Broadway by the Year: The New Wave will relaunch the concert series, after a pandemic hiatus, on Monday, March 21 at 8 PM at The Town Hall. Ross Patterson continues as the series’ musical director along with The Ross Patterson Little Big Band and creator-producer and host of the series, Scott Siegel.
The upcoming concert, the first of four scheduled, will celebrate the work of Lin-Manuel Miranda (In the Heights, Hamilton), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Dear Evan Hansen, Dogfight), Bobby Lopez (The Book of Mormon, Avenue Q), Jeff Marx (Avenue Q), Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison (The Drowsy Chaperone) and more.
Currently scheduled to perform are two-time Tony nominee Vivian Reed (Bubbling Brown Sugar); Joe Iconis (Be More Chill); Sara Neimietz (13 The Musical); Danny Gardner (Flying Over Sunset), who will lead the Broadway by the Year Dance Troupe in a celebration of choreography; and Gunhild Carling—”The Wonder Woman of Jazz.”
Three more concerts, to follow, are:
Broadway by the Year: From the Ziegfeld Follies to Moulin Rouge, May 23 at 8 PM
Songs from jukebox musicals and revues
Broadway by the Year: Almost on Broadway, June 27 at 8 PM
Songs from Off-Broadway musicals and those around the world, including Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Bat Boy, Beehive, The Fantasticks, The Baker’s Wife, Zorro and The Witches of Eastwick.
Broadway by the Year: A One Night Only History of Broadway Song and Dance, September 19 at 8 PM
From George M. Cohan, Fred and Adele Astaire, and the dancing feet of 42nd Street, up to the work of Andy Blankenbuehler.
For more information, please visit The Town Hall.
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