An Evening With Four-Time Tony Award Nominee Judy Kuhn at Blue Strawberry

Join four-time Tony Award nominee Judy Kuhn for an evening of songs and stories. Kuhn is perhaps best known for singing the title role in Disneys Pocahontas and her enchanting Colors Of The Wind remains one of the most beloved Disney ballads to this day. Her prolific career on Broadway includes the 2016 revival of Fiddler on the Roof, Fun Home (Tony & Drama League Award nominations), the Roundabouts 1993 revival of She Loves Me (Tony Award nomination), Richard Nelsons Two Shakespearean Actors (Lincoln Center Theatre), Chess (Tony & Drama Desk nominations), Les Misrables (Tony & Drama Desk nominations), Rags (Drama Desk nomination), Alan Menken & Tim Rice's King David, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (original cast). Off-Broadway and regional theatre credits include: Fun Home at the Public Theater (Lucille Lortell Award), The Cradle Will Rock (City Center), Stephen Sondheim & James Lapines Passion at CSC directed by John Doyle (Drama League Award nomination), the U.S. premiere of Sunset Boulevard (Los Angeles), Three Sisters (Intiman Theatre), Elis Comin (Obie Award), The Ballad of Little Jo (Steppenwolf Theatre Co./Jeff Award nomination), Dream True (Vineyard Theatre), As Thousand's Cheer (Drama Dept.), and The Glass Menagerie(McCarter Theatre). Most recently, Kuhn appeared in John Doyles production of Stephen Sondheim and John Weidmans Assassins at CSC, and in 2019, she starred in Trevor Nunns critically acclaimed revival of Fiddler on the Roof in London's West End, for which she received her second Laurence Olivier Award nomination.

Joining Kuhn as emcee and music director is St. Louis-native John McDaniel, a Grammy and Emmy Award winning music director, composer, director, arranger, orchestrator, and producer who is also an artistic director at the Tony Award winning Eugene ONeill Theater Center. Recently, McDaniel participated in a live Playbill concert event in Times Square welcoming back Broadway. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald and Javier Muoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweths Broadway Boot Camp. McDaniel directed Into The Woods & Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below, and Piano Men at Birdland. His 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 ODonnell Show (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). McDaniel has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, and Bette Midler, and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America. McDaniel received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.