Ryan McCartan is returning to Broadway tonight in the musical Frozen and here’s your first look at him in costume as Hans!
The 26-year-old Liv & Maddie actor has previously been on Broadway in Wicked and he’s joining Ciara Renee as Elsa and McKenzie Kurtz as Anna.
The Broadway production will be introducing some changes that were made for the North American tour. In the show’s second act, Elsa and Anna will no longer sing the “For the First Time in Forever” reprise and they’ll instead perform the new duet “I Can’t Lose You.”
Kristoff, who is currently being played by Noah J. Ricketts, will also get a reprise for his song “What Do I Know About Love?†to express his growing feelings for Anna.
Anna’s second act solo song “True Love” has been cut and the act two opening number “Hygge” is being trimmed.
Ciara is best known for her work on The CW’s Legends of Tomorrow, Arrow, and The Flash. She has been seen on Broadway in Pippin and Big Fish. McKenzie is making her Broadway debut!
Ryan McCartan is heading to Arendelle!!
The 26-year-old actor and singer was just announced as joining the Broadway cast of Frozen in the role of Hans.
Ryan will take over for current Hans Joe Carroll starting February 18th.
“I’m gonna be Hans in @FrozenBroadway – my performances start in February! I’m only capable of playing villains and princes. Come watch me do the only two things I can do, but this time, all at once! â„ï¸,” he shared on Twitter.
“honestly thanks for casting me in this role,” he added.
Also joining the cast of Frozen is Legends of Tomorrow‘s Ciara Renee. She will take over the role of Elsa after original star Caissie Levy. McKenzie Kurtz will be joining the cast as well, marking her Broadway debut, taking on the role of Anna after Patti Murin. The ladies will begin their performances on February 18th as well.
China Anne McClain strikes a fierce pose as she arrives at the 2017 Comic-Con on Saturday afternoon (July 22) in San Diego, Calif.
The 18-year-old actress was joined at the event by her Black Lightning co-stars Cress Williams, Nafessa Williams, and Christine Adams to promote their upcoming new superhero show.
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Joining the cast of Black Lightning at Comic-Con was the stars of Legends of Tomorrow.
The cast – Caity Lotz, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Ciara Renee, and Franz Drameh – attended the event to spill details on season three of their hit show.
Season three of Legends of Tomorrow will premiere on Tuesday, October 10 while Black Lightning is set to premiere on The CW in early 2018.
15+ pictures inside of the stars at Comic-Con…
Grant Gustin, Melissa Benoist, and Stephen Amell all walk to set to kick off filming for the upcoming DC crossover on Thursday (October 12) in Vancouver, Canada.
The trio was joined on set by Grant‘s Flash co-star Carlos Valdes, Stephen‘s Arrow co-stars David Ramsey and Emily Bett Rickards, as well as Legends of Tomorrow stars Nick Zano, Victor Garber, Brandon Routh, Dominic Purcell, Caity Lotz, Franz Drameh, and Ciara Renée.
The casts from all four shows filmed some interior scenes inside a airport hangar.
Meanwhile, plot details are being kept under wraps for this episode, but we can’t wait to watch!
45+ pics inside of the CW superheroes on set of the big crossover episode… More Here! »
Ciara Renee embraces her beautiful natural look in the September 2016 issue of NKD mag.
The 25-year-old former Legends of Tomorrow actress dished on her Broadway beginnings and the transition to television. Check it:
On her first Broadway experience: “It was super eye-opening, but I didn’t know what I was doing. I didn’t know how to pace myself for the endurance of doing eight shows a week and singing as high as I possibly could and everything that comes with that. I didn’t know how to do a real, big Broadway tech with all these crazy props and dressers and stuff like that.”
On perseverance: “A lot of my life has been learning trial by fire. I just get thrown into the pan and I have to figure out how to get out or not get burnt. I think that that’s good. I’ve learned a lot so quickly because I had to, and I think that’s a big reason why I’ve had so much success, because I just had to learn how to buck up and get where I was going.”
On portraying a superhero on TV: “I think as a woman of color, we are role models in a really, really important way, because there isn’t enough representation. When you do see someone like us on TV, playing a superhero no less, I think it’s very important that we show that A, these women have agency, and B, that they;re skilled in whatever they’re supposed to be doing.”
WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD! Do not continue if you don’t want to know what happened on the season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow!
Tonight, we said goodbye to another team member on DC’s Legends of Tomorrow — Hawkgirl, played by Ciara Renee.
At the end of the episode, Hawkman and Hawkgirl completed their 4,000-year quest to kill the immortal Vandal Savage and were seen at the end of the finale flying off into the sunset. With that arc over, we won’t be seeing Hawkman and Hawkgirl in Season 2 much.
Co-creator/executive producer Marc Guggenheim shared with Deadline: “We went through the team, made a list of all the characters and started to think of stories for them. When we got to Hawkman and Hawkgirl, we had trouble coming up with stories. The bow was tied so tightly and neatly with their story in the finale, that everything we thought of felt very forced. After 4000 years, they were no longer under the specter of Vandal, and we felt they need some time off. Bringing them back to the team as soon as the the beginning of Season 2 felt premature.”
While Ciara won’t be a regular cast member, that doesn’t mean she won’t return.
Marc added that he didn’t know if Ciara or Falk Hentschel would have a presence in the next season until he and the series’ other writers get together to think about next season.
Vanessa Hudgens and Cole Sprouse make an appearance on the red carpet at the 2016 Entertainment Weekly and People Upfronts VIP Party on Monday (May 16) in New York City.
The stars were at the event while promoting their respective new television series, NBC’s Powerless and The CW’s Riverdale.
Other stars at the event included Jane the Virgin‘s Justin Baldoni (with wife Emily) and Yael Grobglas, Supergirl‘s Jeremy Jordan, Midnight Texas‘ Sarah Ramos, The Carmichael Show‘s Jerrod Carmichael and Amber Stevens West, Blindspot‘s Francois Arnaud, The Real O’Neal‘s Noah Galvin, and Legends of Tomorrow‘s Ciara Renee.
Justin and his buddies Travis Van Winkle and Travis Clark just launched their new app for pregnant women called BellyBump. The app captures one of the most important journeys of your life through time-lapse videos of your growing belly and baby once born.
FYI: Vanessa is wearing a Haney dress, Stuart Weitzman shoes, and Jacquie Aiche jewelry.