Photo Coverage: Meet the Company of Broadway-Bound GIGI!
By: Walter McBride Dec. 23, 2014
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Rehearsals are currently underway for the new Broadway production of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's beloved Oscar and Tony Award-winning film and stage musical, Gigi. The production starsVanessa Hudgens who will make her Broadway debut as Gigi, Tony Award-winner and two-time Tony Award-nominee Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella) as Mamita Alvarez, 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-nominee Howard McGillin (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Anything Goes) as Honoré Lachaille and Steffanie Leigh (Mary Poppins) as Liane d'Exelmans. The cast just met the press and you can check out a photos from the festivities below!
Gigi 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 byEric Schaeffer (Follies, Million Dollar Quartet).
Based on the 1944 novel by Colette, Gigi was first adapted for the Broadway stage by Anita Loos in 1951, with an unknown Audrey Hepburn in the title role; then, following their success with My Fair Lady, Alan Jay Lerner (screenplay and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music) adapted the material for the 1958 movie musical, winner of nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, directed byVincente Minnelli, is widely considered the last great MGM movie musical, and is beloved for its wit, charm and sumptuous costume and production design. 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.
This new adaptation of Gigi will feature all of the songs from the movie, including two songs, "The Parisians" and "Say a Prayer for Me Tonight," that were dropped from the previous stage version. The production also includes four songs written and added to the stage score by Lerner and Loewe in 1973, "Paris is Paris Again," "I Never Want to Go Home Again," "The Contract," and "In This Wide, Wide World."
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Victoria Clark, Vanessa Hudgens, Dee Hoty, and Steffanie Leigh
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
attend the Meet & Greet for The New Broadway Production of Lerner and Loewe's 'Gigi' at The New 42nd Street Studios on December 22, 2014 in New York City.
Victoria Clark and Howard McGillin
Vanessa Hudgens and Corey Cott
Howard McGillin, Victoria Clark, Corey Cottt, Vanessa Hudgens
Victoria Clark, Vanessa Hudgens, Dee Hoty, and Steffanie Leigh
Howard McGillin, Victoria Clark, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Dee Hoty and Steffanie Leigh
Howard McGillin, Victoria Clark, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Dee Hoty and Steffanie Leigh
Joshua Bergasse, Howard McGillin, Victoria Clark, director Eric Schaeffer, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Heidi Thomas, Dee Hoty and Steffanie Leigh
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