Marssie Mencotti, Johnathan Wallace & Greg Mills to Join Rebecca Sohn & Scarlet Sheppard in THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE at Theater Wit

Jim Cartwright's THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE, which will run at Theater Wit in August and is being produced by the No Stakes Theater Project, has announced casting for five of the six roles. Erin Shea Brady will direct the previously announced Scarlet Sheppard (Little Voice) and Rebecca Sohn (Mari Hoff) in the production. Marssie Mencotti (Sadie), Greg Mills (Mr. Boo) and Johnathan Wallace (Billy) will join them. Casting for the role of Ray Say is yet to be determined. The production will run at Theater Wit from August 14-September 6, 2015.

Set in a small factory town in Northern England in 1990, the Oliver award-winning comedy centers around Little Voice, or "LV", who is cripplingly shy and locks herself in her room listening to her late father's old records - Judy Garland, Edith Piaf, Marilyn Monroe, et al. Her mother, Mari, is loud, usually drunk, and desperate for money and affection. When Mari brings home Ray Say, a talent scout, he discovers that LV can impersonate each of the singers she loves. When Ray Say puts LV onstage at a local cabaret club, all prayers seem answered -- except for those of Little Voice. Originally, the play was written to showcase the mimicry of Jane Horrocks, who played LV on the West End and in the 1998 film, simply titled LITTLE VOICE.

Cartwright's play-with-music was last produced in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theater in 1993 with Hynden Walch in the title role. Erin Shea Brady directed a staged reading of THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE at The Foxhole Chicago in August 2014. The reading also featured Rebecca Sohn, Scarlet Sheppard and Marssie Mencotti.