Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director; Barry Grove, Executive Producer; Daniel Sullivan, Acting Artistic Director 2007-2008 Season) is pleased to announce that three-time Tony Awardâ nominee Mary Beth Hurt will complete the cast of the upcoming Broadway premiere of Caryl Churchill's Top Girls at MTC's Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
Hurt joins the previously announced
Mary Catherine Garrison (
Rabbit Hole, Assassins),
Jennifer Ikeda (
Seascape, As You Like It), four-time Obie Award winner
Elizabeth Marvel, Tony Nominee and Drama Desk Award winner
Martha Plimpton,
Ana Reeder (
No Country For Old Men, Sight Unseen), and Academy Award® winner
Marisa Tomei. James Macdonald
(Drunk Enough To Say I Love You?, A Number) will direct.
Rehearsals for
Top Girls begin tomorrow, March 12 at Manhattan Theatre Club. The limited engagement will begin previews on Tuesday, April 15 for a Wednesday, May 7 opening night at MTC's Biltmore Theatre (261 West 47th Street).
Top Girls marks the Broadway debut of a Caryl Churchill masterpiece. At the
Top Girls Employment Agency in London in the early 1980s, Marlene (Marvel) has just been appointed head of the firm. But as this ambitious career woman celebrates her achievements, can we applaud her values? This bold and ingenious work from the singularly talented author of Far Away and Cloud Nine offers one of the theatre's most honest portraits of what it means to be a woman in the modern world.
The creative team for
Top Girls will include
Tom Pye (scenic design), Laura Bauer (costume design), Christopher Akerlind (lighting design), Darron L West (sound design), Matthew Herbert (original music),
Paul Huntley (hair & wig design), and Elizabeth Smith (dialect consultant).
Under the leadership of Artistic Director
Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer
Barry Grove, MTC has become one of the country's most prominent and prestigious theatre companies. MTC productions have earned numerous awards, including 16 Tony Awards and five Pulitzer Prizes, an accomplishment unparalleled by a New York theatrical institution. Renowned MTC productions include
LoveMusik; Blackbird; Translations; Shining City; Rabbit Hole; Doubt; Kimberly Akimbo; Proof; The Tale of the Allergist's Wife; Love! Valour! Compassion!; Sylvia; Four Dogs and a Bone; Putting It Together; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Crimes of the Heart; and
Ain't Misbehavin'.
In 2003, MTC reopened Broadway's landmark, long-neglected Biltmore Theatre, following a two-year, $35 million capital campaign. In addition to the Biltmore, MTC operates two theatres at New York City Center, its Off-Broadway home since 1984.
During Meadow's sabbatical this season,
Daniel Sullivan, a close associate of MTC and director of several Manhattan Theatre Club productions (
Rabbit Hole, Brooklyn Boy, Sight Unseen, Proof, Psychopathia Sexualis), is serving as Acting Artistic Director. Sullivan will continue consulting with Meadow and MTC's artistic staff on the planning of the 2007-2008 season. Meadow will return to MTC for the 2008-2009 season and will consult on the planning of that season.
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TICKET INFORMATION:
Tickets to
Top Girls are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NY metro area, online at Telecharge.com, and at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). Tickets range in price from $46.50-$91.50. For group ticket information, call (800) 432-7780. Student rush tickets are available the day of the performance at the Biltmore Theatre box office for $26.50.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, April 15 – Sunday, April 20 (please note this is a seven performance week): Tuesday through Saturday at 8 PM. Sunday at 2 and 7 PM. Tuesday, April 22 – Sunday, May 11: Tuesday through Saturday at 8 PM. Sunday at 7 PM. Matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2 PM. Tuesday, May 13 – Sunday, June 29: Tuesday through Saturday at 8 PM. Matinees Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday at 2 PM.
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