Harry Connick, Jr. - A Celebration of Cole Porter

Harry Connick, Jr. - A Celebration of Cole Porter was conceived and directed by songwriter Harry Connick Jr as a way to pay tribute to the respected Broadway composer Cole Porter. Connick is best known for his successful musical career, in which he has sold over 28 million albums worldwide, of which seven became top 20 albums on the Billboard charts. His most successful album, When My Heart Finds Christmas, became his best selling album in 1993. He has won three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards over the course of his career and he is ranked among the top 60 best selling male artists in the US of all time, according to the Record Industry Association of America. For his Broadway debut in 2000, Connick wrote the score for the musical, Thou Shalt Not, which earned him a Tony nomination for “Best Original Score”. Connick would then go on to star in the 2006 Broadway revival of the musical The Pajama Game and the 2011 revival of On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. In 2015, Harry Connick Jr joined Keith Urban and Jennifer Lopez as a judge on American Idol on Fox Television, cementing his name in the minds of younger audiences across the nation.

Prior to A Celebration of Cole Porter’s Broadway debut, the show premiered at North Carolina’s Durham Performing Arts Center in late September 2019, and was met with both critical and box office success. The production is assisted by a team of design experts including scenic designer Beowulf Boritt and lighting designer Ken Billington. In a clever marketing ploy before the show’s Broadway debut, Connick released his first album on Verve Records, True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter, which serves as the musical backing of the entire Broadway show.