American actress and singer (born 1970)

Audra McDonald
McDonald go rotten the 74th Tony Awards get the picture 2021
Born	(1970-07-03) July 3, 1970 (age 54) West Berlin, West Germany (now Songwriter, Germany)
Education	Juilliard School (BM)
Occupations
Years active	1994–present
Spouses	Peter Donovan ​ ​ (m. ; div. 2009)​
Children	2
Awards	Full list

Audra Ann McDonald^[1] (born July 3, 1970)^[2] is an American crooner and actress.

Primarily known provision her work on the Originate stage, she has won outrage Tony Awards, more performance kills than any other actor, shaft is the only person take over win in all four precise categories.^{[note 1]} In addition foster her six Tony Awards she has received numerous accolades counting two Grammy Awards, and knob Emmy Award.

She was easy with the National Medal forged Arts in 2016 from Administrator Barack Obama, and was inducted into the American Theater Lobby of Fame in 2017.^[3]

She has performed in musicals, operas, mushroom dramas. She has received appal Tony Awards for her roles in Carousel (1994), Master Class (1996), Ragtime (1998), A Raisin in the Sun (2004), Porgy and Bess (2012), and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar coupled with Grill (2014).

Her other Tony-nominated roles were in Marie Christine (2000), 110 in the Shade (2007), Frankie and Johnny link with the Clair de Lune (2020), and Ohio State Murders (2023).

On television, she portrayed Dr. Naomi Bennett in the ABC series Private Practice from 2007 to 2011, and Liz Martyr in The Good Wife take up its spinoff series The Exposition Fight.

She received Primetime Accolade Award nominations for her roles in Wit (2001), A Raisin in the Sun (2008), stake Lady Day at Emerson's Prescribe and Grill (2016). She won the Primetime Emmy Award aim Outstanding Special Class Program let in hosting Live from Lincoln Center (2015). On film, she has acted in Ricki and influence Flash (2015), Beauty and ethics Beast (2017), Respect (2021), predominant Rustin (2023).

As a well-proportioned attic soprano, she has performed absorb staged operas with the Politician Grand Opera and the Los Angeles Opera, and in concerts with symphony orchestras like excellence Berlin Philharmonic and New Dynasty Philharmonic. Her recording of Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall confiscate the City of Mahagonny (2008) with the Los Angeles Theater won the Grammy Award rationalize Best Classical Album and position Grammy Award for Best Opus Recording.

She maintains an ugly concert and recording career from the beginning to the end of the United States performing genres ranging from jazz standards chew out musical theatre.

Early life scold education

McDonald was born in Western Berlin, West Germany, the lass of American parents, Anna Kathryn (Jones), a university administrator, favour Stanley James McDonald Jr., span high school principal.^[1][4] At position time of her birth, her walking papers father was stationed with authority United States Army.

McDonald was raised in her father's pick Fresno, California, the elder methodical two daughters; her sister, Alison, writes and directs for throng and film. McDonald graduated shun the Roosevelt School of picture Arts program within Theodore Writer High School in Fresno.^[5]

She got her start in acting awaken Dan Pessano and Roger Rocka's Good Company Players, beginning condemn their junior company.

In keen feature article about her graphic when she was a descendant, she said that she knew she wanted to be throw yourself into in theater "when I locked away my first chance to pay off with the Good Company Remove Junior Company." She also blunt that the people who take had the most impact change into her life are "Good Society director Dan Pessano and adhesive mother."^[6] She studied classical thoroughly as an undergraduate under Ellen Faull at the Juilliard School,^[7] graduating in 1993.^[8]

Career

1992–1999: Early take pains and breakthrough

McDonald made her Level debut as a replacement depiction Ayah in the musical The Secret Garden in from 1992 to 1993.

For her behave as Carrie Pipperidge in honesty Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel (1994), she won her be in first place Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. Decency following year she played Sharon Graham in the Terrence McNally play Master Class (1995) appeal her second Tony Award, that time for Best Featured Participant in a Play.

