Linda Lane Smith Performs FROM COWS TO CADENZAS at the Triad Theatre, 11/20

Linda Lane Smith performs "From Cows to Cadenzas" at The Triad Theatre 158 West 72nd Street (bet. Broadway & Columbus) NYC this Wednesday, November 10th at 7:00 pm. The musical director is Phil Hall. Opera singer Linda Lane Smith performs her funny, musical journey, -- from showing her prize-winning Hereford cows as a young woman in rural Oregon, through her metamorphosis into a brilliant opera star singing on the world's grand stages. Along the way, she navigates the bumps in the road with courage and humor as she meets some colorful characters who help her learn what life is all about! Make your reservations now. Tickets are only $20 for general admission with a two drink minimum (cash only at the theatre). For Reservations contact: Brown Paper http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/134647 or call: 24/7 Ticket Hotline: 1-800-838-3006 www.triadnyc.com

Some of the range of musical numbers in the program are: ART IS CALLING FOR ME (Harry Smith/Victor Herbert), BY STRAUSS (Ira Gershwin/George Gershwin), CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN (Oscar Hammerstein II /Richard Rodgers), I AM EASLY ASSIMILATED (Richard Wilber/ Leonard Bernstein), POOR UNFORTURNATE SOULS (Howard Ashman/Alan Menkin), SOMEWHERE (Stephen Sondheim/ Leonard Bernstein), THE SONG IS YOU (Oscar Hammerstein/Jerome Kern), THE SONGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME (Dvorak) sung in Czech, WIEN, DU STADT MEINER TRAUME (Sieczynski),
Versatile singer and actress, Linda Lane Smith, has performed for ten years throughout Europe (Monte Carlo, Berlin Bulgaria and Barcelona) upon leaving the Seattle Opera. She is a Silver medalist in the Vinas International Singing Competition in Barcelona Spain and a finalist in the Annelise Rothenberger Competition in Hamburg Germany. Ms. Smith has performed at Wolf Trap, Seattle Opera, The Kennedy Center and the Salzburg Summer Festival. She was the featured soloist aboard the Soviet Cruise Ship T.S. Maxim Gorki. She has also performed with The Rep Theatre in "Beauty and the Beast" and last year appeared in "Christmas Wrapping"; as well as has also appeared in TV commercials.

A graduate of Boston Conservatory Linda Lane Smith hails from Portland Oregon and is quite proud of the fact she was GRAND Champion Beef Showman of the Oregon State Fair where her early years of an International DIVA began. She is passionate about SUSTAIN YIELD timber management and saving our natural resources! This passion began in the forests of Oregon where her father, the late R.F Smith, was a consulting forester for decades using the SUSTAINED YIELD timber management system. www.lindalanesmith.com

Phil Hall is a conductor, musical director and he composed the score for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (Paper Mill Playhouse, Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera, Kansas City Starlight Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre). He vocally arranged SophisticatEd Ellington, at Carnegie Hall for Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops and for "Some Enchanted Evening"-a revue of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs. On Broadway, he conducted "Play Me A Country Song" and was associate conductor for the Broadway revival of "Mame", starring Angela Lansbury. Phil has been a conductor/musical director, at The Kennedy Center, St. Louis MUNY, Michigan Opera Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Atlanta's Theater of the Stars, Houston's Theatre Under The Stars, Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre, Kansas City Starlight and Indianapolis' Starlight Theatre in projects as varied as the Yeston/Kopit "Phantom"; "Side By Side By Sondheim"; "Sayonara"; "The Wizard of Oz"; "The Merry Widow"; "42nd Street" and "The Desert Song". Phil has worked with Lily Tomlin, Tommy Tune, Nanette Fabray, Phyllis Diller, Nancy Marchand, Madeline Kahn, Judy Kaye, Donna McKechnie, Gregory Hines, Nancy Dussault, and Teri Hatcher to name a few.

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