Live with Carnegie Hall Celebrates Irving Berlin

On Tuesday’s episode of Live with Carnegie Hall, Michael Feinstein is hosting a program dedicated to the work of composer Irving Berlin. He will be joined by Broadway stars Cheyenne Jackson, Kelli O’Hara and Tony Yazbeck. The program will air on Carnegie Hall’s website on Tuesday, June 16th at 2 PM EDT/11 AM PDT.

Berlin wrote more than 1,000 songs. Amongst his best-known works are “White Christmas,” “Always,” “Alexander’s Ragtime Band,” “Blue Skies,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and “I Love a Piano.”

He was also the composer of the musicals Annie Get Your Gun and Call Me Madam.

Feinstein is America’s finest advocate for the Great American Songbook which makes him the perfect person to host this show.

Cheyenne Jackson appeared on Broadway in Finian’s Rainbow, Xanadu and All Shook Up. Television audiences might known him from American Horror Story, 30 Rock and Watchmen.

Kelli O’Hara won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2015 revival of The King and I. She also received Tony nominations for her performances in The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, South Pacific, Nice Work If You Can Get It, The Bridges of Madison County and Kiss Me Kate!

Tony Yazbeck received a Tony nomination for his performance in the 2015 revival of On the Town. He also appeared on Broadway in the revival of A Chorus Line, the 2008 revival of Gypsy and will open in the new show Flying Over Sunset next season. He also appeared in Irving Berlin’s White Christmas on Broadway in 2009.

If you are unable to watch Live with Carnegie Hall Irving Berlin as it is streamed live on Tuesday, the video will be archived for later viewing on Carnegie Hall’s website.

Photo: Ethel Merman and Irving Berlin during rehearsal for Call Me Madam in 1950 (Photo by Vandamm Studio/Courtesy of the New York Public Library Archives)