Full Casting Announced for Kennedy Center’s Broadway: Three Generations

Full casting has been announced for The Kennedy Center’s Broadway: Three Generations, which will officially re-open the renovated Eisenhower Theater. Lonny Price will direct the staged concert performances, October 2-5.

Shirley Jones will host the program, which will feature Brooks Ashmanskas, Lisa Brescia, Jenn Colella, Ned Eisenberg, Randy Graff, Leslie Kritzer, Michael McElroy, Michael Mulheren, Laura Osnes, James Snyder, Bobby Steggert, and Max von Essen.

This three act evening features condensed versions of George & Ira Gershwin’s musical comedy Girl Crazy, with von Essen as Danny Churchill, Graff as Kate Fothergill, Ashmanskas as Slick Fothergill, Eisenberg as Gieber Goldfarb, and Colella as Molly Gray ; Bye Bye Birdie, featuring music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams and book by Michael Stewart, and starring Ashmanskas as Albert Peterson, Brescia as Mrs. MacAfee, Eisenberg as Harry MacAfee, Graff as Mae Peterson, Kritzer as Rose Alvarez, Osnes as Kim MacAfee, Snyder as Conrad Birdie and Steggert as Hugo; and Henry Krieger & Bill Russell’s Side Show, with Colella as Daisy Hilton, Brescia as Violet Hilton, with McElroy as Jake, Mulheren as Boss, Steggert as Buddy Foster, and von Essen as Terry Connor.

The production will feature sets by James Noone, lighting by Ken Billington, and sound design by Peter Hylenski. James Moore is the music director and Tom Briggs serves as adaptor.

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