Book, Music & Lyrics by MEREDITH WILLSON Based on the 20th Century Fox Picture Story by Valentine Davies Screen Play by George Seaton
Directed by Music Direction by ALLISON NARVER SCOTT WARRENDER
ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL AT BENAROYA HALL 200 University Street, Seattle, WA 98111 SHOWTUNES Theatre Company creates concert performances
Welcome to Benaroya Hall and our concert presentation of Miracle on 34th Street – The Musical. It’s a very busy time of the year, and we’re so glad you’ve decided to come and spend a few hours with SHOWTUNES. We hope it’s a great kick-off for your holiday festivities!
This show marks our 28th musical in concert, and the beginning of our second season of concerts here at Benaroya Hall. SHOWTUNES has been creating concert versions of musicals since 2000, and we are thrilled to have found a home here in the intimate and inviting Illsley Ball Nordstrom Recital Hall.
It’s no miracle how we continue to produce exceptional shows – it’s our Falsettos and Singin’ In The Rain – garnered seven nominations for the 2013 BroadwayWorld Seattle Awards. It is extremely gratifying to have our productions and our people recognized for their stellar work.
Today, we’re asking for your generous help in meeting our payroll expenses budget goes to our artists onstage and behind the scenes. Your gift will go directly to the theater artists that create our shows. And here’s the exciting part – you can make your end-of-the-year gift count double!
The SHOWTUNES Board has announced a special year-end gift-matching ACT I challenge. Every dollar donated now through the end of the year – up to Overture $5000 - will be matched by the Board. Big Ca-lown Balloons Parade Arm In Arm You Don’t Know holiday cheer baskets, and the lucky winners will be drawn at random after Plastic Alligator intermission. Just think, your generous donation of $100 today will become Bugles $200, AND you might win a gift basket! Here’s Love My Wish Be a Santa to SHOWTUNES! Your help in reaching our $10,000 goal is greatly Pine Cones and Holly Berries appreciated. Look Little Girl Doris’ Look Thanks for supporting live theater, Expect Things to Happen The Toy Ballet Maggie & Martin
Miracle On 34th Street The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY. Tel: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.mtishows.com Printing: United Reprographics Photo credit: Chris Bennion Graphic Design: Julie Carlos
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of 2 Cast - John Patrick Lowrie* - Analiese Guettinger - Joshua Carter* RH Macy - Allen Galli* – Dennis Bateman* – Mark Anders*, Taryn Darr*, John Deveney, Rachel Fitzgerald, Matt Giles, Beaven Walters – Noah Barr, Mae Corley, Sophie Walters
ACT I ACT II Overture Prelude Big Ca-lown Balloons Pine Cones Reprise Parade She Hadda Go Back Arm In Arm That Man Over There You Don’t Know My State, My Kansas Plastic Alligator Nothing In Common Bugles Case Dismissed Here’s Love Love Come Take Me My Wish Pine Cones and Holly Berries BAND Look Little Girl Piano: Scott Warrender Doris’ Look Percussion: Brad McRae Expect Things to Happen Reeds: William Bryant, Elaine Cho, The Toy Ballet Matt Johnston Trumpet: Randy Burgeson
Director: Music Director: Stage Manager: Louise Butler* Assistant Stage Manager: Costumer: Ron Leamon Artistic Director: Executive Producer: Maggie Stenson Pehrson
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of * are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 3
MARK ANDERS* Mark Anders most recently appeared at the Intiman Summer Festival in Trouble in Mind and as Stu in Stu for Silverton; previously he played Gould in ACT/5th Avenue’s production of Grey Gardens. A Seattle native, he has acted for thirty years throughout the area, in addition to theatres around the country. He is a founding member of the Endangered Species Project, a consortium of theatre artists dedicated to readings of great neglected plays of the past: endangeredspeciesproject.org DENNIS BATEMAN* Dennis Bateman will soon be seen as the Puritan town The Devil Walks in Salem. Favorite musical roles include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Fairy Stories, Matthew in Anne of Green Gables, & Biggley in How to Succeed... Performed with 5th Avenue, Village, SCT, ACT, Alaska Rep, & Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Guest-star on TNT’s LEVER- AGE, and appears in Men of Honor; Northern Exposure; The Fugitive; and as Edward R. Murrow in Lifetime’s Dear Abby.
