NJ Festival Orchestra: NYD Broadway Through the Ages!

***THIS PERFORMANCE IS SOLD OUT***

NEW YEARS DAY January 1st @ 2:30PM  Tickets $45 – $90  

NJFO’s quintessential New Year’s celebration returns with a superb revue of Broadway classics in glorious symphonic splendor. Come join the festivities as Maestro David Wroe, NJ Festival Orchestra and soloists direct from the Broadway stage swing to favorites from America’s Great Songbook.

Guests:

Paige Faure, Soprano

• Paige Faure was last seen on Broadway in the Tony-nominated revival of “Miss Saigon”. Other Broadway credits include Woody Allen and Susan Stroman’s “Bullets Over Broadway”, the revival of “How to Succeed in Business…” featuring Daniel Radcliffe and starring in “Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella” as Cinderella, both on Broadway and on the National Tour. Off-Broadway she led the company of “A Taste of Things to Come” as Joan, was a featured dancer in “Mack and Mabel” at Encores! City Center and has toured nationally with “A Chorus Line”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “Little Women” and “Aida”.

​Christina Maxwell, Soprano

• New York City-based singer and actress Christina Maxwell is a rising international star. Maxwell has performed in concerts across the globe, including the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New York City and at the United Nations’ Annual Commission on the Status of Women. On the Broadway scene, Maxwell was awarded the New York Musical Festival’s award for “Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role” as Laura Evans in Sonata 1962, and she appeared as Deanna Durbin and Judy Garland U/S in the Papermill Playhouse production of Chasing Rainbows. Maxwell made her Festival Napa Valley debut during the 2022 summer season and has headed multiple concerts and events since.

Matthew Scott, Tenor

• Matthew Scott made his Broadway Debut as a swing in the original company of Jersey Boys, a show he performed in for two years. He starred on Broadway as Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris and Sondheim on Sondheim opposite Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams. He also appeared in A Catered Affair, and Bess Wohl’s Tony Nominated play Grand Horizons. Matt is featured in the star-studded PBS Special First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb alongside Norm Lewis, Heidi Blickenstaff, and Julia Murney.