The Sound of Music Nuns’ Christmas Party, featuring the nuns of last year’s NBC live musical event, will be held Friday, December 12 at 54 Below. Join Joy and her sisters to celebrate the season with an evening of holiday spirit, majestic choral singing and hilarious storytelling from some of the finest female voices on Broadway. December 12 @ 9:30 PM More info on Playbill.com
Joy is thrilled to be performing in the world premiere of a newly reimagined version of the 1992 musical My Favorite Year, part of the York Theatre Musicals in Mufti series. Catch her with the 14-member cast including Adam Chanler-Berat (Peter and the Starcatcher), and Tony nominees Douglas Sills (The Scarlet Pimpernel) and Richard Kind (The Producers). The show features a book by Joseph Dougherty and a score by Tony-winning songwriting partners Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty.
Joy is excited to appear in the world premiere of Richard Pearson Thomas’ comic opera A Wake or a Wedding at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in NYC. November 6 – 16 Thursday through Saturday @ 8 PM Sunday @ 3PM More info Tickets Reviews are in for A Wake or a Wedding “Joy Hermalyn gives a star performance, taking the stage and chewing the scenery with gusto, as a diva gone wild. WIth one phrase her voice growls in the basement and then opens to a thrilling mature soprano in the next.
Catch Joy reprising the role of Fruma Sarah in the 50th anniversary production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, CT. June 27 – September 12 More info Tickets Reviews for Fiddler “Joy Hermalyn is terrific in the part of Fruma Sarah, Lazar’s dead wife whom Tevye conjures in a dream. Loved the costume with the huge pearls!” – Lauren Yarger, Broadway World “The ghostly role of Fruma-Sarah was performed by Joy Hermalyn (in her Goodspeed debut) in a r…
In anticipation of a one-night only all-star benefit concert at Town Hall celebrating the 50th anniversary of Fiddler on the Roof, several stars of Fiddler – on Broadway, on film, around the country and around the world – offer recollections of their time in the musical. Read what Joy had to say here.
Joy is thrilled to perform in the New York Philharmonic production of Sweeney Todd at Avery Fisher Hall with Bryn Terfel and Emma Thompson. March 5 – 8 More info and tickets
Joy is excited to sing the role of Zita in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi with a great cast, including Curt Olds, Steven Fredericks, and Elias Mokole (all the way from MN!). Sunday, January 19 at 3 PM with the Queens Symphony and Maestro Constantine Kitsopoulos. LeFrak Hall, Aaron Copland School of Music, Queens College Free admission P.S.
Joy joins Carrie Underwood and Broadway vets Stephen Moyer, Audra McDonald, Laura Benanti, and Christian Borle in the one-night-only live television event The Sound of Music Live! airing December 5 at 8 PM ET on NBC. More info