Tony Award nominee Manoel Felciano will play George opposite the previously announced Kelli O'Hara as Dot in the upcoming Reprise! production of Stephen Sondheim's Sunday in the Park with George. Two-time Tony nominee Nancy Dussault Do Re Me, The In-Laws has also joined the cast, which will be directed by Jason Alexander. The show will preview at UCLA's Freud Playhouse in Los Angeles on January 30, 2007, and open January 31, continuing through February 11.
Other cast members announced for the production are Katy Blake, Elizabeth Brackenbury, Matthew Patrick Davis, Jacqueline Emerson, Nancy Hess, Sarah Knowlton, Frank Kopyc, Kristofer McNeeley, Gregory North, Brent Schindele, Sean Smith, Katherine Von Till and Sam Zeller. Gerald Sternbach will serve as musical director.
O'Hara received a 2006 Best Actress Tony Award nomination for her performance opposite Harry Connick Jr. in The Pajama Game and a 2005 Best Featured Actress nomination for The Light in the Piazza. Other Broadway credits include Sweet Smell of Success, Dracula, Follies and Jekyll & Hyde. Off-Broadway and regional credits include My Life with Albertine, Beauty and Phantom.
Sunday in the Park with George, with a score by Sondheim and book by James Lapine, won the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and was nominated for a Best Musical Tony. Act I revolves around Georges Seurat and the creation of his signature painting "Sunday Afternoon On the Island Of La Grande Jatte." Seurat's inability to commit to anyone or anything but his work is echoed in Act II as George's great-grandson confronts his own artistic demons and failure to connect. Past and present merge as both Georges discover basic truths about art, human connection and the constant struggle to "break through to something new." Sondheim songs featured in the score include "Putting it Together," "Move On," "Children and Art" and "Sunday."