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CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY OF WALNUT CREEK Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director presents Music by Lyrics by Eric Rockwell Joanne Bogart Book by Eric Rockwell & Joanne Bogart Cast Milissa Carey* Dani Marcus* Mark Farrell* Quinn Van Antwerp* Scenic Designer Lighting Designer Costume Designer Robert Broadfoot Kurt Landisman Cassandra Carpenter Sound Designer Film by Stage Manager Jeff Mockus Jeffrey Draper Allison Ward* Musical Direction by Brandon Adams Directed & Choreographed by Mindy Cooper Original New York Production by THE YORK THEATRE COMPANY James Morgan, Producing Artistic Director Commercially Produced in NYC by MELANIE HERMAN May 15 - Jun 14, 2008 Lesher Center for the Arts Margaret Lesher Theatre Season Sponsor Season Partner Season Media Sponsor *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Scenic Designer, Costume Designer, Lighting Designer and Sound Designer are members of United Scenic Artists Union The Director in this production is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers CAST BIOGRAPHIES CREATIVE TEAM ACT 1 Milissa Carey* is delighted to be back Mindy Cooper (Director/ at Center REP after having previously Choreographer) Director and CORN appeared in Tom Foolery and A Christmas Choreographer credits: Broadway- Dracula: The Musical, Wrong Mountain. In the style of Rodgers & Hammerstein Carol. Recent appearances included Amanda in Private Lives at CCT. Off-Broadway- Five Course Love. Other credits include the Broadway National Tour-Titanic. New York City- Big Willy ................................... Quinn Van Antwerp National Tour of Evita, directed by Hal Prince. Bay Area The Gospel According to Tammy Faye (Staged Reading, Manhattan Mother Abby ........................................ Milissa Carey credits include: SF Playhouse (Putting It Together), Pacific Theater Club), Music in the Night, A Tribute to Joanne Kern for June ........................................................Dani Marcus Alliance Stage Company (A Little Night Music), AMTSJ the Broadway Cabaret Series at Town Hall. Regionally- Fiddler Jidder ...................................................... Mark Farrell (Evita), Theatreworks (Sunday in the Park with George, on the Roof (Nevada Conservatory Theater), Urinetown (Artist Amadeus, The Mistress Cycle, Princess Carabou), San Jose Rep in Residence, UC Davis), The New Bozena (Hudson Theater, A LITTLE COMPLEX (Her Lightness), TheatreFirst (Making Noise Quietly, LA), Heart & Soul (St. Petersburg Russia), Fair Liberty’s Call In the style of Stephen Sondheim Conversations After A Burial), Thick Description (Firebird (World Premiere), Chicago, The Secret Annex, Titanic,Jesus Christ Motel, World Premier), Foothill Music Theatre (On the 20th Superstar, Five Course Love. She has choreographed numerous Billy ........................................... Quinn Van Antwerp Century, Kiss Me Kate, Fiddler on the Roof), Willows Theatre benefits, commercials and industrials, as well as Law & Order, Abby ...................................................... Milissa Carey (1776, George Washington Slept Here, Rags), 42nd Street Moon Criminal Intent. As a performer, she has appeared on Broadway Jeune ...................................................... Dani Marcus (Once Upon a Mattress, Nymph Errant, Lady Be Good, On a in Chicago (Original Revival), Titanic (Original Cast), Beauty Jitter ....................................................... Mark Farrell Clear Day), Broadway by the Bay (42nd Street, Phantom of the and the Beast, Song & Dance, and Tenderloin (Encores!). Off- Opera), Theatre Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros), San Francisco Broadway, she has worked extensively at Joseph Papp’s New DEAR ABBY Playwrights Festival, PlayGround and George Coates York Shakespeare Festival in The Petrified Prince, Up Against In the style of Jerry Herman PerformanceWorks. It, Genesis, and The Vineyard Theater’s The Chocolate Ambassador. Regionally, she has performed many classics, William ..................................... Quinn Van Antwerp Mark Farrell* has worked as an actor in including West Side Story, Chicago, Merrily We Roll Along, Pippin, Auntie Abby ......................................... Milissa Carey the Bay Area for over 15 years. He has On Your Toes, A Chorus Line, Singin’ In the Rain and ......Forum. She has danced as a member of Twyla Tharp Dance, The Feld Junie Faye ..............................................Dani Marcus appeared at Center REPertory Company Ballet, The Kansas City Ballet, and David Grenke’s Mr. Jitters ............................................... Mark Farrell in Fugitive Kind, Noel & Gertie, (Bay Area Theatre Critic’s Circle Award/Shellie Thingseziseem Dance Theatre. ACT 2 Award), Around the World in 80 Days Brandon Adams (Musical Director) is thrilled