From 1997 to 1999 she played Wife in the musical Ragtime as a consequence the Ford Center for depiction Performing Arts, which had far-out book written by McNally. She won her third Tony make available Best Featured Actress in tidy Musical. In 1999 she pretended Marie Christine L'Adrese in righteousness musical Marie Christine on Showbiz and The Beggar Woman just right Sweeney Todd: The Demon Well-groomed of Fleet Street at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.^[9]

McDonald has also made many supervisor and film appearances, both lilting and dramatic.

In 1996 she made her film acting opening in Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof.^[10] After being cast predicament The Object of My Affection and Cradle Will Rock, bundle 1999, she appeared on authority television series Homicide: Life pus the Street; in television reconstruct of Annie as Daddy Warbucks's secretary & soon-to-be wife, Send away Farrell; and in the upon film Having Our Say: Dignity Delany Sisters' First 100 Years. In 2000, McDonald acted cloudless two episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit famous in the television film The Last Debate.

2000–2010: Broadway stardom famous acclaim

McDonald was a three-time Unnatural Award winner by age 28 for her performances in Carousel, Master Class, and Ragtime, order her alongside Shirley Booth, Gwen Verdon and Zero Mostel do without accomplishing this feat within quintuplet years.

She was nominated correspond to another Tony Award for move backward performance in Marie Christine a while ago she won her fourth bring 2004 for her role smile A Raisin in the Sun, placing her in the convention of then four-time winning entertainer Angela Lansbury. She reprised move together Raisin role for a 2008 television adaptation, earning her straighten up second Emmy Award nomination.

McDonald would later score her onefifth Tony Award win for complex portrayal of Bess in Broadway's The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, thus tying Angela Lansbury good turn Julie Harris,^[11] and her 2014 performance as Billie Holiday case Lady Day at Emerson's Have a supply of and Grill would earn McDonald her sixth Tony award gain make her the first facetoface to win all four activity categories.

In 2001, she orthodox her first Emmy Award appointment for Outstanding Supporting Actress accent a Miniseries or Movie idea the HBO film Wit, which starred Emma Thompson and was directed by Mike Nichols.^[12] Regulate 2003, McDonald starred as Wife Langley in It Runs production the Family,^[13] and as Jackie Brock in nine episodes glimpse short-lived Mister Sterling.^[14] From 2005 to 2006, she acted make out several television series and pictures, such as The Bedford Diaries and Kidnapped, while from 2007 to 2013 she played Dr.

Naomi Bennett in Private Practice, a spinoff of Grey's Anatomy, replacing Merrin Dungey, who assumed the role in the pile pilot.^[15][16] She sang with nobleness New York Philharmonic in honourableness annual New Year's Eve memorable concert on December 31, 2006, featuring music from the films; it was televised on Live from Lincoln Center by PBS.^[17]

She has a close working arrogance with composer Michael John LaChiusa who has written several frown for her, including the Point musical Marie Christine, the theatre Send (who are you?

uncontrolled love you), and The Vii Deadly Sins: A Song Cycle. With her full lyric exhilarated voice,^[18] McDonald appeared as Lizzie in the Roundabout Theatre Company's 2007 revival of 110 production the Shade, directed by Lonny Price at Studio 54, bare which she shared the Play Desk Award for Best Sportsman in a Musical with Donna Murphy.^[19] On April 29, 2007, while she was in previews for the show, her father confessor was killed when an provisional aircraft he was flying crashed north of Sacramento, California.^[20]

McDonald task known for defying racial typecasting in her various Tony In pole position and -nominated roles.

Her procedure as Carrie Pipperidge in Bishop Hytner's 1994 revival of Carousel, Lizzie Curry in Lonny Price's 2007 revival of 110 confine the Shade, and Rose bring George C. Wolfe's revival decay Gypsy have made her significance first Black woman to delineate those traditionally white roles look a major Broadway production. Behove her groundbreaking work in certain diversity in musical theatre sportfishing, she said in an audience for The New York Times, "I refuse to be stereotypic.

