Encores!

Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert is a program that has been presented by New York City Center since 1994. Encores! is dedicated to performing the full score of musicals that rarely are heard in New York City. Scores by Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick, Kander and Ebb, Jule Styne, and Comden and Green have been heard at Encores! productions.

The Encores! series was awarded the Jujamcyn Theater Award in 1997, the Association for Independent Music Indie Award in 1998, Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 2000, several Lucille Lortel Awards, and an Outer Critics Circle Award. Cast recordings of the Encores! productions of Call Me Madam, Out Of This World, Pal Joey, Chicago, The Boys From Syracuse, St. Louis Woman, Babes In Arms, Do Re Mi, Tenderloin, and Face the Music have been released. Accredited scholars can view videotapes of many Encores! productions at the Billy Rose Theater Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Performers and directors who have worked in Encores! productions include:

  • F. Murray Abraham
  • Bruce Adler
  • Tom Aldredge
  • Sebastian Arcelus
  • Michael Arden
  • Adam Arkin
  • Tichina Arnold
  • Ashanti
  • Dylan Baker
  • Kate Baldwin
  • Christine Baranski
  • Brent Barrett
  • Roger Bart
  • Peter Bartlett
  • Gary Beach
  • Laura Benanti
  • Michael Berresse
  • Sarah Uriarte Berry
  • Walter Bobbie
  • Stephen Bogardus
  • Sierra Boggess
  • Christian Borle
  • Philip Bosco
  • Roscoe Lee Browne
  • Danny Burstein
  • Kate Burton
  • L. Scott Caldwell
  • Liz Callaway
  • Bobby Cannavale
  • Mario Cantone
  • Len Cariou
  • Carleton Carpenter
  • Patrick Cassidy
  • Michael Cerveris
  • Kevin Chamberlin
  • Walter Charles
  • Will Chase
  • Kristin Chenoweth
  • Victoria Clark
  • Lewis Cleale
  • Jennifer Cody
  • Patti Cohenour
  • Frank Converse
  • Carole Cook
  • Chuck Cooper
  • Marilyn Cooper
  • Luther Creek
  • Gavin Creel
  • John Cullum
  • Stephanie D'Abruzzo
  • Charlotte d'Amboise
  • Jason Danieley
  • Tyne Daly
  • Mara Davi
  • Erin Davie
  • Lea DeLaria
  • Stephen DeRosa
  • Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Doug E. Doug
  • Olympia Dukakis
  • Sandy Duncan
  • Christopher Durang
  • Charles S. Dutton
  • Christine Ebersole
  • Gregg Edelman
  • Melissa Errico
  • Raúl Esparza
  • Tovah Feldshuh
  • Jesse Tyler Ferguson
  • Katie Finneran
  • Christopher Fitzgerald
  • Sutton Foster
  • Stacy Francis
  • Jonathan Freeman
  • Peter Friedman
  • Boyd Gaines
  • Davis Gaines
  • Peter Gallagher
  • Victor Garber
  • David Garrison
  • Ana Gasteyer
  • Malcolm Gets
  • Henry Gibson
  • Anita Gillette
  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Randy Graff
  • Debbie Gravitte
  • David Alan Grier
  • Jonathan Groff
  • Joel Grey
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Joshua Henry
  • Ruthie Henshall
  • Megan Hilty
  • Maurice Hines
  • Mimi Hines
  • Curtis Holbrook
  • Celeste Holm
  • Cady Huffman
  • Dana Ivey
  • Cheyenne Jackson
  • Peter Jacobson
  • Brian d'Arcy James
  • Nikki M. James
  • Gregory Jbara
  • Daniel H. Jenkins
  • James Earl Jones
  • Orlando Jones
  • Simon Jones
  • Judy Kaye
  • Celia Keenan-Bolger
  • Randall Duk Kim
  • Charles Kimbrough
  • Wayne Knight
  • Jane Krakowski
  • Leslie Kritzer
  • Judy Kuhn
  • Lachanze
  • Nathan Lane
  • Liz Larsen
  • Dick Latessa
  • Beth Leavel
  • Ron Leibman
  • Eugene Levy
  • Dawnn Lewis
  • Jenifer Lewis
  • Marcia Lewis
  • Norm Lewis
  • Vicki Lewis
  • Priscilla Lopez
  • Dorothy Loudon
  • Rebecca Luker
  • Patti LuPone
  • Terrence Mann
  • Kathleen Marshall
  • Rob Marshall
  • Andrea Martin
  • Stanley Wayne Mathis
  • Jefferson Mays
  • Marin Mazzie
  • Howard McGillin
  • Michael McGrath
  • Donna McKechnie
  • Armelia McQueen
  • Idina Menzel
  • Patina Miller
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell
  • Robert Morse
  • Burke Moses
  • Michael Mulheren
  • Donna Murphy
  • James Naughton
  • Bebe Neuwirth
  • Julie Newmar
  • Becki Newton
  • Marni Nixon
  • Keith Nobbs
  • Christiane Noll
  • Jim Norton
  • Jack O'Brien
  • Rosie O'Donnell
  • Kelli O'Hara
  • Nancy Opel
  • Brad Oscar
  • Laura Osnes
  • Ken Page
  • Wendell Pierce
  • Tonya Pinkins
  • Lonny Price
  • Faith Prince
  • Charlotte Rae
  • Tony Randall
  • Lynn Redgrave
  • Ann Reinking
  • Christopher Reeve
  • Charles Repole
  • Alfonso Ribeiro
  • Alice Ripley
  • Doris Roberts
  • Anika Noni Rose
  • Ernie Sabella
  • Ruben Santiago-Hudson
  • Susan H. Schulman
  • Peter Scolari
  • Marian Seldes
  • Carole Shelley
  • Martin Short
  • Christopher Sieber
  • Douglas Sills
  • Emily Skinner
  • Jock Soto
  • Lewis J. Stadlen
  • David Ogden Stiers
  • John Tartaglia
  • Mary Testa
  • Jennifer Laura Thompson
  • Donald Trump
  • Leslie Uggams
  • Blair Underwood
  • Scott Waara
  • Eli Wallach
  • Thommie Walsh
  • Jessica Walter
  • Adrienne Warren
  • Lillias White
  • Terri White
  • Teal Wicks
  • Lee Wilkof
  • Vanessa Williams
  • Patrick Wilson
  • Carol Woods
  • Tom Wopat
  • Jo Anne Worley
  • Samuel E. Wright
  • Tony Yazbeck
  • Rachel York
  • Jerry Zaks
  • Karen Ziemba
  • Chip Zien

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