Previews are underway for the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison's Marjorie Prime at the Helen Hayes Theater. Get a first look at the Main Stem production of the play, a 2015 Pulitzer
finalist, in the gallery below. Opening night is set for December 8.
Academy Award nominee June Squibb (Eleanor the Great) stars in the title role, sharing the stage with Tony Award winners Danny Burstein (Moulin Rouge! The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone) and Cynthia Nixon (The Little Foxes, Rabbit Hole) and Christopher Lowell (Cult of Love). Understudies Mike Shapiro, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Kate Hampton, and Barbara Kingsley round out the company. Casting is by Daniel Swee.
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The work, set in a future where people use a computer holographic system to bring back AI versions of the deceased, debuted at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles in 2014, and came to Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons in 2015. The work was a 2015 Pulitzer finalist, and got a screen version featuring its original stage star, Lois Smith, in 2017.
Christopher Lowell and June Squibb in Marjorie Prime
Danny Burstein, Cynthia Nixon, and June Squibb in Marjorie Prime
Danny Burstein and Cynthia Nixon in Marjorie Prime
June Squibb in Marjorie Prime
June Squibb and Cynthia Nixon in Marjorie Prime
Christopher Lowell in Marjorie Prime
Squibb, an Oscar nominee for her 2013 performance in Nebraska, was last seen on Broadway as Joe in Waitress, but has Broadway credits dating all the way back to the 1959 original Broadway run of Gypsy, during which she was a replacement Electra. She's also been on the Main Stem in The Happy Time, Gorey Stories, and Sacrilege.
Anne Kauffman, who directed the Playwrights staging, is back to
direct its Broadway bow. Second Stage's production also features scenic
design by Lee Jellinek, costume design by Márion Talán de la Rosa,
lighting design by Ben Stanton, and sound design and original music by
Daniel Kluger.
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