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  • Sneak peek of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ‘World on A String: Swinging Songs of Broadway’

    Posted on April 14th, 2016 in Profiles & Interviews

    ‘The House of Swing’ is paying homage to Broadway composers this weekend with original arrangements of stage classics. At the helm of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis.   Keep reading »

  • Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis to Premiere Arrangements from Broadway Classic

    Posted on March 19th, 2016 in Concerts

    The world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and guest vocalist Kate Davis will debut arrangements of tunes from Broadway’s most beloved productions including “Annie Get Your Gun,” “South Pacific,” “West Side Story,” “Fiddler On The Roof,” “The Producers” in a special concert event entitled World on a String: Swinging Songs of Broadway. World on a String: Swinging Songs of Broadway will take place in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater on April 14-16 at 8:00pm. Jazz at Lincoln Center is located on Broadway at 60th Street, New York, New York.   Keep reading »

  • ‘After Midnight,’ Broadway Musical Co-Created by Wynton Marsalis, to Open in Fall

    Posted on June 28th, 2013 in News | 1

    The music is timeless. The show is “AFTER MIDNIGHT.”
    Nine-Time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Wynton Marsalis and superstar fashion duo Isabel and Ruben Toledo create a hot new Broadway musical: “AFTER MIDNIGHT”
    Directed and choreographed by Warren Carlyle, previews begin at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Friday, October 18, 2013 with an official opening set for
    Sunday, November 3, 2013

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  • Sondheim and Marsalis to Collaborate on Show for City Center

    Posted on April 22nd, 2013 in Concerts

    Stephen Sondheim and Wynton Marsalis are collaborating on a new show to be staged at the New York City Center next November that will feature jazz interpretations of Mr. Sondheim’s love songs.
    The show, “A Bed and a Chair: A New York Love Story,” marks the first time Mr. Sondheim, one of musical theater’s great lyricists and composers, and Mr. Marsalis, the master jazz trumpeter, have worked together.

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  • ‘Cotton Club Parade’ Will March Onto Broadway

    Posted on January 10th, 2013 in Concerts | 1

    After two popular engagements at City Center, “Cotton Club Parade” – a musical revue celebrating the Harlem nightclub during the Duke Ellington era – will move to Broadway this fall, its producers announced on Wednesday. With minimal spoken text, this 90-minute show recreates many of the big-band swing and blues numbers of the Cotton Club during the 1920s and ‘30s, with the score including works by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields (“I Can’t Give You Anything but Love”), Harold Arlen (“Stormy Weather,” “I’ve Got the World on a String”) and Ellington (“Rockin’ in Rhythm,” “Cotton Club Stomp”).

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