Megan Fairchild Returns For ON THE TOWN's Sunday Night Finale, Misty Copeland Performs Matinee
By: Michael Dale Sep. 03, 2015
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Original cast member Megan Fairchild will return to the acclaimed Broadway revival of On The Town for one final turn as Ivy Smith, Miss Turnstiles, at the production's closing performance on Sunday night. Fairchild received a Theater World Award for her enchanting performance.
The highly-praised Misty Copeland will end her 12-performance engagement in the role at Sunday's matinee.
Both Fairchild and Copeland made their Broadway debuts with this production, the former being a New York City Ballet principal and the latter a principal for American Ballet Theatre. When adding the performances by Georgina Pazcoguin (New York City Ballet soloist) and Tiler Peck (New York City Ballet principal) that makes four accomplished ballerinas who have played Ivy during the production's run. Let's have a look at all four in action.
First, Megan Fairchild and Tony Yazbeck in ON THE TOWN's spectacular Great Lover Ballet.
Here's Misty Copeland at the 2015 Vail International Dance Festival, in 3 pas de deux: Romeo and Juliet, Tschaikovsky and White Swan.
Gina Pazcoguin learns "The Music And The Mirror" from none other than Donna McKechnie.
Tiler Peck dances "Fascinating Rhythm" for honoree Patricia McBride at the 37th Kennedy Center Honors awards ceremony.
ON THE TOWN will conclude its run on Broadway on Sunday, September 6, making this the longest-running Broadway production of the show since the 1944 original. ON THE TOWN began previews on Saturday, September 20, 2014 and officially opened on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at Broadway's Lyric Theatre (213 W 42nd St, New York, NY 10036).
Directed by John Rando (Tony Award winner for Urinetown) and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse(Emmy Award winner for "Smash"), ON THE TOWN features eye popping sets (by Beowulf Boritt) and gorgeous costumes (Jess Goldstein), a score by Leonard Bernstein, one of America's greatest composers, and book & lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. The show is based on an idea byJerome Robbins.
ON THE TOWN currently stars Tony Yazbeck (Gypsy, A Chorus Line), Jay Armstrong Johnson(TheNew York Philharmonic's Sweeney Todd, Hands On A Hardbody, Hair), and Clyde Alves (Bullets Over Broadway, Nice Work If You Can Get It) as the sailors on 24-hour shore leave who take on the Big Apple; Alysha Umphress (American Idiot) and Elizabeth Stanley (Company) as the women who steal their hearts; and Jackie Hoffman (Hairspray, Xanadu) in the role of "Madame Dilly". Tony Award winner Michael Rupert (Legally Blonde: The Musical, Ragtime, Falsettos, Sweet Charity) plays "Judge Pitkin" alongside Allison Guinn (Hair) as "Lucy Schmeeler," Tony Award nominee Phillip Boykin (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess) and Stephen DeRosa (Hairspray, The Nance, Into The Woods).
Join three sailors with only 24-hour shore leave in New York as they are swept off their feet by three beautiful New York women for one amazing night ON THE TOWN!
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