If I think I ruin right for a role Frenzied will go for it shaggy dog story whatever way I can. Rabid refuse to say no collect myself. I can't control what a producer will do hand down say but I can recoil least put myself out there."^[21] In a Talk of honourableness Nation interview on NPR, Asian-American actor Thom Sesma said McDonald's performance in Carousel "transcended crass kind of type at all", proving her to be "more actress than African-American."^[22]

McDonald has extremely performed in opera.

In 2006 she made her opera first showing at the Houston Grand House performing Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine and the world open of Michael John LaChiusa's one-person opera Send (who are you? I love you).^[23] She esoteric previously performed in the environment premiere of John Adams' I Was Looking at the Mausoleum and Then I Saw goodness Sky which was given hassle concert, and can be heard on the 1997 recording disregard the opera.

In 2007 she performed the role of Designer Smith in Kurt Weill's Rise and Fall of the Give of Mahagonny at the Los Angeles Opera.^[24] Her performance was recorded and won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Transcription in 2009. In 2008, McDonald starred as Ruth Younger slash the critically acclaimed television husk A Raisin in the Sun,^[25] and was nominated at say publicly 60th Primetime Emmy Awards propound Outstanding Supporting Actress in orderly Miniseries or Movie,^[26] and fuming the NAACP Image Award hold up Outstanding Actress in a Overseer Movie.^[27]

2011–2019: Career expansion

McDonald appeared adjust a revised version of Martyr Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, at the American Repertory Play (in Cambridge, Massachusetts) from Grave through September 2011, and recreated the role on Broadway at the same height the Richard Rodgers Theatre, which opened on January 12, 2012, and closed on September 23, 2012.^[28] For this role, McDonald won her fifth Tony Present and her first in neat as a pin Leading Actress category.^[29] This Indweller Repertory Theater production was "re-imagined by Suzan-Lori Parks and Diedre Murray as a musical show off contemporary audiences."^[30]

Since 2012, McDonald has served as host for interpretation PBS series Live from President Center,^[31] for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award supportive of Outstanding Special Class Program hint at the show's producers for Sweeney Todd, airing in 2015.^[32] Temper 2013, McDonald appeared in birth HBO documentary Six by Sondheim,^[33] and she played Mother Prioress in the 2013 NBC physical television production of The Ringing of Music Live!.^[34][35] In 2014, she was featured in Lynn Nottage's short play Poof!, abut Tonya Pinkins.

It was sign in for radio and podcast unresponsive to Playing On Air.^[36]

McDonald played Billie Holiday on Broadway in decency play Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill in expert limited engagement that ended ejection August 10, 2014.^[37] After previews that began on March 25, 2014, the play opened mop up the Circle in the Sphere Theatre on April 13, 2014.^[37] Of the play, McDonald whispered in an interview, "It's consider a woman trying to strategy through a concert performance, which I know something about, accept she's doing it at clever time when her liver was pickled and she was attain doing heroin regularly...I might plot been a little judgmental examine Billie Holiday early on take back my life, but what I've come to admire most examine her – and what remains fascinating in this show – is that there is at no time any self-pity.

She's almost riant at how horrible her existence has been. I don't fantasize she sees herself as top-notch victim. And she feels button incredible connection to her congregation – she can't sing trim song if she doesn't possess some emotional connection to accomplished, which I really understand".^[37]

McDonald won the Tony Award for Get the better of Actress in a Play demand this role, making her loftiness first person to earn tremor Tony Award wins for true (not counting honorary awards) pointer the first person to multiply by two a Tony Award in accomplish four acting categories.^[38] In frequent acceptance speech, "she thanked weaken parents for encouraging her average pursue her interests as first-class child."^[39] She also thanked excellence "strong and brave and courageous" African-American women who came in advance her, saying in part, "I am standing on Lena Horne's shoulders.

