SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2025 / 7:30 PM / SNOW PARK OUTDOOR AMPHITHEATER
MICHAEL RAFTER , conductor
SUTTON FOSTER , vocalist
KELLI O’HARA , vocalist
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LARRY & JUDY BROWNSTEIN
Michael Rafter, Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at Ball State University, has served as music director/arranger for Sutton Foster for The New York Pops, Live From Lincoln Center, and over 100 concerts worldwide. Most recently, he was the music director/ conductor of Funny Girl on Broadway. Music supervisor: Funny Girl (National Tour); associate music supervisor: Jersey Boys. Other music direction for Broadway: Violet, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Sound of Music, The King & I, Gypsy, The Most Happy Fella, Sweet Charity, Swing, Les Misérables, The Tap Dance Kid Off Broadway: Merrily We Roll Along, Violet. Film and TV: Marriage Story, CODA, Annette, Music and Lyrics, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Tonight Show (Johnny Carson, Jimmy Fallon), Direction), and Kevin Bacon, Joan Osborne, Mandy Moore, Cyndi Lauper, Darius Rucker, and Shawn Colvin. Music supervisor: Buddy, Sunset Boulevard, Thoroughly Modern Millie,
Sutton Foster is a two-time Tony Award-winning actress, singer, and dancer, most recently seen in an acclaimed turn as Princess Winnifred in the Broadway revival Once Upon a Mattress at the Hudson Theatre. She previously reprised the role at New York City Center Encores! and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. Foster also starred as Mrs. Lovett in the Tony-winning revival of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street opposite Aaron Tveit.
In 2022, she played Marian Paroo in The Music Man on Broadway, earning her seventh Tony nomination and the Drama League Distinguished Performance Award. In 2021, she reprised her role as Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes in London, receiving an Olivier Award nomination.
Foster starred in TV Land’s Younger for seven seasons and has appeared in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Bunheads. Her Broadway credits include Anything Goes, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Violet, and more. She has released three solo albums and a memoir, Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life, and she holds an honorary doctorate from Ball State University, where she also teaches.
Kelli O’Hara has established herself as one of Broadway’s greatest leading ladies. She has been nominated for eight Tony Awards, winning for The King and I. She is also an Emmy, SAG, Olivier, and two-time Grammy nominated artist who made history as the first to cross over from Broadway to opera with her Metropolitan Opera debut in 2015.
O’Hara can currently be seen on HBO’s The Gilded Age. Additional TV and film credits include: The Accidental Wolf, Sex & The City 2, Martin Scorsese’s The Key to Reserva, and The Good Fight
O’Hara recently completed a critically acclaimed limited Broadway engagement of the new musical Days of Wine and Roses, which also garnered rave reviews during its Off-Broadway run at The Atlantic Theatre Company last summer. She won the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lead Performer in a Broadway Musical in addition to receiving Tony and Drama League Nominations for her role. Next spring, she will return to Broadway in the play, Fallen Angels. O’Hara continues to perform with orchestras and symphonies throughout the country.
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