They've got rhythm! Broadway faves Allison Walsh (Anastasia) and Matthew Scott (An American in Paris, Sondheim on Sondheim) are joining the national tour of An American in Paris as Lise Dassin and Adam Hochberg. They join McGee Maddox, as Jerry Mulligan, in the touring production. Walsh and Scott will join the show on October 17 when the tour stops at Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque.
Other new principal cast members include Ben Michael as Henri Baurel, Kirsten Scott as Milo Davenport and Teri Hansen as Madame Baurel. Inspired by the Academy Award-winning film, An American in Paris is the romantic story about an American soldier, a mysterious French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war.
Directed and choreographed by 2015 Tony Award winner Christopher Wheeldon, the show features the music and lyrics of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, and a book by Craig Lucas. The score of An American in Paris includes the songs "I Got Rhythm," "Liza," "''S Wonderful," "But Not For Me," "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise," and orchestral music including "Concerto in F," "Second Prelude," "Second Rhapsody/Cuban Overture" and "An American In Paris."
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