Photo Coverage: Inside Opening Night of Signature's APPROPRIATE
By: Jennifer Broski Mar. 18, 2014
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Signature Theatre presents the New York premiere of Appropriate, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Liesl Tommy. The production runs now through April 6, 2014 in The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center (480 West 42nd Street between 9th and 10th Avenues). BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photo coverage below!
The cast includes Maddie Corman (Next Fall; Love, Loss, and What I Wore) as Rachael,Patch Darragh (Kin, The Glass Menagerie) as Franz, Tony Award nominee JohAnna Day(August: Osage County, Proof) as Toni, Alex Dreier (The Assembled Parties, Lies My Father Told Me) as Ainsley, Mike Faist (Newsies: The Musical) as Rhys, Izzy Hanson-Johnston (Billy Elliot: The Musical, Scarcity) as Cassidy, Sonya Harum ("Blue Bloods," "Gossip Girl") as River, and Michael Laurence (The Morini Strad, Desire Under the Elms) as Bo.
The estranged members of the Lafayette clan have returned to Arkansas and their crumbling old plantation home to settle the accounts of their recently deceased patriarch. As they sort through a lifetime of hoarded mementos and junk, the discovery of a gruesome relic and a surprise visitor send the family into a spiral of crackling confrontations, repressed histories, and regret. Appropriate is a New York premiere by Residency Five playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, winner of the 2013Sundance TheatreInstitute Tennessee Williams Award.
Photo Credit: Jennifer Broski
Christopher Burris, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Tonya Pinkins, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Freedom Bradley, Patricia McGregor
Ismael Cruz-Cordova
Alysia Reiner, David Alan Basche
Benj Pasek, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and guests
Isabel Alexander, Jane Alexander
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Liesl Tommy
Izzy Hanson-Johnston, Sonya Harum, Maddie Corman
Izzy Hanson-Johnston, Sonya Harum, JohAnna Day, Maddie Corman
Isabel Alexander, Maddie Corman, Jane Alexander
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