The play's creator, James Sherman, penned book and lyrics to Beau Jest: The Musical!, with a score by composer Brad Ross (Little by Little and Luck!). Sherman is a mainstay of the stable of writers at the Tony Award-honored Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago.

Sarah Goldman's boyfriend isn't Jewish, so in order to impress her parents she hires a Jewish actor to join them for Passover dinner. But it turns out the actor's only Jewish background is appearing in a production of Fiddler on the Roof.

Schwartz is a South Florida Carbonell Award nominee and LeGette is a Carbonell winner. The cast also includes Steve Anthony the real boyfriend, Howard Elfman and Janece Martell as Sarah's parents and Ladd Boris as brother Joel.

Hollywood Playhouse artistic director Andy Rogow directs, with music direction by Michael Larsen, choreography by Andrew Fiacco, scenic design by Ian Almeida, costume design by Estela Vrancovich, lighting design by Ginny Adams and sound design by Traci Watkins.

Performances continue to Feb. 8, 2004. The commercial producer who put the collaborators together — and will take the show to the next phase, if audiences and critics approve — is Alan Jacobson. Sherman's amiable comedy was a sensation in Chicago (where it premiered), and made a splash regionally and Off-Broadway. It spawned a sequel, Jest a Second! (in which Sarah's brother admits he's gay and more efforts to perform for the parents are cooked up).

Beau Jest: The Musical! had a reading in New York City in summer 2003 and the writers have been revising and tweaking toward the world premiere.

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