NewsPHOTO CALL: Nightmare Alley at The Geffen PlayhouseNightmare Alley, a dark musical about side-show acts in a traveling carnival in the Great Depression, makes in its world premiere at the Geffen Playhouse.
By
Krissie Fullerton
April 21, 2010
James Barbour and Sarah Glendening lead the cast that also features Mary Gordon Murray, Larry Cedar, Michael McCarty, Melody Butiu, Leslie Stevens, Anise E. Ritchie, Alet Taylor, Travis Leland and Burke Walton.
Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham (which was turned into a film with Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell), Nightmare Alley "plays upon fate, free-will and the consequences that await when you make the wrong choice," according to Geffen notes.
Next year, Carnegie Hall's house band will perform Bernstein’s “Kaddish” Symphony, unfinished works by Schubert, and the final concert of Conductor Bernard Labadie.