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Jessica Vosk: Opening Night Celebration

Friday, September 18, 2026 @ 8:00pm



Mayo Performing Arts Center (MPAC)
100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960

Tickets run from $45 - $101

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Celebrate MPAC’s season opening with Jessica Vosk, known for her electrifying roles on musical theater and concert stages, including Wicked, Hell’s Kitchen, and most recently, the Broadway adaptation of Beaches

Jessica Vosk is a celebrated singer and actress known for electrifying roles on musical theater and concert stages. She made her Carnegie Hall debut in November 2021 in a sold-out solo show titled My Golden Age and a triumphant return to Carnegie Hall in 2022 to headline Get Happy: A Judy Garland Centennial Celebration.

Vosk’s 2025-2026 season highlights include a conclusion to her star turn on Broadway as Jersey in Alicia Keys’ Hell’s Kitchen. She will appear with the New York Pops and the Philly Pops at the beginning of the season followed by a highly anticipated tour of her 2024 holiday album SLEIGH, going to cities such as Atlanta, Boston, Indianapolis, Costa Mesa, Sonoma, and New York. Later in the season Vosk will tour the East coast’s most iconic performing arts centers in cities such as Pittsburgh, Charleston, and Groton, among others. In spring 2026 she will return to Broadway to star in the musical adaptation of Beaches after creating the role of ‘Cee Cee’ in the international premiere in Calgary last season.

Last season’s highlights include creating the fan-favorite role of Lute in the animated musical series Hazbin Hotel, as well as returning to The Muny as Jenna in Waitress after her star turn as Florence in Chess in summer 2023. She returned to San Francisco Symphony at Stern Grove Festival to celebrate the Fourth of July, debuted at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center with No Name Pops and her program California Dreamin’ – Songs of the Laurel Canyon; and celebrated the holidays this year with National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center and The New York Pops in her return to Carnegie Hall.  Jessica also hosted Carnegie Hall’s newest podcast If This Hall Could Talk. In November 2024, Jessica released ‘SLEIGH’ a full-length extension of her 2020 holiday EP ‘A Very CoCo Christmas’.

Best known for her star turn as Elphaba in the musical Wicked—first on tour and then joining the show’s 15th anniversary on Broadway—Vosk played the green witch for two years and was featured performing “Defying Gravity” in the PBS Great Performances 50th Anniversary Concert. Vosk starred as the narrator in Lincoln Center’s 50th anniversary performance of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, reprising the role in 2022 at The Muny in St. Louis. Other recent theatrical highlights include joining the Atlantic Theater Company as Beth Ann in its production of Sarah Silverman’s The Bedwetter; creating the role of Aunt Val in the world premiere of Becoming Nancy at Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell; and becoming the first singer to star onstage with the New York City Ballet in Something to Dance About, the company’s tribute to Jerome Robbins directed by Warren Carlyle. Vosk’s other Broadway credits include Fruma Sarah in the most recent revival of Fiddler on the RoofFinding Neverland, and The Bridges of Madison County.

She starred as Anita in San Francisco Symphony’s Grammy-nominated production of West Side Story and filmed “The Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood” with Michael Tilson Thomas for PBS’s Great Performances. Her independently produced solo albums Wild and Free (2018) and A Very Coco Christmas (2020) both debuted on the Billboard and iTunes charts, and are available to stream on all platforms. Vosk had an unconventional journey to Broadway, beginning her career on Wall Street before taking the leap of faith to pursue her dreams on stage. Her one-of-a-kind story has been profiled on ABC’s 20/20 and NBC Nightly News.




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