Tony winner Kristin Chenoweth and composer Andrew Lippa are teaming up again to pay tribute to two American luminaries. The two will reprise Lippa's I Am Harvey Milk on April 23 and 24, 2016 at the Music Center at Strathmore in Bethesda, Maryland; they previously performed the oratorio together last year at Lincoln Center. But this time, the event will also feature the world premiere of his newest work, I Am Anne Hutchinson.
Part choral work and part theater piece, I Am Anne Hutchinson and I Am Harvey Milk explore the lives of two equal rights leaders: the 17th century pioneer of women’s rights and religious tolerance and the first openly gay man to hold public office in California .
Chenoweth and Lippa have collaborated multiple times before, including the 1999 revival of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, which won Chenoweth her Tony, and the recent Disney Channel movie Descendants, which taught us that a 4'11" Maleficent can be just as evil as an other villain.
I Am Harvey Milk premiered in 2013 in San Francisco, featuring Lippa and Laura Benanti. Noah Himmelstein will return to direct I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk. Take a look at I Am Harvey Milk below.