'Illinoise' Broadway Dancer Gaby Diaz on the Sufjan Stevens musical choreographed by Tony winner Justin Peck.
,” says Gaby Diaz, who is two days post-opening night and getting a slow start to her day at home before heading to the theater. The show, “debut, and is one of the most talked-about new shows to arrive there this spring. But as Diaz says, neither she nor the show’s creators ever expected to find themselves here. , with a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury around Sufjan Stevens’ 2005 album of the same name.
She’d never heard Stevens’ album before in its entirety, only knowing the hit “Chicago” from its placement in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine,” one of her favorites. Diaz, who is Cuban American, was raised in Miami with a father who played percussion and a mother who grew up dancing, and was therefore encouraged in the arts from a young age.
Since audiences have come to see the production at the St. James Theater, Diaz has been moved to hear how many people comment on how they can feel what the performers are feeling onstage.
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