Donna Lynne Champlin, Cass Morgan, Nick Wyman Set for York Theatre Company’s Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival
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York Theatre Company, celebrating the legendary librettist and lyricist Tom Jones with Musicals in Mufti: The Tom Jones Festival, has announced casting for the next two musicals in the spring series, both to be presented at The York Theatre at Saint Peter’s.
Roadside, to run March 30-April 1, is based on a play by Lynn Riggs and is a Southwestern love story of mythic proportions about two kissin’, punchin’, cussin’, larger-than-life characters who refuse to settle down and be “house-broke” by the arrival of fences and laws. Roadside features book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt. Directed by David Glenn Armstrong, the cast features original Roadside cast member Ryan Alexander, Erick Devine, Janine DiVita, Jamie LaVerdiere, Daniel C. Levine, Ed Watts and Nick Wyman.
From April 13-15, York will present Harold and Maude, which has book & lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Joseph Thalken , based on the screenplay by Colin Higgins. In it, death-obsessed teenager, Harold, meets Maude, 79, at a funeral and thus begins one of the most unusual, yet truly touching romantic sagas in American pop-culture history. Directed by Carl Andress, the cast will feature original Harold and Maude cast members Donna Lynne Champlin and Donna English, with Matt Dengler as Harold, and Cass Morgan as Maude.
York Theatre Company will also host a special one-night only event, Story by Story: A Conversation with Tom Jones, on Wednesday evening, April 4 at 7pm. Musicals in Mufti will continue with Colette Collage (April 27-29), and conclude with The Game of Love(May 11-13). Casting for these two shows will be announced shortly.
