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8 SUMMER 2018 Presents MEMPHIS Book and Lyrics By Music and Lyrics by JOE DIPIETRO DAVID BRYAN Based on a Concept by GEORGE W. GEORGE Orchestrations by DARYL WATERS and DAVID BRYAN Starring JOSH CANFIELD MOEISHA MCGILL MELVIN ABSTON LESLIE ALEXANDER KEVIN BERNARD STEVE BRADY DEMONE HORACE V ROGERS RASHAD NAYLOR CHRIS PERSICHETTI

ZACH EISENBERG VERONICA FIAONI CHELSEA P. FREEMAN CEDRIC GREENE DEUNDRE C JAMES ALEXA JANE LOWIS TIFFANY MELLARD CAITLIN MESIANO ANDREW METZGAR HARPER MILES PORSHA PUTNEY JUSTIN WILLIAM SCHAFFNER MARIANNE SCHMIDT JOHN SIMPSON SHAUN-AVERY WILLIAMS ANTHONY WRIGHT Executive Artistic Director PAUL ALLAN Production Manager Director of Business Operations Casting Director BRIAN LOESCH JEFF BELLANTE MICHAEL BAKER

Production Stage Manager Company Manager Director of Development NIKKI LINT AUBREY KYLER SCOT ALLAN

Scenic Designer Costume Design is based on Lighting Designer EDWARD T. MORRIS Original Costume Design by MARCIA MADEIRA PAUL TAZEWELL

Musical Director on Friday, July 27, 2018 JEFFREY HOFFMAN Choreographed by GERRY MCINTYRE and DEBBIE ROSHE at 6:00pm Director DAVID RUTTURA

Memphis is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide (TRW), 1180 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, New York 10036. (866) 378-9758. www.theatricalrights.com Originally produced on Broadway by Junkyard Dog Productions, Barbara and Buddy Freitag, Marleen and Kenny Alhadeff, Latitude Link, Jim and Susan Blair, Demos Bizar Entertainment, Land Line Productions, Apples and Oranges Productions, Dave Copley, Dancap Productions, Inc., Alex and Katya Lukianov, Tony Ponturo, 2 Guys Productions, Richard Winkler, in association with Lauren Doll, Eric and Marsi Gardiner, Linda and Bill Potter, Broadway Across America, Jocko Productions, Patty Baker, and Dan Frishwasser, Bob Bartner/Scott and Kayla Union, Loraine Boyle/Chase Mishkin, Remmel T. Dickinson/Memphis Orpheum Group, Shadowcatcher Entertainment/Vijay and Sita Vashee.

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CAST OF CHARACTERS Huey Calhoun...... JOSH CANFIELD* Felicia Farrell...... MOEISHA MCGILL* Delray Jones...... MELVIN ABSTON* Gator...... HORACE V. ROGERS* Bobby...... DEMONE* Gladys Calhoun...... LESLIE ALEXANDER* Mr. Simmons...... KEVIN BERNARD* Wailin’ Joe / Reverend Hobson...... RASHAD NAYLOR* Buck Wiley / Martin Holton / Perry Como...... CHRIS PERSICHETTI* Gordon Grant / Ensemble...... STEVE BRADY* Ethel / Ensemble...... CHELSEA P. FREEMAN Mr. Collins / Ensemble...... JOHN SIMPSON Clara / Ensemble...... MARIANNE SCHMIDT Ensemble...... ZACH EISENBERG, VERONICA FIAONI, CEDRIC GREENE DEUNDRE C. JAMES*, ALEXA JANE LOWIS, TIFFANY MELLARD* CAITLIN MESIANO, ANDREW METZGAR, HARPER MILES PORSHA PUTNEY, JUSTIN WILLIAM SCHAFFNER SHAUN-AVERY WILLIAMS, and ANTHONY WRIGHT Production Stage Manager...... NIKKI LINT* Dance Captain...... DEUNDRE C. JAMES*

