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Friends of the Ocean City Pops’ Gala
Friends of the Ocean City Pops’ Gala
6/19/2009 6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Greate Bay Country Club

Celebrate the opening of the POPS’ 2009 Summer Season by dining and dancing at Greate Bay Country Club at 6:30pm.  Tickets $85.  For information call 609-399-2566

 

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Opening Night! Chita Rivera with the POPS
Opening Night!  Chita Rivera with the POPS
6/28/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $25/20

Don't miss this legendary dancer, singer, two-time Tony Award winner and Kennedy Center Award honoree in an exciting program of energetic and memorable musical selections.

Sponsored by Cape Bank Charitable Foundation

 

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Fairmount Brass Ensemble
Fairmount Brass Ensemble
7/1/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $10

The Fairmount Brass Ensemble perform a program of light classics, Americana, and march tunes

Sponsored by The Friends of the Ocean City Pops

 

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Amazed by America
Amazed by America
7/4/2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20/12

Singer Steve Amerson from California brings his national new tour program Amazed by America to the Music Pier plus patriotic favorites. 

Sponsored by Jilly‘s in memory of Beverly Kreisberg



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American Tribute
American Tribute
7/5/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20/12

Steve Amerson joins the Pops for an American Tribute. Also featuring Casey at the Bat.

Sponsored by Mack and Manco in memory of Ensign John Elliott

 

 

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Hello Dolly!
Hello Dolly!
7/7/2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $25

Hello Dolly! is a fully staged Broadway musical.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards–almost 3,000 nonstop performances.
Directed by Michael Hartman. 

Sponsored by Ocean City Sentinel


 

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Hello Dolly!
Hello Dolly!
7/8/2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $25

Hello Dolly! is a fully staged Broadway musical.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards–almost 3,000 nonstop performances.
Directed by Michael Hartman. 

Sponsored by The McMahon Agency

 

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Hello Dolly! Matinee
Hello Dolly! Matinee
7/9/2009 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $25

Hello Dolly! is a fully staged Broadway musical.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards–almost 3,000 nonstop performances.
Directed by Michael Hartman. 

Sponsored by Blue Diamond Disposal

 

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Hello Dolly! Evening
Hello Dolly! Evening
7/9/2009 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $25

Hello Dolly! is a fully staged Broadway musical.
Winner of 10 Tony Awards–almost 3,000 nonstop performances.
Directed by Michael Hartman. 

Sponsored by John W. C. Brooks 

 

 

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Carmina Burana
Carmina Burana
7/12/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $15

Joining the POPS and Maestro Scheible are the Brandywine Singers Chorale, tenor Jeffrey Halili, baritone Christopher Bolduc and soprano Ailyn Perez. Another blockbuster event!

Sponsored by Primo Pizza

 
 

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Hooray for Hollywood
Hooray for Hollywood
7/14/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Hooray for Hollywood features talented vocalist Diane Penning in a light program of the greatest songs from countless movies over the years

Sponsored by Ocean City Home Bank

 

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Children's LolliPOPS
Children's LolliPOPS
7/15/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Adults $5  Kids FREE!

Singer Diane Penning sings Mary Poppins favorites, Ocean City children’s chorus joins the POPS for fun selections, and crowd favorite The Cat’s Pajamas create a sing-a-long party!

Sponsored by Gillian’s Wonderland Pier

 

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Costello and Perez in Concert
Costello and Perez in Concert
7/19/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $27.50/17.50

Stephen Costello & Ailyn Perez in Concert  

Hear Ocean City’s favorite singers in a new recital program which received rave reviews in London!  Mr. Costello and Ms. Perez have recently starred in productions to much acclaim at the Academy of Music, Dallas Opera, Metropolitan Opera and have toured Europe this year. 

This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.  The funds were administered by the Cape May County Cultural and Heritage Commission, under the authority of the County Library Commission, for the Board of Chosen Freeholders. 

Read about Ailyn Perez and Stephen Costello in Thursday's Philadelphia Inquirer.

Sponsored by Shriver’s Salt Water Taffy & Fudge & Gelato 
and The Friends of the Ocean City Pops, Inc.

