Jennifer Hudson on Making Her Broadway Debut in ‘The Color Purple’ and the Violence of ‘Chi-Raq’
“I’m always excited to see what I’m going to learn onstage with a different crowd.” – Jennifer Hudson
“I’m always excited to see what I’m going to learn onstage with a different crowd.” – Jennifer Hudson
“As an actor, you never go, ‘Oh, I need to do this.’ You ask yourself, ‘Is this story worth telling? Does it hit me?'” – Eddie Redmayne
“I haven’t done a whole lot. This is my first huge thing. This is my first bite. I was waiting it out and then I caught a really, really big fish.” – Tyler Lea
The singers were backed by musical director Joshua Stephen Kartes, who led an eleven-piece band and three powerful backup singers.
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Keira Knightley on her Broadway debut, Therese Raquin: “I don’t know how to do it and there are so many problems with putting it on. But I was sort of up for the challenge”
On Monday, November 2, nearly two dozen Broadway stars will use one of their few days off to preform in a very special event, Broadway Sings Sara Bareilles
On the first night of previews on Thursday, October 1, an unknown male audience member in the mezzanine went to the railing and shouted out to Knightley.
Unlike other stage shows that cast an actual dog to play a canine, the role of Sylvia is played by Ashford.
Engel was in the original production on Broadway 32 years ago.
Stroker, who has been in a wheelchair since being involved in a car accident aged 2, says that life in a wheelchair enables her to “think more creatively.”
Theater fans saw the ad as justifying bad theater etiquette and complained to AT&T.
“I am a Broadway theatre guy, I do a lot of music and singing, so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons” – Jeremy Jordan
According to a production spokesperson, shortly before the production began an audience member got out of his seat, went on stage, and plugged his phone into a (non-working) outlet that was part of the production’s set.
“Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.” – Sutton Foster
“I’d like to go to a bar or a restaurant. I can’t do that now. I am onstage for two hours every night. I can’t go out.” – Helen Mirren
Though she’s appeared in film and on television, most would associate Kristin Chenoweth with her extraordinary Broadway career.
“I feel more like I understand acting in a different way.” – Emma Stone on Her Broadway Experience
“Once you’ve done a play you build muscles, you feel better when you keep it fresh every time, it has to have the feeling it’s never been done before” – Carey Mulligan
Reinders, who’s previously starred on Broadway in ‘Wicked’ and ‘Gypsy’, described the show as “if ‘The Book of Mormon’ and ‘Spamalot’ and 42nd St. all had a baby.”