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Tony Award nominee and Broadway favourite Betsy Wolfe headlined the annual New York Pops Underground cabaret efficiency at 54 Beneath. Wolfe carried out alternatives from Waitress, The Final 5 Years, and & Juliet, for which she was nominated for a Tony Award.

Betsy is at present showing in & Juliet on Broadway, and has appeared within the title function of Broadway’s Waitress, along with Falsettos, Bullets Over Broadway, The Thriller of Edwin Drood, and extra.

Betsy most not too long ago appeared with The New York Pops at its thirty ninth Birthday Gala celebrating the music of Kristen and Bobby Lopez.

 

The night additionally included a efficiency by the PopsEd alumni ensemble, which options younger musicians who’ve beforehand participated within the orchestra’s Children on Stage program. Children on Stage offers college students who reside throughout all 5 boroughs entry to the skilled efficiency course of together with a complete rehearsal interval, and efficiency with the orchestra on the Carnegie Corridor stage.

Proceeds from The New York Pops Underground cabaret fundraiser help the orchestra’s PopsEd applications, which give music training, arts entry, and efficiency alternatives for New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds.

The New York Pops’ 2023-24 season of performances in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Corridor consists of twenty first Century Broadway on Friday, October 27, 2023 that includes Derek Klena, Hailey Kilgore, Javier Muñoz, and Ali Stroker; One Evening Solely: An Night with Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara on Friday, November 17, 2023; The Greatest Christmas of All with Norm Lewis on Friday, December 22 and Saturday, December 23; Gershwin: A Century of Rhapsody in Blue on Friday, February 9, 2024 that includes Montego Glover and Lee Musiker; and Hitsville: Celebrating Motown on Friday, March 15, 2024 that includes Bryan Terrell Clark and Valisia LeKae.