{"id":366858,"date":"2026-10-07T14:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366858\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:16:22","slug":"casting-revealed-for-nyc-industry-presentation-of-new-musical-the-worlds-cassette-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366858\/","title":{"rendered":"Casting Revealed For NYC Industry Presentation of New Musical The World’s Cassette Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casting has been revealed for the New York City industry presentation of\u00a0The World’s Cassette Library,\u00a0which will be held October 21 via Out of the Box Theatrics at their new home at 308 West 46th Street.<\/p>\n

Annesha Kudtarkar will direct the new musical, which\u00a0follows estranged siblings in the wake of their brother’s death as they discover\u00a0a box of dusty cassette tapes upon which Joey recorded countless treasured memories.\u00a0The musical features a\u00a0book, music, and lyrics by Mike Nappi, Sam Durant Hunter, and Max Sangerman<\/a>, with orchestrations and arrangements by Mike Nappi and Chris Gurr<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cast will include\u00a0Emily Fink<\/a> (Dead Outlaw<\/a>) as Krysti, Nathaniel Hackmann (Back to the Future The Musical, Les Mis\u00e9rables<\/a>) as Mike, Nick Martinez<\/a> (Moulin Rouge! The Musical<\/a>) as Brian, Talia Robinson (Merrily We Roll Along<\/a>, Dear Evan Hansen<\/a>) as Katie, and Sam Simahk<\/a> (Maybe Happy Ending<\/a>) as Joey.<\/p>\n

Chris Gurr will serve as the music director alongside associate music director\u00a0Ruiran Xun. The production will feature dramaturgy by\u00a0Molly FitzMaurice and casting by\u00a0Kevin Metzger at Tara Rubin Casting. Kate Wellhofer<\/a> will serve as production stage manager alongside assistant stage manager Sarah\u00a0Holland. Liz Hetzel is the production assistant. The industry presentation is co-produced by Jessica Sporn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Casting has been revealed for the New York City industry presentation of\u00a0The World’s Cassette Library,\u00a0which will be held…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-366858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366858","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=366858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}