Hank Azaria, Megan Hilty, Michael McGrath & Leslie Kritzer to Lead Goodspeed's Workshop of THE HONEYMOONERS

Goodspeed Musicals, in association with Jeffrey Finn Productions, will present a star-studded workshop of the The Honeymooners, a new musical based on the legendary CBS television series.

Invite-only presentations will be held today, Thursday, November 6 and Friday, November 7 at New 42nd Street Studios. The cast will feature Tony Award winner Michael McGrath as Ralph Kramden, four time Emmy Award winner and Tony Award nominee Hank Azaria as Ed Norton, Drama Desk Award nominee Leslie Kritzer as Alice Kramden, and Drama Desk and Outer Critcs Circle Award nominee Megan Hilty as Trixie Norton. Tony Award winner John Rando will direct the musical comedy, with choreography by Emmy Award winner Joshua Bergasse, book by Dusty Kay & Bill Nuss, music by Stephen Weiner and lyrics by Peter Mills. The complete workshop cast will be announced at a later date. The Honeymooners is presented under a license from CBS Broadcasting, Inc.

Ralph Kramden and his buddy Ed Norton are back and still shooting for the moon in this world-premiere musical. After shocking their wives by winning a high profile jingle contest, they are catapulted out of Brooklyn and into the cutthroat world of Madison Avenue, where they find themselves torn between success and friendship. Filled with warmth, laughs, and an infectious score, The Honeymooners is a new musical comedy that will bang-zoom its way into your heart.

Brainchild of the legendary American comedian, actor and musician Jackie Gleason, "The Honeymooners" took the world by storm when it launched as a six-minute sketch on Gleason's "Cavalcade of Stars" in 1951. The sketches starred Gleason as Ralph Kramden, the blue collar underdog struggling to make a better life for himself and his wife, Alice. With help from pal, Ed Norton and his wife, Trixie, Ralph would plot hilarious get-rich-quick schemes, none of which ever succeeded. Over the next few years, "The Honeymooners" became a television sensation, beating out "I Love Lucy" as the most-watched show in 1955.

For over sixty years, the series has never been off the air, enjoyed in reruns across the country as well as fifty countries abroad, including remakes in Sweden, Poland and The Netherlands.