Powers recently played oldest sister Meg in Little Women on Broadway. She garnered a Broadway.com Audience Award nomination for Favorite Breakthrough Performance Female. Her other theatrical credits include Stephen Sondheim's Bounce at the Goodman Theatre and the Kennedy Center, A Little Night Music at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Everything's Ducky at Northlight Theatre and 1776 at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
McGinnis played Beth in Little Women. She also appeared on the Great White Way in Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Parade and Diary of Anne Frank. Her credits also include national tours of James Joyce's The Dead and The Sound of Music. She appeared at Vassar last summer in the pre-Broadway mounting of Good Vibrations.
Set in 16th century Venice, Dangerous Beauty centers on a woman who follows the only available path to education and power: taking on the life of a courtesan. The tuner features music by Michele Brourman, lyrics by Amanda McBroom and a book by Jeannine Dominy. Dangerous Beauty was also a film, starring Catherine McCormack, which had a screenplay by Dominy, based on Margaret Rosenthal's book The Honest Courtesan.