
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Book by Jonathan Marc Sherman
Music by Duncan Sheik
Lyrics by Duncan Sheik and Amanda Green
Musical Staging by Kelly Devine
Directed by Scott Elliott
January 16, 2020
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Overview
A bittersweet comic take on the sexual revolution in which the suavely conventional lives of two successful young couples, all friends, are both stirred and shaken when they open their minds to the changing attitudes around them. Jonathan Marc Sherman (Book), Duncan Sheik (Music, Lyrics) and Amanda Green (Lyrics) evoke both the confusions of the time, and the hard timeless lessons of marriage and emotional commitment, inspired by the brilliant and irreverent Oscar-nominated film. Scott Elliott directs this world premiere musical of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice featuring musical staging by Kelly Devine.
Based on the Columbia Pictures motion picture directed by Paul Mazursky and written by Mazursky and Larry Tucker.
This production contains the use of herbal cigarettes, incense and haze. Please note that there is no late seating for this production and no re-entry if you exit during the performance.
Cast

Jennifer Damiano
CastJenn was nominated for a Tony Award at age seventeen for her work in the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, Next to Normal (dir. Michael Greif). Two years prior, she was the youngest member of the original cast of Duncan Sheik’s groundbreaking, Tony winning musical, Spring Awakening, directed by Michael Mayer. When she was nineteen, Jenn originated the role of Mary-Jane Watson in Bono and The Edge’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (dir. Julie Taymor), and later went on to star in the Broadway adaptation of the cult classic, American Psycho (dir. Rupert Goold). She was mostly recently seen in The New Group’s Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (dir. Scott Elliott).

