Photo FeaturesA Look at Kelli O’Hara’s Stage Career as She Prepares to Return to BroadwayFollowing last year’s concert revival from Roundabout Theatre Company, the Tony winner will star in Kiss Me, Kate in 2019.
By
Hannah Vine
November 07, 2017
Kelli O'Hara in The King and IPaul Kolnik
Earlier this week, Roundabout Theatre Company announced that Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara (The King and I) will return to Broadway in February 2019 in a revival of Kiss Me, Kate. O'Hara will take on the leading role of Lilli Vanessi in the musical from Cole Porter and Sam and Bella Spewack, reprising her performance from Roundabout’s 2016 benefit concert.
In celebration of the announcement and O’Hara’s anticipated return to Broadway, we’re taking a look back at her long and successful career on the Great White Way to date.
Flip through photos of her career below:
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Celebrating Kelli O’Hara on the Broadway Stage
Celebrating Kelli O’Hara on the Broadway Stage
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Kelli O'Hara and Deb Lyons backstage at Jekyll & Hyde
Kelli O'Hara and Betty Garrett in Follies
Kelli O'Hara and Jack Noseworthy in Sweet Smell of Success
Melissa Errico and Kelli O'Hara in Dracula
Victoria Clark and Kelli O'Hara
Joan Marcus
Harry Connick Jr and Kelli O'Hara in The Pajama Game
Harry Connick Jr and Kelli O'Hara in The Pajama Game
Kelli O'Hara and Harry Connick Jr. in The Pajama Game
Paulo Szot and Kelli O'Hara in South Pacific
Kelli O'Hara in South Pacific
Kelli O'Hara performs South Pacific at the Tony Awards
Kelli O'Hara in Nice Work If You Can Get It
Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara in Nice Work If You Can Get It
Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale in The Bridges of Madison County
O’Hara was nominated for five Tony Awards between 2005 and 2014 before winning in 2015 for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the Lincoln Center revival of The King and I. Her Broadway credits also include South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza, The Bridges of Madison County, and Nice Work If You Can Get It, and The Pajama Game.