Abandon All Hope World Premiere
American Music Theatre Project Northwestern University
March 2022
Abandon All Hope: A Musical Comedy takes Dante’s classic Inferno and modernizes it as a musical theatre piece. With music and lyrics by Samuel Perlman and Mitchell Huntley and book by Mitchell Huntley, Abandon All Hope reimagines Hell as a musical, with Satan at the helm as its director. When Dante, lost and bewildered, shows up looking for a way to get home to Florence, chaos ensues.
Creative & Production
Book, Music & Lyrics: Mitchell Huntley, Libby Hatton & Samuel Perlman
Producing Director of the American Music Theatre Project: Brannon Bowers
Director: Madeline Oberle
Music Director: Rena Maduro
Assistant Music Director: Sadie Fridley
Stage Manager: Via Greene
Costume Designer: Ilise Angel
Sound Designer: Drew McComas
Dramaturg: Kaitlyn Fields
Cast
Dante Alighieri: Aidan Klinges
Poet: Ella Gatlin
Virgil: Annabel Foreman
Satan/Cassius: Andy Hartman
Lucy: Kamali Lopez Kuno
Javert: Andy Johnston
Mrs. Lovett: Lauren Gunn
Claudius: Lilah Weisman
Judas: Tano Barendsen-Rossi
Brutus: Ryder McDaniel
The Bleak Chorus: Ashley Valent, Claire Guthrie, Kelly Killorin, Rachael Dec