Keith Carradine, Jenni Barber, Justin Guarini & More Set for Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon at Encores!
This Lerner and Lowe tuner has found its wand’rin’ stars! Two-time Tony nominee Keith Carradine (Hands on a Hardbody, The Will Rogers Follies) and Alexandra Socha (Fun Home), along with Wickedalums Jenni Barber and Justin Guarini, will headline the previously announcedproduction of Paint Your Wagon. Part of New York City Center’s 2015 Encores! season, the show will be directed by Marc Bruni and choreographed by Denis Jones and run March 18 through March 22.
The Paint Your Wagon cast will also include Robert Creighton, Caleb Damschroder, Nathaniel Hackmann, Robyn Hurder, Melissa van der Schyff, Scott Wakefield and William Youmans, with Darien Crago, Steve Czarnecki, Nicolas Davila, Casey Garvin, Shonica Gooden, Timothy Hughes, Naomi Kakuk, Justin Keyes, Jenny Laroche, Melissa Hunter McCann, Harris Milgrim, Kevin Munhall, Kristin Piro, Robbie Roby, Jason Simon, Kevin Vortmann, Nicholas Ward and Mikey Winslow. Additional casting will be announced later.
Before My Fair Lady and Camelot, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote Paint Your Wagon, a 1951 musical about a dreaming gold prospector (Carradine) whose daughter (Socha) finds gold—and love—changing their lives forever. Paint Your Wagon opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 12, 1951 and ran for 289 performances. Songs include “They Call the Wind Maria,” “I Talk to the Trees” and “Wand’rin’ Star.”
