Rock Musical BAGHDADDY to Open Next Week at St. Luke's

A friendly reminder! The well reviewed, NY Times Critic's Pick Baghdaddy (formerly known as, Who's Your Baghdaddy?) by Marshall Pailet and A.D. Penedo has returned to NYC and will open on Monday, May 1, 2017, for an initial run thrugh June 18, 2017 at St. Luke's Theatre (308 West 46th Street).

A NY Times Critic Pick in its NYC non-profit run in the fall of 2015, Baghdaddy returns to NYC at the St. Luke's Theater on April 6. 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.

Most of the original Baghdaddy cast will be returning, 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 Jan Brandt, Abigail E. Disney and Tim Disney.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Marshall Pailet (Music, Book/ Director) is a director, writer and composer for theater, plays, and animated films. Off Broadway: Who's Your Baghdaddy (New York Times Critics' Pick); Triassic Parq (Chance Theater '13; Ovation Award, Best Musical; Ovation Nom; Best Director). Other Theater: Claudio Quest (winner of six 2015 NYMF Awards for Excellence); Loch Ness (Chance Theater '15; Best Musical, OC Weekly); Shrek the Halls (DreamWorks Theatricals); The Chocolate Tree (NAMT). Film: VeggieTales: Noah's Ark starring Wayne Brady (Original Songs). He is also on faculty at Molly College, Cap 21, and the Broadway Dreams Foundation. Graduate Yale University. www.marshallpailet.com.

A.D. Penedo (Book and Lyrics).? Musicals (lyrics, co-book): Loch Ness (Chance Theater '15, Best Musical; OC Weekly); The Chocolate Tree (ACE Theater, Eugene); Where It's At (New Haven); Cratchett Farm (Dillons, NYC). Plays include: The Three Times She Knocked (Best Playwrighting, FringeNYC); Off the Record (NewYork); Thursday (New Haven); Dance of the Fireflies (Payan Theater, NYC). BMI Lehman-Engel Musical Theater Workshop; ASCAP Musical Theater Workshop. www.adpenedo.com.

Rona Siddiqui (Music Director)2014 ASCAP Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, 2011 ASCAP Foundation/Max Dreyfus Scholarship, 2010 Best Musical Direction - Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle SF. Musicals: One Good Day - ASCAP/Dreamworks Musical Theatre Workshop. The Tin - Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival. Featured songwriter: Sondheim Remix - NY City Center, Broadway's Future at Lincoln Center.

Misha Shields (Choreography) dance & aerial circus choreography credits: Off-Broadway's interactive dance party, The Orion Experience (XL Nightclub), Merrily We Roll Along (APAC), Rocky Horror (Yale), Follies (TheaterWorks), The Travels (NYMF), Hey, You Know What Movie Would Make A Good Musical? (Julia Miles/Zipper Factory), Company (Fordham), Cabaret and Sunday In The Park... (Boston Conservatory), Perks of Writing A Musical: Web-Series (DIGGSY Productions), Victory Drill: Music Video (Threefifty Duo). www.mishashields.com.

Charlie Fink (Producer) since 2006, Charlie has produced over 30 readings, workshops, and festival productions. He is the Producing Artistic Director of the not-for-profit New Musical Foundation, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the New York Musical Theater Festival. Charlie's passion for new work began at Disney in 1986, where he supervised the development of the historic animated musicals Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King, which was based on his original idea, "Bambi in Africa". www.charliefink.com