Joining Encores! Resident Director Lear deBessonet and creative consultant Lauren Yee on the team is Tony-nominated choreographer Camille A. Mean Girls Tony nominee Ashley Park takes on the title role as part of a new series in which artists work with shows' authors to explore their work through a contemporary lens. Rounding out the season is a more recent title: Thoroughly Modern Millie (May 6–10). Tony winner Victoria Clark directs the presentation, which has recently tapped Tony winner Brian Stokes Mitchell ( Shuffle Along.) and Tony nominee Kate Baldwin ( Hello, Dolly!) to star as Sam and Susan Cooper. Movie Information Overview AllMovie ReviewReview User Reviews Cast & Crew Director. Kurt Weill and Alan Jay Lerner's Love Life will follow in the new season, with performances running March 18–22. Sills and Socha are no strangers to Mack & Mabel-and performing it at Encores!-having appeared in the organization’s musical revue Hey, Look Me Over!, in which they headlined scenes from the musical about the star-crossed film director and his muse. Music Director Rob Berman will direct conduct the Encores! Orchestra. Josh Rhodes directs and choreographs the Encores! production, which includes Stewart's sister Francine Pascal’s revisions. The 1974 musical features a score by Jerry Herman (who passed away at 88 last month) and a book by Michael Stewart. Decker, Sara Esty, Paige Faure, Haley Fish, Leslie Donna Flesner, Garett Hawe, Leah Horowitz, Matt Moisey, Madison Stratton, Diana Vaden, Jacob Keith Watson, Kristen Beth Williams, Darius Wright, Joy Woods, and Richard Riaz Yoder. Rounding out the company are Alex Julian Aquilino, Matt Bauman, Maria Briggs, Julian R. Is it just an acronymic coincidence that Mac is used in the name of one of McDonald’s more popular products?) But Calegory’s performance is among the pluses cited by several reviewers.Douglas Sills and Alexandra Socha in Hey Look Me Over! Joan Marcus Laudable intentions aside, “Mac and Me” has been widely panned as a fast-food rip-off of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” (Mac, by the way, stands-oh-so-cleverly-for Mysterious Alien Creatures. Since “Mac and Me” has a profit-sharing arrangement with the Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities, Louis said he felt it would be an appropriate thing to do.
Louis said he always intended to cast a disabled child in the lead. Disabled actors rarely win roles that aren’t “written disabled,” and it is extraordinary for a boy in a wheelchair to make his film debut in a major motion picture that has nothing to do with his handicap. But, significantly, the crippling illness of Jade’s character is not part of the plot, and for disabled actors in the film and television community, that is cheering news.
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