Broadway star Norm Lewis is planning to fill fans’ Christmas stockings on both coasts in the coming weeks with concerts in New York and California.
The Tony Award-nominated actor will perform Norm Lewis Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas December 8 and 9 at 8PM and December 10 at 5 PM at Feinstein's at the Nikko in San Francisco.
After jetting back east, he plans to unwrap his third annual Christmas concert, Norm Lewis: Santa Baby! at 9:30 PM December 18–23 at at Feinstein’s/54 Below in New York City.
Directed once again by Richard Jay-Alexander, Lewis plans a largely new program that will also feature audience favorites from his past two Christmas shows at the New York City supper club. Lewis told Playbill that the song list includes “This Christmas,” “Santa Baby,” “Where Is Love?,” “Home” from The Wiz,” “The Gift of Love,” and “All I Want for Christmas.”
Lewis earned a 2012 Tony Award nomination for his performance in the title role of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. In 2014 he had the distinction of becoming the first African-American actor to play the title role in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera. He spent much of 2017 in Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop at the Barrow Street Theater in Greenwich Village, co-starring with Carolee Carmello in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd.
Lewis’ other Broadway roles include Jake in the original production of Side Show (1997), the Painter in Amour (2002), Javert in Les Misérables (2006), King Triton in The Little Mermaid (2008), and part of the star ensemble in Sondheim on Sondheim (2010). He’s regular on VH1’s Daytime Divas; his additional TV credits include the role of Senator Edison Davis on ABC’s Scandal.
Watch: Carolee Carmello and Norm Lewis Sing Sweeney Todd Classic on Today