NOAH BARR Noah Barr, age 12, is excited to make his SHOWTUNES debut. He has appeared at the 5th Avenue in Elf (Michael Hobbs) and Joseph... (Children’s Choir), and has performed in many Redmond Middle School where he plays saxophone in jazz band and is looking forward to playing Smee in Peter Pan, Jr! He also enjoys baseball, guitar and reading. Noah thanks his voice teacher Kim Maguire. Enjoy the show!
Josh is thrilled to return to SHOWTUNES after playing Marvin JOSHUA CARTER* in Falsettos. Josh has performed all around Seattle: at the 5th Avenue, Village Theatre, ACT Theatre, SCT, Intiman, and roles in the First National Tour of the Broadway show ONCE. Josh is also pursuing a degree in Biology and Medicine. Coming up next he will be in the 5th Avenue’s production of Spamalot and then Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors!
MAE CORLEY Mae Corley is thrilled to be part of SHOWTUNES’ holiday show and to be working with this talented cast and production team. She is happily reuniting with many friends from previ- ous productions, including Merman’s Apprentice (Village Theatre, Originals Festival), Grey Gardens (ACT/The 5th Avenue), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Book-It), and Oliver! to her sisters, Nell and Bea, and Mom and Dad.
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TARYN DARR* Previous SHOWTUNES adventures: 110 In The Shade (Snookie), and Out of This World (Night). Taryn most recently starred as Roxie Hart in Chicago at Village Theatre (2013 Gregory Award Nomination). Other Village favorites: (Nellie Forbush), Grease (Sandy). 5th Avenue Theatre: Catch Me If You Can, Elf, A Chorus Line (Val), White Christmas (Judy Haynes), and many others. Regional: Boston’s North Shore in Legally Blonde (Brooke), La Jolla Playhouse, Sacramento Music Circus, NYMF, and more. Proud UW/AEA. Thank you, Maggie! JOHN DEVENEY John X. Deveney is thrilled to be working with such a great group on this holiday show. John last worked with SHOWTUNES in On The 20th Century. He was last seen at the Village Theatre as Vinnie in The Odd Couple. Other Village credits include: Iron Curtain, The Full Monty, and Stunt Girl. John’s favorite role is that of husband to his beautiful wife Celeste and father to their wonderful son, Ian. Happy Holidays.
RACHEL FITZGERALD Rachel is happy to be back at SHOWTUNES where she was last seen as half of the Ringmaster duo in Barnum. Other Seattle credits include Dottie in She’s Come Undone (Book-it Repertory Theater), Helen in Fat Pig (Artattack!), and readings for Balagan, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and Mirror Stage. Favorite roles include the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet (Harlequin/Lake Tahoe Shakespeare) and Lucy in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Como Lakeside). Thank you for attending live theatre. ALLEN GALLI* Allen’s previous SHOWTUNES credits include Singin’ in the Rain and A Man of No Importance. Most recently he played Dottore in Servant of Two Masters at Seattle Rep. He is a 33 year veteran of Seattle stages, appearing at SCT, Intiman, ACT, the 5th Avenue Theatre, the Village Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Theatre, and Book It. Regional credits include Arizona Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
MATT GILES Matt Giles could not be more thrilled to be a part of his second SHOWTUNES production, having been a part of last spring’s Singin’ in the Rain. Matt is an actor, director, musical director, and theatre teacher in the Seattle area. His next directing project is Seattle Musical Theatre’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which you can see in February 2014. Matt works full-time in production at Seattle Repertory Theatre.
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LAURA GRIFFITH* Broadway: of Success, and Oklahoma! 5th Avenue Theatre: The Music Man (Marian), Candide (Cunegonde), 7 Brides for 7 Brothers (Milly), A Little Night Music (Anne), Rocky Horror Show (Janet). European Tour: West Side Story. 1st National Tour: The Light in the Piazza (Helen Hayes Award nom) at the Kennedy Center and Ahmanson Theatre. Regional credits: Oregon Shake- speare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Signature Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, California Music Theatre.
Analiese Emerson Guettinger is delighted to join this ANALIESE GUETTINGER stupendous cast! Credits include: Grey Gardens (5th Avenue), Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun, Anne of Green Gables, Meet Me in St. Louis, Showboat (Village Theatre), Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof (Seattle Musical Theatre), A Christmas Carol (ACT), as well as the Village Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals. Love to the family and to my favorite Tolkien fan JPL.
