Audra McDonald: Go Back Home
Nonesuch Records
Sergio Sims forwards this release:
Audra
McDonald in Concert at Symphony Center Saturday, October
12
Tickets on sale Friday, June 7
CHICAGO
— The incomparable Audra
McDonald,
winner of five Tony Awards and two Grammys, makes her first
appearance at Symphony Center since 2001 with a concert featuring
selections from her new album, Go
Back Home,
on Saturday,
October 12 at 8 p.m.
Released
by Nonesuch Records on May 21, Go
Back Home
is McDonald’s first solo recording in seven years and her most
personal album to date. The disc features songs by composers with
whom she has long been associated, including Stephen Sondheim, Adam
Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, and Rodgers & Hammerstein, as
well as selections that are relatively new to her repertoire,
including the title track by Kander and Ebb. She also continues her
long-standing tradition of championing new works by up-and-coming
musical theater composers, represented on this album by Adam Gwon,
Heisler and Goldrich, and Will Reynolds.
McDonald
is known to audiences for her work on stage and screen as a singer
and actress who is universally acclaimed for the breadth and depth of
her artistry. She’s a versatile stage presence, equally at home in
musicals and plays, having won Tony Awards for her performances in
Carousel
(1994),
Master
Class (1996),
Ragtime
(1998)
and A
Raisin in the Sun (2004).
Her fifth Tony came in 2011 for her starring role in The
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess,
which tied her with Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris for the most
performance awards. In addition to her two Grammy Awards—for the
cast recording of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s Rise
and Fall of the City of Mahagonny—she
has been nominated for two Emmy Awards for her performances in the
HBO production of Wit
and
the television adaptation of A
Raisin in the Sun.
She starred as Dr. Naomi Bennett on ABC’s hit television series
Private
Practice
for four seasons. In addition to her work as an actress, she has a
busy career as a concert and recording artist, regularly performing
at the world’s top venues.
Tickets
go on sale on Friday, June 7 at cso.org,
the Symphony Center box office (220 S. Michigan Ave), or by phone at
312-294-3000.
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