Cabaret & Concert NewsPatrick Wilson Joins City Center’s Brigadoon, Replacing Steven PasqualeThe concert staging will also star Kelli O’Hara and Robert Fairchild.
By
Ryan McPhee
June 20, 2017
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Playbill has learned that Tony nominee Patrick Wilson will assume the role of Tommy Albright in New York City Center's presentation of Brigadoon, beginning with a November 15 gala performance and running through November 19.
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He steps in for the previously announced Steven Pasquale, who has withdrawn from the production following the announcement that he will lead the Broadway premiere of Junk beginning October 5.
The concert staging will also feature Tony Award winner Kelli O'Hara as Fiona MacLaren and Tony nominee Robert Fairchild as Harry Beaton. Christopher Wheeldon will direct and choreograph. Music Director Rob Berman will lead the Encores! Orchestra.
Wilson last appeared on Broadway in the 2008 revival of All My Sons. He had previously earned Tony nominations for his performances in Oklahoma! and The Full Monty. His numerous screen credits include The Phantom of the Opera, The Conjuring, Fargo, and Angels in America, for which he received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations.
Brigadoon premiered on Broadway in 1947 and tells the story of Tommy and Jeff, two American tourists who happen upon a peculiar Scottish village that only appears for one day every 100 years: Brigadoon. Among the residents of this village is Fiona, a young woman who immediately catches the eye of Tommy.
Tickets will go on sale exclusively to City Center Members June 21 at noon and to the general public June 26. Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
Surrounded by period accurate 19th-century holiday decorations lit via candlelight, the 70-minute production is based on Dickens' own script of the classic.
