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Photo Coverage: FIRST DATE Opening Night Red Carpet

By: Aug. 09, 2013
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FIRST DATE opened last night on Broadway and we've got photos from the red carpet arrivals for the new musical starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez. What are you waiting for? Scroll down to check them out!

With a book by Austin Winsberg ("Gossip Girl"), music and lyrics by Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner (Secondhand Lions, Twice Charmed) and musical staging by Josh Rhodes (Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella) First Date is directed by Bill Berry (Producing Director of The 5th Avenue Theatre). Featuring Sara Chase ("Arrested Development," The Toxic Avenger), Kristoffer Cusick (Wicked, Rent), Blake Hammond (Sister Act, Billy Elliot) and Kate Loprest ("Boardwalk Empire," Hairspray), the cast of First Date also includes Vicki Noon (Wicked, Mamma Mia!).

When tightly wound Aaron (Zachary Levi) is set up with serial-dater Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) a quick drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious, high-stakes dinner. As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds they are not alone on this date as Casey and Aaron's inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons and the wait staff get into the act. Dinner is served with sides of Google background checks, fake emergency phone calls, supportive best friends, manipulative exes and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential conversational land mines. First Date is Broadway's new hysterical and hopeful new musical about the chances we take to find love.

FIRST DATE has scenic and media design by David Gallo, costume design by David C. Woolard, lighting design by Mike Baldassari, sound design by Kai Harada, Hair Design by Josh Marquette with orchestrations by August Eriksmoen and musical supervision, vocal and incidental arrangements by Dominick Amendum. First Date is produced by Junkyard Dog Productions (Randy Adams, Marleen and Kenny Alhadeff, Sue Frost) in association with Stem Productions, Altar Identity Studios, Alex and Katya Lukianov, Susan W. and James C. Blair Family LP, Linda and Bill Potter, Yasuhiro Kawana, Vijay and Sita Vashee, Kevin and Lynn Foley, Jeff and Julie Goldstein, Edward and Mimi Kirsch, Frank and Denise Phillips, Stephen Reynolds and Paula Rosput Reynolds, Land Line Productions, Alhadeff Family Productions/Sheri and Les Biller, Pat Halloran/Laura Little Theatrical Productions, Tony Meola/Remmel T. Dickinson and John Yonover, and ShadowCatcher Entertainment/Tom and Connie Walsh.

Photos by Jessica Gordon

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Mandy Gonzalez

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Chuck Cooper and guest

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Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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Stephanie D'Abruzzo

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Alan Zachary and guest

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Michael Weiner and Wendi Bergamini

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Austin Winsberg and Aly Winsberg

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Austin Winsberg, Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner

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Yvette Nicole Brown

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Seth Green and Clare Grant

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Seth Green and Clare Grant

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Emma Kenney

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Julie Halston

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Bill Berry and David Armstrong

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Tamara Tunie

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Elizabeth Stanley and Max von Essen

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Elizabeth Stanley and Max von Essen

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Sarah Stiles and Howie Michael Smith

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Sarah Stiles and Howie Michael Smith

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Tom Murro and guest

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Norbert Leo Butz

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Montego Glover

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Orfeh and Montego Glover

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Constantine Maroulis

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Orfeh

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Zachary Quinto

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Joe DiPietro

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Montego Glover and Joe DiPietro

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Casey Nicholaw and Josh Marquette

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Laila Robbins

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Kevin Massey and Kara Lindsay

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Kevin Massey and Kara Lindsay

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Kara Lindsay

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De'Adre Aziza and Derrick Baskin

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Carly Rose Sonenclar

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Carly Rose Sonenclar

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Corey Cott

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Corey Cott and Megan Cott

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Michelle Federer and guests

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Sergio Trujillo and Jack Noseworthy

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Nikki M. James

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Nikki M. James

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Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer

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Jeremy Jordan and Ashley Spencer




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