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Vanessa Williams, Reed Birney, and More Begin Rehearsals for Hey, Look Me Over!

The Encores! production will launch the series’s 25th season.

Jason Zednick
Off-Broadway
Carolee Carmello, Charles Strouse, and Vanessa Williams gather for a photo on the first day of rehearsals for Hey, Look Me Over!.
Carolee Carmello, Charles Strouse, and Vanessa Williams take a photo on the first day of rehearsals for Hey, Look Me Over!
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Encores! is gearing up to launch its 25th season as rehearsals begin for its production of Hey, Look Me Over!, set to run February 7-11 at New York City Center.

Directed by Marc Bruni, with musical direction by Encores! musical director Rob Berman and choreography by Denis Jones, the cast includes Clyde Alves, Clifton Duncan, Marc Kudisch, Judy Kuhn, Bob Martin, Tam Mutu, Bebe Neuwirth, Nancy Opel, Alexandra Socha, Vanessa Williams, Reed Birney, Carolee Carmello, and Britney Coleman.

Reed Birney and Bob Martin have a discussion.
Reed Birney and Bob Martin have a discussion.
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Conceived by Viertel, Hey, Look Me Over! is described as follows: "Catch a glimpse of some of the overtures, opening numbers, grand finales, and other excerpts from the beloved shows that have not yet found a berth on the Encores! stage in this original production, Hey, Look Me Over! Man in Chair, a somewhat woebegone musical-theater geek, will lead audiences through these sequences from actual American musicals, as opposed to the fictional sequences he extolled upon in The Drowsy Chaperone."

Alexandra Socha and Britney Coleman have big smiles for the first day of rehearsal.
Alexandra Socha and Britney Coleman have big smiles for the first day of rehearsal.
(© Beowulf Sheehan)

Among the musicals that will be featured in Hey, Look Me Over! are All American, George M!, Greenwillow, Jamaica, Mack & Mabel, Milk and Honey, Sail Away, and Wildcat.

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