Jeremy Jordan will star in the Broadway premiere of Floyd Collins this spring.
Jordan, who is currently starring in The Great Gatsby on Broadway, with other credits including Newsies and Smash, will lead a cast that includes Jason Gotay as Homer Collins, Sean Allan Krill as H.T. Carmichael, Marc Kudisch as Lee Collins, Lizzy McAlpine as Nellie Collins, Wade McCollum as Bee Doyle, Jessica Molaskey as Miss Jane, Taylor Trensch as Skeets Miller and Cole Vaughan as Jewell Estes.
Additional cast members include Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell and Clyde Voce.
The musical, which features a book by Tina Landau, with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel, and additional lyrics by Landau, is scheduled to begin previews Thursday, March 27 and open on Monday, April 21 at the Vivian Beaumont Theater. Landau, who directed SpongeBob SquarePants on Broadway, is also directing the show.
Floyd Collins follows the true story of a cave explorer in 1925 who got trapped 200 feet underground, while rescue efforts caused a media sensation.
The musical comes to Broadway after making its world premiere at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia in 1994. The show made its off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons in 1996 where it won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical and a cast recording was created, which has increased awareness of the musical over the years.
The show will have sets by dots, costumes by Anita Yavich, lighting by Scott Zielinski, sound by Dan Moses Schreier and projections by Ray Sun, with dance sequences by Jon Rua.
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