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Complete Cast Announced for The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures

Michael Cristofer
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Michael Cristofer
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Complete casting has been announced for Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, which will be co-produced by Signature Theater and the Public Theater in association with the Guthrie Theater, and which will play the Public, March 22-June 12.

The production, which will open officially on May 5, will be directed by Michael Greif, who helmed the show’s world premiere at the Guthrie Theater in April, 2009.

In addition to the previously announced Michael Cristofer (Gus), Linda Emond (Empty), Michael Esper (Eli), Steven Pasquale (Vinny), and Stephen Spinella (Pill), the company will feature K. Todd Freeman, Hettienne Park, Molly Price, Danielle Skraastad, and Brenda Wehle. In addition, the company will include Bruce MacVittie who will play the role of Adam in lieu of the previously reported Bill Camp.

The work takes place in the summer of 2007, as Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his children to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone for a series of shocking announcements.

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