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Audra heads to the Lone Star State for concerts in Houston and Austin this weekend

Screen Shot 2013-10-18 at 3.51.40 PMAudra kicks off the second half of her fall tour this Saturday with a concert at Houston’s Wortham Center. This performance marks the Tony award-winner’s first return to Houston since she made her Houston Grand Opera debut in 2006 in a double-bill of monodramas. The following day, Audra brings her “incredible voice, with its unique blend of sunshine and shade” (Toronto Star) to the Long Center in Austin. Audra then makes her way to the west coast for concerts in Las Vegas (Oct 22), San Diego (Oct 25), and LA (Oct 26). Audiences around the country can see Audra on television later this season when she takes on the role of the Mother Abess in NBC’s live production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music. Click here for a full list of Audra’s concert appearances this fall.

PBS’s Great Performances 40th Anniversary Celebration Concert, featuring Audra, airs tonight

Audra Great PerformancesTo commemorate Great Performances‘s 40-year history, PBS will air a special anniversary celebration concert for the Emmy Award-winning series tonight at 9pm ET. For the celebration concert, taped at Lincoln Center last November, Audra sang “Dear Friend” from Harnick and Bock’s She Loves Me as well as Jason Robert Brown’s “Stars and the Moon” from Songs for a New World. Also featured are appearances by Julie Andrews, Don Henley, David Hyde Pierce, Josh Groban, Itzhak Perlman, Peter Martins, Michael Buble, and more. The program will launch this year’s PBS Arts Fall Festival, a multi-platform event anchored by seven films that highlight artists and performances from around the country. Check local listings.

Audra rings wedding bells on the Colbert Report

Screen shot 2013-10-04 at 1.13.03 PMAudra returned to The Colbert Report this week to help Stephen Colbert marry a couple whose ceremony was canceled due to the government shutdown. Originally scheduled to be married at the Jefferson Memorial, Mike Cassesso and MaiLien Le were married by Colbert on-air. Following their “I-dos,” Audra provided the vocals for their first dance as man and wife: Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” Watch the video here.

 

Audra can also be heard in New York this week as part of her 22-city North American concert tour when she performs tomorrow at the Kupferberg Center at Queens College.