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Musicals Tonight! Revives Cole Porter's Silk Stockings, Adding Cut Songs, Nov. 3-15
By Kenneth Jones
and Andrew Gans
03 Nov 2009
Musicals Tonight! unearths Silk Stockings, the 1955 Cole Porter musical drawn from the film "Ninotchka," for a concert reading at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre Nov. 3-15.
Thomas Sabella-Mills will direct the limited run with music direction by David Caldwell.
The cast features Jacob L. Smith, Kevin Kraft, Oakley Boycott, Jody Cook, Jason Simon, Carl Danielsen, T.J. Mannix, John Alban Coughlan, Kate Marrily, Rony Stav, Kristi Roosmaa, Yael Gonen, Sarah Spiegelman, Ethan Sher, Josh Scheer, Matthew Hardy and Mark Brown.
Cole Porter's Silk Stockings is based upon the Greta Garbo classic "Ninotchka" and has a libretto by George S. Kaufman, Leueen MacGrath and Abe Burrows. Porter wrote music and lyrics. The musical, according to Musicals Tonight, is described as such: "A famous Russian composer (Jacob L. Smith) has been persuaded by a glib Hollywood agent (Kevin Kraft) to write the score for a movie to be shot in Paris starring an American aquatic film star (Oakley Boycott). Sent to Paris to return the composer to Mother Russia are three bumbling spies (Jody Cook; Jason Simon; Carl Danielsen) who quickly lose interest in their task. Their failure costs the Commissar of Art (T.J. Mannix) his 'dacha' (among other things). His replacement (John Alban Coughlan) sends the intrepid spy-master Ninotchka (Kate Marrily) to Paris to sort out the spies, the composer and anyone else with Capitalist ideas. She fails because she succumbs to the wiles of the agent, Paris and the West."
Songs include "Paris Loves Lovers"; "Stereophonic Sound"; "It's a Chemical Reaction"; "All of You"; "Satin and Silk"; "Without Love"; "Hail Bibinski"; "Siberia"; and "Silk Stockings." Two songs cut from the score will be heard: "Art" and "Why Should I Trust You?"
McGinn/Cazale is located at 2162 Broadway. For tickets, priced $20, visit www.iseats.net or call (212) 579-4230.
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