Marcel on the Train, the new play by Ethan Slater and Marshall Pailet, will make its world premiere at Classic Stage Company Off Broadway this February, with Slater starring as mime Marcel Marceau and Pailet directing.
The play, based on the mime’s little-known Nazi resistance efforts, will also star Julie Benko (Harmony), Maddie Corman (Accidentally Brave), Max Gordon Moore (Tammy Faye), Aaron Serotsky (August: Osage County), and Alex Wyse (Good Night, Oscar).
Previews begin at CSC’s Lynn F. Angelson Theater on February 5, 2026, ahead of a February 22 opening night. The engagement runs through March 15, 2026.
Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
The synopsis: History remembers Marcel Marceau as the world’s greatest mime. But before the spotlight, he was a young man in Nazi-occupied France, guiding Jewish children to safety with nothing but courage and imagination. In the shadows of World War II, Marcel on the Train reveals the man behind the invisible mask.
The creative team for Marcel on the Train includes Scott Davis (Set Designer), Sarah Laux (Costume Designer), Brandon Stirling Baker (Lighting Designer), Jill BC DuBoff (Sound Designer), and Geoff Josselson (Casting). Marcel on the Train is presented by special arrangement with Mix and Match Productions (Maxwell Beer and Mitch Marois).
Slater played Spongebob in Broadway’s SpongeBob Squarepants (for which he received a Tony nomination), and plays Boq in the movies Wicked and the upcoming Wicked: For Good. He was most recently onstage in Spamalot on Broadway, and at CSC playing The Balladeer/Lee Harvey Oswald in Assassins.
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