Monday, June 22, 2009
T.R. Knight to star in Parade
Yes, it’s true, Grey’s Anatomy star T.R. Knight has been confirmed to play Leo Frank in Parade at the Mark Taper Forum this fall, running September 25 though November 15. The musical, by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry, will be directed and choreographed by Tony winner Rob Ashford. No official casting has been announced.Knight's New York stage credits include Broadway revivals of Noises Off and Tartuffe and the Off-Broadway show Scattergood, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination.
For tickets go to http://tinyurl.com/nwb3h4.
Casting has also been announced for Pasadena Playhouse’s production, Crowns, to run July 10-August 23. Emmy nominee Paula Kelly will star as Mother Shaw, with Suzzanne Douglas as Wanda, Sharon Catherine Blanks as Velma, Vanessa Bell Calloway as Jeanette, Clinton Derricks-Carroll as Man, Angela Wildflower Polk as Yolanda, and Ann Weldon as Mabel. Dawnn Lewis, who was in the Ebony Repertory Theatre engagement, has left the cast in order to appear in The Wiz, currently at New York City Center.
Israel Hicks directs this co-production with Ebony Repertory Theatre, which is adapted by Regina Taylor from the book by Michael Cunningham and Craig Marberry. It explores the lives of the "hat queens," six women in the South whose stories of love, loss, identity and sisterhood are woven into the hats that crown their heads and the songs that speak their truth.
For more information, visit www.ebonyrep.org/ or www.pasadenaplayhouse.org/.
