NOW EXTENDED!
OCTOBER 23 – DECEMBER 21 2025
FULL CAST OF THE BAKER’S WIFE
The cast of The Baker’s Wife includes Scott Bakula (Aimable Castagnet), Wendi Bergamini (u/s Denise, Therese, Simone, Inez, Nicole), Savannah Lee Birdsong (Simone), Arnie Burton (Teacher), Robert Cuccioli (Claude), Alma Cuervo (Therese), Ariana DeBose (Geneviève Castagnet), Bill English (u/s Aimable Castagnet, Claude, Barnaby, Marquis, Teacher), Zachary Freier-Harrison (u/s Priest, Barnaby, Antoine, Philippe), Nathan Lee Graham (Marquis), Samantha Gershman (Inez), Judy Kuhn (Denise), Sally Murphy (Hortense), Manu Narayan (Barnaby), Mason Olshavsky (Philippe), Kevin William Paul (Dominique), Will Roland (Priest), Steve Rosen (Antoine) and Hailey Thomas (Nicole).
THE BAKER’S WIFE
Book by JOSEPH STEIN
Music & Lyrics by STEPHEN SCHWARTZ
Choreography by STEPHANIE KLEMONS
Directed by GORDON GREENBERG
Based on the film “La Femme du Boulanger” by MARCEL PAGNOL adapted from “Jean le Bleu” by JEAN GIONO
In a quiet French village, a baker and his wife bring fresh bread…and fresh gossip. But when temptation stirs and hearts wander, the whole town gets caught up in a swirl of romance, mischief, and melody. The Baker’s Wife brings Stephen Schwartz’s soaring score, including the iconic “Meadowlark,” in its first major New York appearance. Sweet, surprising, and full of heart, this long-awaited production celebrates love in all its perfectly imperfect recipes.
Presented by special arrangement with the Menier Chocolate Factory (David Babani, Artistic Director), Creative Partners Productions and Aaron Glick.
This production of THE BAKER’S WIFE was licensed by Music Theatre International (www.mtishows.com).
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BE TRANSPORTED TO THE FRENCH VILLAGE OF CONCORDE!
For this production, specialized cafe table seating is available in the front rows of each of our seating areas. These seats provide a one-of-a-kind, engaging experience and are indicated in pink on our seating map. Please note that these seats are redeemable with a Prime-level FlexPass.
RUN TIME: 2 hours 30 minutes, including one intermission.
NOTE: There is no late seating. If you need to leave the theater during the performance, re-entry is at the discretion of the house staff.
PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
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- Finally, seating may be available by joining our in-person standby line. This line starts one hour prior to the curtain time for the performance in question, is called just before the start of the performance, and can only be joined in person. All standby seating is available at our Standard pricing of $129 (plus a $7 service fee). Please note that standby seating is subject to last second cancellations and is not guaranteed
SPECIAL EVENTS
Classic Perspectives Talkbacks:
November 6 @ 7:00pm
November 25 @ 7:00pm
November 30 @ 2:00pm
December 2 @ 7:00pm
Teen Takeover:
November 15 @ 2:00pm
Teen Takeover tickets are no longer available for this performance
Sensory-Adapted Performance:
November 22 @ 2:00pm
Contact the Box Office for more information.
Free Childcare Offered:
November 30 @ 2:00pm
Slots are currently filled for childcare services.
ASL Interpretation:
December 4 @ 7:00pm
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Student Matinees:
November 19 @ 11:00am
December 4 @ 11:00am
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THE ARTISTS
STEPHEN SCHWARTZ (Music & Lyrics) wrote the music and lyrics for the current Broadway hit Wicked and has also contributed music and/or lyrics to Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker’s Wife, Working (which he also adapted and directed), Rags, Children of Eden, and the upcoming The Queen of Versailles. For film, in addition to the two-part adaptation of Wicked, he wrote the songs for The Prince of Egypt and collaborated with Alan Menken on the songs for Disney’s Pocohontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Enchanted. In the classical field, he collaborated with Leonard Bernstein on the English texts for Bernstein’s Mass, and his opera, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, was produced at Opera Santa Barbara and New York City Opera. Mr. Schwartz has been inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame and has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Awards include three Academy Awards, four Grammy Awards, and a special Tony Award for his support of young theatre artists.
