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Backstage
Cabaret ready to hit stage
By Ayako Ando
On-line Forty-Niner
South Coast Chorale
will open its 12th season with "Backstage Cabaret," at the
Carpenter Performing Arts Center tomorrow and Saturday.
"We have been working
on this program since June," said Artistic Director Bob Phibbs.
Phibbs said this
concert would be different from other concerts people have
seen at theaters.
"In this concert,
audience who usually sit facing the stage, will be seated
on the table sets on the stage that are decorated as a cabaret
in San Francisco," Phibbs said. "The performers and the audience
stay close to each other, so the audience may feel that they
are in the real cabaret."
In "Backstage Cabaret,"
42 members of SCC will perform 18 songs.
"These 18 songs
have a wide variety of styles," Phibbs said. "Some are like
rap numbers and some are in slow tempo such as ballad, so
I think the audience can enjoy the combination of music."
Phibbs also said
that three of the 18 songs were original songs created by
individual singers in SCC.
Individual members,
small groups and the entire chorus will be performing in this
two-hour concert.
"The main purpose
of this concert is entertainment," Phibbs said.
Bob Gabriel, a
Long Beach resident, who plans to attend the concert said:
"Since I have been anxious about the happenings in New York,
I hope I can get relaxed with the performance,"
SCC has been performing
to present the positive images of the lesbian and gay community
in Long Beach and Orange County through its choral music performances
since 1990.
"We will come together
and continue presenting entertainment because we love singing,"
Phibbs said,
The concert will
start at 8 p.m. Friday and 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are
$35 for each night. For tickets and more information, call
the Carpenter Canter at (562) 985-7000.
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