An Evening with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara
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Tanglewood (297 West St., Lenox, MA 01240, Lenox MA)
Kelli O’Hara and Sutton Foster perform a night of music inspired by the 1962 CBS special “Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall” — in homage to icons of stage and screen and close friends Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett who teamed up for that memorable concert.
Together with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, Sutton and Kelli will perform songs from their Tony Award winning and nominated shows with banter, laughter and stories.
Prelude Concert —Rachmaninoff — All-Night Vigil
James Burton and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus perform a mini-concert before the main event.
Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony Award winning actress, singer, and dancer who most recently starred as Princess Winnifred in Once Upon a Mattress during its acclaimed Broadway revival at the Hudson Theatre. Sutton’s turn in the musical’s esteemed revival began with the critically adored Amy Sherman-Palladino adaptation at the New York City Center Encores! in early 2024 and concluded with a limited run at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
Earlier Sutton was seen starring as Mrs. Lovett in the Tony Award winning Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Aaron Tveit at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
Foster starred as Marian Paroo in the 2022 Broadway revival of The Music Man at the Winter Garden Theatre. Her performance earned her a seventh Tony award nomination as well as the coveted 2022 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award.
In the summer of 2021, Sutton reprised one of her most notable roles as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes at the Barbican Theatre in London in which she earned an Oliver Award nomination for Best Actress in a Musical. A cinematic version of the show had a subsequent limited release in US and Australia theaters. Her original performance in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre earned her a 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
Kelli O’Hara has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. The Tony Award winner, Emmy, SAG, and Grammy-nominated actress has appeared in twelve Broadway shows for which she has garnered eight Tony Award nominations.
She won the 2015 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, along with Grammy, Drama League and Outer Critics nominations for her portrayal of Anna Leonowens in The King and I. O’Hara’s other Broadway credits include Kiss Me Kate, The Bridges of Madison County, Nice Work if You Can Get It, South Pacific, The Pajama Game, The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success, Follies, Dracula, and Jekyll & Hyde.
O’Hara received an Emmy Award nomination for her portrayal of Katie Bonner in Topic’s hit web series, The Accidental Wolf, and can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age, which was nominated for a SAG award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series for Season 2. Additional film and television credits include Showtime’s Master of Sex, 13 Reasons Why, Blue Bloods, All My Children, All the Bright Places, Peter Pan Live!, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, The Good Fight, N3mbers, and Car Talk.
In 2015, she made history as the first artist to make the crossover from Broadway to Opera when she made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Lehar’s The Merry Widow opposite Renee Fleming and in 2018 returned as Despina in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. She was last seen at The Metropolitan Opera in the world premiere of Kevin Puts’, The Hours, as Laura Brown, which earned a Grammy nomination for Best Opera Recording.