Nicky and the Angels

[NoHo Arts District, CA] –  Nicky and the Angels, a brand new 1980s-set musical, will make its world premiere at the Second Stage at the Broadwater as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2023 on June 3, 17 and 18.

Spring. 1982. The City of Angels. Hoop earrings are huge, the Walkman is new, and something scary is showing up in the papers. Teenage ushers Nicky, Courtney and Angie are falling in love with musical theatre, the big, bright world outside of high school, and the wrong people.

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Nicky and the Angels has a story and book by Jillana Devine-Knickel, who will also direct. Ms. Devine-Knickel, a Los Angeles native, is making her L.A. debut as a writer/director after writing and directing Entrances and Rosie Ferlinghetti Is Getting Married Tomorrow at Sarah Lawrence College and The Second Inning of Donna McGuire in development in New York. Music and lyrics are by Ali Mandelbaum. Ms. Mandelbaum, also an L.A. native, is the composer/lyricist of Aliza and Heavensent, co-writer of Girf and a graduate of AMDA NY.

The cast of Nicky and the Angels (in alphabetical order):

Allison Belinkoff (Sunday in the Park With George at the Pasadena Playhouse), William Bennett (Les Miserables and Grease at the Judi Dench Theatre in Hull, UK), Colin Borden (The Battlesong of Boudicca and Klingon Tamburlaine at the Hollywood Fringe), Ben Larson (Grease and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Granbury Theatre Company, ) Zachary Santolaya (25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at the Cosmo Theatre, Sweeney Todd at the Wally Theatre in Castle Rock, CO ) and Katie Silverman (PEN15, Grey Gardens at the Ahmanson Theatre). The Musical Director is Richard Berent, who was Musical Director for Merrily We Roll Along at the Whitefire Theatre as well as other Sondheim musicals, including Into The Woods, Sunday in the Park With George and Sweeney Todd.