Broadway's Power Couple and friends of the Forestburgh Playhouse, Kate Baldwin and Graham Rowat will be gracing our outdoor stage this summer. Acclaimed Broadway performers, Kate and Graham will wow you with their powerful and magical vocals and fabulous charisma. This will be a night you'll never forget!
Kate Baldwin starred opposite both Bette Midler and Bernadette Peters in the 2017 Tony-winning revival of Hello Dolly!, garnering accolades for her sparkling humor and soaring voice. She was nominated for the 2017 Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her performance as Irene Molloy. Her starring role in the 2009 Broadway revival of Yip Harburg’s and Burton Lane’s hit classic musical Finian’s Rainbow drew Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, and put her on the map as “a real musical theatre star” (New York Post). She received a Drama Desk Award nomination for her role as Jen in Keen Company’s 20th Anniversary revival of Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s John & Jen. She starred as Sandra Bloom in Big Fish on Broadway, and earned accolades and a Drama Desk Award nomination for her work as Leslie Lyntonn Benedict in Giant at The Public Theater. Off Broadway, she drew raves in Songbird (59E59) and a Lortel Award nomination for her work in Superhero (Second Stage).
Kate’s new show titled How Did You Get This Number? features signature songs from her acclaimed performances in Finian’s Rainbow, Giant, Big Fish, and Hello Dolly! Hailed as “the redheaded firecracker” (Stephen Holden, New York Times), she tells the story of how each song became a part of her life and what it means to her. More from writers like Stephen Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jerry Herman and long-time friend and collaborator Georgia Stitt fill the program with gorgeous music and expert storytelling. “We suppose there are some things that Baldwin cannot do, but over the past decade we have yet to see her be anything but superb,” says Steven Suskin of Playbill.
GRAHAM ROWAT is a New York based actor who recently completed the Broadway run of Steve Martin's Meteor Shower. Other Broadway credits include Sunset Boulevard (2017), Mamma Mia, Guys and Dolls (2009), LoveMusik (director Harold Prince), Dracula (director Des McAnuff), and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (also Toronto).
Off-Broadway, Graham appeared as Mr. O in The Blue Flower (Second Stage) and Hank in the Transport Group's heralded revival of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band.
Regional highlights include three seasons as Bob Wallace in Irving Berlin's White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), Miles Gloriousus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Two River Theater), Roland in Constellations and Jeff Moss in Bells Are Ringing (Berkshire Theater Festival), Valmont in The Game (Barrington Stage) and Pastor Mike in Saved (Kansas City Rep).
On television, Graham has been featured on "Elementary", "The Good Wife", "Law and Order" and "As the World Turns".
He has been a soloist with the National, Omaha, and Portland Symphony Orchestras and his voice can be heard on numerous cast recordings, audio books, and video games.