Noah Weisberg Opens CALVIN BERGER at George Street Playhouse, 2/19

Calvin Berger, a musical retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac, will open tonight at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey. The show will feature Broadway star Noah Weisberg as Calvin, alongside David Hull, Krystal Joy Brown and Dana Steingold. Previews for the production began February 10th.

Directed and choreographed by Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall (Broadway's The Pajama Game, Grease, Wonderful Town and TV's You're the One That I Want, The Music Man) this classic story of unrequited love and giddy days of young romance, has a sharp-witted script and rock musical score by Richard Rodgers Award winner Barry Wyner.

Calvin Berger is a modern day Cyrano - stressed out about a nose he can't hide and a girl he can't get. With a creative little scheme, some geeky charm and eloquent words, he goes to great lengths to have the star jock deliver his love-struck letters. But what if the girl of his dreams was right under his nose all along.

Noah Weisberg's (Calvin) Broadway credits include original casts of South Pacific (Professor), Legally Blonde (Aaron, Emmett u/s). Other NY: F#@king Up Everything (Winner - Outstanding Individual Performance), Two Gentlemen of Verona(Shakespeare in the Park, directed by Kathleen Marshall), Awesome 80's Prom (co-writer & co-star). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Tours: Big, Grease. TV: A recurring role on Law & Order, and guest appearances on The Good Wife, Law & Order: CI, Cashmere Mafia, and Love Monkey. Animated Series: Team Umizoomi, Kenny The Shark, and 2 seasons on Disney's JoJo's Circus. Film: Across the Universe, And Then Came Love, Nightmare, DOONCE! Noah can be seen & heard in over 100 commercials and is also the voice for the new cable network Halogen. He's a graduate of NYU (CAP21) and the founder of The Free Nationwide Resource for Performers: www.ImAnActor.com. Check out www.CastNoah.com for everything else Noah.

Krystal Joy Brown (Rosanna) is thrilled to be at George Street in Calvin!!! Favorite credits include, Broadway: Hair (Dionne, understudy Abe Lincoln); National Tour of Rent (Mimi); Off-Broadway- StreetLights (Monique).

David Hull (Matt) is very grateful for the chance to be a part of this production. He comes from the national tour of A Chorus Line, where he played Mark. Other credits include Wicked, High Button Shoes (Goodspeed), and GYPSY starring Patti LuPone.

Dana Steingold (Bret) Dana's credits include both the 1st National Touring Company and Los Angeles company of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Logainne), dir. James Lapine. Other Recent: Moises Kaufman's Into the Woods (Little Red Riding Hood) at Kansas City Rep, premiere of High School Musical 2 at North Shore Music Theatre (Kelsi), Perez Hilton Saves the Universe, Ordinary Days, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Sally) at the Century Center and many, many readings/workshops where she plays someone under the age of 16 including Disney's The Man in the Ceiling (dir. Jeff Lee) and Bubble Boy (with dir. Scott Schwartz), Dani Girl (dir. John Carrafa) and Godspell (dir. Danny Goldstein). She is a proud co-founder of Shifting Ground Productions. BFA from New York University.

Kathleen Marshall directed and choreographed the most recent Tony-nominated Broadway revival of GREASE, and served as a judge on NBC's You're the One That I Want, the reality show which cast the two leads. She was recently represented on Broadway by The Pajama Game as director/choreographer (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Awards for Best Choreography and nominations for direction) starring Harry Connick, Jr. She directed and choreographed the Disney/ABC tele-pic, Once Upon a Mattress, starring Tracey Ullman and Carol Burnett, and choreographed their previous tele-pic, The Music Man, starring Matthew Broderick (Emmy nomination). Broadway credits include Wonderful Town (director/choreographer) (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Astaire Awards for Best Choreography and nominations for direction). In addition, she choreographed the Broadway productions of Little Shop of Horrors, Follies (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Seussical, Kiss Me, Kate (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award nominations), Ring ‘Round the Moon (Lincoln Center Theater), 1776 (Roundabout) and Swingin' On a Star (Drama Desk nomination), as well as the West End revival of Kiss Me, Kate (Olivier Award nomination). She is an Artistic Associate of City Center Encores!, where she was the Artistic Director for four seasons. For Encores!, she directed and choreographed Applause, Carnival, Hair, Wonderful Town and Babes in Arms and co-conceived and staged the "Broadway Bash" concert. She also choreographed the Encores! productions of L'il Abner, The Boys from Syracuse, Dubarry Was a Lady and Call Me Madam. For the New York Shakespeare Festival, she directed and choreographed Two Gentlemen of Verona and for Second Stage Theatre, she directed and choreographed Saturday Night, the New York premiere of Stephen Sondheim's first musical. Her national tours include Kiss Me, Kate, Sunset Boulevard starring Petula Clark and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Music of the Night. Other credits include Violet (Playwrights Horizons), As Thousands Cheer (The Drama Dept.) and Time And Again (Old Globe Theatre). For the Library of Congress, she directed a 70th Birthday Celebration for Stephen Sondheim and she has staged tributes to Jason Robards, Angela Lansbury and Steve Martin for the Kennedy Center Honors. She served as assistant choreographer to her brother, Rob Marshall, on the Broadway productions of Kiss of the Spider Woman, She Loves Me and Damn Yankees. She is the Vice President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and is an Associate Artist of the Roundabout Theatre Company.

Performance of Calvin Berger take place Tuesday at 11:00am, Wednesday at 8:00pm, Thursday at 2:00pm and 7:00pm, Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 2:00pm and 8:00pm and Sunday at 2:00pm. The show runs through March 14th. Tickets range in price from $37.50 to $57.50 and may be purchased online at tickets.georgestplayhouse.org.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director David Saint, George Street Playhouse is a nationally recognized theatre, presenting an acclaimed mainstage season while providing an artistic home for established and emerging theatre artists. Founded in 1974, The Playhouse has been represented by numerous productions both on and Off Broadway - recent productions include Anne Meara's Down the Garden Paths, the Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk and Drama League nominated production of The Spitfire Grill and the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning play Proof by David Auburn which was developed at GSP during the 1999 Next Stage Series of new plays. In addition to its mainstage season, GSP's Touring Theatre features five issue-oriented productions that tours to more than 250 schools in the tri-state area, and are seen by more than 80,000 students annually.

George Street Playhouse programming is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.

For more information, visit georgestplayhouse.org.

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