Photo Flash: Drury Lane Theatre's THE GAME'S AFOOT Celebrates Opening Night

Drury Lane Theatre, 100 Drury Lane, continues its landmark 30th anniversary season with the winner of "Best Play" at the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Allan Poe Awards, THE GAME'S AFOOT. The show opened last night, September 4 at 8 p.m., and runs through October 19, 2014. BroadwayWorld has photos from the opening night festivites below!

The cast is led by Derek Hasenstab (Broadway National Tour of The Lion King; The Foreigner and I Hate Hamlet at Drury Lane Theatre; Oedipus Complex at the Goodman Theatre; and Sunday in the Park with George at Chicago Shakespeare Theater) as "William Gillette" and nine-time Jeff Award-winner Alene Robertson (National Tour of Annie, Mame at Drury Lane Theatre, and The Full Monty and Hello, Dolly! at Marriott Theatre) as "Martha Gillette." THE GAME'S AFOOT is written by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, The Fox on the Fairway, Crazy for You, and Moon Over Buffalo) and directed by Drury Lane Theatre Artistic Director William Osetek (Young Frankenstein and next to normal at Drury Lane Theatre).

It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow Broadway cast-members to his lavish Connecticut mansion for an elegant Christmas Eve dinner party and weekend of revelry. When one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in the isolated house quickly turn dangerous. As thegentle holiday snow quickly turns into a blizzard, it is up to Gillette himself, as he assumes the persona of his beloved Holmes, to track down the killer before the next victim appears in this witty, suspenseful caper.

The cast also includes Jeff Award winner Rod Thomas (Next to Normal and Big at Drury Lane Theatre and Little Shop of Horrors at Theatre at the Center) as "Felix Geisel," Kathy Logelin (five seasons with the Illinois Shakespeare Festival) as "Madge Geisel," Tempe Thomas (Buddy Holly and Seussical the Musical at Drury Lane Theatre, Grease at Marriott Theatre, Candide at theGoodman Theatre) as "Aggie Wheeler," Rob Riddle (LES MISERABLES at Drury Lane Theatre, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Marriott Theatre) as "Simon Bright," Wendy Robie (Film credits: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The People UnderThe Stairs, Vampire in Brooklyn) as "Inspector Goring," and multi-Jeff Award nominee and Ostrander Award winner Angela Ingersoll (The 39 Steps at Drury Lane Theatre, Richard The III, MacBeth and The Comedy of Errors as Chicago Shakespeare Theater) as "Daria Chase."

An elegant set by Jeff Award-winning Scenic Director Kevin Depinet (Singin' in the Rain, Xanadu, The Sound of Music, Sweeney Todd, and Ragtime at Drury Lane Theatre and Set Designer for the film Public Enemies) transports audiences to the Art Deco style interior of a Connecticut estate. Glamorous long velvet gowns, ermine capes and dapper tuxedoes are by Costume Designer Maggie Hofmann. The artistic team also includes Greg Hofmann as Lighting Designer (LES MISERABLES and Oliver! at Drury Lane Theatre), Ray Nardelli as Sound Designer (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, LES MISERABLES, Miss Saigon, Young Frankenstein, Next to Normal at Drury Lane Theatre), Nick Heggestad as Properties Design (The 25th Annual Putnam CountySpelling Bee and LES MISERABLES at Drury Lane Theatre), and Rick Jarvie as Wig Designer.

For reservations and more information, call the Drury Lane Theatre box office at 630.530.0111, call TicketMaster at 800.745.3000 or visit www.drurylane.com.

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