Jackson advanced from an on-again, off-again standby to an eight-shows-a-week leading lady on Broadway. She has taken on high-profile roles including Snow White in Once Upon a One More Time, Allie in Ingrid Michaelson's adaptation of The Notebook, and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby at the Broadway Theatre. Jackson has a packed Broadway résumé after a decade and has been enlisted frequently during the challenging development phases of new musicals, contributing to shows such as Ain't Too Proud, What a Wonderful World, and Suffs. She stepped into Frozen rehearsals quickly when Patti Murin needed support.
If Jackson's star power ignited on Broadway that day in 2018, it's only grown brighter as she's moved from an on-again, off-again standby to an eight-shows-a-week leading lady. In the last two years, she's starred as Snow White in Once Upon a One More Time, a Britney Spears jukebox musical; as Allie in Ingrid Michaelson's adaptation of The Notebook (that's the character played by Rachel McAdams in the movie version of the novel); and now as F. Scott Fitzgerald's inscrutable socialite Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, currently playing at the Broadway Theatre.
"A couple" is a massive understatement. The only thing more impressive than Jackson's packed Broadway résumé after just a decade in the business is the laundry list of shows that have enlisted her many talents during the tumultuous, painstaking work of actually creating a musical, including Ain't Too Proud, What a Wonderful World and Suffs. Theatermakers don't just like to work with Jackson when they've perfected a musical - they like to work with her when they're hacking and slashing and slapping their shows together, too.
On March 28, six days after the $30 million musical officially opened, no one was thinking about the possibility that Patti Murin, who originated the role of Anna, would need a replacement. Jackson's first comprehensive Frozen rehearsal was scheduled for two days later. Once she was comfortable with the role, Murin could take a breath and lean on her.
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