Providence Performing Arts Center

Harry Connick Jr.
At age 5, played the piano at his father's inauguration as New Orleans district attorney. Trained under jazz great Ellis Marsalis, father of Branford and Wynton. Broke through when he recorded the soundtrack for the hit 1989 film When Harry Met Sally ....

Diana Ross
African-American musical superstar Diana Ross may well be a by-product of the almost crippling shyness she has suffered since childhood. Reportedly, it took a lot out of young Ross to work up the courage to sing in her church choir; but once she decided that music was to be her bread and butter, there was no stopping her....

Evita
Eva Peron talks her way to Buenos Aires and then proceeds to sleep her way up the ladder, becoming a celebrated actress. When her lover, Colonel Juan Perón, becomes elected president she reaches the height of her fame and at the end of her life questions whether or not she took the right path.

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber is, without question, one of the most prolific and popular composers of his generation, and fans of stage and screen alike are sure to recognize his impact on the modern musical. It doesn't take a musical lover to appreciate the grandiose theatrics of +The Phantom of the Opera, and considering the phenomenal success of +Cats, +Jesus Christ Superstar, and +Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, there seems to be something for everyone in Webber's musical universe....

Wicked the Musical
Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One - born with emerald green skin - is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. How these two grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch makes for the most spellbinding new musical in years....