Complete Casting and Creative Team Announced for LoveMusik

The full cast and creative team have been announced by Manhattan Theatre Club for the world premiere of LoveMusik, a new musical featuring the songs of Kurt Weill starring Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris as Weill and Donna Murphy as Lotte Lenya. The show begins previews at the Biltmore Theatre on April 12 and will open on May 3, directed by 21-time Tony Award winner Harold Prince The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd.

Joining Cerveris, Murphy and the previously announced David Pittu Bertolt Brecht and John Scherer George Davis are Judith Blazer, Edwin Cahill, Herndon Lackey, Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison, Graham Rowat, Rachel Ulanet and Jessica Wright.

LoveMusik follows 25 years in the lives of the unlikeliest of lovers: the brilliant, intellectual German composer Kurt Weill and the woman who became his muse and star, Lotte Lenya. The show is described as an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood. Suggested by Weill and Lenya's letters, LoveMusik features a book by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy, Parade and a full range of Weill songs, with lyrics by Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash and Elmer Rice. Musical staging will be by Patricia Birch A Little Night Music.

LoveMusik is produced by Manhattan Theatre Club by special arrangement with Marty Bell, Aldo Scrofani, Boyett Ostar Productions, Tracy Aron, Roger Berlind/Debra Black, Chase Mishkin, and Ted Snowdon.

The LoveMusik design and production team includes Beowulf Boritt Scenic Design, Judith Dolan Costume Design, Howell Binkley Lighting Design, Duncan Edwards Sound Design, Paul Huntley Wig Design, Angelina Avallone Makeup Design, Mark Simon Casting, Jonathan Tunick Orchestrations, Kristen Blodgette Musical Supervisor, Seymour Red Press Music Coordinator, Milton Granger Additional Vocal Arrangements and Nicholas Archer Conductor.