Kelli O'Hara Comes To The Orange County Performing Arts Center 1/21-24

Kelli O'Hara, one of Broadway's brightest stars who has won rave reviews in The Light in the Piazza, The Pajama Game, My Fair Lady and the highly acclaimed revival of South Pacific, will make her debut in the Orange County Performing Arts Center's Cabaret Series January 21 - 24 in
Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. O'Hara has enchanted audiences at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Joe's Pub, and is sure to do the same for Center cabaret fans. The New York

Times proclaims O'Hara is, "The most accomplished Broadway ingénue to emerge in years."
Tickets to see Kelli O'Hara are $72 and available at OCPAC.org, at the Center's Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling 714.556.2787. For inquiries about group ticket discounts for 15 or more, call the Group Services office at 714.755.0236. The TTY number is 714.556.2746.

O'Hara has unequivocally established herself as one of Broadway's stars with her portrayal of Nellie
Forbush in the Tony® Award-winning revival of South Pacific at Lincoln Center which garnered her a Tony nomination, and as Eliza Doolittle in the NY Philharmonic production of My Fair Lady.
A native of Oklahoma, O'Hara received a degree in Opera. After winning the State Metropolitan Opera Competition, she moved to New York and enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Institute. O'Hara made her Broadway debut in Jekyll & Hyde and followed it with Sondheim's Follies and Sweet Smell of Success opposite John Lithgow and Dracula.

In 2003, O'Hara committed to a production of The Light in the Piazza at Seattle's Intiman Theatre. The show landed on Broadway in 2005 and earned O'Hara her first Tony and Drama Desk Award
nominations. She moved from one huge critical and commercial success to another when she joined
Harry Connick on Broadway in the 2006 Tony Award-winning production of The Pajama Game for which she received Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Award nominations.
O'Hara has worked regionally and Off Broadway in Sunday in the Park with George at Reprise, My Life With Albertine at Playwright's Horizons and Beauty at the La Jolla Playhouse.
In addition to her critically acclaimed Carnegie Hall solo debut with the NY Pops conducted by Rob
Fisher, O'Hara's concerts include Carnegie Hall with Barbara Cook, The Kennedy Center with Marvin
Hamlisch and the NSO, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Cooper Union, Joe's Pub and with the Philly Pops
conducted by Peter Nero. She also performed at the Kennedy Center Honors as part of the Barbra
Streisand tribute. Among her film and television credits are The Dying Gaul starring Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott, Blue Blood (NBC pilot), All Rise (NBC Pilot), Alexander Hamilton (Maria Reynolds) starring Brian F. O'Byrne (PBS), NUMB3RS (CBS), All My Children, the animated series Car Talk, as well as numerous live performances on national television shows. She also starred opposite Simon Baker in a Cava Freixenet industrial directed by Martin Scorsese.
O'Hara's recordings include: South Pacific (Sony), The Light in the Piazza (Nonesuch records), The
Pajama Game (Sony), The Sweet Smell of Success (Sony), My Life with Albertine (PS Classics), Dream True (PSClassics), Jule Styne Goes Hollywood (PS Classics) and her solo album Wonder in the World on Ghostlight Records.