Ken Fallin’s Broadway: Spamalot

Final night time, three-time Tony Award winner Nathan Lane made a shock cameo within the function 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 Avenue).

Lane, carrying the present’s signature mustard yellow trucker cap emblazoned with the phrase ‘Producer,’ took the stage and stated, “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 successful function within the Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers. Lane additionally exclaimed, “This present is improbable. I had the identical feeling after I noticed Cats!”

Lane is the most recent star to hitch Gutenberg! within the function 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 taking part in a strictly restricted engagement on the Jones Theatre via Sunday, January 28, 2024 solely.

Photos had been launched for the primary take 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 Evening 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 Track) 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 shall be reprising their roles from the record-breaking sold-out run on the Kennedy Middle in Washington D.C.

Brooke Adams will be part of Caroline Aaron, Marilu Henner, and Melanie Mayron, below the path of Thomas Caruso. Ms Adams replaces the beforehand introduced JoBeth Williams who needed to withdraw resulting from a scheduling battle. 

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

Performances shall be Saturday at 2pm & 7pm, Sunday at 2pm, and Monday at 7pm. Actors Temple Theatre, positioned at 339 West forty seventh Avenue (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 Rooster and Latkes,  It’s Simply Intercourse, The Massive Voice: God or Merman?, Goldstein, The J.A.P. Present: Jewish-American Princesses of Comedy  and  Paul Mecurio’s Permission To Converse.  
 
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 cellphone 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 cellphone orders

 

Jordan Fisher will be 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 Cherished Earlier than and Teen Seaside Film franchises in addition to his Broadway turns in Sweeney Todd, Expensive Evan Hansen, and Hamilton, Fisher succeeds unique forged member Reeve Carney. Carney will play his closing efficiency as ‘Orpheus’ on Sunday, November 19. Carney started taking part in ‘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 avoid wasting his lover, and the political story of a ‘poor boy’ who will get indignant sufficient to query ‘the king,’” stated director Rachel Chavkin. “His extraordinary musicianship as guitarist and singer was an infinite 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, shall be deeply missed.”

“My gratitude goes out to Anäis Mitchell and all who’ve touched this present with their divine intention,” stated 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 unimaginable 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 the moment 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 contains swings Sojourner Brown, Brandon Cameron, Tara Jackson, Max Kumangai, Alex Lugo, and Tanner Ray Wilson.