Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Tveit, and More to Headline American Songbook Season

The 2018 season also includes Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator and star Rachel Bloom, Julian Ovenden, and Grey Gardens creators Scott Frankel and Michael Korie.

Tony Award winner Kelli O’Hara, Aaron Tveit, Julian Ovenden, and Tony-winning Passing Strange creator Stew and Heidi Rodewald are among the headliners announced for Lincoln Center’s 2018 American Songbook Series.

Highlights of the Appel Room lineup include Jackie Hoffman, fresh off her Emmy-nominated performance as Mamacita in Feud (January 25); Passing Strange collaborators Stew and Rodewald (February 7); Next to Normal and Grease Live! star Tveit (February 9); as well as Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star and creator Bloom and series collaborator Adam Schlesinger (February 10).

Tony nominee Justin Vivian Bond will perform an evening dedicated to Karen Carpenter (February 15); followed by Tony-nominated War Paint, Grey Gardens, and Far From Heaven songwriters Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, who will be joined by Tony winner O’Hara and Ovenden (February 17).

Tickets go on sale for Friends of Lincoln Center November 6, with a general on-sale set for November 13. Visit AmericanSongbook.org.

