DAMES AT SEA Begins Previews Tonight!

The Broadway revival Dames at Sea will set sail tonight at the Helen Hayes Theatre!

Originally produced in 1968, the musical comedy launched the career of Bernadette Peters, who played young ingénue playing Ruby. With a book and lyrics by George Haimsohn and Robin Miller, music by Jim Wise, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, and music supervision and vocal & dance arrangements by Emmy Award winner Rob Berman, Dames at Sea will be directed and choreographed by three time Tony Award nominee Randy Skinner.

The musical will star John Bolton as The Captain/Hennesey, Mara Davi as Joan, Danny Gardner as Lucky, Eloise Kropp as Ruby, Laurence Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita as Mona Kent, and Cary Tedder as Dick.

A fun-filled, campy show, Dames at Sea is based on the nostalgia of Hollywood musicals of the 30. It’s big time New York, into which sweet little Ruby from a faraway Hometown, U.S.A. has come to make it big on Broadway. Who should she chance to meet but another boy from Hometown, U.S.A.: Dick, a sailor, who also has ambitions as a songwriter. Ruby begins in the chorus, and by the end of the day, in true Hollywood fashion, Dick saves her doomed Broadway show with a smash tune, as Ruby becomes a star on the deck of a battleship which just happens to be passing by.

Dames at Sea will open on October 22. For more information, including tickets, click here.