"I've Heard It All Before" from Shenandoah sung by Tim Ayres-Kerr

Centerstage Academy Spring Recital 2011, Voice Instructor Mark Bzdick. Congratulations! to Tim on his acceptance to The Governor's School at Radford University. Shenandoah is a musical that was written in 1975 with music by Gary Geld, lyrics by Peter Udell, and a book by Udell, Philip Rose and James Lee Barrett, based on Barrett's original screenplay for the 1965 film Shenandoah.

Plot: Charlie Anderson, a widower, lives with his large family in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, during the American Civil War. Anderson does not wish to be involved in the war because he doesn't consider it "his" war, but he is forced to take action when his youngest son Robert is taken prisoner by Union soldiers. In the course of searching for Robert, Charlie, his daughter Jenny, and some of his sons rescue Sam (Jenny's newlywed Confederate soldier husband), from a Yankee POW train. After enduring the tragedy of losing his eldest son Jacob (to a sniper), and his second eldest son James and his wife Anne (to a deserter), Charlie is finally reunited with Robert at the end.


The musical first opened at the Goodspeed Opera House in 1974 and then transferred to Broadway, opening on January 7, 1975. It ran on Broadway for a total of 1,050 performances, closing August 7, 1977. The cast featured John Cullum (Charlie Anderson), Joel Higgins (James), Penelope Milford (Jenny), Robert Rosen (Henry), , Ted Agress (Jacob), Gordon Halliday (Sam), Chip Ford (Gabriel), Joseph Shapiro (Robert, the boy), David Russell (John), Jordan Suffin (Nathan), Gary Harger (Corporal), Charles Welch (Rev. Byrd), and Donna Theodore (Anne), who won a Drama Desk Award for her performance. The rest of the cast included Betsy Beard, Tedd Carrere, Stephen Dubov, Gary Harger, Brian James, Robert Johnson, Sherry Lambert, Craig Lucas, Gene Masoner, Paul Myrvold, Dan Ormond, Casper Roos, J. Kevin Scannell, Jack Starkey, E. Allen Stevens, Marshall Thomas, Matt Gavin, Edward Penn, and Ed Preble. The show was directed by Philip Rose, scenery by C. Murawski, lighting by Thomas R. Skelton, costumes by Pearl Somner and Winn Morton, choreography by Robert Tucker, dance arrangements by Russell Warner, musical direction by Lynn Crigler, and orchestrations by Don Walker.

The production was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and won two, one for Best Actor in a Musical (John Cullum) and the other for Best Book of a Musical.

Shenandoah was revived on Broadway, again with Cullum in the lead role, on August 8, 1989, closing on September 2, 1989. It returned to the Goodspeed Opera House in 1994, with Marc Kudisch.[1] A new production opened March 22, 2006 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., starring Scott Bakula. Positive critical notices and strong ticket sales resulted in the show's run being extended through May 21 (although Bakula departed the production April 30).[2]

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[SteverMcBeaver1000]

I want to be just as good as u are!

[susanford88]

Timmy-what a beautiful voice! Wish we were there in person! Susan, Tom Christine and Jack