You’re a Queer One, Julie Jordan

Erin Davie, the Goodspeed's new Julie Jordan (and erstwhile Guenevere).

The run of Carousel at Goodspeed Opera House has barely begun, and now is contending with a major cast change. Teal Wicks, who’s been playing Julie Jordan–the young seamstress smitten with the lowlife Billy Bigelow who runs the show’s titular merry-go-round, has gotten a national touring gig with the revival of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll & Hyde.

Starting August 8, the new Julie Jordan will be Erin Davie, the Guenevere from the Goodspeed’s 2009 production of Camelot. She also came through Connecticut on the national tour of the 2000 jazz musical Swing! Her New York credits include Grey Gardens (as Edith)(, Curtains (as Niki Harris), A Little Night Music (the 2009 one, as Countess Malcolm) and the Encores! presentation of Applause. Regionally, she’s done Sunday in the Park with George in St. Louis and, just a couple of months ago, in D.C., the Arena Stage world premiere of Rupert Holmes’ non-musical stage adaptation of the John Grisham novel A Time to Kill.

Carousel is the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical presented at the Goodspeed since the theater did Allegro in 1968. Rob Ruggiero, who did a magnificent Showboat for Goodspeed last season, directs.