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The Gershwins®' & Ken Ludwig's

Crazy for You®

Nov 7, 2017 – Jan 14, 2018
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Beloved songs meet sensational dance in the ultimate feel-good Tony Award®-winning musical comedy for the holiday season.

A musical-loving banker sent to foreclose on a small-town theatre decides to revive it instead with the magic of the Follies, some slapstick comedy and a whole lot of charm. Flush with mistaken identities, a classic love story and 1930s glamour, The Gershwins®’ and Ken Ludwig’s Crazy for You® radiates with playful humor and high-energy show-stopping numbers.

A wealth of Gershwin tunes including “I’ve Got Rhythm,” “Someone to Watch Over Me” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It” fuse with exhilarating tap numbers in this triumphant musical celebration.

“It is heaven on earth. Everything an American musical comedy should be.” – The New Yorker

Music & Lyrics by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin
Book by Ken Ludwig

Performance Information

  • Run Time

    Running time is approximately two hours and thirty minutes, including one fifteen-minute intermission

  • Effects Warnings

     Contains simulated cigarette and cigar smoking, gunshots and theatrical smoke and haze.

Specialty Nights

Discussion Nights

November 29 & December 5, 2017

Pride Night

December 1, 2017

Open Captioning

December 10, 2017 at 2PM

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Cast Members

Sean Bell

Billy/Perkins

NATIONAL TOUR: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. NEW YORK: Musicals Tonight!: All American, For Goodness Sake; Downtown Urban Theater Festival: N/F; The York (Reading Series): The Nutcracker and I. REGIONAL: Northern Stage: Mary Poppins; North Shore: Spamalot; The New Theater: Forever Plaid; Bucks County Playhouse: Plaid Tidings; Ogunquit/Gateway: Saturday Night Fever; Maine State: A Chorus Line, Les Misérables, All Shook Up; Walnut Street: The Producers, Hairspray; PA Shakespeare: Fiddler on the Roof. TV: Amazon: Z, Red Oaks; HBO: Boardwalk Empire.

Kurt Boehm

Kurt Boehm

Mingo

he/him/his SIGNATURE: Assassins, Billy Elliot, Crazy for You, West Side Story, Cabaret, Les Misérables, Kiss of the Spider Woman, One Red Flower. NATIONAL TOUR: Born for This. DC AREA: Arena Stage: American Prophet, Carousel, Fiddler On The Roof, My Fair Lady, Oklahoma!, She Loves Me; Monumental Theatre Company: Daddy Long Legs (Helen Hayes Nomination - Outstanding Lead Actor);Olney Theatre Center: South Pacific, Godspell, How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, A Chorus Line, The Producers; Ford's Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors; The Kennedy Center: Phantom Tollbooth; Keegan Theatre: Chicago, The Full Monty; Imagination Stage: Lyle, The Crocodile; Adventure Theatre MTC: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, Goodnight Moon, Ella Enchanted; Red Branch Theatre: The Last Five Years. EDUCATION: CUA, BM. @kurtb617

DeMoya Watson Brown

Louise

SIGNATURE: Jelly's Last Jam, Dreamgirls. OFF-BROADWAY: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Rockette). REGIONAL: Washington National Opera: Champion, Show Boat; Shakespeare Theatre Co: The Boys from Syracuse; Arena Stage: Sophisticated Ladies. LIVE STAGE: Disney’s Finding Nemo the Musical; Disney’s Beauty and The Beast; Royal Caribbean Cruise Line: The Holy Land Experience. DANCE THEATRE: Washington Reflections Dance Company; Surfscape Contemporary Dance Company. TV Dancing With the Stars; The Ellen Degeneres Show; CMT’s Top 20 Countdown; TBN’s Praise the Lord. EDUCATION: George Mason University (MA, Arts Management); Florida State University (BFA, Dance).

