Floyd Collins
Jeremy Jordan was most recently seen on Broadway as the star of The Great Gatsby. Now he takes on a radically different 1920s title character: a Kentucky spelunker who became a national sensation when he got trapped underground in what is now Mammoth Cave National Park. More than a quarter century after its Off Broadway premiere, this ambitious cult-favorite musical—with music and lyrics by Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza) and a book by Tina Landau—finally makes its Broadway debut. Landau, who is also helming Redwood this season, directs the Lincoln Center production; the supporting cast includes Jason Gotay, Lizzy McAlpine, Marc Kudisch and Jessica Molaskey as Floyd's family members, Taylor Trensch as a reporter on the scene, and Wade McCollum, Sean Allan Krill and Cole Vaughan as worried locals.