| Nov 01 Becki to star in Encores! Girl Crazy | |
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Great news! It seems as if one of Becki’s dreams will soon come true! According to Playbill.com, via the great Ugly Betty News blog, Becki Newton, along with her husband Chris Diamantopoulos, will find love on stage in the Encores! presentation of the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy! It will be under the direction of Tony-winner Jerry Zaks in November. The two will play lovers Danny Churchill and Molly Gray. Wayne Knight (Chicago) is cast as Gieber Goldfarb. The show will run Nov. 19-22 at City Center. Finian’s Rainbow director and choreographer Warren Carlyle will choreograph, with musical direction by Rob Fisher. Girl Crazy has music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan. According to Encores! notes, “The Gershwins’ fanciful Depression-era musical of 1930 is the tale of a sophisticated New Yorker (Diamantopoulos) marooned in a dusty Western cow town with no one who understands him but the Yiddish-speaking cabbie (Knight) who brought him there and no one to love but the only woman (Newton) within 50 miles.” I am more than thrilled for Becki, and I strongly recommend all of you in the New York area Nov. 19-22, to definitely go see Becki and Chris in this one! | |
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