Broadway Stars on Stage

Thank you for attending our Broadway Stars on Stage program where ECPAA, together with husband & wife team Carolyn Berliner and Jared Trudeau (Woodstock Academy alumnus and New York City-based voice teacher), brought Broadway stars to eastern Connecticut to perform an incredible one-night-only concert in the Cabaret Theatre at Mohegan Sun.

Our first Broadway Stars on Stage event took place Saturday, August 13, 2022 in the Cabaret Theatre and included a concert and a VIP cocktail hour meet & greet.

To work toward the part of our mission to train and support a new generation of artists, we offered a Broadway Honors Ensemble to local students. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sing with and learn from professional singing actors from Broadway and beyond.

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Broadway Stars on Stage Lineup

We're so excited to welcome this phenomenal lineup of Broadway stars!

Christine Dwyer

After graduating with a BFA from The Hartt School, toured the US, Canada, and Japan playing Maureen in the national tour of "RENT". She is best known for touring the country and flying into Broadway as Elphaba in "Wicked". She has donned the green as Elphaba over 1000 times including the 2014 Tony Awards to celebrate the show’s 10 year anniversary and for President Barack Obama and Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 2016 Hannover Messe in Hannover Germany representing the United States. Christine was seen touring the country as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in "Finding Neverland," the Musical. She was featured in the NBC Live "Jesus Christ Superstar" concert, starring Sara Bareilles and John Legend. She also starred in the National Tour of "Waitress" as Jenna. Most recently she thrilled audiences as MOTHER in "Ragtime" at the TONY winning Theatreworks Silicon Valley. Learn more about Christine at https://www.christine-dwyer.net/

Matt DeAngelis

A veteran of over 800 performances of the hit musical "Hair" including Broadway, The West End, and National Tour playing the role of Woof. He also launched the 1st National Tour of Green Day’s "American Idiot" and was seen playing multiple instruments in the Tony Award Winning musical "Once" as Svec. Matt returned to Broadway as Earl in Sara Bareilles’ "Waitress" followed by a stint on the 1st National Tour and the most recent return to Broadway post pandemic. He was recently seen on stage in NYC in the World Premiere of "The Secret Life of Bees" at The Atlantic Theatre Company. On TV Matt has been seen on "Person of Interest," "Madam Secretary," "Marvel’s Daredevil," "EVIL," "For Life," "Chicago PD," and "FBI." Learn more about Matt at https://www.mattdeangelis.com

Liz Schmitz

Liz Schmitz comes to us from the Broadway tours of "Cats," "Hello Dolly!," "An American in Paris," and "Matilda" where she either played or covered leading roles in each production. Liz has also performed at Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Maine State Musical Theatre, and the Fulton. She has a BFA in Musical Theatre from Penn State.

Ben Clark

Ben Clark is a Singer/Songwriter, composer, and actor originally from Indiana. His musical "The Circus in Winter" was produced at Goodspeed Musicals in 2014, and his music has most recently been heard in the motion picture "A Score to Settle" starring Nicolas Cage. He also recently acted in "Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver" at The Rev Theatre Company. Ben is the recipient of the 2012 Kennedy Center Musical Theatre Award, and is a proud member of Actors Equity, The Dramatists Guild, and the Johnny Mercer Songwriting Colony. IG: @bensingsthings

CJ Greer

CJ Greer is voice faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno implementing a new Musical Theatre degree program. CJ found her passion and life’s work in vocal performance and instruction. She carries an MFA in Music Theatre Vocal Performance and Pedagogy and MM/Classical from Penn State University, and a BME from the University of Illinois/Champaign-Urbana. CJ has performed and presented around the world as singer, actor, teacher, and conductor with an undying love for storytelling through music. Research interests span from bringing movement and intimacy training practices into the voice studio, to interdisciplinary approaches to vocal performance, to working with the medical field exploring where science and singing can heal. CJ has been featured in Classical Singer magazine, The Visceral Voice podcast, and has just completed her Open Source Forms (OSF) certification. Her most recent article “Finding Grace: A Singing Teacher’s Journey with Her First Transgender Student” was published through Routledge/Voice and Speech Review. Broadway/National Tour/Regional performing credits ("Sister Act," "Les Miserables," "The Producers," "Ragtime," "I Love A Piano," "Mamma Mia," "The Buddy Holly Story," "The Addams Family," "Chess," "Guys and Dolls," "Into the Woods," etc). AEA, MTEA, NATS, VASTA, NYSTA.

Jared Trudeau

Jared Trudeau is excited to be returning to Northeastern Connecticut. After graduating from Woodstock Academy, he went to Tufts University, earning degrees in Music and Psychology. He then earned an MFA in Voice Pedagogy for Musical Theatre from Penn State. For more than a decade, he has been teaching voice in New York City and he has been on the faculty at the Boston Conservatory since 2017. Some of his favorite roles include Rod ("Avenue Q") and Bobby ("Urinetown"). His students can currently be seen in most every Broadway show, as well as in regional productions around the country and in major television and film projects. Some of the Broadway productions his students have performed in include "Hamilton," "Six," "Wicked," "Book of Mormon," "Phantom of the Opera," "Beetlejuice," "Ain’t Too Proud," "Aladdin," "Moulin Rouge," "Waitress," "Dear Evan Hansen," "Come from Away," "Mean Girls," "Pretty Woman," "Frozen," "Girl from the North Country," and many more. He is so excited to be performing here with his wife, Carolyn.

Carolyn Berliner

Carolyn Berliner is a Los Angeles native who’s been living in New York since graduating from Tufts University. She is an alumna of the William Esper Studio and has been involved in the development of many new productions over the last decade. Some favorite roles include The Duchess ("Elephant Man," starring Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson), The Witch ("Into the Woods"), and Pennywise ("Urinetown"). In addition to her work as a theatre actor, she has produced several benefit concerts and is an active voice-over artist. She is thrilled to be performing with this amazing group of people.

Mike Stapleton (music director) is a Jazz Composition graduate of Berklee College of Music and a former pianist for The Boston Conservatory. For the past few seasons, he has played piano for the Broadway productions of Wicked and Beetlejuice, in addition to many pre-Broadway workshops. He has also musically directed a number of performances at Feinstein’s 54 Below with many Broadway performers.

Our pit band will also consist of professional musicians.

Broadway Honors Ensemble:

Local high school and college students had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to perform with Broadway stars and be a part of ECPAA’s Broadway Stars on Stage program via our Broadway Honors Ensemble program.

The Honors Ensemble program included:

group workshop sessions (Broadway Dance Call and a Vocal Teaching Session) with NYC-based voice teacher Jared Trudeau
inclusion in the performance with Broadway stars during ECPAA’s ‘Broadway Stars on Stage’ show on Saturday, August 13, with a live pit orchestra
name in the show’s program
event t-shirt
eligibility to submit video auditions for our solo competition

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