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SING, SING A SONG...<br />
Tonight’s Performers<br />
HEAVENLY HARMONY<br />
Meet your host, Kelli O’Hara!<br />
Stage and screen star Kelli O’Hara is one<br />
of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies.<br />
Her portrayal of Anna<br />
Leonowens in The King<br />
and I garnered her<br />
the 2015 Tony Award<br />
for Best Leading<br />
Actress in a Musical.<br />
Kelli’s many other<br />
memorable moments<br />
on Broadway include<br />
her appearances<br />
in Kiss Me Kate,<br />
The Bridges of<br />
Madison County,<br />
Nice Work If You Can<br />
Get It, South Pacific,<br />
The Pajama Game<br />
and The Light in the<br />
Piazza — each a Tonynominated<br />
performance.<br />
In 2015, she made her<br />
Metropolitan Opera<br />
debut in Lehar’s<br />
The Merry Widow<br />
opposite Renee Fleming.<br />
She was awarded the<br />
prestigious Drama<br />
League’s Distinguished<br />
Achievement in Musical<br />
Theatre Award in 2019.<br />
Kelli also received an<br />
Kelli O’Hara, one<br />
of Broadway’s most<br />
honored actresses,<br />
kicks off the <strong>Gala</strong>.<br />
Emmy nomination for<br />
her portrayal of Katie<br />
Bonner in the hit web<br />
series The Accidental<br />
Wolf. Other film and<br />
television credits<br />
include Netflix’s<br />
13 Reasons Why,<br />
Sex & The City 2,<br />
Martin Scorsese’s<br />
The Key to Reserva,<br />
Showtime’s Master of<br />
Sex, The Good Fight,<br />
Blue Bloods and the<br />
animated series<br />
Car Talk. Kelli is<br />
currently shooting<br />
HBO’s new series, The<br />
Gilded Age, alongside<br />
Christine Baranski<br />
and Cynthia Nixon.<br />
BOBBY McFERRIN<br />
BOBBY McFERRIN is a 10-time GRAMMY®<br />
Award winner who has blurred the<br />
distinction between pop music and fine art,<br />
while goofing around barefoot in the world’s<br />
finest concert halls, exploring uncharted<br />
vocal territory, and inspiring a whole new<br />
generation of a cappella singers and<br />
beatboxers. His latest album, spirityouall,<br />
is a bluesy, feel-good recording, an<br />
unexpected move from the music-industry<br />
rebel who single-handedly redefined<br />
the role of the human voice with his<br />
a cappella hit “Don’t Worry, Be Happy,”<br />
his improvising choir Voicestra and his<br />
legendary solo vocal performances.<br />
“I try not to ‘perform’ onstage,” says Bobby.<br />
“I try to sing the way I sing in my kitchen,<br />
because I just can’t help myself. I want<br />
audiences to leave the theater and sing in<br />
their own kitchens the next morning. I want<br />
to bring audiences into the incredible feeling<br />
of joy and freedom I get when I sing.”<br />
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