Keenan-Bolger, Schuck, Arden & More Join Victoria Clark in Juno

Conrad John Schuck, Dermot Crowley, Celia Keenan-Bolger and Michael Arden will join the previously announced Victoria Clark in Marc Blitzstein and Joseph Stein's Juno, the second Encores! production of the 2008 season. Directed by Tony Award-winner Garry Hynes, with guest music direction by Eric Stern and choreography by Warren Carlyle, Juno will play for five performances, March 27-30, at New York City Center.

The full cast of Juno includes Tyler Hanes, Clarke Thorell, Rosaleen Linehan, Louisa Flaningam, Jennifer Smith and Kay Walbye, with Timothy W. Bish, Troy Edward Bowles, Pamela Brumley, Callie Carter, Leah Edwards, Kurt Froman, Ryan Jackson, Mary Ann Lamb, Jay Lusteck, Mary MacLeod , Annie McGreevey, J. Maxwell Miller, Pamela Otterson, John Selya, Timothy Shew, Meagan Thomas, Kevin Vortmann, Alan M-L Wagner, and Patrick Wetzel.

With music and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein, Juno is based on the 1924 play Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey. The musical chronicles the disintegration of an Irish family in Dublin in the early 1920s during the confrontation between the Irish Republican Army and the British. Juno Boyle Clark is the hardworking matriarch who struggles heroically to hold her family together in the face of war, betrayal, and the drinking of her husband, Captain Boyle Schuck.

Juno originally opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas, and played a total of 16 performances. Songs include "I Wish It So," "We're Alive" and "One Kind Word." The Encores! production will be the first since the original Broadway staging to use orchestrations by Blitzstein, Hershy Kay and Robert Russell Bennett.

Schuck Captain Boyle last appeared on Broadway in the revival of Annie Get Your Gun and played Daddy Warbucks in both the original and revival productions of Annie. Keenan-Bolger Mary Boyle recently appeared on Broadway as Eponine in Les Misérables and received a Tony nomination for her performance in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Arden Jerry Devine, who made his Broadway debut as Tom Sawyer in the 2003 revival of Big River, starred in the Twyla Tharp musical The Times They Are A-Changin'. Crowley Joxer Boyle appeared on Broadway in Conor McPherson's The Weir and Brian Friel's Translations.