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Lindsay Mendez and More Set for Kennedy Center Benefit Concert

Jason Robert Brown and Tracy Lynn Olivera will also take part.

Lindsay Mendez will perform in a benefit concert at the Kennedy Center.
Lindsay Mendez will perform in a benefit concert at the Kennedy Center.
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Tony winners Jason Robert Brown and Lindsay Mendez will take the stage for an upcoming benefit concert at the Kennedy Center.

Scheduled for April 18 in the Eisenhower Theater, the evening will celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival's (KCACTF) National Festival, which will take place at the Kennedy Center April 15–20.

Joining Mendez and Brown and his band will be Helen Hayes Award winner Tracy Lynn Olivera, one of the key teaching artists of the students' residency at the Kennedy Center, as well as nine Musical Theater Fellows of KCACTF from across the United States.