Great Performances

Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway (39x10)

Air date: Mar 03, 2011

Twenty years after dazzling audiences in his first solo Broadway concert early in his career, three-time Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick, Jr. returned to the Main Stem in a roster of favorites, performed in his trademark New Orleans style. Taped in July of 2010 at New York’s Neil Simon Theater, Harry Connick, Jr. in Concert on Broadway features Connick’s big band and a 12-piece string section, with the star on both a Steinway grand and upright honky-tonk piano. Variety raved, “Connick, in concert, packs such dynamite that those ‘Jersey Boys’ across the street seem positively sedate.” Backed by a cadre of top-flight musicians, including trombonist Lucien Barbarin, Connick performs an infectious mix of evergreen standards, original compositions, and New Orleans street music, all arranged and orchestrated by Connick. Song List: We Are in Love The Way You Look Tonight Bésame Mucho The Other Hours (from “Thou Shalt Not”) Nowhere with Love How Insensitive Come by Me Medley: My Time of Day / I’ve Never Been in Love Before All the Way Bayou Maharajah Hear Me in the Harmony Light the Way (from “Thou Shalt Not”) St. James Infirmary Blues Take Her to the Mardi Gras (from “Thou Shalt Not”) Bourbon Street Parade Mardi Gras in New Orleans