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Derek Klena and Lindsay Mendez to Join New York Pops for Holiday Concerts

The concerts will be December 18 & 19 at Carnegie Hall.

Linda Buchwald

Linda Buchwald

| New York City |

November 12, 2026

Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena
Lindsay Mendez and Derek Klena
(© David Gordon)

The New York Pops will have its annual holiday concert December 18 & 19 in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall.

Led by music director and conductor Steven Reineke, Sleigh Bells Ring reunites Tony Award nominee and current Savannah Banana Derek Klena and Tony Award winner Lindsay Mendez.

Judith Clurman’s Essential Voices USA will also perform in the concert of classic carols and new holiday songs.

Klena and Mendez starred opposite each other in the off-Broadway Benj Pasek and Justin Paul musical Dogfight. They later played Fiyero and Elphaba opposite each other in Wicked on Broadway.

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