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Music Director...... Wendy Baird T D H Staging/Choreography...... Carol Cohen E N A U Producers...... Charlotte Robinson, Mary Beth Yablonski T O E R 67R E Stage Manager...... Andy McLendon I N T H Assistant Stage Manager...... Victoria Young Set Designer...... Laurie Nolan Set Design Assistant...... Heather Quinn Floor Designer...... Mary Butcher Set and Floor Painting...... Mary Butcher, Kaelynn Miller, Laurie Nolan Set Decoration...... Laurie Nolan, John McClure Lead Carpenter...... Dick Whaley Carpenters...... Norm James, Bob Mumper, Jim Robinson, Ted Yablonski Wheelbarrow Design and Construction...... Jim Robinson Lighting Designer...... Eric Lund Lighting Assistant...... Alley Martin Lighting Programmer...... Wes Bedsworth Sound Designers (Music)...... Wes Bedsworth, Kaelynn Miller Sound Designer (Effects)...... Julien Jaques Lighting/Sound Technicians...... Wes Bedsworth, Eric Lund Properties Designer...... Constance Robinson Costume Coordinator...... Jean Carroll Christie Costume Construction and Design...... Julie Bays, Jean Carroll Christie, Judi Hilton-Hyde, Fran Marchand, Paige Meyers, Carol Youmans Silk Dress Panels...... Juliana Anzalone Dance Captain...... Kaitlyn Fish Dialect/Vocal Coach...... Nancy Krebs Technical Director...... Shirley Panek Rehearsal Assistants...... Nancy Long, Fred Taylor Rehearsal Pianists...... Cheryl Campo, Paul Heinemann, Mike Monda Audition Pianist...... Anne Flood Play Consultant...... Mickey Lund Program Design...... Harlequin Designs Poster/Program Cover Design...... Drama Queen Graphics Photography...... Colburn Images Program Editor...... Tom Stuckey Program Assistant...... Nancy Long ACKNOWLEDGMENTS John Robinson • Kathy and Grant Thorpe • Corey Jones • Art Things, Inc. Chloe Evans • Miranda Evans • Sonja Evans • Marly McDevitt

The Music for our production of The Secret Garden was produced by Right on Cue Services in Provo, UT. ROCS is a technology company that specializes in providing rehearsal and performance music for theaters worldwide. The music was created by various live professional musicians as well as high-quality sampled instruments. Wendy Baird, our music director, and Kaelynn Miller and Wes Bedsworth, our music engineers, worked with Jameson McDougal and Chris Hales at ROCS to arrive at the tracks which underscore our musical numbers in today's performance. ROCS also provided music for our prior productions of 1776, Annie, Bat Boy, and Ernest in Love. We hope you enjoy the music as much as we do. www.RightOnCueServices.com APRIL 8 - MAY 8, 2016 2015/2016 season - 16 - THE MESSAGE FROM THE TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Bill Brewer & Collot Guerard Richard Davis COLONIAL Thank you for your support. Your generous Just as Mary peels back the ivy to reveal the Carol Carman Frances Dryer PLAYERS, gifts help us to continue to provide Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hanks Skip & Midge Eastman doorway to a secret garden, the hard-working INC. educational and training programs, Robert & Janet Downey Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gavazzi volunteers of The Colonial Players have encouragement and entertainment to all Carol & Joe Friend Jeff & Carol Goldring opened the covers of the seven fabulous who are interested in dramatic arts. Frank & Verna Galloway Sue & Nelson Goodman 108 East Street • Annapolis, MD 21401 plays we will be presenting as part of our 68th Ellen & Wes Gardner Natalie Green & Tim Heiks Telephone: 410-268-7373 season beginning in September. Featuring Cynthia G. 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Beth Terranova Timm & Kathleen Anderson SPONSORS a longtime patron Webmasters...... Wes Bedsworth Pamela Brune DIRECTORS whose gift helps Anne Sharpe Jim & Judy Barrowman Pat & Bill Cameron Dr. C. D. Allen Charles & Mary-Jo Bedsworth Alice Chambers assure the future Don & Lucy Arthur Mary Evelyn Bell Dianne Crews economic viability Dr. & Mrs. James H. Babcock Dr. Michael & Ellen Berger Hemingway of our theater. Pat & Jim Church Nick & Janet Berry Al & Pat Crosby - 2 - - 15 - ABOUT OUR NEXT PLAY DIRECTOR’S NOTES We close our 2015-16 season with Good school sweetheart, Mike, for help. Mike is a In Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic The Secret In our musical production ofThe Secret Garden, People, David Lindsay-Abaire’s gritty and doctor and one of the lucky ones who has made Garden, ten-year-old Colin Craven exclaims and we introduce you to the children who have often humorous drama set in South Boston. it out of South Boston. In his New York Times proclaims with excitement, joy, and hope for the the Magical ability to transcend pain and A nominee for the 2011 Tony Award for Best review, Ben Brantley praised Good People as a future that he intends to make great scientific loss and embrace the future with grace and Play, Good People focuses on working class very fine play inhabited by some of the most discoveries and that these discoveries “will be hope, bringing with them the adults who have Bostonians who struggle to make a living in fully human residents that can be found in about Magic.” He goes on to say to his eleven- been stunted and deluded by their pain and dead-end jobs, if they