One of the buzziest events of the 2023-24 theatre season wasn’t on Broadway. It was the Off-Broadway world premiere of Here We Are, the final, unfinished musical Stephen Sondheim was working on before his 2021 death. Adapted from Luis Bu\u00f1uel’s films The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, the show featured Cannavale as Leo Brink, one half of a posh couple whose home is the starting point for an eclectic ensemble’s surreal adventures.<\/p>\n
The star-studded “dream cast,” as New York Theatre Guide’s critic<\/a> described it, also included Tracie Bennett, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale<\/a>, Amber Gray<\/a>, Jeremy Shamos<\/a>, Rachel Bay Jones<\/a>, Francois Battiste, Micaela Diamond<\/a>, Jin Ha<\/a>, and David Hyde Pierce<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the buzziest events of the 2023-24 theatre season wasn’t on Broadway. It was the Off-Broadway world…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-215519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115180099582397971","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}