Brian Stokes Mitchell Appears on 'The Today Show,' 6/6

On June 6th, Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell will appear on "The Today Show" to sing a number from his new album.

Now available in stories, "Brian Stokes Mitchell," the actor's debut solo album, was released on the new Playbill Records. In it, he sings a host of showtunes and standards, including "Something's Coming," "Pretty Women," "Being Alive," "How Glory Goes," "The Best is Yet to Come" and "How Long Has This Been Going On."

Stokes Mitchell made his Broadway debut in the musical Mail in 1988. Ten years later, he skyrocketed to fame (and received a Tony nomination) as the martyred pianist Coalhouse in Ragtime. He won a Tony for his work as Fred/Petruchio in the 1999 Kiss Me Kate revival. He was also nominated for his performance as Don Quixote in his last Broadway outing, the 2002 revival of Man of La Mancha. Other Broadway credits include Oh, Kay!, Kiss of the Spiderwoman and August Wilson's drama King Hedley II; he also appeared in Do Re Mi and Carnival at Encores! He is best-known to TV audiences for having starred on "Trapper John, M.D.," and he has also been seen on "Frasier" and in "Roots." Stokes Mitchell recently appeared at Carnegie Hall in a concert version of South Pacific.

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