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Stephen King 11 MISERY 12 Cast Information 14 Artist Biographies 20 A Crack in the Mirror 35 THE ROOMMATE 36 Cast Information 37 Director’s Notes by Tracy Brigden 38 Artist Biographies ALSO INSIDE 32 Coming Next 61 Patron Information Photo of Barbara Chisholm as Misery’s Annie Wilkes on cover and above by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates. Photo of the cast of A Christmas Carol by Mikki Schaffner. Visual for The Second City — It’s Not You, It’s Me provided by The Second City. All other marketing visuals by Tony Arrasmith/Arrasmith & Associates. Box Office: 513-421-3888 ∙ OH, IN, KY Toll-Free: 800-582-3208 Telecommunications Device for the Deaf: 513-345-2248 www.cincyplay.com Program Advertising Sales: 866-503-1966 Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a proud member of the League of Cincinnati Theatres. ADVERTISING Onstage Publications Advertising Department 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 Email: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Dayton, Ohio 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher and the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Onstage Publications is a division of Just Business, Inc. Contents ©2018. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. 5 • IN THIS ISSUE NOTES FROM BLAKE & BUZZ Welcome back to Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park! We’re kicking off the new season with two plays that promise thrills, chills and laughter. In an age of celebrity worship and in a culture where violence is becoming all too familiar, how far would you go to get what you want … or merely to survive? Misery is a psychological thriller from master storyteller Stephen King. Famous novelist Paul Sheldon is held hostage by his “Number One Fan” Annie Wilkes, as she forces him to write a longed-for sequel to his series of romance novels featuring the character of Misery Chastain. This is not the Stephen King of vampires and ghosts. Rather, it’s a tense and unpredictable tightwire act between an author and his overzealous fan that’s sure to get your adrenaline pumping! Jen Silverman’s comedy-drama The Roommate explores similar themes. When lonely homebody Sharon takes in Robyn as her new housemate, she, too, must face the question of how far to go. Who is this mysterious newcomer, and why does she feel drawn to her life of intrigue and danger? A hit at the renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays, this Cincinnati premiere is our second production by Silverman, who penned the musical drama All the Roads Home two seasons ago. Looking ahead, we hope you’re planning to join us for the rest of this monumental season. In October, we return to the world of Jane Austen with a charmingly imagined sequel to Pride and Prejudice called Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Join us to see young, bookish Mary Bennet have her shot at love and happiness! Then, in November, we celebrate the history and legacy of King Records with our world premiere production of Cincinnati King — developed from interviews with dozens of local musicians and Cincinnatians close to the great studio’s story. Following our annual production of A Christmas Carol, we’ve got a special, three-week engagement with Chicago’s famed comedy troupe, The Second City. Then it’s on to In the Heights — the first musical from Hamilton superstar Lin Manuel-Miranda — plus several new plays, an August Wilson masterpiece and a brand-new production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Finally, it’s no secret that we are planning to build a new mainstage theatre right here on our site in beautiful Eden Park. We will share our construction plans with lobby displays and a series of community gatherings. We look forward to revealing our exciting vision for the Playhouse of the future — and to getting your feedback along the way. Thanks for making the Playhouse a regular part of your cultural life. We value your loyal support! Blake Robison Buzz Ward Artistic Director Managing Director 7 • EXECUTIVE NOTES CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK Blake Robison Buzz Ward Artistic Director Managing Director MISERY By WILLIAM GOLDMAN Based on the Novel by STEPHEN KING Director Blake Robison Set Designer Paul Shortt Costume Designer Kathleen Geldard Lighting Designer Xavier Pierce Sound Designer and Composer Matthew M. Nielson Fight Choreographers/Special Effects Coordinators Sordelet Ink: Rick Sordelet and Christian Kelly-Sordelet Sept. 1 – 29, 2018 Robert S. Marx Theatre Production Sponsors: Artist Sponsor: Robert S. Marx Theatre Season presented by: Season Sponsor of New Work: The Rosenthal Family Foundation Marx Season Design Sponsor: Additional support provided by: Originally produced on Broadway by Warner