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Donna McKechnie to Perform My Musical Comedy Life in NYC and South Bend

Donna McKechnie
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Donna McKechnie
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Tony Award winner Donna McKechnie will offer a one-night-only performance of her solo show My Musical Comedy Life at the Laurie Beechman Theatre in New York City at 8pm on Wednesday, November 3, and at the Morris Performing Arts Center’s Palais Royale in South Bend, Indiana on Sunday, November 7 at 7pm. Richard Jay-Alexander has directed the piece, which features musical direction by Alex Rybeck.

In the show, McKechnie offers numbers by such musical theater writers as Stephen Sondheim, Ed Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Cy Coleman, as well as ones by such songwriters including Francesca Blumenthal and Ann Hampton Callaway.

McKechnie won a Tony Award for her performance as Cassie in A Chorus Line. Her other Broadway credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Promises, Promises, Company, On the Town, and State Fair.