Breaking Baz: Broadway’s Robbie Fairchild To Star In Stage Adaptation Of Oscar Winner ‘The Artist’; West End’s Gary Wilmot & Briana Craig Also Cast
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Robbie Fairchild, a Broadway lead and former New York City Ballet principal dancer, will star in the stage version of Michel Hazanavicius’ 2011 Oscar-winning movie The Artist, set in the 1920s when movies found their voice with the advent of talking pictures.
Fairchild received a Tony Award nomination for An American In Paris, another show based on a celebrated movie when it premiered on Broadway in 2015.
Two years later, he helped launch that show in the West End. In The Artist, he will play Silent Era matinee idol George Valentin, who finds his career torn away from him when the talkies arrive.
The part won French actor Jean Dujardin the Best Actor Oscar. The Artist, co-written for the theater by Drew McOnie and playwright and screenwriter Lindsey Ferrentino (Amy and the Orphans, Ugly Lies the Bone), will have its world premiere at the Theatre Royal Plymouth from May 11 to May 25, 2024.
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