The Color Purple) will lead the cast of Broadway at the Drive-In's
The Blues Brothers, set to open Mary 27 with performances every Friday and Saturday evening through June 26 at Radial Park at Halletts Point in Queens. The "cinemersive" experience will feature live performers and musicians performing in sync with an outdoor, drive-in screening of the 1980 film.
Directed by Kristine Bendul and Waldemar Quinones-Villanueva,
The Blues Brothers will feature Dawson as Mrs. Murphy, Burroughs as Reverend Cleophus James, Haynie as Elwood Blues, Johnson as "Joliet" Jake Blues, and Smith as Ray, with Ladonna Burns and Anne Fraser Thomas as the Blues Sistas.