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| Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 06:44 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| FIVE-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER SUSAN STROMAN TO HELM INDUSTRY READING OF TONY AWARD WINNERS LYNN AHRENS AND STEPHEN FLAHERTY’S NEW MUSICAL LITTLE DANCER BOOK AND LYRICS BY TONY AWARD WINNER LYNN AHRENS MUSIC BY TONY AWARD WINNER STEPHEN FLAHERTY DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY FIVE-TIME TONY AWARD WINNER SUSAN STROMAN FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 2018 BY INVITATION ONLY Producers Anita Waxman and Rodney Rigby announce today that they will present a private industry reading of the new musical Little Dancer on Friday, June 8, 2018 prior to the production’s West Coast Premiere at Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre from Friday, March 22 – Sunday, April 14, 2019. Directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (The Producers), Little Dancer features a book and lyrics by Tony Award winner Lynn Ahrens (Once On This Island) and music by Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty (Once On This Island). The industry reading will star New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Tiler Peck (On The Town), Tony and Olivier Award winner Robert Lindsay (Me and My Girl), Tony Award nominee Kate Baldwin (Hello, Dolly!), Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba (Prince of Broadway), Tony Award nominee Dee Hoty (Bright Star), Christopher Gurr (Cats), Kyle Harris (Sondheim on Sondheim), Scarlett Strallen (Travesties) and Sami Bray (1984) with Polly Baird (The Phantom of the Opera), Sissy Bell (Anastasia), Lauren Blackman (Anastasia), Jim Borstelmann (Bullets Over Broadway), Nina Goldman (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Megan Masako Haley (Wicked National Tour), Heather Hill (The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess), Sean Hingston (Promises, Promises), Jolina Javier (The Phantom of the Opera), Barbara Marineau (War Paint), Olivia Puckett (Dear Evan Hansen), Arbender Robinson (Shuffle Along) and Eric Santagata (Prince of Broadway). Little Dancer will feature scenic design by Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt (Come From Away), costume design by six-time Tony Award winner William Ivey Long (The Producers), lighting design by Tony Award winner Ken Billington (Chicago), sound design by Tony Award nominee Kai Harada (The Band’s Visit), projection design by Outer Critics Circle Award nominee Benjamin Pearcy (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), hair and wig design by Paul Huntley (Cabaret), makeup design by Anne Ford-Coates (Frozen), orchestrations by Tony Award winner Doug Besterman (Anastasia) and Tony Award winner Larry Hochman (Hello, Dolly!), dance music arrangements by Sam Davis (Prince of Broadway) and vocal arrangements by Tony Award winner Stephen Flaherty. Little Dancer is an exquisite new musical based on a famed masterpiece by Edgar Degas and the unknown dancer who inspired it. Part fact, part fiction and set in the glamorous and dangerous backstage world of the Paris Opera Ballet, this magnificent new musical follows a young woman caught between the conflicting demands of life and art, and an artist with one last chance for greatness. |
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| re: Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER | |
| Posted by: FrankF 08:19 pm EDT 05/30/18 | |
| In reply to: Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER - Official_Press_Release 06:44 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| Saw this at the Kennedy Center with my husband 3-4 years ago. It seemed to me, Tiler Peck, a wonderful ballet dancer, was almost too old for the role then. The show doesn't ever quite land. Or at least it really didn't in DC. There were rumors about it moving to New York, but it just wasn't ready. It wanted to be Sunday in the Park with Degas, but the book, direction and choreography just weren't good enough. I particularly liked Peck (who I'm assuming is still being asked to play a young girl), Gaines and Luker and the actress who played Mary Cassatt, I don't remember her name - sorry. |
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| re: Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER | |
| Posted by: larry13 09:24 pm EDT 05/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER - FrankF 08:19 pm EDT 05/30/18 | |
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| Janet Dickinson. | |
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| im surprised tiler Peck is still attached | |
| Posted by: dramedy 09:23 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: Susan Stroman To Helm Industry Reading of Ahrens & Flaherty's New Musical LITTLE DANCER - Official_Press_Release 06:44 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| She was the lead at Kennedy center in 2014, which isn’t even mentioned here. I felt that the lead ballerina should sing in the show which didn’t happen (except for a quiet lullaby). I hope a&f writes songs for the lead to sing this time. | |
| Link | http://www.playbill.com/article/complete-casting-announced-for-new-musical-little-dancer-susan-stroman-directs-at-kennedy-center-com-327961 |
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| re: im surprised tiler Peck is still attached | |
| Posted by: larry13 09:48 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: im surprised tiler Peck is still attached - dramedy 09:23 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| For me, the biggest news here--almost buried--is Robert Lindsay. Weren't people wondering only recently about him, when Encores did ME & MY GIRL? Has he EVER been back in the U.S. since? Of course, who knows how much further he'll go with this after this one private reading. I presume he's doing the part Boyd Gaines played in D.C. back in 2014 when Rebecca Luker played the part Kate Baldwin is now taking on. |
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| re: im surprised tiler Peck is still attached | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 10:03 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
| In reply to: re: im surprised tiler Peck is still attached - larry13 09:48 pm EDT 05/29/18 | |
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| At the last workshop, I believe Terrence Mann was in that role | |
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