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No. 20: Colton Ryan (Actor & Singer) and Lyndy Franklin Smith (Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Lexington Theatre Company)
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Episode 20 of the Art Throb Podcast features Colton Ryan and Lyndy Smith in conversation about the upcoming Lexington Theatre Company's production of the annual Concert with the Stars in which Colton Ryan will be performing as the Headlining Veteran Star.
Colton was recently nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance as Jim Doyle in the Broadway production of New York, New York. Having made his debut with The Lex in Concert With The Stars in 2016 as one of the Collegiate Rising Stars, he returned for Concert With The Stars in 2018 as one of the Headlining Broadway Veterans, after his Broadway debut in Dear Evan Hansen. Then in 2019 he starred as Tony in The Lexington Theatre Company's production of West Side Story. This year Colton will be coming back to his hometown Lexington to perform as the Headlining Veteran Star in a one night performance in the Lexington Theatre Company's signature Concert with the Stars.
Lyndy Franklin Smith, along with her husband Jeromy, is the founder of The Lexington Theatre Company. Their two-fold mission is to create professional theatre and to train the next generation of theatre artists through their education programs. They have a robust 2024 season already planned with, in addition to their January production of Concert with the Stars; Fiddler on the Roof and Jersey Boys followed by next November's traditional holiday musical A Christmas Story that will then see out the year's line-up.
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