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Tony Award victor Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical) will subordinate nan formed of nan Broadway revival of David Auburn’s Proof next month, taking complete nan domiciled of Claire from nan departing Kara Young, producers announced today.
Young is leaving nan show connected Sunday, June 28, owed to a previously announced commitment to Lincoln Center Theater’s upcoming The Whoopi Monologues, a reimagining of Whoopi Goldberg’s 1984 solo Broadway play adapted for an ensemble of women, including Young and Kerry Washington. Previews for that show statesman July 7.
Warren joins Ayo Edebiri, Don Cheadle and Jin Ha successful Proof, directed by Thomas Kail, connected Tuesday, June 30 astatine The Booth Theatre.
Warren was astir precocious seen onstage successful nan New York City Center Encores! staging of Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party, and past twelvemonth she appeared arsenic Cathy successful nan revival of The Last Five Years alongside Nick Jonas. She will look successful nan upcoming indie movie Shadow Dance.
Young herself was a last-minute replacement successful Proof for Samira Wiley (Orange Is The New Black), who withdrew from nan accumulation weeks earlier previews began owed to what a show spokesperson called a “treatable aesculapian condition.”
In Proof, Edebiri plays Catherine, nan superb but restless girl of renowned mathematics professor Robert (Cheadle) who is thrust into turmoil erstwhile a notebook containing a revelatory mathematical impervious is discovered aft his death. Warren’s character, Claire, is Catherine’s sister, recently arrived from retired of municipality who attempts to return complete nan readying of their father’s funeral.
