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Klea Blackhurst and Stephen Bogardus Star in Mufti Panama Hattie Starting October 26
Closing out the 2019 fall Musicals in Mufti series celebrating Cole Porter is the 1940 musical Panama Hattie, with music and lyrics by Porter and a book by Herbert Fields and B.G. DeSylva.
Directed by Michael Montel with music direction by Deniz Cordell, performances are October 26–November 3 at The York Theatre Company at Saint Peter’s.
Klea Blackhurst stars in the title role of Hattie Maloney, having previously paid tribute to Ethel Merman in the Mufti presentation of Happy Hunting and in her acclaimed solo show Everything the Traffic Will Allow.
She is joined by Stephen Bogardus (Bright Star) as Nick Bullett, Simon Jones (Farinelli and The King) as Vivian Budd, David Green (Smiling the Boy Fell Dead at The York), Jay Aubrey Jones (Lolita, My Love at The York), Lael Van Keuren (Finding Neverland), Kylie Kuioka (The King and I), Garen McRoberts (Little House on the Prairie), Casey Shuler (Legally Blonde), Gordon Stanley (Dear World at The York), Joe Veale (Enter Laughing at The York), Zuri Washington (Sister Act), and Anita Welch (Little Rock).
Porter and Merman teamed up for their fourth hit with Panama Hattie, in which a brassy nightclub owner must bid for the approval of her fiancé’s family—a task only made more complicated when she discovers a plan to blow up the Panama Canal. Porter’s score includes “Let’s Be Buddies,” “I’ve Still Got My Health,” and “Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please.”
The production team includes production manager George Xenos, production stage manager Kimothy Cruse, and assistant stage manager Kirsten Leigh Williams. Casting is by Binder Casting: Chad Eric Murnane, CSA.
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BWW TV: Go Inside the Bloody Awesome Opening Night of SCOTLAND, PA!
Roundabout Theatre Company’s world premiere of the new musical Scotland, PA opened officially earlier this week onWednesday, October 23. This will be a limited engagement at the Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre 111 West 46th Street. The new musical features a book by Michael Mitnick, music lyrics by Adam Gwon, directed by Lonny Price and choreographed by Josh Rhodes.
A Look at Hampstead Theatre’s Botticelli in the Fire in London
The European premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Botticelli in the Fire began performances October 18 at the Hampstead Theatre in London. The production, directed by Blanche McIntyre, stars actor and performance artist Dickie Beau as famed painter Sandro Botticelli in an edgy re-imagining of Renaissance Italy. Hiran Abeysekera, Stefan Adegbola, Adetomiwa Edun, Louise Gold, Sirine Saba, and Howard Ward round out the cast.
Botticelli in the Fire follows playboy artist Botticelli as he works on “The Birth of Venus,” while navigating relationships both with a married woman and with “the Renaissance’s hottest young apprentice,” Leonardo da Vinci. But when a charismatic clergyman begins to target the liberal elite, Botticelli’s life, love, and art are torn apart.
Flip through photos from the production below:
Production Photos: Botticelli in the Fire in London
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