AZ. Orange County, Calif.—October 2, 2018— Pacific Symphony is ready for the new season of Pops. And will start September 28 with the incredible Vanessa Williams. Conducted by Richard Kaufman, Pops conductor, the Symphony will accompany Williams for two nights’ tribute to her stunning career at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. This will be a program of her greatest moments of her hit tracks, such as That’s Entertainment, Dreamin’, Love is Love, as well as Save the Best for Last. The Symphony will also enact popular moments from such famous movies as Splash, the Producers, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Animal House, and finally the ever hilarious Airplane.
It will be a two-night event on this coming Friday and Saturday, October 12th to 13th, at 8:00 pm at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. Tickets start at $45. For further details of the Pops Package, the concert, or tickets, contact -.
Vanessa Williams brings on the screen over twenty years of constant work, and she is undoubtedly one of the most popular, multi-faceted stars in show business, music, cinema, television series, and theatre. 2007 she was awarded a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in appreciation of her great achievement in the entertainment fraternity. In 2010 she got honored by the International Foreign Press Academy, which honored her with the Mary Pickford Award for outstanding contribution in the entertainment industry.
Williams’ film career began in 1986 with Under the Gun, and she went on to star in several notable films, including Eraser, Hoodlum, Soul Food, Dance With Me, Light It Up, Shaft, Johnson Family Vacation, My Brother, Somebody Like You, Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie, and Temptation: Confessions of Marriage Counselor by Tyler Perry.
Broadway, Television, and Film: Vanessa Williams’ Diverse Career Achievements
Her first Broadway production was the musical of the Kiss of the Spider Woman in 1994, in which she replaced Chita Rivera. Williams herself won a Tony Award in 2002 for her performance in the Witch role in Into the Woods. She later starred in Carmen Jones at the Kennedy Center, St. Louis Woman, and Sondheim on Sondheim in 2010. In 2013, she portrayed Jessie Mae in Sherly C. Persault’s The Trip to Bountiful, the Broadway performance that received a Tony nomination and that starred Cicely Tyson. She revisited it for a television adaptation that was aired in February 2014, during Black History Month.
Williams’s television work includes her memorable part as Wilhelmina Slater in ABC’s Ugly Betty. Which got her three Emmy nominations and awards from SAG, the Golden Globes, and NAACP Image Awards. At the moment, Williams is featured in the third season of the TNT show The Librarians. And in VH1’s Daytime Divas, which is loosely based on Star Jones’s book, Satan Sisters, which premiered on June 5, 2017.