{"id":312445,"date":"2026-08-03T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312445\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:29:10","slug":"grey-henson-will-lead-nyc-industry-presentation-of-pringle-finn-the-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312445\/","title":{"rendered":"Grey Henson Will Lead NYC Industry Presentation of Pringle & Finn, The Musical!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casting has been revealed for the invitation-only industry presentation of\u00a0Pringle & Finn, The Musical!, which will be held August 31 in New York City. The new musical for young audiences,\u00a0based on the beloved children’s books by Paul Castle<\/a>, features a book by\u00a0Jacob ben Widmar and\u00a0music and lyrics by Matthew Nassida and James Powers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 50-minute musical follows two penguins, Pringle and Finn, who join their overbooked wedding planner\u00a0friend Foxy\u00a0on a cake delivery adventure, encountering\u00a0eccentric animal couples and\u00a0larger-than-life celebrations\u00a0before the journey culminates in a wedding of their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The cast will include\u00a0Grey Henson<\/a> (Shucked<\/a>, Elf<\/a>) as Pringle, Josh Daniel (The Book of Mormon<\/a>, Little Shop of Horrors<\/a>) as Finn, and Tari Kelly<\/a> (Just in Time<\/a>, Groundhog Day, The Boy from Oz<\/a>) as Foxy. They will be joined by Aaron J. Albano<\/a> (Hamilton<\/a>, Aladdin<\/a>, Newsies<\/a>), Tia Altinay<\/a> (Chicago<\/a>, Aladdin), Kilty Reidy<\/a> (The Drowsy Chaperone<\/a>, In My Life), Jayke Workman (Chicago), and more.<\/p>\n

Development of Pringle & Finn, The Musical! has been supported by a Faculty Research Fellowship from Oakland University, where creator Jacob ben Widmar serves as a professor of theatre. The August 31st presentation represents the culmination of the project’s initial development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casting has been revealed for the invitation-only industry presentation of\u00a0Pringle & Finn, The Musical!, which will be held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-312445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312445","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=312445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}