| CHICKEN & BISCUITS To Premiere On Broadway This Fall at Circle in the Square Theatre, Starring Norm Lewis & Michael Urie | |
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| The new Broadway comedy full of really good dish! CHICKEN & BISCUITS A NEW COMEDY BY DOUGLAS LYONS WILL OPEN ON BROADWAY THIS FALL AT CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE THEATRE STARRING TONY AWARD NOMINEE NORM LEWIS & DRAMA DESK WINNER MICHAEL URIE DIRECTED BY ZHAILON LEVINGSTON WHO BECOMES THE YOUNGEST BLACK DIRECTOR IN BROADWAY HISTORY AT AGE 27 First Preview September 23, 2021 Opening Night October 10, 2021 Limited Engagement Through January 2, 2022 TICKETS ON SALE NOW AT TELECHARGE.COM (NEW YORK, NY) Producers Pamela Ross, Hunter Arnold, E. Clayton Cornelious and Leah Michalos are thrilled to announce that the play CHICKEN & BISCUITS, a new comedy written by Douglas Lyons and directed by Zhailon Levingston will have its Broadway premiere this fall at Circle in the Square Theatre (235 West 50th Street.) Beginning previews Thursday, September 23, 2021, the play will celebrate its Opening Night on Sunday, October 10, 2021, for a limited engagement through Sunday, January 2, 2022.Tickets are on sale today at Telecharge.com/212-239-6200. CHICKEN & BISCUITS features a dynamic ensemble cast, which on Broadway will include Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis (Porgy and Bess, Da 5 Bloods) as Reginald, and Drama Desk Award winner Michael Urie (Torch Song, "Ugly Betty") as Logan. Additional casting will be announced in the coming weeks. CHICKEN & BISCUITS is a raucous family comedy so full of laughter and love, it'll leave you begging for seconds. The Jenkins family is coming together to celebrate the life of their father-hopefully without killing each other! But any hopes for a peaceful reunion unravel when a family secret shows up at the funeral… Lyons and Cornelious - known to Broadway audiences for their acting roles in several hit Broadway musicals - will make their debuts as playwright and lead producer, respectively. Zhailon Levingston, currently the Associate Director of Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, will become the youngest black director in Broadway history when he takes the helm of CHICKEN & BISCUITSthis fall, at age 27. Pamela Ross and Leah Michalos also make their Broadway debuts as lead producers. "I am beyond thrilled to be making my Broadway playwriting debut, ten years and one block away from the very stage where I made my acting debut in The Book of Mormon," said playwright Douglas Lyons. Chicken & Biscuits is a story of love, messiness, and healing. This opportunity to bring our comedically complex Black family to the Broadway stage is a complete gift. Our batter is full of laughter, and I can't wait to witness audiences of all backgrounds fellowshipping together. I'll see y'all at the church-I mean, theater." CHICKEN & BISCUITS had its world premiere on February 28, 2020 at Queens Theatre, but the engagement was cut short less than two weeks later, when the theater industry suspended operations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. "Douglas and I began talking about our dreams in our dressing room backstage at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, while performing together in Beautiful," said producer E.Clayton Cornelious, whose other onstage credits include Ain't Too Proud, Wonderland, The Scottsboro Boys, and The Lion King. "As we developed our talents over the next few years, I saw a reading of Chicken & Biscuits and felt completely driven by its heart and joy. I asked to hop on as producer and the magic began! When our world premiere run at Queens Theatre was cut short by the pandemic, we were completely crushed - so being blessed to bring it back on an even bigger platform now, a Broadway stage, is beyond a dream come true." "Chicken & Biscuits is a play that makes you feel at home, and it felt so clear to me that its home was a Broadway theater," said Hunter Arnold, Tony-winning producer of Hadestown, The Inheritance and the hit Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. "This incredibly talented team of young artists is serving up exactly what theater audiences crave right now - a place to laugh and commune with one another, over a hilarious-yet-touching story about the unparalleled (and often infuriating) bond of family…whether it's the one you were born into, or the one you chose!" Tickets & Performance Schedule Tickets for the Broadway production of CHICKEN & BISCUITS are available now from $49.50, and can be purchased at www.Telecharge.com, 212-239-6200 (outside NY metro area: 800-432-7250), or in person beginning August 26 at Circle in the Square Theatre Box Office on 50th Street between Broadway and Eighth Avenue in NYC. The regular playing schedule for CHICKEN & BISCUITS is: Tuesdays at 7:00PM, Wednesdays at 2:00PM & 7:00PM, Thursdays at 7:00PM, Fridays at 8:00pm, Saturdays at 2:00PM & 8:00PM, and Sundays at 3:00PM. The evening preview performances on Sept 23rd, 28th, 29th and 30th will begin at 8:00pm. Buy with Confidence: Buy tickets for any performance through January 2, and you can either refund or exchange your tickets into any other date until two hours before the performance. The Circle in the Square Theatre is committed to providing healthy and safe facilities for audiences, performers, and staff. Based on CDC and state guidelines at the time of performance, protocols may include mask enforcement, increased cleaning and ventilation/filtration enhancements, documentation of vaccination, or negative test verification, and more. These are subject to change. Ticketholders who do not comply with venue policies cannot be admitted. www.chickenandbiscuitsbway.com IG/FB: @chickenandbiscuitsbway TW: @chickenbway BIOGRAPHIES Douglas Lyons (Playwright) is an actor, writer, director, composer, and playwright. Writing - TV: Fraggle Rock (Apple TV). Theater: Polkadots (Off Broadway Alliance Winner Best Family Show, Atlantic Theater Company), Sunshine (Long Wharf Theatre), Pete(Her)Pan (Pace New Musicals), Five Points (world premiere Theater Latte Da), Fatigue with Jodi Piccoult, We The People (TheatreworksUSA) and The Hamlet Remix. Acting - Broadway: Beautiful (Original Cast) and The Book of Mormon. Tours: