BREAKING NEWS: This year’s headlining lineup has been revealed for the return of Darren Criss‘ annual Elsie Fest concert this month!! What an exciting lineup of Broadway’s best reunited, taking center stage, and celebrating the return of Live Performance in the Big Apple!!! This year’s headlining performers will include….
Emmy Award winner Darren Criss himself (TV’s Glee and American Horror Story and Broadway’s How to Succeed, HEDWIG, and was slated to return in the revival of American Buffalo),
Stage and Screen favorite Jordan Fisher (Disney’s Teen Beach, TV’s Rent and Grease Live, Dancing with the Stars, and of course Broadway’s Hamilton and set to rejoin the cast of Dear Evan Hansen when it reopens this holiday season),
2 time Tony and Olivier Award nominee Adrienne Warren (Broadway’s BRING IT ON, Shuffle Along, and set to return this Fall in her critically acclaimed performance in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical),
and
upcoming new Musical Theater songwriting duo Barlow & Bear.
The lineup will also feature special guests….
2 time Tony nominee Alex Brightman (Broadway’s WICKED, Glory Days, School of Rock, and of course Beetlejuice),
and
Pentatonix favorite Kristin Maldonado (previously made her Broadway debut in Kinky Boots).
ELSIE FEST 2021 is set for August 29th, 2021 at the Prospect Park Bandshell (now set to be renamed the Lena Horne Bandshell) in Brooklyn. It will also be part of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival.
Who is excited?!!!