PhotosGo Inside the Opening Night of Smart Blonde Off-BroadwayThe New York premiere stars Andréa Burns as stage and screen star Judy Holliday.
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Nathan Skethway
March 28, 2019
Andréa Burns and Family
Russ Rowland
The New York premiere of Willy Holtzman's Smart Blonde, starring Andréa Burns (In the Heights, On Your Feet!, The Nance) as Judy Holliday, opened at 59E59's Theater B March 26.
Memory and song converge as the “dumb blonde” with a genius IQ charts her experiences from Greenwich Village to Broadway and beyond in the new play with music, directed by Peter Flynn. Rounding out the cast are Andrea Bianchi (Curvy Widow), Mark Lotito (Jersey Boys), and Jonathan Spivey (Summer and Smoke).
The design team for Smart Blonde includes Tony Ferrieri (scenic design), Alan Edwards (lighting design), Michael McDonald (costume design), and Joanna Lynne Staub (sound design). The production stage manager is Stephanie Clark.
The limited engagement of Smart Blonde began March 16 and runs through April 13.
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Photos: Smart Blonde Opens Off-Broadway
Photos: Smart Blonde Opens Off-Broadway
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Andréa Burns
Mark Lotito, Andréa Burns, Andrea Bianchi, and Jonathan Spivey
Russ Rowland
Peter Flynn, Andréa Burns, and Willy Holtzman
Andrea Bianchi
Judith Manocherian, Willy Holtzman, and Mary J. Davis
Judith Manocherian, Garth Kravits, Mark Lotito, Peter Flynn, Andréa Burns, Mary J. Davis, Jonathan Spivey, Andrea Bianchi, Willy Holtzman, and Laura Jordan
Peter Flynn, Mark Lotito, Andréa Burns, Andrea Bianchi, Jonathan Spivey, and Willy Holtzman
Michael McDonald, J. Jared Janas, Tony Ferrieri, and Alan Edwards
Jaclyn Lusardi, Stephanie Clark, and Tyler Danhaus
Judith Manocherian, Andréa Burns, and Mary J. Davis
The play by Emil Weinstein is based on the memoir by Abby Chava Stein, an openly transgender woman directly descended from Hasidic Judaism's founder, the Baal Shem Tov.
The piece stars Obie Award winner Jodie Markell as propagandist filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, whose work in service of the Nazis defined the visual identity of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
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