UNDERSTUDIES Huey Calhoun...... CHRISTOPHER PERSICHETTI* Felicia Farrell...... HARPER MILES Delray Jones...... Gator...... ANTHONY WRIGHT Bobby...... SHAUN-AVERY WILLIAMS Gladys Calhoun...... ALEXA JANE LOWIS Mr. Simmons...... MICHAEL EDWARD BAKER* Wailin’ Joe / Reverend Hobson...... SHAUN-AVERY WILLIAMS Buck Wiley / Holton / Perry C...... MICHAEL EDWARD BAKER*

MUSICIANS Music Director / Conductor...... JEFFREY HOFFMAN Keys 2 ...... HOSUN MOON Trumpet...... BARRY SCHWALB Sax...... MICHAEL KENDROT Guitar...... JOE LOSCHIAVO Bass...... KEENAN ZACH Drums...... FRANK CANNON

*Actors employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The Director/Choreographer is a member of the The Musicians employed in this production are Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, members of the American Federation of Musicians. Inc., an independent national labor union.

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ACT I “Underground”...... Delray, Felicia, and Company “The Music of My Soul”...... Huey, Felicia, and Company “Scratch My Itch”...... Wailin’ Joe and Company “Hello, My Name is Huey”...... Huey “Everybody Wants to Be Black on a Saturday Night”...... Company “Make Me Stronger”...... Huey, Gladys, Felicia, and Company “Colored Woman”...... Felicia “Someday”...... Felicia and Company “She’s My Sister”...... Delray and Huey “Radio”...... Huey and Company “Say a Prayer”...... Gator and Company

ACT II “Crazy Little Huey”...... Huey and Company “Big Love”...... Bobby “Love Will Stand When All Else Falls”...... Felicia and Company “Stand Up”...... Delray, Felicia, Huey, Gator, Bobby, and Company “Change Don’t Come Easy”...... Gladys, Delray, Gator, and Bobby “Tear Down the House”...... Huey and Company “Love Will Stand/Ain’t Nothin’ But a Kiss” (Reprise)...... Felicia and Huey “Memphis Lives in Me”...... Huey and Company “Steal Your Rock ‘n’ Roll”...... Huey, Felicia, and Company

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GATEWAY PLAYHOUSE 21 ALEXA JANE LOWIS (Ensemble, u/s Gladys Calhoun) is overwhelmed with gratitude to be returning to Gateway for her third Who's Who production. She last appeared as CAITLIN MESIANO (Ensemble) Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense, and as Alexi is elated to return to The Darling in RENT. Recently she made her Off Gateway Playhouse after recently Broadway debut as a swing in Me The People: appearing in Nunsense as Sister The Trump Parody Musical playing Melania Mary Amnesia. Other Gateway Trump, Ivanka Trump, Betsy DeVos, and many (Patchogue Theatre): South Pacific, Beauty and more. Other credits include: White Christmas the Beast; Off Broadway: Abigail/Prudence in (Rita), West Side Story (Anybodys), and Principal Whiskey Pants: The Mayor of Williamsburg. Singer on Norwegian Cruise Lines. Big thanks to Regional: Sister Act (North Shore Music Theatre, Mom, Nat, Ron, Dad, Joyce, TPG, Michael Baker, Theatre By the Sea, St. Michael’s Playhouse); Gerry McIntyre, and the entire Gateway family. A Christmas Carol (John W. Engeman Theater). Others: Jo in Little Women (Bob Jones University), MOEISHA MCGILL (Felicia) is Little Red in Into the Woods with St. Petersburg very excited to join the Gateway Opera. BFA in Musical Theater from Pace Playhouse family again after University in Manhattan. Thanks to the Gateway starring in RENT last year and family, UIA, and Hudson Artists. closing the season with Lil’ Shop @caitlinmesiano (instagram) of Horrors. Broadway: RENT, Mamma Mia!, Motown. Off-Broadway/Regional: They Wrote ANDREW METZGAR (Ensemble) That? (Promenade theatre), Baby (Lizzie; previously performed at The Papermill Playhouse), Bagdad Cafe (Phyllis); Gateway in Nice Work If You Can International Tour, Princesses (5th Avenue Get It (Floyd). National Tours: theatre), Jesus Christ Superstar (Westchester Bullets Over Broadway (Swing), Broadway theatre). Thanks to friends, family and Shrek the Musical (Peter Pan), Radio City my incredible husband Jason! Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall & CAA). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Ogunquit, TIFFANY MELLARD (Ensemble) Engeman, MSMT, Woodstock. BFA in Dance from is thrilled to join the cast of Marymount Manhattan College. Endless thanks Memphis at Gateway Playhouse! to Sofia and Brittany at CESD. For Mom, Dad, Previous shows include: CHICAGO Will, Donna Grim, and Baayork. (National Tour), West Side Story (International Tour). Alumna of “The FAME HARPER MILES (Ensemble, u/s School” and Florida State University (BFA Dance). Felicia Farrell) is so excited to be Endless love and gratitude to God, my family, and a part of the Gateway family. She CESD! Proud AEA member. tiffanymellard.com was most recently performing in the Tony Award winning show After Midnight alongside Brenda Braxton directed by Warren Carlyle and Jason Sparks. Some of her other credits include Tina in Sister Act: The Musical and Kyra in Bare: The Pop Opera. Harper can also be seen in commercials throughout LA and NYC. She can currently be seen in JCPenneys

