The Kennedy Center production also features ”Newsies”’ Corey Cott.
Broadway stalwarts Victoria Clark and Dee Hoty will join the upcoming Kennedy Center production of the musical Gigi, producers have announced.
Clark, who won a Tony for her performance in The Light in the Piazza, will play Mamita Alvarez. Hoty, who has starred in Mamma Mia! and Footloose, will play Aunt Alicia. They join Vanessa Hudgens as Gigi, Corey Cott as Gaston Lachaille, Howard McGillin as Honore Lachaille, and Steffanie Leigh as Liane d'Exelmans. The cast also features Cameron Adams, Max Clayton, Madeleine Doherty, Ashley Blair Fitzgerald, Hannah Florence, Allison Jantzie, Brian Ogilvie, Ian Paget, James Patterson, Justin Prescott, Manuel Stark, Tanairi Sade Vazquez, Amos Wolff and Ashley Yeater.
This new production of Gigi features a new book by Heidi Thomas in addition to the classic score by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe. Eric Schaeffer helms the production, with Joshua Bergasse choreographing.
Featured on the creative team are Derek McLane (scenic design), Catherine Zuber (costume design), Natasha Katz (lighting design), Kai Harada (sound design), David Brian Brown (hair design), James Moore (musical director), August Eriksmoen (orchestrations), Matt Aument (vocal and incidental music arrangement), Sam Davis (dance music arrangements).
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