The Town Hall Presents 2025-2026 SEASON
SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 • 7PM
WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE AND THE TOWN HALL PRESENT CHANDRIKA TANDON DIVINE ECSTASY
OCTOBER 7, 2025 • 8PM TOKYO GHOUL 10th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
OCTOBER 9, 2025 • 7PM MARTHA REDBONE: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
OCTOBER 10, 2025 • 7PM KAIZERS ORCHESTRA
OCTOBER 30, 2025 • 7PM
VAGABOND MEDIA AND THE TOWN HALL PRESENT FOR the LOVE of GOD! A SPECTACULAR NIGHT OF QAWWALI, SUFI AND GOSPEL MUSIC
NOVEMBER 1, 2025 • 2PM & 7PM DISNEY & PIXAR’S COCO in CONCERT LIVE to FILM
DECEMBER 15, 2025 • 7PM ANA GASTEYER SUGAR & BOOZE
DECEMBER 16, 2025 • 7PM WORLD PREMIERE SYMPHONY & SENSIBILITY: THE MUSIC OF JANE AUSTEN IN FILM
DECEMBER 19-20, 2025 • 8PM TAYLOR MAC’S HOLIDAY SAUCE
FEBRUARY 6, 2026 WORLD PREMIERE BODY & SOUL
MARCH 28, 2026 • 7PM THE MUSIC OF TAYLOR SWIFT: A SYMPHONIC TRIBUTE
JUNE 5, 2026 • 7PM KIERRA SHEARD-KELLY THE PRINCESS OF GOSPEL
JUNE 25-26, 2026 • 7PM JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2025 • 8PM
MUSIC & LYRICS BY Rufus Wainwright
BOOK BY Ivo Van Hove
WITH
Sara Bareilles
Justin Vivian Bond
Darren Criss
Patti LuPone
Elizabeth Teeter
Rufus Wainwright
Betsy Wolfe
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TAYLOR MAC’S HOLIDAY SAUCE
Christmas as calamity – Ibsen Award winner, MacArthur Fellow, and Pulitzer Prize finalist, Taylor Mac, takes on the holidays to celebrate the season in all of its dysfunction. There is more to the holidays than rampant gift giving – in Taylor’s world, creativity and imagination are their own spirituality. Taylor Mac reminds us of the collective power of our chosen families, a message that rings true in spite of capitalism’s attempt to hijack the holidays. For this production, Taylor Mac is joined by longtime collaborators, designer Machine Dazzle, Music Director Matt Ray and a spectacular band to reframe the songs you love and the holidays you hate. “Mac casts a cathartic spell… for all those who find caroling, eggnog and enforced family visits destabilizing” (Los Angeles Times)
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Welcome! And, may I add, congratulations. You are attending one of New York’s and America’s essential meeting houses, music venues and cultural institutions. I know that you will find the Town Hall Presents programming you are attending tonight to be timely and compelling. And each of our productions is an expression of our commitment to bring you significant, unique, eclectic and down right delightful events throughout the calendar year.
Welcome! And, may I add, congratulations. You are attending one of New York’s and America’s essential meeting houses, music venues and cultural institutions. I know that you will find the Town Hall Presents programming you are attending tonight to be timely and compelling. And each of our productions is an expression of our commitment to bring you significant, unique, eclectic and down right delightful events throughout the calendar year.
There is no place like The Town Hall. Founded “to promote good citizenship, social justice and general enlightenment through the education and expression of public opinion,” our hall’s world-class acoustics quickly became a calling card, and for over a century, playing The Town Hall stage continues to be a ‘must’ for musicians and singers from all genres and backgrounds.
There is no place like The Town Hall. Founded “to promote good citizenship, social justice and general enlightenment through the education and expression of public opinion,” our hall’s world-class acoustics quickly became a calling card, and for over a century, playing The Town Hall stage continues to be a ‘must’ for musicians and singers from all genres and backgrounds.
Whether visiting our storied auditorium for the first time, or returning to experience yet another great night live on our stage, you can feel the vitality in the room. The Town Hall is truly contemporary; purpose-built to open its doors to art, ideas and especially to you.
Whether visiting our storied auditorium for the first time, or returning to experience yet another great night live on our stage, you can feel the vitality in the room. The Town Hall is truly contemporary; purpose-built to open its doors to art, ideas and especially to you.
