Photo Coverage: ENCORES! 'Girl Crazy' Curtain Call at NY City Center

Girl Crazy, is the first Encores! production of the New York City Center season, starring Ana Gasteyer, Wayne Knight and Marc Kudisch which ran November 19 - 22. Girl Crazy, directed by Jerry Zaks and choreographed by Warren Carlyle with Guest Music Director Rob Fisher, has music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan.

Girl Crazy, the Gershwin's fanciful depression-era musical of 1930, is the tale of a sophisticated New Yorker (Chris Diamantopoulos) marooned in a dusty Western cow town with no one who understands him but the Yiddish-speaking cabbie (Wayne Knight) who brought him there and no one to love but the only woman (Becki Newton) within 50 miles. The show gave birth to one of the all-time flashiest Broadway scores, featuring "I Got Rhythm," "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me" and "Bidin' My Time," among others. Girl Crazy opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14, 1930 and ran for 272 performances. The Girl Crazy cast features Jeremy Beck, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ana Gasteyer, Mylinda Hull, Wayne Knight, Marc Kudisch, Becki Newton, Richard Poe, Daniel StewartSherman and Gregory Wooddell.

New York City Center Encores! (Jack Viertel, Artistic Director; Rob Berman, Music Director) has, since 1994, celebrated the rarely-heard works of America's most important composers and lyricists. Conceived as concert versions, each Encores! season gives three scores the chance to be heard as originally intended by their creators. Over the years, Encores! has presented the works of the Gershwins, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Kurt Weill, Bock and Harnick, Burt Bacharach, Kander and Ebb, Comden and Green, and many others. The program is the recipient of a special 2000 Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre, as well as an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award and Jujamcyn Theaters Award.

New York City Center (Arlene Shuler, President and CEO) has long been known and beloved by New York audiences not only as one of the City's preeminent performing art institutions but also as an accessible and welcoming venue for dance and theater. New York City Center produces the Tony-honored Encores! musical theater series, and is home to some of the country's leading dance companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Paul TaylorDance Company and Morphoses/The Wheeldon Company, as well as Manhattan Theatre Club, one of New York's leading theater companies.

Tickets for the 2009-2010 Encores! season are available at the New York City Center Box Office (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues), through CityTix® at 212-581-1212, or online atwww.nycitycenter.org. Tickets for the Orchestra, Grand Tier and Mid-Mezzanine tickets are $95; tickets for the Rear Mezzanine and Front Gallery are $50; tickets for the Rear Gallery are $25.

It's closing night of GIRL CRAZY at Encores!

The ensemble of GIRL CRAZY!

Richard Poe, Gregory Wooddell and Mylinda Hull

Gregory Wooddell and Mylinda Hull

Wayne Knight

Ana Gasteyer & Marc Kudisch

Chris Diamantopoulos & Becki Newton

Mylinda Hull, Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Becki Newton, Marc Kudisch, Gregory Wooddell, Daniel Stewart Sherman

Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Becki Newton & Marc Kudisch

Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos

Wayne Knight and Ana Gasteyer

Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Becki Newton

Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos

Wayne Knight

Ana Gasteyer

Chris Diamantopoulos & Becki Newton

Wayne Knight, Ana Gasteyer, Chris Diamantopoulos, Becki Newton & Marc Kudisch

Chris Diamantopoulos & Becki Newton & Marc Kudisch

Becki Newton & Marc Kudisch

Chris Diamantopoulos & Becki Newton

Becki Newton

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After his life as an ingenue in Brooklyn & Queens, Walter spent the next 25 Years in a leading role as a Photographer / Photo Researcher in Manhattan. He is currently headlining in New Jersey with his partner Richard and children Dali & Gala. As a 14 year old youth, Walter was transfixed by his first Broadway Show, the original production of "GREASE". His journey on the path to celebrity photojournalism began that fateful night. Meeting, photographing and getting to know the cast inspired him to spend his professional life doing what he loved. His photography is syndicated worldwide through Retna Ltd. and Corbis.

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