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Six-Time Tony Winner Audra McDonald Returns to Carnegie Hall

The concert will be part of McDonald’s nationwide tour.

Audra McDonald will present a concert at Carnegie Hall on December 12.
Audra McDonald will present a concert at Carnegie Hall on December 12.
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Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald is set to return to Carnegie Hall on December 12 at 8pm. The appearance will be part of a nationwide tour that kicks off on December 2. This will be McDonald's fourth solo Carnegie Hall concert at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, where she appeared most recently in October 2011.

McDonald will be joined by music director and pianist Andy Einhorn, bassist Mark Vanderpoel, and drummer Gene Lewin. The concert will feature many songs that are new to her repertoire.

McDonald has a record six Tony Awards as well as two Grammy Awards. She won her first Tony for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for Carousel at Lincoln Center Theater and two additional Tony Awards in the featured actress category over the next four years for Master Class (1996) and Ragtime (1998). In 2004, she won her fourth Tony for A Raisin in the Sun, and in 2012 she won her fifth for her role in The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Most recently, McDonald made Broadway history after winning her sixth award for her portrayal of Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

In 2012, McDonald was named the new official host of the PBS series Live From Lincoln Center, which earned her a third Emmy nomination.

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