to be involved (Director: Michael Butler), Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and The with Musical of Musicals, having worked with the show’s Mousetrap. Most recently, Mark completed a three-month authors, Joanne Bogart (Mame) and Eric Rockwell (Cabaret) ASPECTS OF JUNITA tour of Belgium and The Netherlands performing in the In the style of Andrew Lloyd Webber at Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company in New Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Completely Hollywood: Hampshire. Some of his favorite Bay Area credits include the Abridged. Other productions/theatres: The Crucible, Lady in West Coast premiers of The Last Five Years and the David Bill ............................................. Quinn Van Antwerp the Dark, Wonderful Town, Me & My Girl, Splittin’ the Raft Henry Hwang version of Flower Drum Song, and some other Abigail Von Schtarr .............................. Milissa Carey (world premiere), Old Wicked Songs – Marin Theatre Company; favorite credits include Funny Girl, Girl Crazy, Me and My Junita ...................................................... Dani Marcus Haunting of Winchester (Director: Michael Butler, world Girl, Too Many Girls, and Something for the Boys. Brandon is Phantom Jitter ....................................... Mark Farrell premiere)– San Jose Rep; Loaded (Director: Barbara Damashek)– a graduate of Dartmouth (AB) and Indiana University (MM Ars Nova Theatre, NYC; Travesties (understudy) – ACT; The in Choral Conducting). He is music director at the Urban SPEAKEASY Fantasticks (BATCC Award), Putting It Together – SF School of San Francisco and he lectures at San Francisco In the style of Kander & Ebb Playhouse; Judgment at Nuremberg, A Day in Hollywood/A Night State University. in the Ukraine – Willows Theatre; Cabaret – Solano College Villy ........................................... Quinn Van Antwerp (guest artist). Next up, Mark will reprise his role in Around the Robert Broadfoot (Scenic Designer) has worked as a freelance Fraulein Abby ...................................... Milissa Carey World in 80 Days for San Jose Rep. scenic designer since 1996. Recent critically acclaimed designs include at Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice Juny ........................................................Dani Marcus The Hasty Heart and the world premier of C. Michele Kaplan’s ‘Bot at The Jutter ...................................................... Mark Farrell Dani Marcus* is delighted to make her Center REP debut. Ms. Marcus’ New Magic Theater. He devised the new work Sanatorium Under York credits include her recent Off- the Sign of the Hourglass with prominent European director Broadway debut in the Drama Desk Helena Kaut-Howson and designed Urinetown for Broadway nominated Pirates of Penzance (Mabel) choreographer and director Mindy Cooper. Robert is currently designing for several of San Francisco’s notable professional CHORUS with the National Yiddish Theatre, and (Bessie Two) as a part of the New York Musical theaters, and his most recent regional theater project was (Really good actors like the ones listed never appear in the River’s End Theatre Festival. Bay Area credits include West Side Story Doubt at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre. His career as an chorus unless it turns out that, well, they have to. And (Maria) for Broadway By The Bay, and Beach Blanket Babylon assistant includes work with prominent designers Douglas then they do so only grudgingly.) (Snow White), as well as the premiere productions of Beggar’s Schmidt on The Gershwins’ An American in Paris at The Holiday (Polly Peachum, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Alley Theater and the upcoming national tour of The Farmer 1, Cowman 1, Neurotic New Yorker 1, award) with Marin Theatre Company, and Emma (Harriet Nightingale, and John Iacovelli on Amadeus for The Denver Party Guest 2, Chorus Boy 1, Roller Skater 3, Smith, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nom.) with Center and the current national tour of Camelot. Argentinian 1, Snowball the Cat, Slutty Dancing TheatreWorks. This fall she will reprise her role as Harriet Girl............................QUINN VAN ANTWERP Kurt Landisman (Lighting Designer) Local audiences will Smith in a co-production with Cincinnati Playhouse in the be familiar with his work through past productions designed Park and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Many thanks for Center REP including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Older Farmwoman, Older Townswoman, Older to Jon Call, and Tijuana Sprecher. Neurotic New Yorker, Older Roller Skater, Older Mousetrap, How the Other Half Loves, Around the World in 80 Days,and Fugitive Kind. His designs have been seen Argentinian, Methuselah the Cat, Older Slutty Quinn Van Antwerp*
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