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Mon. February 24 • 8pm: 2000-2004 starring Tovah Feldshuh (4X Tony Nominee), Emily Skinner (Tony Nominee), Max Von Essen (Tony Nominee), Nicole Henry (Soul Train Award Winner), Danny Gardner (Drama Desk Honoree), and more!
Mon. March 30 • 8pm: 2005-2009 starring Ethan Slater (Tony Nominee, Spongebob Squarepants), Bryan Batt (TV’s Mad Men), Karen Ziemba (Tony Award Winner), Noah Racey (Never Gonna Dance, Curtains, etc.), Danny Gardner (Drama Desk Honoree, Radio City Summer Spectacular), Quentin Earl Darrington (Ragtime, Cats, Once On This Island), and more!
Mon. May 18 • 8pm: 2010-2014 starring Beth Malone (Tony Award Winner), Brad Oscar (Tony Nominee), Lili Cooper (Tony Nominee), Danny Gardner (Drama Desk Honoree, Dames at Sea) and more!
Mon., June 22 • 8pm: 2015-2019 starring Carolee Carmello (4X Tony Nominee), Christianne Noll (2X Tony Nominee), Danny Gardner (Drama Desk Honore; Dames at Sea), and more!
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Monday, February 3, 2020 The Town hall + Mark Cortale Present
Seth rudetsky’s Broadway STARRING
TONY AWARD WINNER
PATINA MILLER IN PERFORMANCE & CONVERSATION
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Patina Miller Patina Miller, a Tony-award winning actress currently starring on the CBS hit drama series Madam Secretary, has a resumé that encompasses Broadway, TV, film, and music. She is most famously known for her role as Leading Player in the 2012-2013 Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz’s 1972 musical, Pippin, directed by Tony Award-winner Diane Paulus. At the 67th annual Tony Awards, the musical won Best Revival, and Patina earned the award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical. Additionally, she won an Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and received nominations for the Drama League Award and the Fred and Adele Astaire Award. Miller made her Broadway debut as the gutsy nightclub-singer-turned-nun, Deloris Van Cartier, in the stage adaptation of Sister Act. Her outstanding performance led to her first Tony nomination as well as a Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. Additionally, Miller starred in multiple Off-Broadway productions, including Ragtime at Avery Fisher Hall, City Center Encores! production of Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson’s Lost in the Stars, and the Manhattan Theatre Club’s Romantic Poetry. Patina also appeared in the Public Theater’s pre-Broadway revival of Hair during its 2008 run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, also under the direction of Diane Paulus. Her regional theatre credits include First You Dream, a Kander and Ebb revue at the Kennedy Center, Sister Act at the Alliance Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse, and the Philadelphia Theater Company production of Being Alive. She has participated in workshops for Book of Mormon, Nightingale and American Idiot. Prior to her numerous theater credits, Patina appeared in the renowned daytime soap opera All My Children. Miller made her feature film debut as ‘Commander Paylor’ in Lionsgate’s famous trilogy The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, released in November 2014. Patina reprised her role in the final installment of the series, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, in 2015. Patina performed her first solo concert at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts during its 2013-2014 theatrical season. She then made her New York City concert debut in February 2014 as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s American Songbook series. Miller received a degree in musical theater from Carnegie Mellon University. She currently resides in New York City.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Seth Rudetsky | Musical Director & Host Seth Rudetsky is the afternoon host on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio’s On Broadway as well as the host of Seth Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. As an author, he penned My Awesome/ Awful Popularity Plan and the sequel The Rise And Fall Of A Theater Geek (Random House) as well as three volumes of Seth’s Broadway Diary featuring inside scoop and hilarious stories from all of the stars he’s worked with. He co-wrote and co-starred in Disaster! (NY TIMES “critics pick”) which also premiered to rave reviews in London. In June 2016, he and his husband, James Wesley, coproduced a recording of “What The World Needs Now” with stars like Idina Menzel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Carole King, Audra McDonald which went to number one on iTunes and raised more than $100,000 for the Orlando shooting victims (and is still raising money. Buy it!). Seth and James have a foundation called Your Kids Our Kids that presented Concert For America; a series around the country featuring stars like Barry Manilow, Stephanie Mills, Vanessa Williams, Tina Fey, Randy Rainbow and Audra McDonald that raised money for 5 non-profits that have been working relentlessly since the 2016 presidential election. They also present Voices for The Voiceless, a yearly star-studded concert for You Gotta Believe which helps older foster children find families, even if they’ve aged out of the system. If you want to hang out with Seth and James and a bunch of Broadway stars performing up a storm, come on one of their cruises! In October 2020 their Transatlantic Crossing sails to England, in February 2020 they journey to the Caribbean, and in June 2020 to The Adriatic and Greek Isles. More info at SethsBroadwayVacations.com
Mark Cortale | Producer Mark Cortale co-produced the new musical Midnight at the Never Get by Mark Sonnenblick, at the York Theatre this past fall. He produced Deconstructing Patti on Broadway last September at the Nederlander Theatre with Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, starring Patti LuPone and Seth Rudetsky. He created the Broadway @ concert series in 2011 at The Art House in Provincetown where he serves as Producing Artistic Director. The series, featuring Seth Rudetsky as music director and host, had its eighth season this past summer and guest artists over the years have included Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Sutton Foster, Megan Mulllally, Christine Ebersole, and Jessie Mueller. The Broadway @ series also premiered in 2013 in New Orleans, in Australia (Sydney & Melbourne) with Megan Mullally, and in London’s West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square Theatre. The series has since traveled to cities that include Chicago @ The Steppenwolf, Beverly Hills @ The Wallis, Fort Lauderdale @ The Parker Playhouse, San Francisco @ The Herbst Theater and Scottsdale @ Scottsdale Center for the Arts. In the 2018-2019 season, the series launched in Boston @ The Huntington with Chita Rivera and continues later this month with Christine Ebersole. Mr. Cortale produced the feature film Varla Jean and the Mushroomheads and also produces the singing string quartet WellStrung, which he co-founded. Info at markcortalepresents.com. @TownHallNYC | 4
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1935 Marian Anderson makes her New York operatic debut
1944 Langston Hughes discusses the race question on air at “America’s Town Meeting”
1945 Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker debut Bebop in a formal concert hall
1957 Ravi Shankar performs here 9 years before he meets The Beatles
1961 Bob Dylan holds his first major concert at age 21
1964 Coretta Scott King debuts her Freedom Concerts
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