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A Tale of Two Cities


Broadway Musical Drama

Previews  August 19 2008
Opened  September 18 2008
Closed  November 9 2008

Run  33 previews & 60 performances

Producers

Barbra Russell, Ron Sharpe, Bernard Brogan, Sharon A Fordham, Theater Associates-David Sonnenberg/Rami Evar, et al

Creative

Charles Dickens original novel
Jill Santoriello book, music & lyrics

Michael Donald Edwards director
Thommie Walsh choreographer

David Zind costume design
Christopher Akerlind
lighting design
Tony Walton
scenic design

Opening Night Cast    
James Barbour Sydney Carton  
Craig Bennett Jerry Cruncher  
Brandi Burkhardt Lucie Manette  
Kevin Earley Ernest Defarge  
Gregg Edelman Dr Alexander Manette  
Michael Haywood-Jones Mr Jarvis Lorry  
Miles Kath Little Gaspard  
Aaron Lazar Charles Darnay  
Katherine McGrath Miss Pross  
Les Minski Marquis St Evremonde  
Catherine Missal Little Lucie  
Natalie Toro Madam Therese Defarge  
Nick Wyman John Barsad  

Synopsis

Another entrant in the musical drama category based on an epic novel, this time around Charles Dickens' classic Tale of Two Cities

The Road to Broadway

We first listed A Tale of Two Cities as possibly coming to Broadway way back in September, 2002. Even by then the new adaptation of the classic had been kicking around for a couple of years, first performed in the New York area at the Nyack Seaport Center in June 2000. We first picked it up as "maybe" when the concept album was recorded in 2002. Followed by workshops and presentations to pique backer curiosity in 2004 and 2005, the finished show was schedule to premiere at the Chicago Theatre in February, then April, 2006

But not so fast. Director David H Bell left the show July 2005 in the middle of a major workshop in New York. The Chicago run was scratched and calls for a new director turned up Michael Donald Edwards. New plans were for there to be a late summer, early fall out-of-town tryout before the production came to New York, a journey that took more than two years

 

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