Performance includes show-stopping Broadway musical hits

Music from Les Miserables, Guys and Dolls, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera and several other top Broadway musicals is featured as the Youngstown State University Department of Theatre and Dance presents “The Heavy Hitters Cabaret” 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in the Eleanor Beech Flad Pavilion at the DeYor Performing Arts Center in downtown Youngstown.

Tickets are $25 and available at 330-744-4269 or www.deyorpac.org. Student tickets are $5 with student ID. Parking is available in adjacent lots for a nominal fee. All proceeds benefit the YSU Musical Theatre program and initiatives.

“The Heavy Hitters Cabaret is a not-to-be-missed, one-night-only event featuring show-stopping, iconic numbers from the musical theatre canon performed by the students in the Musical Theatre program,” said Maria Fenty Denison, who coordinates the program.

Student performers are: Rosie Bresson, BFA Musical Theatre, Canfield, Ohio; Alexis Cerny, BA Theatre Arts, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Maria Cicco, BFA Musical Theatre, Mentor, Ohio; Adam Dominick, BFA Musical Theatre, Lancaster, Ohio; Elijah DuPonty, BFA Photography, Girard, Ohio; Lacey Farina, BFA, Musical Theatre, Schenectady, N.Y.; Samantha Gurd, BFA Musical Theatre, New Middletown, Ohio; Halla Henry, BFA Musical Theatre, New Brighton, Pa.; Morgan Lacamera, BFA Musical Theatre, Lowellville, Ohio; AnnMarie Lowerre, BFA Musical Theatre, Butler, Pa.; Aislinn Lowry, BFA Musical Theatre, Greensburg, Pa.; Ben Mowrer, BFA Musical Theatre, Independence, Ohio; Nate Montgomery, BGS General Studies, Columbiana, Ohio; Daniel Navabi, BFA Musical Theatre, Haverhill, Mass.; Ciara Rosario, BFA Musical Theatre, Youngstown, Ohio; Hannah Rosser, BFA Musical Theatre, Youngstown, Ohio; Kamryn Rudolph, BFA Theatre Studies, Baden, Pa.; Destinee Thompson, BFA Musical Theatre, Akron, Ohio; Haley Tura, BS Music Education, Canfield, Ohio; Nathan Wagner, BFA Musical Theatre, Ambridge, Pa.

The repertoire includes a preview of tunes from the upcoming University Theatre performance of Cabaret; as well as these songs from these shows: Anything You Can Do, Annie Get Your Gun; Come Rain or Come Shine, St. Louis Woman; Sue Me, Guys and Dolls; I Could’ve Danced All Night, My Fair Lady; Trouble, The Music Man; Maria & Tonight, West Side Story; Everything’s Coming up Roses, Gypsy; Sixteen Going on Seventeen, The Sound of Music; Far from the Home I Love, Fiddler on the Roof; Turn Back, O Man, Godspell; I Remember It Well, GiGi; Memory, Cats; Think of Me, The Phantom of the Opera; My New Philosophy, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Holding Out for a Hero, Footloose; Shiksa Goddess, The Last Five Years; The Wizard and I, Wicked; Apex Predator, Mean Girls; One Day More, Les Misérables.