Lone Star Love, Starring Randy Quaid, Cancels Broadway Run

Lone Star Love, which is currently playing an engagement at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, has canceled its Broadway run. The musical, starring Randy Quaid, had been announced to open at the Belasco Theatre on December 3. Lone Star Love will continue performances at The 5th Avenue Theatre through September 30 as scheduled, for a total of 11 previews and 15 regular performances, directed and choreographed by Randy Skinner.

No reason was offered for the cancellation of the Broadway production, but recent news reports portrayed Quaid's wife and manager, Evie, as being at odds with the show's producers, which include Avenue A Productions, Roger Berlind, Robert Boyett Theatricals, Edmund and Eleanor Burke, Rusty and Susan Carter, Daisy Theatricals and Michael Speyer/Bernard Abrams.

Inspired by Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Lone Star Love transplants the story to the Wild West shortly after the Civil War. The musical is conceived by John L. Haber, with a book by Robert Horn and Haber and a score by Red Clay Rambler Jack Herrick. An earlier version of the show opened at off-Broadway's John Houseman Theatre in December 2004 and was recorded by PS Classics.

In addition to Quaid, cast as Colonel John Falstaff, the show stars Robert Cuccioli as Frank Ford and Dee Hoty as Margaret Anne Page, with Lauren Kennedy as Agnes Ford, Clarke Thorell as Fenton, Ramona Keller as Miss Quickly, Drew McVety as Doctor Caius, Dan Sharkey as George Page, Kara Lindsay as Anne Page, Nick Sullivan as Sheriff Bob Shallow and Brandon Williams as Abraham Slender. The ensemble includes Stacey Harris, Amanda Lea LaVergne, Ryan Murray, Monica Patton, Miguel A. Romero, Chad Seib, Jeremy Benton, Anne Horak and Tony Lawson.

Lone Star Love's creative team includes Derek McLane sets, Jane Greenwood costumes, Ken Billington, Paul Miller lighting and Tom Morse sound.