Randall Goosby to perform in Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert
Kennedy Center's 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert, Hosted by Audra McDonald, Will Air on PBS
By Andrew Gans
Playbill
August 25, 2021
Six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald will host the Kennedy Center’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert, which will be held September 14 in the Concert Hall and subsequently broadcast October 1 on PBS as The Kennedy Center at 50.
Tony nominee Joshua Bergasse will direct and choreograph the evening; conductors are JoAnn Falletta, Steven Reineke, and Thomas Wilkins.
The concert event will feature the talents of Tony winner Kelli O'Hara, Tony nominees Joshua Henry, Renée Fleming, and Tony Yazbeck, the cast of David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori’s Soft Power, Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, Ray Chen, Robert Glasper, Bettye LaVette, Gaby Moreno, Kelly Marie Tran, Zhu Wang, Mo Willems, Elizabeth Acevedo, Herman Cornejo, Ben Folds, Randall Goosby, Christian McBride, Keb’ Mo’, Rachael Price, Punch Brothers, and Cassandra Trenary.
The celebration, which echoes An American Pageant for the Arts—the 1962 fundraising telecast for the National Cultural Center hosted by Leonard Bernstein—will also feature special guest Caroline Kennedy and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets to the 50th Anniversary Celebration Concert are available by clicking here.
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