PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Now Is the Time!" A Final Look Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Cinderella Before It Flies Off Into the SunsetTodd Buonopane plays the role of big-hearted rebel Jean-Michel in Broadway's Cinderella. The actor, who has also been seen in Spelling Bee and Grease, shared a two-show day on the job a few months back. Here's a look back before the show takes its final bow Jan. 3.
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December 30, 2014
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PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Now Is the Time!" A Final Look Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Cinderella Before It Flies Off Into the Sunset
PHOTO EXCLUSIVE: "Now Is the Time!" A Final Look Behind the Scenes at Broadway's Cinderella Before It Flies Off Into the Sunset
Todd Buonopane plays the role of big-hearted rebel Jean-Michel in Broadway's Cinderella. The actor, who has also been seen in Spelling Bee and Grease, shared a two-show day on the job a few months back. Here's a look back before the show takes its final bow Jan. 3.
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Good morning! Wake up for a two show Thursday!
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Wait a minute! 2 show THURSDAY?!?! Yup, at Cinderella we do 2 show Thursdays!
Catching up with a good friend over lunch. The handsome Tralen Doler!
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The Broadway Theatre!
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My photo outside the theater. I call that look "smiling while farting"
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Sign in sheet
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My dressing room. Yup, that 5 means the FIFTH FLOOR!
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My loved ones that decorate my dressing room!
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More loved ones
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Elaine & Bernadette. Polaroids from the opening night of Spelling Bee. (This was the Thursday that the great Elaine Stritch passed away. She was one-of-a-kind! We will love her forever!)
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My air conditioner (AKA my best friend)
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I have an unhealthy love for my A/C. If you had been in my HOT dressing room, you'd love it too!
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Todd's hair
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Jean-Michel's hair (See the difference?)
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Nathan gets ready to play Lord Pinkleton (Super Understudy!)
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Glass slippers anyone?
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HERB!!! The best dresser on Broadway!
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While Conor murders Peter, Andy pukes in his hat. (I don't get it either)
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Page Boys gotta stretch! (aka Kendal & Kaitlyn)
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Joe (Prince) and I warm up with a mirroring exercise
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Can you tell who's leading? We can't! (FYI, we don't really do this)
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Maestro Matt Perri
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Leslie gets photo bombed by Vicki Clark
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Our Cinderella, Paige, gives her approval to the men onstage!
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Mom & daughters! Nancy, Steph and Ann. I work with the best people!
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Claire in the hair room!
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Callan does a great split!
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And then regrets it
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Clair & Shari in hair! They are the cutest!
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I act in the basement. The audience can't see me, but I'm giving full face!
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Cody is so excited after he finds out the Prince is giving a ball!
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Connor can't wait to change for the ball!
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Kaitlyn is a pretty butterfly!
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Jill really needs that mask to be straight!
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Adam & Laura can't help but be adorable!
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Stephanie and Peter were supposed to take a sexy pic. She didn't get the assignment.
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Now she gets it!
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Shina sings her "Impossible" ooooohs!
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Laura also looks adorable upside-down!
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Stephanie explores her dark side!
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Linda & Kaitlyn make a video for Jeff Pew's birthday
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Stephanie wears very pink lipstick. After our love scene, we're both covered in pink!
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Vicki's good side!
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That side is good, too!
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Vicki doesn't have a bad side!
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My good friend Laura Jordan and her daughter gorgeous daughter Audrey after the matinee. We were Audrey's first Broadway show!
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My favorite between-show dinner spot!
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Healthy dinner
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Between show nap
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The acupressure mat that I nap on. (Linda recommended it. And it's the best!)
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I need my vitamins after my nap, so I visit my shelf of health and chocolate shoes!
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Gotta learn a song for for Broadway Stands Up For Freedom concert! So many words!!!
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Ooooooh, got my low-cut shirt for the night show!
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The best stage management team! (Ira, Zac, Jen and Amy)
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Branch finds his best audience!
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Joe is also on the fifth floor & by show #2 the stairs become too much for our Prince.
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Remember how happy Cody was at about the ball at the matinee? Not so happy for show #2
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Steph found the candy corner
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Richard and Oscar watching over us backstage
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Zac, doing the "go's"
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Zac takes a break from calling the show to cuddle with Steph and Cody
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Laura wears a guilty smile while doing something suspicious at the call desk.
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Kendal murders Kaitlyn while Conor looks on lovingly. (Conor is in all of today's violent photos. Just sayin')
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Nancy is reallllly nice offstage! I promise!
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Paige goes back to peasant to try on the slipper!
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It's hard to get pictures of Cinderella when she's onstage all the time!
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Joe makes his final climb to the 5th floor.
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My great mentor and teacher Michael Larsen saw me in the show tonight. Then we chatted far too long in a diner. Love him!!!!
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I listen to my favorite podcast on the way home! Goodnight Playbill!
Directed by Mark Brokaw (The Lyons, Cry-Baby), the new production of Cinderella began Broadway previews Jan. 25, 2013, and officially opened March 3 at the Broadway Theatre. The classic has songs by lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and composer Richard Rodgers.
Cinderella earned nine 2013 Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Costume Design of a Musical, Best Lighting Design of a Musical and Best Sound Design of a Musical. William Ivey Long won the Tony Award for Best Costume Design. Cinderella, which premiered as a 1957 television film starring Julie Andrews in the title role, has been updated for contemporary audiences with a new book by five-time Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane (The Nance, Sister Act, Xanadu, Lysistrata Jones, The Little Dog Laughed).
His treatment recharts the journey of the classic tale in a new way. Retaining all classic elements of the fairytale, Beane and the creative team offer audiences a fresh take that gives the female heroine a stronger point of view.
The new production incorporates rarely-heard songs from the Rodgers and Hammerstein catalogue, including "Now Is the Time," "Me, Who Am I?" and "The Music in You." Also featured are standards from the original television version, including "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible/It's Possible," "Ten Minutes Ago" and "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?"
David Chase is musical adapter and supervisor on the production. Orchestrations are by Danny Troob. Constantine Kitsopoulos is musical director.
Cinderella has choreography by Josh Rhodes. Scenic design is by Anna Louizos, costume design is by William Ivey Long, lighting design is by Ken Posner, and sound design is by Nevin Steinberg.
It is produced by Robyn Goodman, Jill Furman, Stephen Kocis, Edward Walson, Venetian Glass Productions, The Araca Group, Roy Furman, Luigi Caiola & Rose Caiola, Walt Grossman, Peter May/Sanford Robertson, Glass Slipper Productions/Eric Schmidt, Ted Liebowitz/James Spry, Blanket Fort Productions and is produced in association with Center Theatre Group. Charles Salameno is associate producer.
The new trailer showcases the scale of the production design, as well as a first listen to the power ballad "Waiting on a Wish," one of the new original songs by Pasek and Paul.
