Town Hall Hosts 'An Evening With Kelli O'Hara' Tonight

Tonight (June 3, 2011), for one night only, The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) will present Broadway star and Tony ®Award nominee, Kelli O'Hara in "An Evening with Kelli O'Hara." With this concert, Ms. O'Hara is launching an album for Ghostlight Records, "Always."

"An Evening with Kelli O'Hara" is a part of Town Hall's 2011 90th Anniversary season that also includes "Easy to Love: Andrea Marcovicci & Jeff Harnar sing Cole Porter" (June 9), "Broadway By The Year®: Musicals of 1997" (June 20), and "Dee Dee Bridgewater: To Billie with Love a Celebration of 'Lady Day.'" (June 24).

Kelli O'Hara has unequivocally established herself as one of Broadway's outstanding leading ladies. She recently garnered her third Tony ® Award nomination for her soulful portrayal of Nellie Forbush in the Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" at the Lincoln Center Theater. Aside from her illustrious theater career, Kelli has traveled the country and performed solo, as well as with other famous singers, conductors, and orchestras. Her most recent performances include: The Seattle Symphony with Marvin Hamlisch, Boston Pop's Tour in Florida under the direction of Keith Lockhart, and Avery Fisher Hall with Nathan Gunn and the New York Philharmonic.

Kelli O'Hara made her Broadway debut in "Jekyll & Hyde" in 2000, followed by Sondheim's "Follies," "Sweet Smell of Success" opposite John Lithgow, and "Dracula." In 2005, "The Light in the Piazza" was moved from the Intiman Theater in Seattle to Broadway where Kelli earned her first nominations for a Tony and Drama Desk Award. She then received Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Award nominations in 2006, when she joined Harry Connick Jr. in the Tony ® award-winning production of "The Pajama Game." She most recently starred in the Encore presentation of "Bells are Ringing." Kelli also starred in the critically acclaimed production of "My Fair Lady" in March of 2007 at the New York Philharmonic as Eliza Doolittle. In 2009, she performed at the Kennedy Center Honors as part of the Barbra Streisand tribute and performed on PBS's National Memorial Day Concert live from Washington, D.C. Among Kelli O'Hara's film and television credits are S"ex & The City 2." Martin Scorsese's "The Key to Reserva" opposite Simon Baker; "The Dying Gaul" with Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott; Alexander Hamilton (PBS); "NUMB3RS" (CBS); "All My Children" (ABC); "Blue Blood" (NBC pilot); "All Rise" (NBC pilot), and the animated series "Car Talk" (PBS). She has many recordings of her musical theater works and she released a solo album, "Wonder in the World," on Ghostlight Records in 2008.

ABOUT TOWN HALL
Now celebrating its 90th Anniversary Season, The Town Hall (www.the-townhall-nyc.org) was built in 1921 by a group of suffragettes and began as a lecture hall and public forum for debates where "American Town Meetings on The Air was broadcast live for 25 years. Over the decades, the stage has been graced by Eleanor Roosevelt, Carl Sandberg, Margaret Sanger, Billie Holiday, Igor Stravinsky, Bob Dylan and MiLes Davis. Today the hall flourishes as a popular, affordable venue, boasting the hottest acts in rock, pop, folk, cabaret, world music, comedy and dance, including Billy Joel, Blondie, Elvis Costello, Natalie Merchant, Graham Nash, Liza Minnelli, Cyndi Lauper, Norah Jones, Andre Watts, Henry Rollins, Joe Jackson, Pink Martini, Regina Spector, Brian Adams, Aimee Mann, Robin Williams, Dawn Upshaw, Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Al Gore, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Mercer, Jay Leno, Dave Matthews, Vanessa Williams, and Ben Folds. For over a decade, The Town Hall has hosted live broadcasts of Garrison Keillor's "Prairie Home Companion." In its annual show, "Rising Stars," The Town Hall gives recent graduates from the nation's leading performing arts schools a chance to showcase their talents and perform on the legendary stage. The Town Hall Educational Outreach Program helps schools build their arts programs and advance student learning through standards-based, collaborative arts residencies. In addition to offering residencies in drama, technical theatre, music, dance, and fine arts, The Town Hall also customizes its curriculum to meet the needs of each school. Teaching artists bring hands on, interactive workshops to New York City school students of all ages, backgrounds, and abilities. These activities introduce new skills that foster creative expression, self-awareness, and personal discipline. Over the past two-and-a-half decades, The Town Hall has produced the Feature Film Seminar Series and a number of new and critically acclaimed musical series, which include The Century of Change, Not Just Jazz, Broadway By The Year®, The Broadway Cabaret Festival and The Summer Broadway Festival.

TICKETS
"An Evening with Kelli O'Hara" is Friday, June 3 at 8:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now for $45 and $50. All tickets for The Town Hall shows are available through Ticketmaster, 800-982-2787, or www.ticketmaster.com, or by visiting The Town Hall Box Office between noon and 6PM (except Sundays) at 123 West 43rd Street, 212-840-2824.