Performers who took part in the reading included the late Marin Mazzie, Boyd Gaines, Betsy Wolfe, Tam Mutu and Jennifer Simard.
[7][8] The cast included Carmen Cusack as Clare Boothe Luce, Harry Hadden-Paton as Aldous Huxley Tony Yazbeck as Cary Grant, and Robert Sella as Gerald Heard.
The musical was directed by Lapine with choreography by Michelle Dorrance, sets by Beowulf Boritt, costumes by Toni-Leslie James, lighting by Bradley King, and sound by Dan Moses Schreier.
[11] Huxley takes LSD at the drugstore where he obtained it, and imagines the figures from the painting “Judith With the Head of Holofernes” coming to life around him ("Bella Donna Di Agonia").
[16] Generally, critics tended to dislike the book and music, while praising the show's cast, technical effects, set, sound design, and choreography.