Photo Flash: Meet the Cast of New Line Theatre's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
New Line Theatre, "the bad boy of musical theatre, " opens its 23rd season of adult, alternative musical theatre with the regional premiere of the new musical thriller NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, running Oct. 10-Nov. 2, 2013. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast below!
The New Line season opens in October with this taut musical thriller, based on the iconic 1968 George Romero film that reinvented the zombie movie for our contemporary culture. From the dynamic, up-and-coming team of writer-lyricist Stephen Gregory Smith and composer-lyricist Matt Conner (Nevermore, Partial Eclipse, The Hollow) comes this powerful psychological thriller, re-imagining Romero's iconic walpurgisnacht for a new century, zeroing in on the relationships among seven doomed strangers, who just may be the living dead themselves. Could it be that these seven are trapped in this house for eternity, reliving the last night of their lives over and over, as a deadly force from the outside threatens to find its way in? In this post-9/11 world, the metaphor is clear: Who are "they" and can we ever really be safe? Kim Paffenroth writes in his book Gospel of the Living Dead, "Reviewers began to recognize that the film did not just shock and disgust, but that it disturbed and perplexed viewers, and demanded more of them at some deeper, more thoughtful, and more introspective level." That deeper level is where this show lives.Photo Credit: Jill Ritter Lindberg
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Joseph McAnulty, Zachary Allen Farmer, Sarah Porter, Marcy Wiegert, Mary Beth Black, Mike Dowdy.
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Joseph McAnulty, Zachary Allen Farmer, Sarah Porter, Marcy Wiegert, Mary Beth Black, Mike Dowdy.
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Sarah Porter, Mike Dowdy, Mary Beth Black, Marcy Wiegert, Zachary Allen Farmer, Joseph McAnulty (in front).
Marcy Wiegert as Barbra
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Joseph McAnulty, Mary Beth Black, Sarah Porter, Zachary Allen Farmer, Marcy Wiegert, Mike Dowdy.
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Joseph McAnulty, Mary Beth Black, Sarah Porter, Zachary Allen Farmer, Marcy Wiegert, Mike Dowdy.
The cast of New Line Theatre's "Night of the Living Dead," 2013. L-R, Joseph McAnulty, Mary Beth Black, Zachary Allen Farmer, Marcy Wiegert, Mike Dowdy, Sarah Porter.
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