Alice Ripley, Best Actress Tony Award-winner for “Next to Normal,” is joining the cast of Broadway on Main Street, which will take place on Friday, March 10 at the Jeanne Rimsky Theater at Landmark on Main Street.
Also a Tony and Drama Desk nominee for “Side Show,” Ripley created original Broadway roles in “The Rocky Horror Show,” James Joyce’s “The Dead,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Who’s Tommy,” and “American Psycho.”
Broadway on Main Street is an all-new event created exclusively for Landmark.
Producer Stephen DeAngelis brings five of Broadway’s finest vocalists to recreate their signature musical moments from their long-running roles in the Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals you know and love.
Taking advantage of the intimate setting of the 425-seat theater, the stars will also share backstage stories and take questions from the audience.
Where else can you find a cast with a veritable encyclopedia of credits that include Broadway, Off-Broadway, regional and London productions, including:
* Jeanna De Waal: “Kinky Boots,” “American Idiot,” “Finding Neverland,” “Waitress,” “Wicked,” “Carrie,” and “Orwell In America”
* Gavin Lee: “Les Miserables,” “Holiday Inn,” “Top Hat,” “Mary Poppins” (Olivier and Tony Award nominations; Drama Desk and Theatre World award wins), “Showboat,” “Crazy For You,” “Peggy Sue Got Married,” “Me and My Girl,” “Oklahoma!,” “Contact,” and “The SpongeBob Musical”
* Alysha Umphress: “On the Town,” “Broadway: American Idiot” (OBC), “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever,” “Priscilla Queen of the Desert,” and “Bring It On”
* Alton Fitzgerald White: “The Lion King” (a record-setting 4,308 performances as King Mufasa), “The Color Purple,” “Ragtime,” “Smokey Joe’s Cafe,” “Miss Saigon,” “The Who’s Tommy,” and “Smokey Joe’s Cafe”
Tickets for Broadway on Main Street are on sale through Landmark’s Box Office, 516-767-6444 and online at www.landmarkonmainstreet.org.
Premium $50 (Friends $45), Select $45 (Friends $40), Standard $40 (Friends $35).
All ticket prices include a $2 facilities fee for capital improvements.
There will be a bonus VIP post-show cast party for an additional $50 where you can mingle and take selfies with the cast.
The VIP post-show party is limited to 30 people.
Landmark’s Dim the Lights series is sponsored by Jane and Martin Schwartz, Judy and Morton Sloan, Susan Isaacs and Elkan Abramowitz and Capell, Barnett, Matalon & Schoenfeld.
The 2016-17 season is made possible thanks to Landmark’s Partners in Performing Arts: Harding Real Estate, Peter & Jeri Dejana Family Foundation, Peter A. Forman Charitable Foundation, Town of North Hempstead and Winthrop University Hospital.
