They Finally Get to Dance on Broadway

No one but her puppy, Alfie, was with Ayla Ciccone-Burton when she heard the good news from her agent.

“I got up at the dog park in front of all these people that I don’t know,” she said. “I’m just running around, full screaming, telling my dog that I’m going to be on Broadway.”

“He didn’t care,” she added, and laughed an effervescent laugh. She loves him anyway.

Like most performers, Ciccone-Burton won’t be playing a starring role in her show. She’ll be singing and dancing in the ensemble — and making her Broadway debut.

She and three other supporting performers, all scheduled for Broadway bows this fall, talked recently about what that means to them, and what they discovered about themselves and the industry when for such a long time it was all snatched away.

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