LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, winner of three 2010 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, welcomes new cast members Allyce Beasley and Matt Anctil to the company. The production, starring five-time Emmy Award winner Kelsey Grammer and Tony and Olivier Award winner Douglas Hodge, is playing at the Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street).
Allyce Beasley will join the cast as Mme. Renaud / Mme. Dindon on Tuesday, September 14, replacing Veanne Cox, who will play her final performance on Sunday, September 12.
Beasley will make her Broadway debut in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. She is best known for her role as Ms. Dipesto on ABC's "Moonlighting," for which she received two Emmy, Golden Globe and American Comedy Award nominations. She was last seen in the recurring role of Ving Rhames' therapist on "Gravity" on Starz. She'll also be seen as Jason Schwartzman's mother Florence on HBO's "Bored 2 Death" this fall. Other TV credits include "Taxi," 
"Cheers," "Touched by an Angel," "Seventh Heaven," "Joan of Arcadia," "10/8," "As The World Turns" and "Medium". Film: Legally Blonde, Stuart Little, Loaded Weapon, Rumpelstiltskin, Tommyknockers, Entertaining Angels and Two Brothers and a Bride. Her theatre credits include Agnes Gooch in the Hollywood Bowl 2004's production of Mame, with Michele Lee and Christine Ebersole, The Drowsy Chaperone at the Gateway Playhouse, Anything Goes at the Carpenter Center, the female Odd Couple at the Cerritos Center and the national tour with Barbara Eden and the West Coast Premiere of Morticians in Love. This past spring, Ms. Beasley received critical acclaim as Toinette in The Imaginary Invalid, at the School House Theater in Croton Falls, NY. A twenty-year veteran of radio and voice over work, Ms. Beasley is currently the voice of Miss Grotke on the animated series, "Recess," and was heard every morning, for seven years, as the voice of Playhouse Disney.
Matt Anctil has joined the company and begins performances tonight as Angelique, one of the notorious and dangerous Cagelles, replacing Nick Adams.
Anctil is making his Broadway debut in LA CAGE AUX FOLLES. His credits include the national and arena tour of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, numerous editions of Broadway Bares, Ticket to Ride, Fire Island Dance Festival 14, Stephen Schwartz: Making Music, Night of 1000 Gowns. Other concert and dance company appearances include Gilmore Boyz, Walker Dance, Cecilia Marta Dance Co., Max Luna III Dance Co., HopeBoykinDance and BalletRox/Urban Nutcracker. Workshops include The Great White Way, The Great Pretender and Séance on a Wet Afternoon. He trained at Boston Youth Moves and The Ailey School.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES features music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Harvey Fierstein, based on the play by Jean Poiret. This production is choreographed by Lynne Page and directed by Terry Johnson, who won a 2010 Tony Award for his direction of the freshly reconceived production.
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES stars Kelsey Grammer as Georges; Douglas Hodge as Albin; Fred Applegate as M. Dindon/M. Renaud; Veanne Cox as Mme. Dindon/Mme. Renaud; Chris Hoch as Francis; Elena Shaddow as Anne; A.J. Shively as Jean-Michel; Christine Andreas as Jacqueline; Robin De Jesús as Jacob; Heather Lindell as Colette; Bill Nolte as Tabarro and David Nathan Perlow as Etienne.
