Overview
- Workshop presentations run December 11–12 at Open Jar Studios in Manhattan.
- Nick Blaemire has written the new book and contributed songs to a score drawing from the film’s music by Mark Mancina, John Legend, Chris Trapper and Luke Reynolds, with additional new songs by Tom Kitt, Van Hughes and Bonnie McKee.
- Tom Kitt serves as music supervisor for the workshop.
- The cast features Christopher Riley as August, Jeremy Kushnier as Wizard, Matthew James Thomas as Louis, Talia Suskauer as Lyla, Jeffrey Cornelius as Arthur X and Ayvah Johnson as Hope, with an ensemble including Pomme Koch, Wade McCollum, Inés Nassara, Shea Renne, Heath Saunders and Vishal Vaidya.
- Producers Richard Barton Lewis and Chunsoo Shin’s OD Company are developing the project by special arrangement with Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, with Alchemy Production Group as general manager, following an earlier 2019 premiere in Aurora, Illinois.