John Rando Will Direct Upcoming Staged Reading of THE STING

Back in 2015, BroadwayWorld reported that there was a reading of The Sting that took place in early August. According to a casting notice, the Araca Group will hold a new reading of the musical, directed again by John Rando.

The reading will take place February 22nd to the 26th, with music and lyrics by Mark Hollman and Greg Kotis and the book written by Bob Martin.

The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936, involving a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who had directed Newman and Redford in the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Created by screenwriter David S. Ward, the story was inspired by real-life cons perpetrated by brothers Fred and Charley Gondorff and documented by David Maurer in his bookThe Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man.

John Rando is a director who won the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for URINETOWN THE MUSICAL in 2002. He received his 2nd nomination in the same category in 2015 for the 2014 Broadway revival of ON THE TOWN.

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Photo Credit: Jessica Fallon Gordon