EXCLUSIVE: Veteran Broadway actor Emily Skinner will join Bridgerton star Luke Newton in the upcoming Off Broadway production House of McQueen, a new play about the late, famed fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen.
Skinner will play McQueen’s mother Joyce to Newton’s McQueen.
As Deadline reported exclusively yesterday, Darrah Cloud’s House of McQueen will begin previews August 19 at the new Off Broadway Manhattan venue The Mansion at Hudson Yards, with an official opening set for September 9. The limited engagement runs through November.
Skinner is one of Broadway’s most prominent musical stars (House of McQueen is a play, not a musical) having made her debut in 1997 in Jekyll & Hyde. Subsequent Broadway credits include Side Show, James Joyce’s The Dead, The Full Monty, Dinner at Eight, Billy Elliot, Prince of Broadway, The Cher Show, New York, New York and, most recently, last year’s Suffs.
Directed by Sam Helfrich, House of McQueen, according to the synopsis, “will take guests through Lee’s layered individual experience, from his early days as an emerging designer, to later building one of the most important fashion houses in the world, and ultimately his tragic passing in 2010. Within the performance, intimate relationships with key figures in his life ranging from mentor Isabella Blow to blood relatives will be explored surrounded by a highly produced landscape complete with floor-to-ceiling LED panels designed to shift environments on stage.”
House of McQueen will be produced by Rick Lazes, with Gary James McQueen, nephew of the late designer, serving as creative director.
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