—If you could revist any of your roles that you’ve created on Broadway, or recreated on Broadway, what role would you pick and why?
Happy Kelli O’Tony day! [June 7, 2015]
@kelliohara: Bridges Cd now in stores! Great 4 car rides, romantic dinners or a good cry.
Kelli O'Hara performs at the New York Pops 32nd Birthday Gala at Carnegie Hall on May 4th, 2015.
Marin Mazzie, Kelli O'Hara & Judy Kuhn backstage at the 34th New York Pops Gala on May 1, 2017 in New York City
Kelli O'Hara attends the 2017 New York Pops Gala dinner at Mandarin Oriental Hotel on May 1, 2017 in New York City following the The New York Pops Orchestra 34th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall, honoring Kelli and Bartlett Sher.
tony awards gif challenge vs @gracemclean ✭ round 1
↳ favorite speech: kelli o’hara, 2015
Kelli O'Hara singing ’Fable’ at the New York Pops 34th Birthday Gala, May 1st, 2017.
📷: Richard Termine
Sometimes I look at Kelli O'Hara and I think all the girls in the fairy tales were based on her. She’s beautiful. She’s funny. She’s smart. She sings like nobody on the planet. She dances like Ginger Rogers– I don’t even think she knew that, but she does. She’s been in nine Broadway shows. She’s been nominated for five Tony Awards. She has an amazing husband, two wonderful children, and makes a mean grits casserole. She’s performed in everything from South Pacific to King Lear to our own The Bridges of Madison County, this season. She’s appeared with the New York Philharmonic, been on Sex and the City, performed at Carnegie Hall, and three times at the Kennedy Center Honors, But here’s the deal, folks: Kelli O'Hara is no princess. Bart Sher says that what makes Kelli so spectacular is that she is a woman on stage. She brings a woman’s understanding and emotion to every part she plays. She will not let a word or a lyric get by her that isn’t right. And when everything is right, she falls into your arms and you cannot imagine ever being loved by anybody else. So, for her divine voice, for her dedication to her students, her tenacity in maintaining her career and her family, for her unparalleled ability to fall in love on stage and remind us all what it feels like: The 2014 Lilly Award for Love and Life and the finest vocal performance by an actress in this and many other years ever, goes to the one and only, Kelli O'Hara.
Steven Pasquale’s introduction, written by Marsha Norman, for Kelli O'Hara at the 2014 Lilly Awards
(for Kelli’s speech click here)
“Sometimes I look at Kelli O’Hara and I think all the girls in the fairy tales were based on her. She’s beautiful. She’s funny. She’s smart. She sings like nobody on the planet. She dances like Ginger Rogers— I don’t even think she knew that, but she does. She’s been in nine Broadway shows. She’s been nominated for five Tony Awards. She has an amazing husband, two wonderful children, and makes a mean grits casserole. She’s performed in everything from South Pacific to King Lear to our own The Bridges of Madison County, this season. She’s appeared with the New York Philharmonic, been on Sex and the City, performed at Carnegie Hall, and three times at the Kennedy Center Honors, But here’s the deal, folks: Kelli O’Hara is no princess. Bart Sher says that what makes Kelli so spectacular is that she is a woman on stage. She brings a woman’s understanding and emotion to every part she plays. She will not let a word or a lyric get by her that isn’t right. And when everything is right, she falls into your arms and you cannot imagine ever being loved by anybody else.”
Happy 41st Birthday to the best there is, Kelli O’Hara!
Tony Award-winning performer Kelli O'Hara at the 12th Annual OPERA NEWS Awards at the Plaza Hotel on April 9, 2017.
if you want to view paradise,
simply look around and view it
anything you want to, do it
you can change the world,
there’s nothing to it.
Kelli O’Hara performs “Pure Imagination” from CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at MCC Theatre’s MisCast 2017
Kelli O’Hara singing “Pure Imagination” from “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” at MisCast 2017
(No Video for this one :( very sorry but the audio is beautiful!)