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Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director

THE WALLIS AND MARK CORTALE PRESENT

BROADWAY @ THE WALLIS SIX-TIME TONY AWARD-WINNING STAR AUDRA McDONALD WITH SPECIAL GUEST SIRIUS XM RADIO STAR AS PIANIST & HOST THURSDAY, MAY 11 AT 7:00 & 9:30PM Bram Goldsmith Theater

Running Time: 90 minutes with no intermission. About the Artists

AUDRA MCDONALD holds telecast of “” with the recently published My Awesome/Awful Popularity the record for more Tony Best Underwood. Her film roles include , Plan (Random House). Seth played himself on “ Performance wins than any other Object of My Affection, It Runs in the Family, Best Griffin; My Life on the D-List,” was the vocal coach on actor in history, and is the only Thief in the World and Seven Servants. Ms. McDonald MTV’s Legally Blonde reality show and starred person to win all four acting just returned to the Broadway stage this spring and opposite in “They’re Playing Our Song” categories. She became a three- summer of 2016 with director George C. Wolfe and for the Actors Fund. He co-wrote and starred in time Tony Award winner by the dancer/choreographer Savion Glover in the musical Disaster! (which the Times called a age of 28 for her performances in , Master , Or, The Making of the Musical “triumph”) this past season on Broadway. Disaster! Class and , placing her alongside Shirley Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, a new also premiered to rave reviews in London’s West End Booth, and by retelling of an original musical by Eubie Blake and in . Seth writes a weekly column on accomplishing this feat within five years. She won Noble Sissle, for which she was nominated for a Tony .com and tours the country with this her fourth in 2004 for her role in , Award. Audra McDonald married in Broadway concert series and performing his one- a role she reprised for a 2008 television adaptation, 2012, and this past October they became new man show Deconstructing Broadway. For more earning her a second Emmy Award nomination. On parents to a baby girl. information visit sethrudetsky.com. June 10, 2012, McDonald scored her fifth Tony Award win for her portrayal of Bess in Broadway’s The SETH RUDETSKY is the ABOUT THE BROADWAY SERIES: Gershwin’s thus tying a record held afternoon host on Sirius/XM The Art House in Provincetown, MA, under the by and for most Tony Satellite Radio’s “On Broadway” leadership of Producing Artistic Director Mark Awards won by an actor. This past June she made as well as the host of Seth Cortale, is the original to the internationally history by winning her sixth Tony Award for her role Speaks on Sirius/XM Stars. As a acclaimed Broadway @ The Art House series hosted as in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and pianist, Seth has played for more by Seth Rudetsky. In its sixth season this past Grill. She also maintains her ties to classical than a dozen Broadway shows summer, the series presented Broadway superstars repertoire with an active concert and recording including Ragtime, Les Misérables and The including Audra McDonald, , Patti career, performing song cycles and as well as of the . He was the Artistic Producer/Music LuPone, Matthew Morrison, and concerts throughout the US. Audra’s many television Director for the first five annual Actors Fund Fall Vanessa Williams. The Broadway @ series premiered appearances include four seasons as Concerts including with Audra McDonald in 2013 in New Orleans, in ( and in “Private Practice,” as well as “Homicide: Life on the (recorded on ) and Hair with ) with Megan Mullaly and in London’s Street,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Having Our Say,” (recorded on Ghostlight Records, West End with Patti LuPone at the Leicester Square “Mister Sterling,” “The Bedford Diaries,” Grammy Nomination). In 2007 he made his Theater. The series has travelled to Fort Lauderdale “Kidnapped,” the TV remake of the musical “,” Broadway acting debut playing Sheldon (singing (The Broward Center), (The Kimmel and HBO’s “Wit” with and more “Magic to Do” in a devastating unitard) in The Ritz Center), (The Nourse Theatre) and recently as a cast member of “.” In directed by Joe Mantello for The Roundabout launched this month in with Audra December 2013 Audra won critical acclaim for her Theater. As an author, he penned the non-fiction Q McDonald (Scottsdale Center for the Performing performance as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s live Guide to Broadway, the novel Broadway Nights and Arts). More information at markcortalepresents.com