PhotosPHOTO EXCLUSIVE: Westport I Do! I Do!, with Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale, Rehearses in NYCTony Award nominee Kate Baldwin and Drama Desk Award nominee Lewis Cleale will star in Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's I Do! I Do! at the Westport Country Playhouse Aug. 10-18.
By
Matthew Blank
August 05, 2010
Susan H. Schulman (Little Women) directs the two-hander, which spans 50 years in the marriage of its central characters, Agnes and Michael. Cleale was recently seen Off-Broadway in The Fantasticks. He appeared in the Broadway productions of Amour, Spamalot, Swingin' On A Star and Once Upon A Mattress.
Baldwin earned a Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her work in the Broadway revival of Finian's Rainbow.
Here is a look at the pair rehearsing in New York City prior to the Westport, CT, launch:
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Westport I Do! I Do!, with Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale, Rehearses in NYC
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.