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4/16/07
Scott Bakula, Ruth Williamson Among 2007 Reprise Stars
TV stars turn to theatre for annual Los Angeles stage fest
Jim Gardia, Producing Director of Reprise!
Broadway’s Best, announced today that casting is complete for the final
production of its 2006-2007 season, Richard Rodgers’ lyrical, No Strings.
Golden Globe award winner and Emmy & Tony nominated actor Scott Bakula, who
starred on Broadway in Romance/Romance and has thrilled TV audiences with his
series' Quantum Leap and Enterprise, will be starring as David, a Pulitzer prize
winning writer and Sophina Brown, currently starring on the CBS Series Shark
with James Woods will star as Barbara, the most successful model in Paris.
The cast also includes, from Days of Our Lives and General Hospital, Matthew
Ashford as Mike and from the recent Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles, Ruth
Williamson as Mollie.
With musical direction by Gerald Sternbach, choreography by Christine Kellogg
and direction by Kay Cole (City of Angels, Judy’s Scary Little Christmas), No
Strings will also feature costume designs by the legendary Bob Mackie and Joe
McFate.
No Strings will preview on Tuesday, May 8 and will open on Wednesday, May 9 and
continue through Sunday, May 20 at UCLA ’s Freud Playhouse.
Richard Rodgers won a Tony Award for Best Composer in 1962 for No Strings, the
story of a successful high-fashion model who meets and falls in love with a
writer in Paris. While this Pulitzer prize-winner has been trying to recover
from a prolonged case of writer's block, he's assumed the dubious role of
charming intellectual-in-residence at some of the Continent's more luxurious
watering holes.
As the model's work takes them on a whirlwind tour of the most exclusive
European playgrounds, their romance develops into the first deeply-felt, honest
relationship either has ever known. The model, however, ruefully comes to
realize that the life-style demanded by her career is stifling the writer, and
if he's ever to fulfill the promise of his earlier work, he must take
responsibility for himself, go home, and write.
Reluctantly, but with no strings, they part, each having discovered anew their
capacity to love.
No Strings features such classic Richard Rodgers songs as “The Sweetest Sounds”
and “Love Makes the World”. Also featured in the cast of No Strings will be
Joseph Culliton, Bets Malone, Brent Schindele and Carla Tassara.
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