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Talley's Folly 2009-2010 SEASON C ON OTHER STAGES C T3PEOPLE ARTS DISTRICT CHORALE BOARD OF DIRECTORS DEC 17 Mysteries of an Illumined Night CHAIRShanna Nugent Cobbs CIRCLE THEATRE LIAISON, CITY OF DALLAS CULTURAL COMMISSION TailimSong NOV 27 - DEC 19 A Lonestar Christmas Carol: The NewMusical BOARD MEMBERS JacAlder, Cameron Ballantyne, J. Carl Cecere, Roland B[VirginiaDykes, Sally Han­ CONTEMPORARY THEATRE OF DALLAS sen, David G. Luther, Sandra Mundy, Dana Rigg, NOV 27 - DEC 20 The Santaland Diaries Elizabeth Rivera, Eileen Rosenblum, PhD, Rebecca A. Thomas, Deborah B. Tull, Karen Washington DALLAS BLACK DANCE THEATRE HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS GaryW. Grubbs, John DEC 2 - 6 Winter Series Strauss DALLAS CHILDREN'S THEATER CORPORATE ADVISORY COUNCIL NOV 21 - DEC 21 The Best Christmas Pageant Ever TNS PARTNERS Jim Chambers NOV 20- DEC 22 Santa's Holiday for Strings ALLIE BETH ALLMAN & ASSOCIATES DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS Bill & Marsue Williams DEC 1 - 12 Christmas with The Rat Pack GABLES RESIDENTIAL Cindy Davis DEC 1 - 20 The 101 DalmatiansMusical HEALTH SEARCH, LLC Dodie Butler QUICKSILVER INTERACTIVE GROUP, INC. DALLAS THEATER CENTER Jeannine Lee DEC 1 - 27 A Christmas Carol THE FAIRMONT HOTELShannah Milstead DALLAS SYMPHONY MEADOWS SCHOOL OF MUSIC Nancy Cochran DEC Cheer!: A Christmas Celebration 10 - 20 ADMINISTRATION DALLAS WIND SYMPHONY EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JacAlder Expertise &. Professionalism DEC 22 Christmas at theMeyerson COMPANY MANAGER Terry Dobson When It Counts ASSISTANT PRODUCER CoryNorm�n EISEMANN CENTER FOR THE DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS JoanSleight PERFORMING ARTS IN-HOUSE ACCOUNTANT Wendy Kwan The Image After Nov 19 - 22 Robert Dubac's TheMale Intellect: The 2nd Coming DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS <1(COMMUNICATIONS Ken Birdsell, photojournalist Kimberly Richard www.imageafter.net GARLAND CIVIC THEATRE IT MANAGER Nick Rushing NOV 12 -DEC 5 ChristmasMy Way INTERN SUPERVISOR John Davenport 214-364-6992 GREATER LEWISVILLE EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT COMMUNITY THEATRE Adele Acrey HOUSEKEEPING Kevin Spurrier DEC 4- 20 A Tuna Christmas IRVING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRODUCTION TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Pucul DEC 12 Blue Christmas MUSICAL DIRECTOR Terry Dobson JUBILEE THEATRE RESIDENT ARTISTS Bruce R. Coleman, Jeffrey Reviews DEC 4-27 Home for the Holidays Schmidt, & David Walsh News INTERN STAFF KITCHEN DOG THEATER David Gibson, Thomas Meche,Samantha Saucedo, Theater NOV 13 - DEC 12 Slasher and SaraSchultz Features LEVEL GROUND ARTS CUSTOMER SERVICE Biogs NOV 19 - 28 Crushing Grain CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER POCKET SANDWICH THEATRE Amy Mills Jackson Turn your HOUSE MANAGER Nancy Meeks Classical Music NOV 27 - DEC 23 Ebenezer Scrooge DAYTIME BOX OFFICE MANAGER Listings RICHARDSON THEATRE CENTRE Darius Warren NOV 27 - DEC 20 Into the Woods autos into art & Humor EVENING BOX OFFICE MANAGER Dance STAGE WEST Fred Faust TH Ru Nov 29 Good Things BOX OFFICE AGENTS Tony Banda,Sally Cole, Fred Faust, Chris Sanders donate it to Video DEC 10- JAN 17 A Don't Hug Me Christmas Carol DIRECTOR OF TELEMARKETING Carol Crosby TEXAS BALLET THEATER TELEMARKETING AGENTS NOV 27 - DEC 6 The Nutcracker Don Baab, Deborah Byrd, Rose Quinn, Natha Theatre Three! Taylor, Roger Wilson THEATRE ARLINGTON At TheaterJones, DEC 4 - 20 Kringle's Window we're all performing arts. TURTLE CREEK CHORALE All the time. DEC 11 - 13 A Very Special Holiday Special ,,. UNDERMAIN THEATRE This playbill is a publication ofTheatre Three, Inc., 2800 Routh NOV 11 - DEC 12 Port Twight, or The History of Science Street, Suite 168, Dallas, Texas 75201, 214-871-3300, www.theatre3dallas,com in support of Talley's Folly(the third VOCAL MAJORITY CHORUS show of the 2009-2010 Theatre Three Season) and Another DEC 3 - 6 The Island ofMiefitToys Night Before Christmas (the fourth show of the 2009-2010 Theatre Too Season). WATERTOWER THEATRE PLAYBILL EDITORS: Jae Alder c( Kimberly Richard PROOFREADER: Adele Acrey DEC 3 - 23 Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings TheaterJones.coa ILLUSTRATION: Joe Howard To donate, call 214-871-3300, PHOTOGRAPHY: Ken Birdsell/The Image After ext. #20 . Uno�structed views DESIGN Cl[LAYOUT: David w Radabaugh/D Magazine 4 - C EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JAC ALDER PRESENTS ... Talley's Folly PLAYWRIGHT LanfordWilson Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service Inc. Lanford Wilson ARTISTIC STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF THEATRE PLAYWRIGHT THREE DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN/SOUND AEA STAGE MANAGER DESIGN *Bruce R. Coleman Mr. Wilson is the author of 17 full-length theatre company with a strong emphasis JeffreySchmidt TECHNICAL DIRECTOR and over 30 short plays. He has received on ensemble and design. He directed/ COSTUME DESIGN