Like Renée Elise Goldsberry, he’s also a former Hamilton cast member. Go Blue! Daniel Breaker (Scott)īreaker, who plays Sara Bareilles’s guidance counselor husband, Scott, is an accomplished Broadway actor in his own right, with a Tony nomination for Passing Strange. Fun fact: Henningsen was classmates with Park at the University of Michigan musical theater program. Henningsen, who plays a young, closeted Gloria in flashback sequences, also starred in Fey’s Mean Girls musical, stepping into Lindsay Lohan’s shoes as Cady Heron. Broadway babies know that Park is also a Tony-nominated musical theater actress who got her nod by playing Gretchen Wieners in Fey’s musical version of Mean Girls, with music and lyrics written by Fey’s husband, Jeff Richmond (who also wrote much of Girls5Eva’s music). Does that mean he’s seen a pack of wild dogs take over and successfully run a Wendy’s? Ashley Park (Ashley)ĭearly departed Girls5Eva member Ashley, who died in a tragic infinity pool accident, is played by Park-whom you probably recognize as the nanny and aspiring chanteuse Mindy Chen on Emily in Paris. While Craft may seem too young to be a member of the Fey/Carlock crew, he actually played the teenage version of Tracy Morgan on the 30 Rock alum’s TBS show The Last O.G. The first person we meet on Girls5Eva is Craft’s Lil Stinker, the Gen Z rapper who puts Girls5Eva back on the map. (Obviously, some light spoilers for the series lie ahead.) Jeremiah Craft (Lil Stinker) It’s time to take a deep dive into the Tina Fey Cinematic Universe, and how Girls5Eva’s players fit in. In fact, the more you look at the new series, the more you’ll see that all roads lead back to Fey. Mayor). Accordingly, Girls5Eva boasts an abundance of supporting players with ties to previous Fey projects-those aforementioned sitcoms, as well as Saturday Night Live, the Broadway musical version of Mean Girls, and a few more left-field titles.

Yes: while Girls5Eva was created and co-executive-produced by former Kimmy Schmidt writer Meredith Scardino, it’s also co-executive-produced by Fey and Robert Carlock, her go-to TV collaborator ( 30 Rock, Kimmy Schmidt, Great News, NBC’s new Ted Danson series Mr.

Most of the show’s stars also have something in common: They’ve appeared previously in projects produced by Tina Fey, namely 30 Rock (Pell, Bareilles) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Philipps). The new comedy follows members of the titular one-hit wonder girl group, whose fame peaked in the early aughts-Dawn ( Sara Bareilles), Gloria ( Paula Pell), Summer ( Busy Philipps), and Wickie ( Renée Elise Goldsberry)-in their quest to get the band back together and conquer the music industry as women of a certain age. On Thursday, Girls5Eva belts its way onto NBC’s streaming platform, Peacock.

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