Call it Tootsie! Pursued by a ruthless Soviet officer determined to silence her, Anya enlists the aid of a dashing conman and a lovable ex-aristocrat. There were protests in NY. Kad said: "Seriously. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. Actors & Performers. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018. Tootsie premiered in Chicago in 2018 and won the 2019 Tony for Best Book of a Musical on Broadway. ". Photos: Mulvaney, Daley, Ghee, and More Walk PFLAG Gala Red Carpet. Im sure everyone is devastated. THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Extends Through October 2023. | Fifty years later celebrity performers, presenters, and honorees joined PFLAG leaders, allies, advocates, and corporate leaders to celebrate PFLAGs historic impact. I would have assumed, given how especially fickle theatre is, everyone would want to be part of a union. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Casting has been revealed for the upcoming National Tour of the musical comedy Tootsie, including Drew Becker as Michael Dorsey, Ashley Alexandra as Julie Nichols. A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. All subject to change, of course, but tours are seemingly back on the books with every major market having a new full lineup of shows starting in the fall, and in some markets, even later. This laugh-out-loud love letter to the theatre tells the story of Michael Dorsey, a talented but difficult actor who struggles to find work until one show-stopping act of desperation lands him the role of a lifetime. from. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Call it the most uproarious new musical in years! (The Hollywood Reporter). Please consider supporting us bywhitelisting playbill.com with your ad blocker.Thank you! The musical features an original score by Tony Award winner David Yazbeck (The Band's Visit, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), a book by Tony Award winner Robert Horn (13; Dame Edna, Back with a Vengeance), choreography by Tony Award nominee Denis Jones (Holiday Inn, Honeymoon in Vegas), music direction by Andrea Grody (The Band's Visit), and directed by nine-time Tony Award nominee and Olivier Award winner Scott Ellia (She Loves Me, On the Twentieth Century). As the young actress, Julie Nichols, Alexandra serenades Dorothy with the gently tuneful There Was John, recounting her long-ago choice of ambition over love. for lead performances; $750/wk. We and our partners share information on your use of this website to help improve your experience. Why in the heck should this thing tour at all?I'm amazed this thing actually had road producers wanting to actually boook it. She has an extensive background in theater. Music Supervisor: David Sharenow If you're not working as an actor, it's not like your actors' union status means anythingoutside of show business,except theability to be seen at Union auditions. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. Photos The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". Based on Sydney Pollack's 1982 Academy Award-winning film of the same name, Tootsie follows Michael Dorsey, a skilled actor with a talent for not keeping a job. Gordon, Maverick Hiu, Dominique Kempf, Marquez Linder, Lucy Panush, Alec Ruiz The Joyce Theatre has announced that effective March 27, 2023, it will lift its mask requirements for all visitors inside the theater. The seven-show 2022-2023 Bank of America Broadway on Hennepin subscription package price starts at $300 and includes: Beetlejuice, TINA - The Tina Turner Musical, Jagged Little Pill, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tootsie, Hairspray and Cats. VIDEO: FUNNY GIRL Announces Broadway Closing; New Performance Montage, McClure, Kritzer, Brightman, & Iglehart to Lead SPAMALOT. After having its out-of-town tryout in Chicago, Illinois, opened on April 23rd, 2019 at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway, where it earned, As Michael's roommate, Jeff Slater, who is also an unsuccessful playwright, Jared David, Rivertowne Repertory Players (10/20-10/29), Mills River Elementary School (5/18-5/21), Theatre At The Imperial Centre (3/03-3/12), Pineville Elementary School (10/19-10/19), 11 Tony Award nominations (including Best Musical), TOOTSIE is Coming to Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall in April 2023, TOOTSIE is Coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts, BWW Review: TOOTSIE is Mostly a Drag at the Buell Theatre at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. She got cast as Sandy when it was equity. ", Ashley Alexandra as Julie Nichols in "Tootsie. Tootsie,the hilarious Tony Award-winning musical, is comingto Segerstrom Center for a limited two-week engagement from May 31 to June 12. In the 1982 movie Tootsie, unemployed actor Michael Dorsey (played by Dustin Hoffman) disguises himself as a woman and becomes soap star Dorothy Michaels. The Cher Show (also rumored to be scrapped), Pretty Woman, Ain't Too Proud, Oklahoma, Hadestown.We know 1776 is Equity. Directed by DAVE SOLOMON Tootsie plays through December 12, 2021 at The National Theatre 1321 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC. Tickets ($65-$110) are available to purchase online. As Michael and Jeff's friend, struggling actress Sandy Lester, Payton Reilly is hilarious. The genre-defying work has transferred to Off-Broadway's The Shed. Oh look, another movie turned musical no one was asking for! The whirlwind Dorothy modernizes Juliets Curse, dropping the Elizabethan swords and gowns and changing the period to the 1950s. The design team includes original scenic designer David Rockwell, tour scenic designer Christine Peters, costume designer William Ivey Long, associate costume designer