The Harold Arlen Songbook with Wizard of Oz Singalong

A Joyful Evening of Song and Singalong

Beloved singers Bradley Greenwald and Prudence Johnson pay tribute to one of the greatest songwriters of the 20th century, Harold Arlen, whose vast, rich body of work includes classics like “Stormy Weather,” “That Old Black Magic” and “Blues in the Night.” Together with lyricist Yip Harburg, Arlen created perhaps the most iconic film score ever: The Wizard of Oz. With Dan Chouinard at the piano, Graydon Peterson on bass, and Joe Pulice on drums, expect a joyful evening of music-making and tune up your pipes as we sing our way down the yellow brick road.

Prudence Johnson: Vocals

Bradley Greenwald: Vocals, Horn

Dan Chouinard: Piano

Joe Pulice: Drums

Graydon Peterson: Bass

Individually, Prudence Johnson, Bradley Greenwald and Dan Chouinard have appeared on just about every stage in town but they’ve created a number of works together as well, several performed on Crooners stages: Dear Lenny honors the life and work of Leonard Bernstein; 66: Talkin Bout My Generation is a rollicking trip through the news and music of 1966; From Paris to Rome and Bastille My Heart feature romantic favorites from France and Italy. For Open Eye Theatre, they also created When the Shark Bites, about the iconic partnership of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, and a musical biography of Jacques Brel. They appear each Valentine’s Day with story teller Kevin Kling in The Love Show.

“With.. Greenwald and Johnson we are talking about… superb vocalists who not only sing with beautifully lush voices, but create a whole character in every song”. Arthur Dorman—Talkin Broadway “(Johnson’s) lush, precise, expressive voice, with its pearls of vibrato, is best unadorned. A smart, sensitive pianist – like Chouinard– is all she needs.”—Pamela Espeland, MinnPost