Casting Announced for Broadway-Bound Waterfall Musical at 5th Avenue Theatre | 半岛体育

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News Casting Announced for Broadway-Bound Waterfall Musical at 5th Avenue Theatre Laura Griffith (Sweet Smell of Success, The Light in the Piazza) will join J. Elaine Marcos (Annie, Priscilla Queen of the Desert) and Thom Sesma (Man of La Mancha, The Times They are A-Changin') in Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theatre production of Waterfall, which will run Oct. 1-25.

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The show features a book and lyrics by and music by . It will be co-directed by Tak Viravan and with choreography by Knechtges and music direction by .

The cast of Waterfall also includes Thai pop superstar Bie Sukrit making his American stage debut, Eymard Cabling, Jordan de Leon, Steven Eng, (, Les Miz), Kimberly Immanuel, Rie Hatanaka, Lisa Helmi Johanson, Ryan Kim, Kenway Kua (), Leon Le (Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark), Celia Mei Rubin (), Colin Miyamoto, Koh Mochizuki (Mary Poppins, Aida), Darryl Semira (Mamma Mia!), Riza Takahashi and ().

Waterfall, based on "Behind the Painting," a contemporary novel by Siburapha, is a love story set in Bangkok and Tokyo between 1933-39 as a monarchy falls in Thailand and Japan is on the brink of war. The show tells the story of a young Thai student who falls in love with the American wife of a Thai diplomat. The story of their forbidden love parallels history as the new democracy of Siam moves into the vortex of the increasingly pre-World War II Japan.

Waterfall is billed as "Broadway bound." Dates and a theatre have yet to be announced.

For more information, or to purchase tickets, visit .

 
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