Summer Rae Daney, age eleven is making her Broadway debut! She is an actress and has appeared in several on screen Productions. Film/TV: Blue’s Clue’s Big City Adventures, Diarra from Detroit and the voice of Riv in the animated cartoon Bronx Buds. “Believe in yourself and you’ll achieve things beyond your imagination”. Special thanks: Mom, Dad, Sydney, Dallas, family; Mr. Alvin; managers; Ms. Laura, Ms. Marianne, David Doan; coaches; Ms. Sharra and Ms. Ginny!
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Broadway: Shrek (Original cast), Hands on a Hardbody, (Original Cast). Off Broadway: The harder they come, Pedro, Public theater, Lortel Nom. Alchemist, Mammon, Redbull, Lortel Nom. Merry wives, Falstaff, Public theater, Drama desk nom. Father comes home from the wars, Public theater, Lortel Award. Twelfth Night, Sir Toby, Public theater. Cymbeline, Public Theater. Merchant of Venice, TFANA. Midsummer night’s dream, TFANA. Tempest, Public Theater. On the levee, Lincoln Center. TV: White Famous, showtime (series regular), Watchmen, HBO (series regular), Ray Donovan. Showtime (Recurring), Feed the beast, AMC (recurring). only murders in the building, WU-TANG, New Amsterdam, God friended me, ECT. Film: Superfly, Forty-year-old Version, R#J, Possession of Hannah grace, The Bygone, Julie Taymour’s Midsummer night’s dream. friendship with Paul Rudd. shallow tale, with Steve Buschemi. Playwrite: How Shakespeare Saved My Life – Redbull Theater.
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ain is officially a New Yorker, but a Michigander at heart. He is honored to be returning to Broadway working with this once in a lifetime dream team. Broadway: Mean Girls (u/s Damian ast. Dance Captain, Fight Captain) , Newsies (u/s Crutchie). National Tour: Mean Girls (u/s Aaron Samuels, u/s Damian), Newsies 1st Nat’l. Regional: Mean Girls (D.C World Premiere) Film: Newsies: The Broadway Musical, Dancing With the Stars, GMA. Other: Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Endless love to my family and friends.
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Thank you, George & Camille, for the chance to dance on Broadway again. For my Mama Rose, Beth Gillespie. Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin (Principal, Chita Rivera Award – Outstanding Ensemble). Off Broadway: This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic Theatre). Tours: Hamilton (Samuel Seabury), Cats Revival (Mungojerrie), Kinky Boots (Angel), Matilda (Michael Wormwood), Beauty…Beast (LeFou). TV: We’re Here (HBO), VMA’s (MTV), Good Morning America, The Tamryn Hall Show, Dance Moms: A New Era, PENNYWILD Wednesdays.
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Proud Howard University alumna & multi-dimensional artist from Columbus, Ohio. Broadway: The Lion King (Sarabi) Off-Broadway: Trojan Women, Black Nativity. Film: The Geechee Witch: A Boo Hag Story, Solomon’s Mood, Dear Carefree Black Girl. TV: The Promised Land, Case of the Christmas Diamond. Author: The Heart Works: A Collection.
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Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards and an Emmy, in 2015 she was named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and received the National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the field—from President Barack Obama. In addition to her Tony-winning performances in Carousel, Master Class, Ragtime, A Raisin in the Sun, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill—the role that also served as the vehicle for her Olivier Award-nominated 2017 debut in London’s West End—she has appeared on Broadway in The Secret Garden; Marie Christine (Tony nomination); Henry IV; 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination); Shuffle Along, or, The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Tony nomination); and Ohio State Murders (Tony nomination). On television, she was seen by millions as the Mother Abbess in NBC’s The Sound of Music Live!, won an Emmy Award for her role as host of PBS’s Live From Lincoln Center, and received Emmy nominations for Wit, A Raisin in the Sun and Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. Having played Dr. Naomi Bennett on Shonda Rhimes’s Private Practice (ABC) and Liz Reddick (formerly Lawrence) on both The Good Wife (CBS) and The Good Fight (Paramount+), she may now be seen as Dorothy Scott on Julian Fellowes’s The Gilded Age (HBO). On film, she has appeared in Seven Servants, The Object of My Affection, Cradle Will Rock, It Runs in the Family, The Best Thief in the World, She Got Problems, Rampart, Ricki and the Flash, Disney’s live-action Beauty and the Beast, the movie-musical Hello Again, Cinergistik’s documentary Whitney Houston in Focus, the Obamas’ Higher Ground Productions’ Rustin and MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic, Respect. McDonald is a Juilliard-trained soprano, whose opera credits include La voix humaine and Send at Houston Grand Opera, and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny at Los Angeles Opera, where the resulting recording earned her two Grammy Awards. She has issued five solo albums on the Nonesuch label as well as Sing Happy with the New York Philharmonic on Decca Gold. She also maintains a major career as a concert artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world and with leading international orchestras. She is a founding member of Black Theatre United, board member of Covenant House International, and prominent advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights, whose favorite roles are those performed offstage, as an activist, wife to actor Will Swenson, and mother.
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Aliah James is overjoyed to be a part of the Gypsy revival on Broadway! Broadway: The Who’s Tommy, Funny Girl. Tour: The Lion King-Rafiki Tour, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical. Other credits: The Who’s Tommy, 42nd Street, Newsies, Cabaret, After Midnight. BFA: Point Park University. Shoutout to her family and mom for their constant support!
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