Stranger Issues actor Michael Park is among the many new solid members becoming a member of Idina Menzel within the upcoming Broadway musical Redwood, producers introduced at present.
Different new solid members introduced at present are De’Adre Aziza (Passing Unusual), Zachary Noah Piser (Pricey Evan Hansen), and Khaila Wilcoxon (SIX). Park’s additionally appeared in Broadway’s Pricey Evan Hansen, however is probably most generally recognized for his long-running, two-time Emmy profitable function on the CBS cleaning soap As The World Turns.
Written and directed by Tina Landau (who additionally has her Floyd Collins heading to Broadway this season), with music by Kate Diaz, and lyrics by Diaz and Landau, Redwood begins previews on Broadway on the Nederlander Theatre on January 24, 2025, forward of a February 13 opening night time.
Along with the on-stage solid, producers Eva Value, Caroline Kaplan and Loudmouth Media have introduced that Daniel Brackett, Bradley Dean and Veronica Otim will be part of the corporate. Jessica Phillips would be the standby for Menzel’s character Jesse.
The synopsis: Redwood is a transportive new musical about one lady’s journey into the dear and precarious world of the redwoods. Jesse (Menzel) appears to have all of it — a profitable profession and devoted household — till a life-altering occasion drives her removed from everybody and every part she is aware of. When she finds herself on the foot of the redwoods in Northern California, an opportunity encounter and a leap of religion will change her life perpetually. Redwood explores the lengths — and heights — one travels to search out power, resilience and therapeutic.
