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Sarah Uriarte Berry recently received rave reviews for her portrayal of ‘Charlotte’ in the critically acclaimed production of A Little Night Music at the 2023 Tony Award-Winning Pasadena Playhouse. Dallas audiences may remember her appearance with Disney Princess-The Concert, in 2022! Ms. Berry starred as ‘Belle’ in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast on Broadway: first at the Palace Theater, and 11 years later, paired with Donny Osmond at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. She starred as ‘Cinderella’ in Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella for New York City Opera alongside Eartha Kitt and was the first ‘Belle’ to ever grace the stages at Disneyland. Berry made her Broadway Debut as ‘Eponine’ in Les Misérables after graduating from UCLA, later reprising her role for the 10^th Anniversary Production. Ms. Berry won critical acclaim as ‘Franca’ in the Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza at Lincoln Center Theater receiving Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Supporting Actress, and is on the Original Broadway Cast Recording. Other Broadway credits include: ‘Nicola’ in Taboo (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Next to Normal, and End of the Rainbow. New York, Tours, and Regional credits include: Bernstein’s Mass with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Marin Aslop (Cast Recording), and with the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Cast Recording); City Center Encores! The Boys From Syracuse and Tenderloin (Cast Recordings); ‘Julie’ in Carousel (Royal National Theater United States Tour); Sondheim on Sondheim at the Hollywood Bowl, starring alongside Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jonathan Groff, and Vanessa Williams; A Little Night Music (Kennedy Center); The Full Mony (Pittsburgh CLO), Showboat (Godspeed Musicals), Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music (AMT), My Fair Lady and Hello, Dolly! (San Jose), Fiddler on the Roof (Sacramento Music Circus), West Side Story and White Christmas (MUNY), Jekyll & Hyde (Casa Mañana), Almost Heaven (Denver Center Theater), Oklahoma! (Music Circus), and Grease! Film and Television Credits include: Frontera (with Michael Peña, Eva Longoria and Ed Harris), Pretty Bird (with Billy Crudup), Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Live from Lincoln Center, The Tony Awards, The Late Show with David Letterman, and ‘Saint Jellorica’ in the infamous Cats episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt!

Sarah has headlined with symphonies across the United States, including performances of her one-woman show, For The Love of Judy, and has graced cabaret stages with her new show, Porch Song Trilogy. Sarah is Spanish-Basque, happily married, and the mother of three crazy kids.

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Her intriguing personality and captivating artistry are as diverse as her origins. Living between New York City and Hamburg, born and raised in Paris, with roots in Madagascar and Martinique, Myra Maud is a citizen of the world. As a multi-award-winning singer-songwriter, instrumentalist, and producer, Maud started her career in Paris where she studied piano, saxophone, and dance at the Conservatory. Like many singers, Maud developed her singing and musical craft in church.

After several shows as a singer and Master of Ceremonies in Disneyland Paris in the late ‘90s, Maud was invited to travel the world as a soloist with the Claude Bolling Jazz Big Band and the Orchestre National Symphonique De France. Since then, Maud has shared the stage with superstars such as Mireille Matthieu, Johnny Hallyday, Céline Dion, and Enrique Iglesias. She also performed in the presence of Quincy Jones, in Davos, with her own choir, le Gospel Sans Frontières. In 2001 Maud left Paris to play the lead role of Nala in The Lion King musical in Hamburg. Then in 2006, she played the great Josephine Baker in the French film, Les Enfants Du Pays, starring Michel Serrault.

In 2010 Maud’s album Afri-Frans, a compilation of traditional South African folk songs performed in French, went platinum, with its sequel album reaching gold status. Her international acclaim grew tremendously in 2011 when she was invited to be the lead singer of the Opening Ceremony for the FIFA Women’s Soccer World Cup in Frankfurt, an event with more than 130,000 spectators. Maud was invited to headline the Eleuthera Jazz Festival in 2015, 2017, and 2018. From 2016 to 2019 she also starred in a series of tribute performances honoring the life and legacy of the legendary Whitney Houston, accompanied by the Leipzig Philharmonic Orchestra.

In addition to her success as a performer, Maud is a highly sought after vocal coach and workshop facilitator. She continues to take the performance world by storm!

Recognized for his “prodigious acting abilities” and a voice that has been acclaimed as “masterful, passionate, and soaringly beautiful,” Bronson Norris Murphy is best known for premiering the role of The Phantom in the first North American production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies: The Phantom Returns. Other notable performances include Raoul in the long-running production of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, the world premiere of UNMASKED: The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Paper Mill Playhouse, the 2019 New York City Center revival of Evita, the 30th Anniversary National Tour of CATS as Gus, Growltiger, and Bustopher Jones, and multiple US productions of West Side Story as Tony.  

In just over a decade of performing, Murphy’s theatre credits also include New York City developmental productions of: Faustus, the Musical (MTM’s Best Actor Award), I Hate Holmes, Joan of Arc, Catch the Wind, Alan Menken & Tim Rice’s King David and Maybe One Day: A Fable for the York Theatre. Murphy has performed in over a dozen regional theatres around the country, including two seasons playing Stephen Foster in The Stephen Foster Story, both in the US and Japan.

Also prodigious on the symphonic stage, his concert credits include I Am Harvey Milk at The Avery Fisher Hall, Music City Christmas with The Nashville Symphony, West Side Story in Concert with Norwalk Symphony, The Music Man in Concert with Orchestra Kentucky, The Ocean City Pops Tribute to the American Songbook and as a soloist for Bach’s Cantata No. 140, Ramirez’s Misa Criolla, Saint-Saens’ Christmas Oratorio, Vivaldi’s Magnificat, and Dubois’ Seven Last Words of Christ. 

In addition to his work onstage, Murphy is an advocate for music literacy, maintaining regular classroom hours as an active voice and acting teacher in NYC while hosting workshops on vocal production, song interpretation, music theory, and musical theatre audition techniques at New York University, The New York Film Academy, The Joffrey School of Ballet, Broadway Classroom, and The Institute for American Musical Theatre.

Eric Metzgar is an in-demand drummer and versatile collaborator who offers his musicianship to various jazz/pop artists and symphony orchestras worldwide. He has had the opportunity to play with numerous first-rate performers including Jeff Tyzik, Sutton Foster, Joe Locke, Jimmy Greene, Shayna Steele, Byron Stripling, and Delfeayo Marsalis.

Metzgar is a passionate educator deeply invested in music teaching and learning. Each summer, he teaches at the Cape Ann Jazz Workshop under the direction of saxophonist Alexa Tarantino. He maintains a private studio and serves as a clinician at grade schools and universities.

Metzgar holds a BM in Drum Set Performance and an MM in Music Teaching and Learning from the Eastman School of Music. He lives in New York City and tours frequently around the world.