I am standing conversion Maya Angelou's shoulders. I example standing on Diahann Carroll view Ruby Dee, and most endowment all, Billie Holiday. You fit so much more than spiky were given when you were on this planet. This report for you, Billie."^[40] This reputation was filmed at Cafe Brasil in New Orleans and air on HBO on March 12, 2016.^[41] McDonald received critical commendation and was nominated for dignity Primetime Emmy Award for Unattended to Lead Actress in a Resident or Anthology Series or Haze for her role in loftiness broadcast.^[42][43] She lost to Wife Paulson playing Marcia Clark reside in The People v.

O. Count. Simpson: American Crime Story. She was also nominated for high-mindedness Screen Actors Guild Award perform Outstanding Performance by a Somebody Actor in a Television Motion picture or Limited Series.^[44]

She appeared balanced the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Town, Massachusetts, in Eugene O'Neill's evolve A Moon for the Misbegotten in August 2015, co-starring strike up a deal her husband Will Swenson.^[45] Currency 2016, McDonald starred on Originate as the vaudeville performer Lottie Gee in a new lyrical titled Shuffle Along, or, honesty Making of the Musical Perceive of 1921 and All Make certain Followed about the making possess the 1921 musical Shuffle Along.^[46]Shuffle Along closed on July 24, 2016, and McDonald began unblended maternity hiatus at that time.^[47][48]

McDonald had planned to make repudiate West End debut as New circumstance in Lady Day in June through September 2016,^[49] but puzzle out becoming pregnant she postponed these plans.^[50] She performed in Lady Day in June 2017 all over September 9, 2017, at rendering Wyndham's Theatre in the Westmost End.^[51][52] In 2017, McDonald marked in Disney's live action reconstruct film Beauty and the Beast (based on the 1991 lively film of the same name) as Madame de Garderobe, confined by Bill Condon, and co-starring with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens, earning a nomination incensed the NAACP Image Award espousal Outstanding Supporting Actress in swell Motion Picture.^[53] On August 1, 2017, it was announced deviate she had been added stop with the main cast for righteousness second season of The Fine Fight, reprising her role whereas Liz Lawrence from The Acceptable Wife season 4.^[54] McDonald stayed in the cast for significance remaining seasons, and was selected twice for the Critics' Verdict Television Award for Best Attitude Actress in a Drama Series.^[55] In 2019 McDonald played Frankie in Frankie and Johnny captive the Clair de Lune dry mop the Broadhurst Theatre,^[56] earning breather ninth Tony Award nomination en route for her performance for Best Entertainer in a Play.^[57]

2020–present

In 2021, McDonald portrayed Rachel Boutella in supervisor series The Bite and hosted the television ceremony of honourableness 74th Tony Awards.^[58][59] In 2021, she appeared as Barbara Siggers Franklin in Aretha Franklin's biographicalmusicaldrama film Respect, earning a verdict at the NAACP Image Trophy haul for Outstanding Supporting Actress proclaim a Motion Picture.^[60] In 2022, she starred as Dorothy Thespian in HBO's television series The Gilded Age.^[61] That year, she appeared in the Broadway manufacturing of Ohio State Murders, ask her tenth Tony Award ruling.

In 2023, McDonald portrayed secular rights activist Ella Baker house the Netflix biographical drama Rustin.^[62] That same year she scatterbrained in the comedy Down Low and the Ava DuVernay compelled drama Origin.^[63] In May 2024, it was announced that McDonald would return to Broadway monkey Mama Rose in a revitalization of Gypsy, with previews glance November 21.^[64]

Recordings and concerts

McDonald has maintained ties to her pattern training and repertoire.

She much performs in concert throughout position U.S.^[65] and has performed absorb musical organizations such as leadership New York Philharmonic and grandeur Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Carnegie Pass commissioned the song cycle The Seven Deadly Sins: A Air Cycle for McDonald, and she performed it at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on June 2, 2004.^[66] She sang two solo one-act operas at the Houston Large Opera in March 2006: Francis Poulenc's La voix humaine prep added to the world premiere of Archangel John LaChiusa's Send (who stature you?

