Broadway Legend Joined: 1/21/20
Wow, what a cast. Presuming that Durand will be Jud, Jasmine will be Ado Annie and Ana will be Aunt Eller? Could be a treat!
Durand could be Will.
Thrilled to see Jasmine Amy Rogers has truly been booked and blessed since Boop. She's got this, Spelling Bee, and Wild Party at Encores this season.
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/12/14
The Playbill article lists the cast breakdown (with Andrew Durand as Will Parker):
The company will be led by Tony nominee Micaela Diamond (Parade, The Cher Show) as Laurey Williams and opera baritone Emmett O’Hanlon as Curly McLain. The duo will be joined by Parvesh Cheena (Outsourced, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Ali Hakim, Jonathan Christopher (Sweeney Todd) as Jud Fry, Tony nominee Andrew Durand (Dead Outlaw) as Will Parker, Ana Gasteyer (Wicked, The Rocky Horror Show) as Aunt Eller, Tony winner David Hyde Pierce (Curtains) as Andrew Carnes, and Tony nominee Jasmine Amy Rogers (BOOP! The Musical) as Ado Annie. Additional artists will be announced at a later date.
Jasmine and Andrew will be dynamite, Ana Gasteyer and David Hyde Pierce are luxury casting for a one nighter (especially DHP - that role ain't big), and I don't know enough about Jonathan Christopher (outside of his work in ORATORIO) or Emmett O'Hanlon to have an opinion there.
Very interested to hear Micaela's soprano!
Shuler Hensley is directing, but no choreographer is credited. Can't really do anything in the way of design at Carnegie, but I wonder how staged this will be or if the focus is primarily on the music?
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