Conversations on Broadway: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU

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Conversations on Broadway: IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU

Sierra Boggess, David Burtka, Montego Glover, Harriet Harris, Lisa Howard, Chip Zien

Thursday, April 30, 2015

Begins at 1:00 PM EDT
Check-in begins at: 12:15 PM EDT

Wednesday, April 29, 2015



Screen Actors Guild Foundation and Broadway World have partnered for a filmed Conversations Q&A series to recognize and celebrate the vibrant theatre community in New York City and the actors who aspire to have a career on the stage and screen. Please join us for a career Conversations with It Shoulda Been You cast members Sierra Boggess, David Burtka, Montego Glover, Harriet Harris, Lisa Howard and Chip Zien and moderated by Broadway World's Richard Ridge of "Backstage with Richard Ridge!"


Synopsis

Tony Awardwinners Tyne Daly and Harriet Harris head a hilarious cast complete with blushing brides, nervous grooms, overbearing moms, unexpected guests, and enough twists and turns to make even the most experienced wedding planner throw up his hands and say 'holy matrimony!'

IT SHOULDA BEEN YOU, directed by Emmy and Tony Award winner David Hyde Pierce.


Praise about the show:

“The freshest, funniest musical of the season! It Shoulda Been You is delightfully giddy with a big, buoyant heart, both endearingly old-fashioned and decidedly contemporary.”
– USA TODAY

“Snag an invitation to this smart, funny and inventive musical comedy! David Hyde Pierce directs this irreverent comedy at a non-stop pace, full of touching moments, tension, humor and some surprising revelations.”
– ASSOCIATED PRESS

“100 minutes of comic gold!”
– THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

PANELIST BIOS

HARRIET HARRIS (Georgette Howard). Broadway: Madame, the wicked step-mother, in Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella,
Present Laughter, Cry-Baby: The Musical, Old Acquaintance, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony and Drama Desk Awards
for Featured Actress in a Musical) and The Man Who Came to Dinner. Encores!: Little Me. Off-Broadway: Standing on Ceremony;
Yeast Nation; Jeffrey (Drama Desk nomination), Bella, Belle of Byelorussia (Drama Desk nomination). Film: Love Is Strange,
Memento, Nurse Betty, Addams Family Values. TV: “Desperate Housewives” as Felicia Tilman, “Frasier” as Bebe Glazer.
Member of the Acting Company, AEA. www.HarrietHarrisActress.com. Twitter: @msharrietharris

LISA HOWARD (Jenny Steinberg) is thrilled to have originated her role of Jenny Steinberg in the George Street production,
and to now bring it to Broadway. Broadway: Priscilla Queen of the Desert, 9 to 5, South Pacific, The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee (Drama Desk Award winner). National tour: Les Misérables. Regional theatre: Pitt Civic Light Opera, St. Louis Muny,
Olney Theatre Center, Kansas City Starlight. Film and TV: Siobahn in the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, “Ugly Betty.”
Her debut solo CD, Songs of Innocence and Experience, is available on iTunes. Graduate, CCM. Thanks to my boys M, L and A. www.lisahowardnyc.com Twitter: @lisahowardnyc

SIERRA BOGGESS (Rebecca Steinberg). Broadway: The Phantom of the Opera, Master Class, The Little Mermaid (Drama
Desk and Drama League noms.). London: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera (Royal Albert Hall), Love Never Dies
(Olivier Award nom.). Other NY credits: Guys and Dolls (Carnegie Hall); Love, Loss, and What I Wore; and Music in the Air
(Encores!). Recordings include the 25th anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid
and A Little Princess. Concert appearances include the BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center’s American Songbook,
New York Pops and 54 Below, which resulted in her album Awakening: Live at 54 Below.

DAVID BURTKA (Brian Howard) . Broadway: Gypsy (Fred Astaire nomination); The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? Off-Broadway: The Play About the Baby (Clarence Derwent Award), Beautiful Thing. Regional: The Opposite of Sex (Williamstown), Rent (Hollywood Bowl), Children of Eden (Paper Mill Playhouse). Film: Dance-Off, Annie and the Gypsy, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, 24 Nights, Hollywood Ending. TV: “American Horror Story: Freak Show,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Crossing Jordan,” “CSI: NY,” “On the Lot,” “The West Wing,” “Neil’s Puppet Dreams.” Education: University of Michigan, William Esper Studios, Le Corden Bleu. Thank you Neil, Harper and Gideon.

MONTEGO GLOVER (Annie Shepard). Tony and Drama League Award nominee, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award
winner for Memphis (Felicia Farrell). Broadway: The Color Purple. Regional includes The Royale (San Diego Critics nom.), Aida (IRNE Award), Once on This Island (Helen Hayes nom.). TV: “The Following,” “Black Box,” “Hostages,” “Smash,” “The Good Wife,” among others. Concerts: NY Pops, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Symphony, Atlanta Symphony. Artists’ Committee for Kennedy Center Honors, NY Pops Ambassador. www.MontegoGlover.com Twitter @MontegoGlover

CHIP ZIEN (Murray Steinberg) created the roles of the Baker in Sondheim/Lapine’s acclaimed Into the Woods and Mendel in
Finn/Lapine’s award-winning Falsettos. Other (partial) Broadway: The Big Knife, The People in the Picture, The Country Girl,
Thénardier in Les Misérables, Grand Hotel. (Partial) Off-Broadway: Hot L Baltimore, Isn’t It Romantic, A New Brain. Mr. Zien
starred in the La Jolla reworking of Merrily We Roll Along. TV (regular): “The Caroline Rhea Show,” “Almost Perfect,” “Now and
Again,” “Deadline,” “Shell Game,” “Love, Sidney” and the recently completed “Crime” for HBO. Book writer: The History of War (NYMF), The Little Immigrant (Barrington Stage).