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Sutton Foster, Montego Glover, Kelsey Grammer, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jordin Sparks, et al. Set for Annual Broadway on Broadway Concert

Kelsey Grammer
(© Tristan Fuge)
Kelsey Grammer
(© Tristan Fuge)

An updated list of participants has been announced for Broadway on Broadway, the annual free concert presented by The Broadway League and the Times Square Alliance. As previously announced, the event will take place in Times Square at 11:30am on Sunday, September 12.

This concert , to be hosted by Kelsey Grammer, will feature performances from new shows and long-running favorites, accompanied by a live 30-piece orchestra.

Participating celebrities will include Sutton Foster, Mandy Gonzalez, Montego Glover, Mitchell Jarvis, Levi Kreis, Dan Lauria, Judith Light, Beth Leavel, Marin Mazzie, John O’Hurley, Jordin Sparks, Will Swenson, and Tony Vincent. In addition, Tony Award winners Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo will perform the hit song “Empire State of Mind.”

Among the shows scheduled to appear are: The Addams Family, American Idiot, Billy Elliot The Musical, Chicago, Elf, Fela! , In the Heights, La Cage Aux Folles, The Lion King, Mamma Mia! , Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The Phantom of the Opera, Promises, Promises, Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles on Broadway, Rock of Ages, The Scottsboro Boys, and West Side Story.

Grammer is currently appearing in La Cage Aux Folles on Broadway and received a Tony Award nomination for his performance in the musical. His other Broadway credits include Othello and Macbeth. In addition he played Professor Henry Higgins in the New York Philharmonic’s concert performance of My Fair Lady.