Farah Alvin, Ann Harada, Tom Hewitt, Curtis Holbrook, Liz Larsen, et al. Set for 2010 NYMF Shows
Additional casting has been announced for several shows in the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF), which will run September 27-October 17. The festival will feature 27 musical productions, a developmental reading series and special events.
Tony nominee Liz Larsen and Broadway favorite Ann Harada are among the cast members of My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, based on the true story of the show’s authors David Hein and wife Irene Sankoff. Stafford Arima will direct the musical, which also features both Hein and Sankoff, in addition to Cicily Daniels, Christina DeCicco, Lev Pakman, Mauricio Perez, and Bart Shatto.
Tony nominee Tom Hewitt will star in The Great Unknown, featuring a book by William Hauptman, with music and lyrics by Jim Wann. The musical, to be directed by Don Stephenson, is about a one-armed Civil War veteran who leads a daring expedition down the Colorado River to the Grand Canyon. The cast will also include Dan Amboyer, Edmund Bagnell, Steven Beckingham, Mimi Bessette, Bobby Daye, Kelli Gautreau, Kristin Maloney, Colin Campbell McAdoo, Celia Mei Rubin, Thomas Stewart, and Eli Zoller.
Curtis Holbrook and Hanley Smith will lead the cast of Frog Kiss, based on the Stephen Mitchell novella The Frog Prince, and featuring book and lyrics by Charles Leipart, with music by Eric Schorr. The cast will also feature Terry Burrell, Joseph Dellger, Manna Nichols, Theis Weckesser, Jordan Barbour, Kenita Miller, Kate Pazakis, Herman Sebek, Andrew Cao, and Lindsay Chambers.
Farah Alvin, Gilbert L. Bailey, II, Micahel Kostroff, Justin Gregory Lopez, Doreen Montalvo, and Jeffrey Nunez will star along with Judah Gavra, Samantha Gershman, Jordan Grubb, and Rebecca Riker in The Tenth Floor, featuring music and lyrics by J. Sebastian Fabal and book by Sara Cooper. Igor Goldin will direct this tuner in which a 16-year-old incarcerated in the Miami-Dade Correctional Facility’s juvenile division escapes into fantasy to escape the harsh realities of prison and his home life.
Drama Desk nominee Garrett Long will star in Jonathan Comisar and John Dietrich’s Things As They Are, a bio-musical about renowned photojournalist Dorothea Lange. The cast will also feature David Andrew Anderson, Sarah Dacey Charles, Michael Deleget, Will Erat, Kerry Flanagan, Bob Knapp, Zach Landes, Kelvin Moon Loh, Adam MacDonald, Jennifer McCabe, Sam Smithyman, Matthew Charles Thompson, David Toombs, Laura Ware, and Sandy York. Donna Drake will direct.
Ned Massey’s autobiographically based musical Bloodties will star the writer/composer, along with Christopher Kale Jones, George McDaniel, Nancy Ringham, and Katie Thompson. Scott C. Embler will direct.
Jenna Pasqua will star in the title role of Tess, A New Rock Opera, an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s novel, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, adapted by Pasqua and her sister Annie Pasqua. Kate Pines will direct a cast that also features Nick Cartell and Broadway veteran Michelle Dowdy, along with Felicia Blum, Brian Gallagher, Jillian Giacchi, Alan Gillespie, Chris Gleim, Joanna Krupnick, Mary Jo Mecca, Keith Panzarella, Joe Popson, Bruce Rebold, Bradford Rosenbloom, Hilaire C. Smith, and Megan Stern.
Nick Dalton, Matt Lutz, and Vanessa Ray will star in Trails – A New Musical, with music and lyrics by Jeff Thomson and Jordan Mann and a book by Christy Hall. Jen Bender will direct this work about two friendswho reconnect after ten years and set out to fulfill a childhood promise: to hike the Appalachian Trail together from beginning to end. The cast will also feature Kate Kearney Patch, Dale Radunz, and Hollis Scarborough.
Justin Badger, Andrea Frierson, Elizabeth Ward Land, George Merrick, and Yasmeen Sulieman will star alongside author Jonathan Spottiswoode and his band, Spottiswoode & His Enemies, in Above Hell’s Kitchen, an update to the Don Giovanni story. Hayley Finn will direct.
Leo Ash Evens, Stephanie Gibson, and Jonathan Monro will star in Fingers and Toes, featuring book, music and lyrics by Logan Medland. The musical comedy is about the creation of a song and dance show about Love, complicated by real romantic entanglements, and will be directed by Matt Lenz.
For TheaterMania’s previous casting story featuring actors such as Kerry Butler, Deidre Goodwin, Liz McCartney, and Anthony Rapp, click here.
Additional festival casting will be announced at a later date.
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