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STARRING NORM
LEWIS AS ‘CAPTAIN RICHARD DAVENPORT’ AND
FEATURING OFF-BROADWAY’S ORIGINAL ‘BERNARD COBB’ EUGENE
LEE AS ‘SERGEANT VERNON C. WATERS’
Individual tickets for
the tour of A
Soldier’s Play are now on sale. Tickets will be
available at the Fox Theatre box office (660 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta,
Georgia 30308), by visiting foxtheatre.org/ASoldiersPlay, or by calling
855-285-8499. Group orders of 10 or more may be placed by calling the Fox
Theatre at 855-285-8499.
Playing
as part of Regions Bank Broadway in Atlanta’s 2022/2023 season, the Atlanta
engagement of A
Soldier’s Play will play March 28-April 2.
The performance schedule is as follows:
- Tuesday – Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
- Friday, 8 p.m.
- Saturday, 2 p.m., 8 p.m.
- Sunday, 1 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Written
by American playwright Charles
Fuller, A
Soldier’s Play stars
Norm Lewis,
and is directed by Tony Award winner and Roundabout Theatre Company’s
Senior Resident Director Kenny
Leon.
Emmy,
Tony, and SAG Award nominee Norm
Lewis stars as ‘Captain Richard Davenport.’ Joining him is Broadway,
TV, and film star Eugene
Lee, who originated the role of ‘Corporal Bernard Cobb’ in
the original 1981 Off-Broadway Production of A Soldier’s Play,as
‘Sergeant Vernon C. Waters,’ Will
Adams as ‘Corporal Bernard Cobb,’ Brandon Alvión as
an understudy, Sheldon
D. Brown as ‘Private C.J. Memphis,’ Malik Esoj Childs
as ‘Private Tony Smalls,’ Ja’Quán
Cole as an understudy, William Connell as ‘Captain Charles
Taylor,’ Charles
Everett as an understudy, Alex Michael Givens as ‘Corporal
Ellis,’ Matthew
Goodrich as ‘Captain Wilcox,’ Chattan Mayes Johnson
as ‘Lieutenant Byrd,’ Branden
Davon Lindsay as ‘Private Louis Henson,’ Tarik Lowe as
‘Private First-Class Melvin Peterson,’ Al’Jaleel McGhee as an understudy, Howard Overshown
as ‘Private James Wilkie’, and Alex
Ross as an understudy.
Joining
director Kenny
Leon for the tour of Roundabout Theatre Company’s A Soldier’s Play is the Broadway
design team that includes Derek
McLane (Sets), Dede
Ayite(Costumes), Allen
Lee Hughes (Lights), Dan
Moses Schreier (Sound), and Cristina Angeles (Associate
Director). The tour of A
Soldier’s Play is produced by Roundabout Theatre Company
and Tamar Climan.
“The
recent passing of The Giant that is Charles Fuller has only magnified his
brilliance...an amazing writer who left us so much with his masterful A Soldiers Play,”
said director Kenny
Leon. “We honor him with this American tour of the Broadway
production of this great American classic. Come - laugh, think and reflect
- America is in need of love.”
In
1944, on a Louisiana Army base, two shots ring out. A Black sergeant is
murdered, and a series of interrogations triggers a gripping barrage of
questions about sacrifice, service, and identity in America. Charles
Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece opened on Broadway for the
first time on Jan. 21, 2020 at Roundabout Theatre Company’s American
Airlines Theatre, nearly 40 years after it was written. The acclaimed
production was nominated for 7 Tony Awards and 3 Drama Desk Awards, winning
Best Revival for both.
The
A Soldier’s
Play
tour stage management team is John Atherlay and RL Campbell.
The company management team is Frank Lott and Jordan Lingreen.
ROUNDABOUT
ON TOUR:
Roundabout
Theatre Company was most recently represented across the country with its
longest-running musical on Broadway, the revival of Cabaret, which
received a multi-year tour across the country beginning in 1999 and again
in 2016. Before that, Roundabout produced the critically acclaimed,
multi-award-winning North American tour of Anything Goes starring Rachel York
which toured for 48 weeks. In 2006, Twelve
Angry Men went on a 63-week tour across the United States and
Canada. In 2011, Roundabout Theatre Company’s acclaimed work reached a
worldwide cinema audience with the HD capture and broadcast of their Tony
nominated production of The
Importance of Being Earnest, starring Brian Bedford.
Roundabout
Theatre Company celebrates the power of theatre by spotlighting classics
from the past, cultivating new works of the present, and educating minds
for the future. A not-for-profit company, Roundabout fulfills that mission
by producing familiar and lesser-known plays and musicals; discovering and
supporting talented playwrights; reducing the barriers that can inhibit
theatergoing; collaborating with a diverse team of artists; building
educational experiences; and archiving over five decades of production
history. Acknowledging its impact, Roundabout has also embarked upon a
five-year strategic plan to evaluate and evolve how to address equity,
diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism in its work, workplaces and communities.
Roundabout
is also sending its nationally recognized education programs on tour.
Members of the cast and crew will facilitate acting workshops, pull back
the curtain on backstage jobs, and explore the educational resources of the
UPSTAGE Guide, a free resource that allows audiences to discover more about
the production through interviews, biographies, stories about the
historical, social, and artistic context of the production, discussion
questions, and activities for students and teachers.
In
New York, Roundabout Theatre Company presents a variety of plays, musicals, and new works on its five stages: Broadway’s American Airlines Theatre,
Studio 54 and Stephen Sondheim Theatre, and Off-Broadway’s Harold and
Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre, which houses the Laura Pels Theatre
and Black Box Theatre.
American
Airlines is the official airline of Roundabout Theatre Company. Roundabout
productions are supported, in part, with public funds from the New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council,
the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Hochul, and the New York State Legislature.
TAMAR
CLIMAN (Producer)
is a Tony Award®-winning theatre producer with almost three decades of
experience producing and general managing on Broadway, who is also
developing a number of new works. Tamar is on the producing team for the
Tony Award® and Grammy-winning Jagged
Little Pill for its North American and Australian tours.
Previous producing credits include, on Broadway: Jagged Little Pill, Oklahoma!,
Children of a Lesser
God; West End: Waitress;
and North American tour: Anastasia.
She also serves as an advisor to Roundabout Theatre Company. Tamar founded
Richards/Climan, Inc. (RCI), Theatrical General Management firm, in 1997.
While at RCI, Tamar managed over 80 productions of plays and musicals
written by such notable artists as Tracy Letts, David Mamet, Terrence
McNally, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. She also had the extraordinary
opportunity to work with renowned actors like Angela Lansbury, James Earl
Jones, Audra McDonald, Al Pacino, Sutton Foster and Bryan Cranston. Tamar
was born in Montreal, Canada and is a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Roundabout
Theatre Company's tour of A
Soldier's Play is made possible in part by generous
support from Denise Littlefield Sobel.
Connect
with A
Soldier’s Play on tour: asoldiersplaytour.com
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THEATRE COMPANY on: Instagram,
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