Off-Broadway's Carrie Finds Surrogate Mom in Anne Tolpegin March 16-18

By Adam Hetrick
16 Mar 2012

Anne Tolpegin
Anne Tolpegin
Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Anne Tolpegin will be citing scripture this weekend as Margaret White in the MCC Theater production of Carrie while Tony Award nominee Marin Mazzie performs a California concert engagement.

Tolpegin (Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities) will join co-star Molly Ranson (Jerusalem, August: Osage County), who stars in the title role, for all performances March 16-18. Mazzie will return to the production March 20.

Mazzie (Next to Normal, Passion, Ragtime) and her husband Jason Danieley (Next to Normal, Candide, The Full Monty) will offer their previously booked concert Standard Time at the Valley Performing Arts Center in Northridge, CA, March 17.

Carrie opened Off-Broadway March 1 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Stafford Arima (Altar Boyz, Tin Pan Alley Rag, London's Ragtime) directed the newly revised production that has been reshaped by songwriters Michael Gore and Dean Pitchford, and original screenwriter Lawrence D. Cohen.

The cast also features Christy Altomare as Sue Snell, Carmen Cusack as gym teacher Lynn Gardner, Jeanna de Waal as Chris Hargensen, Derek Klena as Tommy Ross, Ben Thompson as Billy Nolan, Wayne Wilcox as Mr. Stephens, Corey Boardman as George, Blair Goldberg as Norma, F. Michael Haynie as Freddie, Andy Mientus as Stokes, Elly Noble as Helen, Jen Sese as Frieda, Mackenzie Bell and Jake Boyd.

Tickets for Carrie, which runs through April 22, begin at $89. Visit mcctheater.org. The Lucille Lortel Theatre is located at 121 Christopher Street.