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PORSHA PUTNEY (Ensemble) MARIANNE SCHMIDT (Ensemble) is delighted to be making her received her B.A. in Theatre from Gateway Playhouse debut! She Adelphi University and M.A. grew up in Maryland, then moved from Stony Brook University. She to NYC to attend The Ailey School/ performed in many high school and Fordham University. She graduated with a BFA college productions and has taught preschool dance degree. Porsha’s favorite credits include, in the area for twenty years. She is making “Tiger Lily” in Peter Pan 360, Broadway Bounty her debut at Gateway. She would like to thank Hunter, and Ragtime on Ellis Island. Recently, Michael for this opportunity, all the fabulous She made her TV debut on Pose and SNL. Porsha teachers she’s had at Gateway, and her loving would like to thank CESD, her family, friends and husband and family. boyfriend for the support! @porshap_InnerQueenBoutique JOHN SIMPSON (Ensemble) made his acting debut playing HORACE V. ROGERS (Gator)- Hugo Peabody in Gateway’s 1962 Broadway: Brooklyn: The Musical, Bye Bye Birdie. He came back Disney’s Tarzan. Off-Broadway: the following year to play Emmet Party People Public Theater (Solias) in Take Her, She’s Mine. Lots of TV and radio Toronto: The Lion King (Mufasa). commercials and shots on The Patty Duke Show Tours: Rent (Thom Collins), The Color Purple followed. He took over the title role in the original (Grady ), Memphis: The Musical (Delray), Kinky off-Broadway production of You’re a Good Boots (Simon Sr.). National Black Theater Festival: Man, Charlie Brown. John is a member of the

