Laguna Playhouse Announces Cast for DADDY LONG LEGS

Casting has been announced for The Laguna Playhouse's World Premiere co-production (with Rubicon Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, TheatreWorks, David Elzer and Michael Jackowitz) of the romantic musical Daddy Long Legs, running November 30 - December 26 at The Laguna Playhouse.
 
Written by Tony Award-Winning playwright John Caird (Nicholas Nickleby, Les Miserables) and Tony nominated composer Paul Gordon (Jane Eyre), Daddy Long Legs is an exquisitely moving story of a young orphan girl named Jerusha as she blossoms into a beautiful, intelligent and vivacious woman t the turn of the last century. A trustee of the John Grier Orphanage offers Jerusha a proper education, but the benefactor's only requirements are that Jerusha never know his identity, and that she write him monthly (though he will not respond). She sees him once in shadows and invents a nickname for her mysterious patron-Daddy Long Legs. Her letters to him paint a moving portrait of her lonely life in the orphanage, the development of her mind and spirit, and the growing personal relationship that she develops with her unseen benefactor.
 
The play stars Robert Adelman Hancock as Daddy Long Legs, and Megan McGinnis as Jerusha. 
 
Robert Adelman Hancock played Sky in the National Tour of Mamma Mia!, and has numerous regional theatre credits including James Joyce's The Dead (Court Theatre Chicago), The
Fantasticks (Utah Shakespearean Festival), Hair (Hangar Theatre), Route 66 - original cast (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Forever Plaid -Barrymore nomination (Delaware Theatre Company), Muscle -world premiere by Lapine/Finn (Pegasus Players Chicago), A Christmas Carol (Westport Country Playhouse), and Fiddler on the Roof (Rubicon Theatre Company). He has also participated in the Summer Play Festival (NYC), and has acted at Madison Repertory Theatre, Skylight Opera Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, American Folklore Theatre, and Clarence Brown Theatre TV and film credits include "Guiding Light." Mr. Hancock has performed as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra and is a member of The Music Theatre Company of Chicago. He can be heard on the original cast recording of Daddy Long Legs.
 
Megan McGinnis originated the role of Jerusha at the Rubicon Theatre (Independent Award), TheatreWorks, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (Acclaim Award, Cincinnati Entertainment Award). She was last seen on Broadway starring as Eponine in the revival of Les Miserables. She originated the role of Beth March in the Broadway musical of Little Women and played a year-long run as Belle in Beauty and the Beast.  Other Broadway credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Parade, and The Diary of Anne Frank. Megan has worked regionally at the Kennedy Center, the MUNY in St. Louis, Sacramento Music Circus, New York Stage and Film, Fullerton Civic Light Opera, Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Phoenix Symphony Hall, Orange County Performing Arts Center, The Huntington Theatre in Boston, and ACT in San Francisco.  She has toured the country as Liesl in The Sound of Music with Richard Chamberlain and as Lily in James Joyce's The Dead. Originally from Southern California, Megan worked extensively in the local theater scene and guest starred on several television series, including "Dear John," "Sister, Sister," "Wings" and a recurring role on "Blossom."  She appeared in the film Anywhere But Here, voiced a character in A Goofy Movie, and has been seen on "The View," "Regis and Kathie Lee," "CBS' The Early Show" and "The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade." Megan can be heard on the original cast recordings of Little Women and Parade, and most recently, on Sutton Foster's album Wish singing the duet "Flight."  

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