Signature Theatre and Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts announce the headliners for the fifth annual musical theater collaboration, Broadway in the Park (Saturday, June 28 at 8PM). The concert will welcome Tony Award winners Lindsay Mendez (Merrily We Roll Along, Carousel) and Jessie Mueller (Waitress, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical) to the Filene Center at Wolf Trap and will feature a cast of Signature favorites.
CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
Lindsay Mendez most recently starred on stage in the critically acclaimed, Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along opposite Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe. She reprised her Tony nominated performance as “Mary Flynn” from the NYTW run, which garnered her the Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League, Drama Desk & Lortel nominations. In 2018, Mendez won the Tony Award as well as the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as “Carrie Pipperidge” in the revival of Carousel. On television, she starred in the FX anthology series “American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez” from Executive Producer Ryan Murphy as well as the Warner Bros television drama “All Rise” for CBS and OWN. Other Broadway credits include: Significant Other, Wicked (“Elphaba,” 10th Anniversary company), Godspell, Everyday Rapture, Grease. Off-Broadway/regional credits include: The Golden Apple (City Center Encores!), Dogfight (Second Stage; Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), The Rose Tattoo (Williamstown Theatre Festival), 35mm, The Winter’s Tale (Delacorte Theater). In addition to a debut album titled “This Time,” her concert work includes appearances with Lincoln Center’s American Songbook, the Library of Congress in Washington DC, the Kennedy Center, Feinstein’s/54 Below in NYC, Lyrics and Lyricists, the San Diego Symphony and the American Pops Orchestra. Other television and film credits include: “Station 19,” “Elementary,” “Modern Family,” “Smash,” “Murphy Brown,” Joanna Gleason’s feature debut “The Grotto,” and most recently the independent film “These Little Ones Perish.” In 2012, Mendez co-founded Actor Therapy, a training and mentorship program that she runs in New York City, with composer Ryan Scott Oliver.
Jessie Mueller is a Tony and Grammy award winning performer who was most recently seen on Broadway in Steppenwolf’s The Minutes by Tracy Letts. Previously, Jessie starred on Broadway in the revival of Carousel (Drama Desk Award, Tony, Grammy nominations). She originated the roles of Jenna in Waitress (Tony, Drama Desk, Grammy nominations) and Carole King in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Tony, Drama Desk, Grammy Awards). Other Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. She starred in the Kennedy Center’s Guys and Dolls, the New York Philharmonic’s staged concert production of Carousel at Lincoln Center (PBS) and Carnegie Hall’s Family and New York Pops series. TV/film: Patsy & Loretta, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, Evil, Candy, Chicago Voices (Chicago Emmy nomination), PBS Great Performances: Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway’s Best, Centaurworld, A Good Person, Secret Headquarters and Steven Spielberg’s The Post. Jessie hails from Chicago and is a proud Arts Education advocate for programs such as Rosie’s Theater Kids and a longtime supporter of Broadway Cares and Chicago’s Season of Concern.
The cast is rounded out with Signature Theatre favorites Felicia Curry (Signature’s The Scottsboro Boys, Broadway’s Into the Woods), Christian Douglas (Signature’s Gun & Powder, National Tour of Moulin Rouge), Kevin McAllister (Signature’s Ain’t Misbehavin’, Broadway’s Caroline, or Change), Tracy Lynn Olivera (Signature’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Broadway’s Ragtime), Nova Y. Payton (Signature’s Into the Woods, The Color Purple), Awa Sal Secka (Signature’s Ragtime, National Tour of Jaja’s African Hair Braiding), and Tobias A. Young (Signature’s Ragtime, Passing Strange). The show will be directed by Signature Theatre Artistic Director Matthew Gardiner; Jon Kalbfleisch is the music director and conductor.
EVENT INFORMATION
Date and Time:
Saturday, June 28 at 8PM
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 fifth annual Broadway in the Park. Tony Award winners Lindsay Mendez and Jessie Mueller 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 currently on sale at wolftrap.org.
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 142 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence in the Washington, DC region’s professional theater and has been honored with 527 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 three performance venues: the outdoor Filene Center and Children’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, both 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 7,028-seat Filene Center is operated in partnership with the National Park Service and annually showcases an extensive array of diverse artists, ranging from pop, country, folk, and blues to classical music, dance, and theatre, as well as multimedia presentations, from May through September. The Barns at Wolf Trap is operated by the Wolf Trap Foundation year-round, and during the summer months is home to the Grammy-nominated Wolf Trap Opera, one of America’s outstanding resident ensemble programs for young opera singers. Wolf Trap Foundation’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.
