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Regency Girls Cast and Creatives Announcement

The Old Globe
announces the cast and creative team for
the pre-Broadway engagement of the
world premiere musical
Regency Girls

Book by Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan
Music by Curtis Moore

Lyrics by Amanda Green
Directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes
 

Performances begin April 2 and run through May 4, 2025,
with the opening on Thursday, April 10

Tickets go on sale on Friday, Feb. 21
at 12 p.m. PST at TheOldGlobe.org!

PHOTO EDITORS: Photos of the Globe’s production of Regency Girls can be found here.

SAN DIEGO, CA (February 13, 2025) The Old Globe is pleased to announce the cast and creative team for the pre-Broadway engagement of the world premiere of Regency Girls. This raucous and daring new musical comedy features a book by Emmy-winning writers Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan (“Seinfeld,” “Scrubs,” “Veep”), music by three-time Emmy-nominated composer Curtis Moore (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”), and lyrics by two-time Tony and Grammy nominee Amanda Green (Mr. Saturday Night, Hands On A Hardbody, Bring It On: The Musical). Josh Rhodes (Broadway’s Spamalot, The Old Globe’s Cabaret) directs and choreographs this riotous adventure of love, rebellion, autonomy, and self-discovery. Regency Girls is produced by special arrangement with Aged in Wood Productions and HudsonMann. Performances begin April 2 and run through May 4, 2025, with the official opening performance on Thursday, April 10. The limited engagement will play on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage in the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center. Tickets go on sale on Friday, Feb. 21at 12 p.m. PST and will be available at TheOldGlobe.org.

In Regency Girls, Elinor Benton is in a predicament: she’s pregnant, unmarried, and living in 19th-century England. What’s a young woman to do? Facing certain ruin, she gathers up her best friends and sets off on the ultimate road trip to find the one woman who might offer a chance to change her fate. This epic journey, equal parts hilarious and profound, transforms each of them as they make choices about their own futures.

“The Globe’s season continues with a real marvel,” said Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein. “Regency Girls is a totally original, world-premiere musical that’s utterly delightful, funny as all get-out, and about some very big and timely themes. Its creators are at the tops of their games: amazingly gifted storytellers from film, TV, and theatre, and their talents combine to make something spectacular. Director-choreographer Josh Rhodes, a dear friend of The Old Globe, has gathered a cast of powerhouse American musical theatre talent and I can’t wait to share what they make with audiences at the Globe, and, I’m sure, beyond.”

Rhodes directs a cast of 20, which includes Isabelle McCalla as Elinor (Broadway’s Water for Elephants), Krystina Alabado as Dabney (Broadway’s Mean Girls), Kate Rockwell as Jane (Broadway’s Mean Girls), Ryann Redmond as Petunia (Broadway’s Frozen), Nik Walker as Stanton (Broadway’s Hamilton, The Old Globe’s Crime and Punishment, A Comedy), Gabe Gibbs as Dingley / Galloping Dick (Broadway’s The Book of Mormon), Janine LaManna as Lady Catherine / Madame Restell (Broadway’s The Drowsy Chaperone), Sav Souza as Scutter (Broadway’s 1776), Benjamin Howes as Earl of Lenwich (Broadway’s Mary Poppins), Kyla Stone as Ensemble / Understudy for Elinor and Jane (Broadway’s Harmony), Marissa Rosen as Ensemble / Understudy for Petunia (Broadway’s Water for Elephants), Amy Jo Jackson as Ensemble / Understudy for Lady Catherine and Madame Restell (Ensemble Studio Theater’s The Triple Threat), Ariella Kvashny as Ensemble / Understudy for Dabney (The Old Globe’s Murder on the Orient Express), Ellis Dawson as Ensemble / Understudy for Stanton (Touring Production of Hamilton), Laura Leo Kelly as Swing / Understudy for Scutter (Musical Theatre West’s Grease), Jacob Caltrider as Swing (The Old Globe’s Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!), David Engel as Ensemble / Understudy for Earl of Lenwich (Broadway’s Seussical), Joél Acosta as Ensemble / Understudy for Dingley and Galloping Dick (Public Theater’s Comedy of Errors), Sophia LaRosh as Swing (San Diego Musical Theatre’s Legally Blonde), and Wesley Carpenter as Swing (Dance Captain) / Understudy for Elinor and Jane (Broadway’s Six the Musical).

In addition to Crittenden, Allan, Moore, Green, and Rhodes, the Regency Girls creative team includes orchestrations by Curtis Moore and James Sampliner; music supervision by Sampliner, scenic design by Anna Louizos; costume design by David Israel Reynoso; lighting design by Adam Honoré; sound design by Jason Crystal; music direction by Patrick Sulken; additional arrangements by Dan Lipton; fight direction by Jake Millgard; dialect coach Nathan Crocker; associate director Deidre Goodwin; associate choreographer Lee Wilkins; casting by Paul Hardt, Hardt Casting; and production stage manager Anjee Nero.

The world premiere of Regency Girls will play on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage at the Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way). Performances run April 2 – May 4, 2025, with the official press opening Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. Tickets go on sale Friday, Feb. 21 at 12 p.m. PST and will be available online at TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623), and in person at the Globe’s Box Office in Balboa Park. Regular ticket prices start at $55.

The Vicki and Carl Zeiger Insights Seminar, scheduled for Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 6 p.m., will provide patrons an exploration of the themes and background of Regency Girls from selected artistic company members. Post Show Forums are scheduled for Tuesday, April 15; Wednesday, April 16; Tuesday, April 22; and Wednesday, April 30 (evening performance). An Open-Caption Performance will be held on Saturday, April 26 (matinee performance). For additional information, visit TheOldGlobe.org.

Opening Night post-show receptions for the cast and donors are held in Hattox Hall, located in the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center.

Regency Girls is supported by Lead Production Sponsors Karen and Stuart Tanz and Production Sponsor The Geno Barcone and Ed Hastings Fund for Artistic Excellence. Additional financial support for The Old Globe is provided by The City of San DiegoThe Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.

Bios and photos of all participants can be found at TheOldGlobe.org/Press-Room.

The Tony Award–winning The Old Globe is one of the country’s leading professional nonprofit regional theatres. Now in its 90th year, the Globe is San Diego’s flagship performing arts institution, and it serves a vibrant community by creating theatre that lives beyond the stage. Under the leadership of Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein and Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director Timothy J. Shields, The Old Globe produces a year-round season of 16 productions of classic, contemporary, and new works on its three Balboa Park stages. The company’s Summer Shakespeare Festival is internationally renowned, and in 2024 the Globe completed the Shakespeare canon with Edelstein’s landmark production Henry 6. More than 250,000 people annually attend Globe productions and participate in the theatre’s artistic and arts engagement programs. Its nationally prominent Arts Engagement Department provides an array of participatory programs that make theatre matter to more people in neighborhoods throughout the region. Humanities programs at the Globe and around the city broaden the community’s understanding of theatre art in all its forms. The Globe also boasts a range of new play development programs with professional and community-based writers, as well as the renowned The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. Numerous world premieres—such as 2014 Tony Award winner for Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, The Full Monty, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!—have been developed at The Old Globe and have gone on to highly successful runs on Broadway and at regional theatres across the country.

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