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Tony Winner LaChanze Comes To Music Mondays At Bay Street Theater

By: Jul. 19, 2019
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Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce LaChanze: The Feeling Good Tour on Monday, August 5 at 8 pm as part of Bay Street Theater's Music Mondays concert series. Tickets range from $79 - $125 and are on sale now at baystreet.org and through the Box Office at 631-725-9500, open daily from 11am to showtime.

Tony and Emmy Award Winner LaChanze takes to concert stages her electric and highly anticipated national tour, Feeling Good. On the heels of her most recent 2018 Tony Award nomination in the Best Lead Actress in a Musical category for playing the lead in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, the concert series is preceded by the release of her EP of the same name. Feeling Good will give audiences and listeners a peek into her life through song with original material as well as musical highlights from her career. Her upcoming memoir, Feeling Good, will be published by Scholastic later next year to compliment her performances. Hailed by the New York Times as "magnetic," LaChanze's theatre credits are vast, including The Color Purple (2006 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Lady in Musical), Once On This Island (nominations, Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle), Ragtime, Company, Uptown It's Hot, and If/Then.

Some of her Off-Broadway credits include The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Drama Desk nomination), Dessa Rose (Obie Award), Inked Baby, Spunk, and From the Mississippi Delta. The winsome Broadway star also dazzles in the land of television and film. Always ready to skillfully deliver her best, she has flex her acting muscles in the award-winning film The Help, Side Effects, Heartbreak Hotel, For Love or Money, Leap of Faith and My New Gun. On television, she has appeared in the award-winning HBO special The Night Of, Person of Interest, Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, Lucy, Sex and the City, Hercules, The Cosby Show, The Cosby Mysteries, and New York Undercover. She has the honor of appearing in the PBS special and cast album of Handel's Messiah Rocks: A Joyful Noise (for which she earned the covenant Emmy Award) for her performance.

Music Mondays at Bay Street Theater continues with John Lloyd Young on August 19 and Isaac Mizrahi on August 26.

Bay Street Theater's Music Mondays are sponsored in part by Douglas Elliman Real Estate and GroundLink.

Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. It serves as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.



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