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Show Pleasant Grove musician returns to oversee premiere By Greg Hall Joshua Williams, 28, formerly for-merly of Pleasant Grove, is home again, this time to oversee his musical production pro-duction of "Canterville Ghost based pn the novel of the same name by Oscar Wilde. The musical will be performed per-formed by the Utah Valley Symphony April 23 and 24 at the Provo Tabernacle. When he was six years old, Williams told his parents, par-ents, Mark and Debra Williams of Pleasant Grove, that he wanted to learn to play the piano. Since that time, he has worked and performed with many professional musicians musi-cians and with his family numerous times entertaining entertain-ing audiences throughout the world. After living in Pleasant Grove his first 11 years, his family moved to California where he continued to study piano under the direction of Aida Chanco, who herself is a professional pianist. With an emphasis on the classics, Williams learned a strong' work ethic and appreciation for classical music. "She was really strict in her methods," said Williams, referring to Chanco. Chan-co. Although schooled in the classics, Joshua was always one to try new things. Learning how to play a piano piece the way it was meant to be played was always stressed, but that didn't stop him from moving in other directions. "At piano recitals, if I made a mistake, instead of starting over or continuing, I would improvise over the mistake, he said with a chuckle. He started composing music when he was 14 or 15, and started playing his own pieces for the public at that time. He wrote hi3 first musical at 17, which took about three years to complete. com-plete. After returning from his LDS mission to Poland, Williams' producer suggested suggest-ed that he consider moving to New York City, where he would be closer to the musical musi-cal industry and emphasis of Broadway. He now resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Katie, and daughters, Madeleine and Maja. Williams got the idea for writing the musical "Can-terville "Can-terville Ghost" while he was in Poland. He sketched the first ideas, and then put the musical aside until his mission mis-sion was completed. After returning home, he continued contin-ued working on the musical during the time he attended Brigham Young University. A few years later, when Williams felt the musical was ready for production, he acquired the help of Ryan Hamilton and Tom Jensen to help rewrite the story and arrange the orchestra tion. "I sent the musical to Dariusz Milkowski, artistic director of the Rozrywki Theater in Poland, and he seemed very receptive to the idea. Because the show had not yet been produced anywhere any-where before, we both decided decid-ed that doing a concert version ver-sion of the show, with lyrics in English and dialogue in Polish, would be an interesting interest-ing way of testing the water," said Williams in a previous interview. On October 31, 2000, "Canterville Ghost opened to a full house in Chorzow, Poland. The play only showed for a short time, but the response from the Polish Pol-ish audience and press was overwhelmingly positive. When news of an American Ameri-can producing a musical in Poland hit the Polish press, it became an interesting piece of news. Williams even made a television guest appearance on the Herbata i Kawa show, which is the equivalent in Poland to the Oprah Winfrey Show. Since the successful run of the show in Poland, Williams has brought the show back to New Jersey, where it played this year in January for three performances, and in February in New York as an off-Broadway show for two nights. 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Joshua Williams What "Canterville Ghost' with music and lyrics by Joshua Williams When; April 23. 24. 7:30 p.m. Where: Provo Tabernacle, 100 S. University Tickets; $5persoa $15family Seniors invited to spring seminar said Williams. The show will be a combination combi-nation of fun, classical music, followed by the symphony sym-phony and cast performing nine selections from "Canterville "Can-terville Ghost." "More than anything else, I enjoy writing something some-thing and having it performed, per-formed, and then just sit in the, audience and listen to it," concluded Williams. Greg Hall can be reached at gahall61yahoo.com. There will be an Elder Quest Spring Seminar at Provo Marriott Hotel, April 28 and 29 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The only cost is the luncheon each day at $12. The theme is "How To Thrive Physically, Mentally, and Spiritually in Our Bountiful World of Diversi- ty." 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