Broadway's Tony-winning revival of Jason Robert Brownand Alfred Uhry's Parade will embark on a national tour beginning in January 2025. The production will launch from Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre. Casting and further dates are to be announced.
The official premiere in Minnesota will follow technical rehearsals and public preview performances as Proctors Theatre in Schenectady, New York.
I get schedules were at play, but it’s a shame this production couldn’t do LA/DC/Chicago runs after it closed on Broadway. A small tour using the Broadway set was its best bet in my eyes
Ben Platt should play the bigger cities like Chicago, LA, & San Francisco. It could help his career more than his solo tour did. I finally watched Theatre Camp, and it is amusing but is perhaps too "inside baseball" to reach a wider audience than just theatre fans. Getting better known outside New York might help him also reach a wider audience with his film career.
Valentina3 said: "I doubt Uranowitz would do it. I really hope it comes to DC. The Broadway production was SO good and felt like it would tour really well."
I think he would do it in a heartbeat. From what I remember, he was fighting to do this role on Broadway way before the recent revival was done. Since you are from DC like me, I hope you saw his brilliant turn in Studios Theatres "Torch Song". I would love to see him do the tour.
This show was ahead of its time. Remember the original NYT review and then it limping along for just a few months.....well, look who got the last laugh.
Max Chernin and Talia Suskauer will lead the tour as Leo and Lucille Frank, respectively.
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Not everyone has to be cancelled when they do stupid things. Especially the first time.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Anyone know if Raphael Warnock is still doing the pre show announcement for the tour? I thought that was a nice little “easter egg” when I saw the broadway production.
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Call_me_jorge said: "Anyone know if Raphael Warnock is still doing the pre show announcement for the tour? I thought that was a nice little “easter egg” when I sawthe broadway production."
I'm planning on seeing the tour in Minneapolis next weekend. I'll keep an ear out.
Attended opening last night and can confirm that Warnock indeed still does the intro.
Very good show, filled with impressive vocals and vastly superior to a lot of the touring crap we've been getting lately. The score was quite pretty and there were half a dozen "good" songs but the show really needed a BIG memorable song to stand out.