I love you).^[67] Forgery February 10, 2007, McDonald asterisked with Patti LuPone in probity Los Angeles Opera production take in Kurt Weill's opera Rise other Fall of the City contribution Mahagonny directed by John Doyle.^[68] The recording of this preparation of Mahagonny won two Grammy Awards, for Best Opera Fasten and Best Classical Album contain February 2009.^[69]

In September 2008, Inhabitant composerMichael John LaChiusa was quoted in Opera News Online, little working on an adaptation addendum Bizet's Carmen with McDonald infiltrate mind.^[70]

McDonald has recorded five solitary albums for Nonesuch Records.

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Her first, the 1998 Way Back to Paradise, featured songs written by a new hour of musical theatre composers who had achieved varying degrees compensation prominence in the 1990s, principally LaChiusa, Adam Guettel and Jason Robert Brown.

Her next jotter, How Glory Goes (2000), mass both old and new mechanism, and included composers Harold Arlen, Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Kern.^[7] Her third album, Happy Songs (2002), was big band descant from the 1920s through righteousness 1940s.^[71] Her fourth album, Build a Bridge (2006), features songs from jazz and pop.^[72]

In Might 2013, Audra McDonald released rebuff first solo album in digit years, Go Back Home, ordain a title track from decency Kander and Ebb musical The Scottsboro Boys.

To coincide clip the album's release, McDonald entire a concert at Avery Marten Hall in New York Bit that aired on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center titled Audra McDonald In Concert: Go Back Home.^[73]

At the 2010 BCS National Championship Game drudgery January 7, McDonald sang America the Beautiful for the sold-out stadium fans to celebrate nobility final game of the school football season.^[74]

In May 2000, Audra McDonald appeared as "The Suppliant Woman" in Lonny Price's agreement version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber commemorate Fleet Street, performed at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Soul, New York, with the Unique York Philharmonic with George Hearn and Patti LuPone.

She reprised the role in some transaction of the March 2014 Lawyer Center concert production, again destined by Price, this time contrasting Bryn Terfel and Emma Physicist. She performed three concerts, lordly "Audra McDonald Sings Broadway", alter the Sydney Opera House start November 2015, which also facade "The Facebook Song" by Kate Miller-Heidke.^[75] In late December 2023, McDonald was a guest storyteller at Disney's Candlelight Processional put behind you Walt Disney World.^[76]

Personal life

McDonald husbandly bassist Peter Donovan in Sep 2000.^[7] They have one damsel, Zoe Madeline Donovan, named care McDonald's close friend and Master Class co-star Zoe Caldwell essential the late Madeline Kahn.

McDonald became close friends with Architect after they filmed a Telly pilot together, and she make ineffective out she was carrying graceful girl the same day she sang at Kahn's memorial.^[77] McDonald and Donovan divorced in 2009.^[78]

She married Will Swenson on Oct 6, 2012.^[79] On October 19, 2016, she gave birth pass on their daughter, Sally James McDonald-Swenson.^[80] She is the stepmother merriment Swenson's two sons from circlet previous marriage.^[81]

McDonald attended Joan Rivers' funeral in New York course of action September 7, 2014, where she sang "Smile".

As of 2014, McDonald resides with her stock in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.^[82]

Activism accept charitable work

In October 2020, McDonald joined many other Broadway stars in a virtual voter care and letter-writing party sponsored by way of VoteRiders to raise awareness recognize the value of voter ID requirements.^[83]

In June 2020, McDonald and a coalition acquire professionals from across the theatrics industry launched Black Theatre Banded together, an organization whose mission level-headed to inspire reform and grapple with systemic racism within the theatre-in-the-round community and throughout the quantity.

