Jenn Colella Tapped for Title Role in Beebo Brinker Chronicles

Jenn Colella will play the title role in the new off-Broadway production of Beebo Brinker Chronicles, which begins a 10-week limited engagement on February 19 at 37 Arts. A stage adaptation of Ann Bannon's award-winning pulp novels of the 1950s and 1960s, the show is written by Kate Moira Ryan 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother and Linda S. Chapman Gertrude and Alice: A Likeness to Loving and directed by Leigh Silverman Yellow Face, Hunting and Gathering, Well. Opening night is slated for March 5.

Colella had leading roles in the Broadway productions of High Fidelity and Urban Cowboy and the off-Broadway production of Slut. She will be joined in Beebo Brinker Chronicles by David Greenspan Some Men, Faust, Carolyn Baeumler Trouble In Paradise, Bill Dawes Gross Indecency, Burning Blue, Autumn Dornfeld The Graduate and Marin Ireland Cyclone.

Fueled by booze and furtive sex, Beebo Brinker Chronicles follows the lives and loves of four friends in pre-Stonewall Greenwich Village. Beth and Laura, secret lovers in college, still pine for each other. Before they can reunite, they find themselves entangled in a web spun by Beebo Brinker, a butch denizen of the underground bar scene, and Jack, a flamboyant fop with caustic wit.

Beebo Brinker Chronicles is being produced by Harriet Newman Leve, Elyse Singer and Jamie deRoy. The design team includes Theresa Squire costumes, Rachel Hauck set, Nicole Pearce lights and Jill BC DuBoff sound. The original production was produced by Hourglass Group at The Fourth Street Theatre.