Rent, Dreamgirls and The Book of Mormon 1st National. Douglas is the founder of The Next Wave Initiative, a scholarship program dedicated to supporting the future of Black Theater artists. Zhailon Levingston (Director) is a Louisiana-raised storyteller, director, and activist. He is the Director of Industry Initiatives for the Broadway Advocacy Coalition. His directing credits include: "Neptune" (Dixon Place, Provincetown theatre), "The Years That Went Wrong" (Lark, MCC), "The Exonerated" (Columbia Law School), "Chariot Part 2" (Soho Rep., for The Movement Theatre Company), "Mother of Pearl" (LaGuardia Performing Arts Center). He is the co-director of "Reconstruction" with Tony Award-winner Rachel Chavkin. Zhailon is the resident director at "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical" on Broadway and the associate director of "Hadestown" in South Korea. Norm Lewis (Reginald) can currently be seen starring in the SAG, Critics Choice, and NAACP Image Award-nominated Netflix film Da 5 Bloods by Spike Lee, and in the groundbreaking FX series, "Pose." He was previously seen in the NBC television special, "Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert," alongside John Legend, Sara Bareilles, and Alice Cooper. He recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Once on This Island and as Sweeney Todd in the Off-Broadway production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at the Barrow Street Theatre, receiving the AUDELCO Award for his performance. In 2014, he made history as The Phantom of the Opera's first African American Phantom on Broadway. He has been seen on PBS in the "Live From Lincoln Center" productions of "Showboat" with Vanessa Williams, "Norm Lewis: Who Am I?", and "New Year's Eve: A Gershwin Celebration with Diane Reeves," as well as "American Voices with Renée Fleming" and the PBS Special "First You Dream - The Music of Kander & Ebb." He can be seen recurring in the VH1 series, "Daytime Divas," also alongside Vanessa Williams. His additional television credits include "Mrs. America," "Better Things," "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," "Bull," "Chicago Med," "Gotham," "The Blacklist," and "Blue Bloods," as well as in his recurring role as Senator Edison Davis on the hit drama "Scandal." Mr. Lewis is a proud founding member of Black Theatre United, an organization which stands together to help protect Black people, Black talent and Black lives of all shapes and orientations in theatre and communities across the country. He received Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, and Outer Critics Circle award nominations for his performance as Porgy in the Broadway production of The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. Other Broadway credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, The Little Mermaid, Les Misérables, Chicago, Amour, The Wild Party, Side Show, Miss Saigon, and The Who's Tommy. In London's West End, he has appeared as Javert in Les Misérables and "Les Misérables: The 25th Anniversary Concert," which aired on PBS. Off-Broadway, Mr. Lewis has performed in Dessa Rose (Drama Desk nomination, AUDELCO Award), Shakespeare in the Park's The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Drama League nomination), Captains Courageous, and A New Brain. His regional credits include Porgy in The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (A.R.T.), Ragtime, Dreamgirls (with Jennifer Holliday), First You Dream, Sweeney Todd, and The Fantasticks. His additional film credits include Magnum Opus, Winter's Tale, Sex and the City 2, Confidences, and Preaching to the Choir. Norm's albums "The Norm Lewis Christmas Album" & "This is The Life" can be found on Amazon.com as well as cdbaby.com. Michael Urie (Logan) can currently be seen hosting the new Discovery+/HGTV competition show "Clipped" and in the new series "The Bite!", created by Michelle and Robert King. He recently wrapped shooting on the Netflix film, Single All The Way, that will stream this coming holiday season. On stage, he was most recently seen in back to back New York theatre productions beginning with the Public Theatre's revival of Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day, followed by the Broadway premiere of Bess Wohl's Grand Horizons. Prior to that, he starred in the Tony Award-nominated Broadway revival of Harvey Fierstein Torch Song, following his critically acclaimed performance in the off-Broadway production at Second Stage, earning Lucille Lortel Award and Drama League Award nominations. Michael originated the role of Alex More in Jonathan Tolins' Buyer & Cellar Off-Broadway, on tour, and in London, for which he received the Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, LA Drama Critics Award and nominations for the Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards. More New York theatre credits include: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Broadway), The Government Inspector (Red Bull, Drama League, OCC nominations), Shows For Days (LCT), Homos, Or Everyone In America (Obie Award), The Cherry Orchard (CSC), Angels in America (Signature), The Temperamentals (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk and Theatre World Awards; Drama League nomination), The Revenger's Tragedy (Red Bull), and Another Vermeer (HB Playwrights). Regionally, Urie has worked for The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company (Wash. DC), Two River, The Old Globe, Vineyard Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Seattle Rep, Folger Shakespeare, Barrington Stage, Hyde Park (Austin), and The Blank (L.A.). Film: He's Way More Famous Than You (also directed), Thank You for Judging (co-director/exec. producer), The Extinction Of Fireflies, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, WTC View, Jeremy Fink And The Meaning of Life, The Decoy Bride, Petunia, Such Good People, The Hyperglot (director), and Grantham & Rose (exec. producer). TV: "Modern Family," "Younger," "The Good Fight," "The Good Wife," "Hot In Cleveland," "Workaholics," "Partners," and Marc St. James on "Ugly Betty." He hosted four seasons of Logo's "Cocktails And Classics." Web series: "What's Your Emergency" (director). Training: Juilliard. |
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