“White Girl in Danger,” which began previews Off-Broadway March 15 at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theater, is a co-production between Vineyard Theatre and Second Stage Theater.
The musical will officially open April 10, with the limited engagement running for eight weeks through May 21.
Tony Award-nominee Lileana Blain-Cruz from “The Skin of Our Teeth” directs the musical, along with Raja Feather Kelly from “A Strange Loop” choreographing.
Described as a “fever dream mashup of classic daytime and prime-time soap operas, Lifetime movies, and red-hot melodrama,” the musical follows the citizens of Allwhite — a town filled with drama and intrigue worthy of a daytime soap opera.
Keesha Gibbs and the other Blackgrounds have been relegated to back-burner stories of slavery and police violence for all of theirs.
Gibbs is determined to step out of the Blackground and into the center of Allwhite’s juiciest stories.
The company of “White Girl in Danger” includes Liz Lark Brown as Diane W/Barbara W/Judith W; Kayla Davion as Florence; Latoya Edwards as Keesha Gibbs; Jennifer Fouché as Abilene; Morgan Siobhan Green as Caroline; Molly Hager as Megan White; Vincent Jamal Hooper as Tarik Blackwell; James Jackson, Jr. as Clarence; Tarra Conner Jones as Nell Gibbs; Alyse Alan Louis as Maegan Whitehall; Lauren Marcus as Maegan Whitehead; and Eric William Morris as Matthew S/Scott M/Zack Paul Gosselar.
LaDonna Burns, Melessie Clark, Alexis Cofield, Shane Donovan, Jon-Michael Reese and Natalie Walker round out the company as understudies.