| Casting announced for Encores! I Married an Angel | |
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| Casting announced for Encores! production of I Married an Angel Directed and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse with music direction by Rob Fisher Production runs Mar 20 - 24 as part of City Center's 75th Anniversary Season NEW YORK, NY-New York City Center today announced casting for I Married an Angel, the second Encores! production of the City Center 75th Anniversary Season. In addition to Sara Mearns, previously announced as the Angel of the title, the production will feature Phillip Attmore (Peter Mueller), Max Baker (General Lucash), Mark Evans (Count Willy Palaffi), Ann Harada (Duchess of Holstein-Kuloff), Nikki M. James (Countess Peggy Palaffi), Hayley Podschun (Anna Murphy), and Tom Robbins (Harry Mischka Szigetti). The ensemble includes Rachel Coloff, Barton Cowperthwaite, Jōvan Dansberry, Alexa De Barr, Christine DiGiallonardo, Erica Dorfler, Kellie Drobnick, Julia Estrada, Ta'Nika Gibson, Stephen Hanna, Andrea Jones-Sojola , Naomi Kakuk, Francis Lawrence, Cory Linger, Robin Masella, Gia Mongell, Lindsey O'Neil, Michelle Mercedes Russell, Ryan Steele, Christian Tworzyanski, and Kathy Voytko. Rodgers and Hart's third major collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine (a decade before he would establish New York City Ballet at City Center), I Married an Angel is one of a handful of shows from the 1930s that was yearning to find the key to a new kind of musical. More sophisticated and innately theatrical than the average vaudeville-inspired productions of the Jazz Age, the originality of this show comes from the blending of a drawing room comedy with serious and extended dance sequences. The angel (Sara Mearns) of the title is just that, an emissary from heaven who descends to earth to melt the dyspeptic heart of an unscrupulous banker, Count Willy Palaffi (Mark Evans). Balanchine cast his soon-to-be-wife Vera Zorina (the two were married onstage following a New Year's Eve performance) as the Angel and created a series of spectacular dances to show her off. In a happy bit of symmetry and perfectly suited for City Center's 75th Anniversary Season, the Encores! production will be directed and choreographed by Joshua Bergasse for his wife, New York City Ballet principal dancer Sara Mearns who will be making her theatrical debut. Encores! Founding Music Director Rob Fisher returns to lead The Encores! Orchestra for the production. I Married an Angel will run for seven performances only, March 20 through 24, at New York City Center. Tickets start at $35 and can be purchased online at NYCityCenter.org, by calling 212.581.1212, or in person at the City Center Box Office (131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues). Encores! I Married an Angel March 20 - 24, 2019 Wed & Thu 7:30pm, Fri 8pm, Sat 2 & 8pm, Sun 2 & 7pm Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Lorenz Hart Book by Rodgers & Hart Adapted from the play by Janos Vaszary Featuring The Encores! Orchestra Directed and Choreographed by Joshua Bergasse Starring Phillip Attmore, Max Baker, Mark Evans, Ann Harada, Nikki M. James, Sara Mearns, Hayley Podschun, and Tom Robbins. With Rachel Coloff, Barton Cowperthwaite, Jōvan Dansberry, Alexa De Barr, Christine DiGiallonardo, Erica Dorfler, Kellie Drobnick, Julia Estrada, Ta'Nika Gibson, Stephen Hanna, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Naomi Kakuk, Francis Lawrence, Cory Linger, Robin Masella, Gia Mongell, Lindsey O'Neil, Michelle Mercedes Russell, Ryan Steele, Christian Tworzyanski, and Kathy Voytko. RELATED EVENT: Encores! Behind the Curtain I Married an Angel Mon Feb 25, 7pm Tickets: $30 Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St Take a peek behind the curtain through this 75th Anniversary Season partnership with the Museum of the City of New York and explore the storied history of this season's Encores! productions. I Married an Angel was born out of a collaboration between irresistible and tragic Lorenz Hart, his partner, the more grounded Richard Rodgers, and famed choreographer George Balanchine. In anticipation of City Center's Encores! production of the musical comedy, Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel leads a conversation with Director and Choreographer Joshua Bergasse, Music Director Rob Fisher, Gary Marmorstein, author of A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart, NYCB principal dancer and cast member Sara Mearns, and Nancy Reynolds, Director of Research at The George Balanchine Foundation, to consider how collaboration - especially in dance - can fundamentally drive a Broadway show. Visit mcny.org/event/rodgers-harts-i-married-angel for ticketing and additional programming information. New York City Center gratefully acknowledges 75th Anniversary Season Sponsors Stacey and Eric Mindich and the Howard Gilman Foundation. Major Support for Encores! is provided by the Stacey and Eric Mindich Fund for Musical Theater, and Season Sponsors Roz and Jerry Meyer, The Shubert Foundation, and the Stephanie and Fred Shuman Fund for Encores!. Support for I Married an Angel is provided by Margot and John Ernst. Additional Support is provided by The Frederick Loewe Foundation, the SHS Foundation, and the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. NEW YORK CITY CENTER (Arlene Shuler, President & CEO) has played a defining role in the cultural life of the city since 1943. The landmark 75th Anniversary Season (2018 - 2019) pays tribute to this rich history and celebrates the institution's singular role in the arts today. For 25 years, City Center's Tony-honored Encores! series has been "an essential New York institution" (The New York Times). In 2013, City Center launched the Encores! Off-Center series, which features seminal Off-Broadway musicals filtered through the lens of today's innovative artists. Dance has also been integral to the theater's mission from the start and programs like the annual Fall for Dance Festival remain central to City Center's identity. Home to a roster of renowned national and international companies including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (City Center's Principal Dance Company) and Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City Center was Manhattan's first performing arts center, founded by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia with the mission of making the best in music, theater, and dance accessible to all audiences. That mission continues today through robust education and community engagement programs which bring the performing arts to over 9,000 New York City students each year and the expansion of the theatrical experience to include art exhibitions, pre-show talks, and master classes that offer an up-close look at the work of the great theater and dance artists of our time. NYCityCenter.org |
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