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Mandy Gonzales Sings Lin-Manuel Miranda

April 18 at 7:30 pm

Mandy Gonzalez, vocalist
Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Dragon, Conductor

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Everything I Know: Mandy Gonzalez Sings Lin-Manuel Miranda

Mandy Gonzalez possesses one of the most powerful and versatile contemporary voices of our time. Join us for the show-stopping pops finale and Mandy Gonzalez joins forces with the Greensboro Symphony at Tanger Center. Program includes hits like “How Far I’ll Go”, “We Don’t Talk about Bruno”, “Fearless” and more!

Multi-instrumentalist and singer, Brody Bett will return to the GSO stage to join Mandy on three songs: “Satisfied” from Hamilton, “One School/What the Heck I Gotta Go” from 21 Chump Street, and “The Room Where it Happens” from Hamilton.

The finale, “Fearless”, will feature a youth choir with approximately 35 students from Kiser Middle School and Grimsley High School.

About the Artist:

Mandy Gonzalez possesses one of the most powerful and versatile contemporary voices of our time. She is currently starring in the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton”. She is best known for her emotional portrayal of Nina Rosario in the Tony Award winning, Lin-Manuel Miranda Broadway musical “In the Heights”, a role she originally created Off Broadway at 37 Arts and which received a Drama Desk Award for Best Ensemble. She starred as Elphaba in the Broadway production of “Wicked”, blowing the roof off of New York’s Gershwin Theatre each night as she belted out signature song “Defying Gravity” and for which she was rewarded with a Broadway.com Award for Best Replacement. Other Broadway roles include Princess Amneris in the Elton John and Tim Rice musical “Aida” and the Broadway show “Lennon” where she portrayed multiple roles including that of Beatles’ icon John Lennon. Mandy made her Broadway debut in Jim Steinman’s “Dance of the Vampires” starring opposite Michael Crawford.

Mandy can be heard as the voice of Mei in Disney’s “Mulan 2” and on recordings of the original Broadway cast album of “In the Heights”, “Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live” and “The Man Who Would Be King”.

 

Venue

Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts

300 N. Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401 United States