Bay Street Theater Hosts an Evening with Norm Lewis

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce Norm Lewis: Songs for a Summer Nighton Monday, July 9 at 8 pm. This is the second of 7 concerts that make up Bay Street Theater's Music Mondays concert series this summer. Tickets range from $69 - $125 and are on sale now at baystreet.org and through the Box Office at 631-725-9500.

Norm Lewis was recently seen as Caiaphas in the NBC television special Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper. He recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island, and as Sweeney Todd in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance. In May of 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera's first African American Phantom on Broadway. He has been seen on PBS in the Live From Lincoln Center productions of Showboat with Vanessa Williams, Norm Lewis: Who Am I?, and New Year's Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves, as well as American Voices with Renée Fleming and the PBS Special First You Dream - The Music of Kander & Ebb. He can be seen recurring in the VH1 series, Daytime Divas, also alongside Vanessa Williams. His additional television credits include Chicago Med, Gotham, The Blacklist, and Blue Bloods, as well as in his recurring role as Senator Edison Davis on the hit drama Scandal.

Mr. Lewis received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. Other Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who's Tommy. In London's West End he has appeared as Javert in Les Misérables and Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert, which aired on PBS.

Off-Broadway Mr. Lewis has performed in Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award), Shakespeare in the Park's The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League nomination), Captains Courageous, and A New Brain. His regional credits include Porgy in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (A.R.T.), Ragtime, Dreamgirls (with Jennifer Holliday), First You Dream, Sweeney Todd, and The Fantasticks.

In film, Mr. Lewis can be seen in the newly released drama, Magnum Opus, and has appeared in Winter's Tale, Sex and the City 2, Confidences, and Preaching to the Choir.

Music Mondays at Bay Street Theater bring the hottest cabaret acts to the East End! The remaining lineup for Music Mondays is as follows:

Monday, July 16 at 8 pm - Lucie Arnaz: I Got the Job! Songs From My Musical Past
Monday, August 6 at 8 pm - Isaac Mizrahi: Moderate to Severe
Monday, August 13 at 8 pm - Charles Busch: My Kinda '60s
Monday, August 20 at 8 pm - Bobby Conte Thornton: Blame It on My Youth
Monday, August 27 at 8 pm - Mandy Gonzales: Fearless!

Bay Street Theater is offering special deals of 20% off to those who purchase tickets to 3 or more Music Mondays shows.

The Box Office is currently open daily 11 am - Show Time. Tickets can be purchased by calling 631-725-9500 or by logging on to baystreet.org.

Bay Street Theater and Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. They serve as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.

Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski