Need to Know - November 11, 2017

  Saturday Nov. 11.

From 10:30am to 2:30 pm Military personnel ride the “Railyard Local” for free at the Danbury Railroad Museum, 120 White St, Danbury. To Honor all past and present military personnel and their families take a short train ride in a 1920's passenger coach or a vintage caboose pulled by a vintage, first-generation diesel-electric locomotive. An appropriate ID is required. The museum is open from 10am to 4pm with train rides every hour from 10:30 to 2:30.
From 2:00pm to 5:00pm Evita by the Western Connecticut State University Department of Theatre Arts, on the Main Stage, 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury.

From 7:00pm to 8:30pm Broadway's Next Hit Musical at The Palace Theatre, 165 Main Street, Danbury.

This is the ONLY Connecticut performance of this national tour.

Broadway's Next Hit Musical is the only unscripted theatrical awards show. Master improvisers make up, hit song suggested from the audience and create a spontaneous evening of music, humor, and laughter. The cast turns them into a full-blown improvised musical complete with memorable characters, witty dialogue, and plot twists galore.

From 7:30pm to 8:30pm Danbury Concert Chorus, part of The Danbury Music Centre, performs, Love to the Soul, At the First Congregational Church, 164 Deer Hill Avenue, Danbury.

Scott Toperzer is a conductor and singer living in Ridgefield, Connecticut, who served as the Music Director at St. Stephen’s Church since 2010 and has conducted numerous choral ensembles. His singing career included operatic and concert, and studied with the world renowned French baritone, Gérard Souzay at the Institute Musicale de Villecroze, in Villecroze, France.

From 8:00pm to 11pm Evita by the Western Connecticut State University Department of Theatre Arts, on the Main Stage, 43 Lake Avenue Extension, Danbury.