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Boxleitner, Lewis, Urie, et al. Set for Blank Theatre’s Dickie and Babe

| New York City |

December 14, 2007

Michael Urie
Michael Urie

Bruce Boxleitner, Caye Clark, Aaron Himmelstein, Vicki Lewis, J. Richey Nash, Nick Niven, Charlie Schlatter, and Michael Urie will star in the Blank Theatre Company’s world premiere production of Dickie & Babe: The Truth About Leopold and Loeb, written and directed by Daniel Henning, to run February 2-March 16.

This documentary play, based entirely on trial transcripts, medical reports, and other source material, tells the story of Richard “Dickie” Loeb and Nathan “Babe” Leopold, a pair of Chicago teenagers, who killed a young boy in cold blood in Chicago in 1924.

The show’s creative team includes Roy Rede (sets), Dana Peterson (costumes), and Dave Mickey (lighting, sound, projections). Henning is the company’s artistic director .

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