Sara Bareilles, Vanessa Williams and Ledisi are among the many artists who will likely be featured on Nice Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Finest, which premieres Friday, Could 12, at 9 p.m. ET on PBS and the PBS app.
This system, which marks Nice Performances’ golden anniversary, is a revue of milestone Broadway exhibits from 1973 to 2023. The particular will characteristic a mixture of authentic stars and up-and-coming expertise. Hosted by two-time Tony winner Sutton Foster, this system was taped on March 23 at Lincoln Heart’s David H. Koch Theater in New York.
Bareilles sings “She Used to Be Mine” from Waitress (for which she obtained a 2016 Tony nomination for authentic music rating). Williams, who earned a 2002 Tony nod her efficiency in Into the Woods, performs a track from Kiss of the Spider Lady, which introduced Broadway legend Chita Rivera her second Tony.
Different highlights of the particular embody Rivera performing her signature track “All That Jazz” from Chicago; André De Shields performing “So You Wished to See the Wizard” from The Wiz; a tribute to A Refrain Line that includes Tony-winning authentic forged member Donna McKechnie joined by Robyn Hurder; and a faucet quantity from Jelly’s Final Jam carried out by Corbin Bleu.
Different performers on the present embody Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Raúl Esparza, Shoshana Bean, Norm Lewis, Rob McClure, Patina Miller, Mamie Parris, Solea Pfeiffer, Britton Smith and Jessica Vosk.
The present options songs by such composers as Stephen Schwartz, John Kander & Fred Ebb, Fat Waller, Stephen Sondheim, Duke Ellington and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Nice Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Finest is directed and choreographed by Tony winner Warren Carlyle with Patrick Vaccariallo as music director. This system was directed for tv by David Horn, produced by Mitch Owgang and co-produced and written by Dave Boone.
One week later, on Friday, Could 19, at 9 p.m. ET, Nice Performances will air the Public Theater’s Free Shakespeare within the Park manufacturing of Richard III starring Danai Gurira (Black Panther: Wakanda Without end, The Strolling Useless) with Tony winner Ali Stroker (Oklahoma!) as Woman Anne. Tony nominee Robert O’Hara (Broadway’s Slave Play) directs this Shakespearean tragedy.
One week after that, on Friday, Could 26, at 9 p.m. ET, there will likely be an encore presentation of Cole Porter’s basic 1934 musical Something Goes, starring Foster (who received her second Tony for the 2011 Broadway manufacturing) in addition to Tony winner Robert Lindsay. The present, restaged in London’s West Finish, was directed and choreographed by Kathleen Marshall. That includes such basic songs as “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “You’re the High” and the title track, the present first aired on PBS final yr.
That is the season for Broadway programming. The 76th annual Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, are set for Sunday, June 11. The present will likely be held on the United Palace in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood.
All through its 50-year historical past on PBS, Nice Performances has amassed 67 Emmy Awards and 6 Peabody Awards. The collection is produced by The WNET Group. For Nice Performances, Invoice O’Donnell is collection producer and David Horn is govt producer.