Cole Burden

Lank Hawkins

NATIONAL TOUR: Bridges of Madison County (Robert u/s Performed), 25th Anniversary Les Misérables. OFF-BROADWAY: Minetta Lane: Himself and Nora (Priest/Giorgio); Encores!: Applause; NYMF: Bonnie and Clyde. DC AREA: Studio Theatre: Murder Ballad (Tom). REGIONAL: Marriott Lincolnshire: Honeymoon in Vegas, Legally Blonde; Asolo Repertory Theatre: Guys and Dolls (Sky Masterson); Two River Theater: The Ballad of Little Jo (Percy/Travers; Capital Repertory Theatre: The Secret Garden (Archibald Craven); Philadelphia Theatre Company: Grey Gardens (Joe Kennedy/Jerry); Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: Slaughterhouse Five, The War Department. FILM/TV: Beautiful Creatures, The Rainbow Bridge Motel, 30 Rock, As the World Turns, One Life to Live. EDUCATION: Baldwin-Wallace University. @coleburden

Jennifer Cordiner

Jennifer Cordiner

Betsy

SIGNATURE: West Side Story (Graziella). NATIONAL TOURS: The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (Rockette); Monty Python’s Spamalot; Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Liza). NEW YORK: PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center: One Singular Sensation, Celebrating Marvin Hamlisch; Dr. Oz Health Corps Gala; Gossip Girl; Media Rockette. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: A Chorus Line (Val, Helen Hayes nomination); The Producers (u/s Ulla); The Little Mermaid. REGIONAL: Papermill Playhouse: A Chorus Line (Swing); ARROW ROCK: The Producers; Anything Goes. CHOREOGRAPHY: Titanic; Anything Goes; Spamalot; King and I; How The Grinch Stole Christmas. EDUCATION: Rutgers University, 2007, B.A. English. 

Natascia Diaz

Natascia Diaz

Irene

SIGNATURE: Passion (Fosca, Helen Hayes Award), Threepenny Opera (Jenny, Helen Hayes nom.), West Side Story (Anita, Helen Hayes nom.), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Aurora).  BROADWAY: Man of La Mancha (Antonia, u/s Aldonza), Seussical. OFF-BROADWAY: Encores! Grand Hotel (Rafaella), The Capeman (Esmeralda), Jacques Brel, tick, tick, BOOM! (Susan, LA Ovation nom.). TOUR: West Side Story (Anita, Chicago Jeff Award, St. Louis Kevin Kline Award). DC: Shakespeare Theatre: Our Town (Mrs. Gibbs); Woolly: Collective Rage (Betty #3); MetroStage: Jacques Brel (Woman 1, Helen Hayes Award), Savage In Limbo (Savage), Rooms (Monica, Helen Hayes Award, shared with Chita!). REGIONAL: San Francisco Playhouse: Sally (Follies); St. Louis Muny: On Your Feet (Gloria Fajardo, St. Louis Critics Award), Chicago (Velma, Critics nom.); Hartford Stage: Ah, Wilderness! (Lily). FILM: Every Little Step. natasciadiaz.com 

Tricia DeSario

Margie

NATIONAL TOUR: 42nd Street (Phyllis). REGIONAL: Gateway Playhouse: 42nd Street. NEW YORK THEATRE/DANCE: Dixon Place: Old Man Dancing, Symphony Space: ALMA NYC, Iguana NYC: The Honey Taps, The Cutting Room: Cats Paying Dues.

Sherri L. Edelen

Sherri L. Edelen

Lottie Child

SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar, Midwestern Gothic, Gypsy, Cake Off, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables.  NATIONAL TOURS: Me and My Girl, Nunsense, Big. NEW YORK: Disney Theatricals: Freaky Friday; Fringe Festival: Citizen Ruth. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Sunday in the Park with George, Merrily We Roll Along; Arena Stage: DAVE (pre-Broadway), Cabaret, My Fair Lady, Vanya...Spike; Shakespeare Theatre: Design for Living; Folger Theatre: Romeo and Juliet; Round House Theatre: The Diary of Anne Frank; Theatre J: Copenhagen. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Caroline, or Change; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Light in the Piazza, Elegies; Fusion Theatre Company: Outside Mullingar; Stages St. Louis:  Annie Get Your Gun. DIRECTING: Riverside Center for the Performing Arts: Steel Magnolias, On Golden Pond (starring Joyce DeWitt). AWARDS: Helen Hayes, Barrymore.

