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THREE-TIME TONY AWARD® NOMINEE CAROLEE CARMELLO, TONY AWARD® WINNER KELLI O’HARA, TONY AWARD® NOMINEE BETH MALONE, AND SIX-TIME TONY AWARD® WINNER AUDRA McDONALD TO HEADLINE CELEBRITY CONCERT SERIES
AS PART OF THE NEW THEATRE ASPEN 2020 SEASON “ALL FOR ONE”
TICKETS NOW ON SALE
Aspen, CO (July 6, 2020) – Theatre Aspen (Producing Director, Jed Bernstein) announced today more details, including a who’s who of Broadway stars, for the organization’s “All For One” Season, beginning Monday, July 27.
As part of the revised 2020 Summer Season, Broadway’s brightest leading ladies will headline a very special Celebrity Concert Series. Celebrity Concert Series stars include, Drama Desk Award and Obie Award winner, and three-time Tony Award nominee, Carolee Carmello (August 3), Outer Critics Circle Award winner, Tony and Drama Desk Award nominee, and Aspen-local favorite, Beth Malone (July 27), Tony and Drama League Award winner, multi-Drama Desk, Grammy Award, Outer Critics Circle and Emmy Award nominee, Kelli O’Hara (August 10 and 11) and six-time Tony, two-time Grammy, and Emmy winner, and National Medal of Arts recipient, Audra McDonald (August 10 and 11).
The second annual Solo Flights developmental festival of one-person shows will now run from Tuesday, September 1 – Monday, September 7. Project titles and creative teams will be announced in the coming weeks. The organization is working with Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States, to ensure a safe working environment for all.
In addition to this new slate of main-stage programming, Theatre Aspen Education will present Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (July 29 – August 2 at the Aspen District Theater) and Disney’s Frozen Jr. (August 6 – 8 at the Aspen District Theater Black Box), as well as Disney’s The Lion King (September 10 – 12 at the Hurst Theatre).
Tickets for all 2020 “All For One” Season events are now on sale and can be purchased at TheatreAspen.org or by calling the box office at 970 300 4474.
Theatre Aspen continues to go to great lengths to ensure complete compliance with all rules for the safe gathering of people and will continue to adhere to all government guidelines and policies to maintain the safety and health of both audiences and performers alike. The organization has been working with officials at all levels across the city, county, and state, to develop best practices and protocols. For this summer, the Hurst Theatre will be converted into a 75-100 seat cabaret-style space, providing maximum flexibility and as much social distancing as possible. Additionally, the sides of the tent will be lifted to allow for fresh open-air flow, as conditions permit.
Since 1983, Theatre Aspen has been rekindling a sense of discovery in audiences who live in and visit the Roaring Fork Valley by producing big theatre in a small space with intimate storytelling. Each season at Theatre Aspen promises to bring world-class theatre dramatically closer, with innovative and imaginative productions of both plays and musicals, complemented by an assortment of community events including late-night cabarets, educational programs and performances, collaborations with other Aspen arts organizations, and new works presentations. Theatre Aspen also boasts an impressive Apprentice Program, one of the largest in the country, devoted to training the next generation of theatrical artists and administrators. To learn more about Theatre Aspen visit TheatreAspen.org or call 970 925 9313.
