![]() Randolph had a freshly minted master’s degreeįrom the Yale School of Drama and no acting credits in New York - so why not aim for a small part as one of the sisters of Oda Mae Brown, the sometime psychic that Whoopi Goldberg won an Academy Saying in a sassy tone last fall as she read an audition notice for a Broadway production of the musical, which opened in London in July. “ ‘I don’t know about that,’ ” she recalled ![]() Romance - Patrick Swayze walking through solid objects, a penny floating toward Demi Moore - would work onstage. When the actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph first heard that the 1990 movie “Ghost” was being turned into a musical, she was more than a little skeptical that the special effects in the supernatural “I guess you could say I have been working at this since sixth grade,” she added, recalling how she fell in love with theater after playing Puck in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” “I’m hoping this show allowsĪrtistic directors and producers to trust my ability to bring underreperesented stories to a wider audience in a meaningful way.” - FELICIA R. McGregor said she learned from her sister that in certain moments emotion can only be expressed through movement - what she On a stage shared by a Dumpster and a ragged apartment, “Hurt Village” is laced with rapping and dance. In the new play a damaged Iraq war veteran returns home to Memphis during the last weeks before the demolition of the city’s Hurt Village housing project, where he and his family and friends scramble to escape their lives. “We’re both politically motivated, we’re both hustlers,” Ms. They clicked when they met a couple of years ago, eventually doing a staged reading and workshop of Ms. Hall, who is herself coming off an even bigger leap, her Broadway debut as the playwright Croix, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, is directing Off Broadway for the first time thanks to a collaboration with Ms. While she has done work across the city,įrom the Brooklyn Academy of Music to Lincoln Center Institute, many of her shows in recent years have been mounted uptown, at Harlem Stage and at the Apollo, where she wrote and directed a theatricalĬoncert called “Burnt Sugar Freaks the James Brown Songbook.” Her highest-profile show in the theater district was “Fela!”: she served as associate director during the end McGregor lives in Harlem with her 86-year-old father, Oscar, who is battling cancer, and her older sister, Paloma, a choreographer with whom she founded Angela’s Pulse, an artists’ collective. PATRICK HEALYĪt 33 Patricia McGregor is taking, in her own words, a “big leap” as the director of Katori Hall’s “Hurt Village,” part of the inaugural season at the new Signature Theater “He’s someone so far from being comfortable in his own skin,” Mr. But his memories of being overweight in high school gave him some insight about Judas, who, in this production,īecomes the odd man out. Young, who grew up in a Conservative Jewish home in Wallingford, Pa., said he had no familiarity with the New Testament until he was an adult. ![]() (In a review in The New York Times of the Stratford production in Ontario, Charles Isherwood described his “superbly sung” Judas as “imbued with an embittered ferocity.”) Young had a critically acclaimed performanceĪs Che in “Evita” at Stratford a year earlier, a characterization he has channeled somewhat in portraying Judas as “a passionate man who was willing to die for what he believed in.” To explore the intense relationships among Jesus, Mary Magdalene and Judas, whose affection for the other two tips into jealousy and betrayal. Young dreamed of playing Judas but was told that the villain of the Gospels was usually performed by “rock ’n’ roll high-screaming tenors or the bad boys.” For this revival, however, the director Des McAnuff wanted Young is set to make his Broadway debut next month as an unlikely heartthrob - Judas Iscariot - in the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s production of “Jesus Christ Superstar,” theġ971 rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.įor years Mr. “I was completely unhealthy, obese, so I committed to running three miles every morning for six months and following a strict diet,” he recalled. Josh Young was 17 when a drama teacher told him that his yearning baritone lent itself to playing romantic leading men in musical theater.
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