Cast Set for Moonlight and Magnolias at Manhattan Theatre Club
Arkin appeared on Broadway in The Sunshine Boys. His off-Broadway credits include The King of Carpets, You Should Be So Lucky, Dinner with Friends and Rounding Third.
Rasche is currently appearing in Five By Tenn at MTC and was featured in the company's production of Last Dance. On Broadway he appeared in The Shadow Box, Loose Ends, Lunch Hour, Getting and Spending and Speed-the-Plow. In addition to Five By Tenn and Last Dance, his off-Broadway credits include Geniuses, No One Will Be Immune and Edmund.
Sills received a Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for his performance in The Scarlet Pimpernel. He also appeared on the Great White Way in Little Shop of Horrors. His other credits include A Little Night Music, the Encores! mounting of Carnival!, Much Ado About Nothing and the Reprise! staging of Mack and Mabel. He was set to appear in the upcoming Broadway musical Spamalot but withdrew from the production during rehearsals.
Skinner's Gotham stage credits include Spare Parts, Mrs. Warren's Profession, The Perfect Party, The Dining Room, Blue Window and Power Plays. Her other theatrical credits include Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Titanic.
In Moonlight and Magnolias, the year is 1939 and David O. Selznick Sills is making the mother of all movies, Gone with the Wind. The cast is in place and cameras are rolling. There's just one problem--Selznick doesn't have a script yet. So he locks himself, director Victor Fleming Rasche and script doctor Ben Hecht Arkin in a room with little more than peanuts, bananas and a typewriter, and they proceed to re-enact the saga of Scarlett and Rhett. Skinner will play Miss Poppenghul, a secretary.
Moonlight and Magnolias, directed by Lynne Meadow, is scheduled to begin previews on March 3 in preparation for a March 29 opening at City Center Stage I.