Butler & Morrison Tapped for B'way-Bound Sex
Butler most recently appeared on the Great White Way as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, for which she received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination. She received a Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for a Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award for her work as Penny Pingleton in Hairspray. She has also appeared on Broadway in Beauty and the Beast, Les Miserables and Blood Brothers. Off-Broadway, Butler has been seen in Prodigal and Bat Boy.
Morrison is currently reprising the role of the Link Larkin in the Los Angeles mounting of Hairspray. He earned an Outer Critics Award nomination for his performance in the New York production of the musical, which he left on January 11, 2004. Before Hairspray, Morrison appeared on Broadway in Footloose and The Rocky Horror Show. He is also expected to play the title character in the upcoming Disney musical Tarzan.
The Opposite of Sex features music and lyrics by Douglas J. Cohen and a book by Robert Jess Roth and Cohen and is based on Don Roos' screenplay for the 1998 film of the same name. The Opposite of Sex is about a 16-year-old girl Butler with a dead stepfather and an emotionally unstable mother. She decides to make a break for it, moves in with her gay half-brother and seduces his hot boyfriend Morrison. And that's only the beginning.
The show, directed by Roth Beauty and the Beast, is scheduled to run in California from September 25 through October 24 before a possible Broadway berth.
