Tony Award nominee Joaquina Kalukango to star in PARADISE SQUARE, A New Musical
Tony Award nominee Joaquina Kalukango has been confirmed to lead the cast of new musical, Paradise Square, which will open at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre in March 2022, following a five-week engagement in Chicago later this year.
Kalukango is a 2020 Tony Award nominee for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role as Kaneisha in Slave Play. She has also starred on Broadway in The Color Purple, Holler If Ya Hear Me and Godspell.
Paradise Square will also star Chilina Kennedy (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, The Band's Visit), Tony Award nominee John Dossett (Pippin, Newsies), Sidney DuPont (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Memphis), A.J. Shively (La Cage aux Folles, Bright Star), Nathaniel Stampley (The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess, The Color Purple), Gabrielle McClinton (Pippin, Chicago), Jacob Fishel (Fiddler on the Roof), and Kevin Dennis (Young Frankenstein, Assassins).
The production will also feature Karen Burthwright, Kennedy Caughell, Dwayne Clark, Garrett Coleman, Colin Cunliffe, Chloe Davis, Bernard Dotson, Jamal Christopher Douglas, Sam Edgerly, Shiloh Goodin, Jacobi Hall, Sean Jenness, Jay McKenzie, Ben Michael, Jason Oremus, Eilis Quinn, Sara Sheperd, Lael van Keuren, Sir Brock Warren and Hailee Kaleem Wright. Additional casting will be announced shortly.
The creative team includes director and two-time Tony Award nominee Moisés Kaufman, choreographer and two-time Tony Award winner Bill T. Jones, and book writers Christina Anderson, Marcus Gardley, Craig Lucas and Larry Kirwan. Ten-time Tony Award nominee Graciela Daniele will also provide musical staging, in collaboration with Kaufman and Jones.
The score is by the team of Grammy and Emmy Award winner Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen, with additional material provided by Masi Asare and Mr. Kirwan. The musical features original songs as well as a reimagining of the songs of Stephen Foster, who was writing and living in the Five Points at the time.
The multi-award-winning creative team features set design by Allen Moyer, costumes by Toni-Leslie James, lighting by Donald Holder, and sound by Jon Weston.
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