Daniel Pucul numerous awards including the Brandeis Bruce R. Coleman designed/wrote The Old Woman in the MASTER CARPENTER Creative Arts Award, The Institute of Arts LIGHTING DESIGN JeffreySchmidt Wood inspired by a Grimm's fairy tale and and Letters Award, fourObies, two New Amanda West MASTER ELECTRICIAN directed/co-designed/adapted Strindberg's York Drama Critic's Circle Awards and David Gibson The Ghost Sonata forThe Drama Club. In CAST the Pulitzer Prize forDrama. He was one SCENIC ARTIST February, he will be performingin Lysistrata MATT FRIEDMAN David Walsh of fourfounders of The Circle Repertory *Chuck Huber in Oklahoma City, after which, he will PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Company and was resident playwright focushis attentions on directing/designing SALLY TALLEY Thomas Meche there from1969-1995. His plays include Kira Obalensky's Lobster Alice forSecond *Shauna McLean PRODUCTION CREW So Long at the Fair; Home Free!; The Thought Theatre. He is represented by the John Davenport, David Gibson, Madness of Lady Bright; This Is the Rill Thomas Meche, Samantha Mary Collins Agency. Speaking; The Rimers ofEldritch; The Saucedo and Sara Schultz Gingham Dog; Lemon Sky; Serenading Bruce R. Coleman COSTUME DESIGN/ SCEN E SYNOPSIS Louie; The Hot L Baltimore; The Mound AEA STAGE MANAGER» Mr. Coleman PLACE Builders; Fifthofjuly; Talley alSon; Talley's has been associated with Theatre Three An old boathouse on the Talley Folly; Balm in Gilead; Angels Fall; Burn since 1985. Some past costume design place, a farmnear Lebanon, This; Redwood Curtain; Book of Days; Missouri credits forTheatre Three include The Sympathetic Magic; and Rain Dance. He 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling has translated The Three Sisters and TIME Bee, Snake in the Grass, Murder on the Ghosts, written the teleplays Taxi! and July 4, 1944. Early evening. Nile, Trysts in Toledo (Column Award), The Migrants (both Emmy nominees) and Look What's Happened to Pixie De Costa, written the libretto for Lee Hoibe's opera The Boyfriend, The Women,JuneMoon, of Summer and Smoke. He is a member Who/fey Moliere, Into the Woods, and of the theatre group Circle East and is on both the recent and original productions the Dramatists Guild Council. of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Other favoritedesign projects include ARTISTIC STAFF Into the Woods (Rabin Award), The Secret On this page: Garden (Column Award) and Dracflla Shauna McLean and JeffreySchmidt DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN/ for /CT Mainstage in Irving, Richard the Chuck Huber SOUND DESIGN »Mr.Schmidt last Third (Critics Forum Award) and Reckless directed/designed Sor Juana Ines de la for Kitchen Dog Theatre, and As You Like Cruz's Trysts In Toledo forTheatre Three It, Bollywood Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as Ben Elton's Popcorn,Tennessee and Much Ado About Nothing forThe William's Vieux Carre and Truman Capote's Junior Players of Dallas. A Christmas Memory. Other directing credits include Manifesto2001 al2002 and Amanda West LIGHTING DESIGN» Ms. Sex Drugs, and Rock and Roll at MoonWater West holds a BFA from Texas Wesleyan Theater Company, Bridge to China Basin at University and returns to assist us the Out of the Loop Festival, and Craving in lighting design, having previously Gravy at Ground Zero Theater Company. designed lights at Theatre Three for The Other recent scenic design credits include 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Trysts in Toledo, and Don't Dress for Bee and Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks Dinner. Her work is well known in area forTheatre Three and Cinderella forSt. theatres including: The History Boys at John's Episcopal School. He was the Uptown Players; and WaterTowerTheatre, There will be no intermission for this show. artistic director ofMoonWater Theater Dallas; Duncanville Community Theatre; * indicates members working under Actor's Please silence your cell phones and all Equity Association contracts in this production .. electronic devices. No photography or Company forthree years. He is co-founder Circle Theatre, Fire Station Theatre, ** indicates a performer enrolled in the AEA videography is allowed without the consent of of the recently formedThe Drama Club, a Jubilee Theatre, Santa Fe Train Station, membership candidate program. the theater. C TALLEY'S FOLLY BIOGRAPHIES C ABOUT THE SET OF TALLEY'S FOLLY LEFT TO RIGHT: Shauna McLean and Take a reallyclose look at the Chuck Huber Talley'sFolly set. Does it look green to you? People don't normally associate theater with being environmentally friendly, _,. especially when it comes to building a set. Most sets are built quickly and intended fortemporary use. While certain elements of sets are often saved to be reused forupco ming productions, quite a bit of material can end up in the trash afterthe show closes. Some W. E. Scott Theatre, Stage include The Deep End and performedin The materials used forsets are not environ­ West and the
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