Who’s Who MAJESTIC Children’s After the show, take this program to your favorite actors, and have them sign on the line next to their name! THEATER 2019 July 15, 16, 17 & August 4, 5, 6, 7 ELI DRESSER ______is excited to be making his debut with Majestic Children’s Theater. He is a rising freshman at Four Rivers Charter Public School. Former credits include Kangaroo Dancer and Croc Tail in ALSCT’s Peter Pan, and Dr. Finkelstein in The Country Players’ Youth Theatre production ofThe Nightmare Before Christmas. He is also an avid hip hop dancer and enjoys drawing and playing Ultimate Frisbee. He would like to thank Leea Snape, Rebecca Bustillos, and Megan Healey for helping him prepare for this role, Dr. Seuss’s and also to family and friends for their support. Enjoy the show! The RIPLEY DRESSER ______in is thrilled to be joining this cast in her first show with Majestic Children’s Theater. Previous roles include: Annie in Arena CAT the Civic Theater’s Annie, Tiger in Peter Pan with ALSCT, and HAT Chip in ACT’s Beauty and the Beast. She has danced since Directed by Stephen Petit she was 3, and loves to sing, but this year also fell in love with Costume Design.....Christine Thompson & Dawn McKay soccer and joined the track team. Ripley will start 7th grade Set Design ������������������������������������������������ Josiah Durham at PVPA in the Fall and would like to thank Megan Healey, Leea Snape, Rebecca Bustillos, and her friends and family. Hope you enjoy the show! Choreographer ����������������������������������������������Paige Fortier Stage Manager... ����������������������������������������Jordan Arnold CALEB JONES ______Based on the book by Dr. Seuss is a native of West Springfield and is going into his junior Play originally produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain year at West Springfield High School, and has experienced Retro 50 Adapted and originally directed by Katie Mitchell 00 s-Style Dr. Seuss text, characters, and images TM and © 2009 Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. many difficulties with cramming all of his hopes and dreams FREE Presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). into one short paragraph. On a more positive note, this is his $3. OFF with any purchase Restaurant! $12.00 or more 1 scoop of ice cream All authorized performance materials are supplied by MTI. second summer in a professional theater! Outside of school, dish or cone www.MTIShows.com Caleb likes to read, eat, dance, draw (not all at once) and Limit one per family Limit one per family participate in his school’s Drama Club. Past roles include Linus in You’re A Exp 6/31/20 MT Exp 6/31/20 MT July 8, 9, 10, 28, 29, 30, 31 Good Man, Charlie Brown, Peter in Peter and the Starcatcher and Chino in Open 7 100% All Beef Skinless West Side Story. He’d like to say thank you to all his family and friends. Your Days a Week! support is appreciated and does not go unnoticed. In the future, Caleb would Hot Dogs Disney like to direct shows. He hopes that everyone enjoys the shows! Monday - Sunday pm 10:30 am - 10:00 Hand-Cut JR. AMOURÉ JOSEPH ______Old FashionedFrench Fries is 18 and soon entering college at MCLA, double majoring Made-From-Scratch Hand-Formed Ice Cream & Shakes in Performing Arts and Biology. She was exposed to acting Burgers her sophomore year at Central High school and has loved it ever since. She went on to perform as Goddess Hymen in As July 22, 23, 24 & August 11, 12, 13, 14 You Like It, Queen Hermione in A Winter’s Tale, and Annie in the musical Annie. She has also been singing since she was six years old, performing with the Springfield Children’s Choir, and several other choirs throughout her life. She has found herself up on stage for a few harlo e’s years now and plans to do so for many more years to come. Her passion is C tt rooted from the smiles, the laughter of little children watching her perform. and knowing that she makes them happy. She thanks her mother and the eb Majestic Theater for this amazing opportunity. 1261 Westfield Street, West Springfield majestictheater.com • (413) 747-7797 ClassicBurgers.net • (413) 363-1654 131 Elm Street, West Springfield MA Dr. Seuss’s Who’s Who (Continued) Who’s Who (Continued) The GIUSEPPE SANTANIELLO ______PAIGE FORTIER (Choreographer) is excited and grateful in is a rising sophomore at UMASS Amherst majoring in to join the Majestic Children’s Theater for the FIRST time after CAT the biochemistry and geography. Previous roles include: Zack choreographing the Majestic’s production of The Marvelous HAT (Bare: A Pop Opera, UMASS), Baloo (The Jungle Book, Wonderettes! Paige holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and a Cast Majestic Children’s Theater, 2015), Ichabod Crane (The Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Mount Holyoke College. Cat...... GIUSEPPE SANTANIELLO Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Majestic Children’s Theater, 2017), A native of Windsor Locks, CT, Paige has choreographed numerous musical and dance productions over the past 10 Fish...... BENJAMIN UPPERTON and more. He would like to thank his family, friends, and you for supporting the arts. years for performers age 7-65. Some of these works have been Boy...... CALEB JONES for Mount Holyoke College, Colchester Community Theater in Colchester, CT, Girl...... AMOURÉ JOSEPH BENJAMIN UPPERTON ______Lamb Theatricals in South Windsor, CT, and The Dance Studio in Wilbraham, MA. She has studied many styles of dance, participated in/directed show choir Thing .1 ...... ELI DRESSER is a graduate of Watkinson Academy and performed in their groups, and had leading roles in numerous community musicals including productions of The Crucible as Deputy Governor Danforth. Thing .2 ...... RIPLEY DRESSER Grease and Bye Bye Birdie. She has also studied tap at Steps on Broadway in NYC, This is his third season with the Majestic