Malcolm Gets

New York City Center Encores! Artistic Director Jack Viertel and Music Director Rob Fisher announced further casting for The Apple Tree, at the New York City Center's main stage from the 12 - 16 May 2005

Malcolm Gets and Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris will join the previously announced Tony Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth in The Apple Tree, the final Encores! presentation of the 2004-5 Season

The Apple Tree features music by Jerry Bock and lyrics by Sheldon Harnick (Fiddler on the Roof, She Loves Me, Fiorello!); and a book by Bock, Harnick and Jerome Coopersmith. The Apple Tree is made up of three one-act musicals about men, women and a little thing called temptation.

Act I is based on Mark Twain's 'The Diary of Adam and Eve', Act II on Frank R. Stockton's 'The Lady or the Tiger?', and Act III on Jules Feiffer's 'Passionella'. Notable songs include 'What Makes Me Love Him?', 'Go To Sleep Whatever You Are', and 'Oh, To Be A Movie Star'.

Each star will play multiple roles. Ms. Chenoweth will play Eve, Princess Barb�ra and Ella/Passionella. Mr. Gets will play Adam, Captain Sanjar and Flip, the Prince Charming, while Mr. Cerveris will cover the roles of the Snake, Balladeer and Narrator.

Under the direction of Mike Nichols in his first musical outing, The Apple Tree opened at the Shubert Theatre on the 18 Oct 1966 where it played for 463 performances. The original Broadway cast featured Alan Alda and Barbara Harris. The show was nominated for seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, with a win for Harris as Best Actress in a Musical.

The Apple Tree is the third and final musical in NY City Center 2005 Encores!. The first musical was 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn', which played from the 10 - 13 Feb and starred Kristin Chenoweth and the second musical was 'Purlie which played from the 31 Mar - 3 Apr

Since 1994, NEW YORK CITY CENTER ENCORES! has celebrated the rarely heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists. Conceived as "concert versions," each ENCORES! season gives three scores the chance to be heard as originally intended by their creators.

(Read Polly Wittenberg's review of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn).

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