Broadway’s Cinderella Laura Osnes Joins Backlight Productions for Special Performance at Nashville’s TPAC on October 22

— Laura Osnes

(*22*)NASHVILLE, TN, USA, October 9, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ — Backlight Productions, a Nashville-area group that gives adults with mental and developmental disabilities (IDD) the chance to take part in theater and humanities packages, is celebrating their tenth yr with a manufacturing of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella at the 1,075-seat Polk Theater at the Tennessee Performing Arts Middle (TPAC) at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 22.

Singer and actor, Laura Osnes, additionally celebrates her 10-year anniversary since starring within the musical on Broadway, and can go off the glass slippers to take on the function of the Fairy Godmother in Backlight’s manufacturing. Along with originating the function of Cinderella (for which she gained a Drama Desk Award and was nominated for a Tony Award), her different Broadway credit embody Sandy in Grease, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Hope Harcourt in Something Goes, Julia Trojan in Bandstand, and Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (which additionally earned her a Tony nomination).

“I need to be the individual in somebody’s life who instructed them sure,” says Osnes. “To play the fairy godmother, who actually embodies that, who offers Cinderella the chance to go fulfill her desires… I really feel so honored. Shining the highlight on these fantastically brave artists is popping out to be certainly one of my most significant roles but. It is going to be a very highly effective night time at the theater.”

Osnes and her husband, filmmaker Nathan Johnson, have began a manufacturing firm referred to as Insurgent Rocket Leisure and are producing a documentary collection following the journey from first rehearsal to the large efficiency. The collection focuses on the private journeys of the Backlight forged, aiming to focus on not solely the extraordinary mission of this theater, however the resilience and bravado it takes to be an artist with IDD.

In response to Backlight Productions Founder and Government Director Melissa Smith, “Cinderella at TPAC is a real ‘full circle’ second for us. A a lot smaller model of Cinderella was the primary present we did 10 years in the past. We carried out for 40 folks within the second story loft of a thrift retailer in Franklin. Over the previous 10 years, our firm has grown to 87 members, and we’ve got expanded the lessons and manufacturing alternatives for space IDD adults to incorporate playwriting, comedy improv, a rock band, Glee Membership, particular person classes, and a contest dance group.”

Smith provides, “We’re additionally excited to have members of six Nashville-area incapacity arts teams be part of us on this manufacturing. Every one of many teams might be featured in numerous musical numbers all through the present. We’re honored that they might be part of us for this particular efficiency. All-in, we can have over 100 artists with disabilities performing on this present.”

The opposite teams taking part in Cinderella are: Ready Arts, Borderless Arts, Courtney’s Nook, Dancing Divas & Dudes, Dream With Me, and MOVE Inclusive.

The present will even function a number of Nashville musical visitor artists, together with Gary Chapman, Stephen Salyers, Matt Jenkins, Jessica Willis Fisher, Taylor Epps, Erin McCracken, Miles Aubrey, Rosa Rodriguez, Greylee, Qwyn L’Esperance. Ming Aldrich-Gan, who labored with Osnes on the Broadway musical Bandstand, will lead the Home Band at TPAC.

Tickets for the present can be found now at www.backlightproductions.org.

About Laura Osnes:

Osnes rose to stardom after successful NBC’s actuality TV competitors Grease: You’re The One That I Need, incomes her the function of Sandy within the Broadway revival of Grease at the age of 21. She shortly grew to become the go-to ingénue of the Nice White Manner, starring as Cinderella in Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Tony Award nomination) Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Hope Harcourt in Something Goes, Julia Trojan in Bandstand, and Bonnie Parker in Bonnie & Clyde (Tony Award nomination).

Not restricted to the stage, Osnes has charmed audiences throughout the nation in 5 Hallmark Channel authentic films: Christmas In Tahoe (2021), Elevate A Glass To Love (2021), One Royal Vacation (2020), A Homecoming For The Holidays (2019), and In The Key Of Love (2019). This vacation season, she’s going to debut on the Nice American Household community in, A Sprint of Christmas. She has additionally been seen on tv in Fosse/Verdon (F/X), Dynasty (CW), and Elementary (CBS), and lent her voice to characters in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), Workforce Umizoomi (Nickelodeon), and ChipChilla (DailyWire).

Her crystal clear and highly effective soprano voice often graces symphony halls and cabaret venues across the globe, together with filmed performances with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Stay from Lincoln Middle (PBS), A Capitol Fourth (PBS), and The Kennedy Middle Honors (CBS).

Along with listening to her voice on a number of authentic Broadway forged recordings, Osnes has launched two solo albums, Dream A Little Dream and If I Inform You, and made her songwriting debut together with her new EP, On the Different Aspect. She has continued to write down and launch authentic music this previous yr, whereas starring within the world-premiere of Nashville’s hit residency selection present, Shiners, at the Woolworth Theater.

Brian Mayes
Nashville Publicity Group
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