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Harry Connick Jr To Star In The Sting Musical

by Paul Cashmere on March 24, 2018

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Harry Connick Jr will perform a limited run of shows starring in The Sting before it heads to Broadway.

Harry has been tapped for the part of Henry Gondorff, the role Paul Newman played in the 1973 movie.

The plot for The Sting is about a small town grafter called Johnny Hooker who with conman Gondorff plots to bring down corruption in Chicago in the 1930s.

The Broadway-bound engagement of The Sting begins performances on Thursday, March 29, 2018, for a limited engagement through Sunday, April 29, 2018, at Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ. Opening Night is Sunday, April 8, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.

Connick will also perform a limited run of concerts this June to celebrate the New Orleans Tricentennial.

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