JOSEPH STEIN (Book) grew up in the Bronx, received a B.A. from City College, and earned a master’s in social work from Columbia. He spent years as a psychiatric social worker, writing on the side, before becoming a Broadway playwright. He wrote the libretto for Fiddler on the Roof (Tony Award, Drama Critics Circle Award), which in its original run received ten Tony Awards, including one for becoming the longest-running show of its time.
His other musicals include Zorba (Tony nomination, Drama Critics Circle Award), Rags (Tony nomination), The Baker’s Wife (Olivier Award nomination), Take Me Along (Tony nomination), Juno, Irene, The King of Hearts, All About Us, and Enter Laughing: The Musical (Lucille Lortel nomination). He co-authored Carmelina with Alan Jay Lerner and collaborated with Will Glickman on Mr. Wonderful (starring Sammy Davis, Jr.), The Body Beautiful, and Plain and Fancy, a show that ran for 24 years at a venue in Indiana now named the Joseph Stein Stage.
His plays include Enter Laughing, Before the Dawn, and Mrs. Gibbons’ Boys. Stein began his career in television and radio, writing for The Sid Caesar Show, Your Show of Shows, and The Henry Morgan Show, and for personalities such as Zero Mostel, Tallulah Bankhead, and Jackie Gleason. He made his Broadway debut contributing to the revues Lend an Ear (featuring Carol Channing) and Alive and Kicking.
He wrote the screenplays for Enter Laughing and Fiddler on the Roof (Writers Guild Award nomination), a film that won the Golden Globe and received eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. His honors include the Dramatists Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement, and induction into the Theatre Hall of Fame. After his death in 2010, Broadway theaters dimmed their lights in tribute.
GORDON GREENBERG (Director) has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. Directing work includes the Broadway productions of The Heart of Rock and Roll (James Earl Jones) and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn (also co-writer with Chad Hodge, Studio 54, Roundabout, Universal, PBS Great Performances), the West End production of Guys and Dolls with Rebel Wilson (Savoy & Phoenix Theatres, Olivier Award nomination), Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (also co-writer with Steve Rosen; Menier Chocolate Factory, New World Stages, Old Globe), The Baker’s Wife (Menier), Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (also co-writer with Steve Rosen, Old Globe), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Geffen Playhouse, L. A. Drama Critics Award), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish Toronto, Dora Award), Jacques Brel… (Zipper Theatre, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award noms), Barnum (Menier), Working (Drama Desk Award, adapted with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda), Tangled (Disney), Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big ‘Your Town Here’ Christmas Show (also co-writer with Steve Rosen, Old Globe, George Street), Floyd Collins (Signature), Secret of My Success (also co-writer with Steve Rosen, Universal, Paramount Theatre), and regional work at Williamstown, Paper Mill, Chichester, Huntington, Dallas Theatre Center, MUNY, Goodspeed, Asolo. For television, he created the NBC television series “Most Talkative” (Co-Executive Producer/Writer with Blumhouse and Andy Cohen) and original movie musicals for The Disney Channel and Nickelodeon. Current projects include a new musical about Picasso (directing & co-writing with Stephen Schwartz Caridad Svich), Seven Shakespeares based on the manga (Tokyo Broadcast System, Gorgeous Entertainment), Single White Female (A.T.G.), The Wedding Banquet (Ang Lee, Hua Musicals), Ghost Tour, The Play, Rope, and a new commission for the Old Globe with co-writer Steve Rosen. Education: Stanford University, R.A.D.A., NYU Film School. He is also Artistic Director of the Broadway Teachers Workshop.
SCOTT BAKULA (Aimable) is widely recognized for his work in feature films, television, musical theatre and more.
Bakula made his Broadway debut in 1983, starring as Joe DiMaggio in Marilyn: An American Fable. In 1988, he was honored with a Tony nomination for his starring role in the Broadway musical Romance/Romance.
