Broadway BUZZ

Carmen Cusack played Nellie Forbush in the 1^st National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theater revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and made her Broadway debut in 2016 in Steve Martin’s musical, Bright Star, for which she received the Theatre World Award as well as Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League award nominations. She also appeared as Sally Adams in City Center Encores! recent production of Call Me Madam and Lynn Gardner in MCC’s Off-Broadway revival of Carrie. Her West End credits include Fantine in Les Misérables, Rose in The Secret Garden (Royal Shakespeare Company), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (The Venue) and Kim in Personals (Apollo Theatre). She has toured the UK as Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and Eva Cassidy in Over the Rainbow. Her additional North American tour credits include Annie McDougan in First Wives Club (James M. Nederlander Theatre, Chicago), Dot in Sunday in the Park with George (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Elphaba in the 1^st National Tour of Wicked (also Melbourne, Australia).