Theatre Ventures in association with Castle Rock Entertainment; and produced by Liz Glotzer, Mark Kaufman, Martin Shafer and Raymond Wu; Associate Producer Andrew Welch. World Premiere produced at Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA (Jed Bernstein, Producing Director.) Misery is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. CAST (in speaking order) Annie Wilkes Barbara Chisholm* Paul Sheldon David Whalen* Buster Kenneth Early* Production Stage Manager Jenifer Morrow* Second Stage Manager Brooke Redler* Stage Management Intern Angelica Ortiz Time: 1987 Place: Colorado Misery will be performed without an intermission. Additional Production Staff Assistant Director Katie Baskerville Additional Prop Run Crew Emily Graver Thank you to Douglas Puskas for use of his Misery book cover designs. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States and with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees-Local No. 5. Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park receives partial funding from the Ohio Arts Council, a state agency created to foster and encourage the development of the arts and to preserve Ohio’s cultural heritage. Funding from the Ohio Arts Council is an investment of state tax dollars that promotes economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. MISERY • 12 BARBARA CHISHOLM Company, Arden Theatre Company, Folger Theatre, Hartford Stage, Everyman Theatre, Round (Annie Wilkes) House Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Barbara is overjoyed to return Laguna Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, to Cincinnati Playhouse in Syracuse Stage, The Repertory Theatre of the Park following her 2016 St. Louis, Gulfshore Playhouse, The People’s Light appearance in Erma Bombeck: and Theatre Company, the Venice Bienalle Festival At Wit’s End. Hailing from and PlayMakers Repertory Company, among Austin, Texas, regional others. Awards include Performer of the Year by the appearances include Erma Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; nominated and/or received Bombeck at Arena Stage in Kevin Kline, Barrymore and Helen Hayes awards. Washington D.C.; Three Quarter Inches of Sky at Film and television credits include American Pastoral; Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis; Keep Your Forks Southpaw; The Last Witch Hunter; The Fault in Our at Berkeley Rep; Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Stars; Jack Reacher; Insomnia; Bystander; The First Seal; Molly Ivins in Austin; The Women at San Diego Rep; 61*; I’ll Call You; The Christmas Tree; Black Dahlia; and multiple appearances with the iconoclastic My Bloody Valentine; True Blue; Indictment: The Rude Mechs. Film credits include a supporting role McMartin Trial; Without Warning; Three Rivers; in the Oscar-nominated Boyhood, as well as roles in Pensacola; Silk Stalkings; Diagnosis: Murder; All My Mr. Roosevelt and Fast Food Nation, among others. Children and The Guiding Light. Please visit On television, she appeared in the Emmy Award- www.davidwhalenactor.com. winning American Crime and Friday Night Lights. She has thrice been voted Best Actor in the Austin Chronicle’s annual Best of Austin and is the recipient KENNETH EARLY of multiple B. Iden Payne Awards, Austin Critics’ (Buster) Table Awards and Drama Logue awards for acting. Kenneth is grateful to be on As Producing Director of Red Then Productions, the Cincinnati Playhouse in Barbara starred in When Something Wonderful the Park stage once again. His Ends and produced two highly successful runs of other Playhouse credits include a one-man adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. Philmore in Jitney and Reverend She teaches acting at the University of Texas at Sykes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Austin, is married to journalist, director and actor A Cincinnati native and Robert Faires and is the proud parent of early career resident, Kenneth’s other director, Rosalind Faires. regional credits include: Ira Aldrigde in Red Velvet, Sam in The Whipping Man, Phileas Fogg in Around DAVID WHALEN the World in 80 Days, Aldrin in Dancing Princesses, Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland and Brooks in (Paul Sheldon) Grey Gardens, all at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati; David returns to Cincinnati Crooks in Of Mice and Men, Reverend Sykes in Playhouse in the Park having To Kill a Mockingbird and John Prentice Sr. in previously appeared in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, all at Cincinnati Shakespeare in Love (Ned Shakespeare Company; Bill Ray in On Golden Pond Alleyn) and A Prayer for Owen at The Human Race Theatre Company in Dayton, Meany (Dan Needham). Ohio; Death and Radio Voice in Pluto, Maddox in Recently,
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