Snow Pond Center for the Arts - Summer Concert Series

Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England
Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mark Hardy has appeared on Broadway
in Les Miserables and Titanic, as well
as the 75th birthday tribute to Stephen
Sondheim, Children and Art. At Lincoln
Center he played Roger in A New Brain
and off-Broadway he appeared in The
Rothschilds at Circle in the Square downtown, Juba at the
Vineyard, and Helluva Town at Rainbow and Stars, among
others. He toured with the first national companies of
Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, and The Music of Andrew
Lloyd Webber (in which he was the alternate for Michael
Crawford). Regional credits include roles at Denver Center
Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf,
Houston Grand Opera, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati,
and GeVa. As a director, his productions of Trouble
in Mind and The Women received League of Cincinnati
Theatre directing awards; other notable directing credits
include Carousel, Titanic, Fiddler On The Roof, The Taming
of the Shrew, On The Town, The Threepenny Opera, the
Lippa Wild Party, and the new Maltby/Shire/Weidman
musical Take Flight in its university premiere. Mark has
also appeared as a guest artist with many symphony orchestras
celebrating classic Broadway music, including St.
Louis Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Long Island
Philharmonic, New York Chamber Orchestra, Calgary
Philharmonic, and Orchestra London.
He teaches musical theatre performance and acting in
Montclair State University’s prestigious Musical Theatre
program, rated among the country’s best training programs
in the field. His teaching has taken him to London,
China, Greece, Romania, and Croatia. Mark is delighted to
be a part of the dynamic creative environment at NEMC.
Marian Murphy is an accomplished
singer and theatrical artist who brings
a versatile background to her work on
stage, into the teaching studio and to her
directing. A veteran of national Broadway
tours and major regional theatre
productions, her favorite roles include: Cosette in Les
Misérables, Christine in Phantom, Mother in Bright Lights,
Big City, Marian in The Music Man, Fleur in Esmeralda
(world premiere), Mary Jane Wilkes in Big River and Fiona
in Brigadoon. She has been featured with several orchestras
around the world, including the Shanghai Symphony and
the Concordia Orchestra at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Her career has taken her to many stages here and abroad,
and to other venues such as churches, cabarets, cruise
lines, theme parks, dinner theatres and benefit concerts.
She has three solo recordings: “This Must Be Love”,
celebrating love songs from many genres, a jazz CD –
“Live at the Saturday Club” with renowned jazz pianist
Bill Schmearer, and most recently, “Amazed By You” – all
new cabaret music written by pianist/composer Matthew
Quayle. She can also be heard as a guest artist on Gail
Levinsky’s recently released “Tipping Point”.
As a teaching artist and clinician, Marian holds workshops
and assemblies in educational institutions ranging
from elementary schools to universities. She has a bachelor’s
degree and a Performer’s Certificate of Merit from
the School of Music at the State University of New York in
Fredonia and earned her Actor’s Equity Association membership
with the Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s Young
Artist Program. As a member of National Association of
Teachers of Singing, she has been teaching private voice
students for over twenty years. She has been a member of
the faculty at New England Music Camp for twenty-two
years and is currently the Artistic Director of its Musical
Theatre program. She is an adjunct voice teacher and the
Musical Theatre Artistic Director at The Hill School in
Pottstown, PA.
Marian resides in Collegeville, Pennsylvania where she
freelances and runs her own successful vocal studio. Her
favorite role is that of wife and mother and she continues
to be grateful for the love and support of her husband
Nathan and sons Jamie and Noah! She is thankful to be
sharing the stage with this talented group of friends for
“Broadway Under the Stars”!
Sal Viviano has sung well over 300 pops
concerts with nearly 200 symphony
orchestras around the world, at a long
list of beautiful concert halls, and such
iconic venues as The White House,
Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, Teatro Lirico
Giuseppe Verdi, The Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof and
Ballroom, London’s Palladium, The Kennedy Center, NY’s
Central Park, Teatro Massimo (Palermo), The Hollywood
Bowl… to name a few… A Detroit native, The New York
Times recently called Sal Viviano “… a luxuriant vocalist
with effortless style…” Viviano began his career as a
teenager opening for comedy greats of the last generation,
in Chicago, and in showrooms throughout the Midwest
(often in clubs at which he was too young to be ‘served’)…
After completing his degrees (Eastern Illinois University),
he taught high school, and worked and entertained
at Nippersink Manor Resort (WI) in the summers, while
also earning his Union cards as an actor doing theater,
jingles, voice-overs, and commercials in Chicago. Sal
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