Jason Robert Brown has recruited more starry friends for his previously announced
Carnegie Hall concert, set for October 25.
Joining earlier announced guests Tony winner Heather Headley and Tony winner Ben
Platt will be Tony winner J. Harrison Ghee (Some Like It Hot, Kinky Boots) and Tony nominee Shoshana Bean (Hell's Kitchen, Mr. Saturday Night).
The concert will mark the 30th year of Brown's career in New York theatre, which has resulted in such titles as Songs For a New World, Parade, The Last Five Years, 13, The Bridges of Madison County, Mr. Saturday Night,
and more. Brown, Headley, Platt, Ghee, and Bean will be backed by the 22-piece
Orchestra of St. Luke's, conducted by Brown and Georgia Stitt.
Brown won the 1999 Tony for Best Original Musical Score for Parade and 2014 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Orchestrations for The Bridges of Madison County. The 2023 revival of Parade also earned the Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
This year has seen the premieres of two new Brown musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which completed a run at Off-Broadway's MCC Theater in April; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, written with Taylor Mac and directed by Rob Ashford, recently seen at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. His Off-Broadway hit, The Last Five Years, is heading to Broadway later this season.
Creative Partners Productions and Live Nation are producing the upcoming concert.
Tickets are available at CarnegieHall.org.
