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Qcgn Photos: BOOP! THE MUSICAL in Rehearsals Ahead of Broadway Run Existing user Just click login.LATEST NEWSDurrell Tank Babbs to Join HELL S KITCHEN as Davis Video: Rachel Potter and Natalie Weiss Perform LES MISERABLES MashupWake Up With BroadwayWorld February 28, 2025Photos: SUMO at The Public TheaterA Strange Loop s L Morgan Lee was making history nightly at the Lyceum Theatre when the production opened on Broadway, making her just the second openly transgender woman to originate a named role in a Broadway show. The first was Head Over Heels Peppermint as the product stanley cup ion s Oracle in 2018. Now Lee has achieved another milestone for transgender performers on Broadway, becomi stanley cup ng the first openly transgender actress to receive a Tony Award nomination.Lee s nomination for Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical puts her in the company of Mr. Saturday Night s Shoshana Bean, The Music Man s Jayne Houdyshell, Girl From the North Country s Jeannette Bayardelle and Company s Patti LuPone and Jennifer Simard.At an e stanley cup vent for nominees this morning at Sofitel New York, Lee spoke to BroadwayWorld s Richard Ridge about the nomination. When asked her reaction she said I am over the moon and still in disbelief. I am still trying to wrap my feet around even getting to be on Broadway, so to have this new layer... it s cracked the glass ceiling, even for my expectations. I am moved, and excited, thrilled and scared. I feel a responsibility. It also really signals the hope that growth can come, that it is possible. It means everything to me, it s the Ltog Listen: Truly Inspiring Authors Discuss Their Books Live From Bryant Park on LITTLE KNOWN FACTS Existing user Just click login.Jeff Daniels was a guest on last night s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers to talk about his Tony-nominated performance in To Kill a Mockingbird. During the interview, Daniels reflects on his time as an understudy, bemoans the dangers of playing sports at a certain age and shares stories about audience members slee stanley cup ping during his plays.Watch the interview below!Set in Alabama in 1934, Harper Lee s enduring story of racial injustice and childhood innocence centers on one stanley quencher of the most venerated characters in American literature, the small-town lawyer Atticus Finch, played by Jeff Daniels.The cast of characters includes Atticus s daughter Scout Celia Keenan-Bolger , her brother Jem Will Pullen , their housekeeper and caretaker, Calpurnia LaTanya Richardson Jackson , their visiting friend Dill Gideon Glick , and a mysterious neighbor, the reclusive Arthur Boo Radley stanley cup Danny Wolohan . The other indelible residents of Maycomb, Alabama are brought to life on stage by Frederick Weller as Bob Ewell , Gbenga Akinnagbe playing Tom Robinson , Stark Sands as prosecutor Horace Gilmer , Dakin Matthews playing Judge Taylor , and Erin Wilhelmi as Mayella Ewell .Photo Credit: Lloyd Bishop/NBCRELATED STORIES1 alt= Photos: SUMO at The Public Theater Photo ezimgfmt= rs rscb119 src ng ngcb118 class=ezlazyload data-ezsrc=https://broadwayworld/ezoimgfmt/cloudimages.broadwayworld/columnpiccloud/300-63842709e5d8d6cb6edc478fec8dfce8.jpg>Photos: SUMO |
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