Rehearsals are underway for Bull Durham, A New Musical, which is based on the 1988 film and will be staged at Reynolds Industries Theater at Duke University September 10–22 in Durham, North Carolina.
Marc Bruni directs with choreography by Joshua Bergasse and music supervision by Vadim Feichtner. Josh Kight is the music director.
Tony nominee Carmen Cusack (Bright Star, Flying Over Sunset) will star as Annie Savoy, joined by Nik Walker (Hamilton, Ain't Too Proud) as Crash Davis and John Behlmann (Shucked, Tootsie, Significant Other) as Ebby Calvin "Nuke" Laloosh.
They will be joined by Ashlyn Maddox as Millie, Brian Ray Norris as Skip, and Andrew Poston as Jimmy with Charles Holt, Melvin Grey, Jr., Greg Laux, Andrew Goins, Nicholas Kraft, Tre’ Booker, Blake Zelesnikar, Clifton Samuels, Brian Liebson, Matt Wiercinski, Jessi Little, Casey Wortham, Breia Joelle Kelley, Valentina Shelton, Ellie Barone, Sterling Nelson Jones, Chloe Calhoun, Daniel DiPinto, and Ira David Wood III.
Check out rehearsal photos below:
Ron Shelton, who wrote and directed the original film, adapted his screenplay for the musical, and Susan Werner composed the music and lyrics.
The Bull Durham
story weaves together baseball and romance as veteran catcher Crash
Davis is brought in to mentor rookie pitcher Ebby Calvin "Nuke" Laloosh,
while Annie Savoy, the team's muse, must choose between the two men.
Initially developed in 2014, this is a reworked
adaptation with eyes on New York following the southern tryout.
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