Thu 3/23 @ 7PM
Kyle-Jean Baptiste was a member of the class of 2015 at Baldwin Wallace University’s nationally celebrated music theatre program. Like so many of its students, he went directly from Berea to Broadway becoming the youngest actor to play to Jean Valjean in Les Misérables on Broadway that summer. He was set to move onto the Broadway production of The Color Purple in September 2015 when he accidentally fell from a New York fire escape and died at the age of 21, ending what was likely to have been a brilliant theater career.
In 2017, the BW Music Theatre Department held the first of its annual Kyle Jean-Baptiste benefit concerts. This year’s event will feature the program’s BIPOC students, performing music from a variety of genres that celebrate their diversity and pride.
The performance takes place at the Beaumont School theater in Cleveland Heights. Go here for tickets. All proceeds will benefit the Kyle Jean-Baptiste Scholarship Fund.