Bay Street Theater Celebrates The Opening Of "The Man In The Ceiling"
Sag Harbor, NY - June 9, 2017 - Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is pleased to announce the successful opening night for the new musical, THE MAN IN THE CEILING, Book by Jules Feiffer, Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa, and Directed by Jeffrey Seller, producer of Hamilton. The show runs through June 25. Tickets available online at www.baystreet.org or by calling the Bay Street Theater Box Office at 631-725-9500, 11 am to show time daily or online at baystreet.org.
Attendees of opening night included the creative team of Jules Feiffer, Andrew Lippa, and Jeffrey Seller. Other entertainment industry leaders included Robert Wankel from The Shubert Organization, Broadway director and choreographer Susan Stroman, and Tommy Kail, director of Hamilton.
Jeffrey Seller, Jules Feiffer, Andrew Lippa. Photo Credit: Barry Gordin
The production stars Jonah Broscow as Jimmy Jibbett, Andrew Lippa as Uncle Lester, Erin Kommor as Lisi, Brett Gray as Charlie Beemer, Danny Binstock as Father and Nicole Parker as Mother.
THE MAN IN THE CEILING is about Jimmy Jibbett, a boy cartoonist. A hopeless aptitude if you listen to his father, who wants Jimmy to play ball like a real boy. You'd think his mother would stick up for him, but she's too busy, running here, there, everywhere. Besides she's got her brother Lester to worry about. He writes musicals, but he can't come up with a love song. So Jimmy's only true support becomes the comics characters he invents until, one day, he discovers way up on the ceiling, something new and surprising that will change him and his family.
The production team includes Spencer Liff (Choreographer),Will Van Dyke (Music Supervisor and Orchestrations), Ryan Fielding Garrett (Music Director), David Korins (Set Design), Sarah Laux (Costume Design), Howell Binkley (Lighting Design), Daniel Brodie and Jules Feiffer (Projections Design), Rick Lyon and Jules Feiffer (Puppet Design), Walter Trarbach (Sound Design), Andrew Diaz (Props Design), and Meg Murphy (Hair and Makeup Design), Kat West (Production Stage Manager), and Stewart/Whitley (Casting).
The 2017 Mainstage Season is sponsored in part by New York State through the generosity of Assemblyman Fred Thiele and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle; the New York State Council on The Arts, a State Agency; Town of Southampton; The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust; The Shubert Foundation; and fully or partially funded by the Suffolk County Executive's Office. Support for new work comes from The Scott Schwartz New Development Fund and the Joseph Stein New Musical Fund.
For more information or to purchase a 2017 Mainstage Season subscription, log on to www.baystreet.org or call the Box Office at 631-725-9500 Tues.-Sat. 11 am-5 pm.
Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts is a year-round, not-for-profit professional theater and community cultural center which endeavors to innovate, educate, and entertain a diverse community through the practice of the performing arts. We serve as a social and cultural gathering place, an educational resource, and a home for a community of artists.