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Monday, April 17, 2023

MEET THE CAST OF "THE PROM"

 

 

TV and Broadway's VICKI LEWIS & JOHN SCHERER

Lead Cast of THE PROM

 




The Broadway musical comedy THE PROM makes its New Jersey professional debut at the Axelrod Performing Arts Center in a new production directed by TODD BUONOPANE (Broadway’s Spelling Bee and Grease) and choreographed by BROOKE ENGEN (Hairspray, the film with John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer) with musical direction by MICHAEL GILCH.

 

THE PROM stars Broadway and television’s VICKI LEWIS (NBC’s Newsradio and Three Sisters; Broadway’s Chicago, Damn Yankees and Anastasia) as Broadway diva Dee Dee Allen opposite Broadway veteran JOHN SCHERER (Broadway’s By Jeeves and Sunset Boulevard) as her sidekick Barry Glickman.

 

Vicki Lewis

John Scherer

 

New York theater favorite EMILY McNAMARA (HBO’s Vinyl) as Angie Dickison and MATT HILL as Trent Oliver complete the Broadway quartet that invades an Indiana high school where teenager Emma Nolan (played by LILLIAN BELLE DOLL) is forbidden from bringing her girlfriend Allysa Green (EMILY PELLECHIA) to the school dance. Quite the scandal in IN in 2020!!

 

Emily McNamara

Matt Hill

 

Our Axelrod cast also includes KYLE JAVON BLOCKER, CHRISTINA CLAIRE, CHRISTIE DABREAU, MARKOS EUGENIS, DANNY FELDMAN, JOSHUA KRING, SEALTH GROVER, JULLIAN ANN LEE, AMANDA LEIGH LUPACCHINO, LAURA RENEE MEHL, LAUREN RATHBUN, QUINCY SOUTHERLAND, ALEXANDRA TARSINOV, GRACE WOLF, NIKKI YARNELL, and HUNTER YOCOM.

 

With an energetic and hilarious score by Matthew Sklar and Chad Beguelin, THE PROM won the Drama Desk Award for Best Musical and was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. Don't miss the NJ premiere of this darling of a musical that seeks to change the world one dance at a time!