Bernadette Peters

Bernadette Peters at Folly Theater

A voice that carried Dot through Georges Seurat's unfinished canvas, a Baker's Wife into an enchanted wood, and Mama Rose through the longest spotlight in American musical theater walks onto a Kansas City stage this November. Bernadette Peters brings a career of Broadway performances to the Folly Theater for Folly Frolic 2026, and the evening promises something rare: an artist whose recordings and performances have shaped how generations hear musical storytelling.

Her Broadway credits read like a syllabus of modern musical theater—Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, Gypsy. Each role revealed a performer who could bend a lyric until it broke your heart, then make you laugh three measures later. That combination of wit and vulnerability doesn't diminish when the lights shift from a Broadway house to a concert hall; it sharpens.

Solo albums like Sondheim Etc.: Live at Carnegie Hall and Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein show how much storytelling she can find in a vocal performance. There's pleasure in listening for a quick turn of wit or a note of heartbreak, without needing to know which song will come next.

Folly Frolic 2026 brings Peters's Broadway voice to a vocal concert rather than a staged musical.

Tickets let you claim a seat for November 21. Explore options now and spend an evening with a voice Broadway trusted to deliver its most demanding moments.