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Andrew Durand, David Lansbury, et al. to Join Broadway’s War Horse

Andrew Durand
Andrew Durand

Lincoln Center Theater has announced a new casting for War Horse, playing at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre. The new company members will join the production on January 12. Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris have directed the production

Nick Stafford’s adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s book of the same name is set during World War One, as Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.

New company members will include Andrew Durand (Albert Narracott), Sanjit De Silva (Lt. James Nicholls), David Manis (Arthur Narracott), Stephen James Anthony (Billy Narracott), Andy Murray (Ted Narracott), and David Lansbury (Hauptmann Müller), along with Harlan Bengel, Toby Billowitz, Lute Breuer, Hunter Canning, Anthony Cochrane, Ben Horner, Leah Hofmann, Tessa Klein, Nat McIntyre, Geoffrey Murphy, Tommy Schrider, and Jack Spann.

The company will also continue to feature Alyssa Bresnahan, Richard Crawford, Joel Reuben Ganz, Ben Graney, Alex Hoeffler, Brian Lee Huynh, Jeslyn Kelly, Tom Lee, Jonathan Christopher MacMillan, Jonathan David Martin, David Pegram, Kate Pfaffl, Leenya Rideout, Jude Sandy, Hannah Sloat, Elliot Villar, Enrico D. Wey, Isaac Woofter and Madeleine Rose Yen.

The production has scenic design by Rae Smith, puppet design, fabrication and direction by Adrian Kohler with Basil Jones for Handspring Puppet Company, lighting by Paule Constable, direction of movement and horse movement by Toby Sedgwick, animation & projection design by 59 Productions, music by Adrian Sutton, songs by John Tams, sound design by Christopher Shutt, and musical direction by Greg Pliska.

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