Jamie Mohamdein
Performer
Ana Nogueira
Performer
Joel Perez
Performer
Suzanne Vega
Performer
Michael Zegen
CastMichael Zegen currently stars as Joel Maisel on the critically acclaimed Amazon series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” created by Amy Sherman-Palladino. Previous TV: “Boardwalk Empire” (Benny “Bugsy” Siegel), “The Walking Dead,” “Girls,” “How to Make it in America,” “Happyish” and all seven seasons of FX’s “Rescue Me.” Film: Frances Ha, Brooklyn, The Seagull, Adventureland, Taking Woodstock and the upcoming The Stand-In, opposite Drew Barrymore. On stage, Michael starred as Marco in the Tony Award-winning revival of A View From the Bridge (dir. Ivo Van Hove), and he originated the roles of Ted in The New Group’s production of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Jesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils (dir. Scott Elliott) and Liam Haber in Joshua Harmon’s Bad Jews (dir. Daniel Aukin) for Roundabout Theater Co. Michael was raised by parents who love musicals, so this is for them.
Creative Team
Jonathan Marc Sherman
BookDuncan Sheik
Music & LyricsAmanda Green
LyricsDerek McLane
Scenic DesignBROADWAY: MJ the Musical, Moulin Rouge!, Purlie Victorious, A Soldier’s Play, American Son, The Parisian Woman, The Price, Noises Off, Fully Committed, Beautiful, Gigi, Anything Goes, The Heiress, The Best Man, Follies, How to Succeed In Business Without Even Trying, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Million Dollar Quartet, Ragtime, 33 Variations The Pajama Game, I Am My Own Wife. OFF-BROADWAY: Here There Are Blueberries, Black No More, Merrily We Roll Along, The True, Jerry Spring the Opera, If I Forget, The Whirligig, Into The Woods, Love, Love, Love, Sweet Charity, Evening at the Talk House, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Buried Child, The Spoils, Sticks and Bones, The Last Five Years, A Lie of the Mind, Ruined, Hurlyburly. TELEVISION: He designed the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Academy Awards, 2024 SAG Awards, 2024 Met Gala as well as the NBC LIVE! Musicals The Wiz & Hairspray and others. AWARDS: Winner of 1997 + 2004 OBIE Awards, 2004, 2005, 2007 Lortel Awards; 2009 + 2021 Tony Award, 2011+ 2021 Drama Desk Award, 2015, 2016 Art Directors Guild Award, 2014 + 2017 Emmy Award.
Jeff Mahshie
Costume DesignBroadway: Left on Tenth, Kiss Me, Kate, She Loves Me (Tony and Drama Desk nominations, Outer Critics Circle Award), The Terms of My Surrender, Next to Normal, The Little Dog Laughed. Off-Broadway: Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Good for Otto, Evening at the Talk House, The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durnin, Laughing Wild, Marie and Bruce, Giant, The Kid, The Corn is Green, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Becky Shaw, The Little Dog Laughed, The Scene, Show People, Privilege, Hurlyburly (Drama Desk nomination).
Jeff Croiter
Lighting DesignThe New Group: more than 15 shows including: The Seven Year Disappear, Sabbath’s Theater, Black No More, Jerry Springer: The Opera, Sweet Charity. Broadway: Gutenberg The Musical, Cost of Living, Freestyle Love Supreme, Bandstand, Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten, Penn&Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Disaster, Jekyll and Hyde, Next Fall, among others. Off-Broadway includes: Night of the Iguana, The Fears, Only Gold, Hyprov, Beyond Babel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Tiny Beautiful Things. Received Tony, Hewes, Bass awards, and Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, NAACP, Ovation, IRNE, and AUDELCO nominations. Jeff is a producer of Light Humor and has been the designer for Jennifer Muller The Works for 25 years.
Jessica Paz
Sound DesignJessica Paz is a multi award winning Sound Designer. She has collaborated on the Broadway productions of Hadestown (TONY and Drama Desk Award, Best Sound Design of a Musical); POTUS; and A Beautiful Noise. Also as Associate Designer of Dear Evan Hansen, Bandstand, Disaster! The Musical, The Assembled Parties, and Fela! (TONY award, Best Sound Design of a Musical). Off-Broadway designs include Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theater); Twelfth Night, Othello, Miss you Like Hell, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As You Like It (The Public Theater); Ugly Lies The Bone (Roundabout); A Sucker Emcee and The Muscles in Our Toes (LAByrinth); The King’s Whore (Starcatcher Productions); Becoming Dr. Ruth (Westside Theater); Looking For The Pony (Vital Theater Co.); Women Beware Women (Red Bull Theater); Stretch–A Fantasia (New Georges).
Duncan Sheik
OrchestrationsJason Hart
Music supervision, vocal arrangements and additional orchestrationsAntoine SIlverman
Music coordinatorJill Mazursky
ConsultantValerie A. Peterson
Production Stage ManagerThis is Valerie’s 26th season with The New Group. Babe; The Seven Year Disappear; Sabbath’s Theater; The Seagull/Woodstock, NY; Black No More; The Fever; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; Happy Talk; The True; Peace for Mary Frances; Good for Otto; Downtown Race Riot; The Whirligig; Evening at the Talk House; Sweet Charity; Buried Child; Steve; Mercury Fur; The Spoils; Rasheeda Speaking; Sticks and Bones; Annapurna; Intimacy; Clive; The Jacksonian; Bunty Berman Presents…; A Lie of the Mind; The Kid; Things We Want; Rafta, Rafta…; Marie and Bruce; Abigail’s Party; Hurlyburly; Aunt Dan; and Lemon. Broadway: Barefoot in the Park and The Women.
Telsey + Company / Patrick Goodwin, CSA / Ally Kiley
CastingKelly Devine
Musical StagingKelly Devine is a prolific Olivier Award winning, Two-Time Tony Award-nominated director/choreographer known for both stage and screen. Director/Choreographer credits: International Glory Ride (London). Choreographer Credits: Diana (Broadway), Escape to Margaritaville, Come From Away, Doctor Zhivago, Rocky, Rock of Ages. TV/Film “Pretty Little Liars”(HBO), “Original Sin” (HBO), “Modern Love” (Amazon), “Katy Keene” (CW), “Wormwood” (Netflix), “Mozart in the Jungle” (Amazon), Diana (Netflix), Come From Away (EOne/Apple+), The Upside (starring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman), Detroit (Annapurna), Las Vegas Rock of Ages Live Immersive Experience (Bourbon Room). Additionally, Kelly’s work has been nominated for two Drama Desks, Chita Rivera and Astaire Awards.

Scott Elliott
DirectorScott Elliott is the founding artistic director of The New Group theater and New Group Off Stage, a multi-media division of the company. He most recently directed Jessica Goldberg’s Babe, featuring Arliss Howard, Gracie McGraw and Marisa Tomei. Other recent productions include the world premieres of The Seven Year Disappear by Jordan Seavey, The Seagull/Woodstock, NY by Thomas Bradshaw, and the musical Black No More by John Ridley and Tariq Trotter.
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