Broadway Stars Coming to Myrtle Beach for Charity Benefit Performance
Two leading Broadway stars are coming to Myrtle Beach next month to perform in a special benefit concert.
Rachel York and Sal Viviano - who played leading roles in City of Angels, and who each boast a long list of Broadway accomplishments – will appear together on Saturday, February 28, 7:30 p.m. at Myrtle Beach High School for An Evening of Broadway Classics with the Long Bay Symphony. The program is a special presentation of the Rotary Club of Myrtle Beach to benefit the organization’s international Polio Plus program.
York is best known for her Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award) with Dame Julie Andrews, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox with Richard Dreyfuss, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels co-starring Jonathan Pryce. Additionally, York has starred in the national tour of Camelot (Carbonell Award) opposite Michael York, Putting It Together (Drama Desk Nomination) also with Julie Andrews, the national and London tours of the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate (Helen Hayes Nomination), Dessa Rose at the Lincoln Center Theater (Drama Desk Nomination), Anything Goes (Ovation Nomination), Ragtime, Evita, Summer of ’42, Summer and Smoke, Crucifer of Blood with Billy Crudup and The Odd Couple with Jason Alexander and Martin Short.
A Detroit native, Viviano began his career opening for comedy greats of the last generation. After completing degrees (Eastern Illinois University), he taught high school while earning Union cards as an actor in Chicago. Moving east, Sal made his Broadway debut in The Three Musketeers(1984), followed-by starring roles in the Broadway hits Romance/Romance, City of Angels, Falsettos, The Life and The Full Monty.
Tickets for An Evening of Broadway Classics are $35, $40 and $45, and may be purchased at the Long Bay Symphony office at 21st Ave. N. in Myrtle Beach. They can be reached at 843-448-8379.
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