'Body Beautiful' to Star Latessa & Huffman, Oct. 12-14

The York Theatre Company announces casting for The Body Beautiful, the third of the four shows in the Fall 2007 Musicals in Mufti Series - the York's acclaimed series of musical theatre gems in staged concert performances. This Series celebrates the work of playwright Joseph Stein.  The Body Beautiful will play October 12, 13 & 14 at the Theatre at Saint Peters (54th Street, Just East of Lexington Ave). Tickets are $35. For more information or to purchase tickets to any of the Mufti shows, visit www.yorktheatre.org or call York's Box Office at 212-935-5820.

The Body Beautiful will feature: Tony Award winners Dick Latessa (Hairspray) and Cady Huffman (The Producers), Tony Award nominees Megan Lawrence (The Pajama Game) and Brad Oscar (The Producers) and Drama Desk nominee Capathia Jenkins (Martin Short: Fames Becomes Me). The cast also includes: Angie Schworer (The Producers), Ryan Duncan (Altar Boyz), Stephen Bienskie (Cats) and Jim Sorensen (York's Plain and Fancy).  More cast members will be announced soon. The show will be directed by David Glenn Armstrong (The Day Before Spring, (Mis)Understanding Mammy: The Hattie McDaniel Story, Plain and Fancy).  John Bell (Plane Crazy, Meet Me in St. Louis, Plain and Fancy) is the Music Director.       

The Body Beautiful has a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock.  The Body Beautiful was the first collaboration between Harnick, Bock, and Stein, who went on to write Fiddler on the Roof a few years later.  "The show is about a wealthy Dartmouth College graduate who wishes to be a prize-winning boxer and the girl he loves who disapproves of his ambitions.  His fight manager must deal with uninspired fighters, two ex-wives and a new girlfriend," explain press notes.

The Body Beautiful follows the York's productions of Zorba and Enter Laughing: The Musical and will be followed by The Baker's Wife, which will run October 26, 27 & 28 and will be directed by Gordon Greenberg with Mark Hartman as Music Director.   All shows play five performances: Friday at 8PM, Saturday at 2:30PM & 8PM, and Sunday at 2:30PM & 7:30PM. Audience discussions follow both matinees.  Tickets are $35 and are now on sale. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit www.yorktheatre.org or call York's Box Office at 212-935-5820.  The box office is open Monday-Friday, 10AM-6PM.

For ticket information visit www.yorktheatre.org  or call 212-935-5820. The York Theatre Company in Saint Peter's Theatre, 54th Street (just East of Lexington).