EXCLUSIVE: LaChanze, Kate Baldwin, Jennifer Holliday, Judy Kuhn, Lindsay Mendez, Jessie Mueller, and Loss of life Turns into Her star Jennifer Simard can be featured within the upcoming one-night-only particular occasion, Broadway’s Main Women, set for New York Metropolis’s City Corridor on March 10 and for broadcast on PBS later this 12 months.
Extra all-star casting to be introduced quickly.
PBS, in partnership with No Ensures and Nouveau Productions, announce the line-up at the moment. The performers have been chosen partially for “distinctive contributions [that] have energized and outlined the Broadway we all know at the moment.”
The main girls can be joined by members of the American Pops Orchestra, performed by Luke Frazier, whose PBS credit embody Depraved in Live performance and Broadway’s Main Males. Frazier and the American Pops Orchestra final appeared at City Corridor within the critically acclaimed musical tribute to Edith Piaf.
A portion of the ticket proceeds will profit the Girls’s Well being Initiative on the Leisure Group Fund, based by most cancers survivor and Fund board member Phyllis Newman.
“Broadway’s Main Women is a celebration of the profound affect and enduring legacy ladies have made in theater,” stated Christine Schwarzman, President of No Ensures, the manufacturing firm partnering with PBS and Nouveau Productions on the occasion. “The Broadway main woman is a timeless and cherished custom, from the legendary Ethel Merman to the numerous exceptional ladies who grace the stage at the moment.”
Broadway’s Main Males aired on PBS in November and included performances by One thing Rotten!‘s Christian Borle, Aladdin‘s Jacob Gutierrez, Hamilton‘s Christopher Jackson, Glee‘s Matthew Morrison, and Hadestown‘s André De Shields, amongst others.
