Branford’s Legacy Theatre Announces '24 Sunday Broadway Concert Series

Press release

BRANFORD, CT – Branford’s Legacy Theatre is thrilled to announce the 2024 lineup for the Sunday Broadway Concert Series! Broadway comes to Branford in this intimate Sunday afternoon concert series featuring stars from the biggest shows on stage today. Award-winning performers fresh from the Great Bright Way will entertain Legacy audiences with songs and stories brimming with NYC style, right here on the shoreline! The 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series is once again generously sponsored by Jana and Tom Shea. Subscriptions for the 2024 Sunday Broadway Concert Series are on sale now and can be purchased through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org.

The 2024 season features 7 Tony Award–winners and nominees: Broadway's L Morgan Lee (February 18), Kate Baldwin (March 10), Adam Pascal (April 7), Liz Callaway (April 21), Andrea McArdle (5/12), Alice Ripley (June 30), and Howard McGillin (October 6). All performances are on Sundays at 2pm.

Tony Award–nominee L Morgan Lee is most known for her history-making turn in A Strange Loop on Broadway. The performance also garnered her an Antonyo Award for Featured Performance in a Musical, an Obie Award, and a Drama League Distinguished Performance nomination. In London, she was seen playing the titular role in a musical adaptation of The Danish Girl – currently in development. Other work includes well over a decade of Off-Broadway, Regional, International/National concerts, and tours with artists from Paul McCartney to Our Lady J. In the studio, L Morgan was the voice of Ornate Williams in Sugar Maple w. Fred Savage (Osiris Media) and can be found on Joe Iconis' album (Ghostlight Records), Ethan Carlson's Her Sound, vol. 3, The Rainbow Lullaby Album (Broadway Records), Soft Butter (Kauffman/Teris), and the Grammy-nominated BCR of A Strange Loop (Sh-K-Boom Records).

Kate Baldwin is a two-time Tony Award–nominee and four-time Drama Desk–nominee, having starred on Broadway as Irene Molloy in the revival of Hello, Dolly! and the 2009 revival of Finian's Rainbow as Sharon McLonergan. She originated the roles of Sandra Bloom in Big Fish on Broadway and Leslie Lynnton Benedict Giant at The Public Theatre. She starred as Jen in Keen Company's revival of John & Jen and garnered a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Superhero at Second Stage. Other Broadway credits: The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Wonderful Town. She starred in The King and I at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Women at The Old Globe, Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, She Loves Me at Williamstown Theatre Festival, and The Music Man and South Pacific at Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award nomination) What the Constitution Means to Me at Berkshire Theatre Group. On television, her work includes a guest star on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU and a featured role in the PBS filming of Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and the Disney + series Just Beyond.

In 1996, Adam Pascal tried out for the then unknown, off-Broadway production of Rent. He landed the role of Roger Davis. Adam was nominated for a 1996 Tony Award as Best Actor (Musical) and won a Drama League and Obie award for his performance as Roger. Further credits include Radames in Elton John and Tim Rice's musical Aida, the final Emcee in the Sam Mendes/Rob Marshall production of Cabaret at Studio 54, Billy Flynn in Chicago, originating the role of Chad in Broadway's Disaster, and William Shakespeare in the 2017 national tour of Something Rotten!. Most recently, onstage, he starred as Edward Lewis in Pretty Woman on Broadway and the first National Tour. Offstage, Adam just finished directing his first production of Rent at From Stage to Screen Studios on Long Island.

Tony–nominee and Emmy–winner Liz Callaway made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along. She has gone on to star in Baby, Miss Saigon, The Look of Love, The Three Musketeers, and for 5 years appeared as Grizabella in Cats. Off-Broadway appearances include The Spitfire Grill (Drama Desk nomination), Marry Me a Little, and Brownstone. Regional and international credits include the one-person play Every Brilliant Thing, Dot in Sunday in the Park with George, Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, and the European premiere of Sondheim on Sondheim at London’s Royal Festival Hall. Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia. Other film work includes Jasmine in the two Aladdin sequels, The Swan Princess, and The Rewrite with Hugh Grant. Her extensive concert and symphony career has included appearances in London, Paris, Vietnam, Australia, China, and nearly every major city in the United States. She performs regularly with her sister Ann Hampton Callaway, as well as composer Stephen Schwartz, and has had the pleasure of singing with Jimmy Webb, Paul Williams, and the legendary Johnny Mathis. Liz has eight solo recordings, including her newest, grammy-nominated album, To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim.

Andrea McArdle originated the title role in Annie in 1977, became the youngest performer ever to be nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical, and went on to perform the role in London’s West End. On Broadway, she has starred in Jerry’s Girls, Starlight Express, State Fair, Les Misérables, and Beauty and the Beast. She starred as Sally Bowles in the national tour of Cabaret and has played the title role of Mame and Hello, Dolly!. On PBS she has appeared in Andrea McArdle on Broadway and The Leading Ladies of Broadway. Ms. McArdle has performed in concert halls from Carnegie Hall to the best showrooms in Las Vegas to the MET Opera House as well as The White House.

Alice Ripley received the Best Actress Tony award for her performance as Diana Goodman in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal. Ms. Ripley's body of work includes being a member of seven original Broadway casts, including Side Show, which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Actress. TV: 30 Rock, Blue Bloods, Girlboss, Inventing Anna, Royal Pains. Film: SUGAR!, Isn't It Delicious, The Adulterer, Fever, Sing Along.

Best known for his record-setting performance in the title role of The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, Howard McGillin appeared in this past season’s Tony–winning Parade. Other Broadway credits include Gigi, The Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me, The Secret Garden, Anything Goes (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, and a Theatre World Award), and Sunday in the Park with George. On London’s West End, Howard starred in Mack and Mabel as well as Anything Goes. A Drama Desk nomination for his NY theatrical debut in the NY Shakespeare Festival's La Bohème, as well as Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce directed by Harold Prince at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where he was nominated for a Helen Hayes Award. His Off-Broadway credits include Black No More at the Signature Theatre, and opposite Charles Busch in The Confession of Lily Dare at the Cherry Lane. Howard has sung on concert stages around the world including Carnegie Hall, with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv, and in Tokyo at Theatre Orb. Film credits include Tick, Tick, Boom, South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut, The Swan Princess, TV’s The Blacklist, The Good Wife, and Elementary. Howard’s solo CD: Where Time Stands Still.

Legacy’s 2024 Season will also include the Mainstage Series, children's and family programming, special events, and more. Additional titles will be announced in January 2024 when single tickets go on sale. Legacy’s Colin Sheehan, producer of the Sunday Broadway Concert Series and Community Arts Coordinator, put it this way; “Each year these concerts get better and better, and I still have to pinch myself that this caliber of Broadway talent (that I waited at the stage door for in my younger years for a picture/autograph) are performing in my hometown! That said, a few of this year’s concerts did sell out so I suggest subscribing early to avoid disappointment. Our 2024 series will be even more popular!”

Two different (partial and full season) concert series subscriptions are now available at a discount through the Box Office (203.315.1901) or Legacy’s website, LegacyTheatreCT.org. The Box Office is open Monday-Friday, 10am-3pm. The Legacy Theatre is located in the village of Stony Creek in Branford, CT, at 128 Thimble Islands Road.