Cast
Sean Hayes
(Chuck Baxter) made his New York stage debut in Damn Yankees at City Center Encores!. His films include The Bucket List, Pieces of April, The Cat in the Hat (as the voice of the Fish), Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, and Cats and Dogs (as the voice of Mr. Tinkles). He has won four Screen Actors Guild Awards, a TV Guide Award and an American Comedy Award. Hayes won an Emmy® Award (and was nominated six times) for his portrayal of “Jack” on Will & Grace. He starred as Jerry Lewis in the television movie Martin & Lewis.
Kristin Chenoweth
(Fran Kubelik) Broadway credits include You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards); Wicked (Tony nomination); Steel Pier (Theatre World Award); and Epic Proportions. Other NY Theater includes Love, Loss, and What I Wore, The Apple Tree, Scapin, A New Brain, Dames at Sea, The Fantasticks, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Strike Up the Band. Film work includes You Again (2010), Bewitched, The Pink Panther, RV, Running With Scissors, Stranger Than Fiction, Deck the Halls and Four Christmases. TV includes the upcoming Lifetime movie The Twelve Men of Christmas, Glee, Ugly Betty, The West Wing, The Music Man, Annie, Frasier, Sesame Street, Kristin, and two seasons as “Olive Snook” on the ABC dramedy Pushing Daisies for which she won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy. Her extensive concert career includes performances at the National Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, Hollywood Bowl, London’s Divas at Donmar series, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Washington National Opera and the Metropolitan Opera House. This winter she will be part of Il Divo’s limited-run holiday tour. Albums: Let Yourself Go, As I Am, A Lovely Way To Spend Christmas. Her book, A Little Bit Wicked debuted at #12 on the NYT Hardcover Non-Fiction Best Seller list.
Tony Goldwyn
(J.D. Sheldrake) is a director and actor whose New York Theater acting credits include Phillip Barry’s Holiday at the Circle in the Square, Theresa Rebeck’s The Water’s Edge and Spike Heels both at Second Stage, Craig Lucas’s The Dying Gaul at the Vineyard, an Obie Award-winning performance in The Sum of Us at the Cherry Lane Theater, and Digby at MTC. Regional theater credits include Picnic, Carthaginians, Tom Jones, The Legend of Oedipus (Williamstown), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf) and The Real Thing (Mark Taper Forum). Mr. Goldwyn is best known for his breakout performance in the film Ghost. Other film credits include The Last House on the Left, The Last Samurai, Disney’s Tarzan, The Substance of Fire, Kiss the Girls, Nixon, Reckless and The Pelican Brief. His TV work includes The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Frasier, From Earth to the Moon, The Boys Next Door and Truman. As a director his work includes the feature films A Walk On The Moon, Someone Like You, The Last Kiss and the upcoming Betty Anne Waters, as well as episodes of Damages, Dexter, The L Word, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice.
Katie Finneran
(Marge MacDougall) won Tony®, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for her performance in Noises Off. She is currently starring in Love, Loss and What I Wore, and recently starred in Theresa Rebeck’s Mauritius on Broadway for MTC, and Greg Kotis's Pig Farm for Roundabout. Broadway: Sally Bowles in Cabaret, The Iceman Cometh, Neil Simon's Proposals, You Never Can Tell, The Heiress, In the Summerhouse, My Favorite Year, Two Shakespearean Actors and On Borrowed Time. Off-Broadway: Arms and the Man, Encores!, Lil’ Abner, Bosoms and Neglect, A Fair Country and Edith Stein. London, West End: Fuddy Meers. Film: Broken Bridges, Walk the Talk, Firehouse Dog, Miss Congeniality 2, Bewitched, You've Got Mail, Liberty Heights and Night of the Living Dead. TV: Drive, My Ex Life, The Inside, Wonderfalls, Frasier, Oz and Sex and the City.
Brooks Ashmanskas
(Mr. Dobitch) Broadway credits include The Ritz, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me (Tony® and Drama Desk nominations), The Producers, Gypsy (Sam Mendes, Director), Little Me, Dream, How to Succeed…, and On the Twentieth Century. Off-Broadway credits include Wise Guys, On a Clear Day…, London Suite, Labor Day, Songs for a New World, and It Changes Every Year. Regional: Huntington, Hartford, Williamstown, Old Globe, Arena, Paper Mill, etc. Tours: Cinderella and Noises Off. Graduate of Bennington College.
Dick Latessa
(Dr. Dreyfuss). Broadway: Hairspray (Tony, Drama Desk, Critics Circle Awards), Cabaret (Helen Hayes Award, Joseph Jefferson nomination), Proposals, A Funny Thing Happened…, Damn Yankees, The Will Rogers Follies, Rumors, Broadway Bound, Rags, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Passione, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Chapter Two, Follies, Awake and Sing! . Encores!: PROMISES, PROMISES; DuBarry Was a Lady; Lil’ Abner. Off-Broadway: Chaucer in Rome (LCT), Over the River and Through the Woods, Fit to be Tied, Sophistry, Man in his Underwear, Philemon (OBIE Award), Bells are Ringing (Kennedy Center). Films: The Substance of Fire, Stigmata, The Great New Wonderful, Alfie, The Last New Yorker. TV: The Good Wife, Law & Order, Six Degrees, The Black Donnellys, Brotherhood.
