{"id":278585,"date":"2026-06-26T02:21:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:21:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:21:22","slug":"shuler-hensley-will-direct-on-the-town-concerts-at-carnegie-hall-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278585\/","title":{"rendered":"Shuler Hensley Will Direct On the Town Concerts at Carnegie Hall Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will be a helluva town for two nights next year at Carnegie Hall when the\u00a0Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s presents concert performances of the 1944\u00a0Broadway\u00a0musical\u00a0On the Town<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The famed orchestra is launching its new five-year initiative presenting classic American musicals in concert with the\u00a0Leonard Bernstein<\/a>–Betty Comden<\/a>–Adolph Green<\/a> musical. Performances are scheduled for 7 PM January 11-12, 2027, at the famed Manhattan venue.<\/p>\n

Tony winner Shuler Hensley<\/a> (Oklahoma!<\/a>)\u00a0will direct the concerts, which will be led by music director Rob Berman. Chase Brock<\/a> will choreograph, and casting will be announced at a later date. The forthcoming concerts follow the success of OSL\u2019s sold-out January 2026 performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s Oklahoma!<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are delighted to launch this new five-year initiative with the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, establishing a new tradition that brings concert versions of iconic musicals to our stage,\u201d said Carnegie Hall Executive and Artistic Director\u00a0Clive Gillinson\u00a0in a statement. \u201cWe look forward to kicking off the project with Leonard Bernstein\u2019s On the Town\u2014an exuberant love letter to New York City and a work that feels especially at home at Carnegie Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFollowing the tremendous success of Oklahoma! in Concert, we are thrilled to expand our partnership with Carnegie Hall through this exciting five-year series celebrating the rich legacy of American musical theatre,\u201d added OSL President and Executive Director\u00a0James Roe. \u201cThere is no better way to launch the series than with Bernstein\u2019s\u202fOn the Town\u2014a
\n joyful, quintessentially New York work brought to life by top creative
\nteam Rob Berman and Shuler Hensley. We look forward to sharing this
\nbeloved musical with audiences and building on OSL\u2019s tradition of bringing great music to life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Based on an idea by Jerome Robbins<\/a>, On the Town
\nfeatures music by Bernstein and a\u00a0book and lyrics by Comden
\nand Green. The musical opened at the Adelphi Theatre December 28,
\n 1944, directed by George Abbott<\/a> with choreography by Robbins,
\nand ran for 462 performances. The most recent Broadway revival played the Lyric in 2014.<\/p>\n

The musical\u00a0tells the tale of three American sailors on a 24-hour leave in New York City before they head off to fight in World War II. The classic score includes\u00a0“Come Up to My Place,” “I Can Cook, Too,” “Some Other Time,” and “New York, New York.”<\/p>\n

Single tickets will go on sale August 10. Visit\u00a0CarnegieHall.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It will be a helluva town for two nights next year at Carnegie Hall when the\u00a0Orchestra of St.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-278585","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\/278585","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=278585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}