Touring Cast and Schedule Announced for Ghost Brothers of Darkland County
We’ve been following the slow but steady progress of the Stephen King/John Mellencamp/T Bone Burnett collaboration Ghost Brothers of Darkland County for quite some time now, and finally it’s about to hit the road!
Read on for the touring cast announcement, which includes a couple of very familiar, somewhat surprising, names.
From the Press Release
The full cast for the Southern Gothic, supernatural musical Ghost Brothers of Darkland County has been announced with actor/writer/producer Billy Burke (The Twilight Saga) and actress/writer/singer Gina Gershon (Killer Joe, House of Versace, Boeing, Boeing) playing the lead roles of Joe McCandless and Monique McCandless, respectively.
Touring across North America this fall, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County was written by best-selling author Stephen King with music by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer John Mellencamp and musical direction by Grammy Award-winning T Bone Burnett. The tour kicks off right outside Bangor, ME, at the Collins Center For The Arts in Orono, ME, on November 8 before traveling through cities such as Toronto, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Due to overwhelming demand, a second show has been added in San Francisco on December 6th, which is now the final date of the tour.
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is a collaboration 16 years in the making and is a blend of unique musical and staging styles. Throughout the production, the eerie blues ‘n roots music reveals the inner workings of the characters as opposed to just propelling the play’s narrative with only a few songs directly advancing the plot.
The haunting tale of fraternal love, lust, jealousy, and revenge begins with Joe McCandless reflecting on a past tragedy involving his two older brothers battling over a girl which ended in the unfortunate deaths of all three. Now, with Joe as an adult with two boys of his own, he’s watching an all too familiar scenario play out before his eyes. With his sons at each other’s throats, Joe’s story will either save or destroy the McCandless family.
Cast Members
Billy Burke
Gina Gershon
Jake La Botz
Jesse Lenant
Joe Tippett
Lucas Kavner
Kylie Brown
Eric Moore
Travis Smith
Peter Albrink
Kate Ferber
Zac Ballard
Featured Background Vocalist: Carlene Carter
Tour Schedule
Sat – Nov-08 Orono, ME Collins Center for the Arts 8:00pm
Sun – Nov-09 Orono, ME Collins Center for the Arts 2:00pm
Tue – Nov-11 Toronto, ON Massey Hall 7:30pm
Thu – Nov-13 Philadelphia, PA Merriam Theatre 8:00pm
Fri – Nov-14 Durham, NC Durham Performing Arts Center 8:00pm
Sat – Nov-15 Washington, DC Warner Theatre 8:00pm
Sun – Nov-16 Baltimore, MD The Modell Performing Arts Center at the LYRIC 7:30pm
Tue – Nov-18 Red Bank, NJ Count Basie Theatre 8:00pm
Thu – Nov-20 Portland, ME Merrill Auditorium 7:30pm
Fri – Nov-21 Boston, MA Emerson Colonial Theatre 8:00pm
Sat – Nov-22 Providence, RI The VETS 8:00pm
Mon – Nov-24 New York, NY Beacon Theatre 7:30pm
Wed – Nov-26 Detroit, MI Fisher Theatre 7:30pm
Fri – Nov-28 Chicago, IL Broadway in Chicago’s Oriental Theatre 8:00pm
Sat – Nov-29 St Louis, MO Peabody Opera House 8:00pm
Mon – Dec-01 Denver, CO Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre 7:30pm
Wed – Dec-03 Phoenix, AZ Orpheum Theatre 7:30pm
Thu – Dec-04 Los Angeles, CA Saban Theatre 8:00pm
Fri – Dec-05 San Francisco,CA SHN Curran Theatre 8:00pm
Fri – Dec-06 San Francisco,CA SHN Curran Theatre 8:00pm
For more info, including ticket ordering, visit: GhostBrothersofDarklandCounty.com.
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