NewsPHOTO CALL: Oohrah! Opens Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater CompanyCassie Beck, Darren Goldstein, Jennifer Mudge and the company of Bekah Brunstetter's Oohrah! celebrated the world premiere's Sept. 10 opening night Off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2.
By
Ernio Hernandez
September 11, 2009
Evan Cabnet directs the work with a cast that also includes Maximilian Osinski, Sami Gayle, J.R. Horne and Lucas Near-Verbrugghe.
"In Fayetteville, NC, home to one of the South's largest military bases, practically everybody has somebody 'Over There.' Sara is relieved when her husband Ron returns home from an uneventful tour in Iraq, but he's finding it difficult to settle back into the domestic bliss that is 'home improvement' and 'Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals.' Sara's sister Abby has set herself up for an uneventful life with a civilian fiancé who's more interested in PlayStation than the battlefield. But when a hot, mysterious Marine walks into their lives, all bets on stability are off," according to show materials.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.