Upon its dedication in 1921, The League for Political Education opened the building you are now sitting in with the watchwords:
Upon its dedication in 1921, The League for Political Education opened the building you are now sitting in with the watchwords:
“It does not matter who you are, what you are, or from where you come, you are welcome.”
“It does not matter who you are, what you are, or from where you come, you are welcome.”
As president of the non-profit organization that preserves our landmarked auditorium and produces the Town Hall Presents events like the one you are attending tonight, I thank you for coming to The Town Hall. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, and our incredible staff of professionals, I echo the sentiment of our founders and assure you that you are always welcome here.
As president of the non-profit organization that preserves our landmarked auditorium and produces the Town Hall Presents events like the one you are attending tonight, I thank you for coming to The Town Hall. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, and our incredible staff of professionals, I echo the sentiment of our founders and assure you that you are always welcome here.
Nevin Steinberg , President
Nevin Steinberg
About the Program
“John Cassavetes’ Opening Night ” is the first stage musical with music, lyrics, and orchestrations by Rufus Wainwright. It premiered in London at the Gielgud Theater in the spring of 2024. The book and direction were by Ivo van Hove. It is based on the 1977 movie Opening Night by American avant-garde director John Cassavetes. It tells the story of an actress, Myrtle Gordon, played by Cassavetes’ wife, Gena Rowlands, who is premiering a play written for her that is about a woman coming to terms with aging. Myrtle Gordon does not come to terms with her own aging and rebels against the play and throws the entire production into jeopardy. A young female fan asking her for an autograph at the stage door gets killed by a car as she runs off onto the street. Myrtle is being haunted by the young girl. On opening night, she arrives completely drunk but ultimately does what she does best: act and improvise. Part “All About Eve” Opening Night is the story of an actress who risks madness for her truth.
Rufus Wainwright has reached out to a group of friends and colleagues in the music and musical theater world to perform the songs from Opening Night in a one-nightonly special concert at Town Hall, which will support the ACLU. Jason Hart, who was in Rufus’ band for many years, is the music director and is leading the orchestra that will perform Wainwright’s original West End arrangements. Wainwright will join the cast of talented performers and sing some of the songs himself, and act as the MC, leading through the evening and explaining the story of the musical.
A NOTE FROM Pete Townshend
I was blown away by this show when I saw it in London in 2024. It is pure music theatre in one breath, and the high drama of celebrity anxiety and depression in the other. The songs are superb, finely focussed and all working to drive the story along, but exciting and entertaining at the same time. Rufus Wainwright is a polymath, a supremely audacious artist, but music is always his prime language and with this production he exercises his songwriting skills with wit, courage and a perfect sense of mischievous humour. Here we see his creation of a vulnerable actress, struggling with her career at a critical stage, and at the same time battling with her love life in mid-life. All the time she works to make perfect the opening night of a new Broadway musical. It reminded me of my own life in music and music theatre and the uncertain lives of so many actors I know. The stresses and strains of it all are monstrous, but once the stage is set, and the lights go up in front of an audience, magic happens. Rufus has retooled this Hollywood story for our modern day, where nothing is certain in the music business, and every star can crash down without warning at any moment. And yet the story is full of hope and joy and the idea that in order to succeed at anything we have to be prepared to fail. Opening Night holds a mirror to the very nature of music theatre itself.
A NOTE FROM Rufus Wainwright
For me, John Cassavetes’s movie Opening Night has long been a shining beacon representing both excellence in cinema and the might of live theatre. An intense marriage of film and stage it is about a very personal mental and creative survival that I think we can all relate to on a very deep human level. I’ve been waiting for ages to write my first musical and with this fantastic story plus the incomparable Sheridan Smith, not to mention the incredible Ivo van Hove, I don’t think I could have aimed any higher.
Rufus Wainwright
Praised by the New York Times for his “genuine originality,” Rufus Wainwright has established himself as one of the great male vocalists, songwriters, and composers of his generation. The New York-born, Montreal-raised singer-songwriter has released 11 studio albums to date, three DVDs, and numerous live albums including the GRAMMY® nominated Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hal l. He has collaborated with artists such as Elton John, Burt Bacharach, Miley Cyrus, David Byrne, Boy George, Joni Mitchell, Pet Shop Boys, Heart, Carly Rae Jepsen, Robbie Williams, Jessye Norman, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, Sting, and producer Mark Ronson, among many others. He has written two operas and numerous songs for movies and TV.
