Photo Flash: 'Juno' At New York City Center

 Tony Award-winner Victoria Clark will be joined by  Conrad John Schuck, Dermot Crowley, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Michael Arden in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's Juno, the second Encores! production of New York City Center's 2008 season.  Directed by Tony Award- winner Garry Hynes with guest music direction by Eric Stern and choreography by Warren Carlyle, Juno will play for five performances, from March 27 - 30, at New York City Center,  West 55th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues). This will be the first production since the original Broadway staging in 1959 to use the original orchestration by Blitzstein, Hershey Kay and Robert Russell Bennett.

Juno, with music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein is based on the 1924 play Juno and The Paycock by Sean O'Casey.  It originally opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas, and played a total of sixteen performances. Songs include "I Wish It So," "We're Alive," and "One Kind Word."

Juno chronicles the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s during the confrontation between the Irish Republican Army and the British.  Juno Boyle (Victoria Clark) is the hardworking matriarch who struggles heroically to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and her husband's drinking.  Conrad John Schuck will play her husband, Captain Boyle.

The cast includes: Victoria Clark, Conrad John Schuck, Dermot Crowley, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Michael Arden, Tyler Hanes, Clarke Thorell, Rosaleen Linehan, Louisa Flaningam, Jennifer Smith and Kay Walbye with Timothy W.  Bish, Troy Edward Bowles, Pamela Brumley, Callie Carter, Leah Edwards, Kurt Froman, Ryan Jackson,   Jay Lusteck, Mary Macleod , Melissa Rae Mahon, Annie McGreevey, J. Maxwell Miller, Pamela Otterson, John Selya,  Timothy Shew, Greg Stone, Meagan Thomas, Kevin Vortmann, Alan M-L Wager, and Patrick Wetzel.

Tickets for the 2008 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 at www.nycitycenter.org.

Full Cast

Victoria Clark and Conrad John Schuk

Conrad John Schuk and Dermot Crowly

Michael Arlen and Celia Keenan-Bogler

Conrad John Schuk and Victoria Clark

Photo Credit Joan Marcus