Encores! 2023: LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA with Ruthie Ann Miles, DEAR WORLD with Donna Murphy, and OLIVER!- Page 4

[Jeffrey Karasarides]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 6:42pm

JSquared2 said: "If PICTURES FROM HOME is a short limited run they wouldn't be available --- but Nathan Lane or Danny Burstein would be great Fagins.''

If that show overlaps with Oliver!, and the creative team of the latter wants Danny or Nathan to play Fagin, the former could find a replacement to take over for the remainder of its run.

 

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 6:55pm

Jeffrey Karasarides said: "JSquared2 said: "If PICTURES FROM HOME is a short limited run they wouldn't be available --- but Nathan Lane or Danny Burstein would be great Fagins.''

If that show overlaps with Oliver!, and the creative team of the latter wants Danny or Nathan to play Fagin, the former could find a replacement to take over for the remainder of its run."

Taking 2 weeks off (plus rehearsals) during the Tonys voting period seems unlikely.

Updated On: 10/27/22 at 06:55 PM

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 11/19/22 at 11:25am

Was thinking about how wonderful it would be if they could get Rachel Zegler to play Clara in Piazza. She really needs to be onstage in New York soon! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4DKvMrJAM

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 10:18pm

Just got my seat for The Light in the Piazza. Still some good seats left. The website is still acting weird. 

[amiyagi]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 10:55pm

Any info / rumours on casting for Piazza (beyond Ruthie) or Oliver? The productions aren't that far away

[BCfitasafiddle]

Posted: 1/5/23 at 11:49pm

Gotta know who is playing Nancy! I'm dying here!

[amiyagi]

Posted: 1/9/23 at 6:16pm

Alan Cumming did an interview a month ago where he says he's been asked to play Fagin in Oliver and might do that 'next year.' As in 2023 or a year from Dec 2022? I know Oliver has been rumoured for the West End for a while now but could he be doing the Encores production? (2:30 mark)
 

https://youtu.be/pvj5Fi3DuPk

Updated On: 1/9/23 at 06:16 PM

[TaffyDavenport]

Posted: 2/22/23 at 5:24pm

Looks like City Center is getting ready to announce some Oliver! casting:

https://twitter.com/NYCityCenter/status/1628508929356361736

[Robbie516]

Posted: 2/22/23 at 5:53pm

Is Alan Cumming still doing this?

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 9:15am

The New York City Center production of Oliver! will star Lilli Cooper as Nancy, Raúl Esparza as Fagin, Tam Mutu as Bill Sikes, Brad Oscar as Mr. Bumble, Benjamin Pajak as Oliver Twist, and Mary Testa as Widow Corney.

The ensemble includes William Thomas Colin, Charity Angel Dawson, Julian Marcus DeGuzman, Zachary Downer, Sam Duncan, William Foon, Ethen Green-Younger, Jeff Kready, Jenny Laroche, Devin Miles Lugo, Morgan Marcell, Lindsay Roberts, Eliseo Roman, Michael Cash Savio, and Jacob Keith Watson.

20 public school students will also be featured in one number. Updated On: 2/23/23 at 09:15 AM

[JasonC3]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 9:29am

I'm always glad to see Esparza back on stage.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 9:33am

Raul!!!!!! 

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 9:55am

NICE CAST.

Considering the cast and the show itself, should be much easier to get an economical ticket than the Encores productions of PARADE and WOODS.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 9:58am

I'm also so happy that Lilli Cooper's career is going so well. If anyone deserves it, it's her. 

[singer234]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:00am

So happy for Lilli’s career trajectory. Ever since Spring Awakening she has been a singular talent.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:06am

Lilli Cooper is going to knock this out of the park.

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:10am

I am not the biggest "Oliver" fan but I will be there for Lilli and Raul. I have been waiting for him to return to the stage.

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:14am

Lilli Cooper should play Clio in the Rachel Zegler-led pipedream revival of MOST HAPPY FELLA that I started trying to secret into existence yesterday.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:30am

If they put Raul in a prosthetic nose and play into the anti-semitic tropes, I’ll never set foot in NYCC again.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:41am

lol I have a feeling that won’t be happening lol

[ErmengardeStopSniveling]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:45am

iluvtheatertrash said: "If they put Raul in a prosthetic nose and play into the anti-semitic tropes, I’ll never set foot in NYCC again."

Oh relax. They obviously will not be doing that.

Of note, Alisa Solomon (a leading scholar of Yiddish theatre and author of the book WONDER OF WONDERS) is consulting on the production, and the book will be adapted by Deborah Stein (who has written plays about the Jewish experience). In addition to the "Jewish issue" of Oliver, that also puts 5 women at the center of a musical with a complicated relationship with sexual assault. Updated On: 2/23/23 at 10:45 AM

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 10:48am

Not to mention that the show was written by a Jewish man and the role was originated by a Jewish man

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 11:09am

The character is deeply steeped in anti-semitism. A Jew did not write the source material. And the character has often been given a large prosthetic hook nose.

Considering what happened at PARADE on Tuesday, some of you shouldn’t be dismissing the continued erasure of Jewish actors from Jewish roles.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 11:18am

Well this Jew (and I’m just speaking for me) is hella excited for Raúl. 

[imeldasturn]

Posted: 2/23/23 at 11:19am

iluvtheatertrash said: "The character is deeply steeped in anti-semitism. A Jew did not write the source material. And the character has often been given a large prosthetic hook nose.

Considering what happened at PARADE on Tuesday, some of you shouldn’t be dismissing the continued erasure of Jewish actors from Jewish roles."

I am surprised they are not casting a Jewish actor, but apparently, they couldn't get who they wanted. Fagin in the musical is very different from Fagin in the novel (it's interesting to notice – during the current Roald Dahl's uproar – that Dickens himself cut down and removed *most* of the anti-semitic elements while he was still living – but your point absolutely still stands). No West End or Broadway production of Oliver! ever employed prosthetic noses.

Updated On: 2/23/23 at 11:19 AM