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 Stage : Concerts
Regina

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Part of the Kennedy Center festival A New America: The 1940s and the Arts
March 10 - 12, 2005
Composer : Marc Blitzstein
Director : Gerald Freedman
Conductor : Steven Mercurio

Concert dates : Thursday 10th to Saturday 12th March, 2005 
Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 8pm, Sat @ 2pm
Run time 2hrs 45min

"A semi-staged concert version of Marc Blitzstein's soaring musical drama Regina, hailed as "a remarkable achievement" by the New York Times when it premiered on Broadway in 1949. Adapted from Lillian Hellman's classic play The Little Foxes, this distinctively American opera chronicles a rich Southern family circa 1900 torn apart by greed. Juxtaposing operatic lyricism with spirituals, ragtime, blues and Dixieland, this new production of Regina will be conducted by Steven Mercurio and directed by Tony nominee Lonny Price (A Class Act) on the centennial of Blitzstein's birth."

Cast (featuring a mix of musical theatre and opera stars) :

Patti LuPone Regina Giddens
Shuler Hensley Horace Giddens
Leena Chopra Alexandra Giddens
Tim Noble Benjamin Hubbard
Timothy Nolen Oscar Hubbard
Marietta Simpson Addie
Sheryl Woods Birdie Hubbard
Mark Ledbetter Leo Hubbard

Elmore James

 Cal
Eugene Galvin William Marshall
Sallie Irving Belle
Sydney O. Garth Servant
Ensemble : Sandy Bainum, Dorian Balis, Michael Bunce, Josué Boustos, Elaine Dalbo, Erin Driscoll, Mary Gressock, David Kozisek, Matthew Lepold, Edrie Means, Eleni Peyser, Jacqueline Quirk, Thomas Adrian Simpson, Stephen Gregory Smith, Harlie Sponaugle, Jennifer Suess and William Weiss.

Regina is set in spring 1900 at the Giddens home in Bowden, Alabama.

REVIEWS :

The voices are unassailable and some of the acting quite polished, especially by Shuler Hensley as the sickly husband Regina uses and discards. (Peter Marks, Washington Post)

LINKS :

Kennedy Center
Playbill announcement - Tony Winner Hensley to Star Opposite LuPone in Kennedy Center Regina
Patti LuPone.net

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