Hugely entertaining. ExtraOrdinary offers plenty of reasons to celebrate.
Edge Boston
Electric. A show brimming with star power.
Jared Bowen, WGBH
In celebration of the past ten years of musical theater at the A.R.T., audiences are invited to join returning artists for a cabaret featuring songs and stories from the past decade of boundary-breaking musicals, including The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Pippin, Prometheus Bound, Waitress, and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812.
Special guests:
- November 16, 17, 18—Patina Miller (Pippin)
- November 19 & 21—Alicia Hall Moran (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess)
- November 20—Norm Lewis (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess)
- Friday, November 23—Rachel Bay Jones (Pippin)
- Saturday, November 24—Lea DeLaria (Prometheus Bound)
- Sunday, November 25—NaTasha Yvette Williams (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess)
- Tuesday, November 27 – Friday, November 30—Gavin Creel (Prometheus Bound)
- Thursday, November 29—Carolee Carmello (Finding Neverland)
- Friday, November 30—Elizabeth Stanley (Jagged Little Pill)
“Over the last decade since I arrived at A.R.T., we’ve staged more than thirty musicals and music-theater pieces. The musical is one of the great American art forms. As total theater experiences that combine song, story, spectacle, and dance, musicals have the power to engage our hearts and minds; and when musicals grapple with the urgent questions of our day, they can move us like nothing else. The musicals we’ve developed and premiered, the collaborations we’ve formed with writers and composers who created work for the theater for the very first time, and the conversations we’ve had with audiences and scholars around our productions have been central to our mission at the A.R.T. to expand the boundaries of theater.” – Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director Diane Paulus
Written by Dick Scanlan based on interviews with the Company
Choreography Abbey O’Brien
Music Director, Special Orchestrations & Arrangements Lance Horne
Directed by Diane Paulus
Notable dates
Opening Night: 11/18
Open Captioned: 11/29
There will be no Audio Described performance, but a pre-show audio description recording is available.
Production Sponsors
The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust
The Johnson Family
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Cast
Company
Melody A. Betts
Company
Melody A. Betts
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Witness Uganda. National Tour: The Sound of Music. Off-Broadway: Invisible Thread. Regional: Comedy of Errors, Chicago Shakespeare Theater; The Nativity, Goodman Theater; Once on This Island, The Drowsy Chaperone, Nunsense, Cinderella, Marriott Theatre; Ragtime, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Seussical, The Boys from Syracuse, Drury Lane Oakbrook. TV: “Chicago Code,” “Chicago PD,” “Jesus Christ Superstar LIVE.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Company
Kathryn Gallagher
Company
Kathryn Gallagher
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Jagged Little Pill. Broadway: Deaf West’s Spring Awakening. Concerts: Duncan Sheik, Café Carlyle; Jason Robert Brown, SubCulture; Robby Krieger and Ray Mazarek of The Doors (opening act); Little Feat. TV/ Film: YOU (premiered on Lifetime Sep. 9, 2018). Albums: I’m Fine; American Spirit.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Swing
Ashley LaLonde
Swing
Ashley LaLonde
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary (Swing), The Black Clown (Swing), Burn All Night (Kayla), Arrabal (Newscaster). OBERON Presents: Violet (Lula Buffington). Harvard: Into the Woods (The Witch), The Laramie Project (Mercedes), 35mm: A Musical Exhibition (Voice 1). Workshops: Teeth, Camp 2, Dora the Explorer LIVE!. Concerts: Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, 54 Below, Don’t Tell Mama. Film/TV: No More, America. Education: Undergraduate student at Harvard College ’20, BA, Sociology; Secondary in Theater, Dance & Media; Citation in Spanish.
Company
Terrence Mann
Company
Terrence Mann
(he/him) A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Pippin. Broadway: Tuck Everlasting (Outer Critics Circle nomination), Pippin (Tony Award and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Beauty and The Beast (Tony Award nomination), Les Misérables (Tony Award nomination), Finding Neverland, Cats, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Addams Family, The Rocky Horror Show, A Christmas Carol. Off-Broadway: Only Gold, Jerry Springer – The Opera (Lucille Lortel nomination), Assassins. TV/Film: “Foundation,” “Sense8,” “The Dresden Files,” Mrs. Santa Claus, “As The World Turns” (Emmy Award nomination), A Chorus Line, Critters.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Company
Brandon Michael Nase
Company
Brandon Michael Nase
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, The Black Clown. Regional: Ragtime (Coalhouse), Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre; Evita, Asolo Rep; Les Misérables, Dallas Theater Center; Joseph…, 3D Theatricals. Workshops: Frozen (Olaf); Shout Sister Shout!; Beatsville. Concerts: Showboat: In Concert, Bucks County Playhouse. Education/Training: BM, Music, University of North Texas; MM, Musical Theatre/Vocal Performance, NYU.
Actors’ Equity Association member
Company
Bryonha Marie Parham
Company
Bryonha Marie Parham
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess. Broadway: Prince of Broadway, Book of Mormon, After Midnight, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Ragtime. Off-Broadway/New York: Candide, Carnegie Hall; Sweeney Todd (with NY Philharmonic), Show Boat, Live from Lincoln Center; Civil War; Intimate Apparel, Lincoln Center/MET. Regional: Dave, Arena Stage; Ragtime, Kennedy Center; Bernstein’s MASS, Philadelphia Orchestra; Dreamgirls, North Shore Music Theatre; Little Shop of Horrors, Berkshire Theatre Group. International: Prince of Broadway, Tokyo Orb. TV: “Madam Secretary.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
Company
Mj Rodriguez
Company
Mj Rodriguez
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary; Burn All Night; Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women. Off-Broadway: Rent (Angel), New World Stages; Runaways, Encores! Off-Center; Street Children, New Ohio Theater; Dreamgirls; The Pajama Game; Once on This Island. TV: “Pose” (Blanca), FX; “Nurse Jackie;” “Luke Cage,” Netflix. Film: Saturday Church! (Tribeca Film Festival nomination, Best Actress).
Actors’ Equity Association member
Company
Matthew James Thomas
Company
Matthew James Thomas
A.R.T.: ExtraOrdinary, Pippin (Pippin). Broadway: Pippin (Pippin), Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (Peter Parker). West End: Oliver! (Kipper); Whistle Down the Wind (Clarence); Dorian Gray (Dorian); Fame (Schlomo); Popcorn (Wayne), Landor Fringe. Regional/Concert: Diner The Musical (Fenwick), West Side Story Hollywood Bowl (Riff). Film: Billy Elliot; About a Boy; Possession; Bare. TV: Series regular: Stephen Poliakoff’s “Summer Of Rockets” (Nicholas), BBC (March 2019); “The Devil You Know” (Henry Paine), HBO Pilot; “Salvation” (Dr. Sam Carnahan), NBC/Sony Pilot; “Believe NBC” (Morgan); “Britannia High ITV” (Jez Tyler); “Trevor’s World of Sport;” “The Blind Date Murder Mysteries;” “The Lost Prince;” Guest lead: “Casualty,” “Midsomer Murders,” “Bad Girls,” “Genie in the House,” “Doctors,” “The Bill,” “Hero to Zero.”
Actors’ Equity Association member
