{"id":373886,"date":"2026-07-15T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373886\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T11:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T11:16:08","slug":"tony-winner-joshua-henry-promises-a-soulful-celebration-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/373886\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony winner Joshua Henry promises a soulful celebration in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off the biggest honor of his Broadway career, Joshua Henry<\/a> is bringing his celebration to Dallas.<\/p>\n

Henry will perform with the Plano Symphony Orchestra in \u201cGet Up, Stand Up!\u201d<\/a> at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, August 15, at the Meyerson Symphony Center. The concert will be Henry\u2019s first since winning the 2026 Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for playing Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be my first concert after winning a Tony Award,\u201d Henry told KRLD\u2019s John Liddle. \u201cIt\u2019s very exciting for me to just celebrate with a new audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry says the audience should not expect a traditional sit-down symphony performance. The program will combine Broadway favorites, R&B, soul and plenty of audience participation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love to get people celebrating,\u201d Henry said. \u201cI like to get people off their feet and in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concert will feature Henry\u2019s soulful arrangements of classics including \u201cSummertime\u201d and \u201cFeeling Good,\u201d along with music from shows that helped define his Broadway career.<\/p>\n

Henry spent about a year and a half playing Aaron Burr in productions of Hamilton in Chicago and California. He also plans to perform music from Waitress, including \u201cYou Matter to Me,\u201d a song he says carries an especially important message.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love to let people know that they\u2019re not alone,\u201d Henry said. \u201cIt\u2019s equal parts celebration, sing-along.\u201d<\/p>\n

He is also promising to give the Meyerson audience a crash course in soul music.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to give you three foolproof ways to fake your way to doing soul music,\u201d Henry joked. \u201cTrust me, I got you.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Tony moment shared with family<\/p>\n

Henry won his first Tony Award in June for his performance as Coalhouse Walker Jr. in the Broadway revival of Ragtime. The American Theatre Wing named him the year\u2019s best leading actor in a musical.<\/p>\n

Henry said the moments after presenter Darren Criss called his name remain vivid.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything went in slow motion,\u201d Henry said. \u201cEveryone stood up in that theater, and I knew I belonged there in the theater community.\u201d<\/p>\n

His wife, children, siblings and first voice teacher were there to share the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a magical night,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n

During his acceptance speech, Henry reminded his children that awards come after years of practice, failure and perseverance. He told KRLD those lessons began with his parents, who taught him that the value of hard work does not depend on recognition.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou practice hard and you serve even when there\u2019s no applause,\u201d Henry said. \u201cThat\u2019s something that I want to give my boys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finding hope in Ragtime<\/p>\n

Henry said fatherhood has also deepened his connection with Coalhouse Walker Jr., whose hopes for his young family drive much of Ragtime.<\/p>\n

He described Coalhouse as a character filled with \u201cferocious dreaming\u201d and an enduring belief that a brighter future remains possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are we without hope?\u201d Henry said. \u201cIf we\u2019ve lost our ability to dream of a better outcome, a brighter day ahead, we have lost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Henry said performing \u201cWheels of a Dream\u201d allows him to bring together his faith, his own experience as a father and his belief in looking toward a future that cannot yet be seen.<\/p>\n

The next conversation<\/p>\n

Henry is already looking beyond Ragtime. He and Julia Harriman have co-written a new musical called The Conversation<\/a>, which will begin an Off-Broadway engagement this fall under the direction of Tony Award winner Kenny Leon.<\/p>\n

The contemporary musical explores relationships and the words couples say\u2014or leave unsaid\u2014as they build a life together.<\/p>\n

Henry, who has been with his wife for 20 years, said the story examines the conversations that can deepen relationships and break destructive patterns.<\/p>\n

Musically, the show moves into a different world from Ragtime, using the pop, soul and R&B sounds Henry and Harriman grew up loving.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t shy away from any of those hard things that we have to say, or the things that we don\u2019t say,\u201d Henry said. \u201cI can\u2019t wait for audiences to hear this incredible, banging score and a story about what connection can really mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before that next chapter begins, Henry says Dallas has a celebration coming.<\/p>\n

\u201cAugust 15 is going to be a party,\u201d Henry said. \u201cI\u2019m due for a celebration. Bring some dancing shoes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Event details<\/p>\n

What: \u201cGet Up, Stand Up! Joshua Henry in Concert with the Plano Symphony Orchestra\u201d<\/a>
When: Saturday, August 15, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas
Conductor: H\u00e9ctor Guzm\u00e1n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off the biggest honor of his Broadway career, Joshua Henry is bringing his celebration to Dallas. Henry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-373886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}