Posted: 1/9/23 at 3:55pm
Casting has been announced for a concert performance of the new musical RUTKA. Selections from the show's exhilarating indie rock score will be presented on Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at the New York Public Library for Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (40 Lincoln Center Plaza). Ticket inquiries may be made at RutkaRSVP@KGMTheatrical.com.
The cast for the presentation will include two-time Tony Award winner Judy Kaye (The Phantom of the Opera, Nice Work if You Can Get It), as Grandma/Narrator; Julie Benko(Fanny Brice in Broadway's Funny Girl) as Dvorah; three of the actors who played the title character in Dear Evan Hansen on Broadway: Andrew Barth Feldman as Janek, Nathan Levyas Jumek and Zachary Noah Piser as Lolek; Zoe Siegel (credits at 54 Below, The Green Room 42) as Micka; Gabi Carrubba (Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen) as Minda; Zoe Holtzman (Essential Voices USA) as Nina; Annabelle Kempf (Broadway's Billy Elliot the Musical) as Rozna; Lana Schwartz (Off-Broadway's Endangered!) as Rutka; Cara Rose DiPietro (Arena Stage's Catch Me If You Can) as Stanislawa; Presley Ryan (Lydia in Broadway's Beetlejuice) as Tusia; Ben Cherry (Broadway's Indecent) as Yaakov; and Oscar Williams (Broadway's Fun Home) in the ensemble.
The creative team for RUTKA features music and lyrics by Jocelyn Mackenzie & Jeremy Lloyd-Styles, from the Brooklyn indie rock trio Pearl and the Beard, book by Sarah Gancher(Russian Troll Farm, Hundred Days), dramaturgy by Ken Cerniglia (Hadestown, Peter and the Starcatcher), and direction by Wendy C. Goldberg, the former Artistic Director of The National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and a two-time chair of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama Jury.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Julie-Benko-Andrew-Barth-Feldman-Judy-Kaye-More-to-Star-in-RUTKA-Concert-Performance-20230109
Updated On: 1/9/23 at 03:55 PM
