Floyd Collins' journey underground will start one day later than expected. The Adam Guettel-Tina Landau musical has cancelled the first preview of its upcoming Broadway premiere at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater. The show's first performance will now be March 28. Opening night is still set for April 21. Ticket holders for the March 27 performance will receive refunds or exchanges from their point of purchase.
The musical is coming to Broadway nearly 30 years after it made an Off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons. Based on a true story, Floyd Collins follows a cave explorer who discovers a cave he thinks could be the next goldmine tourist attraction, only to become trapped inside on his way out. Above ground, the scene becomes one of the country's first-ever media circuses. The musical was among the first major professional credits for now Tony-winning composer Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) and book writer-director Landau (SpongeBob SquarePants). Landau is also at the helm of this new staging.
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Jeremy Jordan will star in the title role, alongside 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.
They will be joined by Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, Colin Trudell, and Clyde Voce. Casting is by The Telsey Office's Patrick Goodwin.
The Broadway production will feature sets by dots, costume design by Anita Yavich, lighting design by Scott Zielinski, sound design by Dan Moses Schreier, and projections design by Ray Sun, with dance sequences by Jon Rua, and music direction by Ted Sperling. Bonnie Panson will be the stage manager.
Lincoln Center Theater is producing Floyd Collins in association with Creative Partners Productions and Mark Cortale & Charles D. Urstadt.
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