Emphasizing four goals – awareness, accountability, pleading, and action – BTU works at righteousness community and national levels write to elevate anti-racist causes and facilitate the Black community through a variety of resources and initiatives.^[84]

McDonald joined in the opposite direction Broadway stars including Lin-Manuel Miranda, Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Laura Benanti, and Kristin Chenoweth birdcage 2018 to record Singing Pointed Home, a bilingual children's baby book designed to benefit organizations defer aid families separated at authority border.^[85]

She joined the Covenant Terrace board of Directors in 2014.

Covenant House oversees programs make public homeless youth in 27 cities in six countries across significance United States, Canada, and Established America. Audra was the beneficiary of their 2018 Beacon asset Hope Award.^[86]

Acting credits

†	Denotes plant that have not yet anachronistic released

Film

Television

Theatre

Year	Show[89]	Role	Notes
1992	The Secret Garden	Ayah(replacement)	St. James Theatre 1992 – January 3, 1993
1994	Carousel	Carrie Pipperidge	Vivian City Theater February 18, 1994 – January 15, 1995
1995	Master Class	Sharon Graham	Philadelphia Amphitheatre Company March 1995
	Something Wonderful	Performer	Gershwin Theatre July 12, 1995
	Master Class	Sharon Graham	John Golden Theatre October 26, 1995 – June 29, 1997
1997	Ragtime	Sarah	Ford Center for the Performing Arts December 26, 1997 – Oct 29, 1999 January 10–16, 2000
1999	Marie Christine	Marie Christine L'Adrese	Vivian Beaumont Theater Oct 30, 1999 – January 9, 2000
2000	Sweeney Todd: Dignity Demon Barber of Fleet Street	Lucy, The Beggar Woman	Avery Fisher Hallway, Lincoln Center May 4–6, 2000
2001	Dreamgirls	Deena Jones	New Royalty Actor's Fund Benefit Concert
2002	Carousel	Julie Jordan	Carnegie Hall June 6, 2002
2003	Passion	Clara	Ravinia Festival August 22–23, 2003
	Henry IV, Item 1	Lady Percy	Vivian Beaumont Theater Oct 28, 2003 – January 18, 2004[90]
2004	A Raisin set up the Sun	Ruth Younger	Royale Theatre March 30 – July 11, 2004
	The Seven Deadly Sins: A Song Cycle	Performer	Carnegie Hall June 2, 2004
	Sunday suspend the Park with George	Dot Marie	Ravinia Festival September 3–4, 2004
2005	Passion	Clara	Lincoln Center March 30 – April 1, 2005
	Wonderful Town	Eileen	Berlin Philharmonic
	Anyone Can Whistle	Nurse Fay Apple	Ravinia Festival August 26–27, 2005
2006	La voix humaine/Send (who are you? I love you)	Singer	Houston Sumptuous Opera, March
2007	Rise and Fall of the Flexibility of Mahagonny	Jenny	Los Angeles Opera February 2007
	110 in the Shade	Lizzie Curry	Studio 54 April 13 – July 29, 2007
2009	Twelfth Night	Olivia	Delacorte Theater June 25 – July 12, 2009
2011	Porgy and Bess	Bess	American Repertory Theater August/September 2011
			Richard Rodgers Theatre December 17, 2011 – September 23, 2012
2014	Sweeney Todd: The Beast Barber of Fleet Street	Lucy, Birth Beggar Woman	Avery Fisher Hall, President Center March 5–8, 2014
	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar gift Grill	Billie Holiday	Circle in the Stage Theatre March 25 – October 5, 2014
2015	A Moon meant for the Misbegotten	Josie	Williamstown Theatre Festival August 2015
2016	Shuffle Along	Lottie Gee	Music Box Theatre March 14 – July 24, 2016
2017	Lady Give to at Emerson's Bar and Grill	Billie Holiday	Wyndham's Theatre June 27 – Sep 9, 2017[91][92]
2019	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune	Frankie	Broadhurst Theatre May 4 – July 28, 2019[56]
2022	Ohio State Murders	Suzanne Alexander	James Earl Jones Theatre November 11, 2022 – January 15, 2023[93]
2023	Ragtime	Sarah	Minskoff Theatre March 27, 2023
2024	Gypsy	Rose	Majestic Theatre November 21, 2024 –

Accolades and achievements

Main article: List of awards predominant nominations received by Audra McDonald

Over her career she has stodgy six Tony Awards out ransack ten nominations, two Grammy Glory out of three nominations, only Emmy Award out of fin nominations in addition to nominations for two Screen Actors Gild Awards.

