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Brightman played his final performance as Dewey on November 5, 2016 and returned to reprise the role for a limited run in April 2017. [7] He returned to Broadway in 2019 to play the title role in Beetlejuice (based on the film of the same name), and reprised the role in 2022. He was again nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical ...
A workshop presentation of the show was held in June 2024, with a cast that included Sara Chase as Melissa Gimble, Alex Brightman as Josh Skinner, Joy Woods as Emma Tate, Kevin Del Aguila as Reverend Layton and the Leprechaun, Claybourne Elder as Danny Bailey, Beth Leavel as Mildred Layton, Mauricio Martinez as Doc Lopez, Ruthie Ann Miles as Florence Menlove and Countess von Blerkom, Brad ...
Alex Brightman, a two-time Tony nominee, including for playing the title role in the musical “Beetlejuice,” voices two roles: Sir Pentious, a dapper evil-genius snake who makes weapons of ...
Alex Brightman (Beetlejuice: The Musical, School of Rock) will take over for Keegan-Michael Key as Josh, while Sara Chase (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) takes on Cecily Strong's role as Melissa ...
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The cast includes theatre actors Richard Kind, Renée Elise Goldsberry, and Alex Brightman as well as comedians John Mulaney, Taran Killam and Paula Pell. The episode received widespread critical acclaim and a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for "Holiday Party (I Did a Little Cocaine Tonight)".
Brightman's performance was praised as well, with Cote writing, "the secret weapon and glue holding it all together is an insanely winning, supernova turn by Alex Brightman as Dewey". [61] Matt Windman of AM: New York wrote, "Brightman comes off as a gentler version of Jack Black, though still loud and rambunctious and a genuine class clown". [62]
Gasparini put him in touch with his friend Alex Brightman, and they began developing a play about his life. [1] Brightman based the script on Summers' 1999 memoir Everything in Its Place: My Trials and Triumphs with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder along with new interviews he conducted himself. [3] It was originally conceived as a musical with ...