Vassar and New York Stage and Film’s first Musical Workshop of this Powerhouseseason is a brand-new adaptation of The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd. The production involves a commissioned by The Roundabout Theatre Company in New York City and is directed by Scott Ellis – responsible for Roundabout’s recent productions of She Loves Me and On the Twentieth Century.
The show will keep its original score by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley — but replace the duo’s book with a new one by Santino Fontana.
Fontana co-stars as Greg on the CW’s musical television comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. He was the voice of Hans in that tiny-little Disney movie, Frozen. Broadway and off-Broadway credits include: The Fantasticks, Sunday in the Park with George, Billy Elliot: The Musical, Brighton Beach Memoirs, A View from the Bridge, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sons of the Prophet, Act One, and Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella.