Stephanie Hsu, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Rachel Dratch and more are joining the Broadway cast of The Rocky Horror Show.
Rodriguez, star of FX’s Pose, will make her Broadway debut as Columbia, while Hsu, an Oscar nominee for Everything Everywhere All At Once, will star as Janet. SNL star Dratch will play the narrator.
Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows) will make his Broadway debut as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Yellowjacket’s Juliette Lewis will make her Broadway debut as Magenta. Dead Outlaw’s Andrew Durand will play Brad, opposite Hsu. Hadestown’s Amber Gray will play Riff Raff and Josh Rivera (West Side Story) will make his Broadway debut as Rocky. The cast will also include Renée Albulario, Anania, Boy Radio, Caleb Quezon, Andres Quintero, Larkin Reilly, Paul Soileau and John Yi.
The cast members join the previously announced Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) as Frank-N-Furter.
The Rocky Horror Show will begin previews at Studio 54 on March 26, ahead of an opening on April 23. The show, directed by Oh Mary’s Sam Pinkleton, is scheduled to play a limited engagement through June 21.
The show will feature choreography by Ani Taj (Dead Outlaw), set design by dots (Oh, Mary!), costume design by Tony Award nominee David I. Reynoso (Sleep No More), lighting design by Jane Cox (Appropriate) and sound design by Brian Ronan (The Great Gatsby).
Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show has been in continuous production since opening at the Royal Court Theatre in 1973. The film version of The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975.
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