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Tom Aldredge Signs on to Cast of Off-Bway's Mimi le Duck

By: Aug. 31, 2006
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Tony-nominee Tom Aldredge has signed on to the cast of the upcoming Off-Broadway musical Mimi le Duck, whichwill open at New World Stages on October 31st after beginning previews on October 11th.

Playing war veteran and nightclub owner Ziggy, Aldredge will join a cast that includes Eartha Kitt (Nine, The Wild Party) and Annie Golden (The Full Monty, Assassins), as well as
Candy Buckley, Robert DuSold, Allen Fitzpatrick, Ken Jennings, and Marcus Neville. 

Kitt will play a Parisian torch singer in the show, while Golden--who was previously seen in the show in 2004 when it played the Adirondack Theater and New York International Fringe festivals--will take on the title role of Miriam, "a discontented Mormon housewife from Ketchum, Idaho, who, in a moment of desperate inspiration (and a visit from the ghost of Ernest Hemingway), packs her bags and moves to Paris, leaving behind her husband and her career as a duck painter for QVC," according to New World Stages notes.

Mimi le Duck features music by Brian Feinstein, with music and lyrics by former congresswoman and children's book scribe Diana Hansen-Young.   Thomas Caruso--who previously directed Mimi le Duck--will again stage the musical.  Aruba Prods., Ken Denison and Carol Fishman (Bingo) will serve as executive producers and general managers.

Aldredge, who is also known for his work on "The Sopranos," is a five-time Tony Award-nominee--for Twentieth Century, Passion, The Little Foxes, Where's Charley? and Sticks and Bones. Other Broadway credits include the revivals of The Crucible, Inherit the Wind and 1776, Two Shakespearean Actors and Into the Woods, in which he originated the role(s) of the Narrator/Mysterious Man.

Visit www.newworldstages.com for more information.




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