Dallas theater center announces Casting for the World Premiere of Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure

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DALLAS THEATER CENTER

Announces Casting for the World Premiere of

Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure

Written and Directed by Douglas Carter Beane

Music and Lyrics by Lewis Flinn

Featuring Broadway Stars Alysha Umphress, Sydney James Harcourt and Ashley Park
DALLAS (April 7, 2017) – Dallas Theater Center (DTC) announced today casting details for the world premiere of Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure, a new musical comedy written and directed by five-time Tony^® nominated playwright Douglas Carter Beane with music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn. Nick Bailey will play Robin Hood alongside Broadway stars Alysha Umphress (Broadway’s On the Town); Sydney James Harcourt (Broadway’s Hamilton: An American Musical and DTC’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Wiz) as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Ashley Park (Broadway’s Sunday in the Park with George) as Marian. Performances begin on Thursday, June 29 and run through August 6, with press night on Friday, July 7. Tickets for Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure are on sale now at www.DallasTheaterCenter.org and by phone at [phone].
Completing the cast for Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure is Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company member Tiana Kaye Johnson (Electra, A Christmas Carol 2016, Dreamgirls) as Lady Jane; Billie Aken-Tyers as Much; Ricco Fajardo as Gamble Gold; Ian Ferguson as Alan A’Dale; Beth Lipton as Lady Anne; Luke Longacre as Little John and Chris Ramirez as Friar Tuck. The role of Will Scarlet will be announced at a later date.
Beane, who re-invented Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, joins up with Flinn, his collaborator from DTC’s wildly popular production of Give it Up that was later re-named Lysistrata Jones for its Broadway run. The dynamic duo return to Dallas to bring a twist on the ancient legend of Robin Hood in Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure. Audiences will learn what makes a hero in this hilarious and stirring world-premiere musical with stories of rebellion, hope and love.
The creative team of Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure includes set design by Tony^® Award-winner John Lee Beatty (MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical), costume design by Gregory Gale, sound design by Tony^® Award-winner John Shivers (MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical), lighting design by Philip Rosenberg (MOONSHINE: That Hee Haw Musical), choreography by Joseph Pizzi and Robert Bianca, music direction and supervision by Brad Simmons and puppet design by James Ortiz
Tickets start at $20 and are available online at www.DallasTheaterCenter.org or by phone at [phone]. All performances of Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure will take place at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St.
ABOUT DALLAS THEATER CENTER:

One of the leading regional theaters in the country, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 100,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its Mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas and at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. DTC is one of only two theaters in Texas that is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, the largest and most prestigious non-profit professional theater association in the country. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and Managing Director Jeffrey Woodward, DTC produces a seven-play subscription series of classics, musicals and new plays and an annual production of A Christmas Carol; extensive education programs, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award-winning Project Discovery, SummerStage and partnerships with Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and South Oak Cliff High School; and community collaboration efforts with the Sixth Floor Museum, the City of Dallas, North Texas Food Bank, the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Public Library, Dallas Holocaust Museum, Dallas Opera, Dallas Black Dance Theater, and leading the DFW Foote Festival. Throughout its history, DTC has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones in 1978, Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986, and recent premieres of Deferred Action by Lee Trull and David Lozano, Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter; Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical by Robert Horn, Brandy Clark, and Shane McAnally; FLY by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirsten Childs; Fly by Night by Kim Rosenstock, Michael Mitnick and Will Connolly; Giant by Michael John LaChiusa and Sybille Pearson; The Trinity River Plays by Regina Taylor; the revised It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams; Give It Up! (now titled Lysistrata Jones and recently on Broadway) by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn; Sarah, Plain and Tall by Julia Jordan, Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin; and The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson. Dallas Theater Center gratefully acknowledges the support of our season sponsors: Texas Instruments, American Airlines, Lexus, City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, Time Warner Cable and WFAA.

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