{"id":195427,"date":"2026-04-13T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195427\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:22:18","slug":"bebe-neuwirth-joins-industry-readings-of-cole-porters-the-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195427\/","title":{"rendered":"Bebe Neuwirth Joins Industry Readings Of Cole Porter’s ‘The New Yorkers’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Two private industry readings of a new production of Cole Porter<\/a>\u2018s The New Yorkers<\/a> featuring much of the cast of an acclaimed 2017 Encores! presentation along with new addition Bebe Neuwirth<\/a> are set for New York City later this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cast for the presentations also includes Robyn Hurder, Mylinda Hull, Scarlett Strallen, Tam Mutu and Kevin Chamberlin, all returnees from the City Center Encores!<\/a> production. <\/p>\n

\n\tJohn Rando, a Tony winner for Urinetown who most recently directed the Back to the Future musical on Broadway<\/a>, will direct. The 1930 musical with music and lyrics by Porter and a book by Herbert Fields, was adapted for Encores! by then-artistic director Jack Viertel, and it\u2019s that version getting the readings on April 23 and 24.<\/p>\n

\n\tJoe Abrams and Sally Wood are producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in Prohibition-era New York, The New Yorkers follows socialite Alice Wentworth as she pursues bootlegger Al Spanish from Park Avenue to prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe New Yorkers originally opened on Broadway in 1930, and featured such future Porter standards as \u201cLove for Sale,\u201d \u201cTake Me Back to Manhattan,\u201d \u201cLet\u2019s Fly Away,\u201d and \u201cI Happen to Like New York.\u201d The Encores! production was painstakingly restored by Viertel from original materials once thought lost, and also incorporated additional Porter songs including \u201cNight and Day\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019ve Got That Thing,\u201d among others.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe full cast for the presentations will feature Scarlett Strallen as Alice Wentworth, Tam Mutu as Al Spanish, Kevin Chamberlin as Jimmy Deegan, Mylinda Hull as Mona Low, Robyn Hurder as Lola McGee, Arnie Burton as Feet McGeegan, Byron Jennings as Dr. Windham Wentworth, Bebe Neuwirth as Gloria Wentworth, Ana\u00efs Reno as Lady of the Evening, David Baida as Phillip Booster, Kyle Scatliffe as Capt. Hillary Trask, Matt Saldivar as Doctor\/Major Domo, Clyde Alves as Monahan and Jeffrey Schecter as Gregory, with Colin Anderson, John Harmon Cooper, Christine DiGiallonardo, Katie McCreary, Timothy McDevitt, Kent Overshown, Lindsay Roberts, and Daniel Schwait.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe original musical was based on a story by E. Ray Goetz and Peter Arno. The readings\u2019 music direction and arrangements are by Rob Berman. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn its review of the 2017 Encores! production, The New York Times called the musical \u201cdivine\u201d and \u201cdelirious, blithe and boozy,\u201d evoking \u201cthose hedonistic early talking pictures, before the censors got their hands on Hollywood, when nobody appeared to have been told that the Jazz Age was over.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Two private industry readings of a new production of Cole Porter\u2018s The New Yorkers featuring much of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[77935,207,34382,77936,9,24,55,54,56,77937],"class_list":["post-195427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bebe-neuwirth","tag-broadway","tag-city-center-encores","tag-cole-porter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-the-new-yorkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427","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=195427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}