Christina Amoroso

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Tom Francis’ Broadway debut as Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard has netted him a Tony nomination for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical, but he’s already manifesting his next role. “I’m trying to put into the ether a Rent revival,” the 25-year-old Brit tells me over Zoom.

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Conrad Ricamora has just enjoyed a reprieve not many Broadway stars get when they’re in a hit show: a couple months off. But the actor and co-star of Oh, Mary! couldn’t stay away from the theater during his downtime, catching highlights like Paul Mescal in A Streetcar Named Desire and Nicole Scherzinger in Sunset Boulevard. “It blew me away,” he says of the latter.

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Kara Young, who’s starring in Purpose at the Hayes Theater, has come home. She’s back in the dressing room she had when she starred in the 2021 Lynn Nottage play Clyde’s, for which she received her first Tony Award nomination. “There are so many memories,” she says of being backstage at the Hayes, especially ones including her costar in that show, the late Ron Cephas Jones.

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“I get a little cuckoo when I don’t get to have that proper balance of home life,” Robyn Hurder tells me over the phone. The actor had been staying at an apartment while preparing for the Broadway opening of Smash, only returning to her family and home north of the city on days off. Now that the show’s opened, she’s making the most of being back with her husband and child full-time. “I can see my son and I am cooking dinner for the first time today,” she adds.

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Like the iconic 1992 surrealist black comedy on which it’s based, Death Becomes Her has been enjoying somewhat of a cult following on Broadway since premiering in November. When I arrived at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre to pick up my tickets one night in early April, I overheard someone telling the box office agent that it was his third time seeing the show. One of my best friends, meanwhile, has also seen the musical multiple times.