When one of Broadway’s hottest stars got booked for a benefit concert at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, we were curious: What is four-time Tony nominee Kelli O’Hara‘s connection to Vermont?
Turns out it’s one of those six-degrees-of-separation stories. Flynn executive director John Killacky explains.
O’Hara is married to actor/singer Greg Naughton.
Naughton, a Middlebury College grad, is in a band called the Sweet Remains.
Also in that band is Rich Price, a brand-new Flynn board member.
Price gave O’Hara’s agent’s info to Killacky. Et voilà!
Actually, that wasn’t even six degrees. But there’s a bit of a backstory for how this serendipitous connection came up in the first place.
“I was having lunch with Rich and told him we were talking with Harry Connick Jr. about coming to the Flynn — he’s on tour this summer,” Killacky says. “And Rich said, ‘I sang with Harry at Kelli O’Hara and Greg Naughton’s wedding.'”
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