2020 “ALL FOR ONE” SEASON
Theatre Aspen Celebrity Concert Series
Beth Malone
Monday, July 27 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
Carolee Carmello
Monday, August 3 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
Audra McDonald
Monday, August 10 at 7:00 PM
Tuesday, August 11 at 9:30 PM
Kelli O’Hara
Monday, August 10 at 9:30 PM
Tuesday, August 11 at 7:00 PM
Theatre Aspen Summer Cabaret Series
From Alone To Aspen: A Summer Cabaret
Thursday, July 30 at 7:30 PM
Friday, July 31 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 1 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
Don’t Stop Believing: The Best of the Theatre Aspen Songbook
Thursday, August 6 at 7:30 PM
Friday, August 7 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 PM and 9:30 PM
Meet Me In St. Louis: A Live Radio Play
Thursday, August 13 at 7:30 PM
Friday, August 14 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, August 15 at 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM
Solo Flights: Developmental Festival of One-Person Shows
Tuesday, September 1 – Monday, September 7
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast | at the Aspen District Theater
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Directed by Graham Northrup
Choreographed by Luke Ryan
Wednesday, July 29 at 6:30 PM
Thursday, July 30 at 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM
Friday, July 31 at 10:00 AM and 12:00 PM
Saturday, August 1 at 10:00 AM and 2:00 PM
Sunday, August 2 at 10:00 AM
Disney’s Frozen Jr. | at the Aspen District Theater Black Box
Music & Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez & Robert Lopez
Book by Jennifer Lee
Directed by Abaigeal O’Donnell
Choreographed by Erica Colarusso
Thursday, August 6 at 10:00 AM
Friday, August 7 at 10:00 AM
Saturday, August 8 at 10:00 AM
Disney’s The Lion King | at the Hurst Theatre
Music and Lyrics by Tim Rice, Elton John
Additional Music and Lyrics by Will Van Dyke, Lebo M, Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin
Book by Roger Allers, Irene Mecchi
Based on the Broadway production directed by Julie Taymor
Directed by Elissa Russell
Choreographed by Luke Ryan
Thursday, September 10 at 6:30 PM
Friday, September 11 at 6:30 PM
Saturday, September 12 at 2:00 and 6:30 PM
BIOGRAPHIES
CAROLEE CARMELLO is a 3-time Tony nominee and has appeared in 14 Broadway shows: the original Broadway casts of Tuck Everlasting, Finding Neverland, City of Angels, Falsettos, Parade (Drama Desk Award, Tony Award nomination), Lestat (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), The Addams Family (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), and Scandalous (Tony, Drama Desk nominations). She also starred on Broadway in 1776, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Kiss Me Kate, Urinetown, Sister Act, and Mamma Mia!. Off-Broadway credits include john and jen, Das Barbecü, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Hello Again (Obie Award), A Class Act, The Vagina Monologues, Elegies, and the critically-acclaimed immersive Sweeney Todd. Her screen credits include “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Good Fight,” “The Deuce,” “Smash,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “Frasier,” “Ed,” “Indoor Boys” (Indie Series Award nomination) and “Remember W.E.N.N.” (SAG Award nomination). Concert appearances have taken her across America and Europe, including engagements at New York City’s Town Hall, City Center, Lincoln Center, and Carnegie Hall. Ms. Carmello most recently toured the United States as Dolly Levi in the National Tour of Hello, Dolly!.
BETH MALONE reprised her title role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown with The Transport Theater Group (Outer Critic Circle Award and Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations). Malone played the Angel in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Angels in America and was nominated for a Tony Award and Grammy Award for her role of Alison in the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. Malone is an original cast member of Ring of Fire, The Marvelous Wonderettesand Bingo!. Film: The Comedian, oppostie Robert DeNiro and Edie Falco; Hick with Eddie Redmayne; Brittany Runs A Marathon opposite Jillian Bell; God Committee, co-starring Kelsey Grammer. Television: ”Braindead,” “The Baker and the Beauty,” “Bluff City Law,” “Bull,” “The Good Wife,” “Reno 911,” “Judging Amy,” “Laying Low,” “What's On?,” “One Minute Soaps.” She is the author and star of the critically acclaimed one-woman show Beth Malone: So Far.
