Kelli O'Hara to be featured in Marvin Hamlisch tribute airing on New Year's Eve on PBS
Oklahoma native and Broadway star Kelli O’Hara will be among the performers featured in the “Live from Lincoln Center” New Year’s Eve special “One Singular Sensation: Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch” on PBS.
In the Oklahoma City area, the special will air at 7 p.m. Monday on OETA.
A four-time Tony Award nominee, O’Hara was born in Elk City and raised in Edmond. She graduated from Deer Creeks schools and Oklahoma City University. She is currently co-starring with Matthew Broaderick in the Broadway musical “Nice Work if You Can Get It,” which premiered earlier this year.
Here is a synopsis for the PBS special:
The New York Philharmonic rings in 2013 with one singularly sensational night celebrating the life and work of Marvin Hamlisch including appearances by violinist Joshua Bell, Raul Esparza (“Company”) , Michael Feinstein, Maria Friedman (“The Woman In White,: :Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”), Josh Groban, Megan Hilty (NBC’s “Smash”), Audra McDonald, Kelli O’Hara (“South Pacific” and “Light in the Piazza:) and Frederica Von Stade.
As composer, Hamlisch, who died in August, won virtually every major award that exists: three Oscars, four Grammys, four Emmys, a Tony and three Golden Globe awards.
For Broadway he wrote the music for his groundbreaking show, “A Chorus Line,” which received the Pulitzer Prize as well as “They’re Playing Our Song,” “The Goodbye Girl” and “Sweet Smell of Success.”
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