Goodspeed's Hello! My Baby Will Feature Justin Bowen, Stephanie Koenig, Kelly ...
Goodspeed Musicals announced on Oct. 5 that the romantic leads of its world-premiere production of the musical Hello! My Baby will be played by Justin Bowen as Mickey McKee and Stephanie Koenig as Nelly Gold.
As previously reported, the new musical dips into the trunk of American pop songs that are now in the public domain. It will find a home at Goodspeed Musicals' Norma Terris Theatre Nov. 3-27 in Chester, CT.
Sister Act Tony Award nominee Cheri Steinkellner is crafting the show — and revising some iconic lyrics with arranger Georgia Stitt.
The musical was an audience favorite in the winter 2011 Goodspeed Festival of New Artists reading series, and next gets a full developmental staging, at the Terris, Goodspeed's home devoted to new works (since Hello! My Baby is "developmental," no critics are invited).
Steinkellner's original story is about a song-plugger who meets a factory girl in the early 20th century, the era of Tin Pan Alley songs written by young composers George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, plus other writers who are not household names, but whose songs are.
Hello! My Baby will be directed by Ray Roderick (who developed the popular touring revue Irving Berlin's I Love a Piano ) and choreographed by Kelli Barclay (Goodspeed's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and My One and Only ).
Roderick's cast also includes Kelly McCormick as Frances Gold; Carrington Vilmont as Junior Tierney; Dick Decareau as Stanford J. Tierney; Beth McVey as Ethel Coots; Frank Root as Bert Coots; Alex Viola as Violet Gold, plus Jessica Azenberg; Matthew A. Bauman as Albie Coots; Catherine Blades as Alice; Zak Edwards; Michael Mendez as Kid Vicious; Clinton Roane as Noble T. Jones; Allie Schauer as Marie; Jeremy Sevelovitz as Johnny; Ashley Wallace and Michael Warrell as Dickie the Duck.
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