Applegate, Moye, Arcelus Join The Cast Of LCT's HAPPINESS

LCT's production of HAPPINESS has announced partial casting.

HAPPINESS, is a new musical about a disparate group of New Yorkers caught on a subway train under unusual circumstances. It was commissioned and developed by Lincoln Center Theater. The production will reunite director-choreographer Susan Stroman and book writer John Weidman, whose last LCT collaboration was the Tony Award winning Best Musical Contact and will mark the LCT debuts of composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie.

The announced cast will so far include Ana Maria Andricain, Fred Applegate, Sebastian Arcelus, Holly Ann Butler, Miguel Cervantes, PatRick Cummings, Janet Dickinson, Joanna Gleason, Alan Green, Samantha Maza, James Moye, Alessa Neeck, Ken Page, Robert Petkoff, Jenny Powers, Eric Santagata, Robb Sapp, Alexander Scheitinger, Lina Silver, Phyllis Somerville, Pearl Sun, Idara Victor, and Matt Wall.

Complete casting will be announced further down the road.

The musical will have sets by Thomas Lynch, costumes by William Ivey Long, lighting by Donald Holder and sound design by Scott Lehrer.

Susan Stroman returns to LCT where she directed and choreographed the musicals Contact (Tony Award - Best Choreography), The Frogs, and Thou Shalt Not. Currently represented on Broadway as director-choreographer of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstien, her past credits include The Producers (Tony Awards for both direction and choreography) , the revival of The Music Man, and, as choreographer, the most recent revival of Oklahaoma!, Show Boat (Tony Award - Best Choreography), Steel Pier, Big and Crazy for You (Tony Award - Best Choreography).

John Weidman wrote the books for LCT's Tony Award winning productions of Contact and Anything Goes (with Timothy Crouse). He also wrote the books for the musicals big, Pacific Overtures, Assassins and Bounce, which will be produced by the Public Theater this season.

Composer Scott Frankel and lyricist Michael Korie were nominated for a Tony Award for their score for the musical Grey Gardens. Their other collaborations include the musicals Doll and Meet Mister Future. Korie wrote the librettos to composer Ricky Ian Gordon's score for the opera The Grapes of Wrath and to the operas Harvey Milk, Hopper's Wife, Kabbalah and Where's Dick?, all composed by StewArt Wallace. He also co-wrote, with Amy Powers, the lyrics to the new musical Zhivago. Frankel, as a music director, conductor and pianist, has been associated with the original Broadway productions of Into the Woods, Les Misérables, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Rags and Falsettos as well as Off-Broadway's Putting It Together starring Julie Andrews. Motion picture credits include Mike Nichols' Postcards From the Edge, where he can be seen (and heard) playing for Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLain.

There are upcoming performances Fri Feb 27 at 8:00 PM- Thu Mar 5 8:00 PM.
Full running time is TBD.

Lincoln Center Theater's 2008-2009 MITZI E. NEWHOUSE THEATER SEASON also consists of "SATURN RETURNS" A New Play by Noah Haidle, Directed by Nicholas Martin
Performances begin Thur October 16 with an opening night of Monday Nov 10.

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