The 30th annual Encores! season of concert stagings will kick off in January with Sutton Foster playing Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in – the role made famous in 1959 by then-up-and-comer Carol Burnett.
According to City Center, the musical will be “pared down to its essence” to highlight “the majestic sweep of Yeston’s nearly sung-through score.” The musical illustrates the class divides “both illuminated and transcended by the ship’s inexorable sinking.” Casting will be announced later. The original production opened on Broadway in 1997 and starred John Cunningham, David Garrison, Larry Keith, Alma Cuervo, Michael Cerveris, Victoria Clark, Don Stephenson, and Brian d’Arcy James.
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