Peter Benson
(Mike Kirkeby). Broadway: State Fair, An American Daughter, Little Me, Cabaret, Wonderful Town, The Pajama Game (Outer Critics Nomination), Boeing Boeing, To Be Or Not To Be. Off-Broadway; Distracted (Laura Pels), The Maddening Truth (Keen Company), Birth And After Birth (Atlantic), The New Moon (Encores), The Country Club (Drama Dept). Most recent film and TV: The Good Wife (CBS), The Adjustment Bureau (Universal). Great appreciation to vocal coach, Rona Leslie. Love to Mary, Luke and Fiona.
Sean Martin Hingston
(Mr. Eichelberger). Broadway: Curtains, Contact, Crazy For You. NYC Theater: Cocoanuts, Encores!, Connecticut Yankee, PROMISES, PROMISES, Boys From Syracuse, Lil’ Abner. Concert: Kristin Chenoweth (Carnegie Hall, The Met) Bernadette Peters (Carnegie Hall) Chita Rivera (Tour). Regional: Wonderful Life, The Pirate, Glorious Feeling, Yankee Doodle, Paula Vogel’s Long Christmas Ride Home, Evita, Requiem/Variations. Film: Across the Universe, The Producers, Beyond the Sea, Center Stage. TV: The Bronx is Burning, Sex and the City, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, One Life to Live, Guiding Light. www.SeanMartinHingston.com
Ken Land
(Jesse Vanderhof, u/s Sheldrake, Dreyfuss). Broadway: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Victor/Victoria. Off-Broadway: The Gig, Little Shop Of Horrors, The Death Of Von Richthofen... National Tours: Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, Pimpernel, Little Shop, The Secret Garden, Evita. Regional: Portland Center Stage, Old Globe, Goodspeed,Virginia Stage, Papermill. TV: Back To You And Me, 44 Minutes, Boston Legal, Six Feet Under, Law & Order, Malcolm In The Middle, Law & Order: SVU, Strong Medicine, Judging Amy, The District, Crossing Jordan, Star Trek: Voyager.
Cameron Adams
(Miss Della Hoya, Ginger). Broadway/New York: The Music Man (Zaneeta), Oklahoma!, Hairspray (u/s Amber), Cry-Baby (u/s Allison), Shrek, City Center Encores!, Follies (Young Hattie.) National Tour: Hairspray. TV: ABC/Disney’s The Music Man (Zaneeta). Love to my family and my Jeremy!
Ashley Amber
(Miss Kreplinski, Helen Sheldrake, u/s Miss Olson) is thrilled to be back on Broadway after taking a year off to have a baby. Other Broadway credits include: Aida, Dance of the Vampires, The Boys From Oz, All Shook Up, The Wedding Singer, Curtains and Cry-Baby. Love to my family, friends, and my boys.
Nathan Balser
(Swing, u/s Dobitch, Kirkeby, Eichelberger, Vanderhof, Karl, Night Watchman, Eugene, Lum Ding Waiter) is thrilled to be a part of this production! Broadway: 9 to 5: The Musical, Legally Blonde. Off-Broadway: Damn Yankees (CC Encores!), Peter Pan. National Tours: Legally Blonde, Mamma Mia!, Peter Pan. Regional: Minsky’s (Ahmanson Center), Joseph… Dreamcoat, CATS, Annie…Gun. Love to his ladies!
Helen Anker
(Miss Olson) is thrilled to be making her Broadway debut! Recent West End Theatre credits: Parade (Mrs. Phagan) and Candide for Rob Ashford, Beautiful and Damned (Zelda), On The Town (Ivy Smith), Contact (girl on the swing); also numerous other West End and Regional productions. TV: Holby City. Film: Oklahoma!. www.HelenAnker.com.
Wendi Bergamini
(Swing, u/s Miss Olson, Miss Della Hoya, Ginger, Miss Wong, Miss Kreplinski, Helen Sheldrake, Orchestra Voices). Broadway: South Pacific. National tours: The Light in the Piazza (Franca, 1st National), Evita, Cats (Jellylorum). Regional: Finian’s Rainbow (Westport Country Playhouse), The Baker’s Wife (Goodspeed), Titanic (CLOSBC), The Grapes of Wrath (Western Stage). NY credits: York Theatre, Musicals Tonight, NYGASP.
Nikki Renee Daniels
(Barbara, Orchestra Voice). Broadway: Les Miserables, Lestat, Nine, Aida, The Look of Love and Little Shop of Horrors. New York City Opera: Clara in Porgy and Bess. Nikki has appeared as a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall.
