The iconic Broadway songwriter duo of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart will get a special one-night-only celebration at Carnegie Hall October 5. The special concert, titled A Celebration of Rodgers & Hart, will be co-hosted by Tony Goldwyn and Ethan Hawke, and feature performances from an “all-star lineup” to be announced, according to press notes.
The songlist is expected to include such classic standards as “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “Blue Moon,” “Glad to Be Unhappy,” “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was,” “I Wish I Were in Love Again,” “I’d Like to Poison Ivy,” “I’ll Tell the Man in the Street,” “It Never Entered My Mind,” “Manhattan,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Stonewall Moskowitz March,” “The Lady is a Tramp,” “The Lion King,” “This Can’t Be Love,” “Where or When,” and more.
Hawke is hosting the evening after earning an Academy Award nomination playing Hart in the 2025 biopic Blue Moon. Tony Goldwyn is a co-director on a revamped version of Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey that previously played New York City Center and Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. (the latter under the title Chez Joey).
The concert is being directed by Danny Mefford (Kimberly Akimbo, Dear Evan Hansen) and will feature music direction by Andrew Resnick (Just In Time) and continuity by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King).
Tickets will go on sale August 10 at 11 AM ET at CarnegieHall.org.