MISS DOOR COUNTY Comes to the Green Room 42 in November

Nathan A. Fosbinder will bring his hyper-midwest, sisterhood-centric, Americana-laden new musical: Miss Door County to The Green Room 42. Composer and Lyricist, Nathan A. Fosbinder, is known for Ratatouille: the TikTok Musical fame, Hephaestus (NAMT Frank Young Fund for New Musicals Production Grant winner), and the Tonys-inspired music video “So Much To See,” with Theatrely.com.

Miss Door County follows Sophie Marks who lives in a small Wisconsin town, and works at a small Wisconsin cafe, run by her small and sweet Wisconsin father. After the loss of her mom, Sophie thinks the answer to her problems is to get out of Whitefish Bay, until Agatha Monroe, a Former Miss Wisconsin runner-up (from either twenty or five years ago, depending on her state of mind), blows in to town and convinces Sophie to compete in the Miss Door County Pageant. Will Sophie, along with her oddball best friend Margot, and hopeless (and hapless) coworker Benjamin, be able to defeat local mean girl and pageant legend Crystal Clear? Or will Sophie discover that the real prize is something that can’t be covered in sequins and tulle? 

This debut reading will star Sara Gallo (1776) and Cara Rose DiPietro (Rutka) as best friends Sophie and Margot, Caroline Lellouche (We Are The Tigers) as the infamous Crystal Clear and Mike Cefalo (New York, New York) as the affable Benjamin, and featuring Ben Roseberry (The Lion King) Frank Marks, Sophie’s open-hearted father. The rest of the hilarious and eccentric pageant girls are played by Khaila Wilcoxon (Six, Hadestown), Gwynne Wood (1776, Oklahoma!), Devina Sabnis (Monsoon Wedding), and Alia Cuadros-Contreras (Scouts). Additional casting to be announced shortly.   

Miss Door County comes from Fosbinder’s experience growing up near Wisconsin’s Door County, a place of cherry blossoms, heavy accents, and, most importantly, cheese. Fosbinder has been forever inspired, nay haunted, by an image he saw at pageant time during the 4th of July Parade: a beautiful girl in a sparkly silver dress, with a sash that read Miss Door County, wearing not a tiara, but a cheesehead. Years later, Miss Door County serves as Fosbinder’s love letter to Wisconsin, and as a rumination on friendship, family, and the joys of a small town.