Photo Coverage: Vanessa Hudgens & Cast of GIGI Take Opening Night Bows!
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 stars Vanessa 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-nominee Howard 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 the curtain call 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
Theatre Marquee
Theatre Marquee
Theatre Marquee
Theatre Marquee
Lobby cast
Ensemble cast
Ensemble cast
Ensemble cast
Ensemble cast
Ensemble cast
Dee Hoty and Corey Cott
Dee Hoty and Corey Cott
Vanessa Hudgens and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin, Steffanie Leigh and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin, Steffanie Leigh and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin, Steffanie Leigh and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Howard McGillin and cast
Corey Cott and Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens and director Eric Schaeffer
Corey Cott, Dee Hoty, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Eric Schaeffer, Joshua Bergasse, Howard McGillin and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Eric Schaeffer, Joshua Bergasse, Howard McGillin and cast
Dee Hoty, Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark, Eric Schaeffer, Joshua Bergasse, Howard McGillin and cast
Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens and director Eric Schaeffer
Vanessa Hudgens and Victoria Clark
Vanessa Hudgens and Victoria Clark
Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens and Victoria Clark
Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens and Victoria Clark
Corey Cott and Vanessa Hudgens
Corey Cott, Vanessa Hudgens, Victoria Clark and director Eric Schaeffer
Corey Cott and Vanessa Hudgens
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