Video: First Day With the Orchestra of Encores! HIGH SPIRITS
The cast of High Spirits features Rachel Dratch, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale, Katrina Lenk and more.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Jan. 20, 2026
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New York City Center Encores! is presenting High Spirits, running Februrary 4 – 15, 2026. Directed by Tony Award nominee Jessica Stone and Encores! Music Director Mary-Mitchell Campbell with choreography by Ellenore Scott, this rarely revived musical is adapted from Noël Coward’s beloved comedy Blithe Spirit. Get a look inside the first day with the orchestra here!
Mary-Mitchell Campbell shared, "I'm so excited about the music of high spirits because it is such a fun score that really blends elements of the '60s when it was written, with sort of a quintessential Broadway sound, and also this sort of supernatural vibe that comes into it."
The cast features Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch as Edith, alongside film and television star Campbell Scott (House of Cards) as Dr. Bradman and Jennifer Sánchez (Real Women Have Curves) as Mrs. Bradman, husband-and-wife duo Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale as Ruth Condomine and Charles Condomine, as well as Katrina Lenk as Elvira and Andrea Martin as Madame Arcati.
The spectral Broadway rarity promises haunted hilarity and a brassy, swinging score by Hugh Martin and Timothy Gray that hasn’t been heard on Broadway since its 1964 debut. Coward’s story follows novelist Charles Condomine and his wife Ruth, whose marriage is upended when the eccentric medium Madame Arcati unwittingly conjures the ghost of Charles’s late first wife, Elvira.
Encores! High Spirits features scenic design by David Zinn, costume design by Jennifer Moeller, lighting design by Bradley King, sound design by Megumi Katayama, and concert adaptation by Billy Rosenfield.
