As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding will be Broadway-bound following its run in San Francisco. Based on the iconic 2001 film, the stage musical had its world premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre on Friday, May 19th and where it will run through July 2nd.
Monsoon Wedding features a book by Sabrina Dhawan, music by Vishal Bhardwaj, and lyrics by
Susan Birkenhead. In a recent interview with
The Hollywood Reporter, Nair said of the production, "Now, in the time of Trump, the doors are literally closing between borders. What we are bringing to you in
Monsoon Wedding, the play, is a portrait of two things: an India that is complicatedly becoming a sort of real power, but also a portrait of America, since half our story is about America - an America that may not even let us in."
Check out a first look at the cast in action below!
Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Jaaved Jaaferi Namit Das Anisha Nagarajan and
Namit Das Palomi Ghosh and
Namit Das Krystal Kiran Ali Momen,
Sorab Wadia, Monsoon Bissell,
Rohan Gupta,
Palomi Ghosh, and
Andrew Prashad,
Mahira Kakkar,
Kuhoo Verma,
Michael Maliakel,
Krystal Kiran, and
Meetu Chilana Kuhoo Verma and
Michael Maliakel