Jerry Springer - The Opera
Music and Lyrics by Richard Thomas
Book and additional lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas
Choreography by Chris Bailey
Directed by John Rando
March 31, 2018
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Overview
Jerry! Jerry! Jerry! It’s “The Jerry Springer Show” as you’ve never seen it before, with passionate arias, soaring ballads, and giant production numbers. While the studio audience cheers, a parade of bickering guests fight and curse, until violence breaks out and Jerry must face his trickiest guest ever, the devil himself. Deeply in tune with the chaos and unrestrained id of our times, Jerry Springer – The Opera, a gleefully profane musical by Richard Thomas (Music, Book, Lyrics) and Stewart Lee (Book, Additional Lyrics) is an outrageous celebration of our national ritual of public humiliation and redemption. Jerry Springer – The Opera, winner of numerous awards including an Olivier Award for best new musical, will have its Off-Broadway premiere in this production from The New Group, choreographed by Chris Bailey and directed by John Rando.
Cast
Jennifer Allen
PerformerFlorrie Bagel
PerformerBrandon Contreras
PerformerSean Patrick Doyle
PerformerBrad Greer
PerformerLuke Grooms
PerformerNathaniel Hackmann
PerformerBilly Hepfinger
PerformerJustin Keyes
PerformerBeth Kirkpatrick
PerformerElizabeth Loyacano
PerformerTerrence Mann
PerformerTiffany Mann
PerformerJill Paice
PerformerKim Steele
PerformerWill Swenson
PerformerNichole Turner
PerformerMatt McGrath
PerformerCreative Team
Richard Thomas
Music and LyricsStewart Lee
Book and Additional LyricsChris Bailey
ChoreographerJohn Rando
DirectorDerek 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.
Sarah Laux
Costume DesignJeff Croiter
Lighting DesignThe New Group: more than 15 shows including: 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: 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.
Joshua D. Reid
Sound DesignGreg Anthony Rassen
OrchestrationsJacob Girgolia Rosenbaum
Fight DirectionDavid Bova
Hair, Wig, and Make up DesignJ. Jared Janas
Wig and Makeup DesignBroadway: Purlie Victorious, Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd, Ohio State Murders, & Juliet, Kimberly Akimbo, Topdog/Underdog, How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Jagged Little Pill, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, All about Me. Recent Off Broadway: Between the Lines, Prayer for the French Republic. Recent TV: “And Just Like That;” “The Gilded Age.”
Olivia Sebesky
Projection DesignMichael Brennan
Music Direction / CoordinatorGroup Sales
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