Readings and WorkshopsSydney Lucas and Lilla Crawford to Play U.S. Senators for AmericanScoreboard ReadingsFun Home Tony nominee Lucas will be Senator Elizabeth Warren, while Annie star Crawford is cast as Senator Patricia Murray.
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Andrew Gans
October 10, 2017
Sydney Lucas
A handful of young Broadway stars have been tapped for the next installment of American Scoreboard: The Trump Administration, a series of dramatic political readings.
The upcoming reading, chronicling the confirmation hearing of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, will be presented October 23 at 7 PM at Pace University’s Schimmel Center.
Lilla Crawford
The cast will include Lilla Crawford (Annie) as Senator Patricia Murray, Tony nominee Sydney Lucas (Fun Home) as Senator Elizabeth Warren, Sam Poon (The King and I) as Senator Bernie Sanders, Nicholas Barasch (She Loves Me) as Senator Al Franken, Edward O’Blenis (Law & Order SVU) as Senator Lamar Alexander, and Tracy Shayne (Chicago) as Betsy DeVos.
Conceived and produced by Fran Kirmser and Christopher Burney, American Scoreboard presents free, verbatim readings of Congressional hearing transcripts.
The October 23 reading runs 80 minutes with no intermission.
40 Years Later: Celebrating Annie on Broadway and Beyond
40 Years Later: Celebrating Annie on Broadway and Beyond
The original production of Annie opened on April 21, 1977. Look back at the original Broadway production, a few notable subsequent stagings and the infamous 1993 sequel.
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Reid Shelton, Andrea McArdle and Sandy Faison in the original Broadway production
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Diana Barrows, Robyn Finn, Donna Graham, Danielle Brisebois, Shelley Bruce and Janine Ruane in the original Broadway production
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Dorothy Loudon in the original Broadway production
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Robert Fitch and Alice Ghostley in the original Broadway production
