Episode 9: JELANI REMY & AMANDA JANE COOPER

For this special live taping of the Feinstein’s/54 Below Podcast at BroadwayCon 2020, we were joined by Broadway favorites Jelani Remy and Amanda Jane Cooper. Jelani Remy is currently starring as Eddie Kendricks in Ain't Too Proud! The Life and Times of The Temptations. He was last seen in the recent off Broadway revival of Smokey Joe’s Cafe  after playing Simba in Disney's The Lion King!  Amanda Jane Cooper is known to national audiences for having played Glinda on the tour of Wicked and in 2017 she made her Broadway debut as where she starred as the show’s 15th Anniversary Glinda and also opened NBC's A Very Wicked Halloween  with "One Short Day" and closed the special with "For Good" alongside Kristin Chenoweth. She took her final bow at the Gershwin on December 9th, 2018 and is now one of Wicked's longest running Glinda's.  These stars joined our Director of Marketing, Nella Vera, to talk touring, leading blockbuster musicals, and working with Broadway legends. For tickets and information about I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been: https://54below.com/events/i-wish-4/ Follow Jelani Remy on Instagram at @itsjelaniremy. Follow Amanda Jane Cooper on Instagram at @amandajanecoop and on Twitter at @amandajanecoop. Watch Jelani Remy perform “Somewhere That’s Green” in I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcQ7glU_uHQ   Watch Amanda Jane Cooper perform “Notice Me Horton” in I Wish: The Roles That Could Have Been:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcvZO94sFE Credits This podcast is hosted by Nella Vera and Adrian Karnani and produced by Grace Benigni, with support from the Feinstein’s/54 Below marketing staff. Artwork by Philip Romano. Follow Nella on Twitter at @spinstripes and Adrian on Instagram at @adriankarnani.