| le welcomed Seven Brides for Seven Brothers to | | | | the Aspen Music Festival. Like all aspiring stage |
| the 5th Avenue Theater on December 3. The | | | | actors, Griffith knew her true calling was in New |
| musical will continue playing there through | | | | York City, so she enrolled at Columbia University. |
| December 28 and features many of the same | | | | She has since made impacts on many Broadway |
| creative and cast that worked with the | | | | shows like Sweet Smell of Success, The Light in |
| production at the Paper Mill Playhouse. | | | | the Piazza and, more recently, South Pacific. She |
| Choreographer Patti Colombo also choreographed | | | | also was in the national tour of The Light in the |
| the production at the Paper Mill. Another Paper Mill | | | | Piazza as well as in regional theater in shows like |
| veteran of the show is Edward Watts, who stars | | | | Les Miserables, The Rocky Horror Show, |
| in the lead role of Adam. He played the same role | | | | Oklahoma!, West Side Story and A Little Night |
| at the Paper Mill in 2007. His other musical | | | | Music. |
| endeavors include The Selfish Giant, The New | | | | Watts and Griffith will be joined by Luke Longacre |
| Yorkers, The Girl in the Frame, Fifty Million | | | | as Benjamin, Demian Boergadine as Caleb, Karl |
| Freshmen and The Tragic and Horrible Life of the | | | | Warden as Daniel, Kyle Patrick Vaughn as |
| Singing Nun. He has also been seen on television in | | | | Ephraim, Wes Hart as Frank and Gideon. The |
| episodes of The Sopranos. | | | | other six brides are played by Shanna Marie |
| Appearing with Watts will be Laura Griffith as his | | | | Palmer, Amanda Paulson, Meaghan Goy, Brittany |
| new wife Milly. Griffith was raised in Sothern | | | | Jamieson, Sarah Christine Parish and Maya RS |
| California and had already won the Spotlight | | | | Perkins. The book for the show was written by |
| Award at the Los Angeles Music Center/Dorothy | | | | Lawrence Kasha and Davis S. Landay. The music |
| Chandler Pavilion by the time she was 18. She | | | | was by Gene de Paul with lyrics by Johnny |
| went on to further her opera skills when she | | | | Mercer. |
| appeared in La Boheme and Madame Butterfly at | | | | |