PhotosFirst Look at An American in Paris' New Leading ManBallet dancer Garen Scribner assumes the leading role of Gerry Mulligan in the Broadway musical An American in Paris. Take a look at the new cast here.
Scribner made his Broadway debut in An American in Paris, capping a distinguished ballet career that has included stints as a soloist with the San Francisco Ballet and artist of Nederlands Dans Theater I. He has created and performed leading roles in works by Jiri Kylian, Lightfoot/Leon, Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Christopher Wheeldon (director of An American in Paris), William Forsythe, Mark Morris, John Neumeier, George Balanchine and others.
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First Look at An American in Paris' New Leading Man
As a teacher, Mr. Waddell coached Brandon Victor Dixon, Jessica Vosk, Robert Fowler, Felicia P. Fields, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Angela Robinson, Soara-Joye Ross, and more.
Partially inspired by Sophocles' Antigone, the show is an intimate exploration of love that goes beyond faith between a queer Pakistani-American man and his deeply devout mother.
The work centers on a truck driver named Larry Walters, who uses a lawn chair and 42 helium-filled weather balloons to fly nearly 16,000 feet above Los Angeles.