Emmy Award-Winning Conductor George Daugherty Leads Los Angeles Philharmonic In “Bugs Bunny On Broadway” At The Hollywood Bowl
(September 3, 2003 – Hollywood, CA) - The Hollywood Bowl and Warner Bros. Entertainment bring “Bugs Bunny on Broadway” back to the Hollywood Bowl for a special appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor George Daugherty, starring Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes friends on Saturday, September 20 at 8 p.m.
The orchestra will perform the famous orchestral musical scores synchronized with the Looney Tunes cartoons, which will be projected on the Bowl’s big screen. The evening includes such masterpiece cartoons as “What’s Opera, Doc?,” “The Rabbit of Seville,” and “Corny Concerto.” The performance includes classical interpretations composed by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn incorporating the musical themes of Rossini, Strauss, and Wagner and animation direction by Friz Freleng, Robert Clampett, Robert McKimson and the late Chuck Jones.
Created, directed and conducted by Daugherty, an Emmy Award winner and five-time Emmy nominee, “Bugs Bunny on Broadway” made its world premiere to a packed house in New York in 1990. The production went on to a successful national tour, and has toured the world with sold-out engagements and rave reviews in Sydney, London, Japan, Mexico and Moscow.
Bugs Bunny first ‘reel’ appearance in front of his soon-to-be-adoring public was in “A Wild Hare” directed by Tex Avery. Since then, Bugs’ zany antics in hundreds of cartoon favorites have made him a legend throughout the world. Twice Bugs Bunny’s cartoons have been nominated
for Academy Awards, and his “Knighty Knight Bugs” won a coveted Oscar. In addition to his
many animated shorts and 21 prime time television specials, Bugs has starred in four films and will be starring in the live action adventure comedy “Looney Tunes: Back in Action,” which will arrive in theatres November 14th. The film also stars Brendan Fraser, Jenna Elfman and Steve Martin, as well as Bugs’ long-suffering sidekick Daffy Duck.
Throughout his 25-year career, GEORGE DAUGHERTY has appeared with the world’s leading orchestras, ballet companies, and opera houses. He is a frequent conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and is currently executive producer and creative director of the symphony’s New Family Concerts television project. Daugherty received an Emmy Award for his production of Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf,” which appeared on ABC in 1995. Daugherty is the creator, director, and conductor of “Bugs Bunny on Broadway,” a live-orchestra-and-film stage production, which has been playing across the world to sold out audiences since 1990. George Daugherty was last seen at the Hollywood Bowl in 1999.
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Friday, September 20, 8 PM
HOLLYWOOD BOWL (2301 N. Highland Ave. in Hollywood)
Bugs Bunny on Broadway
WAGNER Overture to Tannhauser
STEINER The Warner Bros. Fanfare
STALLING “Merrily We Roll Along”
VON SUPPE “Baton Bunny”
STALLING “What’s Up Doc?”
FRANKLYN (after STRAUSS)“High Note”
FRANKLYN “One Froggy Evening”
FRANKLYN/STRASS “Zoom and Bored”
A Salute to Chuck Jones
ROSSINI “The Rabbit of Seville”
SMETANA Dance of the Comedians
FRANKLYN “This is A Life”
STALLING “A Corny Concerto”
STALLING “Long-Haired Hare”
FRANKLYN "What’s Opera, Doc?”
LISZT Rhapsody Rabbit
STALLING Merry Melodies “That’s All Folks” Presented by Warner Bros. Entertainment Media sponsor: K-Earth 101 FM# # #
STEINER The Warner Bros. Fanfare
STALLING “Merrily We Roll Along”
VON SUPPE “Baton Bunny”
STALLING “What’s Up Doc?”
FRANKLYN (after STRAUSS)“High Note”
FRANKLYN “One Froggy Evening”
FRANKLYN/STRASS “Zoom and Bored”
A Salute to Chuck Jones
ROSSINI “The Rabbit of Seville”
SMETANA Dance of the Comedians
FRANKLYN “This is A Life”
STALLING “A Corny Concerto”
STALLING “Long-Haired Hare”
FRANKLYN "What’s Opera, Doc?”
LISZT Rhapsody Rabbit
STALLING Merry Melodies “That’s All Folks” Presented by Warner Bros. Entertainment Media sponsor: K-Earth 101 FM