 

 

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Post-Concert Reception
Post-Concert Reception
7/19/2009 9:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Flanders Hotel, 11th & Boardwalk

Please join us to meet and toast
Stephen Costello and Ailyn Perez
Following their Concert at the Pier
Assorted desserts, fruit, cheese, punch, champagne and coffee
 
Tickets - $ 20 per person
Send checks to: Friends of OC Pops
PO Box 931, Ocean City, NJ 08226

Read your invitation from the Friends of the Pops here

 

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Piano POPS Plus
Piano POPS Plus
7/21/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Ticket $20/12

Pianist Rich Ridenour returns with his sensational trumpeter son, Brandonthe newest member of the Canadian Brass.  Enjoy a fast-paced program with highlights from the Beatles, Piazzolla, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and other great tunes.

Sponsored by Kohr Bros. Frozen Custard

 

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Piano POPS Plus
Piano POPS Plus
7/22/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Ticket $20/12

Pianist Rich Ridenour returns with his sensational trumpeter son, Brandonthe newest member of the Canadian Brass.  Enjoy a fast-paced program with highlights from the Beatles, Piazzolla, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and other great tunes.

Sponsored by Joel A. Mott, III - Ocean Abstract Company 

 

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Our Three Tenors I
Our Three Tenors I
7/26/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20

Hear tenors Stephen Costello, Christopher Hux and Joseph Demarest raise the roof of the Music Pier!  Lois Herbine is also premiering a short piccolo flute piece written by former director Joseph LaMonica in 1927.

Sponsored by Gold Gocial Gerstein LLC

   

 

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POPS Favorites
POPS Favorites
7/28/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Singers Christopher Hux, Steven LaBrie and Kristen Plumley sing new show medleys with the Pops.  Violinist Joanna Frankel plays Summer from the Four Seasons.

Sponsored by Ocean City Coffee Company  

 

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POPS Favorites
POPS Favorites
7/29/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Singers Christopher Hux, Steven LaBrie and Kristen Plumley sing new show medleys with  the Pops.  Violinist Joanna Frankel plays Summer from the Four Seasons.

Sponsored by Ocean City Board of Realtors 

 

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Bruch and The Brits
Bruch and The Brits
8/2/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Philadelphia Orchestra concertmaster, David Kim, plays the lush romantic favorite Bruch violin concerto.  Second half features music from the British Isles.

For detailed information on this concert read our eNewletter articles about David Kim and about Edward Elgar and the British music we are featuring. If you are not getting our new eNewsletter, sign up for them by using the email sign up link at the top right corner of this page.

Sponsored by Primo Pizza

 

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Night at the Cabaret
Night at the Cabaret
8/4/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Sensational violinist Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel De Hoyos in a new program also featuring young, new talented singers in an array of Broadway tunes… sure to delight.

See our Concert Update for more information.

Sponsored by TAC Printing & Marketing Services, LLC

 

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Night at the Cabaret
Night at the Cabaret
8/5/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Sensational violinist Alex DePue and guitarist Miguel De Hoyos in a new program also featuring young, new talented singers in an array of Broadway tunes… sure to delight.

See our Concert Update for more information.

Sponsored by Johnson‘s Popcorn

 

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Operetta - The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus
Operetta - The Chocolate Soldier by Oscar Straus
8/9/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Philadelphia’s own Concert Operetta Theater brings The Chocolate Soldier to Ocean City, starring Jenifer Graf as Nadina, and Neil Darling as Biermerli, the ‘chocolate soldier.” This production is a staged/concert production with Jeremy Gil, conductor, and Daniel Pantano, producer. Hear all your favorites – My Hero, Sympathy, The Chocolate Soldier, and The Letter Song.

See our Concert Update for more information.

Sponsored by TD Bank

 

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Klezmer and All That Jazz
Klezmer and All That Jazz
8/11/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20/15

Klezmer and All That Jazz in a rollicking tribute to Benny Goodman!  Shelley Hanson and her Band join Maestro Scheible as he revisits some of the best musical moments of the Big Band Era and the King of Swing!

