K is for Kelli O’Hara. Busy on Broadway. Watch Her Online.

Kelli O’Hara singing A Cockeyed Optimist from South Pacific: I have heard people rant and rave and bellow That we’re done and we might as well be dead, But I’m only a cockeyed optimist And I can’t get it into my head. I hear the human race Is fallin’ on its face And hasn’t very far to go, But ev’ry whippoorwill Is sellin’ me a bill, And tellin’ me it just ain’t so. I could say life is just a bowl of Jello And appear more intelligent and smart, But I’m stuck like a dope With a thing called hope, And I can’t get it out of my heart!

Kelli O’Hara seems as busy now as when theaters were open: She’s singing this morning at 10 a.m. on “Morning Song,” with her husband Greg Naughton, on the Instagram of Say.org (the Stuttering Association of the Young.) The Merry Widow, in which she stars with Renee Fleming, will stream on the Met Opera website on April 23 (see a video from it below.)^.She can also be seen on the cast of All The Bright Places on Netflix. She is scheduled for a week performing at Feinstein’s/54 Below in May (it’s unclear whether this will be live or online), singing songs from her “celebrated career.”

There is much to celebrate: O’Hara landed on Broadway from Oklahoma at the age of 21 and has never left — 12 shows in two decades; she has been nominated for a Tony for all seven musicals in which she’s starred since 2005, winning for “The King and I”

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Kelli O’Hara in Sweet Smell of Success

Kelli O’Hara in Dracula

in Light in the Piazza

Kelli O’Hara in The Pajama Game

in South Pacific

Nice Work If You Can Get It

in Far From Heaven

Kelli O’Hara and Isaiah Johnson in “Far From Heaven”

Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale

Kelli O’Hara and Steven Pasquale in Bridges of Madison County

Kelli O’Hara in The King And I

in The Merry Widow

Kelli O’Hara in Kiss Me Kate

Sweet Smell of Success, 2002

No video of her singing, but here’s an anecdote (for her fans back in Oklahoma) about auditioning for the show.

The Light in the Piazza, 2005

by Adam Guettel;

O’Hara sings the title song as part of a fundraising telethon. This was the first role for which she was nominated for a Tony

The Pajama Game, 2006 revival

There Once Was A Man, with Harry Connick Jr. at the Tonys

South Pacific, 2008 revival

Sings “A Wonderful Guy” At 3:25

I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outta My Hair at 2:30

Nice Work if You Can Get It, 2012

A jukebox musical, with music by George Gershwin; lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Book by Joe DiPietro; Inspired by material by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse

A montage of the show, but it has enough of Kelli O’Hara to include it