Comments on: UPCOMING/MUSIC/THEATRE/EVENT: PREVIEW OF THE 2023 FOUNDATION FOR NEW AMERICAN MUSICALS ALL STAR BENEFIT AND FUNDRAISER

By: Karen Salkin

Karen Salkin — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:53:02 +0000

I have zero recollection of that show. I just looked it up to see if it jogged my memory, and it did not. So, although Wayne was in it, (when he first moved out to LA, it appears,) it’s one show I missed.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:38:26 +0000

It was called Blade to the Heat at the Mark Taper Forum. It was a boxing melodrama.

By: Karen Salkin

Karen Salkin — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:23:59 +0000

Okay, I’ll bite. Tell us all.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:19:23 +0000

Nope, not those. It was long before he became a name.

By: Karen Salkin

Karen Salkin — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 22:18:37 +0000

Of course! But I saw him in two shows, not one. First in Kiss Me, Kate in 2014, and then Freestyle Love Supreme last year, both at the Pasadena Playhouse! I’m a fan.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:49:30 +0000

Wayne Brady will be in the upcoming Broadway production as The Wiz, but you saw him in another show in LA. Do you remember which one?