Meredith Willson’s musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown will be staged as part of the 2019-2020 season of Off-Broadway’s Transport Group, starring Beth Malone. Three-time Tony winner Kathleen Marshall will direct the production, featuring a revised book and new lyrics by Tony nominee Dick Scanlan. The revival is set to run from February 7 through March 22, 2020 at Abrons Arts Center.
Malone, a Tony nominee for Fun Home, returns to Molly Brown following a 2017 summer production at The Muny in St. Louis, directed and choreographed by Marshall and featuring Scanlan’s revisions. The trio also collaborated on a 2014 mounting at Denver Theater Center, a production which earned Malone the Henry Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical. Malone led a high-profile reading of Molly Brown for Roundabout Theatre Company with the same creative team in late 2017.
The musical follows Margaret “Molly” Brown, whose rags-to-riches journey from the silver mines of Colorado to the heights of high society culminates in a fateful voyage on the Titanic. The musical debuted on Broadway in 1960, earning a Tony Award for star Tammy Grimes.
Full casting for the Transport Group season will be announced at a later date.
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