Children’s Theater. facilitated and participated in a workshop for the Dance Education Laboratory In 2017, he was a stagehand for all three shows, and played based out of the 92nd Street Y in NYC, and performed twice at the American Mr. Van Hudson and the Headless Horseman in The Legend College Dance Association Festival. Paige would like to thank the cast, crew, and Majestic Children’s Theater Production 2019 of Sleepy Hollow. Last season, he played multiple roles in production team for this wonderful opportunity! Producing Director...... DANNY EATON Through The Looking Glass... And What Alice Found There, as well as Old Director...... STEPHEN PETIT Green Grasshopper in James and the Giant Peach. DAWN MCKAY (Costume Designer) is happy to celebrate Stage Manager �������������������������������������������������������������� JORDAN ARNOLD her sixth season with the Majestic Theater. Some of her Music Director ������������������������������������������������������������ ELISABETH WEBER favorite designs from past seasons at The Majestic Theater Costume Designer...... CHRISTINE THOMPSON, include The Marvelous Wonderettes, Boeing Boeing, The War DAWN McKAY and Walt Whipple, Guys and Dolls, Alabama Story, La Cage Aux Carpenters...... GREG TROCHLIL, JORDAN ARNOLD (Stage Manager) is from Springfield, Folles, Million Dollar Quartet, Outside Mullingar, Amadeus, JOSIAH DURHAM Massachusetts and goes to Fordham University as an Butler, Harvey, and Next to Normal. Dawn is grateful to the Lighting Designer ��������������������������������������������������������CHASE TRUMBULL International Studies major, with a minor in Bioinformatics superb production team of the Majestic Theater and brilliant Sound and Projections Assistant ����������������������������������JUSTIN LETELLIER and Theatre. In high school she was the Assistant Stage cast of The Marvelous Wonderettes for bringing her designs to life. Dawn thanks Choreographer �������������������������������������������������������������������PAIGE FORTIER Manager for Steel Magnolias and Snow White, and the Stage Moonyean Field for friendship and support in costume design. For Denny & Production Assistants ������������������������������������������������������MOONSU KANG, Manager for A Christmas Carol, Mary Poppins, and Into the Ben and Nikki & Dave whose love stories inspire her heart <3 BENJAMIN UPPERTON Woods. She loves learning languages and loves the performing STEPHEN PETIT (Director) feels very blessed and arts. In the future, she hopes to take advantage of the opportunities she’ll thankful to say this is his seventh season directing Majestic Summer Staff 2019 have as an NYC college student and work with theatres in that area as well. Children’s Theater. Mulan marks his 20th production. House Manager...... CHRISTEEN JERARD Thank you for coming to see today’s performance. She hopes you enjoyed it Started in 2006 by his late high school drama teacher Van Marketing Director ...... T. EMERSON KADIS and please come again! Farrier, Stephen is honored to be carrying on this wonderful Director of Public Relations ...... LEE CHAMBERS JOSIAH DURHAM (Set Designer) summer program into its 13th season. In addition to of Monson has been directing, he has also written adapted scripts for one of the Box Office Manager...... DIANE MIDWOOD involved in the Pioneer Valley theater scene for the past 10 years. Box Office/House Managers...... KATIA BALL, three shows each season, with past scripts including The He has been a set carpenter and lighting assistant at the Majestic Jungle Book, A Little Princess, Pinocchio, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, MARY ANN BISCHOFF, LEE CHAMBERS, for six years, and he designed the set for The Mountaintop SCOTTI DANALIS, JANE EITEL, AURORA FERRARO, 2013’s Alice in Wonderland, and last summer’s Through the Looking Glass… (2019). He has also been seen on the Majestic stage, as Barnette And What Alice Found There. Stephen is the Production Manager for the DONNA FITZGERALD, SUZANNE MELDONIAN, in Crimes of the Heart, Jean-Michel in La Cage Aux Folles, Eric MARTHA MORRIS, KAREN PIANTEK, main season at the Majestic and has occasionally been seen on stage, most KAIT RANKINS, CAROL RUCINSKI in An Inspector Calls, and Henry in Next To Normal. Other roles recently as Mozart in Amadeus. Thanks to Danny, Todd, Chris, Dawn, Accountant...... BARBARA DANILOW in local theater include Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Greene Room Productions), Josiah, Greg, Paige, Elisabeth, and all the wonderful young actors, for all Graphic Designer...... KAIT RANKINS Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Greene Room Productions), Mark Cohen in RENT (Exit they do to make these shows possible, (and thanks and love to Katie for her Advertising Coordinator ...... SUZANNE MELDONIAN 7 Players), and Riff in West Side Story (Unity House Players). He is also a designer unwavering love and support). Thank you so much for coming and I hope Usher Coordinator...... KATIA BALL and carpenter for Puzzled Escape Games in Easthampton, MA. He received the you enjoy! Café Staff...... SCOTTI DANALIS, Massachusetts Critics Circle award for best set design in Aida in 2013 (Exit 7 CHRISTINE THOMPSON (Costume Designer) is on the AURORA FERRARO, KYLE JERARD, JANET KAZAR, Players), in 2014 for Picnic (Theatre Guild of Hampden), and again in 2015 for Board of Directors for the Theater Project and is the costume KIM KENNEDY, MOLLY KENNEDY, ANN LOLLIO, The Normal Heart(TGoH). His work has been all over the Pioneer Valley and designer for the Majestic Children’s Theater. She is also the CHRIS PINTER, MEGHAN PINTER, now spread into the Berkshires, with his designs of Avenue Q and Carrie: the proud Nana of Freeland, Maggie, Lewis, and Juliana. She is GIUSEPPE SANTANIELLO, PAUL STEVENS Musical (MCLA). happy to be working with such a fine group of actors, designers, and crew.