Klea Blackhurst to Star in 42nd Street Moon’s Call Me Madam

42nd Street Moon has announced full casting for its production of Irving Berlin’s Call Me Madam, starring Klea Blackhurst as Ambassador Sally Adams, to play the Eureka Theatre, September 23-October 18. The cast will also include Rob Hatzenbeller, Charlie Levy, Giana DeGeiso, Scarlett Hepworth, John-Elliott Kirk, DC Scarpelli, Gabriel Grilli, Peter Budinger, Lillian Askew, Sarah Kathleen Farrell, Benjamin Knoll, and Allison Rich.

The theater’s season will continue 1959 tuner Destry Rides Again (October 28-November 15) is set in the Wild West town of Bottleneck, where the new sheriff, Tom Destry, intends to keep the peace without using a gun. Steve Rhyne and Connie Champagne will star.

Next up will be Jubilee (November 25-December 13), Cole Porter and Moss Hart’s 1935 musical about a Royal Family that uses the threat posed by an impending revolution as an excuse to abandon the throne and pursue their private dreams. Greg MacKellan will direct, Tom Segal will choreograph, and the musical will star Megan Cavanagh, Michael Patrick Gaffney, Andrew Willis-Woodward, Juliet Heller, Alison Ewing, Zack Thomas Wilde, Dyan McBride, and C.J. Blankenship.

Up next will be Lady, Be Good! (March 21-April 25), about a brother-and-sister vaudeville team, and Very Warm for May (May 6-24), which is about an avant-garde musical being rehearsed by a bohemian bunch led by an eccentric director.

In addition, the company will salute the work of lyricist and librettist Dorothy Fields in a Salon Evening on October 13, with an additional Salon Evening celebrating Ira Gershwin on January 28.

For more information, visit www.42ndstmoon.org.