Experience the 'Road to Broadway' at USU
Broadway actor Andrew Samonsky is the 2016 guest for the 'Road to Broadway' hosted by USU’s Department of Theatre Arts in the Caine College of the Arts.
Part concert. Part interview. All free. This year’s The Road to Broadway, presented by Utah State University’s Caine College of the Arts, features Broadway actor Andrew Samonsky.
Activities are planned for Sept. 9.
“Andrew has carried some huge shows,” said Jason Spelbring, an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at USU. “We are really lucky to get a Broadway actor of this caliber to talk to our students and entertain our community. We’re honored to have him as a guest of the Caine College of the Arts.”
Samonsky holds his undergraduate degree in vocal performance from California State University, Northridge, and his MFA in acting from the University of California, Irvine. He recently played Robert in the 1st National Tour [sic] of Jason Robert Brown’s Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County.
“Through the grants I have received from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation-Russell Family, the Tanner Charitable Trust and differential tuition, I want to expand my classroom beyond my majors and provide something to the whole community,” Spelbring said. “We also invite local high schools and other theater and music classes. When you’re able to expand your teaching beyond the classroom, the learning happens in other areas.”
Since Samonsky holds his undergraduate degree in vocal performance, his approach to musical theater is classical-based. To have him here to talk about that career transition and comparisons between a vocal performance major and a theater major is exciting, Spelbring said.
“We have one of the most beautiful performing arts centers in this area,” Spelbring said about the Caine Performance Hall. “To be able to utilize it and bring people to see it is great. It’s remarkable that our artists don’t have any assistance from a microphone and everyone can still hear them.”
Spelbring and Samonsky were classmates at the University of California, Irvine.
“We launched our careers at the exact same time,” Spelbring said. “We stayed close and it’s lovely that all these years later I can reach out to Andrew and he now has a career that warrants him being a guest for the Road to Broadway series.”
The Road to Broadway begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Caine Performance Hall Sept. 9 on USU’s Logan campus. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the CCA Box Office in room L101 of the Chase Fine Arts Center on USU’s campus, call 435-797-8022, or see the Caine College’s website.
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Writer and contact: Whitney Schulte, 435-797-9203, whitney.schulte@usu.edu
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