New York City Center 2017 Encores! Season announced
The New York City Center 2017 Encores! Season will include three new productions of classic musicals, reinvented for modern audiences. The 2017 season will open with Roger Miller's Big River, followed by Cole Porter's The New Yorkers, and will conclude with John Latouche and Jerome Moross' The Golden Apple.
Based at the New York City Center under the artistic directorship of Jack Viertel, all the Encores! productions feature musical direction by Rob Berman.
Big River will run from 8 to 12 February 2017 at the City Center's Mainstage. "A musical underdog as scrappy and restless as Huckleberry Finn himself, the show was created in the age of British spectacles by a quintessentially American artist—the beloved country-western singer Roger Miller—and his score is a blend of bluegrass, gospel, and honky tonk. Just over 30 years later, this musical remains a compelling journey through 1840s America in all its beauty and savagery."
Cole Porter's The New Yorkers will run from 22 to 26 March 2017. "Bullets fly and bathtub gin flows in this 1930 Prohibition jape, which is a gleefully amoral celebration of speakeasies, gangsters, society dames and the great city they love. The musical centers on featherbrained socialite Alice Miller, whose bootlegger beau leads her on a madcap romp from Park Avenue to Sing Sing and back again."
Finally, John Latouche and Jerome Moross' The Golden Apple will run from 10 to 14 May 2017. "The whimsical and toweringly ambitious 1954 musical reshapes the Greek myths of 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' into an all-American fable that conjures up the days when pie-baking contests were cutthroat and lovers eloped in hot air balloons."
Casting information for all three musical revivals will be released at a later date.
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