Nationally Renowned Tenor Coming to Westminster College

Tenor Craig Schulman, the only actor in the world to have portrayed the title roles in The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and Jeckyll & Hyde, is coming to the Westminster College Celebrity Series, Friday, Nov. 9, at 8 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.

Schulman moves freely between the worlds of Broadway, opera, and symphonic pops programs. He has sung in Carmen and The Crucible, as well as on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show," "NBC Weekend Today," and was heard as Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti on MTV's "Claymation Celebrity Death Match."

Schulman will perform Lerner & Lowe's "If Ever I Would Leave You," Webber's "Music of the Night," Rodgers & Hammerstien's "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'," and other classics.

The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Isaiah Jackson, will accompany Schulman. They will also play numbers such as "The Merry Widow Overture," "Gershwin in Hollywood," and "Love Walked In."

Jackson, now in his fifth season as music director of the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, is also the newly appointed principal conductor of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston. He has been the guest conductor of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, Calgary Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, and the National Symphony in Washington, D.C.

"This is truly an evening of beautiful vocal and orchestral music with the top talent in America," said Eugene DeCaprio, director of the Westminster College Celebrity Series.

Good seats are still available. For reservations, call the Celebrity Series Box Office, (724) 946-7354.

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