As part of MasterVoices, the symphonic choir, newly announced 2021-2022 80th anniversary production season will include a holiday concert starring Vanessa Williams. According to Playbill, the Tony, Emmy and Grammy nominee will headline a concert presentation of Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents‘ Anyone Can Whistle. The performance, set for March 10, 2022, at Carnegie Hall.
The story is about a struggling town and its unreliable leader, this 1964 Broadway flop-turned-cult-favorite features songs like “Everybody Says Don’t” and “There Won’t Be Trumpets.”
Williams will star as Cora Hoover Hooper in the production, conducted by Ted Sperling. A Tony nominee for her turn as The Witch in the 2002 revival of Into the Woods, Williams has also been seen on Broadway in Kiss of the Spider Woman, Sondheim on Sondheim, Vanessa Williams: Silver & Gold, The Trip to Bountiful and After Midnight. She is a three-time Emmy nominee for her performance as Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty.
Additional casting for this concert production is to come.