Sara Bareilles and Shaina Taub Will Help NY Pops Celebrate Female Songwriters | Playbill

Cabaret & Concert News Sara Bareilles and Shaina Taub Will Help NY Pops Celebrate Female Songwriters Betsy Wolfe will also reunite with her Last Five Years co-star Adam Kantor for the November 17 Carnegie Hall concert.
Sara Bareilles Photo by: Charles Sykes/NBC

Tony- and Grammy Award-nominated songwriter Sara Bareilles and Fred Ebb Award-winning composer-lyricist Shaina Taub will make special appearances with the New York Pops orchestra at its November 17 concert, Women of Notes, celebrating female songwriters, at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

READ: James Monroe Iglehart, Megan Hilty, Betsy Wolfe Will Highlight New York Pops Season

As previously announced, Betsy Wolfe, who is currently starring on Broadway in Bareilles’ musical Waitress, will take time off to take perform in this concert, which will be conducted by NY Pops Music Director Steven Reineke. Wolfe will reunite with her Last Five Years co-star Adam Kantor, who is also appearing on Broadway this fall, in the cast of the new musical The Band’s Visit.

Kantor played the role of Motel Kamzoil in the recent Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof. He made his Broadway debut playing Mark in the final cast of Rent, which was preserved on DVD by Sony Pictures’ Rent, Filmed Live on Broadway.

Tickets for the Women of Notes, priced at $21–$140, can be ordered online at Carnegiehall.org, by phone at (212) 247-7800, or in person at the Carnegie Hall box office, at 57th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.

Read: Waitress Star Betsy Wolfe Plans Symphony Concert With Jeremy Jordan

The New York Pops opens its 35th anniversary season with That’s Entertainment: From Skitch to Steven on October 27, and continues with The Most Wonderful Time of the Year with Megan Hilty on December 15 and 16; Heart and Soul featuring James Monroe Iglehart and Capathia Jenkins on February 2, 2018; and The Best of Hollywood: Blockbuster Film Scores on March 9.

The New York Pops will also pay tribute to Broadway and film composer Alan Menken at its 35th Birthday Gala April 30.

Megan Hilty has been a special guest performer on Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas cruises. Tickets are now on sale for Playbill’s Broadway on the High Seas July 2018 cruise to Iceland, accompanied by Judy Kuhn, Christine Ebersole, Rob McClure, Jarrod Spector, Carmen Cusack, and Sierra Boggess. Visit PlaybillTravel.com for booking and information.

 
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