| JOY WOODS, JORDAN TYSON & more join the cast of GYPSY | |
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| FINISHED?! WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED! JOINING SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER Audra McDonald and TOny Award Winner Danny BurSTEIN JOY WOODS IS "LOUISE" JORDAN TYSON IS "JUNE" OLIVIER AWARD WINNER LESLI MARGHERITA IS "TESSIE TURA" LILI THOMAS IS "MISS MAZEPPA" MYLINDA HULL IS "MISS ELECTRA" IN GYPSY BOOK BY TWO-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER ARTHUR LAURENTS MUSIC BY TONY & ACADEMY AWARD WINNER JULE STYNE LYRICS BY eight-TIME TonY AWARD WINNER, GRAMMY, Academy Award & PULITZER PRIZE WINNER STEPHEN SONDHEIM SUGGESTED BY THE MEMOIRS OF GYPSY ROSE LEE CHOREOGRAPHY BY FOUR-TIME TONY AWARD NOMINEE CAMILLE A. BROWN DIRECTED BY SIX-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER George C. Wolfe Performances Begin Thursday, November 21, 2024 REPOPENING the LEGENDARY MAJESTIC Theatre OpenING Thursday, December 19, 2024 (New York, NY) Producers Tom Kirdahy and Mara Isaacs along with Kevin Ryan and Diane Scott Carter are proud to announce that joining six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald and Tony Award Winner Danny Burstein in GYPSY are Joy Woods as "Louise," Jordan Tyson as "June," Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita as "Tessie Tura," Lili Thomas as "Miss Mazeppa," and Mylinda Hull as "Miss Electra." Full casting to be announced shortly. Directed by the legendary six-time Tony Award-winning Director George C. Wolfe, GYPSY is suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee. The musical features a book by Tony Award Winner Arthur Laurents, music by Tony and Academy Award Winner Jule Styne, and lyrics by Tony, Grammy, Academy Award and Pulitzer Prize Winner Stephen Sondheim, choreography by four-time Tony Award nominated Camille A. Brown, music direction and supervision by Andy Einhorn, and additional orchestrations and arrangements by Tony Award winner Daryl Waters. GYPSY has scenic design by four-time Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto, costume design by four-time Tony Award nominee Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by nine-time Tony Award winner Jules Fisher + three-time Tony Award winner Peggy Eisenhauer, sound design by Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer, hair and wig design by Academy Award winner Mia Neal, makeup design by Michael Clifton, casting by Jordan Thaler CSA/Heidi Griffiths CSA, and production stage management by Rick Steiger. GYPSY performances will begin Thursday, November 21, 2024, at Broadway's newly renovated Majestic Theatre (245 West 44th Street) and the show will officially open on Thursday, December 19, 2024. Tickets for GYPSY are available at Telecharge.com (212.239.6200), or at the Majestic Theatre box office, and start at $79 (inclusive of all fees). For the GYPSY playing schedule during previews and the holidays, please visit www.GypsyBway.com. Beginning Wednesday, January 1, 2025, the playing schedule is Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm, Wednesday at 7:30pm and Saturday at 8pm, with matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2pm and Sunday at 3pm. Follow GYPSY at @gypsybway on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram. For more information visit www.GypsyBway.com CAST BIOGRAPHIES AUDRA McDONALD (Rose) is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy, in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts—America's highest honor for achievement in the field—from President Barack Obama. In addition to her Tony-winning performances in Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess and Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London's West End—she has appeared on Broadway in The Secret Garden; Marie Christine (Tony nomination); Henry IV; 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination); Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony nomination); and Ohio State Murders (Tony nomination). On television, she was seen by millions as the Mother Abbess in NBC's "The Sound of Music Live!," won an Emmy Award for her role as host of PBS's "Live From Lincoln Center," and received Emmy nominations for "Wit," "A Raisin in the Sun" and "Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill." Having played Dr. Naomi Bennett on Shonda Rhimes's "Private Practice" (ABC) and Liz Reddick (formerly Lawrence) on both "The Good Wife" (CBS) and "The Good Fight" (Paramount+), she may now be