Sheldon Harnick, Jeanine Tesori, Jack Viertel to Join Victoria Clark for "Backstage at Encores!"

Tony Award winner Victoria Clark will once again host the previously reported “Backstage at Encores!” series, which will have its latest installment at Studio 5 at City Center, on Monday, February 6 at 6:30pm.

This informal conversation with Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel, Tony Award-winning lyricist Sheldon Harnick and composer/arranger Jeanine Tesori will look at today’s musical hits as possible future Encores! productions.

Harnick is best known for his collaborations with composer Jerry Bock on hit musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, and has had several Encores! revivals over the years, including Fiorello!, Tenderloin, She Loves Me, and The Apple Tree. Tesori is the award-winning composer of shows such as Violet; Caroline, Or Change; Thoroughly Modern Millie; and Shrek the Musical.

Clark won a Tony Award for her performance in A Light in the Piazza and received a Tony nomination for her work in Sister Act. As previously reported, she will star as Sally Durant Plummer in the upcoming Ahmanson Theatre production of Follies.

The next Encores! production is Merrily We Roll Along, to be presented February 8-19. Click here to view TheaterMania’s Merrily We Roll Along video feature!

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