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Nine Ounce Productions presents Winesday: The Wine Tasting Musical, written by Jenne Wason (book and lyrics) and Joseph Benoit (music) and directed by Jamibeth Margolis with musical direction by Alec Bart. Performances will begin on May 8 in advance of its May 22 opening night. They will initially run through July 2024 at The Jerry Orbach Theater at The Theater Center (210 West 50 Street). When these five wine-loving women get together every Wednesday night, they’re theoretically meeting for a book club or a yoga class, but really, they just want to indulge in wine and talk about their lives. The cast includes Dawn Cantwell, Jennifer Diamond, Debra Thais Evans, Shannen Hofheimer, Amanda Lea Lavergne, Michael Valvo, understudy Suzanne Dressler. www.winesdaymusical.com
Complete casting for the American premiere of The Welkin, written by Lucy Kirkwood (Tony Award nominee, The Children) and directed by Sarah Benson (Obie Award winner, Fairview). Joining the cast of The Welkin are Hannah Cabell (The Father), Glenn Fitzgerald (The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window), Nadine Malouf (Grief Hotel), Susannah Perkins (The Wolves), and Simone Recasner (Ain’t No Mo’). They join previously announced Tilly Botsford (Off-Broadway debut), Paige Gilbert (A Raisin In The Sun at The Public; Skin of Our Teeth), Ann Harada (Into the Woods, Avenue Q), Jennifer Nikki Kidwell (Underground Railroad Game), Mary McCann (Harper Regan, “The Chair”), Emily Cass McDonnell (I’m Revolting, The Thin Place), MacKenzie Mercer (Frozen National Tour), Sandra Oh (“The Sympathizer,” “Quiz Lady”), Dale Soules (“Orange Is the New Black,” Hair), Danny Wolohan (Camelot, To Kill a Mockingbird), and Haley Wong (Mary Gets Hers at MCC).
The Welkin begins performances on Thursday, May 16th, and will open Wednesday, June 12th, for a limited engagement through Sunday, June 30th. www.atlantictheater.org
The seduction and spectacle of Las Vegas touches down in the Big Apple when Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip, this year’s electrifying edition of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’ annual and highly anticipated striptease spectacular, makes its delightfully debaucherous debut.
All bets are off when more than 150 of NYC’s most dazzling dancers erupt into full-out, larger-than-life burlesque production numbers on Sunday, June 23, 2024, at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City. Pleasure seekers who Hit the Strip will be immersed in a Las Vegas-inspired world of luxury, largess and liberation. Amid an out-of-this-world wonderland of captivating characters and sensationally sexy striptease, there’s no better way to launch into NYC Pride Week. Broadway Bares: Hit the Strip is produced by and benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Get tickets at broadwaycares.org/bares
Oh, Mary!, the hit comedy,Is coming to Broadway this summer following a sold out, twice extended world premiere run at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Producers Kevin McCollum & Lucas McMahon and Mike Lavoie & Carlee Briglia announced today. Written by and starring Cole Escola and directed by Sam Pinkleton, the New York Times Critic’s Pick will begin previews at the Lyceum Theatre (149 West 45th Street) on June 26, 2024, ahead of a July 11, 2024 Opening Night; the limited 12-week engagement will run through September 15, 2024. Run time: 80 minutes. Oh, Mary! stars Escola as a miserable, suffocated Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. Unrequited yearning, alcoholism and suppressed desires abound in this one act play that finally examines the forgotten life and dreams of Mrs. Lincoln through the lens of an idiot (Cole Escola). The show also stars Conrad Ricamora as Mary’s Husband, James Scully as Mary’s Teacher, Bianca Leigh as Mary’s Chaperone, and Tony Macht as Mary’s Husband’s Assistant, with Hannah Solow and Peter Smith completing the cast. www.ohmaryplay.com
The world premiere production of Marla Mindelle’s brand new musical, The Big Gay Jamboree. Directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, The Big Gay Jamboree, a brand-new original musical comedy, features a book by Mindelle and Jonathan Parks-Ramage, with music & lyrics by Mindelle and Philip Drennen. Performances begin on September 14, with an opening night set for October 1, 2024, at the Orpheum Theatre (126 2nd Avenue). www.biggayjamboreethemusical.com.
The full cast and creative team for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, featuring a book by Oscar, Emmy and Tony Award nominee Douglas McGrath Casey Hushion with choreography by Jennifer Werner and music direction by Wendy Bobbitt Cavett at Paper Mill Playhouse. The cast features Krya Kennedy, Marrick Smith, Samantha Massell, Jacob Ben-Shmuel, Bryan Fenkart, Suzanne Grodner. www.PaperMill.org