are lucky enough to current theater. Good People opens June 3 and year-old cousin, Mary Lennox : loss. Colin’s message and, I believe, Burnett’s have them. Margie Walsh, who still lives in the runs through June 25. Tickets at $20 and $15 message to us is to embrace the Magic within us neighborhood where she was born, has just can be purchased at thecolonialplayers.org or Magic is a great thing and scarcely anyone and the Magic in Nature around us. lost her job as a cashier and goes to her high by calling 410-268-7373. knows anything about it except a few people in old books – and Mary, a little, In our production we only hint of time and place. because she was born in India, where there We use one piece of furniture throughout, ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT are Fakirs. I believe Dickon knows some trying to suggest with use of lights, texture, Magic, but perhaps he doesn’t know he shapes, and movement the subtle changes that MARSHA NORMAN is a leading American to move to New York City, where she quickly knows it. He charms animals and people. take place. Perhaps this may take you into the playwright and the winner of both a Pulitzer gained notice in the theater world for ‘night I’m sure there is Magic in everything only world of the Magic of The Secret Garden. Prize and a Tony Award. She received the Tony Mother. She has numerous writing credits for we have not sense to get hold of it and as well as a Drama Desk Award for best book the stage, screen, and television, and her lines make it do things for us! – LOIS EVANS of a musical for the 1992 Broadway production have been delivered by a host of accomplished of The Secret Garden. She also won a Tony and actors such as Sissy Spacek, Anne Bancroft, He ends with: “Magic, Magic is in me!” All this a Drama Desk Award for her 1983 play ‘night Carol Burnett, James Earl Jones, Tyne Daley, from an invalid boy who has “never seen the Mother. Her book for The Color Purple was and Sally Field. She is the co-director with sun rise.” a Tony nominee for best book of a musical, Christopher Durang of the playwrights program and she won a Peabody Award for her writing at The Juilliard School and is a former vice on the HBO television series, In Treatment. A president of the Dramatists Guild of America. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR native Kentuckian, Norman was a reporter for Norman has Grammy and Emmy nominations the Louisville Times newspaper, and her first and has received numerous grants and awards, LOIS EVANS has worked At The Colonial Players she directed Enter the play, Getting ,Out was produced at the Actors including 18 honorary degrees from American extensively as an actress and a Guardsman, which won The Ruby Griffith award Theatre of Louisville and then Off-Broadway in colleges and universities. director in Annapolis, Baltimore, for Best Community Theatre Production in the 1979. The success of Getting Out caused her and Washington, where she Washington area, as did her earlier production received her graduate degree of A Little Night Music. in Theatre from Catholic ABOUT THE COMPOSER University. She acted for four seasons with the Lois taught for many years in the English University of Wisconsin’s Professional Summer Department at USNA, where she directed LUCY SIMON is the daughter of Richard Simon, original compositions. Carly Simon and James Stock Company, where her favorite time in for the Masqueraders, the academy’s drama co-founder of book publisher Simon & Schuster, Taylor provided backup vocals on half of the theater as an actress was in Noises Off. Just too group, as well as directing the big old wonderful and is part of a musical family. Her younger songs from her second album. Simon and her much fun! She performed one season as Emily musicals for the music department: Pajama sister is the popular recording star, Carly; older husband, David Levine, won Grammy Awards in Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, a role she Game, Oklahoma, Damn Yankees, and Into the sister, Joanna, is an opera singer. Lucy Simon the Best Recording for Children category in 1981 reprised at The Colonial Players and The Surry Woods to name a few. Lois works as a potter, a began her professional career at the age of 16 and 1983. Simon made her Broadway debut as Opera Company in Maine. fiber artisan, and a flamework bead maker, all of singing folk and folk-rock music with Carly while the composer of The Secret Garden, gaining which she loves to share with her grandchildren performing as half of The Simon Sisters duo. In Tony and Drama Desk nominations for Best This season at Colonial Players she appeared and husband, Bart. In November she will be the mid-70's, after a number of years away from Original Score. She also composed the music for as Cora Swanson in Morning’s at Seven, for teaching a Creative Nonfiction class at The recording, she released two albums of mostly Doctor Zhivago and for Mama and Her Boys. which she was nominated for a WATCH award. John C. Campbell Folk Art School right outside Several seasons ago she directed True West for Ashville, North Carolina. Go on line and read The Bay Theatre Company and Crimes of the about the school; you’ll love it! Heart and Collected Stories for Dignity Players.

