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Written by Best of Off Broadway
Published 2010-06-09


Conceived and Directed by Lear deBessonet, Play by Marcus Gardley, Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond

AT THE DUKE ON 42ND STREET

All tickets $20
Opening Night Monday, June 28

Previews begin Monday, June 14, for the LCT3 world premiere production of ON THE LEVEE, an Off-Broadway play with music, conceived and directed by Lear deBessonet, with play by Marcus Gardley, and music and lyrics by Todd Almond, at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street® project (229 West 42 Street).  ON THE LEVEE opens Off Broadway on Monday, June 28 at 6:45pm and will run through July 11.  LCT3 is Lincoln Center Theater’s programming initiative devoted to producing the work of new artists and developing new audiences.  All tickets are $20.

The cast of Off-Broadway's ON THE LEVEE features Amari Cheatom, Brian D. Coats, Chuck Cooper, Maria Couch, Harriett D. Foy, Dion Graham, April Matthis, Jacob Ming-Trent, Seth Numrich, Stephen Plunkett, Michael Siberry and Shelley Thomas.  The production has sets by Peter Ksander, costumes by Emily Rebholz, lighting by Justin Townsend, sound by Leon Rothenberg and projections by Austin Switser.  Acclaimed visual artist Kara Walker has created new art for the production. 

ON THE LEVEE tells the story of two fathers and sons – a white cotton farmer (Michael Siberry) and his poet son (Seth Numrich), and an African-American bootblack (Dion Graham) and his offspring (Amari Cheatom) - inspired by the Great Flood of 1927 in Greenville, Mississippi when 5,000 black laborers were left stranded on a levee.

Conceiver-Director Lear deBessonet’s productions include a site-specific Don Quixote in collaboration with playwright Lucy Thurber in Philadelphia, Brecht’s Saint Joan of the Stockyards at PS 122, transfigures (Women’s Project) and productions at the HERE Arts Center, NY Fringe and NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing.  Marcus Gardley (play) is a playwright-poet who received the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwright and the prestigious 2007 Kesselring Honoree Award.  His plays include Love is a Dream House in Lorin (Shotgun Players, Berkeley, CA.), dance of the holy ghost (Yale Rep), (L)imitations of Life (Empty Space Theatre) and like sun fallin’ in the mouth (National Black Theatre Festival).  Todd Almond (music and lyrics) is a composer, lyricist and performer whose musicals include People Like Us (NY Musical Theatre Festival), Girlfriend (Berkeley Rep), Ahraihsak (Theatre Mitu) and the upcoming We Have Always Lived In The Castle (Yale Rep).  His songs have been performed by such theatre performers as Victoria Clark, Cheyenne Jackson, Jayne Houdyshell, Laura Benanti and Stephen Pasquale.

This world and Off Broadway premiere of ON THE LEVEE will be the final production in Lincoln Center Theater’s 25th Anniversary year during which it produced a season of entirely new work.  In addition to ON THE LEVEE, LCT is currently presenting the world premiere of A.R. Gurney’s The Grand Manner, directed by Mark Lamos, beginning Wednesday, June 2 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, and the Tony Award winning production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, directed by Bartlett Sher, which will end its record-breaking run at the Vivian Beaumont Theater on Sunday, August 22. 

ON THE LEVEE is performed at The Duke on 42nd Street Monday through Saturday evenings at 8pm, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2pm. (There is no Wednesday matinee on June 16.)  Tickets, priced at $20, are available at The Duke on 42nd Street Box Office, online or by calling 646.223.3010.  For additional information on LCT3 please visit www.lct3.org.

 

 

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