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  • Oumou Sangare, Audra McDonald
    Thursday, January 7, 2010
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    Oumou Sangare, Audra McDonald Nominated for NAACP Image Awards; McDonald to Sing at National Championship Football Game

    Oumou Sangare and Audra McDonald have been nominated for NAACP Image Awards: Oumou for her latest album, Seya, and Audra for her work on the ABC series Private Practice. Audra will be performing on ABC tonight, singing "God Bless America" during the pregame show at the National Championship football game in Pasadena's Rose Bowl Stadium.

  • Audra McDonald
    Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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    Audra McDonald to Celebrate Music of Frank Loesser in Actors Fund Benefit Concert

    Audra McDonald was recently honored with the 2009 NAACP Theatre Award's Trailblazer Award. Next month, Audra will participate in The Actors Fund's fall 2009 benefit concert titled Chance and Chemistry: A Centennial Celebration of Frank Loesser, to be held on Monday, October 26, at the Minskoff Theater in New York.

  • Audra McDonald
    Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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    Audra McDonald Joins Cast of Shakespeare in the Park's "Twelfth Night"

    Audra McDonald returns to the stage in this summer's Shakespeare in the Park production of Twelfth Night. Audra, a four-time Tony winner, is making her Public Theater debut in the role of Olivia, joining a stellar cast that includes Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway, who stars as Viola, and Raúl Esparza, star of the 2007 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's Company. The show, directed by Daniel Sullivan, will run June 10–July 12 at the Delacorte Theater in New York's Central Park.

  • Audra McDonald
    Monday, April 6, 2009
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    Audra McDonald to Celebrate Big-Band Era at Roundabout's Spring Gala

    Audra McDonald will be among Broadway's finest at New York's Roseland Ballroom tonight for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Spring Gala, Take Me Back to Manhattan, a one-night-only celebration of the New York's big-band era. The performance, which benefits the Roundabout's Musical Theatre Fund, features music by Rodgers, Porter, Arlen, Berlin, Ellington, and Gershwin. Tonight's event will be hosted by Nathan Lane and is also scheduled to include performances by Michael Cerveris, Kelli O'Hara, Alec Baldwin, Matthew Broderick, Mario Cantone, Jane Krakowski, Cynthia Nixon, Denis O'Hare, Martha Plimpton.

  • Toumani Diabate, "The Mande Variations" [cover]
    Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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    Toumani Diabaté Receives Accolades from NAACP, President-Elect Obama

    Toumani Diabaté’s The Mandé Variations has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding World Music Album. Audra McDonald was nominated for two acting awards, for her work on the TV series Private Practice and on the TV movie A Raisin in the Sun. President-elect Barack Obama, the subject of many of the works in the Image Awards' literature categories, chose Kulanjan, Diabaté's 1999 collaboration with Taj Mahal, as the only CD on his Borders Shortlist recommending five things to read, watch, and listen to.

  • Thomas Newman, "Revolutionary Road" [cover]
    Thursday, December 11, 2008
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    "Revolutionary Road" Receives Four Golden Globe Nominations; Nonesuch to Release Soundtrack

    Revolutionary Road has been nominated for four Golden Globe awards. The Sam Mendes–directed film adaptation of the landmark novel by Richard Yates is up for Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Director for Mendes; Best Actor, Drama, Leonardo DiCaprio; and Best Actress, Drama, Kate Winslet. Nonesuch will release the film's soundtrack on December 23, with original music by Thomas Newman, plus three songs from the film’s era by The Ravens, The Orioles, and The Ink Spots. Also nominated for a Golden Globe, for Best Motion Picture Made for Television, is A Raisin in the Sun, starring Audra McDonald, Sean Combs, and Phylicia Rashad.

  • Audra McDonald
    Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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    Audra McDonald to Join Barbara Cook in Concert for Special America Votes Benefit

    Audra McDonald will join fellow Tony Award winner and famed Sondheim interpreter Barbara Cook for a very special concert event titled Audra McDonald & Barbara Cook: Broadway Voices for Change, on Sunday, October 19, at 8 PM, at New York's Al Hirschfeld Theatre. Proceeds from the event will benefit America Votes, the largest grassroots voter mobilization effort in the US, supporting a broad economic and social justice agenda.

  • Audra McDonald
    Thursday, October 2, 2008
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    Audra McDonald, Dawn Upshaw Open Salonen's Final LA Phil Season

    Audra McDonald and Dawn Upshaw will take the stage at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles tonight for the Opening Night Gala of the Los Angeles Philarmonic's 2008–09 season, the orchestra's last with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen at its helm. Audra will sing Sondheim's "There Won't Be Trumpets" and Jule Styne / Sammy Cahn's "10,432 Sheep"; Dawn will perform songs from John Adams's Nixon in China and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress. The eclectic program also includes selections from Stravinsky's The Firebird.

  • Audra McDonald
    Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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    Audra McDonald Receives Emmy Nomination for "A Raisin in the Sun"

    Congratulations to Audra McDonald, who as been nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in the ABC-TV version of A Raisin in the Sun. Audra received a Tony Award (her fourth) for the 2004 Broadway stage revival of the seminal 1959 play by Lorraine Hansberry.

  • Monday, May 5, 2008
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    Audra McDonald "Absolutely Enchanting" at Gilmore; "A Raisin in the Sun" DVD Available Now

    Audra McDonald's performance at the Gilmore Festival late last month in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with Ted Sperling on piano, Mark Vanderpoel on bass, and Dave Ratajczak on drums, says the Kalamazoo Gazette's Linda S. Mah, was "absolutely enchanting." Writes Mah: "Elegant, smooth and funny, McDonald was the consummate performer."

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