Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater - KJ Baptiste Benefit

Baldwin Wallace Musical Theater KJ Baptiste Benefi

Join the super-talented students from Baldwin Wallace University’s renowned Music Theatre Department who will perform music from all genres as they present songs that are meaningful to them.  All net proceeds will be donated to the Kyle Jean-Baptiste Scholarship Fund.

@ Irishtown Bend Taproom
1849 W. 24th St.
Cleveland, Ohio
(216) 373-0700

Behind the Market Garden Brewery and the West Side Market - under the giant BEER sign!!

The Irishtown Bend Taproom has all sorts of great beer (fresh from the brewery) and wine. For dinner before or after the concert we'd suggest the Market Garden Brewery in front on W. 25th. You can make reservations for dinner by calling: (216) 621-4000 or Reservations — Market Garden Brewery

From lead roles on Broadway and London’s West End to prime time television, film and more, students and alumni from Baldwin Wallace’s music theatre program have garnered top acclaim for more than 20 years, repeatedly named by industry observers as amongst the Top 10 Music Theater programs in the U.S.

Kyle Jean-Baptiste (1993-2015) was a part of the BWMT Class of 2015. He was a very popular Baldwin Wallace grad who was the youngest, as well as the first Black actor, to play the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway.  He was also slated to be a cast member of the revival of the musical The Color Purple. On August 29, 2015, a day after departing Les Misérables and two days after his final performance as Valjean, he tragically died after accidentally falling from a fire escape in Brooklyn, New York.

Current Baldwin Wallace Alums Working in Theater Today
Maybe Happy Ending - Steven Huynh
MJ - Tré Frazier, Matthew Harris, Tavon Olds-Sample
Operation Mincemeat - Jessi Kirtley
Redwood - Veronica Otim
Book of Mormon - John Kramer, Andrew Nelin
The Lion King - Antwaun Holley
Pirates! The Penzance Musical - Dan Hoy
Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends - Alexa Lopez
Stranger Things: The First Shadow - Kelsey Brown
 

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