seen as Dorothy Scott on Julian Fellowes's "The Gilded Age" (HBO). On film, she has appeared in Seven Servants, The Object of My Affection, Cradle Will Rock, It Runs in the Family, The Best Thief in the World, She Got Problems, Rampart, Ricki and the Flash, Disney's live-action Beauty and the Beast, the movie-musical Hello Again, Cinergistik's documentary Whitney Houston in Focus, the Obamas' Higher Ground Productions' Rustin and MGM's Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. McDonald is a Juilliard-trained soprano, whose opera credits include La voix humaine and Send at Houston Grand Opera, and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, where the resulting recording earned her two Grammy Awards. She has issued five solo albums on the Nonesuch label as well as "Sing Happy" with the New York Philharmonic on Decca Gold. She also maintains a major career as a concert artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world and with leading international orchestras. She is a founding member of Black Theatre United, board member of Covenant House International, and prominent advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, whose favorite roles are those performed offstage, as an activist, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother. DANNY BURSTEIN (Herbie) has appeared in 19 Broadway shows, including: Pictures From Home; Moulin Rouge, for which he received the Tony Award for playing Harold Zidler; Doolittle in My Fair Lady; Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof; Herr Schultz in Cabaret; Max in The Snow Geese; Tokio in Golden Boy; Buddy Plummer in Follies; The Taxi Driver in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Luther Billis in South Pacific; Aldolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone (Ovation Award nomination); Company; A Class Act; Titanic; and three seasons as an original company member of Tony Randall's National Actors Theater: Three Men on a Horse, Saint Joan, The Seagull, A Little Hotel on the Side and The Flowering Peach. Off-Broadway includes: Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Delacorte); Describe the Night (Atlantic); Talley's Folly (Lucille Lortel Award nomination); Mrs. Farnsworth (opposite Sigourney Weaver & John Lithgow); Psych; All in the Timing; Merrily We Roll Along; Weird Romance; I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, three appearances at Carnegie Hall as well as performing at the Metropolitan Opera as Frosch in the Jeremy Sams/Douglas Carter Beane production of Die Fledermaus. Film/TV includes: "Julia," "Dora," "Tokyo Vice," "The Good Fight," "Will Trent", "Grease: Rise Of The Pink Ladies", Molli and Max in the Future, "The Accidental Wolf," Gary Jr. Or Jesus of Framingham, Tick Tick Boom, Separation, "F Is For Family," The Same Storm, "Central Park," "Dr. Death," "Evil," "Instinct," "NCIS: New Orleans," "Madam Secretary," "The Blacklist, "Tales of the City," "Deception," "Elementary," Indignation (directed by James Schamus), The Family Fang (directed by Jason Bateman), Blackhat, "Boardwalk Empire" (directed by Martin Scorsese), "Louie," "The Good Wife," "Absolutely Fabulous," "Ed," all the "Law & Order" series, "Hope & Faith," Transamerica, Deception, Affluenza, American Milkshake, Nor'easter, Construction, The Sounding; and Trust, Greed, Bullets & Bourbon. He was honored with his own Sardi's caricature in 2009. Mr. Burstein proudly served on the Artists Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors for 15 years and received his training at New York's famed H.S. of Performing Arts, the Moscow Art Theater, Queens College (BA) and the University of California, San Diego (MFA). In 2022, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts, honoris causa, from Queens College. Burstein has received the Tony Award (7 nominations), the Drama League Award (3 nominations), two Drama Desk Awards (4 nominations), four Outer Critics Circle Awards (6 nominations), and three Grammy Award nominations. Joy Woods (Louise ) can currently be seen starring as Middle Allie in The Notebook on Broadway. Woods originated the role at the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre and received The Joseph Jefferson Award for Performer in a Supporting Role – Musical for her performance. Previously, Woods made her Broadway debut as Catherine Parr in Six: The Musical. In 2023, Woods starred as Martha Mills in the Off-Broadway revival of I Can Get it For You Wholesale. The production won the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. Woods