Douglas Sills Will Join Tommy Tune, Colin Donnell & More for City Center's Lady, Be Good

Tony nominee Douglas Sills will appear in the City Center’s Encores! presentation of Lady, Be Good. Sills, who will take on the role of J. Watterson Watkins, joins a cast that includes the previously announced Tommy Tune, Colin Donnell, Danny Gardner, Erin Mackey, Patti Murin, Richard Poe and Jennifer Laura Thompson. The production, directed by Mark Brokaw, will run from February 4 through February 8.

Sills, a Tony nominee for The Scarlet Pimpernel, also appeared on Broadway in Little Shop of Horrors; his additional stage credits include The Addams Family on tour and Moonlight and Magnolias off-Broadway. In summer 2013, he starred in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of the Broadway-bound Living on Love.

Featuring music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin and a book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, Lady, Be Good follows a penniless brother (Gardner) and sister (Murin) who crash a garden party in hopes of some quick nourishment. The two resolve to marry for money, but love gets in the way. Before true love wins out, they encounter Mexican gangsters, crooked lawyers, wealthy socialites and a song-and-dance man with fascinating rhythm (Tune). The original production opened at the Liberty Theater on December 1, 1924 and ran for 330 performances.