Full Cast Expected Back in LoveMusik May 15 Following Canceled Performance
By Andrew Gans
and Kenneth Jones
13 May 2007
The Saturday, May 12 evening performance of LoveMusik — the new musical charting the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and his muse Lotte Lenya — was canceled due to the absence of co-stars Donna Murphy and Judy Blazer.
A statement from Manhattan Theatre Club says, "Since there is only one female swing, the show was cancelled on Saturday
night and a reduced cast size version was rehearsed for the Sunday matinee." Blazer has been out of the musical at the Biltmore Theatre since Friday, May 11. Murphy was unable to perform at the Saturday, May 12 evening and Sunday, May 13 matinee performances.
"We are expecting the full company will be back in the show on Tuesday," the statement adds.
LoveMusik, the new Harold Prince-Alfred Uhry musical, began Broadway performances April 12 and officially opened May 3.
The Manhattan Theatre Club staging stars Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris (Weill) and Donna Murphy (Lenya), with David Pittu (as Bertolt Brecht) and John Scherer (as George Davis). Also featured are Judith Blazer (Titanic), Edwin Cahill, Herndon Lackey (Kiss of the Spider Woman, Parade), Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison (Merrily We Roll Along), Graham Rowat (Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Dr. Zhivago), Rachel Ulanet (King David) and Jessica Wright (2006's Company, 2005's Sweeney Todd).
Suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, LoveMusik features a book by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Parade), "a full range of Kurt Weill songs," musical staging by Patricia Birch (A Little Night Music), and direction by 21-time Tony Award winner Harold Prince (The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret and Sweeney Todd).
LoveMusik "follows the lives of the unlikeliest of lovers — the brilliant, intellectual German composer Kurt Weill (Cerveris) and the woman who became his muse and star, Lotte Lenya (Murphy)," according to MTC. "LoveMusik is an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood, spanning 25 years in the lives of this complicated couple."
Act One is called "Europe," and Act Two is called "America."
LoveMusik features the lyrics of Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash, Elmer Rice and Kurt Weill.
LoveMusik is produced by Manhattan Theatre Club (Lynne Meadow, artistic director, Barry Grove, executive producer) by special arrangement with Marty Bell, Aldo Scrofani, Boyett Ostar Productions, Tracy Aron, Roger Berlind/Debra Black, Chase Mishkin and Ted Snowdon. (The commercial names attached indicate a hope for a future life beyond its not-for-profit MTC launch.
The LoveMusik design and production team are Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), Judith Dolan (costume design), Howell Binkley (lighting design), Duncan Edwards (sound design), Paul Huntley (wig design), Angelina Avallone (makeup design), Mark Simon (casting), Jonathan Tunick (orchestrations), Kristen Blodgette (musical supervisor), Seymour Red Press (music coordinator), Milton Granger (additional vocal arrangements), and Nicholas Archer (conductor).
Tickets are available by calling Telecharge.com at (212) 239-6200, (800) 432-7250 outside the NYC metro area, online at Telecharge.com, and at the Biltmore Theatre box office (261 West 47th Street, between Broadway and 8th Avenue). Tickets range in price from $76.25-$101.25.
Visit www.ManhattanTheatreClub.com for more information.
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Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy star in MTC's production of LoveMusik.
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| photo by Carol Rosegg |
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