Danny Gardner

Bobby Child

BROADWAY: Lucky in Dames At Sea; Radio City Music Hall: The NY Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes (Dad/George M. Cohan); City Center Encores!: Lady, Be Good! (Dick Trevor, Subsequent Album). NATIONAL TOUR: Here to Stay – The Gershwin Experience!, White Christmas, 42nd Street. OFF-BROADWAY: New Victory Theatre: Time Step; 59E59th Street Theatre: Room 17B, Everybody Gets Cake.  REGIONAL: Marriott Lincolnshire: Singin’ in the Rain (Don Lockwood); Kansas City Rep: Between The Lines (Frump, world premiere); Theatre Under The Stars: Mary Poppins (Bert); Goodspeed Opera House: Show Boat (Frank); Merry-Go-Round Playhouse: Promises, Promises (Chuck Baxter). EDUCATION: BFA, Ithaca College. AEA Member. www.dannyjgardner.com

Colleen Hayes

Colleen Hayes

Patsy

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. 

Andre Hinds

Andre Hinds

Custus

SIGNATURE: After Midnight, The Scottsboro Boys, Crazy for You, Jesus Christ Superstar. DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center: Singing in the Rain, Cabaret, Matilda (Rudolpho), Elf, In the Heights, Guys & Dolls; Keegan Theater: Chicago; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Show Boat, Sister Act, Hairspray (Seaweed), Peter Pan, Addams Family, Mary Poppins (Neleus), Memphis. REGIONAL: Mill Mountain Theatre: Legally Blonde (Emmett Forrest), Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Cinderella. @dizzydrizzy87

Elise Kowalick

Elise Kowalick

Vera

SIGNATURE: Crazy for You. NATIONAL TOURS: 42nd Street. DC AREA: Shakespeare Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet; Adventure Theatre MTC/Round House: Oliver!. REGIONAL: Goodspeed Opera House: The Music Man; Fireside Theatre: Grease and 42nd Street; Fingerlakes MTF: Holiday Inn; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: Oklahoma!; Cortland Rep: Saturday Night Fever. EDUCATION: Oklahoma City University. @elise___k

Robert Mintz

Jimmy

SIGNATURE: The Visit. NEW YORK: Actors Fund: Miracle on 34th Street; NYMF: Seeing Stars, Shine! REGIONAL: The Fulton: The Nutcracker; Gateway Playhouse: West Side Story (Baby John); The Growing Stage: Peter Pan (Peter), The Wizard of Oz (Scarecrow). DC AREA: The Kennedy Center: Children of EdenBroadway: Three Generations (Girl Crazy, Bye Bye Birdie, Sideshow); Arena Stage: My Fair Lady; Olney Theatre Center: Mary Poppins, Evita, The Producers (Carmen Ghia), The Little Mermaid (Jetsam); Rainbow Theatre Project: YANK! Toby’s Dinner Theatre: High School Musical, Kiss Me, Kate; Adventure Theatre: What’s a Wolf to Do? EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America: Bachelor of Music.

Georgina Moore

Sheila

NATIONAL TOUR: 42nd Street (2015-2016, 2016-2017). REGIONAL: New Bedford Festival Theatre: My Fair Lady. EDUCATION: AMDA New York (2015), Canada’s School of Alberta Ballet (2013).

Corinne Munsch

Corinne Munsch

Mitzi

SIGNATURE: Crazy for You. NATIONAL TOUR: Bullets Over Broadway, Elf, Seven Brides...; REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse: Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins; Ogunquit Playhouse: Bullets Over Broadway; John W. Engeman Theater: Singin' in the Rain. TV: Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, High Maintenance. EDUCATION: Otterbein University, BFA Musical Theatre with a Dance Concentration.

A. Ross Neal

Moose

REGIONAL: Orlando Shakespeare Theatre: Nicholas Nickleby, Julius Caesar, Taming of the Shrew; American Shakespeare Center: Henry V; The Importance of Being Earnest; Arms and the Man; Good Night Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet; Two Gentlemen of Verona; Our Town; Maples Repertory Theatre: Chicago, A Flea In Her Ear, South Pacific; Walt Disney World: Beauty and the Beast Live On-Stage!; Orlando Fringe Festival: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. EDUCATION: James Madison University, B.A. Musical Theatre

