On August 6th The Philadelphia Orchestra will kick off their three week summer season at The Saratoga Performing Arts Center with The Great American Songbook.
Bramwell Tovey conducts an evening of music from the Gershwins, Bernstein, and Copland with vocal selections sung by Brian Stokes Mitchell.
Tony Award Winner for the 1999 revival of Kiss Me Kate, Brian Stokes Mitchell’s other Broadway credits include The Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime, Man of La Mancha and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. His most recent solo album, Simply Broadway, was released in 2012. He is also the Chairman of the Board of The Actors’ Fund.