Rachel York to Play Reno Sweeney in Touring Company of Anything Goes

Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) is thrilled to announce critically acclaimed Broadway actress Rachel York will star as “Reno Sweeney” in the national tour of the 2011 Tony® Award winning Anything Goes. Presented by Roundabout Theatre Company, the national tour will set sail in Cleveland this fall. Anything Goes is the winner of three Tony® Awards including Best Musical Revival.

Following its opening at Cleveland’s PlayhouseSquare in October 2012, Roundabout Theatre Company’s ANYTHING GOES will cruise into more than 25 other cities during the 2012/2013 season including Los Angeles, Tampa, Durham, Pittsburgh, St. Paul, Washington D.C., Costa Mesa and San Francisco. Additional cities and casting will be announced in the coming months. For more information, please visit www.anythinggoesthemusical.com.

“I have always been a great fan of Anything Goes. It's wonderful fun and perfectly constructed,” said Ms. York. “I'm really looking forward to playing Reno Sweeney in this fabulous production by Kathleen Marshall and to share some of my favorite Cole Porter classics with the country.”

“Our priority with the national tour of Anything Goes is to maintain the quality we currently have with the Broadway production,” said Todd Haimes, Artistic Director of the Roundabout Theatre Company. “The role of ‘Reno’ must be played by a triple threat actress who can act, sing and dance. We are so happy to have Rachel York lead the company. Rachel will mesmerize audiences across the country with her outstanding performance.”

Roundabout Theatre Company’s Tony Award winning production of Anything Goes starring Stephanie J. Block & Joel Grey, directed & choreographed by Kathleen Marshall, is currently playing at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, NYC.

Rachel York is best known for her critically acclaimed Broadway performances in City of Angels, Les Misérables, Victor/Victoria (Drama Desk Award), The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sly Fox, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. She also turned heads on television with her courageous portrayal of Lucille Ball in the CBS movie, “Lucy.”

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Death of a Salesman Breaks House Record for a Second Time at the Barrymore Theatre

Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN broke the house record of the Barrymore Theatre (243 West 47th Street) for the second time, grossing $777,953.00 over seven performances for the week ending March 25, 2012. The strictly limited engagement opened on March 15, 2012.

Arthur Miller’s Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece DEATH OF A SALESMAN, is directed by eight-time Tony Award® winner Mike Nichols and stars Academy Award® winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as Willy Loman, Obie Award winner Linda Emond as Linda Loman and Andrew Garfield (The Social Network, The Amazing Spider-Man), making his Broadway debut as Biff Loman. For tickets, visit Telecharge.com or call 212-239-6200.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN originally opened on February 10, 1949 at the Morosco Theatre. Hailed as a masterwork of modern American drama, it won six Tony Awards, including Best Play, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, the first play to ever win all three awards.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN also features Finn Wittrock as Happy, Fran Kranz as Bernard, Bill Camp as Charley, John Glover as Ben, Remy Auberjonois as Howard Wagner, Glenn Fleshler as Stanley, Stephanie Janssen as Miss Forsythe, Kathleen McNenny as Jenny, Elizabeth Morton as Letta and Molly Price as The Woman.

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