Jason Alexander and Stephanie J. Block to Lead L.A. They're Playing Our Song

Stephanie J. Block and Tony winner Jason Alexander will star in the Reprise Theatre Company's production of They're Playing Our Song. The revival will run from September 28 through October 10 at Los Angeles' UCLA Freud Playhouse. Lonny Price will direct and Joshua Rhodes will choreograph the musical comedy.

Block's Broadway credits include The Boy From Oz, Wicked, 9 to 5 and The Pirate Queen. Alexander serves as Reprise's artistic director and has also starred in their production of How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. He is a Tony winner for Jerome Robbins' Broadway and has also appeared in Accomplice, Broadway Bound, The Rink and Merrily We Roll Along. He is best known for his nine seasons as George Costanza on TV's Seinfeld. 

Featuring music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and a book by Neil Simon, They're Playing Our Song tells the story of an established composer, Vernon Gersch, who teams up with an eccentric lyricist, Sonja Walsk. The two (loosely based on Hamlisch and Sager) initially find professonal success but personal drama before forming a strong bond.

The show originally opened on Broadway on Februrary 11, 1979, starring Lucie Arnaz and Robert Klein, and ran for 1,082 performances. The musical received four Tony Award nominations, including Best Musical.

The show is also being revived in New York on August 30 for a one-night-only concert benefit, starring Tony winner Sutton Foster and Seth Rudetsky.

The Reprise production will feature a new song from Hamlisch and Sager as well as two songs, "One Hello" and "If You Remember Me", which they previously wrote for the films I Ought to Be in Pictures and The Champ.