Jeremy Jordan will star within the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins this spring.
Jordan, who’s at present starring in The Nice Gatsby on Broadway, with different credit together with Newsies and Smash, will lead a solid that features 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 and Cole Vaughan as Jewell Estes.
Further solid members embrace Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Completely happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell and Clyde Voce.
The musical, which includes a e book by Tina Landau, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and extra lyrics by Landau, is scheduled to start previews Thursday, March 27 and open on Monday, April 21 on the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Landau, who directed SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway, can be directing the present.
Floyd Collins follows the true story of a cave explorer in 1925 who obtained trapped 200 toes underground, whereas rescue efforts brought on a media sensation.
The musical involves Broadway after making its world premiere on the American Music Theater Competition in Philadelphia in 1994. The present made its off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons in 1996 the place it received the Lucille Lortel Award for Excellent Musical and a solid recording was created, which has elevated consciousness of the musical through the years.
The present can have units by dots, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting by Scott Zielinski, sound by Dan Moses Schreier and projections by Ray Solar, with dance sequences by Jon Rua.
