Tony Award® – winning producers David Garfinkle and Dr. Ron Simons announced the complete cast for the world premiere of Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker which will play New York City Center November 17 through November 26, 2023 before moving to Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre December 19 through December 30, 2023.
The production. directed by Tony Winner Joshua Bergasse, will star Jinhao Zhang and Josué Gomez as Nutcracker, Alicia Mae Holloway as Lena, Shavey Brown as Sweet Pea, Jennifer Jade Ledesna as The Angel, Kenneth Darryl Ard as Uncle Dross, and Brenda Braxton as Mother Sugar/Mama Stall. Additional cast includes Nikolas Danilovich-Eugene Gaifullin, Larissa Gerszke, Nayara Lopes, Natascha Mair, Tatiana Nuñez and Scott Weber. Audrey Borst, Joshua Dawson, Nathan Fister, Johnathon Darcelle Hart, Ayaka Kamei, Laura Katherine Kaufman, Amarachi Valentina Korie, Muata Ayodele Langley, James Luc, Chase Maxwell, Charlotte McKinley, Dario Natarelli, Megan Prout, Jocelyn Iris Raykumar, Ange ‘Gregg’ Sainvilus, Tyler D. Singletary, Olivia Tang-Mifsud and Matt Wiercinski will complete the SUGAR HILL cast.
Tickets are on sale now, and available for purchase at nycitycenter.org and auditoriumtheatre.org.