Full Cast of Broadway's Good Vibrations Announced

By Robert Simonson
25 Oct 2004

Good Vibrations gals Kate Reinders and Jessica-Snow Wilson.
Good Vibrations gals Kate Reinders and Jessica-Snow Wilson.

The producers of Good Vibrations, the new Broadway musical that uses songs from The Beach Boys canon, have announced their cast.

Heading the ensemble will be Tituss Burgess as Eddie, David Larsen as Bobby, Kate Reinders as Caroline, Brandon Wardell as Dave and Jessica-Snow Wilson as Marcella.

Rounding out the cast are Tracee Beazer, Heath Calvert, Janet Dacal, Tom Deckman, Sarah Glendening, Milena Govich, Justin Guarini, Chad Kimball, Amanda Kloots, John Jeffrey Martin, Jesse Nager, David Reiser, Jackie Seiden, Allison Spratt, Carlos L. Encinias, Vasthy Mompoint, Steve Morgan and Krysta Rodriguez.

Good Vibrations has its first preview on Dec. 20. Opening is now Jan. 27, 2005. The show, which will play the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, had previously announced previews as beginning Dec. 4.

John Carrafa — of Urinetown fame — will direct and choreograph Good Vibrations. Good Vibrations has an original book by Richard Dresser (Rounding Third, Below the Belt) and uses more than 30 songs written by Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys. The plot, however, is not a biographical tale of the blond-mopped California band that celebrated cars, girls and surfing in the 1960s.

A recent production of the musical was presented at the New York Stage & Film on the campus of Vassar College. That staging featured David Larsen and Justin Guarini, runner-up in the first "American Idol" TV competition.

Producers for the Broadway production include NCJ Productions (Nina Keneally, Cathleen Murphy, Jamie Lightstone) with Michael Watt and Dodger Stage Holding.