Olivier Award-winning LIFE OF PI announces Broadway cast
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Casting has been announced for Lolita Chakrabarti’s dazzling stage adaption of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel Life of Pi, which makes its Broadway premiere at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre from 9 March, with three Olivier Award-winning performers making their Broadway debuts.
Recreating their critically acclaimed performances for Broadway will be ‘Best Actor’ winner Hiran Abeysekera in the role of Pi and ‘Best Supporting Actor’ winners Fred Davis and Scarlet Wilderink join the “Richard Parker” puppeteering team.
The Broadway production of the five-time Olivier Award-winning London production of Life of Pi will feature Brian Thomas Abraham as Cook/Voice of Richard Parker, Rajesh Bose as Father, Avery Glymph as Father Martin/Russian Sailor/Rear Admiral Jackson, Mahira Kakkar as Nurse/Amma/Orange Juice, Kirstin Louie as Lulu Chen, Salma Qarnain as Mrs. Biology Kumar/Zaida Khan, Sathya Sridharan as Mamaji/Pandit-Ji, Daisuke Tsuji as Mr. Okamoto/Captain, Sonya Venugopal as Rani, with Nikki Calonge, Fred Davis, Rowan Ian Seamus Magee, Jonathan David Martin, Betsy Rosen, Celia Mei Rubin, Scarlet Wilderink and Andrew Wilson as Royal Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. Mahnaz Damania, Jon Hoche, Usman Ali Mughal, Uma Paranjpe and David Shih complete the 24-strong cast with Adi Dixit as the Pi alternate.
Life of Pi is directed by Max Webster, with set and costume design by Olivier Award winner Tim Hatley, puppetry and movement direction by Olivier Award winner Finn Caldwell, puppet design by Olivier Award winners Nick Barnes and Finn Caldwell, video design by Olivier Award winner Andrzej Goulding, lighting by Olivier Award winner Tim Lutkin, sound by Carolyn Downing, original music by Andrew T Mackay, and casting by Stewart/Whitley.
Based on one of the best-loved works of fiction – winner of the Man Booker Prize, selling over fifteen million copies worldwide – Life of Pi is a breath-taking new theatrical adaptation of an epic journey of endurance and hope.
After a cargo ship sinks in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, a sixteen-year-old boy name Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with four other survivors – a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Time is against them, nature is harsh, who will survive?
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