New York Public Library will host a panel discussion on producer Tom Kirdahy September 19, with panelists Rachel Chavkin (Hadestown), Bill Condon (Kiss of the Spider Woman), Jonathan Groff (Just in Time), and Lamar Richardson (Gypsy) on hand to discuss and celebrate the Tony winner. The event, titled Tom Kirdahy: Upholding Legacy and Championing New Storytellers, is free with registration at EventBrite.
Kirdahy's Tony-winning career includes NYC's current Just in Time, Ragtime, Caroline, Hadestown, and Little Shop of Horrors, along with the recent Broadway Gypsy, the U.K. premiere of Sondheim's Here We Are, The Inheritance, Broadway's most recent The Piano Lesson revival, and more. He is also the widower of playwright Terrence McNally.
All of the event's panelists are have worked on Kirdahy's projects. Chavkin won a Tony directing Hadestown, while Groff has starred in his Just in Time and Little Shop of Horrors. Condon is the screenwriter and director of Kirdahy's forthcoming film project Kiss of the Spider Woman, adapted from John Kander, Fred Ebb, and McNally's Broadway musical; and Richardson was a co-producer on Broadway's Gypsy.
