Marc Bruni, James Lapine, John Rando Set for New York City Center Encores Season

New York City Center has announced updated information on its 19th Encores season.

James Lapine will direct Merrily We Roll Along (February 8-19), featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth. The musical is about friendship and the compromise of youthful ideals, based on the 1934 play of the same name by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.

Marc Bruni will direct Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Pipe Dream (March 28-April 1), based on John Steinbeck’s novel Sweet Thursday. It concerns outcasts yearning for a better life, who populate the bordellos and flophouses of a 1950s California seaside town.

John Rando will direct Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (May 9-13), adapted from the novel by Anita Loos, and featuring a book by Anita Loos and Joseph Fields, music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Leo Robin. Set in the Roaring Twenties, the musical follows the madcap adventures of the original “dumb blonde,” Lorelei Lee, as she sets sail for Europe with her best friend Dorothy Shaw.

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