Erika Henningsen, Jeremy Kushnier & More Complete the Cast of New Broadway Musical Flying Over Sunset

Stage favorites Erika Henningsen and Jeremy Kushnier are among the full cast of the upcoming world premiere musical Flying Over Sunset. The previously announced Broadway production will begin previews on March 12 and open on April 16 at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater.

Henningsen, current star of Mean Girls, made her Broadway debut in Les Misérables, which followed stage turns in Diner, Dear World and Show Boat. Before exiting Mean Girls on February 22, she will film a farewell episode of her Broadway.com vlog "Too Grool for School."

Kushnier is a Broadway veteran most recently seen in Head Over Heels. His credits also include main-stem turns in Cirque du Soleil Paramour, Jesus Christ Superstar, Jersey Boys, Footloose and Rent. He has appeared on tour in Next to Normal and Aida and off-Broadway in Bulldozer, Shear Madness and Atomic.

Also new to the Flying Over Sunset cast are Emily Pynenburg (Cats), Michele Ragusa (Young Frankenstein), Robert Sella (Sylvia), Laura Shoop (Fiddler on the Roof) and Atticus Ware (Gypsy).

They join the previously announced Carmen Cusack, Tony Yazbeck and Harry Hadden-Paton.

Written and directed by James Lapine, with music by Tom Kitt and lyrics by Michael Korie, Flying Over Sunset is a work of fiction inspired by the lives of three real-life people—playwright, diplomat and congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (Cusack), film legend Cary Grant (Yazbeck) and writer Aldous Huxley (Hadden-Paton)—each of whom in experimented with the drug LSD. At a crossroads in their lives the three come together, and under the influence of the drug, take a trip and confront the mysteries of their lives and their world.

Flying Over Sunset will feature music direction by Kimberly Grigsby and choreography by Michelle Dorrance, with scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by Bradley King, sound design by Dan Moses Schreier, projection design by 59 Productions and orchestrations by Michael Starobin.

The production is scheduled to play a limited engagement through June 28.