{"id":315273,"date":"2026-08-06T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315273\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:56:09","slug":"sean-maclaughlin-will-be-howard-hughes-in-truly-howard-hughes-musical-off-broadway-cast-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315273\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean MacLaughlin Will Be Howard Hughes in Truly, Howard Hughes Musical Off-Broadway; Cast Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chess<\/a>‘ Sean MacLaughlin<\/a> will star in the title role of the\u00a0world premiere of Truly, Howard Hughes\u2014about the
\nlate aviator, filmmaker, businessman, and recluse\u2014which\u00a0will be presented
\nSeptember 9\u2013October 4, part of The York Theatre’s 2026-2027 season Off-Broadway at The Theater at St. Jean’s.<\/p>\n

Directed and choreographed by Jennifer
\nPaulson-Lee, the new musical features a book by Frank Evans,
\nPaulson-Lee, and James Scully<\/a>; lyrics by Evans and Chad Gorn; and music
\nby Scully.<\/p>\n

Also newly announced for the production\u00a0Madison Claire Parks (Wicked) as Ella Botts Rice, Abby Church<\/a> (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) as Katharine Hepburn, Melvin Tunstall<\/a> (Beautiful: The Carol King Musical) as Glenn, Dana Winkle (42nd Street\u00a0national tour)\u00a0as Aunt Annette, Candice Hatakeyama<\/a>\u00a0as Nadine Henley, Antonio Beverly (A Bronx Tale\u00a0national tour)\u00a0as Charles, and\u00a0James Judy<\/a> (Into the Woods) as Uncle Rupert with ensemble members\u00a0Bryan Hunt<\/a> (Irving Berlin\u2019s White Christmas\u00a0national tour), Harrison Drake (Anastasia\u00a0national tour), and Kelly Sheehan<\/a> (42nd Street).<\/p>\n

These artists join the previously reported<\/a>\u00a0Brenda Braxton<\/a> (Chicago<\/a>) as Rita Randolph, Matthew Eby (House of McQueen) as Boy Howard, David Elder<\/a> (42nd Street) as Noah Dietrich, Eric Michael Gillet (Kiss Me, Kate) as Howard Hughes Sr., and Jill Paice<\/a> (An American in Paris) as Allene Hughes. Casting is by\u00a0Jason Styres of The Casting Collaborative.<\/p>\n

Truly unfolds as Hughes
\nrevisits his life during his final moments, confronting
\nthe one thing his power and fortune could never secure.<\/p>\n

The upcoming production will also have musical direction and arrangements by Scott Cady,\u00a0 orchestrations by Doug Besterman<\/a>,\u00a0scenic design by Anne Mundell, costume design by Vanessa Leuck, lighting design by Anthony Pearson<\/a>, sound design by\u00a0Peter Brucker, projection design by\u00a0Adam J. Thompson, props design by\u00a0Thomas Jenkeleit, and wig, hair, and makeup design by\u00a0J.J. Janas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

David Callahan is the production manager, Billy Cowles is the company manager, and Jeff Davolt is the production stage manager. Dramaturgy is\u00a0by Megan Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For ticket information visit YorkTheatre.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chess‘ Sean MacLaughlin will star in the title role of the\u00a0world premiere of Truly, Howard Hughes\u2014about the …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-315273","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\/315273","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=315273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}