MANHATTAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC 2024 GALA AT NEW YORK CITY'S ICONIC RAINBOW ROOM
Mike Sepso With Chloe Flower Brian Stokes Mitchell With Lorraine Gallard, James Gandre & Ted Chapin Manhattan School of Music (MSM) hosted its 2024 Gala, at the iconic Rainbow Room, Rockefeller Plaza, in New York City. The gala honored two-time Tony Award-winner Brian Stokes Mitchell and longtime Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization President Ted Chapin. A celebration of the school’s prestigious Musical Theatre Program, the evening was hosted by MSM alumnus, Broadway mainstay, and Tony Award-winner Shuler Hensley, and featured performances by current students of the MSM Musical Theatre Program as well as solo performances by Alysia Velez, MSM alumna and star of the acclaimed 2022 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. All performers were either MSM alumni or current students, and the evening featured Musical Direction by David Loud, legendary Broadway Musical Director and MD of the MSM Musical Theatre Program. Pianist and MSM Artistic Staff...