CRUEL INTENTIONS THE MUSICAL Adds Seats Due to Popular Demand

Cruel Intentions: The Musical, the new stage adaptation of Roger Kumble's 1999 cult hit film developed by Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, has announced that the previously sold-out engagement will release of a new block of tickets for all three shows of its pop-up New York Premiere engagement starting this weekend at (Le) Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street).

Set to the greatest pop and rock hits of the '90s and songs from the film's iconic soundtrack, Cruel Intentions: The Musical features immersive stage direction by Lindsey Rosin, with music direction and arrangements by Zach Spound and choreography by Jennifer Weber.

"We've been so thrilled by the enormous response this show has received ahead of its New York premiere," said Rosin. "As we put the finishing touches on the show this week, we found that our final staging in the venue gave us enough space for more lucky Cruel fans to get their hands on some tickets!"

The musical stars Tony Award nominee Jennifer Damiano (Next to Normal, American Psycho) as Kathryn, Constantine Rousouli (Wicked, Ghost) as Sebastian, NatAlie Hall ("True Blood," "All My Children") as Annette, Janel Parrish ("Pretty Little Liars") as Cecile, Alex Boniello (Spring Awakening) as Blaine, JarEd Dixon ("Shades of Blue") as Ronald, Jenn Harris (Silence! The Musical) as Mrs. Caldwell and Brian Muller ("The Good Wife") as Greg. Rousouli, Parrish and Muller previously starred in the musical's world premiere in Los Angeles. Cruel Intentions: The Musical will play three performances only in this pop-up NYC engagement - February 11, 13 & 14, 2017 - at (Le) Poisson Rouge.

A thrilling and relentless game of cat and mouse comes to life in Cruel Intentions: The Musical, when the gorgeously despicable step-siblings Sebastian and Kathryn set a wager on Sebastian's next sexual conquest, Annette - daughter of the new headmaster at their Manhattan prep school. This bittersweet symphony of seduction and revenge will make you laugh, cry and - the cruelest fate of all - fall in love, all over again.

Roger Kumble's film Cruel Intentions - a sexy, modern-day telling of the classic 1782 French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - was produced by NeAl Moritz and released by Columbia Pictures on March 5, 1999, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Joshua Jackson, Eric Mabius, Sean PatRick Thomas and Christine Baranski. In addition to being an immediate box office hit, Cruel Intentions went on to carve itself a permanent spot in the pop culture lexicon. Rated the "#1 90s Teen Movie" by Buzzfeed and the "#1 Sexiest Thriller of All Time" by Bustle, Cruel Intentions is "still as enormously entertaining" as ever more than 15 years after its release, according to Entertainment Weekly, "thanks to an uncommonly sharp script, a killer soundtrack, and, most importantly, an impeccable cast."

Cruel Intentions: The Musical debuted at The Rockwell Table & Stage in Los Angeles in 2015, where it ran for 38 sold out performances, before being remounted for a second sold-out run at LA's Prospect Theatre in November 2016. During both runs, the show featured a rotating cast of stars from film, television, and theater, including: Katie Stevens ("American Idol" - Top 8 finalist, Season 9/MTV's "Faking It"), Janel Parrish ("Pretty Little Liars" - Mona), Lindsay Pearce ("Glee"), Constantine Rousouli (Broadway's Wicked), Emma Hunton (Broadway's Spring Awakening; Elphaba in Wicked National Tour; Freaky Friday), Shelley Regner (Pitch Perfect; Pitch Perfect 2), Molly McCook (Net?ix's "The Ranch"), Brian Muller ("The Good Wife") and Christine Lakin ("Veronica Mars").

Cruel Intentions: The Musical is produced by Sucker Love Productions with Executive Producer Eva Price.

TICKETS & PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Tickets are $39-59 and are now on sale at lpr.com, or can be purchased in person at the (Le) Poisson Rouge box office between the hours of 5:o0-8:00pm Monday-Saturday.

The performance schedule is: Saturday, February 11 at 8:00PM; Monday, February 13 at 8:00PM; and Tuesday, February 14 at 8:00PM.

BIOGRAPHIES

Jordan Ross (Co-Creator) A Philadelphia native, Jordan graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Film & Television in 2010. In 2011, upon moving to LA, his first pilot, "Rock Way", was optioned by Dolphin Entertainment. He was executive assistant for three years to showrunners/producers, Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie, who created El Rey's "Matador," MTV's "Scream", and executive produced ABC's "Of Kings & Prophets." Last year, he co-executive produced the "Cruel Intentions" television pilot (for NBC), which he wrote along with Roger Kumble (the writer/director of the original film) and Lindsey Rosin. Jordan is currently developing an indie/alternative musical based on Nicholas Sparks' best-selling novel, "A Walk to Remember," which he'll direct in 2017. He is represented by UTA, Good + Fear, and Morris Yorn.

Lindsey Rosin (Co-Creator/Director) is a professional writer/director/producer and fourth generation Los Angeles native. Last development season, she wrote (or co-wrote) television pilots for Lionsgate/MTV, Ryan Seacrest Productions/CBS Studios/CBS and Original Film/Sony/NBC. She is currently writing a drama pilot for NBC and Keshet Studios based on the Israeli format "Milk & Honey." Lindsey began her writing career as a playwright, having won numerous statewide and nationwide playwriting competitions, and has had plays professionally produced in Hollywood by The Blank Theater Company, in San Diego at The Old Globe, and in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her first novel, "Cherry", was published by Simon Pulse, Simon & Schuster's YA imprint in 2016. The book was also published in the U.K. and will receive Italian, French, and Spanish translations and publications in 2017. She is represented by ICM, Underground Management and Gang, Tyre, Ramer and Brown.

Zach Spound (Music Director) is an LA-native composer, writer, actor, and music director. He is currently developing his first full-length original musical, "LEAP", which was selected this year to be part of the NMI/Disney New Voices Workshop. He was also a featured songwriter at the 2016 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project in Chicago. His original music has been heard at venues around Los Angeles and New York City, including NYC staple, 54 Below. He also co-wrote and starred in the sketch called "Oh Hi Hamilton," a mashup of the Broadway smash, "Hamilton" and Tommy Wiseau's disaster piece, "The Room." As an actor, he has been seen at the Geffen Playhouse and La Mirada Theatre for Performing Arts.

JENNIFER WEBER (Choreographer) is an award-winning director-choreographer whose career has spanned concert dance, theatre, television and commercial events. Credits include: the international touring hit The Hip Hop Nutcracker, the US Premiere of Bryony Lavery's Stockholm at Stageworks/Hudson, Lifetime's Bring It Live! Tour, PBS's Odd Squad Live Tour, James Brown: Get On the Good Foot for The Apollo Theater/US Tour, and Ars Nova's upcoming immersive theater experience KPOP (Fall 2017). She is the founder and director of Brooklyn-based hip hop theatre company Decadancetheatre (for which she was nominated for a Bessie Award for "Outstanding Emerging Choreographer"). Weber and The Deca Crew were featured on Season 2 of TruTV's theatrical reality competition show "Fake Off" as well as UK TV staple "Blue Peter." Weber's concert dance work has toured across the U.S., U.K., Russia and France, to such venues as Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, The Apollo Theater, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, London's Southbank Center, and many more.