KELLI O’HARA has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. Her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I garnered her the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy Award, Drama League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, and Oliver Award nominations. She re-prised the role while making her West End debut and performed a limited engage-ment at Tokyo’s Orb Theatre. Other Broadway credits include Kiss Me Kate (Tony, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Bridges of Madison County (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League Outer Critics Circle nominations), South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Pajama Game (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nomi-nations), The Light in the Piazza (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde. She was awarded the prestigious Drama League’s Distinguished Achievement in Musical Theatre Award in 2019. Kelli also received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in the hit web series “The Accidental Wolf.” Other film and television credits include the second season of Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why,” All The Bright Places, “Peter Pan Live!,” “Sex & The City 2,” Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, Showtime’s “Masters of Sex,” CBS All Access’ “The Good Fight,” “Blue Bloods,” “N3mbers,” and the animated series “Car Talk.” In 2015, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lehár’s The Merry Widow and returned as Despina in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. Her concerts have gained international acclaim, spanning from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo. She is a frequent performer on PBS’s live telecasts, The Kennedy Center Honors and performs often alongside The New York Philharmonic. Along with two Grammy nominations, her solo albums, Always and Wonder in the World, are available on Ghostlight Records.
AUDRA MCDONALD is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry, as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award, she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2015 and received a 2015 National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the arts—from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television. In addition to her theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world. Born into a musical family, McDonald grew up in Fresno, California, and received her classical vocal training at the Juilliard School. A year after graduating, she won her first Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater. She received two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category over the next four years for her performances in the Broadway premieres of Terrence McNally’s Master Class (1996) and Ragtime(1998), for an unprecedented total of three Tony Awards before the age of 30. In 2004 she won her fourth Tony, starring alongside Sean “Diddy” Combs in A Raisin in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her fifth—and her first in the leading actress category—for her role in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. In 2014 she made Broadway history and became the Tony Awards’ most decorated performer when she won her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End. In addition to setting the record for most competitive wins by an actor, she also became the first person to receive awards in all four acting categories. McDonald’s other theater credits include The Secret Garden (1993); Marie Christine (1999); Henry IV (2004); 110 in the Shade (2007); her Public Theater Shakespeare in the Park debut in Twelfth Night (2009); Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016); and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (2019). McDonald made her opera debut in 2006 at Houston Grand Opera, where she starred in a double bill: the monodrama La voix humaine by Francis Poulenc and the world premiere of Send by Michael John LaChiusa. She made her Los Angeles Opera debut in 2007 starring alongside Patti LuPone in John Doyle’s production of Kurt Weill’s Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. The resulting recording won McDonald two Grammy Awards, for Best Opera Recording and Best Classical Album. On the concert stage, McDonald has premiered music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams and sung with virtually every major American orchestra—including the Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony—and under such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Leonard Slatkin. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in 1998 with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas in a season-opening concert that was broadcast live on PBS. Internationally, she has sung at the BBC Proms in London (where she was only the second American in more than 100 years invited to appear as a guest soloist at the Last Night of the Proms) and at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, as well as with the London Symphony Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic. It was the Peabody Award-winning CBS program “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years” that first introduced McDonald to television audiences as a dramatic actor. She went on to co-star with Kathy Bates and Victor Garber in the lauded 1999 Disney/ABC television remake of “Annie,” and in 2000 she had a recurring role on NBC’s hit series “Law & Order: SVU”. After receiving her first Emmy Award nomination for her performance in the HBO film version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, directed by Mike Nichols and starring Emma Thompson, McDonald returned to network television in 2003 in the political drama “Mister Sterling,” produced by Emmy-winner Lawrence O’Donnell, Jr. (“The West Wing”) and starring Josh Brolin. In early 2006 she joined the cast of the WB’s “The Bedford Diaries,” and over the next season she had a recurring role on NBC’s television series “Kidnapped.” In 2008 she reprised her Tony-winning role in A Raisin in the Sun in a made-for-television movie adaption, earning her a second Emmy nomination. From 2007 to 2011, she played Dr. Naomi Bennett on the hit ABC medical drama, “Private Practice.” In 2013, her critically acclaimed performance as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s live telecast of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “The Sound of Music,” opposite Carrie Underwood as Maria, was watched by an estimated 18.5 million people across America. She received a fourth Emmy nomination for her role in HBO’s film special of Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill in 2016. Having first appeared as US attorney Liz Lawrence on CBS’s legal drama “The Good Wife” in 2009, she joined the cast of CBS All Access’ “The Good Fight” as a season regular in 2018.
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