By Jennifer R Jones | Posted on August 01, 2015 7:58 PM
She Loves Me Has Announced Its Supporting Cast. The Show Will Play At Roundabout Theatre Company’s Studio 54.
Roundabout Theatre Company Revives This Musical In Spring 2016
She Loves Me first premiered on Broadway in 1963, when it was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and took home the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. It was since revived on Broadway twice, if you include a one-night benefit performance on December 5, 2011.
Its first major revival took place in June 1993, when it ran for one year, first at the Criterion Center Stage Right, and then at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. This upcoming spring season, She Loves Me will shine on Broadway once more.
Prior Revivals Of "She Loves Me"
The source material for this musical is a Hungarian play called Parfumerie by Miklos Laszlo, which has also served as the source material for the 1940 film The Shop around the Corner, the 1949 musical In the Good Old Summertime, and more recently, the 1998 film You’ve Got Mail starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks.
Nevertheless, the musical She Loves Me remains one of the lasting successes of this story, and the Roundabout Theatre Company is producing it at Studio 54 with previews beginning February 5, 2016, and an opening night scheduled for March 3, 2016. It is then scheduled to run until May 22, 2016, when Studio 54 will be vacated for the arrival of a new production.
Laura Benanti And Josh Radnor Star
This past week, the full cast for the musical revival was announced. It had previously been disclosed that the lead part of Amalia Balash would be played by Laura Benanti (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, In the Next Room, Gypsy), and that the role opposite her, Georg Nowack, would be played by Josh Radnor (“How I Met Your Mother,” Disgraced, The Graduate).
Now, it has been revealed that Jane Krakowski will join the duo in the role of Ilona Ritter; Jane is best known for her role on “30 Rock” and has also been seen on Broadway in Nine, Once Upon a Mattress, and Tartuffe among other roles.
Stellar Supporting Cast
Furthermore, the role of Steven Kodaly will be played by Gavin Creel, who is presently playing Elder Cunningham in The Book of Mormon, and who has been nominated for two Tony Awards for his roles in Hair and Thoroughly Modern Millie.
If that wasn’t enough, the cast has also been revealed to include Rene Auberjonois (Sly Fox, Dance of the Vampires) as Mr. Maraczek, Nicholas Barasch (The Mystery of Edwin Drood, West Side Story) as Arpad Laszlo, Michael McGrath (Tony Award winner for Nice Work if You Can Get It, On the Twentieth Century) as Sipos, and Peter Bartlett (Something Rotten!, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella) as the Headwaiter.
Creative Team Will Make This An Unmissable Production
She Loves Me has a book by Joe Masteroff, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick. The show will be directed by Scott Ellis, the Roundabout Theatre Company associate artistic director who has helmed many shows in recent seasons, including On the Twentieth Century, The Elephant Man, You Can’t Take It With You, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Furthermore, the choreographer is the highly acclaimed Warren Carlyle, whose recent credits include On the Twentieth Century, After Midnight, A Christmas Story The Musical, and Follies, and he also directed and choreographed Chaplin and Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway.
Will The Audience Agree?
With scenic design by David Rockwell, costume design by Jeff Mahshie, lighting design by Don Holder, and sound design by Jon Weston, this production will surely be impeccable from a production standpoint. Now what rests to be told is whether audiences take to this classic romantic musical from 1963, or whether it gets buried in the otherwise exciting spring season.
