Photo Coverage: GIGI Company Celebrates Opening Night- Go Inside the After Party!
By: Walter McBride Apr. 09, 2015
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Gigi, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning musical comedy, celebrated its opening last night, April 8, at the Neil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street).Gigi starsVanessa Hudgens, who makes her Broadway debut in the title role, Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark(The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella) as Mamita, Corey Cott(Newsies) as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nominee Dee Hoty (The Will Rogers Follies, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public, Footloose) as Aunt Alicia, two-time Tony Award-nomineeHoward McGillin (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes) as Honoré Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh (Mary Poppins) as Liane d'Exelmans.
BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos from inside the after party below!
Gigi, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, features a new book adaptation by Heidi Thomas (BBC/PBS's "Call the Midwife") and is choreographed by Emmy Award-winner Joshua Bergasse (On the Town, "Smash") and directed by Eric Schaeffer (Follies, Million Dollar Quartet).
Gigi includes such numbers as "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," "I Remember It Well", "The Night They Invented Champagne" and the Oscar-winning title song, "Gigi". Gigi also won the Tony Award for Best Score in 1974, and the new production includes four of the songs that the team of Lerner & Loewe wrote for the stage version, including "Paris is Paris Again," "I Never Want to Go Home Again," "The Contract," and "In this Wide, Wide World".
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
The Broadway Opening Night After Party for 'Gigi' at Tavern On The Green on April 8, 2015 in New York City.
Director Eric Schaeffer
Director Eric Schaeffer
Steffanie Leigh and Matt Shingledecker
Steffanie Leigh and Matt Shingledecker
The men from 'Gigi'
The men from 'Gigi'
The woman from 'Gigi'
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Victoria Clark, Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Victoria Clark, Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
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