Gordon Cox Theater EditorIn the Williamstown Theatre Festival’s new audio version of “Paradise Blue,” Blair Underwood gets the chance to revisit to a role he’s been wanting to get back to since he first played it in 2015.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:“I’ve been trying to return to that character since I left it!” the actor said on “Stagecraft,” Variety’s theater podcast.
He’d first played Blue, the leader of a jazz quartet in 1940s Detroit, in the world premiere of Dominique Morisseau’s play at Williamstown in 2015, and the opportunity to revisit the show as an audio production (due to be released on Audible on March 25) allowed him to discover new depths in the character.Currently nominated for a Tony for his.
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