JOHN McDANIEL is a Grammy and Emmy Award-winning Music Director, Composer, Director, Arranger, Orchestrator, and Producer and is an Artistic Director at the Tony Award-winning Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Most recently, John music directed and orchestrated Carol Burnett’s 90th Birthday Special on NBC. John participated in a live Playbill concert event in Times Square welcoming back Broadway, featuring Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessica Vosk and Chuck Schumer. McDaniel produced and directed a virtual concert of Sticks & Stones, for which he is also the composer, starring Audra McDonald & Javier Muñoz. He is also a camp director of Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Boot Camp. John directed Into The Woods and Hair in Concert at the historic Patchogue Theater, Sondheim Originals at 54 Below and Piano Men at Birdland. Broadway music credits include Bonnie and Clyde (Drama Desk Nomination, Best Orchestrations), Catch Me If You Can, Brooklyn (Producer and Orchestrator), Annie Get Your Gun (Grammy Award), Taboo, Chicago, Grease, Patti LuPone on Broadway and Company – the Original Cast in Concert at Lincoln Center. On Television: The Rosie O’Donnell Show (two Emmy Awards and eight nominations). John has collaborated with Cab Calloway, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Joel Grey, Carol Burnett, Betty Buckley, Bette Midler, Shirley Jones, and Katy Perry and has guest conducted at 15 Symphony Orchestras across America, including five concerts with his hometown St. Louis Symphony. John received a BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University.

Sunday, February 22 at 2pm

Matt Doyle

Tony Winner – Company

Matt Doyle won the 2022 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his performance as Jamie in Broadway’s revival of Company. Broadway credits include Tony-winning musicals The Book of Mormon and Spring Awakening; Tony Award winning Best Play War Horse; and the revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Matt made his UK stage debut as Frank Sinatra in Sinatra The Musical. Off-Broadway credits include Conversations With Mother, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, and Brooklynite. Matt played Jonathan on the CW’s Gossip Girl. He has performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, at symphonies across the country, and continues to headline a sold-out solo show throughout New York City and beyond.

Sunday, March 29 at 2pm

Beth Leavel

Tony Winner – The Drowsy Chaperone

Beth Leavel was most recently seen on Broadway in Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends. She was nominated for a 2019 Tony®, Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle award for her performance in the critically acclaimed Broadway show The Prom. She received Tony®, Drama Desk, NY Outer Critics Circle and L.A. Drama Critics Awards for her performance as the title character in The Drowsy Chaperone. Beth also received Tony®, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations for her role as Florence Greenberg in Baby It’s You. Other Broadway roles include The Baroness in Lempicka, Mrs. June Adams in Bandstand, Emily in Elf, Donna in Mamma Mia!, Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Tess in the original company of Crazy For You, Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War, Ellie in Hal Prince’s Showboat, and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in 42nd Street. She has numerous Off-Broadway, regional theatre, commercials, and TV credits, including the final episode of ER and The Walking Dead.

Sunday, June 7 at 2pm

Norm Lewis

Tony Nominee – ???

Norm Lewis was recently seen onstage starring in the off-Broadway production of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men. He recently completed the national tour of the Tony Award-winning production of A Soldier's Play and starred in the Andrew Lloyd Webber's Award Winning West End Concert of Love Never Dies. Mr. Lewis last appeared on Broadway in the Fall of 2021, starring in Chicken and Biscuits at the Circle in the Square Theatre. He received several award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins’ Porgy & Bess and in 2014 made history as the first Black “Phantom” in The Phantom of the Opera. He is an Emmy, Grammy, Tony and SAG Award nominee for his work onstage, screen, and in music. Mr. Lewis is a proud, founding member of Black Theatre United.

Sunday, August 16 at 2pm

Patti Murin

Tony Nominee - ???
Question: Is their most recognizable credit better than an award?

Patti Murin is a versatile and captivating performer best known for her work on Broadway, television, and as a prolific audiobook narrator. On stage, Patti originated the role of Princess Anna in Disney’s Frozen on Broadway, winning over audiences with her charm, humor, and powerful vocals. Her other notable stage credits include Wicked, Lysistrata Jones and Xanadu. In the world of television, Patti has become a familiar face in Hallmark Channel movies, starring in fan favorites such as In Merry Measure, Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story, Love on Iceland, Holiday for Heroes, and Mystic Christmas. Other credits include recurring roles on Chicago Med and Royal Pains. In addition to her screen and stage work, Patti has built a thriving career as an audiobook narrator, lending her expressive voice to dozens of popular titles across genres. She has brought life to bestselling novels by authors such as Christina Lauren, Jodi Picoult, Rachel Hawkins and Katherine Center, earning praise for her ability to fully inhabit complex characters and deliver emotionally rich performances. Patti is also a devoted mom to two young daughters, and she openly shares her journey of balancing parenthood with a career in the arts.

Sunday, October 18 at 2pm

Sam Gravitte

Tony Winner – ???

Sam Gravitte [he/him] is an actor and playwright based in New York City. His professional theatre credits as an actor include playing Fiyero in Wicked on Broadway, reopening the show after the pandemic theatre hiatus. Other shows include White Rose, Lyrics & Lyricists, Frozen (Paper Mill), Deceived (Bay Street), Joseph... Dreamcoat (Sacramento Music Circus), Sweeney Todd (TUTS), Almost Famous (Old Globe), and Beautiful (Cape Playhouse). Sam's plays include Hurricane (2024 O'Neill Semifinalist), The Death Lectures, Burn, and Ventriloquists (developed Life Jacket Theatre). He has other publications with Broadway Licensing and The Licensing House. Member of Life Jacket Theatre Co's Writers Room. Producer of Pride Plays. As a vocalist, Sam has headlined shows at the 92nd Street Y, the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Birdland Jazz Club, Provincetown, Westport Country Playhouse, and more. Sam received his AB in Anthropology from Princeton, where he was also a D1 Athlete. Proud Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio. @samgravitte