by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
With Broadway back, auditions are getting back in full swing. For many aspiring performers, it’s their dream to be in a show 8 times a week on the Great Bright Way. Even for many Broadway veterans, lot of them are anxious to head back to work and perform LIVE again including Tony and Emmy winner
Kristin Chenoweth.
Check out this SWANKIFIED and hilarious set of photos as the 4’11 versatile powerhouse she knocks on the door to various Theaters in attempts to be on stage again.
First stop is her old stomping grounds at the Gershwin Theatre for
WICKED. Not for “Glinda” but another possible role…
Her next step was attempting to be part of THE ROCK at the Award winning groundbreaking 9/11 musical
Come From Away to play “Captain Beverley Bass” (the first female pilot for
American Airlines). There’s totally nothing between HER AND THE SKY until current leading lady Olivier Award nominee (and fellow
Wicked alumni)
Rachel Tucker answers the Gerald Schonefeld Theatre stage door.
Finally, the 4’11 bundle of dynamite attempts to go WAVING THROUGH A WINDOW trying to take over the titular role in the groundbreaking Award winning smash hit
Dear Evan Hansen. Will she BE FOUND by the stage doorman at the Music Box Theatre?!!
Don’t Give Up Kristin!! Don’t give up anyone!!
How funny was that?!!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
YOU CAN DRIVE A PERSON CRAZY especially when its comes to a casting announced. A few days ago, it was revealed that
Manu Narayan (Broadway’s Bombay Dreams, the recent revival of
My Fair Lady, and Gettin’ The Band Back Together) has been tapped to join the Broadway return of the gender-swap revival of
Stephen Sondheim‘s
Company.
Narayan completes the casting taking over in the role of the out-of-place and small town boy “Theo” (formerly known usually as “Kathy”). He succeeds original Broadway cast member
Kyle Dean Massey who departed the production due to family time. As previously announced, Massey and his husband Taylor Frey is expecting his first child.
Marianne Elliott‘s critically acclaimed production of COMPANY (starring Tony winners Katrina Lenk and Patti LuPone) will resume previews on November 15th, 2021 and officially open on December 9th, 2022 at Broadway’s Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre.
Congrats Manu!! Welcome to COMPANY!!
Happy Trails Kyle Dean!!
by Mike Haber | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog, Casting, News
DELICIOUS NEWS: Time for a slice of THE WORD GOT AROUND PIE. According to a couple of posts that have been shared by its company, a filmed proshot of the Tony and Grammy nominated smash hit
Waitress is happening!!!! The last few days, a camera crew has been at the current limited engagement revival’s home at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre. From pictures and videos, you can see them on stage doing closeups of the company.
The proshot is expecting to feature its current cast that helped bring the show back to Broadway after 18 1/2 months consisting of….
the show’s composer Tony nominee and Grammy winner
Sara Bareilles as “Jenna Hunterson”,
Drew Gehling as “Dr. Pomatter”,
Charity Angél Dawson as “Becky”,
Bareilles’ real life BF Joe Tippett as “Earl”,
Christopher Fitzgerald in his Tony nominated performance as “Ogie”,
No word has been revealed for the proshot release but it is happening!!!
WAITRESS will be continuing to run through January 9th, 2022 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
BACK TO HOGWARTS!! Full casting has been revealed for the Broadway production of the Award winning smash hit
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. It will feature a lineup of cast who were previously doing the show at the time of the pandemic plus newbies.
Under the direction of John Tiffany, the cast will be led by….
James Romney as his son “Albus Severus Potter”,
David Abeles (Broadway’s
Once) as his best friend “Ron Weasley”,
Jenny Jules as his best friend and bookwork “Hermione Granger Weasley”,
Nadia Brown as “Rose Granger-Weasley”,
Aaron Bartz as longtime Wizarding rival “Draco Malfoy”
Brady Dalton Richards as “Scorpius Malfoy”,
When it returns, HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD will be fully re-staged, updated, and performed as a ONE PART play. This will be updated for all companies here in North America. However, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child will only continue being performed as its traditional TWO PARTS at its inaugural home in West End company (set to reopen October 14th, 2021 at London’s Palace Theatre).
The Broadway production is set to reopen here in NYC at the Lyric Theatre starting November 12th, 2021.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
DELICIOUS NEWS! Grammy Award winning country singing sensation
Jennifer Nettles (last seen on Broadway as “Roxie” in
Chicago) will return to the Great Bright Way to join the cast of the limited engagement revival of the Tony and Grammy nominated smash hit
Waitress.
The
Sugarland singer will replace the show’s composer and revival’s original leading lady
Sara Bareilles in the role of pregnant pie maker “Jenna Hunterson” for a strictly limited month long run. That run will last from October 19th-November 24th, 2021 at Broadway’s Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
An announcement for the next “Jenna” after Nettles will be revealed soon.
Meanwhile, Bareilles (who is set to start filming Season 2 of
Girls5Eva and will be starring as “The Baker’s Wife” in
New York City Center Encores production of
Into The Woods next) will bake her last set of pies at the diner on October 17th, 2021.
That’s not all, “Jenna” is getting a new set of best friends who co-work at the diner with her next month. It has just been announced that Maiesha McQueen (who appeared on the 1st National Tour of WAITRESS) and Ashley Blanchet (Broadway’s
Frozen) will take over the roles of the sassy “Becky” and quirky “Dawn” starting October 5th, 2021.
Charity Angél Dawson and Caitlin Houlahan will BOTH take their final bows on October 3rd, 2021. Both performers are set to resume performances at their most previous Broadway projects before COVID. Dawson will be heading back to reopen Mrs.
Doubtfire: The Musical and Houlahan will reopen
Girl From The North Country.
WAITRESS will continue to run on Broadway through January 9th, 2022.
by Mike Haber | Sep 23, 2021 | Blog, Broadway, Casting, News, Shows
Under the direction of Michael Longhurst, the cast is still expecting to be led by….
West End star
Sharon D. Clarke reprising her Olivier Award winning performance of the titular role of housemaid “Caroline Thibodeaux”,
Broadway legend
Chip Zien as socialist ideology man himself “Mr. Stopnick”,
Alexander Bello (Broadway’s The Rose Tattoo and
All My Sons) as the son of “Caroline” himself “Joe Thibodeaux”,
and
New to the cast will include….
Broadway newcomers Jaden Myles Waldman, Gabriel Amorso (Broadway’s
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), and Adam Makké all TRIPPLE alternating the role of the curious, sympathetic, and neurotic “Noah Gellman”
CAROLINE OR CHANGE will run at the legendary Studio 54 for a strictly limited engagement. Long awaited preview performances will begin on October 8th, 2021, the official Opening Night is set for October 27th, 2021, and will run till February 13th, 2022. An extension may be possible if the show does well.
This revival of
Jeanine Tesori and Tony Kushner’s powerful and inspirational musical was originally slated to begin previews on March 13th, 2020 and open on April 7th, 2020. However, the plug got pulled on the whole production as Live Theater was forced to abruptly shutdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The company did NOT even reach their invited industrial dress rehearsal. Now, they’re getting a 2nd chance.
