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Experience the magic of the Holiday season as award-winning Broadway star James Barbour brings his annual Holiday Concert back to Birdland Theater on Thursday, December 12 at 8:30pm!

Since its inception in 2008, this cherished event has brought the warmth and cheer of the holidays to thousands around the globe. Enjoy an evening of timeless holiday classics, performed with Barbour's signature voice. Having starred as The Phantom in the Broadway smash hit The Phantom of The Opera, Barbour along with special guest appearances from the Broadway community, will make this a night to remember.

James Barbour enjoyed a three-year run as The Phantom in Broadway’s smash hit The Phantom Of The Opera. An award-winning Broadway star, international concert artist and speaker, James won the LA Ovation Best Actor Award for his portrayal of Jean Valjean in Les Miserables and was nominated for the Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Awards for Best Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of Sydney Carton in the Broadway musical version of A Tale of Two Cities. He also won the Sarasota Magazine Best Actor Award for the Asolo Rep pre-Broadway production. He has starred on Broadway in such Tony-Award winning shows as Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast as The Beast, Carousel as Billy Bigelow, Urinetown as Officer Lockstock and as Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre (Drama League Award nomination). He also appeared in the Broadway production of Cyrano and the national tour of The Secret Garden.  His CD Bring Me Giants is available on iTunes and additionally his voice can be heard on the international recording of A Tale of Two Cities, the PS Classics recording of Assassins, the Sony Classical cast recording of Jane Eyre, The Gift on Geffen Records, the upcoming release of Frank Wildhorn’s Dracula, as well as on the live CD recording of his self-produced stage show Broadway in Concert (for which he won an LA WEEKLY Garland Award).