Jim Parsons要去百老匯了 - 宅男行不行

他獲得演出The Normal Heart的機會，
角色是來自美國南方的Tommy Boatwright，
80年代早期HIV/AIDS社運團體成員。


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紐約時報
http://tinyurl.com/4nsgrzw
March 7, 2011, 1:30 PM

Jim Parsons and Lee Pace Join Cast of ‘Normal Heart’ on Broadway

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Proving that it is possible for the star of a CBS comedy to take a break
from his series without mortifying the network or his co-stars or burning
all of his bridges in the entertainment industry, Jim Parsons, the “Big
Bang Theory” star, will join the cast of the coming Broadway production
of “The Normal Heart,” the play’s press representatives said Monday.
Mr. Parsons, who in recent months has won an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe
for his portrayal of the physicist Sheldon Cooper, will make his Broadway
debut in “The Normal Heart,” playing Tommy Boatwright, a Southerner in
a nascent group of HIV/AIDS activists in the early 1980s. Also joining
the cast is Lee Pace, a star of the late, lamented ABC series “Pushing
Daisies,” who will be making his Broadway debut in the role of Bruce Niles,
a closeted fellow activist.

This latest production of “The Normal Heart,” Larry Kramer’s
semi-autobiographical work about AIDS, friendship and love in 1980s-era
New York, will be directed by Joel Grey (with some help from
George C. Wolfe), and is to begin previews at the Golden Theater on April
19 with an opening night planned for April 27. Previously announced
cast members include Joe Mantello as the protagonist, Ned Weeks;
Ellen Barkin as Dr. Emma Brookner; and John Benjamin Hickey as
Weeks’s lover, Felix Turner.


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