Books and Ballads from Broadway with Stephanie Miele

Lovers of literature and Broadway musicals will be enchanted by “Books and Ballads from Broadway”, which will be performed by vocalist Stephanie Miele at West Falmouth Library on Sunday, May 19th at 4 pm.

Tickets are $30, purchase at westfalmouthlibrary.org. Stephanie will be accompanied on piano by Roy Campbell.

Many composers and lyricists including Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Jerome Kern, John Kander, and Fred Ebb, to name a few, have been inspired by classical, contemporary, and children’s literature, resulting in some of their most successful shows. Examples likely to be performed are “C’est Moi” from Camelot, “Many a New Day” from Oklahoma, “Can’t Help Lovin’ That Man,” from Showboat and “I Could Write a Book,” from Pal Joey.

Vocalist Stephanie Miele lives in Falmouth and currently works as a piano technician tuning pianos. She graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, and obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Boston University and Bridgewater State University, respectively.

She was a music teacher in the Brockton school system and a librarian at the Burkland School in Middleborough. She has sung with the Handel and Hayden Society and the Wintersauce Chorale in Boston and has been active in community theater performing in a wide range of musical roles such as Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Eve in “The Apple Tree,” and Agnes Gooch in Mame.

She has been a guest soloist with the Falmouth Chorale, and has appeared at the Cahoon Museum, Highfield Hall and Gardens, the Cape Cod Cultural Center, the Falmouth Historical Society, and libraries, women’s clubs, and charitable organizations throughout the Cape.

She performed a sold-out and extended program of the music of Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein in the Black Box at the Cotuit Center for the Arts and did a tribute to Mary Martin and Ethel Merman on the main stage, also at Cotuit Center for the Arts. Her most recent Black Box performance at Cotuit Center for the Arts was Stephen Sondheim, Stephen Schwartz: Two Broadway Giants. You might have seen her streaming in Twain by the Tale and Teacher of the Year with the Eventide Theatre Company during the pandemic and most recently in the 25th anniversary edition of the Eventide Cabaret.

Stephanie lives near Menauhant Beach with her husband Lenny.

After graduating from UMass Lowell with performance degrees in piano and trombone, Roy Campbell toured as principal trombonist with Milton Berle in a two-year vaudeville review. Returning to Boston he worked as trombonist with Sarah Caldwell’s “Boston Opera Company” and as house trombonist for the Colonial Theater, South Shore Music Circus, and the Cape Cod Melody Tent. Roy has also performed at the Shubert and Wang Theaters and with the Boston Pops “Adventures In Music” concerts. Roy has taught at Brown University, Norwood High School, and South Shore Conservatory. He currently teaches at the Cape Cod Conservatory and is professor of music at Bridgewater State University. He has directed shows at Monomoy Theater in Chatham, Harwich Jr. Theater, and was conductor and director of bands at Bridgewater State University.