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World Premiere

Diner

Dec 9, 2014 – Jan 25, 2015
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Nine-time Grammy Award Winner Sheryl Crow and Academy Award®-winning original screenwriter Barry Levinson makes a stunning debut as writers with the world premiere musical adaptation of the landmark movie Diner.

Christmas, Baltimore: 1959. A circle of childhood friends reunite for the upcoming wedding of one of them. Well, only if his fiancée passes a football trivia test. From the comfort of their all-night diner, the men, now in their early-twenties, confront the realities of adulthood: marriage, careers, money and the ever-mysterious opposite sex. But no matter where life takes them, they know they're welcome back at the diner, the one place they'll always belong.

Infused with swinging 1950s rock and roll sound, three-time Tony Award®-winning director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall joins Crow and Levinson to transform Diner's groundbreaking evocation of burgeoning adulthood and friendship for the stage.

Book by Barry Levinson
Music & Lyrics by Sheryl Crow
Directed & Choreographed by Kathleen Marshall
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The Cast

Maria Egler

Maria Egler

Eddie's Mother / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, The Fix, Diner; Elmer Gantry; Sunday in the Park with George; Woodstock, Gone Country; Good Times: TV Theme Songs; Lost Songs of the 80s; 2013 Holiday Follies; Signature’s Funny Ladies cabarets; Hello, Dolly! (Ford’s Theatre co-production, Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Ensemble); Dirty Blonde; Giant; Crossing; Crossing in concert. NATIONAL TOURS: Gypsy. DC AREA: Ford’s Theatre: Into the Woods, Ragtime, 110 In the Shade; A Christmas Carol; Kennedy Center: Camelot. Olney Theatre Center: Camelot, The Sound of Music, Cinderella; Studio Theatre: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson; Washington Savoyards: The Music Man, It’s A Grand Night for Singing; EDUCATION: BM, The Catholic University of America.
Colleen Hayes

Colleen Hayes

Carol Heathrow / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: West Side Story, Cabaret (2016 Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble), Diner. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: A Chorus Line (Sheila, 2014 Helen Hayes Outstanding Resident Musical); How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue). NATIONAL TOUR: Catch Me If You Can. REGIONAL: Merry-Go-Round Playhouse: Crazy For You (Patsy); Fulton Theatre: The Producers, Cinderella; Papermill Theatre: The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Rent (Maureen); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. EDUCATION: James Madison University. 
Benjamin Lurye

Benjamin Lurye

Doo-Wop Guy / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: A Little Night Music, Diner, Hello, Dolly! (co-production with Ford's Theatre; Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble). DC AREA: Olney Theatre: My Fair Lady, Sweeney Todd, Mary Poppins, Forever Plaid, Joseph...Dreamcoat; Rep Stage: Songs for a New World, Sweeney Todd, The Fantasticks; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Ragtime, 1776, Les Misérables, Joseph…Dreamcoat; 1st Stage: Floyd Collins, Parfumerie; Adventure Theatre, UrbanArias, Studio Theatre, others. REGIONAL: Bristol Riverside Theatre: A Comedy of Tenors; Virginia Rep: Cinderella; Artistree MT Festival: Forever Plaid. CONCERT: National Symphony Orchestra: Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs; Lawton Philharmonic: On The Town; American Pops: Around the World in 80 Days. EDUCATION: BM University of Maryland. benlurye.com, IG: @ben_lurye_sings_high.
Nova Y. Payton

Nova Y. Payton

Stripper / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, The Color Purple, We Shall Someday, After Midnight, Assassins, Blackbeard, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Jelly's Last Jam, La Cage aux Folles, Diner, Defying Gravity: Making of a SuperNOVA, Dreamgirls, The Best Little Whorehouse..., Xanadu, Hairspray. TOUR: 3 Mo’ Divas, Smokey Joe’s Café. DC AREA: Round House: Caroline, or Change; Shakespeare Theatre: The Amen Corner, Kiss Me, Kate; Ford's Theatre: Grace the Musical, Ragtime, Freedom’s Song; Olney Theatre: World Goes Round, Godspell; Arena Stage: Newsies, Smokey Joe's Café; Kennedy Center: How To Succeed.... REGIONAL: ZACH Theatre: Into the Woods; The 5th: Man of La Mancha, A Night with Janis Joplin; Milwaukee Rep: Dreamgirls.

Russell Sunday

Tank / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Elmer Gantry, Brother Russia, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Chess, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Ensemble). DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Jerry Springer: The Opera (Helen Hayes nomination, Outstanding Ensemble); MetroStage: Closer than Ever, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!); Theatre J: David in Shadow and Light; Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Jekyll and Hyde (2003 Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Male Lead), Sweeney Todd, Titanic, Aida, Miss Saigon, Kiss Me, Kate, Beauty and the Beast, Damn Yankees, Annie Get Your Gun, Carousel.
John Leslie Wolfe

John Leslie Wolfe

Eddie's Father / Ensemble

SIGNATURE: Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes, Passion, Titanic, West Side Story, The Threepenny Opera. BROADWAY: Parade, Passion, Evita, Sarava. NY CITY OPERA: Brigadoon, A Most Happy Fella. NATIONAL COMPANIES: Bright Star, The Phantom of the Opera (Las Vegas), Parade, Martin Guerre, Evita, Cabaret. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Passion, Golden Child; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Elmer Gantry, Captains Courageous, To Kill a Mockingbird, Christmas Carol; Round House Theatre: Our Town; Olney Theatre Center: Oh Coward. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: Heartbeats; Austin Musicals: Annie; Penn Center Stage: Sweeney Todd; Syracuse Stage: Closer Than Ever. FILM: The Invasion, Invincible, Step Up, Distinguished Gentleman. TV: Netflix: House of Cards; HBO: Something The Lord Made, The Wire, Homicide; NBC: The West Wing.

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