New York Pops to Honor Kathleen & Rob Marshall at 2015 Gala

On Monday, May 4, 2015, The New York Pops celebrates its 32nd birthday with a grand gala evening honoring three-time Tony Award-winning director-choreographer Kathleen Marshall and Academy Award-nominated director-choreographer Rob Marshall. The event will be a true family affair, featuring highlights from the siblings' greatest triumphs in theatre, television, and film.

The gala begins at 7:00 PM with a concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring a spectacular lineup of stars from stage and screen under the baton of Music Director Steven Reineke. Performers to be announced. Following the concert, a black tie dinner and dance will be held at the elegant Mandarin Oriental New York.

Tickets for the concert-only will be available to the public in Spring 2015.

The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States, and the only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Led by Music Director Steven Reineke, the orchestra performs an annual subscription series and birthday gala at Carnegie Hall. The New York Pops was founded by Skitch Henderson in 1983 with a mission to create greater public awareness and appreciation of America's rich musical heritage. The New York Pops is dedicated to lifelong learning, and collaborates with public schools, community organizations, children's hospitals and senior centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City. PopsEd allows thousands of New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds to participate in fully customizable music programs that blend traditional education with pure fun. For more information visit www.newyorkpops.org and follow on Facebook (facebook.com/newyorkpops) and Twitter (@newyorkpops).

Steven Reineke is the Music Director and Conductor of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Principal Pops Conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and has been on the podium with the Boston Pops, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia. His extensive North American conducting appearances include San Francisco, Houston, Seattle, Edmonton and Pittsburgh.

Kathleen Marshall directed and choreographed the Broadway productions of Nice Work If You Can Get It, Anything Goes, Grease, The Pajama Game and Wonderful Town. She choreographed the Broadway productions of Boeing Boeing, Little Shop of Horrors, Follies, Seussical, Kiss Me, Kate, Ring Round the Moon, 1776 and Swinging On A Star, as well as the West End revival of Kiss Me, Kate. She served as assistant choreographer to her brother, Rob Marshall, on the Broadway productions of Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me and Damn Yankees. She is an Artistic Associate of City Center Encores!, where she was the Artistic Director for four seasons. For Encores!, she directed and choreographed The Band Wagon, I'm Getting My Act Together..., Bells Are Ringing, Applause, 70 Girls 70, House of Flowers, Carnival, Hair, Wonderful Town and Babes In Arms. For the New York Shakespeare Festival, she directed and choreographed Two Gentlemen of Verona and for Second Stage Theatre, she directed and choreographed Saturday Night, the New York premiere of Stephen Sondheim's first musical. For ABC/Disney, she directed and choreographed Once Upon A Mattress, starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett, and choreographed The Music Man, starring Matthew Broderick, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. She choreographed the musical sequences in the film My Week With Marilyn. She recently directed Joe DiPietro's Living On Love at the Williamstown Theatre Festival starring Renée Fleming. She has received three Tony Awards (out of nine nominations), three Drama Desk Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, the Astaire Award, the George Abbott Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for the Arts and was named a Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania. Ms. Marshall is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Scott Landis, and their twins Ella and Nathaniel.

Rob Marshall's films have been honored with a total of twenty-three Academy Award nominations - winning nine, including Best Picture. His most recent film is the Sondheim musical Into the Woods starring Meryl Streep, which opens December 2014. His directorial efforts include the Academy Award-winning films Chicago and Memoirs of a Geisha. For his work on Chicago, winner of six Oscars including Best Picture, Marshall received the Directors Guild Award, Oscar, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations, the National Board of Review Award and the New York Film Critics Online Award, both for best directorial debut, as well as the American Choreography Award. His epic film Memoirs of a Geisha was the winner of three Oscars, three BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe. Marshall's film version of the musical Nine was nominated for four Academy Awards, five Golden Globes, ten Critics' Choice Awards, and a SAG Award for best cast. His film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was one of the highest grossing films of all time.

Marshall executive produced, directed and choreographed the NBC television event "Tony Bennett: An American Classic." He won his second Directors Guild Award for this production, as well as three Emmy Awards. He directed and choreographed Disney/ABC's critically acclaimed movie musical Annie, which received 12 Emmy Award nominations and won the prestigious Peabody Award. For his work he received an Emmy Award for Choreography and an American Choreography Award. He is the recipient of the Cinema Audio Society Filmmaker Award, as well as the Distinguished Collaborator Award for the Costume Designers Guild.

A six-time Tony Award nominee and George Abbott Award winner, Marshall's stage work includes co-directing and choreographing the worldwide award-winning Broadway production of Cabaret and directing and choreographing the Broadway revival of Little Me, starring Martin Short. He made his Broadway choreographic debut with Kiss of the Spider Woman, directed by Harold Prince, which also played London's West End and Vienna. He followed that with productions of She Loves Me on Broadway and London; Damn Yankees on Broadway, National Tour and London; Blake Edwards' Victor/Victoria, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and Company on Broadway; The Petrified Prince at the New York Public Theater, and Promises, Promises for City Center Encores! Choreography credits include the Disney/ABC movie musical Cinderella (Emmy Award nomination), the CBS movie musical Mrs. Santa Claus (Emmy Award nomination), and "The Kennedy Center Honors" (Kander & Ebb and Chita Rivera tributes). Marshall holds a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University.

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