DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL TO HAVE ITS OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
Published 2010-05-26
Starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens &
Donald Corren
To Have Its Off-Broadway Premiere At St.
Luke’s Theatre
Performances Begin June 5th
Opening Night is Set for June 20th
DIETRICH &
CHEVALIER: The Musical, a new musical by Jerry Mayer, starring Robert Cuccioli, Jodi Stevens
and Donald Corren, will make its Off-Broadway premiere at St. Luke’s Theatre,
308 West 46th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical
is set to begin performances June 5th with opening night set for Sunday, June
20th at 7pm.
Pamela Hall will direct the production, which
will feature musical direction by Ken Lundie and additional musical staging by
Gene Castle. DIETRICH &
CHEVALIER: The Musical is presented by Edmund Gaynes.
Marlene Dietrich and Maurice Chevalier were
the top film stars at Paramount Pictures in the 1930s. Married to others, they
fell in love and remained friends for life. DIETRICH & CHEVALIER: The Musical is the fascinating true
story of their complicated relationship set against the backdrop of WWII. This
new musical features many of their great signature songs including “Falling in
Love Again;” “Louise;” “Lili Marleen;” “Mimi;”” No Love, No Nothin’;”
“Valentine;” and “The Boys in the Backroom.”
Robert Cuccioli made his Broadway debut as
Javert in Les Miserables, and
is best known for his critically acclaimed performance as the duel title roles
in Broadway’s Jekyll & Hyde,
for which he received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Off-Broadway
credits include Temporary Help, Enter
the Guardsman, And the World
Goes ‘Round (Outer Critics Circle Award), The Rothschilds, and he was most recently seen in the acclaimed
production of Jacques Brel Is Alive
and Well and Living in Paris . Robert has performed in such notable
regional theatres as The Guthrie (Antony
& Cleopatra), Paper Mill (1776,
Oklahoma, Lend Me a Tenor, Jesus
Christ Superstar, The Sound Of Music), The Shakespeare Theatre of NJ (Amadeus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Carnival), The Shakespeare
Theatre of DC (Hamlet, Lorenzzaccio),
the McCarter Theatre and George Street Playhouse (The Seafarer, A Moon to Dance By with Jane Alexander). Robert
just completed a production of Nine at
The Westchester Broadway Theatre, for which he received critical praise for his
performance as Guido Contini. Films include Woody Allen’s Celebrity and The Stranger.
Jodi Stevens appeared in the original
Broadway companies of Jekyll &
Hyde and Urban Cowboy.
Off-Broadway and regional credits include Heaven Help Us (Denver Center and Florida Stage), Harmony, Dracula (La Jolla
Playhouse), I Can Get It for You
Wholesale (Mufti at the York), Eliot
Ness in Cleveland, Body Shop (Westbeth), Antigone: The Musical (TADA!), 27 Wagons Full of Cotton (INTAR), Annie: the 20th Anniversary (Goodspeed), Twelfth Night (Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival).
Donald Corren was most recently seen on
Broadway opposite Judy Kaye in Stephen Temperley’s Souvenir. Also on Broadway, he starred in Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song Trilogy, a performance
that earned him both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Drama Critics’ Circle
Awards while on tour. Off-Broadway appearances include the original cast of
Jonathan Tolin’s The Last Sunday in
June, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday
Night and Tom Lehrer’s Tomfoolery.
Regional appearances include Speed in The
Two Gentlemen of Verona and Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale at The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington ,
D.C, Algernon in The Importance
of Being Earnest at San Diego
’s Old Globe Theatre, Chico in Animal
Crackers at Arena Stage, and John in A Life in the Theatre
at The Goodman.
Playwright Jerry Mayer wrote scripts for such
classic TV series as “All in the Family,” “M*A*S*H,” “The Mary Tyler Moore
Show” and “The Bob Newhart Show,” where he was appointed Story Editor. He was
also Executive Producer of “The Facts of Life.” Jerry wrote six of Mitzi
Gaynor’s legendary TV Specials. He is the author of nine plays including the
hit musical You Haven’t Changed a Bit,
and Other Lies, written with his son, composer Steve Mayer. Jerry has
received Drama-Logue awards for comedy playwrighting and his plays have been
performed all over the USA , in Canada and in many European countries.
Off-Broadway, Pamela Hall directed the current hit musical Danny and Sylvia: The Danny Kaye Musical, which has been running for over one year at St. Luke’s Theatre. Other Off-Broadway directorial credits include The Rise of Dorothy Hale and Emily Mann’s Annulla, both at St. Luke’s Theatre, Trolls at the Actors Playhouse, Neva Small: Not Quite an Ingenue at Actors Temple Theatre, and the long-running hit, Picon Pie at the DR2 and Lambs Theatres. Ms. Hall directed last season’s National Tour of Gilligan’s Island: The Musical and will again direct the up-coming Off-Broadway production. She is also set to direct Liberace: The Man, The Music and the Memories next season on Broadway. She was nominated for L.A. ’s highest theatre honor, the Ovation Award, for her direction of the Los Angeles premiere of The Taffetas. She directed the West Coast premieres of Jeff Daniels’ black comedy, Shoe Man, the Fred Allen bio-play Mr. Allen, Mr. Allen, Maltby and Shire’s Starting Here, Starting Now and the long-running original musical Crazy Words, Crazy Tunes at the Westwood Playhouse. Ms. Hall also directed Hand in Hand: The Un-Musical, the first musical created and performed by the acclaimed Tony-nominated Deaf West Theatre. As an actor, Ms. Hall has played leading roles on Broadway as Philia in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum with Phil Silvers, Nina in Dear World with Angela Lansbury and Martha Jefferson in 1776 (with William Daniels and Howard DaSilva) and was featured in the all-star Sondheim: A Musical Tribute at the Shubert Theatre. She directed Promenade, the Inaugural production of the LEGACY: THE MUSICALS OF OFF-BROADWAY series, at New World Stages. She had alternated with Madeline Kahn in the original Off-Broadway production of Promenade
Performances will be Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 pm and Sundays at 2pm & 7pm. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased online or by calling 212/239-6200.
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