Sponsored by Raymond N. Beebe, Esq

 

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The Best of Webber and Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Best of Webber and Rodgers & Hammerstein
8/12/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $25/20

The Best of Andrew Lloyd Webber and
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

Jody Kidwell, Dominic Inferrera, Jan Cornelius, and Cody Austin sing favorites from Phantom of the Opera, CATS, Evita, Sunset Boulevard, Aspects of Love, The King and I, South Pacific, Carousel, and The Sound of Music

Don’t miss this celebration of Broadway!

Sponsored by Mack and Manco

 

 

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Operatic Delights
Operatic Delights
8/16/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Stephen Costello returns to the Pops and joins Coleen Daly and Marcus Beam to sing operatic arias by Puccini, Bellini, Donizetti, Gounod, and other favorite songs.

For more information: read our Concert Update email.

Sponsored by Dr. Elizabeth M. Bowden

 

 

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8/18/2009 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets Adults $20/ Children $12

Fully staged Broadway musical for the entire family. 
Michael Hartman directs. 

Sponsored by Gillian’s Wonderland Pier.

 

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8/19/2009 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets Adults $20/ Children $12

Fully staged Broadway musical for the entire family. 
Michael Hartman directs. 

Sponsored by Gillian’s Wonderland Pier.

 

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Friends of the Pops’ Annual Luncheon
 Friends of the Pops’ Annual Luncheon
8/20/2009 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Greate Bay Country Club

The Friends of the Ocean City Pops invites everyone to feel like they are sixteen again and celebrate the sixteenth year of the Friends of the Ocean City Pops at our Annual Summer Luncheon.

Tickets go on sale July 5, during intermissions. Tickets are $35 and sell out quickly.

For more information click here or call Marie Knight: 609-204-2060.

 

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
8/20/2009 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets Adults $20/ Children $12

Fully staged Broadway musical for the entire family. 
Michael Hartman directs. 

Sponsored by Gillian’s Wonderland Pier.

 

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The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration
The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration
8/23/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $25/20

Frank, Dean and Sammy appear with the POPS!  This nostalgic and popular show reminisces about the songs and antics of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.  The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration features Broadway stars Sal Viviano, Nat Chandler, and Eric Jordon Young.

Read our Concert Update email for more information.

Sponsored by Mack and Manco

 

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The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration
The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration
8/25/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $25/20

Frank, Dean and Sammy appear with the POPS!  This nostalgic and popular show reminisces about the songs and antics of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis, Jr.  The Rat Pack, A Symphonic Celebration features Broadway stars Sal Viviano, Nat Chandler, and Eric Jordon Young.

Read our Concert Update email for more information.

Sponsored by Bill Whiteside in memory of Eileen Whiteside

 

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Barbone Street Jazz Band
Barbone Street Jazz Band
8/26/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $10

Back by popular demand, the Barbone Street Jazz Band is "Delaware Valley's most sought after Jazz/Swing/Hot Dance Band."  

The Barbone Street sound is a mixture of the blues styles from Kansas City, with the funky jazz style of New Orleans, tempered by the more structured jazz sounds of New York City and Philadelphia.

Listen to their music and read more about them on their MySpace Page.
Note: The Pops orchestra does not play this evening.

Sponsored by the Friends of the Ocean City Pops, Inc.
 

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Our Three Tenors II plus The Kwon Sisters
Our Three Tenors II plus The Kwon Sisters
8/30/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20

These tenors raise the roof! Plus Yoon Kwon and Min Kwon play Mendelssohn. The Kwon Sisters made their US debut with Ocean City Pops in 1988 as young students at Juilliard and Curtis. Yoon Kwon, violinist, is now a first violinist of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Min Kwon, pianist, is an associate professor at Rutgers University. They will be celebrating Felix Mendelssohn's 200th Anniversary with his brilliant concerto written for violin and piano.

Featuring Tenors Cody Austen, Taylor Stayton and Michael Galant

Sponsored by the Bart Greenspan and Stan Meltzer Families

 

 

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
9/8/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20/15

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s all-time favorite musical in concert version.  Hear great American songs like If I Loved You, Soliloquoy, You’ll Never Walk Alone.  

