Fleisher, Jue, LaVoy Join Houdyshell In CORALINE 5/7-6/20

The complete cast for MCC Theater's CORALINE has been announced. Jayne Houdyshell will play the title role with Julian Fleisher as Cat, Francis Jue as Father and Miss Forcible, January LaVoy as Mother and Miss Spink, Elliot Villar as Mr. Bobo and William Youmans as Other Father with Houdyshell and librettist Greenspan as Other Mother.

Coraline makes its world premiere May 7-June 20, 2009
The Music and Lyrics are by Stephin Merritt
Book by David Greenspan
Based on the Novel by Neil Gaiman
Directed by Leigh Silverman

The show is produced in Association with True Love Productions

Poor bored Coraline. She's left to rattle 'round her perpetually distracted, workaholic parents' house all by her lonesome. But late one night, her dreams of a better reality come true as she opens a big, carved, wooden door at the far end of the drawing room and passes into a perfect replica of her own world. When she's greeted there by a vastly loving Other Mother and a kindly Other Father, she's thrilled! But as the rats start to creep from the floorboards, and the way home becomes increasingly unclear, Coraline begins to suspect that, perhaps, all is not as perfect as it seems...

A musical like no other, Coraline sprang from the minds of three of the most wildly popular cult figures of our time. Adapted from the terrifying children's book by Neil Gaiman (author of the international sensation Sandman), this tale of menace and mayhem is set to music and lyrics by smart-rock iconoclast Stephin Merritt of The Magnetic Fields, and boasts a book by celebrated downtown actor/playwright, David Greenspan, who serves double-duty as the villainous Other Mother. Bringing it all together is acclaimed director Leigh Silverman (Yellowface, From Up Here, Well).

For tickets to Coraline at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, 121 Christopher Street, call (212) 279-4200. For more information visit mcctheater.org.