Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts have announced the headliners for their fourth annual musical theater collaboration, Broadway in the Park (Saturday, June 29 at 8 PM). The show will welcome Broadway and film & TV stars Laura Benanti and Jordan Fisher to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts and will feature a cast of Signature favorites.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti is a highly celebrated stage and screen actress. In film, Benanti recently starred in Sony Pictures’ No Hard Feelings and Netflix’s Worth. She can be seen in Max’s The Gilded Age and Hulu’s Life & Beth. In the theater, Benanti took Broadway by storm at the age of 18 as Maria in The Sound of Music and has subsequently starred in ten more Broadway shows including Into the Woods, Nine, Gypsy (for which she won a Tony Award), She Loves Me, My Fair Lady, and Meteor Shower. Most recently, she debuted an original musical comedy show for Audible titled Nobody Cares, which she created, wrote, and starred in.
Jordan Fisher is an actor, singer-songwriter, and producer who is currently starring as Orpheus in the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown. Jordan originated the role of Anthony in the Tony-nominated Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and also starred in and produced Netflix’s Hello, Goodbye, and Everything In Between and was one of the voices of 4*Town in Disney and Pixar’s Oscar-nominated feature, Turning Red. Jordan portrayed Evan in Broadway’s Tony Award-winning Dear Evan Hansen, Mark in Fox’s Emmy-nominated Rent: Live, was in Fox’s Emmy-winning broadcast Grease Live! and the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton.
The cast is rounded out with Signature Theatre favorites Felicia Curry (Signature’s The Scottsboro Boys, Broadway’s Into the Woods), Rayanne Gonzales (Signature’s The Bridges of Madison County, National Tour of Into the Woods), Katie Mariko Murray (Signature’s Into the Woods, National Tour of Disney’s Frozen), Kevin McAllister (Signature’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, Broadway’s Caroline, or Change), Tracy Lynn Olivera (Signature’s Assassins, Broadway’s Ragtime), Matthew Scott (Signature’s Ragtime, Broadway’s An American in Paris), and Tobias A. Young (Signature’s Ragtime, Ford’s Little Shop of Horrors). The show will be directed by Signature Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner; Jon Kalbfleisch is music director and conductor.
EVENT INFORMATION
Date and Time:
Saturday, June 29 at 8 PM
Venue:
Wolf Trap – Filene Center
1551 Trap Road
Vienna, VA 22182
Event Listing:
Experience unforgettable live performances of your favorite show tunes as Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap come together for the fourth annual Broadway in the Park. Broadway stars Laura Benanti (Gypsy, Max’s The Gilded Age) and Jordan Fisher (Hadestown, Sweeney Todd) join some of Signature’s favorite performers for a glorious night of musical theater.
Ticketing and On-Sale Information:
- Tickets for Broadway in the Park are on sale now.
- Tickets may be purchased online at wolftrap.org or in person at the Filene Center Box Office, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, VA. Box office hours are Monday through Friday, 10 AM to 4 PM.
ABOUT SIGNATURE
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award-winning regional theater that broadens and brightens the region’s cultural landscape with its bold productions of challenging new and established works and engaging education and outreach programs. Founded in 1989 by Eric Schaeffer and Donna Migliaccio, and currently under the leadership of Managing Director Maggie Boland and Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner, musical theater is Signature’s “signature,” and the Theatre is renowned for its definitive Sondheim productions, inventive adaptations of overlooked or forgotten works, and investment in fresh new projects. Signature combines Broadway-caliber productions with intimate playing spaces and aims to be a leading force in U.S. musical theater.
Since its inception, the Theatre has produced 61 world premiere works—including 20 new musical commissions. Signature opens its doors to more than 100,000 people annually from the Washington, DC region and beyond and reaches more than 10,000 students every year through its innovative education programs, including the award-winning initiative Signature in the Schools. Signature has won 140 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region’s professional theater and has been honored with 502 nominations.
ABOUT WOLF TRAP
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, produces and presents a full range of performance and education programs in the Greater Washington area, as well as nationally. Wolf Trap features four performance venues: the outdoor Filene Center, Meadow Stage, and Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, located at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and The Barns at Wolf Trap, located down the road from the national park and adjacent to the Center for Education at Wolf Trap. The Filene Center, Meadow Stage, and Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods are operated in partnership with the National Park Service and annually showcase an extensive array of diverse artists, ranging from pop, country, folk, and blues to classical music, dance, and theater, as well as multimedia presentations, from May through September. The Barns at Wolf Trap is operated by Wolf Trap Foundation year-round, and during the summer months is home to the Grammy-nominated Wolf Trap Opera, one of America’s outstanding professional training programs for early career opera singers. Wolf Trap’s education programs include the nationally acclaimed Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, and a nationally recognized internship program.