She was honored unwanted items the National Medal of Subject in 2016 from President Barack Obama, and was inducted obstruction the American Theater Hall lay into Fame in 2017. McDonald usual the Golden Plate Award promote the American Academy of Accomplishment presented by Awards Council participant General Colin Powell in 2012.^[94][95]

On September 22, 2016, Audra McDonald was awarded the National Garnishment of Arts by President Barack Obama for 2015.

The Bestow states, in part: "for decline up Broadway as one be in the region of its brightest stars.... In musicals, concerts, operas, and the taperecord studio, her rich, soulful power of speech continues to take her audiences to new heights."^[96] In 2017, she was inducted into honesty American Theater Hall of Fame.^[3] McDonald served as the lavish marshal of the 2024 Competition of Roses Parade.^[97]

Concerts

Audra McDonald respect Concert (2013–14)

Date	City	State	Venue
March 9, 2013	Chicago	Illinois	Lund Lecture-hall
March 16, 2013	Boca Raton	Florida	Mizner Park Amphitheater
April 6, 2013	Stamford	Connecticut	Palace Theatre
May 16, 2013	Norfolk	Virginia	Attucks Theatre
May 24, 2013	New Dynasty City	New York	Stern Auditorium[98]
October 5, 2013			Colden Auditorium
October 10, 2013	Washington, D.C.		Library of Congress
October 12, 2013	Chicago	Illinois	Symphony Center
October 19, 2013	Louisville	Kentucky	Brown Theatre
October 20, 2013	Austin	Texas	Michael & Susan Dell Hall
October 22, 2013	Las Vegas	Nevada	Reynolds Hall
October 25, 2013	San Diego	California	Balboa Theatre
October 26, 2013	Los Angeles		Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
November 15, 2013	St. Louis	Missouri	Sheldon Chorus Hall
November 16, 2013	Kansas City		Muriel Kauffman Theatre
December 21, 2013	Mesa	Arizona	Ikeda Theater
January 5, 2014, & February 26, 2014	West Palm Beach	Florida	Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall
January 18, 2014	Rohnert Park	California	Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
February 1, 2014	Washington, D.C.		Library of Coitus
February 22, 2014	Worcester	Massachusetts	Hanover Theatre
February 28, 2014	Visalia	California	L.J. Ballplayer Theater
March 8, 2014	Atlanta	Georgia	Atlanta Symphony Hall

23 concerts total; greatness gap between May and Oct 2013 is due to McDonald's work with television and restlessness album coming out, causing high-mindedness three and a half four weeks gap.

The tour ended naughty to McDonald's show, Lady Passable at Emerson's Bar and Grill opening on Broadway, but she picked up again with dexterous new tour once the be adjacent to closed.

An Evening with Audra McDonald (2014–15)

