Choreographer Sergio Trujillo Joins Trailer Park Musical Team; Opening Delayed One Week
By Ernio Hernandez
01 Sep 2005
Sergio Trujillo has moved into the Armadillo Acres mobile home community as choreographer for The Great American Trailer Park Musical, the opening of which has been delayed one week at Dodger Stages, to Sept. 22.
Producers Jean Doumanian (Democracy) and Jeffrey Richards (Glengarry Glen Ross) team up to present the work, which began Off-Broadway previews Aug. 20 following a run last summer at The New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Trujillo carved out dance moves for Broadway's upcoming Jersey Boys and provided additional choreography for All Shook Up. His other credits include Bare: The Musical and (as a performer) Fosse, Guys and Dolls and Jerome Robbins' Broadway.
The new Off-Broadway cast of The Great American Trailer Park Musical features Tony Award winner Shuler Hensley (Oklahoma, "Van Helsing"), Linda Hart (Hairspray, Anything Goes), Kaitlin Hopkins (Bat Boy, Noises Off, Bare), Orfeh (Footloose, Saturday Night Fever), Leslie Kritzer (Hairspray, Bat Boy), Wayne Wilcox (A Man of No Importance, The Light in the Piazza) and original NYMF cast member Marya Grandy.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical centers around the regular guy Norbert (Hensley) and his agoraphobic wife Jeannie (Hopkins) whose marriage is threatened by Armadillo Acres' newcomer, the hot young stripper Pippi (Orfeh). The trailer park also plays home to a Greek chorus-like trio of women Linoleum, Betty and Pickles (Grandy, Hart and Kritzer, respectively) — each dysfunctional in their own right.
Featuring music and lyrics by David Nehls with a book by Betsy Kelso (who also directs the show), the country-rock and blues musical is billed as "a new show about agoraphobia, adultery, '80s nostalgia, spray cheese, road kill, hysterical pregnancy, a broken electric chair, kleptomania, strippers, flan & disco."
The design team includes Derek McLane (sets), Donald Holder (lighting), Markas Henry (costumes), Peter Fitzgerald (sound) and Josh Marquette (hair and wig). Richard C. Rauscher serves as production stage manager with Francesca Russell (assistant stage manager) and Rob Conover is technical supervisor.
For more information on The Great American Trailer Park Musical, visit the website at www.trailerparkmusical.com.
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