A full cast of singers including Steven LaBrie, Cody Austin, and Jody Kidwell, who all entertained Pops' audiences earlier this season. They are joined by Elissa Alvarez from Boston; Philly high school sensation, Kara Mulder, and Billy Kametz, who starred in OCTC/Pops' productions as Huck Finn in Tom Sawyer and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz..

Sponsored by The Original Fudge Kitchen

 

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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel
9/9/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $20/15

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s all-time favorite musical in concert version.  Hear great American songs like If I Loved You, Soliloquoy, You’ll Never Walk Alone.  Full cast of singers.

A full cast of singers including Steven LaBrie, Cody Austin, and Jody Kidwell, who all entertained Pops' audiences earlier this season. They are joined by Elissa Alvarez from Boston; Philly high school sensation, Kara Mulder, and Billy Kametz, who starred in OCTC/Pops' productions as Huck Finn in Tom Sawyer and the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz..

Sponsored by Doris Coates-Ollis in memory of  Ray Ollis

 

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Salute to America
Salute to America
9/13/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

Keystone State Boychoir perform a boisterous program returning from their world tour. Watch their promo video to see how they are "not your average boychoir."

They are joined by Philadelphia baritone Justin Gonzales.

Sponsored by New Jersey American Water Company

 

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Night in Old Vienna
Night in Old Vienna
9/16/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets $15/10

An annual Pops crowd pleaser paying homage to the Waltz King, Johann Strauss, Jr.  with polkas, marches and waltzes in grand style. 

Sponsored by Mack and Manco in memory of Frank Ruggieri

 

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East Meets West
East Meets West
9/20/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Hughes Performing Arts Center

 Tickets $15

Experience beautiful poetic gems and great dramatic music from China, France, Spain Russia and the USA.  Virtuoso pianist Claire Huang-Ci returns. Also featuring virtuoso trumpeter Stanford Thompson playing Arutunian concerto.

Sponsored by Comcast

 

 

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Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/23/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets Adult $15/Child $12

Little Shop of Horrors follows the story of Seymour, a meek flower shop assistant whose life changes instantly because of his discovery of a man-eating plant.

A hit movie starring Rick Moranis and one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies had become a house-hold name, thanks to a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Little Shop of Horrors never fails to entertain and is an excellent way to celebrate Halloween in Ocean City.

 

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Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/24/2009 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets Adult $15/Child $12

Little Shop of Horrors follows the story of Seymour, a meek flower shop assistant whose life changes instantly because of his discovery of a man-eating plant.

A hit movie starring Rick Moranis and one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies had become a house-hold name, thanks to a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Little Shop of Horrors never fails to entertain and is an excellent way to celebrate Halloween in Ocean City.

 

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Little Shop of Horrors
Little Shop of Horrors
10/25/2009 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Ocean City Music Pier

 Tickets Adult $15/Child $12

Little Shop of Horrors follows the story of Seymour, a meek flower shop assistant whose life changes instantly because of his discovery of a man-eating plant.

A hit movie starring Rick Moranis and one of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows of all time, this affectionate spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies had become a house-hold name, thanks to a score by the songwriting team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Tuneful and hilarious, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Little Shop of Horrors never fails to entertain and is an excellent way to celebrate Halloween in Ocean City.

 

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Joy to the World
Joy to the World
12/19/2009 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Ocean City Tabernacle

CONCERT CANCELLED due to snow storm

 Tickets $15

An orchestra and choral celebration of the glorious sounds of Christmas. Maestro Scheible and the Pops are joined by heraldic trumpets, glorious choirs, dazzling bells, special soloists, and musicologist Dr. Richard Stanislaw. 

Sponsored by Norman and JoAnne Schaut.

   

 

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Celebrate First Night 2010 with the Pops
Celebrate First Night 2010 with the Pops
12/31/2009 10:00 PM - 1/1/2010 12:00 AM
Ocean City Tabernacle

Join the Pops on New Years Eve as they ring in the New Year as part of Ocean City's First Night 2010 Celebration. Program highlights include International opera stars Ellie Dehn and Marcus Beam. And, of course, Old Lang Syne at midnight followed by fireworks over the boardwalk.

Two performances at 10 p.m. and 11 p.m.

To buy your buttons and to get more information on Ocean City First Night 2010 click here.
 

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