(October 2025) — Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) gives a star-studded concert performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage in January, opening the venue’s “United in Sound: America at 250” festival (Jan 12). Led by Emmy- and Grammy-winning conductor Rob Berman, Oklahoma! is directed by Shuler Hensley, who won Drama Desk and Tony Awards for his portrayal of Jud Fry in the 2002 Broadway revival of the show. The performance features the show’s original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, performed by a 45-piece orchestra and an all-star Broadway cast. Emmett O’Hanlon – a crossover artist making his LA Opera debut this season whose acclaimed portrayal of Lancelot at Barrington Stage elicited the comment that he “looks like he’s sculpted of oak and shakes the theater with his thunderous baritone” (Times-Union) – stars as Curly opposite the Laurey of Micaela Diamond, a Grammy and Tony nominee recently seen in the role of Lucille Frank in the 2023 Broadway production of Parade. Ado Annie will be sung by Jasmine Amy Rogers, a Tony nominee who won both Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for her starring role in Boop! The Musical, and Will Parker by Tony nominee Andrew Durand, fresh from leading the Broadway production of Dead Outlaw. The cast is rounded out by Parvesh Cheena as Ali Hakim (TV roles in Outsourced and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Jonathan Christopher as Jud Fry(Sweeney Todd), Ana Gasteyer as Aunt Eller (Wicked and The Rocky Horror Show), and Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce as Andrew Carnes (Curtains). Casting of Oklahoma! is by Geoff Josselson Casting.
Information about OSL’s complete 2025–26 season can be found here.
About Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Orchestra of St. Luke’s (OSL) features New York City’s most talented concert musicians and makes its artistic home at Carnegie Hall, where it has performed more than any other orchestra since its debut there in 1983. OSL’s annual season features concert series in each of Carnegie Hall’s three venues, along with the Visionary Sounds and DeGaetano Composition Institute programs focused on contemporary composers at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the rehearsal, recording, and performance facility OSL built in 2011 and continues to operate in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards neighborhood. OSL proudly collaborates with Paul Taylor Dance Company for their Lincoln Center season each year and performs with a variety of artistic partners at venues throughout the city and beyond. Founded in 1974 when a group of virtuoso chamber musicians began performing together in Greenwich Village at The Church of St. Luke in the Fields, the ensemble later expanded into an orchestra before catching fire on New York’s classical music scene. OSL has participated in 120 recordings, four of which have won Grammy Awards, has commissioned more than 75 new works, and has given more than 200 world, U.S., and New York City premieres. OSL champions composers from historically underrepresented groups in classical music. In recent seasons, it has presented works by Kinan Azmeh, Margaret Bonds, Valerie Coleman, Julius Eastman, Wynton Marsalis, Florence Price, Rita Dove, and Chen Yi, among others. Central to OSL’s mission, the Education and Community Engagement program presents free concerts for thousands of New York City public school students each year; offers the 120-student strong Youth Orchestra of St. Luke’s (YOSL), the city’s only youth orchestra under the umbrella of a professional group; provides a mentorship program for pre-professional musicians; and brings accessible concerts to all five boroughs. To learn more, visit OSLmusic.org or follow @OSLmusic on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram, Facebook, or TiKTok.
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Orchestra of St. Luke’s: Oklahoma! in concert at Carnegie Hall
Jan 12
New York, NY
Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage)
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
“OKLAHOMA! In Concert”
Rob Berman, conductor
Shuler Hensley, director
Emmett O’Hanlon (Curly McLain)
Micaela Diamond (Laurey Williams)
Jasmine Amy Rogers (Ado Annie Carnes)
Andrew Durand (Will Parker)
Ana Gasteyer (Aunt Eller)
Jonathan Christopher (Jud Fry)
Parvesh Cheena (Ali Hakim)
David Hyde Pierce (Andrew Carnes)
Oklahoma! (in concert)
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on the play “Green Grow the Lilacs” by Lynn Riggs
Part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 Festival
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