We’ve been waiting for CCM musical theater grad Leslie Kritzer to get her deserved shot at stardom, and, capping a season where the spotlight’s been focusing in, she’s been cast in her first leading role in a Broadway musical. She plays the bride in “A Catered Affair,”  one of next season’s already buzzing musicals adapted from a Paddy Chayefsky teleplay (and a TV film by Gore Vidal) by Harvey “Torch Song Trilogy” Fierstein and John Bucchino. Word is that Fierstein has written himself a “sensational” role.

Cincinnati can start rooting for “A Catered Affair” right now – it’s directed by “Company” man John Doyle (and this time the cast won’t be the orchestra) and CCM grad and Broadway star Faith Prince is mother of the bride.

Kritzer’s good year includes a MAC (Manhattan cabaret) Award for solo show “Leslie Kritzer Is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches,” and just won Actors Equity’s Clarence Derwent Award for her work in “Legally Blonde.” (We last saw Kritzer locally stealing the national tour of “Urinetown.”)

“A Catered Affair” debuts at the Old Globe in San Diego in September and is due on Broadway next spring.

Jackie Demaline

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