JOHN PATRICK John has been a professional musician, actor, composer, LOWRIE* director, conductor and author over his lifetime. John was last seen at ACT as Ashley in Sugar Daddies written and directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. He has worked at every major theater in the NW and theatres across the country and Dancing With Eternity, was published He has voiced characters many computer games including the voice of the Sniper in Team Fortress 2.
SHOWTUNES debut! Beaven is delighted to share the stage BEAVEN WALTERS once again with daughter, Sophie, having previously performed as both Maria and Gretl in The Sound of Music with Kitsap Forest Theater. Other favorite roles include Cinderella in Into the Woods (KFT) and Martha Jefferson in 1776 (SMT). Up next, she will be performing in A Little Night Music with Second Story Rep this spring. Thanks to her family, friends, and husband, Mark for all the love and support.
SOPHIE WALTERS Sophie is a fourth grader and very excited to be perform- ing with SHOWTUNES Kate in Annie with Lyric Light Opera and Gretl in The Sound of Music with Kitsap Forest Theater. She would like to thank her family, friends, and most of all, her Mom for her musical help.
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(Director) Nationally, Allison’s work has been seen at The Public Theater, The Kirk Theater, The Cherry Lane Theater, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The New Victory Theater and The Women’s Project, The Yale Repertory Theater, Studio Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Redcat Theater, Portland Center Stage, and The Oregon Shakespeare Festival. In Seattle, The 5th Avenue Theatre, A Contemporary Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, Seattle Children’s Theater, Intiman, Annex Theater, New Century Theater and The Empty Space.
Scott Warrender (Music Director) Scott’s original musical, Das Barbecu!, ANALIESE GUETTINGER premiered Off-Broadway in 1994. His musical direction/compositional credits include: ACT, Village Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theater, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Opera, Seattle Opera, Center Stage in Baltimore, and Goodspeed Opera House. The song he co-wrote with Joss Whedon, My Lullaby, was featured in Disney’s The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride. His shows include The Texas Chainsaw Manicurist, Book of James, The Plexiglass Slipper, Busload of Blonds, Lights, The January Book, and Blankity-Blank.
(Production Stage Manager) Louise is pleased to be celebrating this holiday season with Miracle on 34th Street. Louise has been a part of stage management teams at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Village Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Theater Schmeater, the Northwest Folklife Festival, and 14/48. She also served as the Production Manager for Balagan Theatre’s Gregory Award nominated 2009-2010 season. You can catch her next at the Moore Theatre, backstage for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Hannah Feigin (Assistant Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Eckerd College, FL with a focus in stage management. Her stage management credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, No Exit, Legally Blonde: The Musical, and Call of the Wild. She is excited to be working with such a talented company on this production.
Maggie Stenson Pehrson (Executive Producer) is extremely proud of the now 28 musicals in concert (and many special events) she’s had a hand in bringing to life for SHOWTUNES. In addition to countless hours devoted offstage, she’s proud to have appeared onstage for the company as well. A working actor (and proud years. Thanks to YOU for supporting SHOWTUNES, and special thanks to the rest of the SHOWTUNES board for their major contributions of time, talent and treasure. Love to Clint, Josh and Gabriel. Carpe diem!
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Wealthy socialite Tracy Lord is planning a lavish summer wedding when her ex-husband turns up to disrupt the proceedings in an attempt to try and win her back. A further twist arrives in the form of a reporter who falls instantly for Tracy. Bubbling with a host of beautiful Porter tunes including “True Love,” “It Was Just One Of Those Things” and “Let’s Misbehave,” this sparkling show proves Porter’s classic musical March 29 & 30, 2014 Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER You won’t want to miss our swell party! Based on the play “The Philadelphia Story” by Philip Barry Tickets on sale now!
SHOWTUNES Theatre Company Board Julie Carlos, Martin Charnin, Stacey Engle, David Hunter Koch, Drew Murphy, Maggie Stenson Pehrson, Liz Rudolph, Anne Watanabe, Aimee Windmiller-Wood
Special Thanks Troy Skubitz, Stephanie Hippen, Matt Laughlin and the rest of the staff at Benaroya Hall
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2013-14 Season Sponsors Beth Moursund N. Donn Talenti - In memory of Julian Patrick for his love of the Broadway Musical and Opera