Folderol & Fiddledeedee: Two-Time Tony Winner Judy Kaye is Cinderella’s Newest Fairy Godmother!

It’s possible! Tony winner Judy Kaye flies into the Broadway production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella beginning September 12 as the Fairy Godmother. Kaye steps in for Tony winner Victoria Clark and joins a cast that includes the newly crowned Keke Palmer as the titular princess and Sherri Shepherd as Madame, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother.

Kaye won Tonys for her performances as Duchess Estonia Dulworth in Nice Work If You Can Get It and as Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera. She was also nominated for her roles in Mamma Mia! and Souvenir. Her other Broadway credits include Ragtime, On the Twentieth Century, Sweeney Todd and Grease.

In addition to Kaye, Palmer and Shepherd, the current cast of Cinderella includes Joe Carroll as Prince Topher, Ann Harada as Charlotte, Stephanie Gibson as Gabrielle, Peter Bartlett as Sebastian, Todd Buonopane as Jean-Michel and Phumzile Sojola as Lord Pinkleton.