SHULER HENSLEY TO DIRECT AND STAR IN “FIDDLER ON THE ROOF IN CONCERT” AT THEATRE ASPEN
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
THEATRE ASPEN
AND
THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL
TO PRESENT
“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
IN CONCERT”
IN THE MICHAEL KLEIN MUSIC TENT ON
TUESDAY, JULY 23
DIRECTED BY AND STARRING
TONY AWARD® WINNER
SHULER HENSLEY
WITH
ANNE L. NATHAN
CONDUCTED BY
ANDY EINHORN
TICKETS ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ON
MONDAY, APRIL 22 AT 12 PM MT
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Aspen, CO (April 11, 2024) – The Aspen Music Festival and School (Alan Fletcher, President and CEO) and Theatre Aspen (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director) announced today their fifth annual co-production of the 9-time Tony Award®-winning Fiddler on the Roof in Concert for a one-night only performance on Tuesday, July 23 at 7:30 PM in the Michael Klein Music Tent in Aspen, CO.
2024 marks the 60th anniversary of Fiddler on The Roof’s debut on Broadway, based on Sholem Aleichem stories by special permission of Arnold Perl. This Aspen presentation features John Williams‘ Oscar Award®-winning score adaptation, as heard in the 1971 feature film version of this timeless musical. Original score by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, based on book by Joseph Stein. Produced on the New York Stage by Harold Prince. Original New York Stage Production directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins.
The evening will build upon the success of past collaborations between the two organizations: Master Class in 2023, The Sound of Music in Concert in 2022, The Sweetest Sounds: The Music of Richard Rodgers in 2021 and South Pacific in 2019. The evening is presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma!, Young Frankenstein, The Music Man) will both direct and star in Fiddler on the Roof in Concert, reprising his role as ‘Tevye’ from the February 2024 Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra production, joined by Broadway’s Anne L. Nathan (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Sunday in the Park with George, Once) as his wife ‘Golde.’ Andy Einhorn (Carousel; Hello, Dolly!; Cinderella) will once again join the collaboration to conduct the 60 plus piece Aspen Music Festival and School’s student orchestra.
“2024 marks our fifth production with AMFS and we’re thrilled to commemorate that anniversary with ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ one of the longest-running shows on Broadway and an age-old classic, now more significant than we could imagine,” said Jed Bernstein, Producing Director. “In addition to the cast of Broadway luminaries, the production will showcase many local performers to round out our company. Bringing this show to the Michael Klein Tent for audiences old and new will be a wonderful addition to the Aspen summer season.”
“Each season we look forward to collaborating with our esteemed colleagues at Theatre Aspen to present the great musical theater works of our time,” said Alan Fletcher, president and CEO of The Aspen Music Festival and School. “’Fiddler’ has long been on our list. Its universal themes and iconic melodies touch something in all of us, and John Williams’s brilliant score is an ideal vehicle to showcase the talents of our young orchestral players as they share the stage with world-class Broadway talent.”
Excitingly, the principal company of Broadway luminaries will be joined by a cast of local performers and Theatre Aspen summer season company members. Final casting will be announced shortly.
For tickets, please visit https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/buy-tickets/. Tickets range between $60 – $125, a limited number of $30 tickets for youth 18 and under will be available. A limited number of $500 VIP tickets will be available which include exclusive access to the opening night cast party. Tickets go on sale Monday, April 22 at 12 PM MT.
Fiddler on The Roof in Concert is underwritten in part by a generous gift from Chuck Wall and Nancy Wall.
Theatre Aspen’s 41st Summer Season will run from June 17 – September 8 and will include three mainstage productions; Steel Magnolias, the Tony Award nominated Legally Blonde The Musical and the Tony Award award-winning Come From Away; followed by the 5th annual Solo Flights the organization’s developmental one-person show festival; and multiple special events, as well as three Theatre Aspen Education productions.
ABOUT THE ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL AND SCHOOL
Celebrating its 75th Anniversary Season in 2024, the AMFS is the United States’ premier classical music center for performance and education, presenting more than 200 musical events during its eight-week summer season in Aspen. The organization draws top classical musicians from around the world for a rich combination of performances of orchestral works, opera, chamber music, recitals, contemporary music, works by new or previously unrecognized voices, popular genres, family events, and talks, competitions, and classes.
More than 450 music students from 40 U.S. states and 40 countries come each summer to play in four orchestras, sing, conduct, compose and study with more than 100 artist-faculty members who come from the orchestras of Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Dallas, the Metropolitan Orchestra, and the leading conservatories and music schools like The Juilliard School, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and The Colburn School. Students represent the field’s best talent; many have already begun their professional careers, and others are on the cusp.
Renowned alumni include violinists Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Midori, Gil Shaham, and Robert McDuffie; pianists Joyce Yang, Orli Shaham, Conrad Tao, Yuja Wang, and Wu Han; conductors Marin Alsop, James Conlon, Leonard Slatkin and Joshua Weilerstein; composers William Bolcom, Philip Glass, David Lang, Augusta Read Thomas, Bright Sheng and Joan Tower; singers Isabel Leonard, Jamie Barton, Sasha Cooke, Danielle de Niese, Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw and Tamara Wilson; cellist Alisa Weilerstein; guitarist Sharon Isbin; bassist Edgar Meyer; and former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice.
BIOGRAPHIES
SHULER HENSLEY (Director/Tevye) is a multi-award-winning star of film, television, and the Broadway stage. Broadway: ‘Marcellus Washburn’ in The Music Man (2022); ‘Tom Kettle’ in The Ferryman; ‘Jud Fry’ in Oklahoma! (also at The National Theatre and London’s West End); ‘The Monster’ in Young Frankenstein (also National Tour); ‘Kerchak’ in Tarzan; ‘Javert’ in Les Misérables. Off-Broadway: Sweet and Sad (Obie Award). Opera: Wozzeck (Curtis Institute of Music), Regina (Kennedy Center). TV: “The O.A.,” “Ed,” “Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Criminal Intent.” Film: After Life; The Legend of Zorro; Van Helsing; Monday Night Mayhem; Someone Like You; The Bread, My Sweet; Opa!.
ANDY EINHORN (Conductor) is a leading Broadway music director and conductor, most recently serving as the music supervisor and musical director for the Broadway productions of Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler (Grammy nom, OBCR) and Carousel starring Renée Fleming (Grammy nom, OBCR.) Other Broadway music directing and conducting credits include Holiday Inn, Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Brief Encounter, Sondheim on Sondheim, Evita and The Light in the Piazza. Since 2011, Einhorn has served as music director and pianist for six-time Tony Award winner, Audra McDonald. His work can be currently heard on the national tour of Peter Pan. He is a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival. Andy Einhorn is an honors graduate of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
ANNE L. NATHAN (Golde). Broadway: Funny Girl, It Shoulda Been You, Once, Sunday in the Park with George, Chicago, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Ragtime. Off-Broadway: Sing Street (NYTW), Broadway Bounty Hunter (Greenwich House Theater), Sundown Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/WP) Taming Of The Shrew (Delacorte) Once (NYTW), Wings (2ST), Road Show (The Public). National tours: Chicago (Carbonell Award) Les Misérables, Aspects of Love. Film & TV: You Must Be Joking, Baby Mama, King of California, “Fleishman Is In Trouble,” “Little America,” “Elementary,” “The Good Wife,” “Dirt,” “Law & Order (SVU, Criminal Intent, Trial By Jury),” “Veronica Mars,” “What I Like About You.” Web Series: “Submissions Only.”
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