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- Tim McGraw and Religion Hill attended their oldest daughter Gracie McGraw’s first efficiency of The Nice Conflict & The Nice Gatsby at Carnegie Corridor on April 21
- The 27-year-old daughter of the county music stars is pursuing a profession in Hollywood and in addition inherited her dad and mom’ musical abilities
- Gracie will take the stage for a second efficiency of the present on April 22. It would air on tv at a later date
Gracie McGraw had two crucial folks within the viewers when she took the stage for her first of two performances in The Nice Conflict & The Nice Gatsby.
The 27-year-old actress — who beforehand appeared in Tyler Perry’s tv present If Loving You Is Unsuitable — was among the many stars on stage at Carnegie Corridor in New York Metropolis on Monday, April 21, the place the newest incarnation of historian and narrator John Monsky’s critically acclaimed manufacturing premiered.
Within the crowd have been Gracie’s very well-known dad and mom, Tim McGraw and Religion Hill. The couple, a supply on the scene tells PEOPLE, have been very supportive — giving their eldest daughter a rousing standing ovation at curtain name and Hill even wiping away tears at one level.
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Afterwards, Tim and Hill, each 57, posed for photographs within the famed establishment whereas holding the present’s Playbill.
For the outing, Tim eschewed his conventional cowboy hat, opting as a substitute for a blue swimsuit which he paired with a tan polo. Hill, in the meantime, wore a burgundy swimsuit. She pulled her hair again and completed off her look with a shiny lip colour.
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The Nice Conflict & The Nice Gatsby is a part of Monsky’s American Historical past Unbound sequence, which discover pivotal moments in American historical past via symphonic and visible displays. This system was commissioned by Carnegie Corridor, Monsky first performing the piece to a sold-out crowd in 2023.
This newly reimagined manufacturing — directed by Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening, American Fool) —is billed in a launch as “equal components live performance, suspense, drama, romance, tribute, and exhibition of uncommon and iconic photos and movie from the Nationwide Archives.” It is stated to deliver “recent insights, newly uncovered analysis and extra musical picks to create a vivid and emotionally highly effective journey for this musical and visible exploration of World Conflict I.”
Monsky stars with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Nice Gatsby, printed 100 years in the past this month, after which guides the viewers via WWI’s origins and its harrowing climax in the course of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He grounds the wartime expertise via the eyes of fictional characters, like WWI veterans Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway, in addition to real-life figures like Quentin Roosevelt (fight pilot and the son of President Theodore Roosevelt) and writer Vera Brittain (a younger nurse who loses all the things within the struggle, besides her dedication to finish all wars).
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Music from Irving Berlin, James Reese Europe, George M. Cohan and others add additional context to the piece, serving to the solid “summon the voice of a era set adrift, eternally modified and on the lookout for solutions.”
Other than Gracie, The Nice Conflict & The Nice Gatsby additionally options Broadway vets Adam Chanler-Berat, Nicholas Christopher, Micaela Diamond and Diego Andres Rodriguez. The acclaimed choir Broadway Inspirational Voices additionally make a particular look.
A second efficiency of The Nice Conflict & The Nice Gatsby is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22. The present shall be filmed and aired afterward tv.
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Tim and Hill first met at a 1994 Nation Radio Seminar showcase in Nashville. Two years later, they received even nearer whereas touring collectively, which led to Tim proposing onstage in June 1996. They received married months later, on Oct. 6.
Gracie, their first of three daughters, arrived on Might 5, 1997. The nation music stars are additionally dad and mom to Maggie, 26, and Audrey, 23.
On prime of her performing profession, Gracie inherited her dad and mom’ musical abilities. In 2019, Tim shared a video of himself singing a duet together with his oldest daughter. She has additionally carried out alongside him throughout a 2015 efficiency at Nashville’s Bridgestone Area.
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Her dad gushed about Gracie whereas talking to PEOPLE in 2020. “Gracie, our oldest daughter, is an actress in L.A., and she or he makes me proud day-after-day as a result of she’s such a powerful, impartial younger woman who speaks her thoughts,” he stated. “And he or she makes me proud day-after-day of the best way she lives her life.”
Audrey is following in her well-known household’s footsteps, too — although Maggie leads a comparatively personal life. Tim praised her in 2021 after she obtained a Grasp’s diploma from Stanford College.
