Aaron Lazar Brings BROADWAY TO HOLLYWOOD to Segerstrom

Following his performances at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in the Tony Award-winning Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen, Aaron Lazar returns with his cabaret show Broadway to Hollywood April 11-13, 2019 at 7:30pm. A critically acclaimed actor and singer on stage and screen, Lazar was called Broadway's "Hunky Heartthrob" by The Cabaret, Indianapolis. Lazar's show follows his expansive stage-to-screen career with songs from his many Broadway credits (including The Last Ship and A Little Night Music among others), a medley of film and musical theatre classics, and more.

Single tickets start at $89 and are now available online at www.SCFTA.org, at the Box Office at 600 Town Center Drive in Costa Mesa or by calling (714) 556-2787. For inquiries about group ticket savings of 10 or more, please call the Group Services office at (714) 755-0236.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds its corporate partners including Kia Motors America, Official Automotive Partner; United Airlines, Official Airline; and Omaha Steaks International, Official Fine Food Retailer.

Aaron Lazar grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ and was an athlete and performer in high school. While at Duke University studying to be a doctor, he got cast as Billy Bigelow in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. That's when he started dreaming of a career on Broadway and beyond. Today, he works with some of the most talented people in the world. It is his life's passion is to share the arts with audiences worldwide.

Lazar has starred in 11 Broadway shows and recently toured the country as Larry Murphy in the Tony Award smash hit musical Dear Evan Hansen, including this past January at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. His Broadway debut was in The Phantom of the Opera and his breakout with Lincoln Center's production of The Light in the Piazza, both of which were broadcast live on PBS. Other Broadway credits include: Oklahoma! (with the late Patti Duke), Les Misérables (Drama Desk Award nomination),Impressionism (opposite Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen), A Tale of Two Cities (world premiere), Mamma Mia, A Little Night Music (opposite Catherine Zeta Jones and Angela Lansbury) and Sting's musical, The Last Ship.

On film, Lazar has worked for acclaimed directors Clint Eastwood in J. Edgar, Mary Harron in The Notorious Bettie Page, Shawn Levy in This is Where I Leave You (opposite Tina Fey), and Martin Scorsese in The Wolf of Wallstreet.

And on TV ... Lazar is on Season 3 of FX's The Strain and Season 2 of ABC's Quantico. Other TV credits include more than a dozen guest star appearances for all the major TV networks, including: NBC's The Blacklist, CBS' Blue Bloods and The Good Wife, FOX's The Following, Disney's Girl Meets World, and rugged reporter O'Brady Shaw on IFC's hilarious The Onion News Network.

In addition to his Broadway and musical theatre work, Lazar has been a guest artist with many of the world's most prestigious symphonies, including The New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall (opposite Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone, and Stephen Colbert), The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, The National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center, The Boston Pops at Tanglewood, The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra at Masada, The English National Opera Orchestra on the West End in London and The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra (opposite Brian Stokes Mitchell and Reba McEntire).

Segerstrom Center for the Arts is an acclaimed arts institution as well as a beautiful multi-disciplinary cultural campus. It is committed to supporting artistic excellence, offering unsurpassed experiences and to engaging the entire community in new and exciting ways through the unique power of live performance and a diverse array of inspiring arts-based education and community engagement programs.

Previously called the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Segerstrom Center is Orange County's largest non-profit arts organization. In addition to its six performance venues, Segerstrom Center is also home to the American Ballet Theatre William J. Gillespie School.

The Center presents a broad range of programming for audiences of all ages, including international ballet and dance, national tours of top Broadway shows, jazz and cabaret, contemporary artists, classical music performed by renowned chamber orchestras and ensembles, family-friendly programming, free performances open to the public from outdoor movie screenings to dancing on the plaza and many other special events.

Segerstrom Center is a leader among the nation's performing arts centers for providing education programs designed to inspire young people through the arts. The Center's programs reach hundreds of thousands of students each year in five Southern California counties. Community engagement programs developed through the Center for Dance and Innovation and Center Without Boundaries also connect the Center more comprehensively with Orange County's many diverse communities. The CDI supports flagship artistic programming and a wide range of projects that celebrate innovation, nurture creativity and engage audiences of the future. It is home to the ABT Gillespie School and the School of Dance and Music for Children with Disabilities. The Center Without Boundaries develops partnerships with non-cultural organizations to help them in their own efforts to respond to the ever-changing needs of the community.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts is also proud to serve as the artistic home to three of the region's major performing arts organizations: Pacific Symphony, Philharmonic Society of Orange County andPacific Chorale, who contribute greatly to the artistic life of the region with annual seasons performed at Segerstrom Center for the Arts.

In addition to Segerstrom Center for the Arts as a presenting and producing institution, it also identifies the beautiful 14-acre campus that embraces the Center's own facilities as well as two independently acclaimed organizations: Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory and a site designated as the future home of the Orange County Museum of Art.