Daisy Eagan, who is the youngest actress to ever win a Tony Award, will make her long awaited return to the New York stage in the new musical Ghostlight. According to press notes "Ghostlight excavates the true story of Olive Thomas, a small-town girl who rises to headline alongside Fanny Brice in the Ziegfeld Follies. Seduced by the decadent world of the theater, Olive stumbles into a secret affair, an unfulfilling Hollywood marriage, and a downward spiral into drugs and alcohol. An homage to Broadway's Golden Age, Ghostlight captures the glamorous and tragic lives of those who changed the face of the American musical forever." Eagan will play the role of Molly Cook, Olive's best friend and fellow showgirl, who ultimately unleashes a major secret.
Making her New York debut in the central role of
Olive Thomas is
Rachael Fogle (National Tour of Broadway's Little Women). Fogle has also appeared as Olive in two previous readings of Ghostlight.
The principal cast also includes Barrymore Award Nominee
Matt Leisy (currently starring in Off-Broadway's The Fantasticks) as Olive's husband,
Jack Pickford and
Kimberly Faye Greenberg (star of Off-Broadway's One Night With
Fanny Brice and Danny and Sylvia) as the legendary
Fanny Brice. The rest of the principal cast and ensemble will be announced shortly.
Ghostlight has a book, music and lyrics by Matthew Martin and Tim Realbuto, who will also serve as the show's co-directors. Choreography is by Michael Kidney. The show's musical director is Matt Aument. Scenic and lighting design is by
David Goldstein. Elvin Roytman is the Producing Advisor and Massimine/Roytman/Presentations will serve as the General Manager.
Eagan won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Her other Broadway credits include Les Miserables and
James Joyce's The Dead. Her film and TV credits include Losing Isaiah, Ripe, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, "Without a Trace", "Ghost Whisperer", "Numb3rs" and "The Unit". She also won an LA Weekly Award for her performance in The Wild Party at The
Blank Theatre Company.
Ghostlight, presented by Everybody's Sweetheart Productions, LLC and NYMF, runs September 26th-October 9th at the
Signature Theatre (555 West 42nd Street). Visit
www.ghostlightthemusical.com for tickets and more information.
Now in its eighth year, the New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) is the largest annual musical theatre event in America and is widely regarded as the essential source for new material and talent discovery. NYMF provides a launching pad for the next generation of musicals and ensuring their creators the continued vitality of one of America's greatest art forms. Hailed as the "Sundance of Musical Theatre," NYMF discovers, nurtures, and promotes promising musical theatre artists and producers at all stages of development, and inspires a diverse audience through vibrant, accessible, powerful new work.
NYMF is the flagship program of National Music Theater Network, Inc., a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. NYMF 2011 is presented in association with BroadwayWorld.com, Production Resource Group and TheaterMania.com. Major supporters include The
ASCAP Foundation, BMI Foundation, Inc., The Broadway League, The BWF Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation with the support and encouragement of Jamie Ariel Phinney, The Charlie & Jane Fink Charitable Fund, The Rodgers & Hammerstein Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and The Theater League. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. NYMF is supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
NYMF Memberships, which combine charitable contributions with valuable, flexible ticket packages and perks like early seating, and tickets to individual events are currently available for purchase at (212) 352-3101 or
www.nymf.org. Single tickets for Festival events will go on sale September 1.
For more information, please visit:
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