Tony Yazbeck and More Complete Cast of New Musical Prince of Broadway
(© David Gordon)
Complete casting has been announced for Prince of Broadway, the long-gestating musical celebrating the six-decade Broadway career of producer-director Harold Prince. The production will run from October 23-November 22 at Tokyu Theatre Orb in Tokyo and from November 28-December 10 at Umeda Arts Theater, Main Hall, in Osaka.
The full cast will be made up of Josh Grisetti (It Shoulda Been You), Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma!), Ramin Karimloo (Les Misérables), Nancy Opel (Honeymoon in Vegas), Bryonha Marie Parham (After Midnight), Emily Skinner (Billy Elliot), Mariand Torres (Wicked), Kaley Ann Voorhees (The Phantom of the Opera), Tony Yazbeck (On the Town), and Reon Yuzuki (former Top Star of the Takarazuka Revue Company’s Star Troupe).
Prince of Broadway, which features words and music from many of the shows that have earned Hal Prince his record 21 Tony Awards, has a book by two-time Tony Award nominee David Thompson (The Scottsboro Boys), codirection and choreography by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Bullets Over Broadway) and direction by Prince. The show will look at the circumstances and fortune that led to Hal Prince creating some of the most enduring and beloved theater works of all time, including West Side Story, Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, and The Phantom of the Opera.
Prince of Broadway will feature set design by Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt, costume design by six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long, lighting design by Sonoyo Nishikawa, sound design by Koichi Yamamoto, and wig design by Paul Huntley. Musical supervision and arrangements are by three-time Tony Award winner Jason Robert Brown (Honeymoon in Vegas), with Fred Lassen serving as musical director.
