The starry lineup for "The Broadway Musicals of 1938," a one-night-only concert to be hald at Town Hall on March 26, will include Sarah Uriarte Berry The Light in the Piazza, Aaron Lazar Les Miserables, Christiane Noll Jekyll & Hyde Hugh Panaro Lestat and Barbara Walsh Company. Emily Skinner, Panaro's co-star in the 1997 Broadway musical Side Show, will direct—and possibly sing a duet with her former stage flame.
The concert, part of creator/writer/host Scott Siegel's "Broadway By the Year" series, is expected to include such hits as "September Song," "It Never Was You," "Falling in Love with Love," "This Can't Be Love" and "Spring Is Here." Shows to be represented include Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock, Rodgers & Hart's The Boys from Syracuse, Olsen & Johnson's Hellzapoppin' and Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson's Knickerbocker Holiday.
The previously announced "Broadway Musicals of 1928" concert, starring Bob Martin The Drowsy Chaperone, will be held at Town Hall on February 26. On April 30, Marc Kudisch will direct "The Broadway Musicals of 1959"; on June 18, Dan Foster will direct "The Broadway Musicals of 1964, Part II."
