Crystal Lucas-Perry (Heather Gershonowitz)
The class of 2013's Crystal Lucas-Perry, is currently starring as John Adams in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revivial of '1776' on Broadway! The show is running September 16, 2022—January 8, 2023 at the American Airlines Theater, and you can purchase tickets at the link below.
From Playbill:
“That’s one of the best and most exciting parts of it…we’re able to shift this gaze, change the lens, and allow people to hear things for the first time while still respecting the history of the piece,” says Lucas-Perry. “It’s allowing America to be in the show versus the show to be about America. It hasn’t always been easy taking on this complicated moment in history, portraying this group of men as they commit treason against the British crown while northern and southern delegations try to compromise on a clause condemning slavery, but the performers have found ways into the material. “I can relate to people taking a risk. I can relate to people putting themselves in danger for something greater,” says Lucas-Perry.
“We are America, too, and now we’re also a part of history and you can’t take that away. It’s not about erasing the white men that were there,” says Lucas-Perry. “It’s about including the other people that also existed, too.”