LANCASTER — Multicolored lights bathed the stage in varying hues as Tony Roberts, Anne Runolfsson, Cara Johnston and George Dvorsky performed "A Salute to Broadway" on Saturday night at Ohio University Lancaster Campus.

Roberts and the others performed Broadway favorites such as "On the Street Where You Live," and "Tonight, Tonight," backed by The Lancaster Festival Orchestra under the direction of Gary Sheldon.

The concert celebrated 20 years of The Lancaster Festival, as well as the bicentennial of Ohio University.

Before Roberts took to the stage, audience members enjoyed a concert by The Lancaster Festival Orchestra, who played a Broadway medley as well as "Festive Overture" and "Stand Up and Swing," performed by musicians from the OU School of Music. The orchestra was joined onstage by Robert Post, whose "The POSTMan Delivers" head-lines Sunday's performances, for a brief tango featuring Post's "partner," some red long Johns.

Dmitri Rogorelov of Moscow, a young violinist who was this year's Wilkes Young Artist Fellow, was a featured soloist on Tchaikowsky's finale from "Violin Concerto in D." The Wilkes Young Artist Fellow program was established in memory of Raymond Wilkes, who served as dean of Ohio University at Lancaster Campus from 1978 to 1994.

Pogorelov's solo was Mary Kay Konkler's favorite part of the orchestra show. Konkler and her friend Peg Rupe enjoyed the first half of the concert but anticipated Roberts' part of the show. "I certainly am (looking forward to Roberts)," said Peg Rupe of Lancaster. "I knew the name was familiar... I know that he was on the Carol Bumett Show years ago." Rupe added that she liked Roberts then, and didn't expect to be disappointed.

Also enjoying the concert were Dee and Ron Anderson, whose

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