LSOH Kennedy Center

[regnad kcin]

Little Shop of Horrors will be playing at the Kennedy Center in October.  The Kennedy Center website says that the performance will feature "a starry cast direct from Broadway."  Any ideas who that will be?

[Elegance101]

I doubt they even know who’s in it yet. It’s part of the new Broadway Center Stage program, which is trying to basically be the D.C. equivalent of Encores! meaning that they put these things together rather quickly. I dount they’ll even start meeting or auditioning until August.

[InnerMonologue]

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an actress of color to play Audrey!!

[JSquared2]

InnerMonologue said: "I'm keeping my fingers crossed for an actress of color to play Audrey!!"

 

Any particular reason?

 

 

[InnerMonologue]

JSquared2 said: "Any particular reason?"

Nope! Just think it would be interesting.

[Jessetenny]

Cynthia Erivo, Megan Hilty or Katharine McPhee for Audrey please!

[darquegk]

The racial politics of Little Shop are... complicated, with the show's musical structure being an underlying metaphor of the encroaching blackness of late-20th century music and culture being ultimately irresistable. I'm not sure you CAN'T have an Audrey of color, but I suspect that you WON'T.

[regnad kcin]

Thanks, Elegance101 -- I didn't realize this had a compressed schedule.  I guess that means that tickets might actually go on sale before the show is cast.

[Elegance101]

They might be thinking about the two leads (a la Norm as Harold Hill) to drum up interest ahead of time, but the full cast won’t be set for a while. It’s hard to predict, though, as it’s only the second season of Broadway Center Stage, but I’m going based off my knowledge from this first season. :)

[freewilma]

They haven't announced the cast for June's "How to Succeed" and the tickets have been on sale for a LONG time.  Little shop is way way way too far away for casting announcements.  

[regnad kcin]

Now that it's the end of August, I wonder if anyone here has heard anything about casting.

[CaseyBrent41]

Megan Hilty IS playing Audrey. 

[MadsonMelo]

So, is it like a real production of the musical or a concert version?

 

Does anyone knows in advance?

[7thbighero]

MadsonMelo said: "So, is it like a real production of the musical or a concert version?



Does anyone knows in advance?"

It’s a semi staged concert 

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/TTBCA

[rfksansiro]

Kennedy Center website now shows:


Seymour - Josh Radnor

Audrey - Megan Hilty

Audrey II - James Monroe Iglehart

Mr. Mushnik - Lee Wilkof

http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/TTBCA

 

 

[Elegance101]

WOW. That’s a killer cast.

[CaseyBrent41]

Sigh. Pretty straightforward casting. 

What I  loved about Ellen Greene and Jake Gyllenhall was how mismatched and juxtaposed they were. It was such a winning combination. This is pretty basic. 

[ND_2000]

Megan will be fantastic!! So glad she's FINALLY going to play Audrey after being let go from the national tour years ago due to her being too young opposite Anthony Rapp. Perfect casting!

[regnad kcin]

Wonder who's playing the dentist?  That's always the most fun role.

 

[CaseyBrent41]

Where did the article go? It was the main story and now its gone....someone jump the gun? 

[rfksansiro]

The Kennedy Center page for the show has also reverted to the prior description with the note that Cast and Creative will be announced at a future date.

[disneybroadwayfan22]

THIS CASTING IS ALL I WANTED FOR THE LAST A COUPLE OF YEARS AND IM GLOWING IN SUNSHINE HOLY CRAP

[Wicked Fanatic]

ND_2000 said: "Megan will be fantastic!! So glad she's FINALLY going to play Audrey after being let go from the national tour years ago due to her being too young opposite Anthony Rapp. Perfect casting!"

Yours was also my first thought when I read it,  She always includes "Suddenly Seymour" as a duet with her husband Brian Gallagher in concerts when I've seen her. 

Jessetenney,

Looks like your post from 4/16/18 prognosticated who would get the role.

Cynthia Erivo, Megan Hilty or Katharine McPhee for Audrey please!

I'm thinking of flying to D.C. to see this.

 

[regnad kcin]

Has anyone ever heard Josh Radnor sing?

[Esther]

regnad kcin said: "Has anyone ever heard Josh Radnor sing?"

 

 

Anyone that attended the She Loves Me benefit concert that inspired the recent revival did & he's very good.  He was supposed to star in the revival with Laura Benanti, but had an obligation (Mercy Street, PBS)  he could not get out of.  .