Celebrating the release of her new CD, “Go Back Home” Audra McDonald is everywhere. She just finished a live concert at Lincoln Center which was recently featured on PBS. She now will be in a city near you! Starting tonight McDonald will hit the road starting in Midland, MI. Check out all of the concert dates below. You’ll have until the end of the year to catch the Golden Goddess of Broadway. See her talk about this album as well as performances of a few songs from her concert that aired on PBS in the videos below.
“Go Back Home” features songs by composers with whom the acclaimed singing actress has long been associated (Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim) and some, like the John Kander and Fred Ebb title track, who are relatively new to her repertoire.
“If there were a Broadway show that were written about my life, especially the last seven years,” McDonald recently said of the album, “this would be the soundtrack.”
Audra McDonald discusses her 2013 Nonesuch album, “Go Back Home.” “If there were a Broadway show that were written about my life, especially the last seven years,” she says, “this would be the soundtrack.” CD/MP3/FLAC: http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/go-back-home iTunes: http://smarturl.it/gobackhomeitunes Video features footage from “Audra McDonald In Concert: Go Back Home,” telecast on PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center.
Tour dates:
June 8 at the Midland Center for the Arts in Midland, MI
June 15 at the Colonial Theater Association / Berkshire Theater Group in Pittsfield, MA
July 6 at Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY
July 12 at Napa Valley Festival del Sole in Calistoga, CA
Aug. 3 at Caramoor in Katonah, NY
Aug. 24 at Tanglewood in Lenox, MA
Sept. 3 at the San Francisco Symphony Opening Night Gala in Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, CA
Sept. 5-6 at de Jong Concert Hall, Brigham Young University in Provo, UT
Sept. 7 at the Austad Auditorium, Weber State University in Ogden, UT
Sept. 15 at Hill Auditorium, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI
Sept. 21 at Krannert Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Urbana, IL
Sept.r 28 at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, ON
Oct. 12 at Symphony Center in Chicago, IL
Oct. 19 at the Brown Theater, Wortham Center in Houston, TX
Oct. 20 at the Long Center in Austin, TX
Oct. 25 at the Balboa Theater in La Jolla, CA
Oct. 26 at the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles, CA
Nov. 2 at the Reynolds Performance Hall, University of Central Arkansas at Conway in Conway, AR
Nov. 8 at the Whitney Hall in Louisville, KY
Nov. 15 at The Sheldon in St. Louis, MO
Nov. 16 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, MO
Nov. 22 at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ
Nov. 23 at the Staller Center for the Arts in Stonybrook, NY
Dec. 21 with The Phoenix Symphony Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, A
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Only days after launching the first national tourof Hamilton last week, producer Jeffrey Sellers announced that a second national tour will kick off in Seattle starting February 2018. After a six-week engagement, the tour will travel to Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah; Costa Mesa, California; Las Vegas, Nevada; Des Moines, Iowa; Cleveland, Ohio; and Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The second touring company will be the fourth Hamilton production to play concurrently in the U.S. Joining the first national tour (currently in San Fransisco before moving to L.A later this summer), the sit-down production in Chicago (which started September 2016), and the current Broadway production, with a London staging debuting in November of this year.
In a press statement, Seller comments:
“Beginning in 2018 more than 8,000 people a night will have the opportunity to see the show somewhere in North America. Indeed, Hamilton is for everyone. There has been tremendous interest in the show from markets across the country. The best way to get the show in front of as many people as possible is to form a new company to crisscross the country.”
The cast has yet to be announced, but keep checking into Broadway Black to be the first in the know!
Tony nominees Montego Glover, last seen in The Royale at Lincoln Center, and Tony Yazbeck are set to star with The New York Pops in a cabaret performance at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City on September 19 to perform some of their favorite show tunes. Tony Yazbeck replaces the previously announced Joshua Henry. The event, described as “an intimate evening of dining and entertainment” will be led by Pops music director Steven Reineke.
“The New York Pops annual cabaret evening is one of our most intimate and exciting events each year,” said Reineke in a statement. “The event raises money for our vital music education programs, which reach thousands of New York City children each year. Montego and Tony are both extremely talented (and busy) performers, and they are extraordinarily kind and generous people. We are all looking forward to hearing them perform up close and personal. This is going to be a tremendous night.”
All proceeds will support The New York Pops’ PopsEd music programs, which reach over 4,000 New York City students each year.
Single tickets range from $275-$500 and ticket packages begin at $2,500. To purchase, visit www.newyorkpops.org or call 212-765-7677.