Issa Briones takes on the role of Connie Francis in the Broadway musical Just in time.
The role marks a return to Broadway Star Petewhich first appeared in Hadestown in March 2024. She begins her limited run starting on April 1, opposite Matthew Morrison in the role of singer Bobby Darren, and will later play opposite Jeremy Jordan, when he takes over on April 21.
In addition to her role as Dr. Trinity Santos the house, Briones often appeared on stage, including in Hamilton National Tour and East and West players Next to normal. Briones said she was drawn to playing Francis, a popular singer of the 1950s and 1960s, because it allowed her to imitate the vocal style of that era. It also balances well with more serious content the house.
“It’s nice to do something that feels really fun for two hours,” Briones said, shortly after her first rehearsal. Just in time Tuesday.
The role also fits with her goal of continuing to bounce back and forth between stage and television throughout her career, which has also included roles in Disney+ series Goosebumps and the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard.
“the house It’s very theatrical in how we shoot it and how we rehearse it. So being a theatrical person the house It felt so natural, to keep bouncing back and forth between them the house “Theatre, which has been kind of my vibe for the last year and a half, seemed completely normal,” she said.
In the second season of the HBO medical drama, the lines become even more blurred when Briones’ character sings a Filipino lullaby to an infant patient — an idea she said came from the book and involved consulting her father, Broadway actor Jun Jun Briones, to help choose the right song.
“the house “She’s very good at playing to people’s strengths and skills, and since they knew I could sing, they said, ‘Okay, let’s do it,'” she said.
Briones faced a more difficult test while filming the ninth episode in the second season of the series the house, Who came out March 5, when she started having stomach pain and eventually had to undergo an appendectomy. She is still filming the episode’s pre- and post-surgery scenes. “We took two days off work. But then when we came back, everyone came up to me and said, ‘Honestly, thank you for having appendicitis,’ because we needed two days,” she said.
Briones joins Just in time About a year after his success, he took over the role of Frances from Sarah Hyland. For her second time on Broadway, Briones said she feels “really prepared,” prepared for the demands of an eight-performance week, based on her experience in the role of Eurydice in Hadestown.
“I think I learned a lot from doing this. It was an amazing experience, and I loved it. But now I can also look back and say, ‘Oh, I know what I can do better now,'” she said.
