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Great American Trailer Park Musical Pushes Back Opening to Sept. 27

By: Sep. 19, 2005
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The Great American Trailer Park Musical, which is adding two new songs to its country-tinged score, will now open five days later than originally scheduled. The raucous musical comedy has delayed its off-Broadway opening at Dodger Stages from September 22nd to September 27th.

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The two musical numbers weren't put into the show earlier due to illnesses in the cast; they were to have been learned by the show's actors a week ago. This is the second time the opening date has been pushed back. The show was originally to open on September 15th, but producers decided to hold the curtain until the 22nd due to Sergio Trujillo's coming aboard as choreographer.

Produced by Jean Doumanian and Jeffrey Richards, the musical will star Shuler Hensley (Tony Award for Oklahoma, "Van Helsing"), Orfeh (Saturday Night Fever, Love, Janis), Linda Hart (Hairspray, Anything Goes), Kaitlin Hopkins (Bat Boy, Noises Off, Bare), Leslie Kritzer (Hairspray, Bat Boy), Wayne Wilcox (A Man of No Importance, The Light in the Piazza) and Marya Grandy, who was an original cast member at NYMF. Markas Henry will design the costumes, while Peter Fitzgerald will do the same for the sound; they join previously-announced set designer Derek McLane and lighting designer Donald Holder.

The Great American Trailer Park Musical, which was a hit at last summer's New York Musical Theatre Festival, will be helmed by Betsy Kelso, who wrote the show's book to David Nehls' country-and-blues music and lyrics. In the musical, "an agoraphobic housewife must tear herself away from Dr. Phil long enough to leave her trailer and save her marriage. Why the sudden fuss after being safely tucked away for nearly 20 years? Armadillo Acres' newest tenant--a hot, young stripper with an questionable agenda. With guidance from a trailer-trash style Greek Chorus (three local women with phobias, neurosis and hang-ups of their own), the story unfolds."

 For more information, visit www.trailerparkmusical.com.




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