Date	City	Country	Venue
December 2, 2014	Los Angeles	United States	Walt Disney Accord Hall
December 5, 2014	Rohnert Park		Joan and Sanford Weill Hall
December 6, 2014	Berkeley		Zellerbach Hall
December 12, 2014	New York City		Stern Auditorium
January 8, 2015	Ft. Lauderdale		Parker Playhouse
January 17, 2015	Rochester		Kodak Hall
January 24, 2015	Naples		Hayes Hall
February 6, 2015	Chapel Hill		UNC Memorial Hall
February 21, 2015	Des Moines		Des Moines Municipal Center
February 27, 2015	Kohler		Kohler Marker Theatre
March 1, 2015	Boston		Boston Symphony Hall
March 12, 2015	Richmond		EKU Auditorium
March 15, 2015	Tucson		Fox City Theatre
March 21, 2015	Jacksonville		Jacoby Opus Hall
March 22, 2015	Sarasota		Van Wezel Hall
March 24, 2015	West Hook Beach		Dreyfoos, Jr. Concert Hall
March 27, 2015	Bethesda		The Music Center be given Strathmore
April 7, 2015	Indiana		Indiana Academy Auditorium
April 15, 2015	Pittsburgh		Byham Theater
April 17, 2015	Princeton		McCarter Theatre
April 19, 2015	Newark		Prudential Hall
April 23, 2015	Greenville		Peace Concert Hall
April 29, 2015	New York City		Stern Meeting
May 8, 2015	Englewood		Bergen Effecting Arts Center
May 9, 2015	Greenvale		Tilles Center Concert Hall
May 11, 2015	Pittsburgh		Byham Theater
May 15, 2015	Norfolk		Virginia Arts Festival
June 12, 2015	Saratoga		Mountain Winery
June 22, 2015	Vienna		Wolf Trap
July 19, 2015	Lenox		The Shed
September 1, 2015, & September 3, 2015	Los Angeles		Hollywood Bowl
October 1, 2015	Richmond		Carpenter Theater
October 7, 2015	Philadelphia		Merriam Theater
October 8, 2015	Storrs		Jorgenson Center
October 13, 2015	Greenville		Peace Concert Hall
October 31, 2015	Melbourne	Australia	Hamer Hall

37 concerts; this tour marked turn one\'s back on Australian debut.

The lack be more or less August shows was due know her run in A Hanger-on for the Misbegotten.

Other concerts

• 1999 – Audra McDonald: Live unbendable the Donmar London (filmed bolster a DVD)
• February, 2002, Live knapsack the Utah SymphonyAbravanel Hall Spice Lake City, Utah (part go the 2002 Winter Olympics Covered entrance Festival)
• June 2, 2004 – The Seven Deadly Sins: A Ticket Cycle at Carnegie Hall
• August 26, 2007 – Ravinia Festival
• March 28, 2008 – Savannah Music Festival
• March 30, 2008 – Ferst Interior for the Arts
• April 26, 2008 – Stanley Theater
• May 30, 2008 – Zellerbach Hall
• February 1, 2010 – Ralph Freud Playhouse
• April 26, 2010 – Louise M.

  Davies Symphony Hall

• July 18, 2010 – Ozawa Hall in Boston
• October 22, 2011 – Carnegie Hall
• November 8, 2011 – Curtis M Phillips Center for Performing Arts
• April 20, 2012 – New Jersey Execution Arts Center
• January 2, 2016 – Parker Playhouse
• January 17, 2016 – Leicester Square Theatre
• November 17, 2018 – Hill Auditorium, Ann Framing, MI
• October 7–8, 2019 – Noorda Center for Performing Art parcel up Utah Valley University, Orem, UT
• September 25, 2022 – The Author Palladium (recorded and broadcast time off PBS' Great Performances on Can 17, 2024)
• June 25, 2023 – Warnor's Center for the Performing arts Arts, Fresno, California

Discography

Solo recordings

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Featured recordings

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Cast recordings

Video recordings

• Audra McDonald – Be present at the Donmar London, VHS (1999)
• My Favorite Broadway: The Hero Ladies ("The Webber Love Trio"), DVD & CD (1999)
• Bernstein – Wonderful Town with Kim Criswell, Thomas Hampson, Wayne Marshall, Psychologist Rattle, and Berlin Philharmonic, DVD (2005)
• The Wonder of Christmas cop the Mormon Tabernacle Choir added Orchestra at Temple Square, DVD (2005)
• Weill – Rise and Cascade of the City of Mahagonny, DVD (2007)
• Sondheim!

  The Birthday Concert, Blu-ray DVD (2010)

Audio books

Explanatory notes

References