2021 Spring Concert

About the Show

Join Theatre Aspen this spring for a triumphant return to live music!

Three Part Harmony: The Playlist of Our Lives features Tamyra Gray (Once On This Island), Beth Malone (Fun Home) and Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill), three of Broadway’s biggest voices belting the songs that shaped our lives, arranged like you’ve never heard them before.

This world premiere, one-night-only event will stir your soul and get you on your feet with hits from Elton and Adele, to Broadway and Beyond.

Let loose, party on, and kick off an excellent new season with Theatre Aspen!

Saturday April 10th’s Spring Soirée is a fundraising event.

If you are interested in supporting, please contact Natalie Travers, Director of Advancement, at natalie@theatreaspen.org.

If the ticket level that you are interested in is sold out, please add yourself to our Wait List.

Per state and county restrictions all tickets orders must be placed as a household.

Cast

Tamyra Gray

Tamyra most recently starred as Papa Ge on Broadway and the First National Tour of the Tony Award winning revival of Once on This Island.

With the critical acclaim that followed her appearance on the inaugural season of American Idol Tamyra parlayed the attention into an acting career on-screen and on-stage.

Following Idol, Tamyra caught the eye of David E. Kelly, who cast her in Boston Public. She went on to guest star in a variety of network series including Half and Half, All of Us, What I Like About You, Las Vegas, Tru Calling and, most recently, The Rookie and All Rise. She also landed commercial projects with Coca-Cola and H&M. The Swedish clothing line made her the face of their ‘&Denim’ collection, where Gray was featured in a globally-promoted short film directed by David LaChapelle.

On stage, Tamyra made her Broadway debut as the lead in the musical Bombay Dreams, was praised for her starring role on Broadway as Mimi in Rent and played Kate in the first national tour of If/Then. In 2011 she starred in Debbie Allen’s Twist at the Pasadena Playhouse for which she won a Beverly Hills / Hollywood NAACP Theatre Award.

She’s appeared on the big screen in the critically acclaimed Sony feature The Gospel and was featured in Jonathan Demme’s Rachel Getting Married.

Tamyra has co-written ‘You Thought Wrong’ for Grammy winner Kelly Clarkson and the #1 Billboard Hot 100 single ‘I Believe’ for Fantasia.

Beth Malone

BETH MALONE most recently reprised her title role in The Unsinkable Molly Brown with The Transport Theater Group (Outer Critic Circle Award and Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations) and played two sold out shows with Theatre Aspen this summer.

Malone played The Angel in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Angels in America and was nominated for a Tony Award and Grammy Award for her role of Alison in the Tony Award-winning musical Fun Home. Malone is an original cast member of Ring of Fire, The Marvelous Wonderettes and Bingo!.

Film: The Comedian, opposite Robert DeNiro and Edie Falco; Hick with Eddie Redmayne; Brittany Runs a Marathon opposite Jillian Bell; God Committee, co-starring Kelsey Grammer. Television: ”Braindead,” “The Baker and the Beauty,” “Bluff City Law,” “Bull,” “The Good Wife,” “Reno 911,” “Judging Amy,” “Laying Low,” “What’s On?,” “One Minute Soaps.” She is the author and star of the critically acclaimed one-woman show Beth Malone: So Far.

Upcoming: Lin Manuel Miranda’s film adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical: Tick Tick… Boom!

Elizabeth Stanley

ELIZABETH STANLEY received 2020 Tony, Grammy, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for her performance as Mary Jane in the new Broadway musical Jagged Little Pill, inspired by the music of Alanis Morissette. Additional Broadway credits include the revival of On the Town (Drama Desk Award Nomination), Million Dollar Quartet, Cry-Baby, and Tony Award-winning revival of Company. OffBroadway: Merrily We Roll Along at New York City Center Encores! (PS Classics cast recording); Hello, Again (Transport Theatre Group, Drama League Award); Signature Theatre’s production of F**king A; Of Thee I Sing (Master Voices, Carnegie Hall).

National tours: The Bridges of Madison County, Xanadu. Television appearances include “Younger,” “Blue Bloods,” “N0S482,” “FBI,” “The Get Down,” “The Affair,” “Black Box,” “Made in Jersey,” “Fringe,” “The Chappelle Show,” and “PBS Great Performances – Company.” Regional credits include Sundance Theatre Festival, Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh CLO, Barrington Stage Co., Philadelphia Theatre Co., Rep. of St. Louis, O’Neill, La Jolla Playhouse, Pioneer Theatre Co., and The Cincinnati Playhouse.

During the past year, she has appeared in many virtual benefit performances, most notably performing “The Miller’s Son” in Take Me to the World: a Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration. Stanley is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. IG: @el.stans

Creative Team

Lorin Latarro

Lorin Latarro | Director

Lorin Latarro is currently choreographing Broadway’s MRS. DOUBTFIRE, ALMOST FAMOUS, The Public’s THE VISITOR, and Broadway bound THE OUTSIDERS and LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. Lorin choreographed Broadway and London’s WAITRESS and LA TRAVIATA at The Met Opera. Lorin is directing Candace Bushnell’s one woman show, IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY.

Additional Broadway choreography includes Les Liaisons Dangereuse with Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber, and Waiting for Godot with Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart. Lorin is the Associate Choreographer of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and American Idiot, Rigoletto at The Met Opera (assoc), Huey Lewis’s Heart of Rock And Roll (Old Globe), Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout), Chess (The Kennedy Center), Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street for “This American Life” (Brooklyn Academy of Music), The Public Theater’s Twelfth Night and The Odyssey (Delacorte Theater), Queen of the Night which garnered a Drama Desk Award (Diamond Horseshoe), Assassins, Fanny, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (City Center Encores!), Superhero (Second Stage), Beaches (Drury Lane Theatre), and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre Center).

Lorin directed #DateMe at The Westside Theatre, A Taste Of Things To Come at Chicago On Broadway and The York.

Lorin performed in fourteen Broadway shows including Twyla Tharp’s Movin’ Out, Fosse, Swing!, Kiss Me Kate, A Chorus Line, and Man Of La Mancha. Lorin danced for Robert Wilson, Martha Graham, and Momix. Lorin has also worked with Pina Bausch, Jiri Kylian, Robert Battle, Frankie Manning, Ryan Francois, Pete Townsend, Green Day, Sara Bareilles, Melissa Etheridge, Cameron Crowe, and Charlize Theron.

Ms. Latarro holds a BFA from The Juilliard School where she is also an adjunct professor. She also holds a degree from NYU Tisch Film And Television Directing Fundamentals. She is a Drama Desk, Lortel, and Chita Rivera nominee. Lorin has traveled to India and Africa multiple times to work with The Gates Foundation in family health and planning. Lorin is the founder of ArtAmmmo.org Artists Against Gun Violence as seen in the NY Times, PBS, Rachel Maddow, BBC.

Director

Susan Draus

Susan Draus | Music Direction and Arrangements

SUSAN DRAUS (ARRANGER/ MUSIC DIRECTOR) was recently awarded The Los Angeles BroadwayWorld Award for BEAUTIFUL, THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL and also featured on the cover of International Musician Magazine. She music directed/ conducted several Broadway shows and national tours: The Book of Mormon, Billy Elliot, Mamma Mia, Sister Act, Good Vibrations.

Susan co-wrote the award-winning musical, VICES, and is the creator of the REUNION Series.

She has arranged and orchestrated for Henry Mancini, Walt Disney Imagineering, Silver Dollar City in Branson, the Transcendence Theater Company in Sonoma, and for NBC’s, THE VOICE.

Music Direction and Arrangement