Ken Fallin’s Broadway: Michael Urie and Ethan Slater

Final night time, three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane made a shock cameo within the position of ‘The Producer’ reverse Tony Award nominees Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells on the star-studded Broadway opening night time of Gutenberg! The Musical! on the James Earl Jones Theatre (138 West forty eighth Road).

Lane, sporting the present’s signature mustard yellow trucker cap emblazoned with the phrase ‘Producer,’ took the stage and mentioned, “I’m a well-known Broadway producer. Maybe you’ve heard of me. The title is Bialystock…. Max Bialystock,” a nod to Lane’s Tony profitable position within the Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers. Lane additionally exclaimed, “This present is implausible. I had the identical feeling once I noticed Cats!”

Lane is the most recent star to hitch Gutenberg! within the position of ‘The Producer.’ Throughout previews Gad and Rannells have additionally been joined by Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Groff, JJ Abrams, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Nikki M. James, F. Murray Abraham, Annaleigh Ashford, and Leslie Odom Jr.

Gutenberg! The Musical! is enjoying a strictly restricted engagement on the Jones Theatre by way of Sunday, January 28, 2024 solely.

Photos have been launched for the primary have a look at Spamalot. As beforehand introduced, Spamalot options

Tony Award nominee Christopher Fitzgerald (Waitress) as Patsy

Tony Award winner James Monroe Iglehart (Aladdin, Hamilton) as King Arthur

Taran Killam (“Saturday Night time Reside”) as Lancelot

Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer (Beetlejuice) as The Girl of the Lake,

Tony Award nominee Ethan Slater (SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) as The Historian/Prince Herbert

Jimmy Smagula (Billy Elliot) as Sir Bedevere

Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (“Shrinking,” Torch Tune) as Sir Robin

and Nik Walker (Hamilton) as Sir Galahad with David Josefsberg, Graham Stevens, Daniel Beeman, Maria Briggs, Gabriella Enriquez, Michael Fatica, Denis Lambert, Shina Ann Morris, Kaylee Olson, Kristin Piro, Drew Redington, Tyler Roberts, Anju Cloud, Darrell T. Joe, Lily Kaufmann, and Charlie Sutton. Iglehart, Kritzer, Smagula, Urie and Walker can be reprising their roles from the record-breaking sold-out run on the Kennedy Heart in Washington D.C.

Brooke Adams will be a part of Caroline Aaron, Marilu Henner, and Melanie Mayron, underneath the route of Thomas Caruso. Ms Adams replaces the beforehand introduced JoBeth Williams who needed to withdraw on account of a scheduling battle. 

Performances will start Saturday November eleventh at Actors Temple Theatre (339 West forty seventh Road, between eighth & ninth Avenues). Opening Night time is about for Monday December eleventh. This restricted Off-Broadway engagement will proceed by way of Monday January 1st.

Performances can be Saturday at 2pm & 7pm, Sunday at 2pm, and Monday at 7pm. Actors Temple Theatre, situated at 339 West forty seventh Road (between eighth & ninth Avenues), is housed within the historic Actors Temple Synagogue within the coronary heart of New York’s Instances Sq. Theatre District. This theatre has been the house of the long-running manufacturing of Black Angels Over Tuskegee, which  performed for nearly ten years 12 months Off-Broadway, in addition to Cowboy, Sistas, Soul Physician, Zero Hour, Rain Pryor’s Fried Hen and Latkes,  It’s Simply Intercourse, The Large Voice: God or Merman?, Goldstein, The J.A.P. Present: Jewish-American Princesses of Comedy  and  Paul Mecurio’s Permission To Communicate.  
 
Tickets, which at the moment are on sale, vary from $39.50 to $119 and can be found for buy on-line at Telecharge.com, by telephone at 212/239-6200, or go to the Actors Temple Theater field workplace (open one hour previous to showtime). Service charges will apply for on-line or telephone orders

 

Jordan Fisher will be a part of the forged of the Tony Award-winning Greatest Musical Hadestown as ‘Orpheus’ on Monday, November 20, 2023. Greatest recognized for his roles within the To All of the Boys I’ve Beloved Earlier than and Teen Seashore Film franchises in addition to his Broadway turns in Sweeney Todd, Pricey Evan Hansen, and Hamilton, Fisher succeeds unique forged member Reeve Carney. Carney will play his last efficiency as ‘Orpheus’ on Sunday, November 19. Carney started enjoying ‘Orpheus’ in 2017 at Edmonton’s Citadel Theatre earlier than transferring with the manufacturing to London’s West Finish and Broadway in 2018 and 2019.

“Reeve helped outline each tales on the heart of this present — the cosmic love story of a younger man who adjustments the legal guidelines of the house time continuum to save lots of his lover, and the political story of a ‘poor boy’ who will get indignant sufficient to query ‘the king,’” mentioned director Rachel Chavkin. “His extraordinary musicianship as guitarist and singer was an limitless supply of inspiration to each Anaïs and I within the creation of the present, and his elegant management as an actor and firm member, each onstage and off, can be deeply missed.”

“My gratitude goes out to Anäis Mitchell and all who’ve touched this present with their divine intention,” mentioned Reeve Carney. “To my fellow forged mates, who’ve been with me within the trenches, giving of themselves freely and unceasingly, on and off the stage. Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. And to our unbelievable audiences right here at The Walter Kerr Theater… It has been an honor bringing this story to life for you all night time after night time over these a few years.”

Hadestown at present stars Tony Award winner Lillias White as Hermes, Solea Pfeiffer as Eurydice, Betty Who as Persephone, and Phillip Boykin as Hades. They’re joined by Amelia Cormack, Lindsey Hailes, and Brit West because the Fates. The refrain of Staff is performed by Emily Afton, Malcolm Armwood, Chibueze Ihumoa, Alex Puette and Grace Yoo. The forged consists of swings Sojourner Brown, Brandon Cameron, Tara Jackson, Max Kumangai, Alex Lugo, and Tanner Ray Wilson.