Go Girl Crazy at Encores!

George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy opens Encores! 2009-2010 season at New York City Center. Jerry Zaks directs a cast that includes Ana Gasteyer, Melinda Hull, Wayne Knight, Marc Kudisch, Chris Diamantopoulos and Becki Newton.

The fanciful Depression-era musical, which features a book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, is the tale of a sophisticated New Yorker marooned in a dusty Western cow town with no one who understands him but the Yiddish-speaking cabbie who brought him there and no one to love but the only woman within 50 miles. The score includes such beloved songs as “I Got Rhythm,” “Embraceable You,” “But Not for Me” and “Bidin’ My Time.” Girl Crazy opened at the Alvin Theatre on October 14, 1930, and ran for 272 performances. 

The cast will also feature Jeremy Beck, Richard Poe, Daniel Stewart Sherman and Gregory Wooddell.