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Silver Spring Black Box Theatre October 27-November 20, 2016 www.opencircletheatre.org Open Circle Theatre presents Music & Lyrics by Pete Townshend Book by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff Additional Music & Lyrics by John Entwistle and Keith Moon Originally Produced on Broadway by Pace Theatrical Group and Dodger Productions with Kardana Productions, Inc. Director Suzanne Richard Assistant music director music director Jake Null Deborah Jacobson Musical Staging/ Stage Manager Choreography Jenny Rubin Jen Bevan ASL Master Set Design Neil (Michael) Sprouse Jimmy Stubbs Sound Design Lighting Design Edward Moser Marianne Meadows Projection Design Costume Design Arnulfo Moreno Jesse Shipley There will be one 15 minute intermission between acts. Director’s Note OCT Moonbeams! Lend Us Your Light! Open Circle Theatre’s vision is to advance the idea that disability can enhance Harvest Moons the artistic experience, inspire aesthetic innovation, and influence a community • Liam Conlon to become accessible for all. We’ve tackled a lot with our comeback show: • Doretha Dixon exploring the ideas of language and healing, adding the rock back into the • Monica Lijewski Broadway version, and continuing our mission to give all audience members an • Bob Lyness equitable experience. During our rehearsal process, sometimes it can be a bit of • Nicholas Olcott a three-ring circus, actors are working in ways and with people they are not used • Jean-Paul Richard to and are stretching outside of their comfort zones. But the payoff makes it all • Paula Sweeny Rothfuss worthwhile, and we always end up with a unified cast that has learned a lot about • Elena Widder themselves and each other. • Timothy Zimmerman The Who’s original concept album and subsequent concert performances of Tom- Half Moons my were legendary. Even with the more recent Broadway version of the show, • Ron Dominicis the actual experience of disability was never considered to be part of the show’s • Amy Harbison message. Disability was used as a metaphor and Tommy was thought to be cured • Paul Douglas Michnewicz in the end. As I listened to it as a person who has lived with a disability my entire • Elizabeth and Francois Mollard life, I began to wonder – what does it mean to be cured? Who gets to decide what • Sarah Rizor is healthy or “normal”? How does violent crime victimization impact the • Ed & Shaunna Robey disability community? How can a person deal with the extremes of villainy • Brian Scott versus virtue that society applies to people with disabilities? I decided it was • Stefan Sittig time for the metaphor to get a dose of what the real experience of disability was • Joel Snyder like. What would happen if, when Tommy turns around to speak for the first time, it’s in American Sign Language? My vision of our production was Quarter Moons completed when the wonderful Russell Harvard joined the cast. I began to call it • Tracy Brennan THE METAPHOR STRIKES BACK! • Anna May Lijewski • Chris Phelps October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This year’s theme • Deborah Rogers is #InclusionWorks. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, only 19.8% of • Lyle Smythers people with disabilities are employed as compared to 68.7% of people without disabilities. Look around. The fabric of humanity is comprised of individuals of New Moons many shapes, sizes, and colors. Yet most of what we see on television, in film, and • Ian Armstrong on the stage does not reflect what our society looks like. I’m so proud and • Kristina Marie Doyle thankful that Open Circle Theatre is BACK to continue our work demonstrating • Lana Lambert that inclusion of people of all abilities can make a production MORE • Kristin Nelson intriguing, MORE innovative, and MORE beautiful by combining the talents of • Myra Paul all of humanity. Thanks for joining us on this adventure. Special Thanks Setting: America, briefly in 1945, but quickly shifting to Present Day American Association of People with Disabilities Katrina Clark, resident rehearsal interpreter Cast Jen Bevan Tommy.........................................................................Russell Harvard Gary DuBreuil, Valerie Adams Rigsbee DuBreuil / Chisel & Brand Narrator (Voice of Tommy)...........................................Will Hayes Mrs. Walker....................................................Autumn Seavey Hicks Silver Spring Theatre Consortium Captain Walker..............................................................Malcolm Lee Jonathan Rubin Cousin Kevin.................................................................Carl Williams Jake Null ASL Cousin Kevin.....................................................Aarron Loggins Deborah Jacobson Uncle