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AUDRA MCDONALD IN CONCERT

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SATURDAY, MAY 25 @ 9:00PM

By Martin Bookspan

As I’m sure is true for many of you, I first became aware of Audra McDonald from her performance in Terrence McNally’s play, “Master Class.” She played the role of a young, aspiring opera singer attending Maria Callas’s Master Class at New York’s Juilliard School of Music (one of the constituent institutions of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts). As portrayed by McNally, Callas was merciless in assessing the potential of the character played by Miss McDonald. But through it all the brutalized young student maintained a cool and unbowed demeanor. That role won for Audra McDonald one of her five Tony Awards for outstanding performance on the Broadway stage.

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