No chandelier will crash to the stage, and no helicopter will land, but there still will be some showstopping moments Saturday night at the Topeka Performing Arts Center.

The Topeka Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Dr. John Wesley Strickler, will present at TPAC the third and final Pops Live! performance of its 2000-2001 season. "Bravo Broadway!" will feature two Broadway singers, soprano Laurie Gayle Stephenson and tenor Doug LaBrecque, in a concert of show tunes.

"It's everything from 'Gypsy' and Rodgers and Hammerstein, all the way up through contemporary shows like 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera,'" LaBrecque said Tuesday morning by telephone from Florida. "It's really a musical journey down Broadway with two singers and an orchestra."

Stephenson and LaBrecque are both veterans of Broadway, as well as national tours and regional runs. They have shared the stage in Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera," with Stephenson in the role of Christine and LaBrecque as both Raoul and the Phantom.

Stephenson also has appeared on Broadway as Lily in the Tony Award-winning "The Secret Garden" and has toured America opposite Michael Crawford in "The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber." LaBrecque has starred on Broadway as Ravenal in the Hal Prince revival of "Showboat," a role he also performed in Canada and Chicago. He toured nationally with "Les Miserables."

While audiences at those shows get the benefit of costumes, sets and lights, LaBrecque said there is one great thing about a symphony pops concert, and that's the large orchestra.

"Audiences get the opportunity to hear the music with a 70-piece orchestra, which is not what you get in a Broadway pit," said LaBrecque, adding Broadway pit orchestras are at least half that size, with some touring productions featuring even fewer musicians.

As a singer, the pops programs don't have the drawback of an extended theatrical run where the big challenge is keeping a role fresh, LaBrecque said.

For a concert like the one Saturday night, the singers rehearse only once with the orchestra.

"That's part of the excitement for me," LaBrecque said.

"Every different city is opening night," he said. "You have a different set of musicians, and a different conductor, and a different hall, and the acoustics are different. It keeps us on our game, as they say."

And unlike in a musical, the singers get to perform a variety of music.

"Gayle and I get to sing 25 or so songs from 75 years of Broadway," LaBrecque said. "It's really a potpourri of Broadway music."