O’Donnell to Star in Broadway Revival

She’s starred in films from ranging the classic A League of Their Own to Sleepless in Seattle and has done both standup comedy and been a host on ABC’s The View, but Rosie O’Donnell is also a bona fide Broadway star, coming back after years away from the big stage to star in an upcoming Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart 1937 musical Babes in Arms. The new version of Babes in Arms, said to feature a new book by Joe DiPietro (Memphis), is still in the works, but the production is coming together with the recent announcement that Tony nominated choreographer Randy Skinner will direct and choreograph the upcoming Babes in Arms. In the revival of the 1937 musical, O’Donnell is expected to play the part of a chorus girl who helps a group of children put on a musical show so they won’t be sent to a workfarm. Skinner and O’Donnell have worked together in the past, when the two partnered for a staging of No, No, Nanette.

Rosie O’Donnell’s Broadway stint began in 1994, when the actress debuted as Rizzo in the Broadway revival of Grease!, and she’s also played the Cat in the Hat in a production of Seussical, as well as Golde in Fiddler on the Roof.

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