First Date, First Look (Wet) at Broadway in Bryant Park

First DateZachary Levi (“Chuck”) and Krysta Rodriguez (“Smash” and “The Addams Family”) star in “First Date,” a musical about a blind date, which will open at Broadway’s Longacre Theater on August 8.

Zachary Levi of First Date, backstage at Broadway in Bryant Park
Zachary Levi of First Date, backstage at Broadway in Bryant Park

On August 1, the cast braved the rain to perform three songs at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert.

Safer

The One

The downpour was at its most severe during the Zachary Levi/Krysta Rodriguez duet “First Impression” and there were a lot of poking umbrellas to content with. Showing it first would have made a bad impression.

First Impression

Further description of the show: “Dinner is served with sides of Google background checks, fake emergency phone calls, supportive best friends, manipulative exes and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential conversational land mines.”

Author: New York Theater

Jonathan Mandell is a 3rd generation NYC journalist, who sees shows, reads plays, writes reviews and sometimes talks with people.

2 thoughts on “First Date, First Look (Wet) at Broadway in Bryant Park

  1. I hear Mr. Levi is a Broadway Diva. Anyone who has seen the show was not impressed. They do like Krysta. Levi’s understudy is much better.

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