Tom Wopat and Will Chase Join Laura Osnes in Pipe Dream at Encores!
Tony nominee Tom Wopat and Will Chase have joined the Encores! cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's
Wopat will play Mac, with Chase taking on the role of Doc. The cast will also feature James Clow as Ray, James Moye as Jim, Steve Routman as George and Stephen Wallem as Hanzel.
Based on John Steinbeck’s novel Sweet Thursday, Pipe Dream centers on outcasts in the Cannery Row bordellos and flophouses yearning for a better life. The show tells the story of the romance between Doc (Chase), a marine biologist, and Suzy (Osnes), a young woman who hitchhikes into town. Pipe Dream opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 30, 1955, and ran for 246 performances. The musical was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
Pipe Dream has been virtually absent from the American stage for more than two decades because of a technicality involving the underlying rights. The Encores! presentation will feature Robert Russell Bennett's newly restored orchestrations of R&H rarities including “All at Once You Love Her,” “The Next Time It Happens” and “Everybody’s Got a Home but Me.”
Wopat recieved Tony Award nominations for Annie Get Your Gun and A Catered Affair. He has also appeared on Broadway in Catch Me If You Can, Chicago, 42nd Street, Sondheim on Sondheim, Guys and Dolls, City of Angels and I Love My Wife.
Chase’s Broadway credits include Billy Elliot, Miss Saigon, The Full Monty, High Fidelity, The Story of My Life, Aida and Lennon. He will also have an upcoming reoccurring arc on TV’s Smash.
Clow has appeared on Broadway in Assassins, Blood Brothers, Company and She Loves Me. Moy’s Broadway credits include A Tale of Two Cities, The Full Monty and Urinetown. Routman has appeared on Broadway in La Bete and off-Broadway in The Shaggs and The Fantasticks.
