Steven Pasquale Will Return to the New York Stage in Musical Comedy The Robber Bridegroom Off-Broadway

Steven Pasquale is coming back to the New York stage in a musical comedy and we are doing our happy dance! The Broadway fave is set to headline Alfred Uhry and Robert Waldman‘s The Robber Bridegroom as part of Roundabout’s 50th anniversary season. Directed by Alex Timbers, the limited engagement will play February 18, 2016 through May 29. Opening night is scheduled for March 13 at off-Broadway’s Laura Pels Theatre in the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.

Pasquale most recently starred on Broadway in The Bridges of Madison County, giving a performance which has never faded away in our minds. Additional stage credits include The Wild Party at Encores!, Carousel, Far From Heaven, The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, A Soldier’s Play, A Man of No Importance, Beautiful Child, Spinning Into Butter, The Spitfire Grill, The Grapes of Wrath and Miss Saigon. On screen, Pasquale has been seen in Rescue Me, Do No Harm, Up All Night, Over/Under, Coma, Six Feet Under, Platinum, The Good Wife and Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. As previously reported, he will appear in Ryan Murphy’s hotly-anticipated American Crime Story next year.

Based on the short story by Eudora Welty, The Robber Bridegroom transports the audience to the Natchez Trace in Mississippi, a dangerous and mysterious corner of the country teeming with a rogue’s gallery of the most beguiling con men, hucksters, and charlatans you’ll ever meet. Chief among them, Jamie Lockhart (Pasquale)—fair‐faced gentleman by day, hard‐hearted bandit of the woods by night. When he falls for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy planter, his world and code of ethics are turned upside down.

The Robber Bridegroom marks the 40th anniversary of the original, which opened on Broadway in 1975 starring Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone. The show’s bluegrass score has since been performed across the country, with the song “Sleepy Man” joining the canon of American standards.

The production will feature choreography by Connor Gallagher, sets by Donyale Werle, costumes by Emily Rebholz, lights by Howell Binkley and sound by Darron L. West.