Photo Coverage: LYSISTRATA JONES Opening Night Party

Lysistrata Jones began preview performances Saturday, November 12th at the Walter Kerr Theatre and opened officially last night, December 14, 2011. After the show, the cast and creative team headed to New Liberty Theater at Famous Daves on 42nd street for their opening night party and BroadwayWorld was there to capture the fun!

Written by Tony nominee Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, Lysistrata Jones is directed and choreographed by Tony nominee Dan Knechtges.

In the musical, The Athens University basketball team hasn't won a game in 30 years. But when spunky transfer student Lysistrata Jones (Patti Murrin) dares the squad's fed-up girlfriends to stop ‘giving it up' to their boyfriends until they win a game, their legendary losing streak could be coming to an end. In this boisterous new musical comedy, Lyssie J. and her girl-power posse give Aristophanes' classic comedy a sexy, modern twist and take student activism to a whole new level.

Lysistrata Jones stars Patti Murin (Lysistrata Jones), Liz Mikel (Hetaira), Josh Segarra (Mick), Jason Tam (Xander), and Lindsay Nicole Chambers (Robin) with Alexander Aguilar (‘Uardo), Ato Blankson-Wood (Tyllus), Katie Boren (Lampito), Kat Nejat (Cleonice), LaQuet Sharnell (Myrrhine), Teddy Toye (Harold) and Alex Wyse (Cinesius), with understudies LaVon Fisher-Wilson, Libby Servias, Charlie Sutton, Barrett Wilbert Weed, and Jared Zirilli.

Photos by Linda Lenzi / BroadwayWorld.com

Patti Murin

Patti Murin

Josh Segarra

Patti Murin and Josh Segarra

Patti Murin and Josh Segarra

Charlie Sutton, Barrett Wilbert Weed, Libby Servais and Jared Zirilli

Penny Marshall

Lewis Flinn

Dan Knechtges

Dan Knechtges and Jessica Hartman

Dan Knechtges and Paula Herold

LaVon Fisher-Wilson

Alexander Aguilar

LaQuet Sharnell

Teddy Toye, Ato Blankson-Wood and Alexander Aguilar

Douglas Carter Beane

Alex Wyse

Jason Tam

Jason Tam, Alex Wyse, Teddy Toye, Ato Blankson-Wood and Alexander Aguilar

Chris Mullin

Josh Segarra, Alex Wyse, Teddy Toye, Chris Mullin, Ato Blankson-Wood and Alexander Aguilar

Jessica Hartman and Charlie Sutton

Liz Mikel

Patti Murin and Curtis Holbrook

Patti Murin and Curtis Holbrook

Kat Nejat, Patti Murin and Lindsay Nicole Chambers

Lindsay Nicole Chambers

Lindsay Nicole Chambers and Josh Segarra

Jason Tam and Patti Murin

LaQuet Sharnell, Katie Boren and Kat Nejat

Lindsay Nicole Chambers, LaQuet Sharnell, Patti Murin, Katie Boren and Kat Nejat