The actresses will star alongside Lilli Cooper, Lea DeLaria, Suzy Nakamura and Julie White in a limited-engagement run of the fashionable farce set to debut on the Shubert Theatre in Could.
Vanessa Williams, Rachel Dratch and Julianne Hough will star on Broadway this Could in Selina Fillinger’s new play POTUS: Or, Behind Each Nice Dumbass are Seven Girls Attempting to Preserve Him Alive.
The trio might be joined by Lilli Cooper, Lea DeLaria, Suzy Nakamura and Julie White within the lead forged of 28-year-old Filinger’s Broadway debut, which is able to open on the Shubert Theatre on Could 9. The restricted engagement, which additionally stars Anita Abdinezhad, Gisela Chípe, Jennifer Fouché and Lisa Helmi Johanson as standbys, will run via Aug. 14, with tickets presently on sale at Telecharge.com.
“I’m so excited to work with this group of gifted and hilarious ladies,” star Nakamura says. “As quickly as I learn the script, I couldn’t wait to be part of it. The truth that I’m reunited with my buddies, Julie White and Rachel Dratch, for my Broadway debut makes this the mission of my desires!”
“My whole life, I've all the time been impressed by the unrivaled expertise that graces the Broadway stage,” stated Hough, who will even make her Broadway debut. “Being a part of a manufacturing like this speaks to the artistry, dedication and grit that it takes to grow to be that degree of entertainer. I'm extremely humbled and honored to be becoming a member of Susan, Selina and this terribly gifted forged and crew for my Broadway debut.”
Directed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers, The Scottsboro Boys), the present facilities on the “ladies in command of the person in command of the free world.” The fashionable farce sees the U.S. President flip a PR nightmare into a worldwide disaster, forcing the seven “sensible and beleaguered ladies” who assist him run the nation “danger life, liberty and the pursuit of sanity to maintain the commander-in-chief out of bother,” in response to the play’s logline.
“Selina’s wickedly humorous satire questions how complicit we actually are within the woes of the world — and what would occur if we merely stood again as an alternative of constant to empower the leaders who acquired us to the place we're within the first place,” Stroman stated in a press release.
“To be premiering my play on the Shubert, with this extraordinary forged and the legendary director, Susan Stroman, is sort of actually the stuff of desires,” Fillinger stated in her personal assertion. “I hope the present presents pleasure, folly and the power to maintain preventing at a time when the world wants all three.”
The present is produced by Seaview, the Tony Award-winning manufacturing firm behind Slave Play, and Oscar-nominated producer Lynette Howell Taylor’s 51 Leisure (A Star Is Born). Glass Half Full Productions, which produced Betrayal, and Tony Award-winning leisure firm Stage Ahead are additionally producing the world premiere.
The manufacturing group contains Salman Al-Rashid, Sony Music Masterworks, Mark Gordon Photos, Think about Equal Leisure, Jonathan Demar, Luke Katler, Thomas Laub and David J. Lynch.
Lead Producer Stage Ahead will even function the play’s “Impression Producer,” saying key partnerships within the coming weeks with organizations that assist ladies working for workplace and voter registration.
DeLaria described the present as “the funniest fucking play I’ve learn,” and Williams, who might be making a return to Broadway, referred to as it “a raucously wild comedy” that “options some kick-ass woman energy.”
POTUS‘ scenic design is by Beowulf Boritt (Act One, Come from Away), with costume design by Linda Cho(Grand Horizons, Anastasia), lighting design by Sonoyo Nishikawa (As soon as Upon a One Extra Time, Prince of Broadway On Tour) and sound design by Tony Award winner Jessica Paz (Hadestown, Expensive Evan Hansen).
Hair and wig design is courtesy of Cookie Jordan (Slave Play, Bother In Thoughts) whereas intimacy and battle course comes from Rocio Mendez (Merry Wives of Windsor, Romeo y Julieta at The Public Theater). Casting is by Taylor Williams, with manufacturing stage administration from Johnny Milani and normal administration by Foresight Theatrical (The Phantom of the Opera, Moulin Rouge!).