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Posted: Thu., Oct. 29, 2009, 3:06pm PT

Thesps courting Gershwins' 'Girl'

Gasteyer, Knight top Encores! concert

Ana Gasteyer, Wayne Knight, Marc Kudisch and spouses Becki Newton ("Ugly Betty") and Chris Diamantopoulos ("The Starter Wife") will star in the Encores! concert staging of Gershwin tuner "Girl Crazy."

The 1930 musical, which has a score by George and Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan, follows a New Yorker (Diamantopoulos) stuck in a small Western town. Knight plays the cabbie who drove him there, and Newton appears as one of the town's residents.

Score for the musical includes "I Got Rhythm" and "Embraceable You," among other familiar tunes.

Jerry Zaks ("Guys and Dolls," "Six Degrees of Separation") directs the show, part of the annual Encores! season of musical revivals. Warren Carlyle ("Finian's Rainbow") choreographs.

Production runs Nov. 19-22.

Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com

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