Stephanie J. Block and Will Chase, who will be up for Tony Awards this Sunday for their performances in “The Mystery of Edwin Drood,†will co-star in Second Stage Theater’s production of the new musical “Little Miss Sunshine,†the Off Broadway theater announced on Thursday.
The stage adaptation of the Oscar-nominated film features a book and direction by James Lapine and music and lyrics by William Finn. Previews for the show, the first in the theater’s 2013-14 season, begin October 15, with opening night set for mid-November.
Mr. Chase and Ms. Block will play Richard and Sheryl Hoover, a couple who takes their dysfunctional family on a trip to a child beauty pageant. Hunter Foster and Jennifer Laura Thompson played the roles when the show had an out-of-town production at La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in 2011. (Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette were the couple in the movie.) Additional casting for the New York run is still to be announced.
Mr. Lapine and Mr. Finn previously collaborated on the Tony-winning shows “Falsettos†and “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,†which was produced at Second Stage in 2005 and moved to Broadway.
