[1][2] The writing team passed on a potential Los Angeles run in 2015 in order to do rewrites and revisions on the piece.
Participants included a number of cast members from the original Kennedy Center production, including New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck, Rebecca Luker, Karen Ziemba, Kyle Harris and Michael X.
The reading featured Tiler Peck, Robert Lindsay, Kate Baldwin and Karen Ziemba.
[8][9][10] The musical is inspired by the story of Marie van Goethem, a young ballerina who posed for Edgar Degas.
Torn by her family's poverty, her debt to the artist, and the lure of wealthy men, she struggles to keep her place in the corps de ballet.