Irving Berlin's 'I Love a Piano' November 28, 2008

Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano is a nostalgic musical journey through seven decades of American history as seen through the eyes of Irving Berlin, whom Jerome Kern described by saying, "Irving Berlin has no place in American music...He is American music!" The show tracks the life of a piano with one sour key through four generations of singers and dancers who have performed with and around it.

Conceived and written by Ray Roderick and Michael Berkeley, the production includes six actors who perform 64 favorite Berlin songs, from Ragtime rhythms of the early twentieth century to the "swing era" of the 1920s and 30s. From the sentimental ballads that inspired the nation during two world wars to the innocent optimism of the 1950s, the show includes timeless classics such as White Christmas, Puttin' on the Ritz, God Bless America and There's No Business Like Show Business.

The Boston Globe wrote, "...Roderick and Berkeley have captured both the astonishing range of Berlin's musical styles and the cleverness of his simple rhymes, which makes it easy to understand why the songwriter remains a national treasure."

$35 & $40; Grand Box Seats additional $15.00 and Parterre Seating additional $5.00. Purchase online, by phone or in person. Box office hours are Mon. - Sat., 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and one hour prior to each performance. Group tickets available.

Official Website: http://www.atthegrand.org