Stokes Mitchell, Cantone, Barrett Join Bway Under the Stars

By: Jun. 10, 2005
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Brian Stokes Mitchell (Ragtime), Mario Cantone (Assassins) and Brent Barrett (Chicago) have joined the star-studded, leading man-heavy cast of the 4th Annual Broadway Under the Stars, a free outdoor performance in Bryant Park on Monday, June 13th at 8:30 PM.

The concert will celebrate the songbooks of Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, On the Twentieth Century, City of Angels, Will Rogers Follies) and John Kander and Fred Ebb (Chicago, Cabaret, Zorba, Kiss of the Spider Woman); Coleman and Ebb passed away last year, sadly.

Also lined up to perform in the concert are Norbert Leo Butz (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Michael Cerveris (Assassins), Raul Esparza (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Dan Fogler (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), Hunter Foster (Urinetown), Victor Garber (the original cast of Sweeney Todd), Cheyenne Jackson (All Shook Up), Marc Kudisch (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Christopher Sieber (Spamalot) and Tom Wopat (Glengarry Glen Ross). Christina Applegate (Sweet Charity), country singer Billy Currington (Mercury Records), Rachelle Rak (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and The Radio City Rockettes will also show up for special appearances.

Tony Award-Winner Scott Wittman (Hairspray) will direct the performance and Music Director Phil Reno conducts the 30-piece live orchestra.

Bryant Park is located between 40th – 42nd Street at 6th Avenue; the lawns open at 6 PM before the 8:30 concert.

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