Complete Casting Announced for Off-B'way Prime of Miss Jean Brodie with Nixon

Complete casting has been announced for the New Group production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring recent Tony winner Cynthia Nixon in the title role. The mounting will feature Emily Bicks as Girl, Ritchie Coster as Teddy Lloyd, Lisa Emery as Miss Mackay, Betsy Hogg as Mary MacGregor, Zoe Kazan as Sandy, Caroline Lagerfelt as Sister Helena, John Pankow as Gordon Lowther, Caity Quinn as another Girl, Matthew Rauch as Mr. Perry, Sarah Steele as Monica and Halley Wegryn Gross as Jenny.

Bicks is a noted ballerina. Coster appeared off-Broadway earlier this year in Beauty of the Father. Emery received acclaimed for her performance last season in the New Group staging of Abigail's Party. Hogg has appeared on the Great White Way in The Crucible and Fiddler on the Roof. Kazan will be seen in the upcoming movie Fracture starring Anthony Hopkins. Lagerfelt's Broadway credits include Four on a Garden, The Philanthropist, The Constant Wife, Otherwise Engaged, The Real Thing, Lend Me a Tenor and A Small Family Business. Best known for his performance as Ira Buchman on the long-running television series Mad About You, Pankow has appeared on the Great White Way in Amadeus, The Iceman Cometh, Serious Money and Twelve Angry Men. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie will mark Quinn's off-Broadway debut. Rauch served as an understudy for the New Group mounting of Hurlyburly. Steele is best known for her performance in the film Spanglish, in which she played Bernice, daughter of Adam Sandler and Téa Leoni's characters. Wegryn Gross was one of the stars of the New Group's mounting of Hurlyburly.

Set in Edinburgh in the 1930s, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie centers on the title character, a teacher who has progressive and radical ways. She decides to transform a group of young girls into the crème de la crème of Marcia Blaine school, but expects undivided loyalty from these girls referred to as "the Brodie Set" in return. As news of Brodie's illicit personal life and Fascist stands surface, the relationship between her and these impressionable youths turns dangerous. Muriel Spark wrote the popular novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which Jay Presson Allen turned into a play.

Performances of the revival, directed by New Group Artistic Director Scott Elliott, are expected to begin off-Broadway at Theatre Row in late September.