After reuniting with some of Elsbeth‘s biggest guests for a star-studded musical Season 2 finale, Carrie Preston is ready to apprehend more of the Great White Way.
While attending last weekend’s 78th Tony Awards, the Emmy-winning actress teased who from Broadway she’d like to work with on an upcoming season of the CBS procedural comedy drama.
“There’s so many people on this red carpet that I’ve met tonight or that I know. I always ask them, ‘Do you wanna be on the show? Because I’ll pass it along,’” she told Us Weekly at the awards show.
Preston added, “So I saw Brooke Shields tonight. I saw Celia Keenan-Bolger tonight. Of course Cole Escola. I’d like to see if we can round up pretty much everybody on Broadway and get them on.”
The interview came shortly before Escola made history as the first openly non-binary Tony Winner, taking home Lead Actor in a Play for their hilarious take on Mary Todd Lincoln in Oh, Mary!, which they also wrote.
Gina Gershon, Alyssa Milano, Retta, Elizabeth Lail and Mary-Louise Parker in the ‘Elsbeth’ Season 2 finale episode ‘Ramen Holiday’ (Michael Parmelee/CBS)
Elsebeth‘s Season 2 finale ‘Ramen Holiday’ brought back guest stars Stephen Moyer, Retta, Gina Gershon, Elizabeth Lail, Arian Moayed, André De Shields, Alyssa Milano, Mary-Louise Parker and Ethan Slater for the musical episode.
“We were trying to get maybe four of these guest stars, but we got eight,” Preston previously told Deadline. “They wanted to come back and play with us, which was such an honor. It just meant the world to me that they wanted to be a part of it, and they were all so game.”
Executive producer Jonathan Tolins told Deadline of the episode’s Chicago tribute, “The two hardest parts were the scheduling and waiting to be granted the rights to use the ‘Cell Block Tango’. We prepared as if they were going to say yes, and fortunately, in the end, they did, because we went a long way on a limb getting ready for it, and getting the number together.”