His 2020 GRAMMY® nominated studio album of original songs, Unfollow the Rules, finds Wainwright at the peak of his powers, entering artistic maturity with passion, honesty, and a new-found fearlessness. In 2023, he embarked on a journey to his family folk roots with his GRAMMY® nominated album Folkocracy featuring reinvented folk duets with artists like Chaka Khan, Brandi Carlile, John Legend and Anohni and many more.
His first musical of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night for the West End with Ivo van Hove premiered at the Gielgud Theater in March 2024. During this time he also completed his Dream Requiem, which premiered with the Orchestre Philharmonique de la Radio France in June of 2024 and featured Meryl Streep as the narrator. The recording of the performance was released via Warner Classics in January 2025. Co-commissioners for the Dream Requiem are the Master Chorale in Los Angeles, the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, the Helsinki Symphony Orchestra, the RTE Orchestra in Ireland, and the Royal Ballet London.
Photo: Julien Benhamou
Photo: Victoria Will
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles is an award-winning singer, songwriter, actor, producer, activist, and NewYork Times best-selling author whose accolades to date include two Grammy® Awards, threeTony® Award nominations, and three Primetime Emmy® Award nominations. As a recording artist and songwriter, she has sold more than 3 million albums and 15 million singles in the U.S.,and her songs have been streamed more than 3.5 billion times worldwide. On Broadway, she composed music and lyrics for Waitress, stepping into the lead role both on Broadway and in the West End. Other musical theater credits include her Tony-nominated performance as ‘The Baker’s Wife’ in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods, a song
on the Tony Award-nominated score for SpongeBob SquarePants, and an Emmy Award-nominated appearance as Mary Magdalene in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live. She plays Dawn Solano on the Emmy-nominated musical comedy series Girls 5eva, the third season of which is streaming now on Netflix, and is currently at work on a musical theater adaptation of Meg Wolitzer’s best-selling novel The Interestings, alongside author Sarah Ruhl.
Justin Vivian Bond
Justin Vivian Bond is the recipient of an Obie, a Bessie, The Lambda Literary award for best transgender non-fiction for their memoir Tango: My Childhood Backwards and in High Heels, a Tony nomination for Kiki and Herb: Alive on Broadway, and was recently awarded with a 2024 MacArthur Fellowship.
Their visual art and installations have been seen in museums and galleries in the US and UK, and will be part of the inaugural exhibition of the V&A East in May of 2025.
Described by The New Yorker as “the greatest cabaret artist of their generation” Viv was nominated for a Tony Award and has appeared on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, and has enjoyed a decades long residency at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater.
Film credits include: Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Shortbus, Sunset Stories, and Imaginary Heroes.
Television: Wolfe Boy and the Everything Factory, High Maintenance, The Get Down, Ugly Betty.
Photo: Emil Cohen
Photo: Emilio Madrid
Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone is a three-time Tony Award winner for her performances in Evita, Gypsy, and Company. Her NY stage credits include: The Roommate, War Paint (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations) Shows for Days; The Seven Deadly Sins ( NY City Ballet); Company (NY Philharmonic); Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Sweeney Todd (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC nominations); Noises Off ; The Old Neighborhood; Master Class ; Anything Goes (Tony nomination., Drama Desk Award); Oliver !; Accidental Death of An Anarchist ; The Water Engine; and The Robber Bridegroom (Tony and Drama Desk nominations). Film credits include: Beau is Afraid, The School for Good
and Evil (Netflix), Last Christmas, The Comedian, Parke r, Union Square, Driving Miss Daisy, Witnes s. TV/Streaming: And Just Like That (upcoming), Marvel’s Agatha All Along (Independent Spirit and Critics Choice Award nominations), Hollywood, Pose, Mom, Crazy ExGirlfriend, Penny Dreadful (Critics Choice Award nomination), Girls, American Horror Story: Coven and NYC , 30 Rock, and four seasons as Libby Thatcher on ABC’s Life Goes On. She is a founding member of both the Drama Division of The Juilliard School and John Houseman’s The Acting Company and the author of the NY Times best-seller Patti LuPone: A Memoir.
