Luke Evans won’t be doing the Time Warp alone this spring: Broadway‘s Roundabout Theatre Company has announced additional cast for The Rocky Horror Show. Joining the previously announced Evans will be Rachel Dratch, Andrew Durand, Amber Gray, Harvey Guillén, Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Josh Rivera and Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.
See below for the cast and character match-up. And see the full, new poster art featuring the principal and ensemble performers below.
Directed by Oh, Mary’s Sam Pinkleton with choreography by Ani Taj, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show begins previews at Studio 54 on Thursday, March 26, ahead of an opening on Thursday, April 23. The limited engagement runs through Sunday, June 21.
In continuous production throughout the world for the last 52 years, The Rocky Horror Show – precursor by two years to 1975’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has been seen by over 40 million people in some 15 languages. The rock and roll musical features such numbers as “Dammit Janet,” “Touch-A, Touch-A, Touch Me,” “Hot Patootie” and of course “Time Warp.”
The synopsis, in case anyone needs: “The Rocky Horror Show is the story of two squeaky clean college kids – Brad and his fiancée Janet – on their way to visit their former college professor when by a twist of fate their car breaks down outside a mansion. They meet the charismatic Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Riff Raff, Columbia, Magenta, Eddie and Rocky. It is an adventure they would remember for a very long time.”
The new revival will feature music supervision by Kris Kukul, set design by dots, costume design by David I. Reynoso, lighting design by Jane Cox, sound design by Brian Ronan, wig & hair design by Alberto “Albee” Alvarado and make-up design by Sterling Tull.
Here’s the who’s who (Evans, in his Broadway debut and as previously announced, will play Frank-N-Furter):
- Dratch (POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Saturday Night Live) as the Narrator;
- Durand (Dead Outlaw, Shucked) as Brad;
- Gray (Eureka Day, Hadestown) as Riff Raff;
- Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows, Broadway debut) as Eddie/Dr. Scott;
- Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical) as Janet;
- Lewis (Yellowjackets, Cape Fear, Broadway debut) as Magenta;
- Rivera (American Sports Story, West Side Story, Broadway debut) as Rocky;
- Rodriguez (Loot, Pose, Broadway debut) as Columbia
The cast will also include: Renée Albulario, Anania, Boy Radio, Caleb Quezon, Andres Quintero, Larkin Reilly, Paul Soileau, and John Yi.
