ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY PRESENTS
AN ENCHANTED EVENING
 
                                                                       
Hendersonville, NC – The Arts Council of Henderson County will present An Enchanted Evening, November 4, 5 and 6.  This intimate cabaret revue, celebrating great love songs from the golden age of the American Musical – 1920s to the 1970s, will be performed Upstairs at Mike’s on Main, 303 North Main Street in downtown Hendersonville.
 
Performances are at 8:00 p.m. each evening, and tickets cost $40 per person, which includes wine and light hors d’oeuvres.  Reservations are strongly recommended as there are only 40 seats available per performance. 
 

An Enchanted Evening pays tribute to the best composers and lyricists of the American Musical Theatre: Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Rogers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Lowe, Kander and Ebb and Stephen Sondheim.  Some of the shows from which selections will be performed include: Showboat, Girl Crazy, Oklahoma, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Call Me Madam, Follies, and A Little Night Music.
 
The production is conceived and directed by Francis J. Cullinan, a member of the Arts Council Board, and features four leading musical theatre artists from Western North Carolina: Brad Curtioff, music director, and vocalists Carol Duermit, Cathy Walgenbach, and Michael Cheek.
 
All have been involved with previous Arts Council productions.  Cullinan has directed Heaven in Your Pocket (and is one of the co-writers) and Three Viewings.  Duermit and Walgenbach appeared in Heaven in Your Pocket, and Duermit and Cheek were part of the cast for Three Viewings, with Curtioff providing the background music.
 
“An Enchanted Evening will cover the late 1920s, when the musical as a form was first developed, through the late 1970s before the "British Invasion" and the start of the so-called juke-box musicals,” according to Cullinan.  “We’ll explore the many, and sometimes troublesome, aspects of love.”
 
For more information or to make reservations please contact The Arts Council of Henderson County at 828-693-8504 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Visit our website at www.acofhc.org.
 
The Arts Council of Henderson County is a community organization that promotes, advocates for and nurtures the arts in Henderson County and western North Carolina.  The Arts Council gallery and offices, located at 538 North Main Street, 2nd Floor in downtown Hendersonville, are handicapped accessible.
 
The Arts Council is supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, The State of North Carolina, several funds administered by the Community Foundation of Henderson County, Henderson County, and the Henderson County Travel and Tourism Bureau