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| TOOTSIE First National Tour Announces Cast | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 07:27 pm EDT 09/02/21 | |
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| CASTING ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST NATIONAL TOUR OF THE TONY AWARD®-WINNING MUSICAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 – Complete casting has been announced for the First National Tour of the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical, Tootsie. The cast will feature Drew Becker as Michael Dorsey, Ashley Alexandra as Julie Nichols, Payton Reilly as Sandy Lester, Lukas James Miller as Max Von Horn, Jared David Michael Grant as Jeff Slater, Kathy Halenda as Rita Marshall, Steve Brustien as Stan Fields, and Adam du Plessis as Ron Carlisle. The company will also include Leyla Ali, Connor Allston, Darius Aushay, Lexi Baldachino , Michael Bingham , Kyra Christopher , Delaney Gold, Danielle J.S. Gordon, Maverick Hiu, Dominique Kempf, Ashton Lambert, Marquez Linder, Lucy Panush, and Alec Ruiz. The Tootsie First National Tour will launch October 10, 2021 at Shea’s Performing Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Call it “musical comedy heaven” (Rolling Stone). Call it “the most uproarious new musical in years!” (The Hollywood Reporter). Call it Tootsie! This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theater tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime. Featuring a hilarious Tony®-winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony-winner David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels ), this New York Times Critic’s Pick is “a joyful delight” (The Washington Post) that’s “so packed with punchlines, it should be called a jokebox musical!” (Bloomberg). “In these turbulent times, when the world seems out of balance, we need a place to let the good times roll,” raves Rolling Stone. “Tootsie is it!” The creative team for Tootsie includes director Dave Solomon (Broadway associate director), Broadway choreography by Denis Jones, associate choreographer Chip Abbott. The design team for Tootsie includes original scenic designer David Rockwell, tour scenic designer Christine Peters, costume designer William Ivey Long , associate costume designer Christopher Vergara, lighting designer Donald Holder, associate lighting designers Vivien Leone & Coby Chasman-Beck and assistant lighting designer Colleen Doherty, sound designer Brian Ronan, associate sound designer Cody Spencer, hair and wig design by Paul Huntley, assistant hair and wig designer Loryn Pretorius. make-up design by Angelina Avallone. Casting is by Binder Casting, Chad Murnane CSA. Supervising Music Supervisor Andrea Grody , Music Supervision by Dean Sharenow, vocal & incidental arrangements by Andrea Grody, dance arrangements by David Chase, orchestrations by Simon Hale, and music coordination by Talitha Fehr. Tootsie is based on the story by Don McGuire and Larry Gelbart and the Columbia Pictures Motion Picture produced by Punch Productions and starring Dustin Hoffman. The National Tour of Tootsie is produced and managed by TROIKA Entertainment. |
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| re: TOOTSIE First National Tour Announces Cast | |
| Posted by: FrankF 10:34 pm EDT 09/02/21 | |
| In reply to: TOOTSIE First National Tour Announces Cast - Official_Press_Release 07:27 pm EDT 09/02/21 | |
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| Is it me? I've never heard of any of these people. Is this another non-equity tour? | |
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| re: TOOTSIE First National Tour Announces Cast | |
| Posted by: TheatreGuy 10:40 pm EDT 09/02/21 | |
| In reply to: re: TOOTSIE First National Tour Announces Cast - FrankF 10:34 pm EDT 09/02/21 | |
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| Yes. It was originally slated to be an AEA tour, but once the pandemic hit, they switched to non-AEA instead. | |
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