made her Off-Broadway debut in 2019, originating the role of Chiffon in the Off-Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors. She then returned to the show in 2023 as Audrey. Woods resides in New York and graduated from the AMDA College of the Performing Arts. Jordan Tyson (June ) made her Broadway debut in The Notebook. Other Theatre credits include: Bulrusher (McCarter/Berkeley Rep), Into the Woods (PCLO), The Notebook (Chicago Shakespeare), Lempicka (La Jolla Playhouse), Streets of New York (Irish Repertory), Folk Wandering (ART/NY), I And You (Weston Playhouse). Television: "The Chair" (Netflix/recurring Guest Star). Film: Vampires vs. the Bronx (Netflix). Readings: Hearts Beat Loud (MCC), Learned Ladies. 2017 Audelco Rising Star Award, 2018 YesBroadway 40 Under 40. Debut EP coming soon. www.jordantyson.com Lesli Margherita (Tessie Tura) won the Laurence Olivier Award for her West End debut in Zorro The Musical and originated the roles of Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda The Musical and Mona Kent in Dames at Sea on Broadway. Off-Broadway she received Drama Desk, Lortel, and Outer Critics nominations for Who's Holiday, Emojiland, and A Scythe of Time. Television credits include recurring and guest starring roles on "NCIS Hawaii" "Minx", "Fairly OddParents", "The Rookie", "The Crew", "Raven's Home", "Homeland", "Instinct", "Seven Seconds", and "Transparent". Currently on film in "The Many Saints of Newark" and "Opening Night". Lesli's voice can also be heard on several animated films and shows on Paramount+, Disney, FOX and Nickelodeon. Select regional credits include leading roles in Nine, Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls, Flamingo Kid, Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Kiss Me Kate, Man Of La Mancha, Little Shop Of Horrors, and Spamalot. Her album Rule Your Kingdom, is out now from Broadway Records. @QueenLesli | leslimargherita.com Lili Thomas (Miss Mazeppa) made history last year on Broadway as the first Asian American Mama Morton in Chicago. 1st Nat'l tour: Dear Evan Hansen as Cynthia Murphy. Off Broadway: We're Gonna Die (Second Stage), Only Human, The Hello Girls (Prospect/Cast Album/Kennedy Center). Soloist at Geffen Hall (Lincoln Center), Disney Millenium Symphonies with the NY Philharmonic, Kennedy Center (Eisenhower, Terrace, and Millenium stages), Symphony Space. Select Regional: PLCO, Berkeley Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and most recently, Knoxville with Ahrens & Flaherty. NYU/Tisch BFA. Thanks to the best reps at DGRW, Ellie, and my family! For Dad & Bill, thank you for the embouchure. @thelilithomas MYLINDA HULL (Miss Electra / Miss Cratchitt) has been part of New York theatre for over 25 years. After making her Broadway debut as Anytime Annie in the Tony Award-winning revival of 42nd Street (OBC), she continued on Broadway to play opposite such luminaries as Christina Applegate in Sweet Charity (OBC), Jonathan Pryce in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Nathan Lane in The Nance (OBC), and Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night (OBC). She played Lola opposite Jerry Lewis in the National Tour of Damn Yankees. Off-Broadway she recently played Mona Bland in the Jason Robert Brown, Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince helmed musical The Connector at MCC. Mylinda was also a part of the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical Road Show at The Public Theatre directed by John Doyle, and the long-running crowd pleaser I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change at the Westside Theatre. At the popular New York City Center Encores! series she has played principal roles in five productions and can be heard on three of their Original Cast Recordings; Face The Music, The New Yorkers and Merrily We Roll Along with Lin-Manuel Miranda. Her many regional credits include Murder On The Orient Express at The Old Globe, Dancing At Lughnasa at Two River and her IRNE Award-winning performance as Miss Adelaide in Guys And Dolls at North Shore Music Theatre. On the small screen, Mylinda played the burlesque stripper Pauline who meets a young Bob Fosse in "Fosse/Verdon" Episode 5 and appeared in "The Big C" with Laura Linney, as well as Season 1 and 2 of "Inside Amy Schumer." Mylinda lives in Brooklyn with husband, their two teenaged children and two dogs named Ry and Soda. Gypsy will be her 7th Broadway show and she is thrilled to be a part of the company. |
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