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Encores! 2026
This hilarious, eight-time Tony-nominated musical adaptation of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit follows Steven Pasquale (The Bridges of Madison County) as Charles and Phillipa Soo (Hamilton) as his wife, Ruth, as their lives are upended when madcap medium Madame Arcati, played by Andrea Martin (Pippin) accidentally summons the ghost of Charles’s ex-wife, Elvira, played by Katrina Lenk (Company).
