Kelli O'Hara, who originated the role of Clara Johnson in the Tony Award-winning The Light in the Piazza and most recently played opposite Harry Connick, Jr. in The Pajama Game, wil star as Dot in the upcoming Reprise! Broadway's Best production of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George, with musical direction by Gerald Sternbach and direction by Jason Alexander ("Seinfeld," Jerome Robbins' Broadway).
The show will preview on Tuesday, January 30 and will open on Wednesday, January 31and continue through Sunday, February 11 at UCLA's Freud Playhouse.O'Hara has starred on Broadway in The Pajama Game opposite Harry Connick Jr., The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); The Sweet Smell of Success; Dracula; and Sondheim's Follies; Jekyll & Hyde. Her Off-Broadway credits include My Life With Albertine (Playwright's Horizons). Regional credits: The Light in the Piazza (Goodman Theatre/ Intiman Theatre); Beauty (LaJolla Playhouse); Yeston/Kopit Phantom (Lucille Lortel Debut Award). She has been seen in the film version of The Dying Gaul, starring Patricia Clarkson and Campbell Scott, and is also an acclaimed concert artist."For the second show of its 2006 – 2007 season, Reprise! presents one of the most heralded musicals of our time, Stephen Sondheim's Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Sunday in the Park with George. The show is a moving portrait of an artist struggling to reconcile the perfect, imaginary world of his painting with the imperfect, messy world of real life," state notes on the 1984 show, which features music and lyrics by Sondheim and a book by James Lapine.
"Act I revolves around Georges Seurat (1859-1891) and the creation of his signature painting 'Sunday Afternoon On The Island Of La Grande Jatte.' Seurat's inability to commit to anyone or anything but his work is echoed in Act II as George's great-grandson confronts his own artistic demons and failure to connect. Past and present merge as both Georges discover basic truths about art, human connection and the constant struggle to 'break through to something new." For ticket information and for further information on Reprise! Broadway's Best, please visit www.reprise.org.
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