NewsPHOTO CALL: Pump Boys and Dinettes Opening Night at City CenterEncores! Off-Center concludes its 2014 season with Pump Boys and Dinettes, starring Hunter Foster and Katie Thompson. Original Broadway cast members helped the current cast celebrate their opening on July 16.
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Joseph Marzullo
July 18, 2014
The limited engagement, July 16-19, is directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford. Jeanine Tesori is the Encores! Off-Center artistic director; Chris Fenwick is the music director.
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Pump Boys and Dinettes Opening Night at City Center
Pump Boys and Dinettes Opening Night at City Center
Encores! Off-Center concludes its 2014 season with Pump Boys and Dinettes, starring Hunter Foster and Katie Thompson. Original Broadway cast members helped the current cast celebrate their opening on July 16.Read the Playbill.com story.
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Jordan Dean, Austin Moorhead, Hunter Foster, Lorenzo Wolff, Katie Thompson and Mamie Parris
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Randy Redd, Jordan Dean, Austin Moorhead and Hunter Foster
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Randy Redd, Jordan Dean, Austin Moorhead, Hunter Foster, Lorenzo Wolff, Katie Thompson and Mamie Parris
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Jordan Dean
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Hunter Foster
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Lorenzo Wolff
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Katie Thompson and Mamie Parris
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Hunter Foster, Debra Monk, Lorenzo Wolff, Mamie Parris and Cass Morgan
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Randy Redd and Debra Monk
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Randy Redd, Cass Morgan and Debra Monk
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Randy Redd, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jordan Dean
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Randy Redd, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, Jordan Dean, John Schimmel and Jim Wann
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John Schimmel, Jim Wann, Austin Moorhead and John Foley
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Austin Moorhead, John Foley, Hunter Foster and Lorenzo Wolff
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John Foley, Hunter Foster, Lorenzo Wolff, Katie Thompson and Mamie Parris
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Randy Redd
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Austin Moorhead and Lorenzo Wolff
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Hunter Foster
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Lorenzo Wolff
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Katie Thompson
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Mamie Parris
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Lear deBessonet
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Hunter Foster, Debra Monk, John Foley and Randy Redd
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Hunter Foster and Debra Monk
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Debra Monk, John Foley and Cass Morgan
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Past and Current Cast with Creative Team
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Past and Current Cast with Creative Team
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Bill Schermerhorn and Randy Redd
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Dan Mills and Randy Redd
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Jordan Dean and Kate Burton
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Jeanine Tesori, John Schimmel, Jim Wann, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Foley and Lear deBessonet
Pump Boys and Dinettes was conceived, written and originally performed by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. The show, according to City Center, is a "musical tribute to life on the roadside, with the actors accompanying themselves on guitar, piano, bass, fiddle, accordion, and kitchen utensils. A hybrid of country, rock and pop music, Pump Boys is the story of four gas station attendants and two waitresses at a small-town dinette in North Carolina."
The musical premiered Off-Broadway at the Chelsea West Side Arts Theatre in July 1981 and opened on Broadway Feb. 4, 1982, at the Princess Theatre, where it played 573 performances and was nominated for both Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Musical.
All tickets begin at $25 and can be purchased at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues), by calling (212) 581-1212 or visiting NYCityCenter.org.
The four-time Tony-winning actor and writer is featured along with Michael R. Jackson, Jacquel Spivey, and more in Pride of Stage and Screen, airing on MSNBC June 26.
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