ON THE LEVEE Interview with Maria Couch and Shelley Thomas

NEXT UP: LINCOLN CENTER'S---ON THE LEVEE--SET TO START PREVIEWS JUNE 14th

ON THE LEVEE

A PLAY WITH MUSIC

The final production this season from LCT3, Lincoln Center Theater's initiative devoted to producing new work by artists and developing new audiences is, ON THE LEVEE.

**Set on a levee in Greenville, Mississippi, ON THE LEVEE, is a play with music that revisits the flood of 1927, the worst in U.S. history. At the heart of the story are two fathers (a white cotton farmer and an African-American bootblack) and their sons. Based on a true story, ON THE LEVEE reaffirms the enduring spirit of hope in a time of great poverty and devastation.**

• Play by

  Marcus Gardley

• Music and Lyrics by

  Todd Almond

• Conceived and Directed by

  Lear deBessonet

CAST: Chuck Cooper (The Life; Caroline, or Change; Finian's Rainbow), Amari Cheatom (The Book of Grace, Zooman and the Sign), Michael Sibbery (When the Rain Stops Falling, Spamalot), Seth Numrich (Iphegenia 2.0), Dion Graham (Not About Nightingales), Brian D. Coats (Two Gentlemen of Verona), Maria Couch (Phantom, Annie), Harriett D. Foy (The American Plan, Once On This Island), April Matthis (Snake Oil), Jacob Ming-Trent (Shrek), Stephen Plunkett (The Orphans' Home Cycle, Gone Missing) and Shelley Thomas (Brooklyn, Rent).

PREVIEWS BEGIN JUNE 14TH @ THE DUKE--ON 42ND Street
FINAL PERFORMANCE JULY 10TH

FOR TICKETS AND MORE DETAIL VISIT:

http://www.lct.org/showMain.htm?id=194