Transport Group (TG), the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award and 2007 and 2010 OBIE Awards, has announced that its acclaimed production of Hello Again, words and music by Michael John LaChiusa (suggested by the play La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler), and directed by Artistic Director Jack Cummings III (two-time Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Director for TG's The Audience and The Boys in the Band), will close April 10, at 52 Mercer Street. Check out a photo of the cast posing with special guests Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Sherie Rene Scott and more below!
This first major New York revival of the 1993-94 musical opened on Sunday, March 20. Ben Brantley of The New York Times called Hello Again "exceeding intimate... a production that rips the shirts (and dresses) off its characters' backs." Adam Feldman of Time Out New York wrote, "Jack Cummings III's intensely immersive Transport Group revival...brings Hello Again back to the flesh with impressive stylishness and imagination." And Erik Haagensen of Back Stage said Hello Again is "a hypnotizing tapestry of human desire." "With each new Broadway season bringing new shows intent upon debasing this glorious art form further, it's a gift to have the chance of saying hello again to Hello Again."
The cast of Hello Again is Alan Campbell (Sunset Boulevard, Tony nominee; Contact), Blake Daniel (Spring Awakening), Jonathan Hammond (The Boys in the Band, OBIE winner; Ragtime), Rachel Bay Jones (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Hair), Nikka Graff Lanzarone (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Robert Lenzi (South Pacific), Alexandra Silber (Carousel-West End; Master Class with Tyne Daly), Elizabeth Stanley (Million Dollar Quartet; Company; Cry-Baby), Bob Stillman (Dirty Blonde, Tony nominee; Grey Gardens), and Max Von Essen (Les Miserables; Xanadu).
Michael John LaChiusa has written the Broadway musicals The Wild Party, Marie Christine, and Chronicle of a Death Foretold. His Off-Broadway credits include Hello Again, First Lady Suite, Little Fish, See What I Wanna See, The Petrified Prince, and Bernarda Alba. His upcoming musicals include Giant and Queen of the Mist. Mr. LaChiusa has been nominated for five Tony Awards.
The set design for Hello Again is by Sandra Goldmark (Drama Desk Award nominee for TG's The Boys in the Band); costume design is by Kathryn Rohe; lighting design is by R. Lee Kennedy (two-time Drama Desk Award nominee for TG's The Audience, Bury the Dead); sound design is by Michael Rasbury. Choreography is by Scott Rink. Musical direction is by Chris Fenwick. Orchestrations are by Mary-Mitchell Campbell (Drama Desk winner for Company). The production stage manager is Wendy Patten.
Founded in 2001, Transport Group, under the leadership of Jack Cummings III, Artistic Director, and Lori Fineman, Executive Director, is a not-for-profit theatre company that develops and produces work by American Playwrights and composers with the aim of exploring the American consciousness in the 20th and 21st centuries. Transport Group is the winner of a special 2007 Drama Desk Award for its "breadth of vision and its presentation of challenging productions." Transport Group presented its premiere production in 2002: Thornton Wilder's Our Town, which featured older actors in the roles of Emily and George and a twelve-year-old girl as the Stage Manager. Its second production, Requiem for William, an evening of seven seldom produced plays by William Inge, that featured a cast of 26 as well as original songs, premiered in 2003. In 2004 the company presented the first New York revival of Michael John LaChiusa's First Lady Suite, which received rave reviews, played to sold-out houses, and earned two Drama Desk Award nominations including outstanding revival of a musical. Recent productions include the world premiere of the musical The Audience, which featured a cast of 46 actors and earned three Drama Desk Award nominations, including outstanding musical; Normal, a new musical about a mother's battle to save her daughter from anorexia; cul-de-sac, a new play by Tony Award nominee John Cariani; the first New York revival of Tad Mosel's Pulitzer Prize play, All the Way Home; the 50th anniversary, Obie-winning production of William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, the world premiere musicals See Rock City & Other Destinations, Crossing Brooklyn, Marcy in the Galaxy, and Being Audrey, and the first New York revival of Irwin Shaw's Bury the Dead. Both First Lady Suite and Bury the Dead were filmed for the New York Performing Arts Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive. Transport Group recently presented a sold-out, extended engagement of Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band, which was nominated for five 2010 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Play-the most for an off-Broadway play.
Major support for Hello Again is provided by The Shen Family Foundation.
For more information about Transport Group and Hello Again, visit www.transportgroup.org.
Photo Credit: Michelle Ellis
Bruce Sabath, David A. White, Rachel Bay Jones, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Sherie Rene Scott, Elizabeth Stanley, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Blake Daniel, Max Von Essen, Robert Lenzi, Jonathan Hammond, Jack Cummings III, Alexandra Silber and Alan Campbell