Maria Rizzo

Maria Rizzo

Tess

she/her SIGNATURE: Into the Woods, She Loves Me (Ilona - Helen Hayes Award), A Chorus Line, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Crazy For You, A Little Night Music, The Gulf (world premiere), West Side Story, Cabaret, Gypsy (Louise - Helen Hayes Nom), Spin (world premiere), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Xanadu. DC THEATRE: Arena Stage: Anything Goes (Erma - Helen Hayes Award), Fiddler on the Roof; Olney Theatre Center: Evita, Grease!; Keegan Theatre: Chicago (Roxie - Helen Hayes Award), Cabaret (Sally Bowles - Helen Hayes Nom), The Sunshine Boys, Spring Awakening; Studio 2ndStage: Carrie the Musical; 1stStage: Bat Boy; Toby's Dinner Theatre: Hairspray. REGIONAL: Arkansas Rep Theatre: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. EDUCATION: The Catholic University of America, BM, Musical Theatre. @mariarizz9o

Robbie Roby

Wyatt

SIGNATURE: Beaches (Assistant Choreographer). BROADWAY: Billy Elliot, Hairspray, Paint Your Wagon (Encores!, Cast Album). NATIONAL TOUR: Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, Joseph…Dreamcoat (Associate Choreographer/Cast Album), Starlight Express; Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Associate Choreographer). REGIONAL: Associate/Assistant Choreography: Goodspeed Opera House: Thoroughly Modern Millie; MUNY: All Shook Up; Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest; Las Vegas: Idaho! The Comedy Musical (Las Vegas premiere), Papermill Playhouse: Hairspray; Carnegie Hall: Carnegie Hall Family Holiday Concert: The New York Pops. EDUCATION: Towson University, BS in Elementary Education. 

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Thomas Adrian Simpson

Pete/Eugene Fodor

SIGNATURE: Jesus Christ Superstar, Three Penny Opera, Company, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Boy Detective Fails, The Hollow, Les Misérables, The Witches of Eastwick, My Fair Lady, Pacific Overtures, Urinetown, Twentieth Century, 110 in the Shade (2004 Helen Hayes nomination), Floyd Collins, Grand Hotel, Over and Over, Vera. DC AREA: Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun, Mary T. & Lizzy K., My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza; Ford’s Theatre: 1776, Liberty Smith, Meet John Doe, A Christmas Carol; Shakespeare Theatre: Candide, The Boys From Syracuse; Kennedy Center: Orphie and the Book of Heroes; Olney Theatre Center: Sweeney Todd, Oh, Coward!, 1776, Oliver. TV: House of Cards, America’s Most Wanted. EDUCATION: UNC School of the Arts.

Bobby Smith

Bobby Smith

Bela Zangler

he/him SIGNATURE: No Place to Go, She Loves Me, Midnight at The Never Get, Assassins, Grand Hotel, Passion, Light Years, A Little Night Music, Titanic, Simply Sondheim, Company, Midwestern Gothic, Road Show, Threepenny Opera, Disney's Freaky Friday, La Cage aux Folles (Helen Hayes Award), Spin (Helen Hayes Award). BROADWAY: Crazy for You. OFF-BROADWAY: Forever Plaid, The World Goes ‘Round, Of Thee I Sing. NATIONAL TOURS: Brigadoon, The World Goes ‘Round. DC AREA: Theater J: Two Jews Walk Into a War; Studio Theatre: Fun Home, A Class Act; The Long Christmas Ride Home; Caroline, or Change; Grey Gardens; Reefer Madness; Jerry Springer: The Opera; Ford’s Theatre: Elmer Gantry, Liberty Smith, 1776, Violet; Metrostage: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Helen Hayes Award). AWARDS: 2018 Anderson/Hopkins award.

Harrison Smith

Harrison Smith

Sam

he/him SIGNATURE: Sweeney Todd, Billy Elliot, Crazy for You, Jesus Christ Superstar, Passion, Assassins; DC AREA: The Keegan Theatre: Merrily We Roll Along, Elegies (Helen Hayes nomination), Airness, Parade, American Idiot, Dogfight; Imagination Stage: Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; Round House Theatre: I’ll Get You Back Again, The Kennedy Center: Me, Jane (National Tour); 1st Stage: Floyd Collins, Airness, A New Brain. Toby’s Dinner Theatre: Newsies (Helen Hayes nomination); Prologue Theatre, Constellation, NextStop, and Mosaic. REGIONAL: Arden Theatre Company: Assassins; OTHER: One half of the band-baseball hat, hhaarriissoonn.com @hhaarriissoonn

Ashley Spencer

Polly

BROADWAY: Hairspray, Grease, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Rock of Ages. DC AREA: Kennedy Center: Children of Eden. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse: The Producers; Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera: Les Misérables, Curtains, The Producers, Hairspray, Singin’ in the Rain; The Muny: Hairspray.

