Goldberg, Foster and Thompson Guest On New 'BATTERY'S DOWN' 8/1

Broadway's Sutton Foster and Jennifer Laura Thompson are among the guest stars appearing in "Something Just Broke," the latest episode of Jake Wilson's web series "The Battery's Down."

The August 1 episode, directed and choreographed by Connor Gallagher, stars Jake Wilson as a young performer who, along with his friends, navigates the world of showbiz in New York City. Series regulars include Andrew Keenan-Bolger (Mary Poppins, Spelling Bee), Dani Spieler (Legally Blonde) and Nina Sturtz (VOTE! The Musical).

The Tony Award winning Sutton Foster, a veteran of Broadway's Shrek The Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone and Thoroughly Modern Millie, guest stars along with Thompson (Urinetown, Wicked), Jenna Coker Jones (Evil Dead), Sas Goldberg (Stunning), Kyle Harris (Mrs. Sharp), Ellen Harvey (Mary Poppins), Marla Mindelle (South Pacific), Ana Nogueira (Knives and Other Sharp Objects), Christine Pedi (Forbidden Broadway), Alysha Umphress (Green Day's American Idiot) and a special appearance by the Academy Award-Winning Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost, The View, Xanadu).

The latest installment of the series features three original songs. Filling the roster are The Battery's Down team of Music Supervisor Adam Wachter and Wilson, the Emmy Award winning Lance Horne, and composer Jeanine Tesori (Caroline, or Change, Shrek the Musical) and lyricist Dick Scanlan (Everyday Rapture), the team that brought you the Tony Award winning Best Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and "The Girl in 14G."

The online series regularly features original songs by some of the best and brightest musical theatre writers, including Glen Kelly (Young Frankenstein) and Lisa Lambert (The Drowsy Chaperone), Laurence O'Keefe (Legally Blonde, Bat Boy!), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (Edges, James and the Giant Peach), David Kirshenbaum (Vanities), Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (The Unauthorized Biography of Samantha Brown), Michael Patrick Walker (Altar Boyz), Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Josh Salzman and Ryan Cunningham (I Love You Because), Sean Mahoney (Factory Girls), Eric Day (Hameko and Lulu), and Ryan Scott Oliver and Kirsten A. Guenther (Mrs. Sharp).

Created by and starring University of Michigan graduate Wilson, "The Battery's Down" made its online premiere February 1, 2008, with a slew of Broadway talent.

New episodes of "The Battery's Down" will premiere at 12:01 AM on the first of each month. To view the series, visit www.thebatterysdown.com

Photo by Matthew Murphy, visit his website at www.rantingdetails.com.