Ernie................................................................Mikey Cafarelli Panera Acid Queen.......................................................Maggie Leigh Walker Rita Corey and Eric Murphy Sally Simpson.................................................................Molly Janiga Gallaudet University Tommy (Age 10).......................................................Chloe Mitchiner Molotov Theatre Group Tommy (Age 4).............................................................Kira Mitchiner Joel Markowitz / DC Metro Theater Arts Team Richard Ensemble Adventure Theatre MTC Joey Antonio, Elver Ariza-Silva, Rachel Barlaam, Jen Bevan, Tina Ghandchilar, JP Illarramendi, Keegan Theatre Christian Kelly, Monica Lijewski, Jackie Madejski, David Berkenbilt and Joel Snyder, Audio Description Associates, LLC Amy Maniscalco, Jose Martinez, Edward C. Nagel, Joi Bannister D’Arcee Charington Neal, Lynley Peoples, Kidville Michelle Mary Schaefer, Eric Teran Grove Printing Pit Open Circle Theatre Artistic Staff Piano/Conductor................................................................Jake Null Keyboard 2...........................................................Deborah Jacobson Artistic Director - Suzanne Richard Bass....................................................................................Jason Wilson Producers - Mikey Cafarelli, Jen Bevan Guitar 1........................................................................Jaime Ibacache Financial Manager/Development Director - Monica Lijewski Guitar 2............................................................................Brad Emmett Publicity - Doretha “Doe” Dixon Drums.........................................................................................David Lu Board of Directors President - Suzanne Richard Vice President - Elena Widder THE WHO’S TOMMY Treasurer - Jean-Paul Richard is presented through special arrangement with Musical Theatre International (MTI). Advisory Board Chair - Rob McQuay All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com Members At Large Sid Jaffe, Harv Lester, Arianna Ross, Jay Shapiro, Joel Snyder The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Jesse Shipley (Costume Designer) recently designed costumes for Molotov’s Blood Sweat and Songs Fears. Other Costume Design/Construction credits: Molotov: Lovecraft: The Nightmare Suit; Act I Act II Keegan Theatre: Dogfight; Victorian Lyric Opera Co.: Ruddigore, Haddon Hall; Washington Overture Underture Rogues: Agents of Azeroth, Straight Faced Lies, Campsite Rule, In the Forest She Grew Fangs, It’s a Boy There’s a Doctor I’ve Found Mitzi’s Abortion, Eight; Flying V: Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield; The Alden Theater: Totally RED, Miss Nelson is Missing, Charlotte’s Web, Raggedy Ann and Andy; Doorway Arts Ensemble: Twenty-One Go to the Mirror, Boy Morning Miranda. Additional credits: Wardrobe: Round House Theater: Stage Kiss; Royal Farms Amazing Journey Tommy Can You Hear Me? Arena: Disney of Ice: Treasure Trove, Cirque du Soleil: Verikai; The Hippodrome: Motown: The Sparks I Believe My Own Eyes Musical, Book of Mormon, Wicked: Tour II; The Lyric: Alvin Ailey; No Rules Theater Co.: Peter Amazing Journey (Reprise) Smash the Mirror Pan: The Boy Who Hated Mothers; Studio Theater: Penelope. Construction: Round House: Stage Christmas I’m Free Kiss, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Troika: 42nd Street, Annie, Wizard of Oz; Imagination Stage: Sinbad: Do You Think it’s Alright? Sensation (Reprise) The Untold Tale; Theater J: Yentl; No Rules Theater Co.: Peter Pan: The Boy Who Hated Fiddle About I’m Free/Pinball Wizard (Reprise) Mothers; Wolf Trap Opera: 2008 Season; Properties Design credits: Factory 449: The Saint Plays; See Me, Feel Me I’m Free (2nd Reprise) Washington Rogues: Agents of Azeroth, Straight Faced Lies, In the Forest She Grew Fangs, Mitzi’s Cousin Kevin How Can We Follow? Abortion, Eight. Sensation Tommy’s Holiday Camp Marianne Meadows (Lighting Designer): Member, United Scenic Artists Local #829; Sparks (Reprise) Sally Simpson BA Sarah Lawrence College, MFA University of Washington, training at Lester Polakov’s Studio Eyesight to the Blind Welcome and Forum of Stage Design NYC. Local designs in the Wash. D.C. area include productions at The The Acid Queen We’re Not Gonna Take It Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, RepStage, Solas Nua, Theatre Pinball Wizard Finale J, Washington Shakespeare Company, Scena Theatre, Washington Stage Guild, Histrio, Step Afrika, and more. Four nominations for the Helen Hayes Award, Theatre Lobby’s Mary Goldwater Award, 2004. Ms. Meadows also works as a designer with Atmosphere Lighting, Production Staff providing corporate, concert, and special event lighting. Director...................................................................Suzanne