'Queer Eye''s Jai Rodriguez joining cast of Broadway's 'The Producers'

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Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez joining cast of Broadway's

                The       Producers
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          Oct 05, 2005
          
        
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            Jai Rodriguez will play the flamboyant Carmen Ghia in
            Broadway's The Producers beginning November 1,
            reports       Playbill Online. Rodriguez, who plays Sabu in
            the upcoming screen       adaptation of The
            Producers, previously       appeared in Rent and
            in off-Broadway's Zanna, Don't!

        
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Queer Eye's Jai Rodriguez joining cast of Broadway's
The Producers