#Cast of august rush series#

While looking for him, she takes up the cello again and accepts an offer to perform with the Philharmonic at a series of concerts in Central Park.

In New York, Lyla goes to Jeffries' office, and Jeffries identifies Evan as her son. A rhapsody takes shape from August's notes and homework. He picks up both skills so quickly that Hope gets the attention of the parish pastor ( Mykelti Williamson), who takes August to Juilliard where he once again impresses the faculty. Evan (now 'August') takes refuge in a church where a young girl, Hope ( Jamia Simone Nash), introduces him to the piano and written music. Wizard helps Evan evade the police, telling him never to reveal his real name to anyone. After Jeffries meets Wizard and Arthur on the street and becomes suspicious, the police raid the derelict theatre in which Wizard and his 'children' are living. Despairing, he ends up in New York, where he gets his band back together. On arriving at Lyla's apartment in Chicago, Louis talks to one of her neighbors, who mistakenly tells Louis she's on her honeymoon.

Seeing the posters that Jeffries has posted for the runaway Evan, Wizard destroys all the ones he finds, hoping to keep Evan and his gift for his own gain. He gives Evan the stage name 'August Rush' and tries to market him to clubs. Evan tries playing Wizard's prize guitar, Roxanne (a Gibson J200), and is so good that Wizard gives him the guitar and his old spot in Washington Square Park (both of which were previously Arthur's). Lyla abandons her father to his fate and heads to New York to look for her son.Įvan follows Arthur to his home in a condemned theater, and is taken in by Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace ( Robin Williams), a vagrant, arrogant, abusive and aggressive musician who teaches homeless children music and employs them as street performers. Lyla is called to her father's deathbed, where he confesses that her son is alive and in New York, since her father believed that he was only doing it for both him and his daughter and that her son could've destroyed her future. Louis reconnects with his brothers at a birthday party for one of the other band members, and after an argument and fistfight over breaking up the band, he decides to reconnect with the woman he now knows is Lyla. Louis, who left the band the same night Lyla was struck, now lives in San Francisco as an agent, while Lyla has also given up performing and now lives in Chicago teaching music. He finds a boy named Arthur ( Leon Thomas III) performing in Washington Square Park. Convinced that his parents will find him, Evan runs away to New York City, 'following the music' in the hope it will lead him to his family. Evan has the savant-like ability to hear music wherever he is, making him a bullying target for the older orphans. Due to the accident trauma, she gives birth prematurely, and her father secretly puts the baby boy up for adoption, allowing her to believe that her son died.Įleven years later, Evan Taylor ( Freddie Highmore) is living in a boys' orphanage outside New York City, where he meets Richard Jeffries ( Terrence Howard), a social worker with Child and Family Services. Later, Lyla realizes she is pregnant, and after an argument with her father, she is struck by a car. The day after, they separate in a hurry, and are unable to maintain contact as Lyla is ushered away by her father to Chicago.

#Cast of august rush full#

Lyla and Louis meet at a party after their respective concerts, and sleep together on the rooftop under a full moon, to the music of a street performer below. Louis Connelly ( Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is the lead singer of 'The Connelly Brothers', an Irish rock band. In 1995, Lyla Novacek ( Keri Russell) is a cellist studying at the Juilliard School and living under strict rule of her father (William Sadler).