{"id":166966,"date":"2026-03-18T05:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T05:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T05:44:22","slug":"michael-mayer-to-direct-we-chose-to-go-to-the-moon-at-carnegie-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/166966\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Mayer to Direct We Chose to Go to the Moon at Carnegie Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Historian John Monsky’s\u00a0We Chose to Go to the Moon will play Carnegie Hall April 7-8, directed by Tony Award-winner Michael Mayer<\/a> (Spring Awakening<\/a>). The multimedia presentation combines, theatre, concert, and documentary to tell the story of the space race of the 1950s and ’60s, culminating in John F. Kennedy’s challenge in 1961 to land a man on the moon.<\/p>\n

The performance will feature the Orchestra of St.\u00a0Luke’s, led by conductor Ian Weinberger<\/a>, with Broadway soloists to be announced, performing music from the era, including “Fly Me to the Moon,”\u00a0“Rocket Man,” “Space Oddity,”\u00a0and “My Generation.”\u00a0The story follows the various perspectives of astronauts, scientists, mathematicians, and more, and will include a tribute to Neil Armstrong performed by his son Mark Armstrong, and granddaughter Kali Armstrong.<\/p>\n

We Chose to Go to the Moon is presented by Carnegie Hall as part of its\u00a0United in Sound:\u00a0America at 250\u00a0festival. The piece is produced by American History Unbound, Inc.,\u00a0with the support of Kenneth C.\u00a0Griffin in partnership with Griffin Catalyst.<\/p>\n

Monsky’s historical symphonic works have includes\u00a0The Vietnam War:\u00a0At Home and Abroad,\u00a0The Eyes of the World: From D-Day to VE Day, and\u00a0American Heart in WWI: A Carnegie Hall Tribute.<\/p>\n

We Chose to Go to the Moon\u00a0will be filmed by RadicalMedia for a national television broadcast later this year.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit\u00a0AmericanHistoryUnbound.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historian John Monsky’s\u00a0We Chose to Go to the Moon will play Carnegie Hall April 7-8, directed by Tony…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-166966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}