KT Sullivan, Christine Pedi, et al. to Headline Fifty Million Frenchmen

Theater/cabaret favorites KT Sullivan and Christine Pedi will be among the stars of the Lost Musicals presentation of Cole Porter’s 1929 tuner Fifty Million Frenchmen, slated for performances on September 17, 24 and 29, and October 8 at Florence Gould Hall (55 East 59th Street). This concert staging will be directed by Lost Musicals founder Ian Marshall Fisher, with musical direction by Mark Mitchell; it will be the first revival to use the show’s original Broadway script, by Herbert Fields.

Also featured in the concert will be Broadway veterans Sondra Lee, Catherine Lavalle, Maurice Edwards, and Mary Ellen Ashley, plus Off-Broadway favorite Donna Coney Island. Rounding out the cast are Katie Adams, Roger De Witt, Richard Marshall, Sean McKenzie, Keith Merrill, Michelle Niklaus, Dale Radunz, Jeffrey Stern, and Mark Vietor.

Fifty Million Frenchmen is about a group of well-to-do Americans who are unleashed in Paris and looking for excitement. The Porter score includes such standards as “You Do Something to Me,” “You’ve Got That Thing,” “Find Me a Primitive Man,” and “The Tale of the Oyster.”

All peformances will begin at 6:30pm. For tickets and more information, call 212-307-4100.