Corbin Bleu, Jin Ha and Colton Ryan are the three sailors on shore leave, with Megan Hilty, Isabel Leonard, Emma Crow and Paulo Szot alongside them, when the Orchestra of St. Luke’s plays Leonard Bernstein’s On the Town in concert at Carnegie Hall on January 11 and 12, 2027.
Corbin Bleu is Ozzie, Jin Ha is Chip and Colton Ryan is Gabey, the three Navy men with 24 hours to see New York before shipping out. Megan Hilty plays the cab driver Hildy Esterhazy, Emma Crow plays Ivy Smith, Isabel Leonard plays Claire de Loone and Paulo Szot plays Judge Pitkin W. Bridgework. Carnegie Hall says further casting will follow.
The company mixes Broadway and opera. Szot won a Tony Award in 2008 as Emile de Becque in Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific, and Leonard is a mezzo-soprano best known from the Metropolitan Opera. Hilty’s Broadway credits include Death Becomes Her, and as Hildy she has I Can Cook, Too. Bleu played Bill Calhoun in Roundabout’s 2019 Kiss Me, Kate, Ha starred in the 2017 Broadway revival of M. Butterfly, and Ryan was in the Broadway company of Girl from the North Country.
Rob Berman, music director of Encores! at New York City Center for fifteen years, conducts a 45-piece orchestra. Shuler Hensley, who directed OSL’s Oklahoma! In Concert at Carnegie Hall last January, returns to direct, and Chase Brock choreographs. That Oklahoma! was a single, sold-out performance; this time there are two.
On the Town opens a five-year series of classic American musicals in concert, which the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Carnegie Hall announced in June, with Berman as series music director. The 1944 show was Bernstein’s first Broadway musical, written with Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who supplied the book and lyrics. The score includes New York, New York, Come Up to My Place and Some Other Time.
Both performances begin at 7 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, on Monday, January 11, and Tuesday, January 12, 2027. Tickets are sold through Carnegie Hall.