- 14 - - 3 - ABOUT THE MUSIC DIRECTOR THE STAFF (continued) This is WENDY BAIRD’s first favorite roles include Diana in Next to Normal time music directing with at Red Branch Theatre Co., where she played Colonial Players. She has been the adult woman in Spring Awakening last year. Kid Purple, Picasso at the Lapin Agile (also set Yablonski three years ago and worked on props performing on the musical Dignity Players’ productions include Vanishing design), Cabaret, Jacques Brel, and Angel Street; for Side Man earlier this season. Charlotte also theater stage, in the studio, and Point (Aimee Semple McPherson), Triumph of and set design for CP’s The Lion in Winter. conducted a CP workshop last year on stage with big bands and orchestras for Love (Corinne), and The Vagina Monologues. He thanks his husband, Mickey, for … well … managing with Andy McLendon. She has worked more than 30 years. She’s performed at CP most Other favorite roles in the MD/DC area include: basically everything. on other CP shows such as A Christmas Carol, recently as Meredith in Bat Boy, the Musical Rona in Spelling Bee at ASGT, Mrs. Lovett in The Spitfire Grill, and Cinderella Waltz. Thanks and Marmee in Little Women, the Musical. Sweeney Todd, the Witch in Into the Woods, ANDY MCLENDON to everyone who worked together to stage this Also at CP: the Actress in Enter the Guardsman Nola/P. Burke in Weird Romance, and Ilona in (Stage Manager) beautiful show. The Secret Garden (Ruby Griffith Award, 2007), Sara Jane Moore She Loves Me. By day, Wendy is president of is another “for the love it” project for Andy, CONSTANCE ROBINSON in Assassins, Germaine in Picasso at the Lapine Insight180, a brand consulting and design firm who enjoys working with this (Properties Designer) Agile, Mrs. Johnstone in Blood Brothers, Jacques in Ellicott City. amazingly creative and talented In the past, Connie has Brel…, and Is there Life After High School?. Other cast and staff. Andy was stage manager earlier volunteered as marketing this season for Morning’s at Seven. Associated assistant, graphic designer, ABOUT THE CHOREOGRAPHER with Colonial Players since the 1970's, her and box office assistant for The task of choice has been that of stage manager. Colonial Players and is on the current Marketing CAROL COHEN is delighted to background in ballet, modern dance, and tap. Memorable productions at CP include Closer Committee. She collected props for Collected have been asked to stage and She was the principal movement director for Than Ever, The Robber Bridegroom, Prelude Stories at Dignity Players theater. For The Colonial choreograph musical numbers Kaleidoscope for 20 years. Carol was last seen to a Kiss, They're Playing Our Song, Enter the Players, Connie was properties designer for: In for The Secret Garden. She as Ida Bolton in Colonial Players' November Guardsman, Cabaret, Blood Brothers, and A The Next Room, Or The Vibrator Play (received saw the original Broadway production of Morning's at Seven. Thank you, Christmas Carol. a WATCH nomination), Annie, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Rocket Man, A Christmas Carol, Watch production on a Colonial Players Lois, for your guidance and believing I could LAURIE NOLAN on the Rhine, Sherlock's Last Case (received two trip to NYC with the Stan Morrow group and fell help you with your vision. (Set Designer) WATCH nominations), and Boeing Boeing and in love with the magic of the play. Carol has a Laurie has been working on also assisted with set decorating. Connie thanks sets at Colonial Players off and her husband, John, for his help with picking up on since the late 1970’s. She or modifying props. She thanks her family and particularly enjoys the more friends for loaning personal belongings for set THE SECRET GARDEN: A CLASSIC STORY OF CHILDHOOD “arty,” or less literal, design concepts: These props and for their enthusiastic support. Shining