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Crazy for You, Starring Laura Osnes, Tony Yazbeck, and Rachel Bloom, Announces Full Cast

The musical will take the stage at David Geffen Hall.

Laura Osnes and Tony Yazbeck will costar in the Manhattan Concert Production's 25th anniversary staging of Crazy for You.
Laura Osnes and Tony Yazbeck will costar in the Manhattan Concert Production's 25th anniversary staging of Crazy for You.
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Full casting is set for Crazy for You, a one-night-only presentation of Manhattan Concert Productions. The 25th-anniversary concert of the Tony-winning Gershwin musical will take place at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center on February 19.

As previously announced, the company will be led by Tony Yazbeck (Finding Neverland) and Laura Osnes (Bandstand), who will costar as Bobby Child and Polly Baker, original cast member Harry Groener, who will take on the role of Bela Zangler, 30 Rock favorites Rachel Dratch and Jack McBrayer, who will play Patricia and Eugene Fodor, Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Irene Roth, and Jerry O'Connell (Seminar) as Lank Hawkins.

The complete cast is made up of Mark Linn-Baker, Nancy Opel, Michael Biren, Jim Borstelmann, Christine Cornish-Smith, Jeremy Davis, Jerry Gallagher, Anne Horak, Rashaan James II, Naomi Kakuk, Amanda Kloots, Chris LeBeau, Alicia Lundgren, Brittany Marcin Maschmeyer, Kaylee Olson, Eric Santagata, Angie Schworer, and Victor Wisehart.

Five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, who won a Tony Award for choreographing the show's original production, will direct, with Kevin Stites as musical director/conductor.

With music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, and book by Ken Ludwig, the romantic comedy follows Bobby Child, a banker who dreams of dancing in the follies. When he's sent to foreclose on a rundown theater in Nevada, he meets Polly Baker, the daughter of the theater's owner, who has vowed to get even. Harry Groener and Jodi Benson led the cast of the original production.

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