May Events in Nashville

5/2 Dianne Reeves

No singer knows her way around a jazz tune like Dianne Reeves does. With her distinctive jazz and R&B stylings, the four-time GRAMMY® winner is one of music’s most gifted vocalists, unrivaled in her ability to interpret old and new standards alike. She’ll perform a mix of originals and classics, all wrapped in her dazzling voice.

5/8-5/10 Neil Sedaka

A certifiable pop music legend, Neil Sedaka has written some of the most memorable pop songs ever recorded, from “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” to “Laughter in the Rain” to “Love Will Keep Us Together.” He’ll pull out these tunes and many more from his extraordinary career when he joins the Nashville Symphony for an enchanting night of music and memories.

5/15-5/17 Branford Marsalis

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis joins the Nashville Symphony for a dynamic program featuring John Williams’ Escapades, a jazzy piece based on the composer’s music for the hit film Catch Me If You Can. Marsalis will also show off his astonishing soprano sax skills on Villa Lobos’ charming and lyrical Fantasia. George Gershwin’s bustling An American in Paris closes the evening with music that captures all the excitement and romance of life in the big city.

5/29-5/31 Brahms’ Requiem

The Nashville Symphony celebrates the sound of the human voice with a powerful program featuring the Nashville Symphony Chorus in Brahms’ soul-stirring masterpiece A German Requiem. Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 is a hauntingly gorgeous evocation of writer James Agee’s small-town childhood, while Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms is the great American composer’s moving response to the chaos of the modern world: “to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.”

Lyle the Crocodile

Ongoing Event
Story by Bernard Waber Adapted by Kevin Kling, Music by Michael Koerner The Primm family move into their new New York City apartment to find a crocodile living in the bathtub - and what a croc he is! He's the caviar-eating, saxophone-playing, loveable Lyle the Crocodile! Next-door-neighbor Mr. Grumps wants the Primms to ship the impeccably mannered reptile off to the zoo, but Lyle's new family (and his old showbiz partner, Hector P. Valenti) bust him out of jail just in time to save the day for everyone. With this joyful, hilarious stage adaptation, you will find yourself in a picture book classic surrounded by friends. April 10 - May 11, 2014

Million Dollar Quartet

Ongoing Event
Million Dollar Quartet is the Tony® award-winning Broadway musical, inspired by the electrifying true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock 'n' roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. This thrilling musical brings you inside the recording studio with four major talents who came together as a red-hot rock 'n' roll band for one unforgettable night. Don't miss your chance to be a fly on the wall of fame... at Million Dollar Quartet! Million Dollar Quartet will be at Andrew Jackson Hall in Nashville, TN - May 6 through May 11, 2014

Oklahoma!

Ongoing Event
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA! May 15 - 31, 2014