He has also appeared on screen with roles in NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wiz Live and the film Collateral Beauty. His other theater credits include Motown: the Musical and Hair on Broadway, as well as the first national tour of The Book of Mormon. Kilgore was last seen in the Windy City as Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar at the Lyric Opera. Performing on July 28 in the Street Chorus for Mass is Mykal Kilgore, who was hailed “ a knockout performance” in Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at New York City Center. Two of Ravinia’s coming artists were given smashing notices in the New York Times last week. And then hopefully we’ll jump into a reading and then a workshop.” Read More It’s currently waiting for the script’s final punch-up. I knew I wanted to make a step toward Broadway and musicals, and honestly Betty Boop was the first person to ask me. “There never was a story because is a two-minute-at-a-time cartoon. “It’s my first try at Broadway,” Foster says of the musical, whose subject matter demanded a very original story. Veteran television scribe Sally Robinson is writing the book, and Foster’s score will boast lyrics by Tony Award nominee Susan Birkenhead. A creative team of Broadway A-listers has signed on for the project, including director/choreographer Jerry Mitchell, whose work includes the recently premiered Pretty Woman: The Musical, the Gloria Estefan bio-musical On Your Feet, and Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein’s critically acclaimed Kinky Boots (all three of which had their pre-Broadway tryouts in Chicago). What Foster is doing is creating his first Broadway musical, a show based on the 1930s’ wide-eyed, Jazz Age flapper animated cartoon character Betty Boop.

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