| Leslie Odom Jr, Lauren Ridloff, Ingrid Michaelson, and More Join MCC Theater’s MISCAST20 on Sunday, September 13 | |
| Posted by: Official_Press_Release 12:34 pm EDT 08/24/20 | |
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| MCC THEATER ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS AND PRESENTERS FOR MISCAST20 INCLUDING: NORBERT LEO BUTZ, KENNETH COLE, ROBERT FAIRCHILD, JULIANNA MARGULIES, INGRID MICHAELSON, LESLIE ODOM JR., PIPER PERABO, ISAAC POWELL, LAUREN RIDLOFF, AND THOMAS SADOSKI FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 AT 8PM ET ON MCC THEATER’S YOUTUBE CHANNEL BENEFITTING MCC THEATER AND THE MENTAL HEALTH COALITION DOWNLOAD PHOTOS HERE (New York – August 24, 2020) MCC Theater (Bob LuPone, Bernie Telsey, Will Cantler, Artistic Directors; Blake West, Executive Director) announced today additional performers and presenters for their annual gala, Miscast20, which will take place on MCC Theater’s YouTube Channel MCC has released the names of six more performers for Miscast20, including Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (MCC’s Fifty Words, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), Tony Award nominee Robert Fairchild (An American in Paris, Cats), Emmy Award nominee Ingrid Michaelson (The Great Comet), Tony Award winner Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton, Harriet), Isaac Powell (West Side Story, Once on This Island), and Tony Award nominee Lauren Ridloff (Children of a Lesser God, “The Walking Dead”). Additional presenters for the evening will include social activist and fashion designer Kenneth Cole, Emmy Award winner Julianna Margulies (“The Good Wife”), Piper Perabo (MCC’s Lost Girls, “Covert Affairs”), and Tony Award nominee Thomas Sadoski (“Tommy,” “Life in Pieces”). A final casting announcement will be made in the coming weeks. They join the previously announced roster including Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award winner Jocelyn Bioh (MCC’s School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play), Tony Award nominee Raúl Esparza (MCC’s Seared, Company), Golden Globe nominee Beanie Feldstein (Hello, Dolly!, Booksmart), Tony Award winner Heather Headley (Aida, The Lion King), Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry (MCC’s The Wrong Man, Carousel), two-time Emmy and two-time Tony Award winner Judith Light (MCC’s All The Ways To Say I Love You, “The Politician”), Tony Award nominee Rob McClure (Mrs. Doubtfire, Beetlejuice), Nicolette Robinson (Waitress, Invisible Thread), Tony Award nominee Phillipa Soo (Hamilton, Amélie), and Tony Award nominee Adrienne Warren (Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, Shuffle Along). Will Van Dyke (Little Shop of Horrors, Pretty Woman) serves as Musical Supervisor. Miscast, MCC Theater’s annual gala celebration, is one of the most anticipated and exciting theater events in New York each year, where the biggest stars of stage and screen take the stage to sing songs from roles in which they would never be cast. This year, for the first time ever, Miscast will go entirely digital, inviting in theater fans everywhere. The free, 90-minute broadcast will be captioned, and will feature all new performances, special guests, and more. Miscast20 will feature a free raffle to win a table for 10 front and center at Miscast 21 and a toast with the performers onstage after the show. Auction items available for online bidding this year include an hour-long Mentor Session with multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan, creator of MCC's The Wrong Man. Raffle entry and bids can be placed here: https://one.bidpal.net/miscast20/welcome Funds raised from Miscast20 help MCC Theater produce exciting new work Off-Broadway and support its Youth Company and in-school partnerships that serve New York City public high school students, as well as MCC’s literary development work with emerging playwrights. This year Miscast20 will also support The Mental Health Coalition (MHC), who will receive 10% of funds raised during the broadcast. MHC is a new initiative focused on destigmatizing mental health experiences that was founded by social activist and fashion designer Kenneth Cole. ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH COALITION The Coalition is comprised of the most respected mental health service providers in the country along with leading academics as well as influential creative and media organizations. The launch was introduced with an innovative and digital storytelling platform called, “How Are You, Really?” (www.howareyoureally.org ABOUT MCC THEATER MCC Theater is one of New York’s leading nonprofit Off-Broadway companies, driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Founded in 1986 as a collective of artists leading peer-based classes to support their own development as actors, writers and directors, the tenets of collaboration, education, and community are at the core of MCC Theater’s programming. One of the only theaters in the country led continuously by its founders, Artistic Directors Bob LuPone, Bernie Telsey, and Will Cantler, MCC fulfills its mission through the production of world, American, and New York premiere plays and musicals that challenge artists and audiences to confront contemporary personal and social issues, and robust playwright development and education initiatives that foster the next generation of theater artists and students. MCC Theater’s celebrated productions include Aziza Barnes’ BLKS; Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play; Penelope Skinner’s The Village Bike; Robert Askins’ Hand to God (Broadway transfer; five 2015 Tony Award® nominations including Best Play); John Pollono’s Small Engine Repair; Paul Downs Colaizzo’s Really Really; Sharr White’s The Other Place (Broadway transfer); Jeff Talbott’s The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award); Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty (Broadway transfer, three 2009 Tony Award® nominations, including Best Play), Some Girl(s), Fat Pig, The Mercy Seat, and All The Ways To Say I Love You; Michael Weller’s Fifty Words; Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride; Bryony Lavery’s Frozen (Broadway transfer; four 2004 Tony Award® nominations including Best Play, Tony Award® for Best Featured Actor); Tim Blake Nelson’s The Grey Zone; Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist); Margaret Edson’s Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize); and the musicals Coraline, Carrie, and Ride the Cyclone. Many plays developed and produced by MCC have gone on to productions throughout the country and around the world. Blake West joined the company in 2006 as Executive Director. MCC opened the doors to its new home in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, on January 9, 2019, unifying the company’s activities under one roof for the first time and expanding its producing, artist development, and education programming. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT: |
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