Shuler Hensley, Emily Padgett & More Will Join Sutton Foster for Sweet Charity Off-Broadway

Hey, big spenders: spend a little time with this cast. Tony winner Shuler Hensley, Emily Padgett, Asmeret Ghebremichael, Joel Perez and more will join the previously announced Sutton Foster in the New Group’s off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity. Performances will begin on November 2 at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center; opening night is set for November 20.

The production, staged in a three-quarter thrust, will be directed by Leigh Silverman. Joshua Bergasse will choreograph.

Hensley will take on the role of Oscar; he won a Tony in 2002 for Oklahoma! and has gone on to appear in Waiting for Godot/No Man’s Land, The Whale and Young Frankenstein. Padgett, who will play Helene, last appeared on Broadway in Bright Star; her additional credits include Side Show, Rock of Ages, Grease and Legally Blonde. Ghebremichael is set to play Nickie; she has appeared on stage previously in The Book of Mormon, Legally Blonde and Wicked. Perez can currently be seen on Broadway in Fun Home; he will take on the roles of Herman, Vittorio and Daddy Brubeck.

The company will also include Yesenia Ayala, Darius Barnes, James Brown III, Lori Ann Ferreri, Sasha Hutchings, Donald Jones Jr., Nikka Graff Lanzarone and Ryan Worsing.

Cy Coleman, Dorothy Fields and Neil Simon’s musical follows the romantic ups and downs of Charity, an ingenuous dance hall performer in Times Square. The tuner premiered on Broadway in 1966 and was last revived in New York in 2005.

Additional casting will be announced later. The production will feature sets by Derek McLane, costumes by Clint Ramos, lighting design by Jeff Croiter, sound design by Leon Rothenberg and orchestrations by Mary-Mitchell Campbell. The limited engagement is scheduled to run through December 11.