Jordan is gecast in het theaterstuk ‘Rent’ dat van 26-28 juli te zien zal zijnn in het Kennedy Center in Washington Edit: Uiteindelijk kon hij door een ongeval niet optreden en is Jordan vervangen.

Jordan Donica Heather Gershonowitz

Jordan Donica and Awa Sal Secka have joined the cast of the world premiere symphonic concert adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s Pulitzer-winning rock opera Rent, set to play the Kennedy Center July 26-28.

Presented by the National Symphony Orchestra with Steven Reineke conducting, the concerts will be directed by Sammi Cannold. The new symphonic orchestration, expanded from Steve Skinner’s original five-piece arrangement, has been penned by Sean O’Loughlin.

2023 Camelot Tony nominee Donica will play Collins with Sal Secka (Signature’s Gun & Powder) as Joanne. The casting was announced via Instagram.

The cast will also feature the previously reported Tony nominee Lorna Courtney (& Juliet) as Mimi Márquez, Andrew Barth Feldman (Dear Evan Hansen) as Mark Cohen, Alex Boniello (Spring Awakening) as Roger Davis, Tony winner Ali Stroker (Oklahoma!) as Maureen Johnson, Tony winner Myles Frost (MJ: The Musical) as Benjamin “Benny” Coffin III, and Jimmie Herrod (America’s Got Talent) as Angel Dumott Schunard.

Produced by AMP Worldwide, the limited run will also have music supervision by Sean Mayes.

Directed by Michael Greif, Rent opened at Broadway’s Nederlander Theatre April 29, 1996, following previews that began April 16. The musical received 10 1996 Tony nominations, subsequently winning four, including Best Musical. Larson’s work also won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. After 16 previews and 5,123 regular performances, the production played its final show September 7, 2008.

Set in Manhattan in the 1990s and inspired by Puccini’s opera La Bohème, the hit musical follows a group of young East Village artists, performers, and philosophers as they struggle through the hardships of poverty, societal discord, and the AIDS epidemic in the search for life, love, and art.

When Jordan Donica was about 9 or 10, his aunt took him to New York City with a mission: Get the notion of making it on Broadway out of his system. Thankfully, that mission failed spectacularly.

“It was raining and I was dancing through the streets of Times Square, loving every second of it. My aunt had to tell me to slow down,” he recalls, now happily a New Yorker. “The thing that I love the most is here, at its height — the core where everything explodes out from.”

With determination and talent, Donica still hasn’t slowed down, earning his first Tony Award nomination for playing the hunky, gallant knight Sir Lancelot in a gorgeous Lincoln Center Theater revival of the classic musical “Camelot.”

“I’m just thankful and it just makes me want to do the work even more. Really. That was the first thought I had was, ‘I’m excited to get back to work,’” he says.
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