Broadway star helping UConn build theater program

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STORRS, Conn. (AP) — The University of Connecticut is getting a big assist from a Broadway star as it works to establish itself as a summer destination for high-quality theater.

Terrence Mann, who originated the role of Rum Tum Tugger in “Cats” and earned Tony Award nominations as “Javert” in the original Broadway production of “Les Miserables” and the Beast in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” is spending his second summer in the small campus town in northeastern Connecticut to participate in the Connecticut Repertory Theater’s Nutmeg Summer Series.

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