Kelli O'Hara Opens Cafe Carlyle Fall Season 9/15 - 9/26, Returns To SOUTH PACIFIC 10/13

Broadway leading lady and three-time Tony nominee Kelli O'Hara will open fall season at the legendary Café Carlyle. Before returning to the Broadway stage in the revival of South Pacific (October 13) following the birth of her first child this summer, Ms. O'Hara will offer encore performances of her sold out debut in a two-week engagement beginning Tuesday, September 15th (and playing through September 26th).

In his review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden said that "this radiant, wholesome singing actress from Oklahoma with one foot in country music and the other in opera brought her spunky all-American charm to Café Carlyle."

Ms. O'Hara will once again delight audiences with an evening of music comprised of songs from the Great American Songbook, her Broadway shows including The Light in the Piazza, Sweet Smell of Success, and South Pacific, as well as tunes from her solo CD recording Wonder in the World (Ghostlight Records).

Kelli will be accompanied on piano by her musical director Dan Lipton and bass, drums and violin.

The performance schedule is: Tuesday-Friday at 8:45 PM and Saturday at 8:45 PM & 10:45 PM. There is a $60 music charge for the Tuesday - Thursday performances and an $80 music charge for the Friday & Saturday performances. Bar seating is available: Tuesday-Thursday ($35 music charge) and Friday & Saturday ($40 music charge). Dinner is served from 6:30PM.
The legendary Café Carlyle is located in The Carlyle Hotel - 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue, and is what Liz Smith calls the "favorite of all New York nightspots." For reservations please call 212-744-1600. For additional information please visit www.thecarlyle.com.

Kelli O'Hara has unequivocally established herself as one of Broadway's great leading ladies. She recently starred in the Tony Award-winning revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center, enrapturing audiences and critics alike with her soulful and complex interpretation of Nellie Forbush, garnering a third Tony-nomination in the process.

The year leading up to South Pacific was a busy one. With her critically acclaimed performance of Eliza Doolittle in the NY Philharmonic production of My Fair Lady, a Carnegie Hall debut, and the completion of her first album Kelli was ready to dig into creating a new "Nellie" for the new century.
A native of Oklahoma, Kelli received a degree in Opera, and after winning the State Metropolitan Opera Competition moved to New York and enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Institute. She made her Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde and followed it with Sondheim's Follies, Sweet Smell of Success opposite John Lithgow; and Dracula.

In 2003, Kelli committed to a production of The Light in the Piazza at Seattle's Intiman Theatre. The show landed on Broadway in 2005 and earned Kelli her first Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations. She moved from one huge critical and commercial success to another when she joined Harry Connick on Broadway in the 2006 Tony award winning production of The Pajama Game for which Kelli received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award nominations.

Kelli has worked regionally and Off Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George at Reprise, My Life With Albertine at Playwrights Horizons, and Beauty at The LoJolla Playhouse.

In addition to her critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall solo debut with the NY Pops conducted by Rob Fisher, Kelli's concerts include Carnegie Hall with Barbara Cook, The Kennedy Center with Marvin Hamlisch and the NSO, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Cooper Union, Joe's Pub and with the Philly Pops conducted by Peter Nero. She recently performed at the Kennedy Center Honors as part of the Barbra Streisand tribute.

Among her film and television credits are Martin Scorsese's industrial opposite Simon Baker; "The Dying Gaul" starring Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott; "Blue Blood" (NBC pilot), "All Rise" (NBC Pilot), "Alexander Hamilton" (Maria Reynolds) starring Brian F. O'Byrne (PBS), "NUMB3RS" (CBS); "All My Children," the upcoming animated series "Car Talk," as well as numerous live performances on national television shows.
Kelli's recordings include: South Pacific (Sony), The Light in the Piazza (Nonesuch records; Grammy nom.), The Pajama Game (Sony; Grammy nom.), The Sweet Smell of Success (Sony), My Life with Albertine (PS Classics), Dream True (PSClassics), Jule Styne Goes Hollywood (PS Classics) and her solo album Wonder in the World on Ghostlight Records.

Kelli resides in New York with her husband Greg and son, Owen James. 

Photo by RD /Dziekan /Retna Digital