Darren Criss
Multi-hyphenate actor and musician, Darren Criss burst on to the scene as one of the most memorable TV characters of all time, Blaine Anderson in Fox’s hit show Glee. His portrayal of Andrew Cunanan in Ryan Murphy’s limited series, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, earned Darren a Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and Critics’ Choice Award. He currently stars as Oliver in the critically acclaimed original Broadway Musical, Maybe Happy Ending—a futuristic musical about a “helperbot” named Oliver, who embarks on a journey of self-discovery, love, and purpose in a world where technology and humanity collide. It was selected as the “Best Theatre of 2024” by The New York Times, NewYork Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Deadline, and more. Additional
Broadway credits include American Buffalo opposite Sam Rockwell and Laurence Fishburne (2022), Hedwig and the AngryInch (2015), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (2012), and the off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors (2024). Darren is also the founder of the annual Broadway-inspired music festival, ElsieFest, and founding original member of viral musical comedy troupe StarKid Productions. On the music front, he released a solo EP in 2021 titled Masquerade (BMG), and in the same year, released a full-length holiday album titled - aptly - A Very Darren Crissmas (Decca).
Photo: Tony Moux
Elizabeth Teeter
Broadway: “Lydia” in Beetlejuice; “Betty” in The Crucible, (w/Saoirse Ronan); “Young Elizabeth” in The Audience (w/ Helen Mirren); and “Jane Banks” in Mary Poppins. Off-Broadway: “Lily” in The Secret Life of Bees (Audelco nomination). Recent Regional: “Anna Grace” in the original new musical Hard Road to Heaven (Bucks County Playhouse), “Liesl” in The Sound of Music (Ogunquit Playhouse, The Muny); “Laura” in The Glass Menagerie (TWSTL; St. Louis Theater Circle Award for role). Other Regional including The Muny, The Rep STL, Tennessee Williams Festival, Variety Theater, and more. TV/Film: Leaving (SAG short); guest on “The Last O.G.” (TBS).
Special thanks to Katie Britton at Buchwald. @ elizabethteeterofficial
Photo: Yellowbelly Photo
Betsy Wolfe
Betsy Wolfe most recently earned wide critical acclaim starring as Joy, the title role in the new musical JOY. She previously wrapped her acclaimed tenure with the hit musical & Juliet as Anne Hathaway where her performance was nominated for the 2023 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Wolfe is well known for her starring turns as Jenna Hunterson in the Tonynominated Waitress, Cordelia in the Broadway revival of Falsettos, and Cathy in the celebrated off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years. Her screen credits include the holiday film Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol With A Twist, the indie comedy First One In, and a guest-starring role on the CBS series Instinct.
Other Broadway credits include: Bullets Over Broadway (Ellen), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), 110 in the Shade, and Everyday Rapture. Wolfe made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Fledermaus and has appeared as a guest artist with more than 60 symphony, pops, and philharmonic orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The New York Pops, and the BBC Orchestra.
A graduate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with a BFA in musical theatre, Wolfe is also the founder of BroadwayEvolved, a groundbreaking training program for the next generation of performers, now in its eighth year. www.betsywolfe.com www. broadwayevolved.com
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Performer Sara Bareilles
Performer
Elizabeth Teeter
Performer Darren Criss
Performer Patti LuPone
Performer Betsy Wolfe
Performer Rufus Wainwright
Performer Justin Vivian Bond
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Ensemble Vocalist Lissa de Guzman
Ensemble Vocalist Olivia Donalson
Ensemble Vocalist Nathan Salstone
Ensemble Vocalist
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Jonathan Christopher
Jason Hart
Guitar Jack Petruzzelli
Bass George Farmer
Drums Yuval Lion
Keyboards/Associate Ben Rauhala
Reeds 1
Reeds 2
Trumpet
Trombone
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Justin Vivian Bond Hair
Justin Vivian Bond Stylist
Sara Bareilles Makeup
Sara Bareilles Hair
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Noelle Rueschman
Dr. Shawn Edmonds
Rebecca Patterson
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Scenic Designer Lawrence E. Moten III
Lighting Designer Alan Edwards
Costume Designer Paloma Young
Rufus Wainwright Manager / Producer Jorn Weisbrodt
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MARTHA REDBONE: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Multi-hyphenate artist Martha Redbone and Musical Director Aaron Whitby will curate, direct and perform in a concert building bridges across American folk traditions and those of Norwegian peoples, including the Sámi people of Sápmi. Joined by Grammy-award winning banjo player Abigail Washburn, critically-acclaimed Norwegian duo Oakland Rain, and composer David Amram, the evening showcases the breadth of Roots music as a part of Town Hall Presents’ Norway Series. More special guests to be announced.
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