EXCLUSIVE: Two private industry readings of a new production of Cole Porter‘s The New Yorkers featuring much of the cast of an acclaimed 2017 Encores! presentation along with new addition Bebe Neuwirth are set for New York City later this month.
The cast for the presentations also includes Robyn Hurder, Mylinda Hull, Scarlett Strallen, Tam Mutu and Kevin Chamberlin, all returnees from the City Center Encores! production.
John Rando, a Tony winner for Urinetown who most recently directed the Back to the Future musical on Broadway, will direct. The 1930 musical with music and lyrics by Porter and a book by Herbert Fields, was adapted for Encores! by then-artistic director Jack Viertel, and it’s that version getting the readings on April 23 and 24.
Joe Abrams and Sally Wood are producing.
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