Sarah Jane Everman
(Kathy, Orchestra Voice, u/s Fran). Broadway: Shrek (Fiona u/s), The Apple Tree (Eve u/s), Wicked (Glinda u/s), Wonderful Town. Regional: Unlock’d (Belinda, NYMF); Singin’ in the Rain (Kathy Selden). Love to Mom, Dad, Rach and the Nicolosi gang. Romans 8:38.
Chelsea Krombach
(Sharon, Orchestra Voice) comes to PROMISES, PROMISES from Wicked on Broadway (Elphaba u/s). Nat’l Tours: Wicked (Nessarose u/s). Regional: Godspell at St. Louis Muny, Aida at MT of Wichita. U of M Graduate! Thanks to my parents and all my love to Geoff.
Keith Kuhl
(Ensemble). Broadway: The Times They Are A-Changin', Sweet Charity, Fiddler on the Roof. National tour: Contact. Film: When in Rome, The Christmas Carol, The Spirit, The Producers. Performed with Beyonce, Shakira, Pink, Cher, Jessica Simpson, Usher. Gratitude to friends/family-DTK.
Matt Loehr
(Night Watchman, u/s Chuck, Eichelberger, Vanderhof). Original Broadway casts of The Producers, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins. Other Broadway: Movin’ Out and Fosse. Regionally: Minsky’s, Singin’ In the Rain (Don Lockwood), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy). Love to Mom, Dad, Kira and Frank.
Mayumi Miguel
(Miss Wong, Vivien). Working again with Rob Ashford...Thrilled...Stop. Broadway: Stroman's Contact (original company), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Cry-Baby, South Pacific...Stop. National tours: South Pacific w/Goulet, Pippin. Film/TV: Disney's Enchanted, 30 Rock, Sex and the City, Guiding Light. Best production: daughter Zoe. Love to Brian. Stop!
Brian O'Brien
(Karl Kubelik, u/s Sheldrake, Dobitch, Kirkeby) has appeared on Broadway in Chicago, The Pirate Queen, Beauty and the Beast, Annie Get Your Gun and Steel Pier, and in the 1st National Tour of Spamalot. Originally from the Jersey Shore, Brian is a graduate of Seton Hall University.
Sarah O'Gleby
(Swing, u/s Miss Olson, Miss Della Hoya, Ginger, Miss Wong, Vivien, Miss Kreplinski, Helen, Orchestra Voices). Broadway Debut. London’s West End: Candide, Footloose, Sondheim's Forum, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia! Tours: Guys & Dolls, Annie Get Your Gun, Saturday Night Fever. Assistant Choreography: Oscars with Hugh Jackman, 101 Dalmatians, Harps and Angels. For Mum and Dad.
Adam Perry
(Eugene). Broadway: A Chorus Line (Don), Wicked, Damn Yankees (City Center), On The Town (City Center), The Most Happy Fella (NYCO). TV: 81st Academy Awards, 2008 Kennedy Center Honors. National Tours: Sweet Charity, Cats. Thanks to the creative team and CTG. Much love to my friends and family for all their support!
Megan Sikora
(Miss. Polansky, Sylvia, Gilhooey, Nurse, Maid, u/s Fran, Marge). Curtains (Bambi/L.A. Ovation nom.), White Christmas (Judy), Show Boat (Ellie/Carnegie Hall), Applause (Bonnie/Encores!), Wicked (u/s Glinda/Nessarose), Dracula, Wonderful Town, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ruth), 42nd Street (Lorraine), MTC's The Wild Party, Oklahoma! (Ado Annie/Papermill), Point Park University. Proud member of Actor's Equity Association since 1996.
Matt Wall
(Swing, u/s Kirkeby, Dobitch, Eichelberger, Vanderhof, Karl, Night Watchman, Eugene, Lum Ding Waiter). Broadway: South Pacific, Curtains, The Drowsy Chaperone, 110 in the Shade (’07 Revival), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Follies (’01 Revival), Saturday Night Fever. Off-Broadway: Happiness (LCT). Film: The Producers, The Nanny Diaries, Across the Universe. BFA, The Boston Conservatory.
Ryan Watkinson
(Lum Ding Waiter, New Young Executive, u/s Karl) is honored to be a part of this amazing company. Broadway: Hair (Tribe/Woof u/s), Xanadu (Thalia), Movin' Out (Ensemble). TV: 30 Rock. Love and thanks to Rob and the rest of the PROMISES team, KGA, Tara Rubin Casting and my amazing friends and family. BBF
Kristen Beth Williams
(Patsy, Orchestra Voice, u/s Marge). Broadway debut!!! NYC: Applause, Face the Music and Follies at Encores!; The Marvelous Wonderettes. Nat’l Tours: The 101 Dalmatians Musical (Mrs. Dearly). Regional: Turn of the Century (The Goodman), The Gershwin’s An American in Paris (Alley Theatre), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Betty Haynes, Ordway Center), Paper Mill, Goodspeed, Music Theatre of Wichita. BFA Univ. of Oklahoma. Love to the fam!
