-In-Residence at SUNY Ulster, and was a member of the UCCC Theater Co-Op. In addition to the recent American Buffalo, he directed the college’s Fall 2005 production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge, and also assisted in their Summer 2004 musical production of Victor, Victoria. Other directing credits include WTC’s Psychotherapy (Samuel French finalist), The Threepenny Opera, The Zoo Story, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Awake and Sing (Hartman Conservatory Theater), and Deathtrap (Depot Theater). He was also a member of the faculty at the Broadway Theater Institute, NYC and helped to develop several of their educational initiatives.
Roy Chicas
Roy Chicas has appeared as a soloist with the Indianapolis, Detroit, Nashville, Phoenix, Fort Worth and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Other concert works includes An Evening with Jason Robert Brown, King Island Christmas and Where’s Charley? At The Kennedy Center he starred as Judas in The European tour of Jesus Christ Superstar and as Doody in the First National and European tours of Grease.
Roy’s Off-Broadway credits include Hello Again (Lincoln Center Theatre), Bring In the Morning (Variety Arts) and Forever Plaid. He has appeared at some of the best regional theatres in the country including The Cincinnati Playhouse, Alliance Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse. Roy’s recording work includes The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, A Broadway Christmas and Michael Feinstein’s Only One Life. Roy is a native New Yorker and an alumnus of The Boston Conservatory of Music and Dance.