It’s official: Rashad in “Cat”
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- December
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I spoke with Pelham’s Phylicia Rashad backstage at “Cymbeline” at Lincoln Center recently and kidded her about whether her kid sister, Debbie Allen, would cast her as Big Mama in Allen’s upcoming all-African-American version of Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” (Read the story here.)
Today, it’s official.
TERRENCE HOWARD, PHYLICIA RASHAD, ANIKA NONI ROSE and JAMES EARL JONES will star in “Cat,” which begins its limited run Feb. 12, opens March 6 and continues through April at at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre, where “Les Miz” is currently ensconced.
Tickets go on sale December 29, 2007.
“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has been revived on Broadway four times before, this production marks the first African-American production approved by Williams’ estate for the Broadway stage.
It will mark the Broadway debut of Academy Award nominee TERRENCE HOWARD (Hustle & Flow, Crash) and will include:
- Tony and Drama Desk Award winner PHYLICIA RASHAD (Gem of the Ocean, Raisin in the Sun, TV’s “Cosby Show�),
- Tony Award winner ANIKA NONI ROSE (Film: Dreamgirls, Broadway’s Caroline or Change), and
- Tony-time Tony winner, four-time Emmy winner and National Medal of Arts winner JAMES EARL JONES (Fences, The Great White Hope).
Tickets can be purchased at www.telecharge.com or by calling 212-239- 6200.
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