Broadway's Howard McGillin with John McDaniel at the Piano! at Legacy Theatre

Best known for his record-setting performance in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, Howard McGillin appeared in this past season’s Tony–winning Parade. Other Broadway credits include Gigi, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me, The Secret Garden, Anything Goes (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and a Theatre World Award), and Sunday in the Park with George. On London’s West End, Howard starred in Mack and Mabel as well as Anything Goes. A Drama Desk nomination for his NY theatrical debut in the NY Shakespeare Festival’s La Bohème, as well as Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce directed by Harold Prince at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. His Off-Broadway credits include Black No More at the Signature Theatre, and opposite Charles Busch in The Confession of Lily Dare at the Cherry Lane. Howard has sung on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv, and in Tokyo at Theatre Orb. Film credits include Tick, Tick, Boom, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, The Swan Princess, TV’s The Blacklist, The Good Wife, and Elementary. Howard’s solo CD: Where Time Stands Still.

John McDaniel is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, John music directed and orchestrated Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC. John participated in a live Playbill concert event in Times Square welcoming back Broadway, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk and Chuck Schumer. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald & Javier Muñoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. John directed Into The Woods and Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below and Piano Men at Birdland. Broadway music credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. On Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones, and Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including five concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. John received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

Howard McGillin with John McDaniel at the Piano comes to Legacy Theatre on Sunday, October 6 at 2:00 PM. Tickets are on sale now at https://www.legacytheatrect.org/sunday-broadway-concert-series-24 or through the Box Office at (203) 315-1901. Livestream tickets are also available - enjoy Broadway talent from the comfort of your home, anywhere in the world!

Howard McGillin with John McDaniel at the Piano is generously supported by Jana and Tom Shea and sponsored in part by WMNR Fine Arts Radio.