For one night before Halloween, The Media Theatre will trade its usual stage lighting for a sea of candlelight.
Candlelight: A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics comes to the historic State Street theater on Thursday, Oct. 29, with performances at 6:45 and 8:45 p.m. Local musicians will perform an hourlong program that moves between eerie classical works and familiar music from horror movies, television and pop culture.
The tentative Philadelphia set list includes Camille Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre,” Modest Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain,” the themes from Stranger Things, Beetlejuice and Halloween, a medley from The Nightmare Before Christmas and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Fever says the program is subject to change…