Mary Stout, Allyson Tucker, Gregory North To Star In THE SUSTAIN Workshop
Performances will take place at the Sargent Theatre in New York City September 17-21.
By: Chloe Rabinowitz Aug. 18, 2025
The Sustain, an original musical by Aaron Drescher, Alice Jankell and Pamela Weiler Grayson, will receive 5 developmental workshop presentations at the Sargent Theatre in New York City September 17-21. The piece has been in development in Theatre Now's Musical Writers Lab since 2019.
The show is an intimate musical about love, sex and connection in a senior living facility told through an indie rock score and interwoven stories of its elderly residents, the staff who takes care of them, and the lives they leave behind outside as they start a new chapter.
The workshop will star Broadway veterans Mary Stout (Tony nominee for Jane Eyre, On the Twentieth Century, Beauty and the Beast, My Favorite Year), Allyson Tucker (OBC Ragtime, Man of La Mancha, Follies, Anything Goes), Gregory North (Into the Woods, Grand Hotel, The Secret Garden), and Robert Vincent Smith (Show Boat) along with Jo Yang (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Awkwafina is Nora from Queens), Iliana Guibert, Emily Jewell, Claire McClanahan, and Micah Meyers.
The Sustain features a book and lyrics by Alice Jankell and Pamela Weiler Grayson and music by Aaron Drescher with direction by NJ Agwuna. Dave Klodowski will serve as Music Director and conductor of the band, which will include himself on keyboard, Aaron Drescher on drums, Matt SanGiovanni on guitar, and Connor Frawley on bass.
The workshop is produced by Theatre Now New York (TNNY), a non-profit organization dedicated to new musicals known primarily as the producer of the annual SOUND BITES Festival of 10-Minute Musicals. TNNY also produces developmental readings and productions of new works developed in their Musical Writers Lab as well as a monthly cabaret series at SoHo Playhouse and monthly Industry Nights. These evenings recently featured Master Classes with Tony winners Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Lisa Lambert, and Rachel Sheinkin as well as Andrew Lippa, Susan Birkenhead, Mindi Dickstein, and others. Upcoming guests will include Julia Jordan, Adam Gwon and Anna K. Jacobs.
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