Emily Padgett & More Set for Broadway-Bound New Musical Waterfall

Broadway alums Emily Padgett (Side Show), Thom Sesma (The Times They are A-Changin’) and J. Elaine Marcos (Annie) will join the previously reported Bie Sukrit in the world premiere of Waterfall. The Broadway-bound musical will run at the Pasadena Playhouse May 29 through June 28, followed by an engagement at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre October 1 through October 25.

Based on the Thai novel Behind the Painting by Sriburapha, Waterfall follows a young Thai student who falls in love with the American wife of a Thai diplomat. The story of their forbidden love parallels history as the new democracy of Siam moves into the vortex of the increasingly anti-American Japan.

Directed by Tak Viravan and choreographed by Dan Knechtges, Waterfall features a book and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and music by David Shire.