Jenny Powers Will Play Diana Devereaux in Of Thee I Sing for Encores!

Jenny Powers has joined Victor Garber, Jefferson Mays, Jennifer Laura Thompson, and Lewis J. Stadlen in the cast of the upcoming City Center Encores! production of the George and Ira Gershwin musical Of Thee I Sing.

Scheduled to run May 11-15, the show will be directed by John Rando, with choreography by Randy Skinner and musical direction by Paul Gemignani. The production team also includes John Lee Beatty (scenic consultant), Toni-Leslie James (costume consultant), Paul Miller (lighting design), and Dan Moses Schreier (sound design).

Powers will play Diana Devereaux. She was last seen on Broadway as Meg in Little Women; her other stage credits include Bounce, A Little Night Music, and 1776.. The Of Thee I Sing principal cast also includes Jonathan Freeman, Erick Devine, Michael Mulheren, David Pittu, Wayne Duvall, and Jeffry Denman. The ensemble consists of Eric Michael Gillett, Holly Holcomb, Todd A. Horman, Fred Inkley, Jay Lusteck, Ian Knauer, Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, Marcus Nance, Nina Negri, Greg Stone, and Jacqueline Thompson.

David Ives will do the concert adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, which has a book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie T. Ryskind. The plot of the show concerns John P. Wintergreen (Garber), who is running for the U.S. presidency on a platform based on love. Among the score’s highlights are “Love Is Sweeping the Country” and “Who Cares?”