Broadway star Kate Baldwin, as previously reported, will become Broadway star Dee Dee Allen in an upcoming staging of The Prom at Connecticut's Sharon Playhouse, and a complete cast of colorful characters have formed around her. Performances will run July 26-August 11, with Carl Andress at the helm.

The cast will also include Danny Drewes as Trent Oliver, Hannah Jane Moore as Emma Nolan, Sophie Nassiri Morvillo as Alyssa Greene, Ryan Palmer as Sheldon Saperstein, Erick Pinnick as Tom Hawkins, Tracy Liz Miller as Mrs. Greene, John Scherer as Barry Glickman, and Savannah Stevenson as Angie. 

The ensemble will feature Zoe Benjamin, Anissa Marie Greigo, Noah Silverman. Nick Traficante, Erik Daughterman, Mackenzie Farrell, Melissa Goldberg, Jonathan Matthew Reyes, Gabi Roller and Henrique Sobrinho. Molly Model is the productions swing, and Roller also serves as associate choreographer.

Local high school teen performers Jo Brinkerhoff, Richie Crane, Carlo Desy, Jakob Kerr-Lucero, Mollie Leonard, Tyler Rosenblum, Jessica Sonner, and Mia Tonon, round out the company.

The musical—by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin, and Bob Martin—follows a group of Broadway performers looking to get some notoriety by helping out a gay teenager who's been barred from attending her high school prom in a small midwestern town. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2018, and was adapted for the screen by Netflix in 2020.

Krystyna Resavy is choreographing the Sharon Playhouse production. Eric Thomas Johnson will serve as music director. Casting is by Judy Bowman.

Visit SharonPlayhouse.org.