Christopher Vergara, lighting designer Donald Holder, associate lighting designers Vivien Leone and Coby Chasman-Beck, assistant lighting designer Colleen Doherty, sound designer Brian Ronan, associate sound designer Cody Spencer, hair and wig designer Paul Huntley, assistant hair and wig designer Loryn Pretorius, and make-up designer Angelina Avallone with casting by Chad Murnane of Binder Casting. Make-Up Design: Angela Avallone. By CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF's Matt De Rogatis Takes Over Our Instagram Today! Our website is made possible bydisplaying online advertisements to our visitors. Julie Nichols: Ashley Alexandra When the nonequity tour of Rent came to my city, last year, an actor newly hired to cover Collins sat next to me and we chatted about life on tour. It's mind-blowing," Solomon said. DB Bonds); Regional: Clifford Bradshaw in Cabaret (JET). Tweets & replies. 30 texasperformingarts.org. The show is blatantly transphobic, including multiple sexist jokes that might have played in the 80s but are rightly recognized today as deeply offensive. Solomon will have former classmates - and of course family - in attendance on opening night, and it is not lost on him that he's working on a stage where he saw so many shows in his childhood. "I actually feel like touring (especially non-equity) may come back before Broadway comes back. Broadway Choreography: Denis Jones The female cast are backed by an all-female band, the "Ladies in Waiting." It's still relevant. Thanks for your comment, Anna. Drew Becker gives a terrific performance as Michael Dorsey. The non-Equity touring cast charmed the opening-night audience. Showbusiness is contract to contract. Reading the Facebook comments, one poster wrote what the salaries were gonna be. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. SouthernCakes, don't blame Troika for that - blame the ROAD PRESENTERS. The Cher Show (also rumored to be scrapped), Pretty Woman, Ain't Too Proud, Oklahoma, Hadestown.We know 1776 is Equity. I'm not at all saying that I agree with any of this, but I could easily see a non-equity tour playing Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, etc. and Craig, like the actor who plays him, falls for the Nurse instead of for Juliet. In 1982, Dustin Hoffman starred in Sydney Pollack's gender-bending comedy flick "Tootsie," voted one of the top 100 movies of all time by the American Film Institute. Featuring a hilarious Tony-winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony-winner David Yazbek (The Bands Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), this New York Times Critics Pick is a joyful delight (The Washington Post) thats so packed with punchlines, it should be called a jokebox musical! (Bloomberg). How unfortunate, but Im sure this is not the last show to go this route. Tootsie National Tour: Equity Production Scrapped, to start non-union? Audiences are just loving it. | A Christmas Carol announces Scrooges for U.S. productions. "I grew up seeing shows all the time, at both the Bushnell and the Shubert in New Haven. You have entered an incorrect email address! Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels: Male, 30-45 Work from Home. I'll always remember 'A Chorus Line' coming through to the Shubert and I loved it," he said. Due to popular demand, tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong are now on sale through October 29, 2023. ", Payton Reilly as Sandy Lester and Drew Becker as Michael Dorsey in "Tootsie. It's a VERY ****ty thing.RE: HOUSING AND PER DIEMS: Double occupancy rooms is *very* standard on tour, regardless of AEA or Non-AEA. Indeed, most of the musical numbers exploit this line of tongue-in-cheek irony and genuine respect for the sincerity of the characters feelings. GrantGrant said: "I hope not, I was really looking forward to seeing this tour."Agreed. Now is the time to listen, learn, stand with the voices of change, and move forward together.". for principal performances; $600/wk. We all know that theatre will be among the last businesses to reopen, but touring will probably be the last of the last. #TootsieMusical is now on tour! But as his agent, Stan Fields (Steve Brustien), tells him, Everyone hates you., His ex and close friend, Sandy (Payton Reilly), is auditioning for the part of Juliets Nurse in a musical winsomely entitled Juliets Curse (no, Im serious). The following items were listed on Tootsie Roll's recent income statement and balance sheet. Dorothy takes it with good humor (perhaps age has given her wisdom), and the two of them have some strikingly comic scenes together, which I will not ruin for you by describing. It seems that normal is far away yet! I'm a tour operator myself and I have to admit that the healthier the Tourism industry is, the better I can plan my future and feel confident that all the losses I had to take last year will be recovered. Copyright 1991-2023 Playbill Inc. All Rights Reserved. A Chorus Line. TheatreWorks USA presents the family-friendly production at New World Stages. Photo by Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade. Go to: BroadwayInHollywood.com or Ticketmaster.com or call 800-982-2782 Tags: Broadway In Hollywood, Dolby Theatre, Tootsie MARGIE BARRON And Robert Horn is really just hilarious. Meet the Cast of SWEENEY TODD, Now in Previews on Broadway! Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. "We updated it. I was under the impression it was bonded, and considering several people indicating that had active offers, I assumed that it was. Weve got a long road ahead of us before tours get up and running again. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! The National Tour of Tootsie. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.