April 11, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland, Ore. … Associate Conductor Norman Leyden ends the current Bank of America Pops season with a musical flourish as he leads the Oregon Symphony and the Leyden Singers in a concert of Broadway favorites featuring Portland vocalist Margie Boulé on May 10, 11 and 12 in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Oregon Symphony Pops concerts are sponsored by Bank of America, with media support provided by Newsradio 750 KXL and Oregon Business Magazine.
The concert will feature orchestral medleys by George Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Vincent Youmans, interspersed with numbers featuring the Leyden Singers, including Gershwin’s “Fascinatin’ Rhythm,” “Lullaby of Broadway,” “Hey, Look Me Over,” “Consider Yourself,” from the musical “Oliver!” “Dear World” and “Ellingtunes,” a medley of songs by Duke Ellington, including “Satin Doll,” “Take the A Train” and “It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing.”
Boulé will perform songs from a number of musicals, including “Adelaide’s Lament,” from “Guys and Dolls,” “Send in the Clowns,” from “A Little Night Music,” “Broadway Baby,” “You Can Always Count on Me,” “Blue Moon,” and a special duet with Leyden, who will join Boulé to sing a song from the show “Li’l Abner:” “Past My Prime.”
Boulé, a general interest columnist for “The Oregonian,” also maintains an active second career as an actress, singer and public speaker. She has appeared both regionally and around the country onstage in musical theater and in concerts, as well as in numerous television commercials, and since 2000 has sung with the eclectic Portland band Pink Martini.
Performances are scheduled for Saturday, May 10 at 8 p.m., Sunday, May 11 at 3 and 7 p.m. and Monday, May 12 at 8 p.m. in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Tickets range in price from $23 to $65 and may be purchased at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office (923 S.W. Washington), Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or charged by phone at 503-228-1353 or (800) 228-7343. Tickets also may be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets (503-790-ARTS) or through Ticketmaster Online, via the Symphony’s Web site at www.orsymphony.org. Service fees may apply.
By day, Margie Boulé is a general interest columnist for The Oregonian, in Portland, Oregon. In her off hours, Ms. Boulé has a second career as an actress, singer, improvisational comedienne, jingle singer, radio talk show host, and public speaker.
A graduate of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Ms. Boulé has won numerous regional and national awards for her work in television, radio, and print journalism. The product of a musical family (her brother Peter often plays with the Oregon Symphony in pops concerts), she began singing with her siblings as a young child.
Despite her professional commitment to and love of writing, she has continued her singing as a sideline, writing, arranging and performing hundreds of commercial jingles (in her favorite, she was the voice of a singing roll of toilet paper), acting and singing in musical theater (including five years as Audrey, the cheap trashy blonde in Little Shop of Horrors), and singing with the eclectic band Pink Martini. Since 2000 she has performed improvisational comedy with the Portland improvisation troupe ComedySportz. She is the proud mother of one daughter, Alexandra, an aspiring opera singer and a student at Whitman College.