Floyd Collins makes a Broadway debut nearly 30 years in the making, opening April 21 after beginning previews March 28 at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont. The run is set to continue through June 22.
The Adam Guettel-Tina Landau musical made its premiere Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 1996. Based on a true story, the work follows a cave explorer who discovers a cave he thinks could be the next goldmine tourist attraction, only to become trapped inside on his way out. Above ground, one of the country's first-ever media circuses develops tracking the efforts to rescue him. The musical was among the first major professional credits for now Tony-winning composer Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) and book writer-director Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants, Redwood). Landau is also at the helm of this new staging.
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Jeremy Jordan is starring in the title role, alongside Jason Gotay as Homer Collins, Sean Allan Krill as H.T. Carmichael, Marc Kudisch as Lee Collins, Lizzy McAlpine as Nellie Collins, Wade McCollum as Bee Doyle, Jessica Molaskey as Miss Jane, Taylor Trensch as Skeets Miller, Cole Vaughan as Jewell Estes, and Clyde Voce as Ed Bishop. The cast also includes Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kevyn Morrow, and Zak Resnick, with understudies Kristen Hahn and Happy McPartlin; and swings Kevin Bernard, Justin Showell, and Colin Trudell rounding out the company. Casting is by The Telsey Office's Patrick Goodwin.
The production features sets by dots, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting by Scott Zielinski, sound by Dan Moses Schreier, and projections by Ray Horng Sun, with dance sequences by Jon Rua, orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, and music direction by Ted Sperling. Bonnie Panson serves as stage manager.
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Lincoln Center Theater is producing Floyd Collins in association with Creative Partners Productions and Mark Cortale & Charles D. Urstadt.
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