Shuffle Along starring Audra McDonald & Billy Porter to close on Broadway

According to the New York Times, Shuffle Along will close on 24th July - the date Audra McDonald is scheduled to be leaving the show.

The musical opened at the Music Box Theatre in April 2016. The cast also includes Brian Stokes Mitchell, Billy Porter, Brandon Victor Dixon and Joshua Henry.

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Review: Audra McDonald Live In Concert at the Leicester Square Theatre

Audra McDonald Live In Concert
Leicester Square Theatre
Reviewed on Sunday 17th January 2016 (evening performance)
★★★★★

Before taking to the stage at the Leicester Square Theatre yesterday for two sold out shows, it had been over fifteen years since six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald had performed a solo concert in London. It's safe to say McDonald made up for lost time, performing a plethora of music from the Great American Musical Theatre Songbook. 

Audra McDonald to make West End debut in Lady Day

The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye has announced that Audra McDonald will make her West End debut later this year.

The Broadway legend - who has won six Tony Awards - will reprise her performance as Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

The "musical play" opens at the Wyndham's Theatre on 5th July (previews from 24th June) for a limited run to 3rd September 2016.

McDonald is about to star in the Broadway premiere of musical Shuffle Along. The show opens at New York's Music Box Theatre on 28th April (previews from 15th March). McDonald will take a break from Shuffle Along between 20th June and 25th September so that she can make her West End debut in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill.

Audra McDonald returning to London for solo concert!

It has been announced that Broadway star Audra McDonald will play a London concert next year.

The Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winning performer will take to the stage at the Leicester Square Theatre on 17th January 2016. Tickets are on sale from 10am on Wednesday 2nd December.

UPDATE: A matinee concert had been added at 3pm on 17th January.

McDonald will perform a wide range of songs both familiar and lesser known by the likes of Rodgers & Hammerstein, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim and Kate Miller-Heidke.

It has been more than a decade since McDonald has performed in London. She last appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in 2002 when she became only the second American in more than 100 years invited to appear as a guest soloist at the Last Night of the BBC Proms (she also performed at the Proms in 1999 under Simon Rattle with the concert production of Wonderful Town). In 1999, her concerts at the Donmar Warehouse were recorded for television and later released on video by Nonesuch.