Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration
Monday | June 27 2022 | 8 pm
Transport Group has announced that Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Broadway Celebration will be the next installment in The Anne L. Bernstein Concert Series on Monday, June 27, 2022, at 8pm in the Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. The concert, directed by Transport Group Artistic Director Jack Cummings III (2x OBIE Award winner) with a script by Hannah Oren and musical direction & conducting by Joey Chancey, features a cast of Broadway stars backed by a 24-piece orchestra performing the original orchestrations of selections from Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and Cinderella, and more.
The concert, hosted by Baayork Lee (Original Broadway cast member of A Chorus Line, The King and I, Flower Drum Song) and Paolo Montalban (co-star of the ABC Original Movie Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston; Broadway: The King and I, Pacific Overtures) will feature Mikaela Bennett, Sherry D. Boone, Donna Lynne Champlin (OBIE & Drama Desk Winner), Hannah Elless, Danyel Fulton (Drama League & Audelco nominee), Erika Henningsen, Rachel Bay Jones (Tony Award winner), Sean McLaughlin, Betsy Morgan, Tally Sessions, Alexandra Silber (Drama League nominee), Jacob Keith Watson. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks.
ARTISTS/INSTRUMENTS
24-piece orchestra & Broadway Stars
Directed by Jack Cummings III
Musical Direction and Conductiong by Joey Chancey
Written by Hannah Oren
COMPOSERS/TITLES
Selections from the Rodgers and Hammerstein songbook.
