(FORT LEE, NJ) -- George Wesner, the principal organist at Radio City Music Hall, returns to the Barrymore Film Center with a program called "Spring Into Joy" on Sunday, March 17, 2024 at 2:30pm. This is a multisensory program in the theme of renewal and rebirth. He will be joined this time by trumpeters Alex Bender (currently in the orchestra for Spamalot on Broadway) and Bryan Uhl (Back to the Future: the Musical).
Escape the winter grays with a multi-sensory program built around the season of spring: hope, tradition, action, love and, perhaps most important. JOY!!
George Wesner has been the principal organist at Radio City Music Hall in New York City for over 40 years and has played over 6,000 shows for more than 28 million people. He has appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra and world premiere film events for Disney, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox, the Grammy Awards and PBS TV.
Tickets start at $30 and are available for purchase online or at the Barrymore box office.
The 267-seat Barrymore Film Center is a not-for-profit educational and cultural institution dedicated to presenting classic repertory films, documentaries, independent movies and world-wide cinema promoting 21st Century filmmaking through the prism of Fort Lee’s role as the birthplace of the American motion picture industry. Ground was broken for this spectacular but intimate theater in October of 2018 and the grand opening was October 21, 2022.
For this show George welcomes special guests Alex Bender and Bryan Uhl, each with an impressive résumé of his own including Spamalot and Back to the Future on Broadway and stints on numerous symphonies.
The Barrymore Film Center is located in the Modern, on the corner of Main Street and Palisade Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Parking is available in the garage immediately behind the theater on the corner of Main Street and Central Road and the lobby entrance is on Palisade. There are numerous restaurants a short walk from the theater.
Seating for this show is reserved, but there is not a bad seat in the house. Come early and enjoy the museum in the lobby dedicated to Fort Lee’s unique place in the history of film-making.
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