Cabaret & Concert NewsRodgers and Hammerstein Celebrated at Jazz at Lincoln Center April 21
Deborah Grace Winer hosts the two concerts, part of the Songbook Sundays series.
By
Andrew Gans
April 21, 2024
Jenn Gambatese
Songbook Sundays, the series created and hosted by Deborah Grace Winer celebrating the American Songbook, continues April 21 at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club with concerts featuring the work of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Entitled It Might as Well Be Rodgers & Hammerstein, the 5 PM and 7:30 PM concerts feature Grammy nominee Karrin Allyson, Outer Critics Circle nominee Jenn Gambatese (Tarzan, Mrs. Doubtfire), and rising star Tyreek McDole.
Music director Tedd Firth leads a band that includes Endea Owens on bass, Bryan Carter on drums, and Coby Petricone-Berg on alto saxophone.
Attendees can expect to hear songs from Oklahoma!, The Sound of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, and more.
Guy Raymond, Annabelle Gold, Keith Kaldenberg, Nicolas Orloff, Don Weissmuller, Mike Kellin, G.D. Wallace, Gene Kevin, Jenny Workman, Hobe Streiford, and Warren Kemmerling in Pipe Dream (1955)
Laura Osnes and Santino Fontana in Cinderella (originally written in 1957)
Miyoshi Umeki, Ed Kenney, Juanita Hall, Keye Luke, and the Cast of Flower Drum Song (1958)
A scene from the original 1959 Broadway production of The Sound of Music.
As a teacher, Mr. Waddell coached Brandon Victor Dixon, Jessica Vosk, Robert Fowler, Felicia P. Fields, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Angela Robinson, Soara-Joye Ross, and more.
Partially inspired by Sophocles' Antigone, the show is an intimate exploration of love that goes beyond faith between a queer Pakistani-American man and his deeply devout mother.
The work centers on a truck driver named Larry Walters, who uses a lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons to fly nearly 16,000 feet above Los Angeles.
