WORLD PREMIERE
An award-winning Broadway creative team and a
stellar cast of Broadway veterans and newcomers have assembled to bring one of
Jane Austen's most beloved romances to life. The much-anticipated world premiere
of SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, book and lyrics by Jeffrey
Haddow and music by Neal Hampton, receives its world premiere April 5
– May 26, 2013 (press opening April 11), presented by the Denver Center
Theatre Company, in The Stage Theatre at the Denver Center for Performing Arts
at 14th and Champa. Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson
selected SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL after it became a runaway
hit at the 2012 Colorado New Play Summit. The production is staged by Director
and Choreographer Marcia Milgrom Dodge, whose recent Broadway revival of
Ragtime received six Tony Award® nominations.
In this grand musical adaptation
of Jane Austen’s enthralling novel, audiences are drawn into the tempestuous
world of the Dashwood sisters. Opposites in temperament, but equally determined
to find love and happiness, sisters Elinor and Marianne struggle with soaring
emotions, dashed hopes, and their own conflicting notions of ideal love. But
while one follows her heart and the other her head, each finds personal triumph
in romance.
Jane Austen fans from around the
country are expected to converge in Denver, not only to experience SENSE
& SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL but also to participate in opening weekend
“Austen at Altitude" festivities April 11-13, including a Regency Ball,
backstage tours, reception with the stars, and discussions and presentations by
world-renowned Jane Austen experts. Sponsored by JASNA (Jane Austen Society of
North America), proceeds from an opening night benefit will go to the Chawton House Library, located in Jane Austen’s final
home, in Hampshire, England.
Denver Center Theatre Company has
assembled an extraordinary cast for this world premiere. Starring in the pivotal
Dashwood sister roles will be Stephanie Rothenberg as Elinor and Mary
Michael Patterson as Marianne. Ms. Rothenberg made her Broadway debut last
season as Rosemary opposite Nick Jonas in How to Succeed in Business Without
Really Trying and then starred as Princess Anne in the Guthrie Theater’s
world premiere musical, Roman Holiday. Ms. Patterson made her Broadway
debut in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony-winning revival of Anything
Goes starring Sutton Foster.
The sisters’ romantic
entanglements will be portrayed by three of Broadway’s most dashing leading men.
Nick Verina, seen as Young Ben in the recent Broadway revival of
Follies with Bernadette Peters, will take on the role of love-struck
Edward; Jeremiah James, who starred as Billy Bigelow in the West End
revival of Carousel and as Curly in the first national tour of
Oklahoma!, will portray the rakish Willoughby; and Robert Petkoff,
Broadway’s recent Lord Evelyn Oakleigh opposite Sutton Foster in Anything
Goes, will be the loyal Colonel Brandon. Petkoff is familiar to Denver
audiences from the Denver Center Theatre Company’s world premiere of Sir Peter
Hall’s Tantalus (2000).
Additional Broadway talent
joining the cast includes Ed Dixon (Anything Goes, Sunday in the Park
with George, Mary Poppins, How the Grinch Stole Christmas) as
Sir John; Ruth Gottschall (Mary Poppins, The Music Man,
Funny Thing…Forum) as Mrs. Jennings, and Joanna Glushak (Sunday in
the Park with George, Urinetown, Les Misérables) as Mrs.
Dashwood/Mrs. Ferrars.
The ensemble will include
Andrew Kober, Preston Dyar, Josh Walden, Stacie
Bono, Liz Pearce, Trista Moldovan, Jessica
Hershberg, Steven Strafford, and Daniella
Dalli.
The production boasts a formidable production
team, including Set Designer Allen Moyer, Tony nominee for Grey
Gardens; Costume Designer ESosa, 2012 Tony nominee for
The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and “Project Runway” finalist;
acclaimed Lighting Designer James F. Ingalls; Sound Design by
Craig Breitenbach (world premiere of The Laramie Project); Music Supervisor David Loud, whose recent
Broadway productions include The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and The
Scottsboro Boys; Music Director and Conductor Paul Masse,
whose Broadway credits include The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, The
Scottsboro Boys, as well as Curtains, Chicago, Avenue
Q, 42nd Street, and Gypsy, and Orchestrations are by Kim
Scharnberg and Neal Hampton.
SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL
is based on the novel by Jane
Austen. Book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow. Music by Neal
Hampton. Directed and choreographed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge.
Performance
Schedule
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
performances at 6:30pm
Friday and Saturday evening
performances at 7:30pm
Saturday and Sunday matinees at
1:30pm
No children under four admitted.
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SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL
is presented by special
arrangement with
Betty Ann Besch Solinger and
Alice Chebba Walsh.
This production of SENSE &
SENSIBILITY THE MUSICAL, generously sponsored by U.S. Bank
and The Ritz-Carlton, is part of the
Denver Center Theatre
Company and
Denver Center Attractions (DCA)
2012/13 seasons.
SENSE & SENSIBILITY THE
MUSICAL Producing Partners: The Anschutz Foundation, Joy S. Burns,
Daniel L. Ritchie, June Travis.
DCTC is
generously supported by Larimer Square, The Steinberg Charitable Trust and Wells
Fargo Advisors. DCA is generously supported by United Airlines and Vectra Bank.
Media sponsors are
The Denver Post and CBS4. The Denver Center for the
Performing Arts is supported in part by the Scientific and Cultural Facilities
District. Please visit our website at
www.denvercenter.org.
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About the Denver Center
Theatre Company
The Tony Award-winning Denver
Center Theatre Company, helmed by Producing Artistic Director Kent Thompson, is
currently in its 34th season of offering classic, contemporary and new works to
the American West.
