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Ron Remke

Ron Remke was
recently in the closing
cast of the longest
running show in Las
Vegas, Jubilee! and was a featured soloist
with the renowned 12 Irish Tenors.  Mr.
Remke tours North America with Four
by Four and Oh What a Night. Select
theatrical credits include, Corny Collins
in Hairspray (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra), Lead Tenor in The Producers at Westchester Broadway Theater and the Pioneer
Theater, Hugo in Aspects of Love, Captain
Tarnitz in The Student Prince, and in the
national tour of Kiss Me, Kate. Mr. Remke
has appeared at The Fulton Opera House,
Marriott Lincolnshire, The Merry-GoRound Playhouse, Struther’s Library
Theater and Cortland Repertory among
others. He has worked with Sesame Street
and Nickelodeon as a voice-over character
artist and is the voice of Juan in Sonia Monzano’s (Maria from Sesame Street) No Dog
Allowed! His symphonic album, Broadway
Classics is available on iTunes.
Ron Remke last appeared with the
BSO in June 2016, as Corny Collins in
Hairspray, Jack Everly, conductor.

Ted Keegan

Ted Keegan has
performed the role of
the Phantom in The
Phantom of the Opera
on Broadway and in the National Tour in
more than 24 states as well as live on television for NBC’s Today show. He even sang
it as he made a flying entrance at Madison
Square Garden during the half-time show
of the NBA All-Star Game. Mr. Keegan
performed unpublished Gershwin at the
opening of the George and Ira Gershwin
Room at the National Archives in
Washington, D.C. He has also performed
Gershwin with Audra McDonald in
New York and with Marin Mazzie at the
opening of the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival. Mr. Keegan appeared in the Frank
Loesser Celebration at Symphony Space in
New York and was a soloist in Unheard
Bernstein at Avery Fisher Hall. He hosted

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the Yuletide Celebration in Indianapolis,
singing with the 90-piece Indianapolis
Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, Mr.
Keegan has performed with orchestras
in Detroit, Syracuse, Charleston, West
Virginia, Portland, Pittsburgh, Ottawa,
Omaha, Baltimore, Las Vegas, Fort Worth,
Rockford, Edmonton and Dayton, as well
as with the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center. He is founding member of
The Phat Pack and was named the best all
around performer of 2013 by the Las Vegas
Review Journal. Mr. Keegan made his
Broadway debut as Anthony in the revival
of Sweeney Todd. Other Broadway and
national tour credits include Cyrano: The
Musical, Mordred in Camelot with Robert
Goulet and Kander and Ebb’s And the
World Goes Round. Mr. Keegan is a native
of Watertown, New York with an undergraduate degree from Ithaca College and a
graduate degree from UNC-Greensboro.
Ted Keegan last appeared with the
BSO in May 2014, in All That Jazz: A
Symphonic Celebration of Kander & Ebb,
Jack Everly, conductor.

Kathy Voytko

Kathy Voytko was
most recently seen in
the original Broadway
cast of Tuck Everlasting.
She has appeared in A Gentleman’s Guide
to Love and Murder, which won the 2014
Tony for best musical. Ms. Voytko made
her Broadway debut in the original cast of
the Oklahoma! revival, with Andrea Martin
and Patrick Wilson, and appeared in the
Tony Award-winning Nine with Antonio
Banderas and Chita Rivera.  She played
Ariadne in Stephen Sondheim’s The Frogs
opposite Nathan Lane at Lincoln Center,
and appeared in The Pirate Queen and Next
to Normal.
Ms. Voytko has appeared in the national
tours of The Phantom of the Opera and
Evita. She is often a soloist in Do You Hear
the People Sing? concert and was also a soloist in The Music of Andrew Lloyd Weber.
She sang at Carnegie Hall in Showboat, and
in the live concert recording of Kristina,
by the writers of Mamma Mia and Chess.

The concert was reprised at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In addition her roles
as featured soloist with symphonies across
the United States, Mexico and Canada,
Kathy has portrayed Clara in Passion, Fantine in Les Miserables, Fiona in Brigadoon,
and Polly in Crazy for You, a performance
that garnered the Joseph Jefferson Award
for best actress in a musical.    
Ms. Voytko received a BFA in musical
theatre from Shenandoah Conservatory
and grew up in Johnstown, PA. She is
married to John Cudia, and they have
two daughters.
Kathy Voytko last appeared with the
BSO in April 2012, in Do You Hear the
People Sing?, Jack Everly, conductor.

Ben Crawford

Ben Crawford began
his Broadway career
when he covered the
roles of Javert and Jean
Valjean in the revival of Les Miserables.
Since then his Broadway roles include
Shrek in Shrek the Musical, Don Price in
Big Fish and as a cast member in On The
Twentieth Century with Kristin Chenoweth
and Peter Gallagher. Other stage credits
include Starbuck in 110 In The Shade,
Dr. Madden in Next to Normal, Frederick
Barrett in Titanic (Frederick Barrett), Frank
Gumm in Chasing Rainbows, Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and Billy Bigelow in
Carousel. He has also appeared in Oliver!,
Merrily We Roll Along, Jasper in Deadland
and Irma La Douce. Mr. Crawford has
appeared in concerts with the Indianapolis,
Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Grant Park and
Chicago Symphony orchestras, Rochester
and Naples Philharmonics, and The National Arts Centre in Ottawa. He appears
on the soundtracks of: On the Twentieth
Century, Big Fish, Merrily We Roll Along,
35MM, Writing Kevin Taylor and Frozen.
Mr. Crawford also appears in the film The
Standbys, a documentary about Broadway
swings, standbys, and understudies.
Ben Crawford last appeared with the BSO
in October 2014, in Broadway Standing
Ovations!, Jack Everly, conductor.