Encores! Presents Fanny

Encores! presents Fanny at New York City Center. The romantic musical, which features a book by Joshua Loganand S.N. Behrman and a score by Harold Rome, will star Elena Shaddow in the title role.

Fanny is based on Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy Marius, Fanny and Cesar. Set in Marseille, it tells of a young girl’s passion for a young man so in love with the sea that he leaves her, little realizing that she is pregnant with his child. Her marriage of convenience to a wealthy older man desperate to have an heir is complicated by the sailor’s return years later.

Also featured in the cast are George Hearn, James Snyder, Rondi Reed, Fred Applegate, David Patrick Kelly, Michael McCormick and Ted Sutherland. Marc Bruni directs with choreography by Lorin Latarro.