Live From Lincoln Center

Audra McDonald


Live From Lincoln Center brings live performances of opera, drama, music, and dance direct from the stages of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City into American homes. Learn more about the program.

Watch Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home

For us on Live From Lincoln Center Audra McDonald has chosen an uncommonly varied and exploratory program. With a 35-piece orchestra conducted by Andy Einhorn, currently conductor of Rodgers + Hammerstein's "Cinderella" on Broadway, and with Lee Musiker (piano), Mark Vanderpoel (bass) and Gene Lewin (drums) she will explore the vast riches of our Broadway musical heritage. Among the composers on her list are Cole Porter, Gus Kahn, John Kander, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Stephen Sondheim, George Gershwin, Adam Guettel, Gabriel Kahane and Jule Styne. More information than that I cannot give you because she will not select the exact details of the program until shortly before she goes on stage! But I CAN assure you that it will be a long-remembered musical feast. Incidentally, the title "Audra McDonald in Concert: Go Back Home" derives from the song "Go Back Home" in the Kander and Ebb musical "The Scottsboro Boys.”


Sunday at 7pm on WGBH 2