Program ACT I ACT II Paul Crewes Rachel Fine Artistic Director Managing Director "Sweet Swan of Avon” An Ode upon Dedicating a Building and Erecting a David Garrick, the Jubilee, and the Making of Statue, to Shakespeare, at Stratford Upon Avon (1769) Shakespeare! PRESENT Joely Fisher & Ioan Gruffud, co-hosts “Slings and Arrows” - , Prince of Denmark Sonnet #29: (Act II, scene ii: "When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes" “O, what a rogue…”) (Act IV, scene vi: Our Jubilee Villain: The Tragedy of King Richard III “There is a willow grows aslant a brook...”) (Act I, scene i: “Now is the winter of our discontent…”) “Shakespeare and All that Jazz” (Act I, scene ii: Music by John Dankworth & Cleo Laine “Hung be the Heavens with black…”) Sherry Williams, Vocal; John Rodby, Piano PRODUCED, WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY (adaptation by Colley Cibber, 1699) Louis Fantasia “The last of many doubled kisses” “O these men!” - Antony & Cleopatra CO-HOSTED BY - Othello, the Moor of Venice (Act II, scene ii: (Act IV, scene ii: “How goes it now…” ) “The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne…”) Joely Fisher & Ioan Gruffudd (Act V, scene ii: “Give me my robe…”) “The world must be peopled!” - SONNET SEQUENCE #2 (Act IV, scene i: “Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?”) “It will have blood” -The Tragedy of THE CAST Song: "Sigh no more, ladies" (Act I, scene v: “The raven himself is hoarse…”) (Act II, scene i: “Is this a dagger…”) Genevieve Allenbury, Eric Braeden, , SONNET SEQUENCE #1 "O figli, O figli miei... Ah, la paterna mano" Suzan Crowley, Karen David, Joely Fisher, Mira Furlan, from Macbeth by Giuseppe Verdi The Lover, the Lunatic and the Poet Oscar ZC. Zhang, tenor Michele Greene, Ioan Gruffudd, Harry Hamlin, Lexie Helgerson, - A Jubilee of Love! Madeline MT. Wu, piano

Isabella Hofmann, Kelly Holden Bashar, Finola Hughes, Brian Jones, A Midsummer Night’s Dream “Howl, howl, howl!” Lisa Locicero, Brian Lohman, Nigel Lythgoe, David Melville, (Act III, scene i: - The Tragedy of “What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?”) (Act III, scene xi: Natalie Morales, Wale Ojo, Mike Rock, John Rodby, Armin Shimerman, The Taming of the Shrew “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!”) (Act II, scene i: “Good morrow, Kate…”) Joe Spano, Joan Van Ark, Floyd Van Burskirk, Sabra Williams, The Merry Wives of Windsor “King Lear”, Sherry Williams, Madeline Wu, Michael York, Luke Youngblood, (Act II, scene i: (Act V, scene ii: “What, have I scaped love-letters…”) “What Toils, thou wretched King…”) Oscar Zhang Adapted by Nahum Tate (1699) ACT I FINALE: All the Word’s A Stage! Impro Theatare Company Performance supported in part by a generous gift from the ACT II FINALE: “Our Revels Now Are Ended” David and Molly Pyott Foundation. 15 minute Intermission

SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2018 Bram Goldsmith Theater

Running time: 1 hour and 45 minutes, including a 15-minute intermission.

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