Tootsie Tickets
About Tootsie
It’s “far and away the funniest show of the season” (Daily News). It’s “the most uproarious new show in years” (The Hollywood Reporter). It’s “the best comedy on Broadway” (Forbes). No matter how you say it, Tootsie is unanimously funny! Tony Award® winner Santino Fontana gives “one of the best performances in musical comedy history" (Rolling Stone) in this laugh-out-loud love letter to the theatre, based on the Oscar®-nominated film. Featuring a Tony-winning book by Robert Horn and an outrageously clever score by 2018 Tony winner David Yazbek (The Band’s Visit, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), this New York Times Critic’s Pick is a “hilarious, thoroughly modern Tootsie” (People Magazine) that’s “even funnier than the movie!” (New York Post). “In these turbulent times, when the world seems out of balance, we need a place to let the good times roll,” says Rolling Stone, “Tootsie is it." Don’t miss the “winner Broadway has been waiting for!” (The Washington Post).
Run time
2hr 35min (incl. intermission)
Start date
March 29th, 2019
End date
January 5th, 2020
Categories
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Age
10+
Tootsie cast and creative team
By: Music & Lyrics by David Yazbek, with a Book by Robert Horn, based on the story by Don McGuire & Larry Gelbart and the Columbia Pictures Motion Picture
Director: Scott Ellis
Producer: Scott Sanders Productions, James L. Nederlander and Sally Horchow International Productions
Cast list: Santino Fontana (as Michael Dorsey / Dorothy Michaels), Lilli Cooper (as Julie Nichols), Sarah Stiles (as Sandy Lester), John Behlmann (as Max Van Horn), Andy Grotelueschen (as Jeff Slater), Julie Halston (as Rita Marshall), Michael McGrath (as Stan Fields), and Reg Rogers (as Ron Carlisle)
Design: David Rockwell
Lighting: Donald Holder
Costume: William Ivey Long
Choreography: Denis Jones
Sound: Brian Ronan
Other info: Musical Direction by Andrea Grody, Music Supervision by Andrea Grody & Dean Sharenow, Vocal Arrangements by Andrea Grody, Dance Arrangements by David Chase, Orchestrations by Simon Hale, Music Coordination by Dean Sharenow, Hair & Wig
Design: by Paul Huntley, and Make-up
Design: by Angelina Avallone
Venue
Accessibility
Wheelchair access, assisted listening devices, closed captioning devices, seat accessibility
More information about Tootsie
Some people would do anything to land a job. For struggling actor Michael Dorsey, that means becoming Dorothy Michaels, a new persona entirely — gender and all. The musical adaptation of the 1982 film “Tootsie,” starring Dustin Hoffman, casts Tony Award nominee Santino Fontana in the lead role, a man who is so fed up with Off-Broadway casting directors that he takes on a new type entirely. But things get even more complicated for Michael when he starts to fall for his costar, Julie (Lilli Cooper) — as Dorothy! And Dorothy has a few male admirers of her own.
In the new stage adaptation, featuring a score by “The Band’s Visit” Tony winner David Yazbek and a fresh book by Robert Horn that brings the story straight into 2018, “Tootsie” swaps the world of daytime soap operas for theater itself. As director Scott Ellis explains: “This is 100% not your grandfather’s ‘Tootsie.’”
What to watch for
The 1982 film grossed over $177 million at the box office, making it the second highest-grossing movie of that year after “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”
The film was nominated for 10 Oscars, including Best Picture.
Leading man, Santino Fontana, was born the same year the film “Tootsie” was released.
Playing the role of a man who tries to pass as a woman, Santino Fontana is constantly waxing all of his body hair and says the upkeep is a “nightmare.”
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