Breaking news: Robert Cuccioli in “LaMancha”
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I learned minutes ago that Robert Cuccioli — known to Westchester as “The Phantom” and to Broadway audiences as Jekyll & Hyde and as Javert in “Les Miserables” — will help to inaugurate the new White Plains Performing Arts Center, appearing as Don Quixote in “Man of LaMancha” from Nov. 29 through Dec. 16.
This is a huge coup for the WPPAC, a new home for musicals in White Plains, and, I have to think, a lost opportunity for Westchester Broadway Theatre in Elmsford.
Cuccioli put the dinner theater on the map in 1991, with a nine-month-run of “Phantom,” the Arthur Kopit-Maury Yeston musical that is NOT the Andrew Lloyd Webber “Phantom of the Opera,” but is based on the same story.
When the Broadway-bound musical “Lone Star Love” folded in Seattle late last month and the Broadway run was canceled, Cuccioli became available and Jack Batman, who now runs WPPAC, pounced.
Of course, WBT — which opens “Phantom” to the press Thursday night — already has its Phantom: Aaron Ramey.
But I’m sure I’m not the only one wondering how this news will be received up on Broadway Plaza in Elmsford. What might have been.
For tickets to “Man of La Mancha” — running Nov. 29 through Dec. 16 at 11 City Place, White Plains, in the City Center mall — call 914-328-1600.
For tickets to “Phantomâ€? — running now through February 9, with a break for a holiday show, at WBT, Broadway Plaza in Elmsford, call 914-592-2222.
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