FULL CAST AND CREATIVE TEAM FOR WORLD PREMIERE
GUTHRIE COMMISSION OF KUSHNER’S
THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL’S
GUIDE TO
CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM
WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
Gala performance May
15; Press opening May 22
Playing through June 28,
2009
(Minneapolis/St. Paul) Guthrie Director Joe Dowling today announced
the complete cast and creative team for the theater’s world premiere commission
of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to
the Scriptures by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner, under the
direction of Tony- and Drama Desk-nominated Michael Greif (Broadway: Next to
Normal, Rent, Grey Gardens). Performances begin May 15, with an official press
opening on May 22, and continue through June 28 on the McGuire Proscenium Stage.
Single tickets are priced from $24 to $60. Tickets are now on sale through the
Guthrie Box Office at 612.377.2224, toll-free 877.44.STAGE, 612.225.6244 (Group
Sales) and online at www.CelebrateKushner.com.
The title of Tony
Kushner’s new play is inspired by two 19th-century thinkers and their works --
George Bernard Shaw’s The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. The play
looks at the life of a 20th-century thinker, retired longshoreman Gus
Marcantonio (filmmaker, actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Michael
Cristofer), who’s feeling confused and defeated by the 21st century. In summer
2007, he invites his sister and his three children (who in turn bring along
spouses, ex-spouses, lovers and more) to a most unusual family reunion in their
Brooklyn brownstone.
With humor and passion, the play examines the
importance of connectedness and belonging – to a family, a community, a group,
an ideology, a marriage – and what happens when those connections are
lost.
As previously announced, the Guthrie commission will feature
original Angels in America cast members Kathleen Chalfant as Gus’ sister Bennie
and Stephen Spinella as his son Pill, alongside Homebody/Kabul original cast
member Linda Emond as his daughter Empty, and Guthrie regular Ron Menzel as his
son Vito. Broadway veteran Michael Potts (Broadway: Grey Gardens, Lennon) will
portrays Pill’s husband Paul Pierce, with Michael Esper (Broadway: A Man for All
Seasons) playing Pill’s lover Eli Wolcott. In addition, Guthrie regulars Mark
Benninghofen (Empty’s ex-husband Adam Butler), Charity Jones (Empty’s lover
Maeve) and Sun Mee Chomet (Vito’s wife Sooze) and Michelle O’Neill also join the
cast of the new work.
Joining Greif, the artistic staff for the Guthrie
commission also includes Mark Wendland (Set Designer), Clint Ramos (Costume
Designer), Kevin Adams (Lighting Designer), Ken Travis (Sound Designer), Michael
Friedman (Music), Jo Holcomb (Dramaturgy), Elisa Carlson (Voice and Dialect
Coach), Martha Kulig (Stage Manager), Chris A. Code (Assistant Stage Manager),
Justin Hossle (Assistant Stage Manager) and David Alpert (Assistant
Director).
The Kushner Celebration is made possible
through the generosity of David and Shari Boehnen, The Bush Foundation, The
Curtis L. Carlson Family Foundation, John & Sage Cowles, David & Vicky
Cox, Fran & Barb Davis, Susan Engel & Arthur Eisenberg, William and
Penny George and The George Family Foundation, Polly Grose, Kathy and Allen
Lenzmeier, Mendon F. Schutt Family Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, the
Minnesota State Arts Board, Wendy Nelson, Louise Otten, the Ruth Easton Fund,
The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, Frances and Frank Wilkinson,
and David A. Wilson and Michael J. Peterman.
THE INTELLIGENT HOMOSEXUAL’S
GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES
BY TONY
KUSHNER
DIRECTED BY MICHAEL GREIF
Gala performance: May 15, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Press opening: May 22, 2009 7:30 p.m.
Closing: June 28,
2009 1 p.m.
Location: Guthrie Theater
818 South 2nd
Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415
TICKETS: Single tickets priced at $24 -
$60
Tickets may be purchased online at www. |
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