{"id":170982,"date":"2026-03-21T22:27:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:27:25","slug":"read-the-reviews-for-york-theatres-monte-cristo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/170982\/","title":{"rendered":"Read the Reviews For York Theatre’s Monte Cristo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monte Cristo<\/a>\u00a0officially opened Off-Broadway March 19, and the reviews are rolling in!<\/p>\n

The world premiere musical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ beloved novel The Count of Monte Cristo\u00a0plays the\u00a0Theatre at St. Jean’s via York Theatre. The production is scheduled to\u00a0run through April 5, with\u00a0Peter Flynn is at the helm.<\/p>\n

With a book and lyrics by two-time Tony nominee Peter Kellogg (Anna Karenina, Desperate Measures) and music by two-time Richard Rodgers Award winner Stephen Weiner, Monte Cristo centers on a wrongfully imprisoned man, who returns richer, wiser, and bent on vengeance. But as his carefully orchestrated plan unfolds, he must face the ultimate question: Is justice enough without love?<\/p>\n

The production stars Drama Desk nominee Sierra Boggess (The Phantom of the Opera, Harmony) as Mercedes, Adam Jacobs (Aladdin, Les Mis\u00e9rables) as Edmund, James Judy (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel) as Danglars, Tony nominee Norm Lewis (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Chicken & Biscuits) as Villefort, Stephanie Jae Park (War Paint, Hamilton) as Haydee, Danny Rutigliano as Caderrousse\/Abbe, Drama Desk winner Eliseo Roman (In the Heights, On Your Feet!) as Morrell, Daniel Yearwood (Stephen Sondheim\u2019s Old Friends, Sweeney Todd) as Fernand, Tony winner Karen Ziemba (Contact, Steel Pier) as Carconte\/Lucrezia Borgia, Kate Fitzgerald as Eug\u00e9nie, and Jadon Lopez as Albert. The company is rounded out by understudies Madison Claire Parks (Wicked) and Travis Keith Battle.<\/p>\n

Read the reviews below.
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CitiTour (Brian Scott Lipton)<\/a><\/p>\n

Culture Sauce (Thom Geier)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.<\/p>\n

The Off-Broadway musical features music direction and orchestrations by David Hancock Turner, choreography by Marcos Santana, \u200bscenic design by Anne Mundell, costume design by Siena Zo\u00eb Allen and Amanda Roberge, sound design by Joanna Lynne Staub, and lighting design by Alan E. Edwards. Casting is by Andrea Zee of Zee-Casting.<\/p>\n

Developed in The York\u2019s New2NY series, this production reunites the writer of Desperate Measures and the Penelope team.<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>for ticket information.<\/p>\n

See photos from the production’s March 19 opening night in the gallery below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monte Cristo\u00a0officially opened Off-Broadway March 19, and the reviews are rolling in! The world premiere musical adaptation of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-170982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}