Performances play BSC's mainstage through July 16. Rando won the Best Direction Tony Award for Urinetown. Holmes appeared in Broadway's Oklahoma!; Risch was Broadway's recent Joey in Pal Joey; Kritzer's Broadway resume includes Legally Blonde, Sondheim on Sondheim and A Catered Affair; and James appeared in Wonderland and The Addams Family.
Here is a look at the production:
The 1950 show has score by Frank Loesser (expect "Luck Be a Lady," "A Bushel and a Peck," "I've Never Been in Love Before" and "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat") and libretto by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, borrowing from the stories of Damon Runyon.
The company also includes Daniel Marcus as Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Timothy Shew as Benny Southstreet, Peggy Pharr Wilson as General Cartwright, and Gordon Stanley as Arvide Abernathy, with Chelsey Arce, Evan Autio, Tommy Bracco, Sharona D'Ornellas, Sean Patrick Folster, Steve Konopleski, Chris Lebeau, Brooke Marinovich, Michael Nichols, Kellyn Uhl, Nicky Venditti and Correy West, plus Taylor Anderson, Andrew Brubaker, Michael Hewitt and Hannah Richter (all BSC Musical Theatre Apprentices).
For more information, visit www.barringtonstageco.org.