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7:30 PM SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 2018
MARTIN THEATRE
KEVIN COLE,
piano and vocalist
ROD GILFRY,
vocalist
SYLVIA MCNAIR,
vocalist
RYAN VANDENBOOM,
vocalist and dancer
COLE, arr.
Berlin Film Fantasy
*
Kevin Cole
MOROSS
“Lazy A ernoon” from
e Golden Apple
*
GERSHWIN
“Summertime” from
Porgy and Bess
Sylvia McNair
,
Kevin Cole
RODGERS
“Some Enchanted Evening” from
South Paci c
Rod Gilfry
,
Kevin Cole
KERN
Triple
Swing Time
Pick Yourself Up
A Fine Romance
e Way You Look Tonight
Kevin Cole
SONDHEIM
“Send in the Clowns” from
A Little Night Music
Sylvia McNair
,
Kevin Cole
LOESSER
“Joey, Joey, Joey” from
e Most Happy Fella
Rod Gilfry
,
Kevin Cole
LOESSER
“My Heart Is So Full of You” from
e Most Happy Fella
Sylvia McNair
,
Rod Gilfry
,
Kevin Cole
SCHWARTZ
A Shine On Your Shoes
Overture
Kevin Cole
GERSHWIN
“ ‘ e Half-Of-It-Dearie’ Blues” from
Lady, Be Good
*
Ryan VanDenBoom
,
Kevin Cole
GERSHWIN
“ ’S Wonderful” from
Funny Face
Sylvia McNair
,
Ryan VanDenBoom
,
Kevin Cole
COLE, arr.
Marvin’s Medley
Kevin Cole
RODGERS
“If I Loved You” from
Carousel
Sylvia McNair
,
Rod Gilfry
,
Kevin Cole
GERSHWIN
Rhapsody in Blue
Kevin Cole
*
First performance at Ravinia
Ravinia expresses its appreciation for the generous support of
Sponsor
Madeleine P. and Harvey R. Plonsker, in loving memory of
June B. and Edward M. Pinsof and Esther M. and Maurice J. Plonsker
.
BRYAN ADAMS
A native of Canada, Bryan Adams has earned
more than a dozen Juno Awards and the Ca-
nadian recording academy’s Allan Waters Hu-
manitarian Award in addition to being named
to Canada’s Walk of Fame and Broadcast and
Music Halls of Fame and made a Companion
of the Order of Canada. Born in Ontario, Ad-
ams settled in Vancouver in the mid-’ s and
began to work as a background vocalist in CBC
studios and in clubs for local cover bands. Lat-
er that decade, he met songwriter and former
Prism drummer Jim Vallance and began to
demo material together; both were soon signed
by A&M Records as writers, and Adams added
a recording contract shortly therea er.
ey
quickly began cra ing Adams’s
epony-
mous debut album and its
follow-up,
You
Want It You Got It
, which featured his rst
US-charting single, “Lonely Nights.” Adams
struck platinum with
’s
Cuts Like a Knife
,
its title track and “Straight from the Heart” both
making
Billboard
’s top
, the former’s music
video entering heavy rotation on TV.
e suc-
cess was compounded by
’s
Reckless
, which
hit number one in both the US and Canada and
featured a string of hits: “Run to You,” “Summer
of ’ ,” “Heaven,” “Somebody,” “One Night Love
A air,” and “It’s Only Love,” which featured Tina
Turner—all six were top- hits. Adams won a
Grammy for his
worldwide number-one
hit “(Everything I Do) I Do It for You,” which
was featured in the movie
Robin Hood: Prince
of
ieves
and on his album
Waking Up the
Neighbours
, which also produced the hit “Can’t
Stop is ing We Started.” He racked up fur-
ther lm hits in “All For Love” ( ’s
e ree
Musketeers
, sung with Rod Stewart and Sting),
“Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?” ( ’s
Don Juan DeMarco
), “I Finally Found Someone”
(
’s
e Mirror Has Two Faces
, sung with
Barbra Streisand), and “Here I Am” (
’s ani-
mated
Spirit
). Adams and Vallance recently saw
their musical adaptation of the
lm
Pretty
Woman
premiere at Chicago’s Oriental
eatre
before hitting Broadway later this summer. Bry-
an Adams is making his Ravinia debut.
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