Bakula last appeared on the New York stage, Off-Broadway, in The Connector, conceived and directed by Daisy Prince, with music by Jason Robert Brown and a book by Jonathan Marc Sherman. He starred recently with his wife Chelsea Field in the Peterborough Players production of Man of La Mancha, playing Don Quixote and received acclaim subsequently in Ford Theater’s production of Mr. Lincoln.
Fun fact, Bakula has previously appeared in The Baker’s Wife as Dominique in a production at the Cincinnati Playhouse in 1980.
Other theatre credits include starring as Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls at the Hollywood Bowl, Anyone Can Whistle at Carnegie Hall, Dancing in the Dark at San Diego’s Old Globe, Jane Anderson’s Quality of Life at the Geffen Playhouse, No Strings at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse, Shenandoah at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC, and An Evening with Scott Bakula also at Ford’s Theater. He has also played long runs in the Off-Broadway and Los Angeles productions of Three Guys Naked from the Waist Down and the Los Angeles and Boston productions of Nite Club Confidential.
Fans know and love Bakula for his five-year stint in Quantum Leap. For his portrayal of time traveler Sam Beckett, he won a Golden Globe award (along with three more nominations) and four Emmy Award nominations. He directed three episodes of the series and in 2017, guest starred in the 12th season premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia playing himself, where he gave a wink to Quantum Leap.
Bakula was last seen starring on the CBS hit NCIS: New Orleans, Bakula was nominated for an Emmy for the HBO Films Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, Other series include the Peabody Award winning TNT drama Men of a Certain Age, the HBO dramedy Looking, He also starred as Captain Jonathan Archer in Star Trek: Enterprise, for which he received a People’s Choice Award nomination. He made a surprise cameo appearance in the fourth season premiere of Only Murders in the Building.
Film credits include The Informant, directed by Steven Soderbergh; 1999’s Oscar-winning Best Picture American Beauty, for director Sam Mendes; Divinity, Life as a House, Basmati Blues, Elsa And Fred, Clive Barker’s Lord Of Illusions, Major League: Back To The Minors, Mi Familia (My Family), A Passion To Kill, Color Of Night, the football comedy Necessary Roughness, and Carl Reiner’s Sibling Rivalry which marked Bakula’s film debut. He was also heard as the voice of Danny the cat in the animated musical Cats Don’t Dance.
ARIANA DEBOSE (Geneviève) is an award-winning actress renowned for her dynamic roles onstage and in film and television. She gained worldwide recognition for her groundbreaking performance as Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, which earned her an Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics Choice, and SAG Awards. In doing so, she became the first openly queer Afro-Latina to receive an Academy Award. DeBose most recently starred opposite Ke Huy Quan in Universal’s action-romance LOVE HURTS. Her upcoming feature film projects include Lear Rex and Tow, the latter for which she also serves as executive producer. Her other recent films include Matthew Vaughn’s action film Argylle (Apple/Universal), Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s space thriller I.S.S., Disney’s 100th anniversary animated film Wish, Kraven the Hunter (Sony Pictures), and House of Spoils (Blumhouse/Prime Video). DeBose also recently wrapped production on the Prime Video series adaptation of Patricia Cornell’s Scarpetta, starring opposite Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis.
In 2022, 2023, and 2024, DeBose has hosted the Tony Awards, earning critical acclaim and two Emmy nominations for “Outstanding Variety Special” in 2023 and 2024. She also starred in both seasons of the critically acclaimed musical comedy series Schmigadoon! (Apple TV+) as well as Ryan Murphy’s The Prom (Netflix). On Broadway, DeBose is perhaps best known for her Tony-nominated role as Disco Donna in Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, and for being part of the original cast of Hamilton, in which she also appeared in the film adaptation for Disney+. Other stage credits include Pippin, Motown the Musical, Bring It On: The Musical, and Company. A passionate advocate, DeBose serves on the International Board of Covenant House, supporting homeless LGBTQ youth, and on the boards of trustees for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA) & the Entertainment Community Fund.