Frank Sinatra’s 100thbirthday is this year. To celebrate, Bradley University will present Come Fly with Me: A Tribute to Frank Sinatra at the Hartmann Center on November 20 and 21.
The concert will feature Bradley’s Jazz Ensemble with Broadway star and alumnus Eric Petersen, who will sing a live concert of Sinatra’s most beloved hits including “New York, New York,” “My Way,” “Come Fly With Me,” “My Kind of Town,” and many more.
Petersen, who graduated from Bradley in 2003 with a degree in theatre arts, has performed prominently on stage and screen. On Broadway, he starred in Shrek: The Musical, Peter and the Starcatcher, and will appear in December as Buddy in the Radio City Music Hall holiday show Elf. On screen, he has been seen in numerous network TV shows including Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, CSI, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, GCB, As The World Turns, and the hit Disney Channel shows Jessie and Pair of Kings. He co-starred as Arlo Barth, Kirstie Alley’s son, in the TVLand sitcom Kirstie. He was also recently seen as Simon Monjack in the LifeTime Network feature film, The Brittany Murphy Story.
Other special guests including Doug Frank, former President of Music Operations of Warner Pictures, and Dr. Stan Liberty, Bradley Interim President, will also perform during the tribute.
Tickets are limited and will sell quickly, so reserve seats today for Come Fly with Me: A Tribute to Frank Sinatraby calling Bradley’s Cultural Events Box Office at 677-2650. Performances are on November 20 at 8 p.m. and on November 21 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Dr. Todd Kelly, Director of Jazz Ensembles, describes the program https://youtu.be/Pu566GuNgGI.
