BAGHDADDY Announces Surprise Extension at St. Luke's Theatre

Despite announcing its closing on June 25, the well reviewed, NY Times Critic's Pick Baghdaddy by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo will continue to perform at St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street) through September 3, 2017.

"We seem to have hit an inflection point, really in the nick of time, so the producers got together and decided to keep the show open. Audiences love the show and jump to their feet every night. Now people are showing it in the way that counts most: sending their friends to see it. This shows how important it is for a small off-Broadway show with a terrible title to be patient enough and flexible enough and stay in the game long enough to build an audience," Charlie Fink, Lead Producer, said.

The show begins in a church basement, where disgraced spies, along with the unwitting audience, gather for a support group meeting. The action soon shifts to Frankfurt Airport, where a mysterious Iraqi defector claims he built secret Iraqi bio-weapons labs. At CIA headquarters, our other characters are contending with their own ambitions, rash decisions, inflexible bosses, unrequited affections and unremitting boredom, when a fax arrives from Germany, and with it a golden opportunity. If the defector's story holds up, it will be the ticket out of the basement and into a corner office. It's all fun and games until the looming cataclysm changes everything.

Baghdaddy cast including: Brennan Caldwell (Regional: Urinetown. NBC's "The Sing-Off"); Jason Collins (National Tour: Annie; NYC: Signs of Life); Bob D'Haene (The Three Times She Knocked), Brandon Espinoza (Broadway: Tuck Everlasting, Gypsy); Joe Joseph (Regional: Kiss of the Spiderwoman); Claire Neumann (NYC: Triassic Parq) and Larisa Oleynik (TV: "Mad Men," Nickelodeon's "The Secret World of Alex Mack" Film: 10 Things I Hate About You) and Ethan Slater (SpongeBob in SpongeBob Musical).

Baghdaddy is written by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo directed by Marshall Pailet with musical direction by Rona Siddiqui, orchestrations by Charlie Rosen and choreography by Misha Shields, based on a screenplay by J.T. Allen, creative team includes: Kaite Heavner (Set Design), Jennifer Schriever (Lighting Design), Summer Lee Jack (Costume Design), Courteney Leggett (Production Stage Manager), Daryl Eisenberg (Casting), Edmund Gaynes (General Manager), Sean Springle (Company Manager). Baghdaddy is produced by Charlie Fink and co-produced by Tim Disney, Jan Brandt, Abigail E. Disney, Catherine Adler, Alan Goodman and Lawrence Poster.

Photo Credit: Ambe Williams