Tony-Winning Actress Beth Leavel to Perform Jan. 30
Monday, January 10, 2011
The University of Findlay will host Tony Award-winning actress Beth Leavel for a performance at 8 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30, in Winebrenner Theology
Seminary’s TLB Convocation Center.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and
senior citizens over the age of 65. A limited number of tickets are available
at The University of Findlay’s Box Office at 419-434-5335 or
boxoffice@findlay.edu. Tickets may be available at the door; however, Leavel’s
performance is expected to sell out and advanced purchase is encouraged.
Leavel won the 2006 Tony Award for best featured actress in
the leading role of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” which also earned her Drama Desk
and Outer Critics Circle awards. She completed a Broadway holiday run of
“Elf The Musical” on Jan. 2.
Accompanying Leavel on the piano will be Phil Reno, a
Grammy-nominated Broadway conductor of “The Drowsy Chaperone,” “The Producers,”
“Cats,” “Thou Shalt Not” and “Broadway Under the Stars.” Most recently, he
served as music director for the Broadway revival of “Promises, Promises” with
Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes, which opened in April, and as music director
for “Elf The Musical.”
Leavel is The University of
Findlay’s Mary Snyder Kirk Musical Guest Artist Chair for 2011; the
performance is also supported by the Curtain Raisers Society for the Performing Arts, the Convocations Committee and the UF music and theatre programs.
The University, which offers a hands-on approach to
education, provides access to award-winning performers for the benefit of its
students. UF has hosted Tony Award-winners Victoria Clark and Sutton Foster;
Broadway star Brent Barrett; Liz Calloway, the voice of Anastasia in the
animated movie “Anastasia;” and Hugh Panaro, the second longest-performing
Phantom in “Phantom of the Opera,” among others.
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