Signature Theatre and Wolf Lure Basis for the Performing Arts announce the headliners for his or her sixth annual musical theater collaboration, Broadway within the Park (Saturday, June 20 at 8 PM). The live performance will welcome Emmy Award nominee Tituss Burgess (Netflix’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Broadway’s Oh, Mary!) and Tony Award winner Heather Headley (Broadway’s Aida, The Lion King) to the Filene Heart at Wolf Lure and can characteristic a solid of Signature favorites. The present can be directed by Signature Theatre Inventive Director Matthew Gardiner; Jon Kalbfleisch is the music director and conductor.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Emmy and SAG-nominated actor, musician, and author Tituss Burgess is without doubt one of the leisure trade’s most versatile and dynamic performers, together with his work in tv, movie, and theater producing each important and business acclaim. Tituss starred as ‘Titus Andromedon’ within the hit Netflix comedy sequence Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. After 4 seasons on the present, he garnered nominations for 4 consecutive Emmy Awards for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Collection, a SAG Award for Excellent Efficiency by a Male Actor in a Comedy Collection, and two Critics’ Selection TV Awards for Greatest Supporting Actor in a Comedy Collection. He reprised his function within the Netflix interactive particular Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend and was nominated for an Emmy for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Restricted Collection or Film.
On stage, Burgess most not too long ago starred as Mary Todd Lincoln in a restricted run of Cole Escola’s hit Broadway comedy, Oh, Mary! He made his Broadway debut in 2005 as ‘Eddie’ in Good Vibrations. Since then, he’s held many memorable roles, together with ‘Hal Miller’ in Jersey Boys, ‘Properly-Properly Johnson’ within the 2009 revival of Guys and Dolls, ‘Sebastian the Crab’ in The Little Mermaid, and ‘Harold Zidler’ in Moulin Rouge. In Might 2024, Tituss debuted his personal musical adaptation of The Preacher’s Spouse at Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre.
Tituss will subsequent star within the upcoming animated characteristic movie The Cat within the Hat. He has additionally starred within the MGM Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, the comedy Set It Up and the biopic Dolemite Is My Title, each for Netflix. An achieved voice actor, Tituss starred within the animated musical comedy sequence Central Park for Apple TV+, for which he was nominated for an Emmy for Excellent Character Voice-Over Efficiency, his sixth Emmy nomination. In 2024, his voice abilities featured in Netflix’s animated characteristic Spellbound, through which he starred because the voice of ‘Sunny’ – Oracle of the Solar alongside Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, John Lithgow, Jenifer Lewis and Nathan Lane. Tituss presently resides in New York.
Tony and Grammy Award winner Heather Headley considers her multi-faceted profession a blessing. She was born and spent most of her childhood on the attractive Caribbean island of Trinidad. The household moved to america within the early 90’s the place Heather’s love for the humanities continued.
In 1997 Heather gained the function of Nala within the authentic Broadway solid of Elton John and Tim Rice’s hit Tony-winning musical The Lion King. Whereas nonetheless in The Lion King, Heather was requested to audition for the title function within the writing duo’s subsequent Broadway enterprise collectively, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. Her portrayal of the Nubian princess, Aida, gained her the reward of critics and the celebrated Tony Award for Greatest Actress in a Musical. Along with different awards, she additionally obtained the coveted Drama Desk Award for Excellent Actress in a Musical. That yr she was listed as one among Individuals Journal’s 50 Most Lovely Individuals and Essence Journal’s 30 Girls To Watch. In 2012 Heather made a triumphant return to the stage, starring in The Bodyguard in London’s West Finish, the place she gained the critics reward and a brand new fan base abroad.
Heather continued her musical success on the pop charts along with her 2002 debut album on RCA Data, This Is Who I Am which featured productions by a number of top-flight producers. Two songs, “He Is” and the album monitor “I Want I Wasn’t,” each emerged as Prime 5 R&B and Dance chart hits. Heather earned quite a few accolades for This Is Who I Am, together with Grammy Award nominations for Greatest New Artist and Greatest Feminine R&B Vocal Efficiency. Heather returned in January 2006 with In My Thoughts, her long-awaited second solo album. The opening title tune single turned Heather’s first #1 hit, topping the Dance and R&B charts.
In 2009 Heather launched Viewers of One for which she gained the Grammy Award for the Greatest Modern R&B Gospel Album. In 2012 she launched Solely One In The World, an album that featured songs that Heather wrote in addition to a few of her favourite songs that she lined. To the viewers and critics’ delight, Heather made her return to Broadway in 2016 starring within the Tony Award-winning The Colour Purple in function of Shug Avery. In 2018 Heather had a recurring function on Chicago Med taking part in the formidable Gwen Garrett. In 2021 Heather gained the critics’ reward for her function of the Witch within the New York Metropolis Heart’s manufacturing of Into The Woods. Heather can presently be seen as a sequence common on the Netflix sequence Candy Magnolias.
Broadway within the Park, offered by Signature Theatre and Wolf Lure Basis for the Performing Arts, performs Saturday, June 20 at 8:00 PM on the Filene Heart at Wolf Lure, 1551 Lure Rd, Vienna, VA. Tickets begin at $49.50 and can be found on the Wolf Lure field workplace, by cellphone at 703.255.1868, or on-line.
ABOUT SIGNATURE THEATRE
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award-winning regional theater that broadens and brightens the area’s cultural panorama with its daring productions of difficult new and established works and fascinating training and outreach packages. Based in 1989 by Eric Schaeffer and Donna Migliaccio, and presently underneath the management of Managing Director Maggie Boland and Inventive Director Matthew Gardiner, musical theater is Signature’s “signature,” and the Theatre is famend for its definitive Sondheim productions, creative diversifications of neglected or forgotten works, and funding in recent new tasks. Signature combines Broadway-caliber productions with intimate taking part in areas and goals to be a number one power in U.S. musical theater.
Since its inception, the Theatre has produced 61 world premiere works — together with 20 new musical commissions. Signature opens its doorways to greater than 100,000 folks yearly from the Washington, DC area and past and reaches greater than 10,000 college students yearly by way of its modern teaching programs, together with the award-winning initiative Signature within the Faculties. Signature has gained 148 Helen Hayes Awards for excellence within the Washington, DC area’s skilled theater and has been honored with 527 nominations.
ABOUT WOLF TRAP
Wolf Lure Basis for the Performing Arts, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, produces and presents a full vary of efficiency and teaching programs within the Higher Washington space, in addition to nationally. Wolf Lure options three efficiency venues: the out of doors Filene Heart and Youngsters’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, each positioned at Wolf Lure Nationwide Park for the Performing Arts, and The Barns at Wolf Lure, positioned adjoining to the Heart for Schooling at Wolf Lure. The 7,028-seat Filene Heart is operated in partnership with the Nationwide Park Service and yearly showcases an intensive array of various artists, starting from pop, nation, folks, and blues to classical music, and dance from Might by way of September. The Barns at Wolf Lure is operated by Wolf Lure Basis year-round, and in the course of the summer season months is house to the Grammy-nominated Wolf Lure Opera, one among America’s excellent skilled coaching packages for early profession opera singers. Wolf Lure’s teaching programs embody the nationally acclaimed Wolf Lure Institute for Early Studying By way of the Arts, Youngsters’s Theatre-in-the-Woods, a nationally acknowledged internship program, arts training courses, and grantmaking packages.
