Photo Coverage: Encores! MUSIC IN THE AIR Closing Night Party
By: Walter McBride Feb. 09, 2009
Kern and Hammerstein's Music in the Air, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008-09 season, concluded its limited run yesterday, Sunday, February 8th. Music in the Air, a rarely seen 1932 musical, was directed by Gary Griffin with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Michael Lichtefeld. The production ran for five performances at City Center, West 55th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues). BroadwayWorld's cameras joined the fun at the closing night party!
The cast includes Kristin Chenoweth, Douglas Sills, Dick Latessa, Marni Nixon, Tom Alan Robbins, Sierra Boggess, Walter Charles, Anne L. Nathan, David Schramm, Ryan Silverman and Robert Sella.
Music in the Air, with music by Jerome Kern, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett, has been restored by the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and has not been seen in New York in its original form since its premiere Broadway engagement at the Alvin Theatre in 1932. Opening on November 8th of that year, it played for 342 performances in a production directed by the authors. A revised version had a brief revival at the Ziegfeld Theatre in 1951.
Music in the Air is a musical romance, with the wit and elegance of an Ernst Lubitsch film. It's the story of a Bavarian music teacher (Robbins), his beautiful young daughter (Boggess), and the daughter's suitor (Silverman), who travel to the big, bad city of Munich where they encounter a cast of self-involved, egotistical theater folk who promise them fame, fortune and romance. Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills play a Diva (Chenoweth) and an egotistical operetta librettist (Sills) who take the young couple under their wings (and claws). Songs include "I've Told Ev'ry Little Star" and "The Song Is You."
Photos by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.
NY City Center ENCORES! MUSIC IN THE AIR
NY City Center ENCORES! MUSIC IN THE AIR
Dawn Cantwell and Sierra Boggess
Dawn Cantwell and Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess
Sierra Boggess
Ryan Silverman and Sierra Boggess
Ryan Silverman and Sierra Boggess
Michael Marcotte
The Boys of MUSIC IN THE AIR!
Anne L. Nathan
Tom Alan Robbins and Anne L. Nathan
Tom Alan Robbins
Margery Harnick, Tom Alan Robbins, Sheldon Harnick and Patty Goble
Walter Charles
Anne Horak
Anne Horak and Stephen Carrasco
Walter Bobbie
Walter Bobbie and Kristin Chenoweth
Walter Bobbie and Kristin Chenoweth
Gary Griffin
David Schramm
David Schramm and Gary Griffin
Robert Sella
Robert Sella
Ryan Silverman
Ryan Silverman
Ryan Silverman and Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon and Kristin Chenoweth
Marni Nixon and Kristin Chenoweth
Dick Latessa
Joy Hermalyn and Dick Latessa
David Ives, Walter Bobbie and the cast with Jack Viertel
David Ives and Walter Bobbie
David Ives and Walter Bobbie wishing Jack Viertel a Happy Birthday!
Dick Latessa and Walter Bobbie
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth
Margery Harnick, Kristin Chenoweth and Sheldon Harnick
Margery Harnick, Kristin Chenoweth and Sheldon Harnick
Douglas Sills
Gregory Jbara and Douglas Sills
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills
Kristin Chenoweth and Douglas Sills
NY City Center ENCORES! MUSIC IN THE AIR
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