Musicals Tonight Announces Casting for 'Tovarich'

Musicals Tonight presents Tovarich October 28 – November 9 McGinn/Cazale Theatre (2162 Broadway between 76th & 77th Streets).
 
Tovarich (1963) won two Tony Awards, including Best Actress (Vivien Leigh).
 
In the 1920s, the Russian Revolution provided Paris with doormen, janitors, and taxi drivers made up of exiled Russian nobility (JACKSON ROSS BEST, Jeffrey Nauman).  And the Duchess Tatiana (BARBARA McCULLOUGH) and her consort, Prince Mikail (Al Pagano), do not work at all.  Their poverty is voluntary because the late Tsar gave them 4 billion francs for safekeeping.  Cabaret performer Natalia (Laura Beth Wells) warns they are being followed by a Russian spy (Paul Amodeo) and suggests that they become servants in the home of her generous American "friend", CharLes Davis (STEVE TED BECKLER). He is in Paris with his wife (S HOREY WALKER) and their two teen-age children (Dana Domenick, RONALD HORNSBY).  The only servant they have been able to keep (Lydia Gladstone) is delighted to have help as are the children who become quite smitten with the two White Russians.  Davis hosts a dinner party at which he outlines a scheme to form an oil cartel and the eager international participants (AMY JACKSON, Robert Anthony Jones, OMER SHAISH), also include a high Soviet official (Roger Rifkin).  The guests recognize the maid and butler, and embarrassment is followed by near-violence.
 
Tatiana and Mikail retreat to a Russian émigré hangout, but return long enough to write "farewells". Gorotchenko has waited for them and threatens that millions of Russian peasants will starve without a=2 0return of the funds. Mikail's surrender of the money frees the royal pair from their obligations to their former home and they decide to settle in Paris and remain with the Davis family.

The show is directed by Thomas Sabella-Mills with musical direction by James Stenborg.
 
Tickets: $20 from Smarttix – 212-868-4444 or www.smarttix.com or the Box Office McGinn/Cazale Theatre – 2162 Broadway (between 76th and 77th Streets). For more information please visit www.musicalstonight.org.