Lincoln Center Theater will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a Ruby Jubilee Gala at the Vivian Beaumont Theater May 19. The evening will start with a performance on stage, with a post-show seated dinner for benefit ticket holders at the David H. Koch Theater.
Jason Danieley will direct the performance portion of the evening, which will feature songs from past LCT productions sung by a starry list of Broadway favorites, including Roger Bart, Stephanie J. Block, Jason Robert Brown, Victoria Clark, Jordan Donica, Katie Finneran, Stephen Flaherty, Michael John LaChiusa, Marc Kudisch, Nathan Lane, Norm Lewis, Andrea Martin, Kelli O’Hara, Andrew Rannells, Anthony Rosenthal, Tally Sessions, Ted Sperling, Tracie Thoms, Leslie Uggams, Brandon Uranowitz, and Betsy Wolfe, with more to be announced. Adam Rothenberg will music direct.
The event will also mark the departure of Artistic Director André Bishop, who is set to leave the role at the end of the current season, capping off a 33-year tenure. Lear deBessonet will succeed Bishop, with Bartlett Sher joining in the new role of executive producer.
LCT is currently readying to begin Broadway previews for a new staging of Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's Floyd Collins, which starts in the Beaumont March 28. In the Off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe, and Billy Crudup lead a production of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, newly adapted by Mark O'Rowe, through April 26. The company's LCT3 will present the world premiere of Caitlin Saylor Stephens' Five Models in Ruins, 1981 in the Off-Broadway Claire Tow Theater beginning April 19.
Along with benefit tickets including the post-show dinner, the company will also sell show-only tickets to the gala event, beginning April 9 at noon ET at LCT.org.
