Producers Jennifer Ashley Tepper (Be More Chill) and Allison Bressi (Songbird) have announced the New York premiere of the new musical comedy, Broadway Bounty Hunter, starring Screen Actors Guild Award winner Annie Golden (Hair, Violet, “Orange is the New Black”), this summer at Greenwich House Theater (27 Barrow Street). With music and lyrics by two-time Drama Desk Award nominee Joe Iconis (Be More Chill, NBC’s “Smash”) and a book by Joe Iconis, Lance Rubin (Denton Little’s Deathdate), and Jason SweetTooth Williams (Be More Chill actor), the musical comedy received five Berkshire Theatre Awards upon its world premiere engagement at Barrington Stage in 2016. It is directed and choreographed by Jennifer Werner (The Book of Mormon Supervising Associate Director).
The show is a new musical comedy inspired by the exploitation movies of the 1970s. Annie Golden leads the cast as Annie, a down-on-her-luck actress of a certain age who is asked to become a bounty hunter and capture a South American drug lord. Broadway Bounty Hunter chronicles a woman’s journey to find her inner strength and true badass identity—and save the theatre. A six-piece band performs Iconis’ lively score that’s a blend of R&B, funk, and rock ’n’ roll.
Rounding out the creative team are Scenic Designer Michael Schweikardt (Rags at Goodspeed), Tony Award-winning Lighting Designers Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (Assassins, Ragtime, Once on this Island), Costume and Wig Designer Sarafina Bush (Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Associate), Projection Designer Brad Peterson (Junk, Oslo, Cats), Sound Designer Cody Spencer (Here Lies Love), Music Supervisor and Orchestrator Charlie Rosen (Be More Chill), Vocal Arranger Joel Waggoner (Bernarda Alba at LCT), Music Director Geoffrey Ko (Be More Chill, Associate), and Artistic Consultant Nehemiah Luckett.
Broadway Bounty Hunter begins previews Tuesday, July 9, 2019, with an official opening night of Tuesday, July 23, for a limited engagement of ten weeks through Sunday, September 15. Additional cast to be announced. https://www.broadwaybountyhunter.com/
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