By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer
2/25/2007
Tulsa Symphony to present 'Bugs Bunny on Broadway'
Tim McFadden owes his career as a musician to a "wascally wabbit" known for his love of carrots and his penchant for saying, "Nyaah, what's up, doc?"
"All I knew as a kid was that I wanted to play music for cartoons," said McFadden, now the principal trumpet of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra. "It was later that I learned the music I loved was classical music."
McFadden will get the chance to live out that original dream when the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra presents the multi-media show "Bugs Bunny on Broadway," April 28-29 at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.
The concert features some of the classic cartoons from Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes" series that will be projected on a screen above the Chapman Music Hall stage.
"The cartoons have all the dialogue and sound effects intact," said TSO president and founder Frank Letcher. "What they don't have is the musical soundtrack. That's what the orchestra will be providing live."
Tickets for the concerts -- 7:30 p.m. April 28 and 1 p.m. April 29 -- are $20 to $65, and available at the PAC ticket office, 596-7111, and online at www.MyTicketOffice.com.
George Daugherty, an award-winning conductor and music director for the Sinfonia Britannia who has led most of the world's major orchestras, came up with the idea of "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" in 1990.
A number of the best-known "Looney Tunes" used scores adapted from classical works and operas -- "The Rabbit of Seville" and "What's Opera, Doc?" to name just two.
"The problem was, most of the written orchestrations for these scores had been lost," Letcher said. "They literally had to be reconstructed note-by-note. So it was a loving and painstaking restoration process."
Daugherty will be in Tulsa to conduct the Tulsa Symphony in these concerts.
"This show has sold out just about everywhere it's been presented," Letcher said. "It's one of those evenings that truly appeals to all ages. In fact, I think the real audience for it isn't children, but adults. It's a chance to see and hear classic cartoons in a entirely new way."
James D. Watts Jr. 581-8478
james.watts@tulsaworld.com
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