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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film Angell Blackfriars Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts NoËl coward’s blithe spirit directed by casey seymour kim Scenic Design Costume Design Sara Ossana david costa-cabral Lighting Design Wig Design jen rock michael dates Sound Design Vocal and Dialect Coach dave rabinow megan chang Blithe Spirit is presented by special arrangement wtih Samuel French 235 Park Avenue South 5th Floor New York, NY 10003 “Always” Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin used by special arrangement with Irving Berlin Music Company, 1633 Broadway Suite 3801 New York, NY 10019 the cast EDITH Courteney Olenzak RUTH CONDOMINE Jennifer Dorn CHARLES CONDOMINE Justin Maloney MR GEORGE BRADMAN Jonathan Coppe MRS VIOLET BRADMAN Mary Reagan MADAME ARCATI Tanner Henry ELIVIRA CONDOMINE Katrina Pavao FEMALE UNDERSTUDY Sabrina Guilbeault MALE UNDERSTUDY Brian Kozak An English Summer, 1941 Kent County, England There will be one ten-minute intermission. special thanks Paula McGlasson University of Rhode Island Maria Day University of Rhode Island Ed Shea Second Story Theatre production staff STAGE MANAGER BOX OFFICE MANAGER A. Simone Alexandra Chasse ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS BOX OFFICE & PUBLICITY Gaby DeParis Alexandra Chasse Logan Serabian Gabi Dess Haley Grant LIGHT BOARD OPERATOR Joanna McDonough Patrick Rogers Hayley McGuirl Gloriana Navarro-Delgado SOUND BOARD OPERATOR Amanda Talbot Annie Rodriguez HOUSE MANAGERS PROPERTIES PROCUREMENT Gabi Dess Tray Gearing Hayley McGuirl Gloriana Navarro-Delgaddo WARDROBE RUNNING CREW Amanda Talbot Sabrina Guilbeault George Killian COSTUME SHOP CREW Patrick Tulley Ashley Lewis Gloriana Navarro-Delgado RUNNING CREW Maggie Oaks Gaby DeParis Rebecca Petrocelli Sabrina Guilbeault Rosie Turner Brian Kozak SCENE SHOP CREW Logan Serabian Jake Denton Emily Zalis Mark Folan Benita Kalala ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Conor Lane Gabrielle Marks Erin Lasher Irene Miles PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY Maria Munar Gabi Dess Emily Sawicki Alison Simone USHERS The Friars Club POSTER Coyote Hill director’s notes Thank you so much for coming to knew it was well constructed, and I also see this exciting production of Noel knew that it would be a success.”3 Coward’s Blithe Spirit. We have been And, as mentioned above, a success it blessed with a talented student cast was. and crew, as well as a dedicated team of professional designers and builders. The dedication of this Providence Theater is a collaborative art form, and College cast, who have thrown this community of artists has united to themselves enthusiastically into the create a fun and lively evening. world of Cowardly manners and wit, is further evidence of Blithe Spirit’s Blithe Spirit first premiered in London’s continued appeal. Charles, Ruth, and West End in 1941 and was an instant Elvira, go about their business with a hit—a run on Broadway soon followed, remarkably casual attitude towards death along with movie and musical adaptations, and the dead. Added into the mix is the television and radio productions, and a oddly comforting eccentric Madame number of subsequent revivals. Arcati, whose presence implies that one According to biographers, Noel Coward of life’s great mysteries—death, and had long wanted to write a ghost story. what happens to us after we die—is a He initially imagined a haunted Parisian process that actually involves a degree of manor full of bickering ghosts from logic and system that one can explore, different centuries, but a tidy plot evaded understand, and potentially master. This him.1 Great Britain was also troubled by leaves those of us in the audience with, the trauma and distress of the Second perhaps, a degree of hope—but most World War. With death and loss a definitely with permission to laugh in the constant presence, Coward determined face of fear. that any comedy concerning ghosts Thank you again for supporting the needed to avoid sentiment and sincerity performing arts at Providence College -- “(y)ou can’t sympathize with any of -- enjoy the show! [these characters]. If there was a heart it would be a sad story.” 