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Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark has joined the Broadway-bound musical "Gigi" playing a role she lately has been really enjoying — a mentor.
Clark said Tuesday that she and three-time Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty will join the cast, led by pop star Vanessa Hudgens. The rest of the actors include Howard McGillin, Corey Cott and Steffanie Leigh.
“It’s nice because it’s an intergenerational story and I love doing pieces where there are a lot of young people in the room,” said Clark. “I remember when I first started out, I was always the youngest one. And I remember one day looking around and thinking, ‘I’m not the youngest one anymore!’ Now it’s so much fun to be around these young people.”
“Gigi,” set in Paris at the turn of the last century, comes from Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe, the same composer and lyricist as “My Fair Lady.” It centers on a teenage girl being groomed to serve as a companion to a bored, wealthy playboy until the pair realize they have fallen in love.
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Actors often complain about short rehearsal times, but some of entertainment's biggest names — including Melanie Griffith, Amanda Seyfried, Uzo Aduba, Peter Dinklage, Nina Dobrev and Pablo Schreiber — are about to have virtually none.
They’ll be appearing next month in the 14th annual benefit “The 24 Hour Plays on Broadway,” which asks over a dozen actors, six writers and six directors to come up with six original short plays over the course of a day. Proceeds help the Urban Arts Partnership.
Next month, the pressure will be on as the playwrights gather at 10 p.m. on Nov. 16 and must pen a 10-minute play by 7 a.m. the next morning. The celebrity actors will then rehearse the work for the next 12 hours. At 8 p.m. on Nov. 17, the plays will be performed for a live audience at the American Airlines Theatre.
