ABAC concert series wraps with sounds of Broadway

TIFTON — Broadway favorites will bring to a close the 14th annual First Tuesday Concert Series at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

“A Night on Broadway,” set for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Tifton college’s Chapel of All Faiths, will include past and present ABAC music majors, as well as Blane Jacobs, Scott and Susan Spivey, and Brian Marchant, who are friends of the First Tuesday series and of the ABAC music program.

Susan Roe, head of the ABAC Department of Fine Arts and director of the First Tuesday Series, will also be featured. She will perform the Broadway epic “Summertime” from “Porgy and Bess,” composed by George Gershwin, with music and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.

Three students graduating from ABAC in May with associate of fine arts degrees in music will perform during the event. Lauren Lever of Tifton will sing a selection from “Nunsense.” Matt Fuller of Fitzgerald will perform “This Nearly Was Mine” from the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic “South Pacific,” and Terrence Gibson of Baxley will sing “Ol’ Man River” from “Showboat.”

Former ABAC music students will also lend their voices to the performance. Daniel Gibson of Tifton and Katelyn Payne of Moultrie will sing the duet “Fine” from “Ordinary Day” by Adam Gwon, and Patrick Ireland of Tifton and Gibson will perform the duet “Agony” from “Into the Woods.”

Marchant, a Tifton music teacher, will sing “Look Down” from the classic Broadway musical “Les Miserables,” along with “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from another Rodgers and Hammerstein production, “Carousel.” Jacobs, a former ABAC student who is the First Baptist Church minister of music, and Scott Spivey of Fitzgerald will perform “Lily’s Eyes” from “Secret Garden.” Spivey will also sing another “Les Miserables” staple, “Stars.”

The First Tuesday series features regional professional artists on the first Tuesdays of five months during the academic year. The concert is open to the public at no charge.