Barrett, Harris Goodwin, Umphress & More Set for SILENCE! Off Broadway

Broadway's Brent Barrett, most recently seen in CHICAGO will play the lead role of Hannibal Lecter in the new Off Broadway production of the spoof hit, Silence! reports Variety today. Jenn Harris will play the role of detective Clarice Starling in the parody of the hit 1991 thriller, "The Silence of the Lambs." The paper also reports that Stephen Bienskie, Deidre Goodwin, Jeff Hiller, Harry Bouvy, Howard Kaye and Alysha Umphress will be in the cast as well. 

Follow F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling as she uses her relationship with Dr. Hannibal Lecter to hunt serial killer Buffalo Bill. SILENCE! transforms the film's dialogue into a full-scale musical, complete with singing serial killers, songs with unprintable titles, and a chorus of tap-dancing lambs.

Silence! The Musical will open Off-Broadway in June and boasts a book by [title of show]'s Hunter Bell, music and lyrics by Jon and Al Kaplan, and directed and choreographed by Christopher Gattelli.

Winner of Outstanding Musical FrinceNYC 2005, Silence! transforms the film's dialogue into a full-scale musical, complete with singing serial killers, songs with unprintable titles, and a chorus of tap-dancing lambs.