Daisy Chase, right, a junior at High School South, is making her professional stage debut in “Tall Girls” at Luna Theater in West Orange. The east coast premiere of the play by Meg Miroshnik opens Thursday, October 8, and runs Thursdays to Sundays through November 1. Opening night is Saturday, October 10. Tickets are $27 to $37.
The play, set in the historic 1930s Dust Bowl in the rural Midwest, explores class, gender, and the history of women in sports. “Tall Girls” received its world premiere in 2014 at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, and was revived at the Washington Ensemble Theater in Seattle in May.
“The tiny hamlet of Poor Prairie doesn’t see a lot of folks coming into town — least of all men — so when one gets off the train, everybody talks, especially since he has the only inflated basketball in town,” says Sandrine Dupiton in the press release.
Chase’s mother, Lori, a director at Euromoney Institutional Investor, was seen in “Last Comic Standing” and Broadway’s “The Full Monty.” Her father, Will, has been seen on the Broadway stage in “Miss Saigon,” “Rent,” “Aida,” “The Full Monty,” “Lennon,” “High Fidelity,” and more. He is also known for his television roles as Michael Swift on NBC’s “Smash” and as Luke Wheeler on ABC’s “Nashville.” Her parents divorced in 2008. Her sister, Gracie, is a freshman at High School South.
Lori Chase and her daughters moved to West Windsor from Montclair in 2012. “They were already involved in performing arts but I was not thrilled with the academic level at the schools and wanted to move somewhere where academics were important,” Chase said in 2013. “West Windsor came up number one for academics, art galleries, theater, culture, and community — it was everything I was looking for.”
Tall Girls, Luna Stage, 555 Valley Road, West Orange. Thursdays to Sundays, October 8 to November 1. $27 to $37. 973-395-5551. www.lunastage.org.