2 Casey Seymour Kim, Director And so he set out to write a piece that navigates the often treacherous waters of satire, playfully embracing irreverence 1Graham Payn (1994) and disregarding solemnity, creating a My Life with Noel Coward world in which death was not necessarily 2 accompanied by sorrow. He finished the Philip Hoare (1995) first draft in six days and, as he later wrote Noel Coward, A Biography “I will admit that I knew it was witty. I 3Noel Coward (1954) Future Indefinite resident & guest artists MEGAN CHANG he began designing in 1984. David is (Voice & Dialect Coach) has recently thrilled to be designing costumes for joined the Theatre, Dance, and Film Blithe Spirit. His most recent design faculty at Providence College to teach work at Providence College was The Voice & Diction, Oral Interpretation, Imaginary Invalid where he designed and Public Speaking. Previously, she both costumes and wigs. David spent was vocal coach for Marie Antoinette: the this past summer as Costume Director Color of Flesh, and The Imaginary Invalid and Costume Designer at Bill Hanney’s at Providence College. Off-campus, she Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck RI and has worked with Triad Stage in North at The North Shore Music Theatre in Carolina on a variety of productions Beverly, MA where he designed Grease including The 39 Steps, A Christmas Carol, and Annie. David has a BA in Theatre and Dial M for Murder. She also recently from Rhode Island College and an MFA completed a workshop series with BB&T in Costume Design from Southern Bank’s training facilitators that looked at Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. communication and presentational skills. Among his vast design credits during She received her MFA in Vocal Pedagogy the past few seasons are The Sound of from Virginia Commonwealth University Music, How to Succeed in Business... and with a certification in Oxyrhythms, a The King and I for Ocean State Theatre breath, body, and voice warm-up and Company, Follies, West Side Story, conditioning system designed for actors. Oklahoma!, Curtains and Machinal at The Previous coaching credits include: The Boston Conservatory, Avenue Q, Adrift Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Serjeant in Macao, Noises Off, Souvenir, and A Little Musgrave’s Dance, Deadly Sins, La Dispute, Night Music at the Lyric Stage of Boston, The Dragon, The Cherry Orchard, Hoodoo Jesus Christ Superstar, Big River and Loves Love, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Labors Lost at LaSalle Academy and The Blood Knot, August: Osage County, Rodgers Learned Ladies at The Walnut Hill School & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, 1776 in Natick. David has created costume (University of North Carolina School designs for everything from The Miss of the Arts);The Glass Menagerie, Cabaret, America Pageant, The International Dracula, Psycho Beach Party (Virginia Fringe Festival, The Lyric Stage to The Commonwealth University); The Mystery Publick Theatre. of Edwin Drood (Appomattox Regional Governors School). MICHAEL DATES (Wig Design) Michael is a costume, wig, DAVID COSTA-CABRAL and makeup designer from Providence, (Costume Design): David is a tenured RI. Recent work includes costume design Full Professor of Theatre, Dance and for …Always, Patsy Cline (Ocean State Film here at Providence College where Theater Company), Arsenic and Old Lace (Rhode Island College), The Mountain Top Undergraduate levels. She runs her (Central Square Theater), 44 Plays for 44 design studio in Warren, RI including Presidents (Elemental Theater Collective), her furniture line: O&G Studio. You can Vacancy (Elemental Theater Collective), see her work at www.sossana.com Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Perishable/ Trinity). Favorite wig design credits DAVE RABINOW include Ivanov, (Trinity Rep)Intimate (Sound Design) Dave Rabinow is a Apparel (Trinity Rep), Vanya and Sonia graduate of the Trinity Rep Conservatory and Masha, and Spike (Trinity Rep), Annie and a founding member of the (Theatre By the Sea), La Cage Aux Folles Elemental Theatre Collective, which (Theatre by the Sea), Winter Wonderettes will be producing his one-woman show (OSTC), and Thoroughly Modern Millie Ghost Story in 2015. He has performed ( Boston Conservatory). Michael is at Trinity Rep, the Gamm Theatre, a graduate from Miami’s New World Second Story Theatre, and the Wilbury School of the Arts and holds a B.A. in Group, where he will be performing this Theatre from Rhode Island College. Spring in Gina Gionfriddo's Rapture, Blister, Burn! He is a frequent guest at SARA OSSANA Keith Munslow's Empire Revue, and (Scenic Design) Sara’s Scenic Design a member of Improv Jones and the credits include: These Shining Lives, The Providence Improv Guild's musical Illusion and Romeo & Juliet for Providence group. He teaches playwriting at College; Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo Providence College, the Gamm Studio and Juliet, Don Carlos, The Taming of the and Trinity Rep's YASI program.