Steven Pasquale, Brandon Victor Dixon, Miriam Shor & More Join Sutton Foster for Encores! Off-Center's The Wild Party

We're fully confident this cast knows how to raise the roof. Steven Pasquale, Brandon Victor Dixon, Miriam Shor, John Ellison Conlee and more will join the previously announced Sutton Foster in Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party at New York City Center. Performances will run from July 15 through 18 as part of the Encores! Off-Center series.

Pasquale will take on the role of Burrs, a part that he understudied in his New York stage debut in the original MTC production of the musical. Since then, he has appeared on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County and Reasons to be Pretty; he recently starred in Chicago Lyric Opera’s Carousel.

Dixon replaces the previously announced Joshua Henry as Mr. Black. His Broadway credits include Motown and a Tony-nominated performance in The Color Purple. Shor will play Madelaine True; she originated the role of Yitzhak off-Broadway in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and recently wore multitudes of statement jewelry in the TV Land series Younger opposite Foster. Conlee, who is set to play Eddie, earned a Tony nomination for The Full Monty. His additional credits include The Constant Wife, 1776, Murder Ballad and The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence.

Additionally, Broadway alum Ciara Renée will take on the role of Kate, having previously appeared on in Pippin and Big Fish on the Great White Way and in The Hunchback of Notre Dame at Paper Mill Playhouse. Kimiko Glenn, who has appeared in Spring Awakening on tour and in Orange is the New Black, will play Mae.

The musical is adapted from the Jazz Age narrative poem by Joseph Moncure March and is the story of one tragic, decadent night in a Manhattan apartment shared by Queenie (Foster) and her menacing lover, and the handsome stranger (Dixon) who wants to lure her away. It opened at Manhattan Theatre Club on February 24, 2000 and played 54 performances. This production will be directed by Leigh Silvermand and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh.

Rounding out the cast are Penelope Armstead-Williams, James Brown III, Rachel DeBenedet, Raymond J. Lee, Kenita Miller, Talene Monahon, Sydney Morton, Clifton Oliver, Charlie Pollock, Britton Smith, Ryan Steele, and Samantha Sturm.