(WEST ORANGE, NJ) -- Tony award winner and New Jersey girl, Laura Benanti comes to the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center on Saturday, September 4 at 8:00pm for a concert to benefit two local community theater organizations, The Barn Theatre and Pleasant Valley Productions. Laura will be joined on stage by some old friends from her community theater days, West Orange High School chorus members and some exciting surprise guests. You will hear some of your favorite Broadway tunes performed by Laura and friends with an orchestra accompaniment.
The concert will take place outside. If the performance is cancelled due to weather, ticket holders may use their tickets at the rain date performance (Sunday September 5, 2021 at 8:00pm). Alternatively, the tickets may be converted to a donation to The Barn Theatre and Pleasant Valley Productions.
A Tony Award(R) winner and five-time nominee, her Broadway resume includes Lincoln Center’s acclaimed production of My Fair Lady, She Loves Me, Gypsy (2008 Tony Award for Outstanding Feature Actress in a Musical), and Into The Woods. Benanti also appears frequently in television and film roles, and her most recent credits include TVLand’s Younger, HBO Max’s much awaited Gossip Girl reboot, a new Netflix drama, Worth, and her most recent film, Here Today, with Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish.
Tickets start at $20 and are available for purchase online. All proceeds to benefit The Barn Theatre and Pleasant Valley Productions so that they may continue to provide a place for young performers to experience the special world of community theater.
Oskar Schindler Center for the Performing Arts (OSPAC) is located at 4 Boland Drive in West Orange, New Jersey.
The Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center (OSPAC), opened in 2001, was named in honor of Oskar Schindler a Sudeten German Industrialist who saved nearly 1,200 European Jews during the Holocaust.
Larry Pantirer of Millennium Homes, working closely with Town Councilman John Skarbnik, donated the amphitheater to the Township of West Orange. Pantirer's father Murray was one of the many who were saved by Oskar Schindler. The story was chronicled in the Hollywood blockbuster film Schindler’s List. Located at 4 Boland Drive, West Orange, N.J. and nestled next to historic Crystal Lake, the facility features an open air amphitheater built into the natural slope of the land. OSPAC is located conveniently off of exit 8B on Rt 280.
