Complete casting has been announced for the new Lynn Ahrens-Stephen Flaherty musical Marie, Dancing Still, which will arrive in Seattle March 22 following its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2014.
Tony Award winner Susan Stroman (Crazy for You, The Producers) directs and choreographs the new musical that will officially open April 5. Performances are currently scheduled through April 14.
Tiler Peck, the New York City Ballet principal dancer who made her Broadway debut in Stroman’s 2000 Broadway revival of The Music Man, stars in the central role of Marie opposite Tony nominee Terrence Mann as Degas.
The cast will also feature Tony nominee Louise Pitre as Adult Marie, Tony nominee Dee Hoty as Mary Cassat, Tony winner Karen Ziemba as Martine Van Goethem, Jenny Powers as Antoinette Van Goethem, Kyle Harris as Christian, Christopher Gurr as Corbeil and Degas Understudy, with Noelle Hogan as Charlotte Van Goethem.
Also featured are Caitlin Abraham, Polly Baird, Lauren Blackman, Anaïs Blake, Jim Borstelmann, Abbey Del Corral, Sara Esty, Justin Genna, Tyler Hardwick, Barbara Marineau, Jolina Javier, Jasmine Ward, and Lyrica Woodruff, with Jessica Bishop, Richard Gatta, Amy Ruggiero, and David Prottas as swings.
The creative team includes Beowulf Boritt (scenic design), William Ivey Long (costume design), Ken Billington (lighting design), Kai Harada (sound design), 59 Productions (projection design), Paul Huntley (hair and wig design), David Loud (music supervisor), co-orchestrators: Doug Besterman and Larry Hockman, dance arranger Sam Davis, and production stage manager Johnny Milani.
