The Hello Girls Sets New York Concert Reading With 14-Piece Orchestra

Overview

• The Hello Girls stages a concert reading on May 8 at the Jerome Robbins Theater at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York.
• The five operators are played by Gracie Lawrence, Jasmine Forsberg, Aubrey Matalon, Gerianne Pérez, and Hailey Thomas, with Vincent Michael as Lieutenant Riser and Graham Rowat as General Pershing.
• Cara Reichel directs the reading of Peter Mills' musical, with music direction by Annbritt duChateau and music supervision by Ben Moss.
• New orchestrations by Tony Award winner Bruce Coughlin with Mills and Moss will be performed by a 14-player orchestra.
• The musical tells the true story of the first women to serve in the U.S. Army as World War I switchboard operators and has been licensed more than 100 times across seven countries, according to promotional materials.