OC Library Spring Concerts: Inside Broadway

Enter “Inside Broadway” where memorable favorites by composers such as Berlin, Jerry Hermann and Stephen Schwartz are interspersed with forgotten Broadway gems. Delight in humorous Broadway musical tidbits interpreted by the comedic vocal acrobatics of Jodi Rose.

Jodi Rose Founded “Opera on the Go” in 1987 in NYC.  Her Company’s mission statement: “cultivating tomorrow’s audiences”, brought American Opera to approximately 10,000 children yearly, with the Company performing around 150 shows annually.  Jodi has portrayed such diverse roles as Adele in Die Fledermaus in Vienna, Austria; Catherine in Pomme D’api with St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble – Town Hall, New York City; Mimi andMusetta in La Boheme with the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Despina in Cosi fan Tutte with the New York Lyric Opera Company.   Favorite characters from among her 20 musicals include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady; Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls; Laurie in Oklahoma; Marian Paroo in Music Man; Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly; and Guinevere in Camelot.   With “Opera on the Go” Jodi has performed over 15 contemporary American opera roles, some of which she specifically commissioned for the Company, portraying everything from a 10 year old Red Riding Hood, which she performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra; to a husband nagging hen in Chanticleer.  Jodi Rose has staged multiple one woman “Cabaret Style” concerts. Her two concerts “Hope For The Future” and “Symphony of Hope” were fundraisers for the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House and the south New Jersey Ronald McDonald House respectively, and were dedicated to the memory of her son, Thomas.  Jodi has directed/choreographed more than 30 professional musical theater/opera productions and multiple school productions. Three of her Company’s operas: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Pirate Captains have been presented on New York City Public Television, as well as her song and dance musical revue Showboat Rhapsody. For NYC Public Television, Jodi was also recorded “live” conducting an Artist in Residency program for junior high and high school students.  Because of Jodi’s entrepreneurial work, she has been written up in, “Who’s Who of American Women,” “The Marquis Who’s Who,” as well as “The World Who’s Who of American Women.”