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STAGE TUBE: Watch Vanessa Hudgens Perform 'I Never Want to Go Home Again' from GIGI!

By: Apr. 01, 2015
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LIVE WITH KELLY AND MICHAEL's Kelly Ripa and guest co-host Mark Consuelos sat down with Vanessa Hudgens this morning to talk about her new Broadway musical, Gigi. Later the actress performed "I Never Want to Go Home Again." Check out her full appearance below!

The Tony Award-winning musical comedy began previews on Thursday, March 19, with opening night on Wednesday, April 8 at theNeil Simon Theatre (250 West 52nd Street).

Gigi stars Vanessa Hudgens, who makes her Broadway debut in the title role, Tony Award-winnerVictoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza, Sister Act, Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella) as Mamita,Corey Cott (Newsies) as Gaston Lachaille, three-time Tony Award-nomineeDee Hoty (The Will RogersFollies, 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 andSteffanie Leigh (Mary Poppins) as Liane d'Exelmans.

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".




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