{"id":112345,"date":"2024-11-13T15:08:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/13\/jinkx-monsoon-sets-sail-for-broadway-in-pirates-a-penzance-musical-this-spring\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T15:08:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:08:38","slug":"jinkx-monsoon-sets-sail-for-broadway-in-pirates-a-penzance-musical-this-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/11\/13\/jinkx-monsoon-sets-sail-for-broadway-in-pirates-a-penzance-musical-this-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Jinkx Monsoon Sets Sail for Broadway in \u2018Pirates! A Penzance Musical\u2019 This\u00a0Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWhen it comes to reviving a 145-year-old comic opera, who better to enlist than drag superstar Jinkx Monsoon<\/a> to liven things up? <\/p>\n

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\n\tOn Wednesday (Nov. 13), the Roundabout Theater Company announced its upcoming new musical Pirates! A Penzance Musical,<\/em> starring Monsoon alongside Broadway veterans Ramin Karimloo and David Hyde Pierce. Billed as \u201creimagined, lovingly adapted production\u201d of Gilbert & Sullivan\u2019s 1879 work The Pirates of Penzance,<\/em> the new show will feature \u201cjazz-infused, New Orleans-style\u201d music and will celebrate \u201cthe genius of Gilbert & Sullivan while taking some joyous liberties,\u201d according to a statement from director Scott Ellis.<\/p>\n

\n\tMonsoon will portray the role of Ruth, the original show\u2019s pirate \u201cmaid-of-all-work\u201d and comic relief throughout the production. In a statement to Billboard<\/em>, Monsoon shared that she was thrilled to join the cast. \u201cIf ever there were an unexpected role for me to sink my teeth into \u2026 she has EVERYTHING I could want in a character, not to mention a chance to play her from a completely new perspective,\u201d she said.
\u201cThe chance to revitalize the classics is something special I am honored to be asked to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis won\u2019t be Monsoon\u2019s first time taking on a prestigious role on the Great White Way. In 2023, she made her Broadway debut in the role of Matron \u201cMama\u201d Morton in Chicago<\/em>. During her initial run, Monsoon broke multiple box office records for the show, including her own<\/a> single performance gross record. Monsoon later returned to the role in June after her run as the first transgender woman to portray the role of Audrey in the off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Monsoon\u2019s 2025 is currently stacked with more Broadway-adjacent gigs: In January, the two-time Drag Race<\/em> winner is set to star as Reno Sweeney in the Pasadena Playhouse\u2019s Anything Goes: In Concert<\/a><\/em>, before making her Carnegie Hall debut in her Valentine\u2019s Day concert, Jinkx Monsoon: Live at Carnegie Hall. <\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tPirates! A Penzance Musical <\/em>will begin previews on April 4 and open officially on April 24 at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Tickets are available at the Roundabout Theatre Company\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When it comes to reviving a 145-year-old comic opera, who better to enlist than drag superstar Jinkx Monsoon to liven things up? Related Jinkx Monsoon & BenDeLaCreme Are Embracing the Political Chaos in Their New Holiday\u00a0Show 10\/08\/2024 On Wednesday (Nov. 13), the Roundabout Theater Company announced its upcoming new musical Pirates! A Penzance Musical, starring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}