Creative Team Announced for Crazy for You, Starring Laura Osnes and Tony Yazbeck
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Manhattan Concert Productions has announced the creative team for the 25th anniversary concert performance of Crazy for You, set to take place February 19 at David Geffen Hall. Five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, original choreographer, returns to now direct and choreograph the 25th anniversary concert performance. Kevin Stites serves as music director and conductor.
The creative team will also include Beowulf Boritt (set designer), Jason Lyons (lighting designer), Peter Hylenski (sound designer), Chris Pantuso (props coordinator), and Sarah Cubbage (costume coordinator).
As previously announced, the company will be led by Tony Yazbeck (Finding Neverland) and Laura Osnes (Bandstand), who will costar as Bobby Child and Polly Baker, original cast member Harry Groener, who will take on the role of Bela Zangler, 30 Rock favorites Rachel Dratch and Jack McBrayer, who will play Patricia and Eugene Fodor, Rachel Bloom (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) as Irene Roth, and Jerry O'Connell (Seminar) as Lank Hawkins.
The complete cast is made up of Mark Linn-Baker, Nancy Opel, Michael Biren, Jim Borstelmann, Christine Cornish-Smith, Jeremy Davis, Jerry Gallagher, Anne Horak, Rashaan James II, Naomi Kakuk, Amanda Kloots, Chris LeBeau, Alicia Lundgren, Brittany Marcin Maschmeyer, Kaylee Olson, Eric Santagata, Angie Schworer, and Victor Wisehart.
With music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, and book by Ken Ludwig, the romantic comedy follows Bobby Child, a banker who dreams of dancing in the follies. When he's sent to foreclose on a rundown theater in Nevada, he meets Polly Baker, the daughter of the theater's owner, who has vowed to get even. Harry Groener and Jodi Benson led the cast of the original production.
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