Abby Matsusaka
Biography
(she/her) New York: Some Like It Hot (Broadway), Lempicka (Broadway), Once Upon a Mattress (City Center Encores). Regional: The Karate Kid (world premiere). Endless thanks to this remarkable creative team, Dustin, Marc, Jim and her unb lievably sup- portive family.
Credits
Sunset Boulevard
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Mandy Gonzalez
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
is an accomplished film, TV, stage actor, and author. She possesses one of the most powerful and versatile contemporary voices of our time. Her first Broadway role was in Aida and has since gone on to originate the role of ‘Nina Rosario’ in the Tony® Award-winning Broadway musical, In The Heights, for which she received a Drama Desk Award. She is also among the Broadway greats who have taken on the role of ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked and most recently she starred in the megahit Hamilton as ‘Angelica Schuyler’ for six years. Along with being a stage actor, Gonzalez has been featured in television and movie roles including “The Good Wife,” “Madam Secretary,” Across the Universe, “Quantico,” and “Only Murders in the Building.” A frequent concert soloist, Gonzalez has performed with symphony orchestras around the world. Highlights include Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops, Boston Pops, Philly Pops, the National Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, and Atlanta Pops to name a few. Gonzalez released her debut album FEARLESS in 2017, which debuted in the Top 20 of iTunes pop charts. In her quest to create positive change, Gonzalez is the proud founder of #FearlessSquad – a social media movement for inclusiveness and positivity. She is also an accomplished author who recently published her young adult series, FEARLESS – a four-book middle-grade series that follows young thespians whose brushes with the supernatural teach them about theater, friendship, and themselves. Gonzalez is deeply committed to advocating for underserved communities and schools. She serves on the boards of BCRF (Breast Cancer Research Foundation) and BC/EFA (Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS), where she actively promotes awareness and fundraising efforts.
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Cydney Clark
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
Broadway debut! Past credits include SIX (NCL), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Theatre by the Sea), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (the Rev Theatre Company). Umich grad! Go blue.
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Tom Francis
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
(he/him) is an Olivier Award winner for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Joe Gillis in Sunset Blvd. (Savoy Theatre, West End). Other theatre credits include & Juliet (Shaftesbury), What’s New Pussycat? (Birmingham Rep), Rent (Hope Mill), Hair – The Concert (London Palladium) and I Could Use a Drink (Gartland Productions). Screen credits include “You” (Netflix) and the upcoming untitled Noah Baumbach Picture (Netflix). Training: Arts Educational School.
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Sydney Jones
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
Broadway: A Beautiful Noise. Select regional: Mar- garitaville (Rachel, Arrow Rock Lyceum), Boop! (CIBC Theatre), The Karate Kid (STAGES St. Louis) and 12 seasons at the Muny. BFA, University of Oklahoma. Thanks to my family, Daniel Hoff agency and Brett!
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Shayna McPherson
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
Training: The Urdang Academy. Theatre includes The Artist (Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Sunset Blvd. (West End), Johannes Radebe: Freedom Unleashed (U.K. tour), Aladdin (Stuttgart), The Wiz (Hope Mill Theatre). Film includes Disenchanted (Disney). Shayna is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut in Sunset Blvd.
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Nicole Scherzinger
Currently in: Sunset Boulevard
(she/her) is a Grammy-nominated, plat- inum-selling singer, actress and dancer. Scherzinger revisits her critically acclaimed, Olivier Award-winning performance as Norma Desmond in Jamie Lloyd’s reimag- ining of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Blvd. The West End production won seven Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival. Scherzinger also won the Best Musical Performance award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. She made her West End debut in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, for which she was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. Additional theatre credits include Guys and Dolls, Chicago and Show Boat. She also played Maureen in Rent at the Hollywood Bowl. Television credits include “The X Factor,” “The Masked Singer” and NBC’s live musical special “Annie Live!” Scherzinger is also the voice of Moana’s mother Sina in Disney’s popular Moana films. She is a global artist and a former mem- ber of one of the world’s best-selling usic groups of all time, The Pussycat Dolls.
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