Live at Lincoln Center continues its series of Broadway’s best performers in concert with Megan Hilty in Concert on Friday night on PBS.
Megan Hilty is best-known for her role as Ivy Lynn on Smash. She was one of two actresses hoping to get cast in a new musical about Marilyn Monroe on the short-lived series. On Broadway she’s appeared as Glinda in Wicked, as Doralee Rhodes in the musical Nine to Five (the Dolly Parton role) and in the most recent revival of the play Noises Off. She received a Tony nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Noises Off.
Other significant roles for her were in limited run productions of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Annie Get Your Gun and a one-night only presentation of Bombshell (the musical being put together on Smash) on stage.
The show will undoubtedly feature songs from Smash (“Let Me Be Your Star” is in the promo above) and her Broadway musicals, but you should also expect songs she enjoys that are not from the stage, but run the gamut from pop songs to the Great American Songbook.
On May 28th, Hilty will be performing at City Winery in New York with her husband, Brian Gallagher. They are performing a new musical called Brownstone, based on his concept album released earlier this year.
Cheyenne Jackson and Hilty will be performing together in January at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and at the NSO Pops at The Kennedy Center in February.
In April she will return to Southern California for three concerts at the Samueli Theatre at Costa Mesa’s Segerstrom Center for the Arts.
Photo by Jenny Anderson/Courtesy of PBS