Harry A. Winter

Everett Baker

SIGNATURE: Allegro, 110 in the Shade, Hairspray (18 more). NATIONAL TOURS: Gigi, Jolson: the Musical. DC AREA: Kiss Me, Kate; Racing Demon; Come From Away (US); The Magic Play; Pins and Needles; Bringing Up Amy.

Creative Team

Jon Kalbfleisch

Musical Direction by

SIGNATURE (Resident Music Director) Ragtime, Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods, She Loves Me, Broadway in the Park (Wolf Trap), Simply Sondheim, A Chorus Line, Assassins, Passion, Crazy for You, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Cabaret, Sunday in the Park, Gypsy, Company, Hairspray, Saturday Night, Side by Side, Sunset Boulevard, Show Boat, Anyone Can Whistle, Spider Woman, Merrily, Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures, Elegies, Allegro, Follies, 110 in the Shade, Putting It Together, Forum, Sweeney Todd, Wings. BROADWAY: Ambassador Theatre: The Visit (Actor's Fund Benefit), Marius Company: Les Misérables (Associate Conductor). DC AREA: Kennedy Center: First You Dream; National Theatre, Warner Theatre, Round House Theatre, Everyman Theatre. OTHER: Carnegie Hall, Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony. TV: Celebration of the Arts (Executive Producer), Good Morning America. AWARDS: Grammy nomination; Bernstein MASS, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, pianist; Anderson-Hopkins Award; ten Helen Hayes Awards and 30 nominations; Distinguished Alumni Award, Cameron University. EDUCATION: Master of Music, Southern Methodist University.

Leah Loukas

Wig Design by

SIGNATURE: Jelly’s Last Jam. BROADWAY: The Heidi Chronicles, On The Town, A Night with Janis Joplin, Vanya Sonia Masha and Spike, American Idiot, Irena’s Vow. OFF-BROADWAY: Lincoln Center: The Royale; Roundabout: The Robber Bridegroom; The Public Theater: Barbecue, Fortress of Solitude; Shakespeare in the Park series: Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Into the Woods; Signature Theatre: Heathers: The Musical; Bare: The Musical; Carrie: The Musical; Tribes; Our Lady of Kibeho. 59E59: Butler. REGIONAL: Paper Mill Playhouse: Ever After, The Little Mermaid; Barrington Stage Company: Pirates of Penzance; Arena Stage/McCarter Theater: Baskerville; Long Wharf Theater: The Second Mrs. Wilson, My Paris. EDUCATION: University of Cincinnati’s CCM, BFA, Theater Design and Production/Makeup and Wig Design.

Robbie Roby

Associate Choreographer

SIGNATURE: Beaches (Assistant Choreographer). BROADWAY: Billy Elliot, Hairspray, Paint Your Wagon (Encores!, Cast Album). NATIONAL TOUR: Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof with Topol, Joseph…Dreamcoat (Associate Choreographer/Cast Album), Starlight Express; Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Associate Choreographer). REGIONAL: Associate/Assistant Choreography: Goodspeed Opera House: Thoroughly Modern Millie; MUNY: All Shook Up; Shakespeare in the Park: The Tempest; Las Vegas: Idaho! The Comedy Musical (Las Vegas premiere), Papermill Playhouse: Hairspray; Carnegie Hall: Carnegie Hall Family Holiday Concert: The New York Pops. EDUCATION: Towson University, BS in Elementary Education. 

Press Reviews

A uniformly talented cast of triple threats

BroadwayWorld

5 Stars

DCTheatreScene

With its sweet sincerity as well as its music, dancing, and jokes, it’s guaranteed to lift the spirit

DCMetroTheatreArts

An absolute delight

TheaterMania

Everything about this production is first-rate

MD Theatre Guide

There’s no shortage of “wow” moments in this production

Fredericksburg.com

It’s the most fun you will have in the theater this season

Woman About Town

Jazzy, fun, snappy, wholesome, and fabulous. This is a great choice for family entertainment during the holidays.

Buyers Guide

You're going to love this production!

The Zebra

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