America’s favorite dreamers have a brand-new scheme. The Honeymooners is a world-premiere musical comedy inspired by the classic television series. Ralph Kramden and his buddy Ed Norton are back and still shooting for the moon. After shocking their wives by winning a high-profile jingle contest, they are catapulted out of Brooklyn and into the cutthroat world of Madison Avenue advertising, where they discover that their quest for the American Dream might cost them their friendship. Filled with big laughs and an infectious score, The Honeymooners will bang-zoom its way into your heart.

The principal cast will feature Tony Award winner Michael McGrath as Ralph Kramden, Michael Mastro as Ed Norton, Leslie Kritzer as Alice Kramden, and Tony Award nominee Laura Bell Bundy as Trixie Norton, with Lewis Cleale as Bryce Bennett, Lewis J. Stadlen as Old Man Faciamatta, and David Wohl as Allen Upshaw.

For those who were weaned on Jackie Gleason’s sitcom The Honeymooners, there’s cause to rejoice. There’s a new musical based upon the 1950s classic characters, directed by award-winning John Rando (Urinetown, On The Town) premiering at The Paper Mill Playhouse in NJ. The musical, with music by Stephen Weiner, lyrics by Peter Mills and book by Dusty Kay and Bill Nuss, follows the TV formula. Loud-mouthed Ralph Kramden (the talented Michael McGrath) is passed over for a promotion. Disheartened, he quickly gets involved in a new scheme – a jingle contest for a cheese company. Ralph enlists his best friend, upstairs neighbor Norton (Michael Mastro), to compose the music while he writes the lyrics. As usual, his long-suffering wife Alice (Leslie Kritzer) scoffs at his scheme and resents the $40 he’s paid to rent the piano. On the TV show, Ralph’s get-rich schemes always fail, but in the musical, he finds success for a while when he and Norton are offered jobs with the ad agency that has accepted their jingle. The problem is that the cleverness of the jingle came from Alice, not Ralph, so ultimately we expect complications. Later Ralph and Norton’s friendship is put to the test when the …Read more