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GATEWAY PLAYHOUSE 29 Me: Alliance Theatre and Planet Hollywood Las Vegas, Laura Comstock Dog Punching Bag (LA Weekly Nomination), Spamilton: Triade Theatre and Forbidden Vegas at the Weston Hotel. Who's Who Care Theatre, a charitable production company. DEBBIE ROSHE (Choregrapher) choreographed Follow him at Jeffhoffmancoachin.wixsite.com/ Palm Beach at La Jolla Playhouse, directed by coach Des McAnuff, A Novel Romance and Zona, The Ghost Of Greenbrier Off-Broadway, and MARCIA MADEIRA (Lighting Designer) is thrilled Damn Yankees at the Ivoryton Playhouse. More to be back at Gateway with Paul, Brian, David, recently she choreographed Boys Cry More, Jeff, Bill and Nikki. Her favorite designs here a music video for the artist RESH. Other work include Nice Work, 42nd Street, Singing in the includes Sing A Christmas Song at George Street Rain, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, West Side Story, Playhouse, Young Tom Edison for Theatreworks Sugar, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Gypsy and The USA, Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego? for Fantastics. She won the Shellie Award for Les PBS, The Dana Carvey Show, and Sky Dancers. Miserables, and for Joseph…Dreamcoat at the She choreographed a new version of Diamonds in Contra Costa Musical Theatre. She has designed Kansas City, a National Tour of The Rocky Horror ice shows for eleven RCCL cruise ships with rinks. Show, and the nightclub act A Bushel of Nuts. Previously Ms. Madeira received a Tony In addition, she is well known for her classes at nomination and won The Drama Desk Award for Steps On Broadway that attract many Broadway the original NINE directed by Tommy Tune with dancers and Radio City Rockettes. This will be her Raul Julia. Other Broadway designs include My first time at Gateway. One and Only with Tommy Tune and Twiggy; and The Music Man with Dick van Dyke, directed and NIKKI LINT (Production Stage Manager) Previous choreographed by Michael Kidd. Member: United Gateway credits: A Chorus Line, Saturday Night Scenic Artists, Local 829. (www.mtmdesigns.org) Fever, Billy Elliot, The Addams Family, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, Grease, Cats, My Fair EDWARD T. MORRIS (Scenic Designer) Lady, 9 to 5. Additional PSM credits: Maltz Jupiter has designed for Shanghai Dramatic Arts Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Engeman Theater, Center, Yale Repertory Theatre, Martha Adrienne Arsht Center, Second City, Forbidden Graham Dance Company, LaMama, The Barrow Broadway, American Girl Theatre, among others. Group, Goodspeed Opera House, Cherry Lane Nikki was a Production Assistant on the 1st Theater, Opera Memphis, Westport Country National Tour of Mary Poppins, Assistant Stage Playhouse, and Weston Playhouse among many Manager on Roundabout Theatre’s National Tour others. Education: BFA, University of Michigan; of Cabaret, and is a Stage Management Sub for MFA, Yale School of Drama. Lecturer: New School of Rock on Broadway. She is a graduate of School for Drama. Member: United Scenic DePaul University and proud AEA member. Artists Local #829 and Wingspace Theatrical Design. Portfolio: www.edwardtmorris.com. JEFFREY HOFFMAN (Musical Director) has been a professional musical director for the past forty- two years. He has worked as an accompanist, arranger, and conductor. Jeff has shared the stage as pianist/conductor with Joe Piscopo, Phyllis Diller, David Brenner, Red Buttons, Rip Taylor, Joan Rivers and Tony Martin and Cyd Charisse. Jeff is thrilled to be back at Gateway to conduct Memphis. Previous Gateway shows: Fosse, Beauty And The Beast, Drowsy Chaperone, Spamalot, Sweeney Todd, Singing in the Rain and South Pacific. He is also the founder of Actors

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We’ve served this richly diverse region as a community hospital for more than 60 years. And as the area has grown, so have we. But as Long Island doctors, nurses, and healthcare professionals, we’ve never outgrown our devotion to the health of the community we all call home.

That commitment can be seen in the Knapp Cardiac Care Center, a new surgical pavilion, our unique ER approach, our women’s imaging, breast health, orthopedics, bariatrics, and so much more.

So while we’ve updated our brand to represent our growth and the patient-fi rst changes we’ve made, there is one thing that will never change: Our commitment to make you feel as comfortable in our home as you do in your own.

Your community. Your hospital. bmhmc.org/community

101 Hospital Rd, Patchogue, NY 11772 • 1.800.694.2440

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