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Video: Watch a Sneak Peek of Kennedy Center's GUYS AND DOLLS, Starring James Monroe Iglehart, Jessie Mueller, Phillipa Soo & Steven Pasquale
May 17, 2024
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will soon present its Broadway Center Stage production of Guys and Dolls. Helmed by Marc Bruni, the all-star cast will be led by Tony Award® winner James Monroe Iglehart as Nathan Detroit, Tony Award® winner Jessie Mueller as Miss Adelaide, Steven Pasquale as Sky Masterson, and Tony Award® nominee and Grammy Award® winner Phillipa Soo as Sarah Brown. Watch video highlights of the cast in rehearsals!
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We've been waiting for this. Yeah, we're having a terrible time. This is awful
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This is the worst time I've ever had in a show is work. Hello
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I'm Richard Ridge for Broadway World. The Kennedy Center's Broadway center stage is presenting one of the most beloved musicals of all time guys and
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dolls for 10 performances only from October 7th through the 16th. And we drop by the rehearsal room to bring you a sneak peek and
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to meet the star studded company. Bye. Cows
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and chickens are built. This
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was the first time I ever came to a rehearsal. I'm always nervous about a show always. And I am nervous about this one because
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because you know, you get nervous because you wanna do a good job. But as far as nervous about knowing the songs
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I was not nervous. I have known, I have had guys and dolls, the music memorized since I was like 12 years old
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So I walked in, they were like, you want, so do you need the lyrics? I was like, no, II, I know this
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this, this, this is fine. So being to getting to hear this music all the time
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Has been wonderful. And also to get, I'm not gonna lie. This is my girl but to get to sing
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Sue me with this one has been nothing but an honor and a joy
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I have the best time every time we do that scene. So I can't wait until we have the costumes and the lights and all
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that kind of stuff. It's gonna be great. We're having a great time because it's a perfect uh piece of writing
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And so all you have to do is learn it. You don't have to fix it. And that, that the relief in that is so
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real. You know, you just learn it and that's like new, I think for both of us a little bit
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Yeah. Yeah. And, and in the, in the 7 to 10 days that we have to work on it, you know, we really just can't
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get in our own way. We just have to say like, sure. Yeah, just have to go, go for it
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Let's try our best. And, you know, sometimes that's where the most magical things happen
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Well, I feel like I'm at Broadway Fantasy Camp or something because I get to see all these dancers and singers and just kind of
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marvel at them. And I remember like, oh yeah, I'm in the scene now, you know
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that kind of thing these actors are because it's such a short gig
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You get really cream of the crop people and Jesse, I've always wanted to work with Jesse
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I've been a huge fan and Steve and Pippa and I mean
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everyone is just amazing in the cast. It's really high. The highest caliber of group I've worked in
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in a long time lot
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Well, it just seemed like such a funny idea that I had to say yes. Like
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even though I just came off of the Potus thing and the schedule, I mean
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this is a short little run. So I was, it was ok. But then I just was like
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oh, when else will this chance come? And it kind of reminds you like doing an improv
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I've seen like, yes, I could walk into an improv scene and be the big gangster that everyone's scared of
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But in but in the real theater probably not. So it's just, it's such a opposite energy of what I usually get to play
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So it's fun seeing all these big guys, you know, recoil in fear for me
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So that's fun. These two characters are iconic but they leave enough room for us to put our interpretation on it
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And it's also fun to play them because they're just such a loving couple and just watching them be in love and just watching them
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chase each other the entire show. They're loving dysfunction. I think it's very relatable
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You know, I was about to say, I think there are many couples out there are gonna see and go oh my God. Yes
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This totally makes sense. We, we're the Nathan and Athlete of the
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of our lives. It's lovely. It's like, you know, there's the lyrics are so beautiful
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These tunes are so gorgeous and these are like original soprano keys. These are like Barbara Cook Keys
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So people who think they know Pippa as this like Broadway belter. Like, it's not that at all
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It's very like old school silver soprano ingenue. What a pleasant surprise to hear that from somebody we think we know as an artist
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you know, sometimes we're singing together and, you know, we rehearsing and then all of a sudden we'll finish the song and then I'll just
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look at Steve and like, oh my gosh, I can't believe we're married just singing in my face so beautifully
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What are you looking forward to the most about being at the Kennedy Center in this show
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Oh, wow. Um, hopefully just remembering all my, my steps. Um, no
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they've, they've dumbed down my steps so I only have to go like this and so hopefully I'll remember when to do that
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Um, but it's, it's with a group and then when they're doing all those steps, like you can stand off to the side and I'm
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like, great. Thank you. I'm very pleased with that decision. Yeah
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