Cast Announced for Victorian Premiere of Dogfight

Cast Announced for Victorian Premiere of Dogfight

Doorstep Arts has announced the cast and creative team set to deliver the Victorian Premiere of the award-winning musical Dogfight, with music and lyrics by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul and a book by Peter Duchan, in May 2016.

The whole damn world might change tomorrow. So we go for broke today.

It’s November 21, 1963. On the eve of their deployment to a small but growing conflict in Southeast Asia, three young Marines set out for one final boy’s night of debauchery, partying and maybe a little trouble. But when Corporal Eddie Birdlace (Alex Woodward) meets Rose (Olivia Charalambous), an awkward and idealistic waitress he enlists to win a cruel bet with this fellow recruits, she rewrites the rules of the game and teaches him the power of compassion.

Based on the 1991 cult movie of the same name starring River Phoenix, Dogfightpremiered Off-Broadway in 2012 where it won the Lucille Lortel Outstanding Musical Award and was nominated for numerous Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards.

Praise for the 2012 premiere:

‘Easily the most delicate, surprising, musically satisfying score since Spring Awakening.’

Time Out New York

‘Tuneful...Mr Pasek and Mr Paul have written a winning low-key date song finding melodic grace in romantic awkwardness’ The New York Times

Doorstep Arts Artistic Director and Director of Dogfight, Darylin Ramondo is thrilled to introduce this critically acclaimed production to a Melbourne audience. “The cast includes some of the industry’s most exciting young performers and we can’t wait to present Dogfight to the Melbourne stage,”says Darylin.

Recent Doorstep Arts productions include Next to Normal(Geelong Performing Arts Centre & Sydney Premier season at Hayes Theatre Co), Australian premiere of Three Sides, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Songs for a New Worldand The Last Five Years. Dogfight is Doorstep Arts’ Melbourne debut.

THE CAST OF DOGFIGHT:

Alex Woodward playing Eddie BirdlaceO

livia Charalambous playing Rose Fenny

Zoy Frangos playing Boland

Jaclyn DeVincentis playing Marcy

Joel Granger playing Bernstein

Daniel Cosgrove playing Stevens

James Coley playing Fector

David Irvine playing Gibbs

Sally Bourne playing Mama

Tim Carney playing Lounge Singer

Hannah McInerney playing Ruth Two Bears

THE CREATIVES OF DOGFIGHT:

Producer: Angelique Helman

Director: Darylin Ramondo

Musical Director: Trevor Jones

Lighting Design: Martin Kinnane

Choreographer: Leanne Marsland

Sound: Marcello Lo Ricco, LSS Productions

Costume Design: Rhiannon Irving

Venue: Chapel Off Chapel, 12 Little Chapel St, Prahran VIC Dates: Thursday 5 May – Sunday 15 May

Time: 8pm Tue-Sat, 5pm Sun
Tickets: $44.90 - $49.90 plus credit card fees

Bookings: chapeloffchapel.com.au

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