The provocative upcoming musical White Noise announced new casting for its New York Musical Theater Festival production this September. Playing determined older sister Eva will be Libby Winters (ABC's "Champs"); younger sister Blanche will be played by newcomer Christina Calph. Winters and Calph will replace the previously announced Kacie Sheik and Whitney Bashor, who departed the show yesterday to pursue other opportunities.
Also joining the cast will be Phillip Taratula as the father of the two girls, currently featured in the Fringe Festival hit The Deepest Play Ever.The casting change comes on the heels of network television coverage of White Noise on both "Good Morning America" and "ABC Primetime" which aired Tuesday, August 22, and featured footage from the May reading of the show, which Sheik and Bashor starred in. Director Ryan J. Davis said today, "We hate to see Whitney and Kacie go, but we're also thrilled about Libby and Christina. We're eager to see what the new cast is going to bring to the show. We wish Kacie and Whitney the best of luck for the future."Videos of this week's network television coverage can be viewed on the show's website, www.whitenoisethemusical.com.White Noise, presented by the New York Musical Theater Festival and Matt Nasser, was conceived by director Ryan J. Davis and features book, music and lyrics by Joe Drymala, with additional songs by Ben Cohn & Sean McDaniel, Rick Crom (Newsical), Glen Kelly (dance arranger, The Producers, Spamalot, The Drowsy Chaperone), Laurence O'Keefe (Bat Boy, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Legally Blonde), Benj Pasek & Justin Paul (Edges) and Eric Svejcar (Caligula). White Noise is billed as "A Cautionary Musical", and is inspired by the real-life teenage white supremacist pop/folk band Prussian Blue. White Noise is described by the authors as follows:Videos