About the Show

Capital City Theatre presents Broadway’s Kate Baldwin in Concert.

Kate will be performing songs from some of her critically-acclaimed hits like Finian's Rainbow, Big Fish, Hello, Dolly, Wonderful Town and many more. She will be joined on select numbers by special guest Kevin James Sievert and backed up by the Capital City Theatre 30-piece orchestra and 16-member vocal ensemble.

KATE BALDWIN starred as Irene Molloy opposite Bette Midler, David Hyde Pierce and Gavin Creel in the hit Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly!, for which she was nominated for the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic's Circle awards. She originated the role of Sandra Bloom in Big Fish on Broadway and earned accolades and a Drama Desk Award nomination for her work as Leslie Lynnton Benedict in Michael John LaChiusa’s Giant at The Public Theatre. 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 garnered critical acclaim and a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Tom Kitt and John Logan’s Superhero at Second Stage. 

But it was her starring role in the 2009 revival of Yip Harburg's and Burton Lane's hit classic musical Finian's Rainbow, which drew Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critic's Circle Award nominations and put her on the map as "a real musical theatre star." (New York Post) 

Kate has appeared in the Broadway casts of The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Wonderful Town. She starred in The King and I at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), The Women at The Old Globe, Henry V at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, She Loves Me at the Willliamstown Theatre Festival, and The Music Man and South Pacific at Arena Stage, earning a Helen Hayes Award nomination. She drew raves for her portrayal of Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County directed by original cast member Hunter Foster and for her turn as Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street at Goodspeed Opera House directed by original creator Randy Skinner. 

She has performed in concert with the New York Pops, Boston Pops, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Portland Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Chicago Symphony, the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and at the legendary New York nightclubs Feinstein’s, Birdland and 54 Below. Her concert work also includes several appearances with Stephen Sondheim as a featured performer in his critically acclaimed evening, “A Conversation with Stephen Sondheim.” On television, her work includes a guest star on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” and a featured role in the PBS filming of Stephen Sondheim’s "Passion" and the Disney + series “Just Beyond.” 

Kate’s debut album on PS Classics, “Let’s See What Happens” features Lane and Harburg songs from both stage and film. Her second album celebrates the work of lyricist Sheldon Harnick and is titled, “She Loves Him.”  She is a graduate of Shorewood High School in Shorewood, WI and Northwestern University. She lives with her husband and son in Maplewood, NJ. 

Kevin James Sievert is an actor, singer and musician based in Wisconsin. In 2015, Kevin recieved a Region 3 KCACTF Irene Ryan nomination for his role as Beethoven in Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead., which allowed him to audition and accept a spot in the highly selective Open Jar Institute, a pre-Broadway college program training actors in the heart of the New York theatre scene, where he met and worked with Kate Baldwin for the first time! In 2017, Kevin made his professional debut at Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee, WI. Other recent regional credits include Disney's Newsies (Ensemble), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour), The Gospel at Colonus (Balladeer) and his 2022 Chicagoland Debut in Spring Awakening (Otto/us Moritz).