Lives, Copenhagen, the shape of things, In a 2012 survey published by School Library Journal, The Secret Garden was ranked Enter the Guardsman, Road to Mecca. She MARY BETH YABLONSKI number 15 among all books for children ever published in English. Frances Hodgson also loved working on sets for Dignity Players, (Co-Producer) Burnett’s story about a young orphan girl adjusting to a new life in a dreary English estate especially Almost Maine, Art, and Stones in Mary Beth has been active with Colonial was initially published in serial format beginning in 1910 and as a book a year later. It was His Pockets. Lois’s concept for this show was Players for 32 years. She served on the Board not a particularly successful beginning for what would come to be known as a classic of particularly intriguing, as the lights, set, and of Directors as treasurer and has been involved costumes had to help tell the story with very in many productions as stage manager, children’s literature. little furniture. This has been an amazing and production manager, and collector of props. fun challenge. By day, Laurie owns Art Things in Mary Beth ushers and works annually on the Burnett was an established author, and her new novel did not meet with the public West Annapolis a shop founded by her mother, CP subscription committee. She sings with the acclaim accorded two of her enormously popular previous works, The Little Princess and Lydia, 50 years ago this year. Lydia was a huge Annapolis Chorale, and recently retired from Little Lord Fauntleroy. When she died in 1924, obituaries mostly passed over The Secret fan of this theater! the Kennedy Krieger Institute. She is a volunteer Garden in favor of other works. But in the ensuing 80 years it was The Secret Garden that at Baltimore Washington Hospital. came to be widely recognized as her masterpiece. In the 2012 survey, The Little Princess CHARLOTTE ROBINSON was ranked number 56; Little Lord Fauntleroy didn’t make the top 100 . The story of (Co-Producer) a 10-year-old girl overcoming personal tragedy and helping other troubled inhabitants Charlotte has worked behind the of Misslethwaite Manor rebuild their lives has, over the last century, been the source scenes with Colonial Players for for many plays, movies and television shows. Its message of hope and redemption still more than 25 years. She is happy resonates with readers and audiences, and it has become an enduring classic with appeal to be working on The Secret to people of all ages. Garden again after doing props for CP's 1996 non-musical version directed by Barry Christie. She was co-producer for Trying with Mary Beth

- 4 - - 13 - SCENE AND MUSIC SYNOPSIS THE STAFF ACT I Prologue, India/Train Station/Misselthwaite Manor JEAN CARROLL CHRISTIE Cymbeline, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Opening Dream...... Lily, Fakir, Mary, and Company (Costume Coordinator) Our Town, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Merry There’s a Girl...... The Company Since 1969, Jeannie has been Wives of Windsor, and Macbeth. Other credits The House Upon the Hill...... The Company involved in many different include – Studio Theatre: Constellations, Animal I Heard Someone Crying...... Mary, Archibald, Lily, and Company aspects of theater at Colonial (World premiere), The Habit of Art, (American Scene 1: Mary’s Sitting Room Players and elsewhere in the Premiere) The Enda Walsh Festival: The A Fine White Horse...... Martha community. Of all the different aspects of the Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom; Scene 2: The Ballroom theater, costuming and lighting have been her Rep Stage: I Am My Own Wife, A Young Lady of A Girl in the Valley...... Lily, Archibald, and Dreamers A Christmas Carol Property, Boeing Boeing, Home, Yellowman, The favorites: for costuming, from Scene 3: In the Maze/The Greenhouse/Edge of the Moor Temperamentals, Or, Barrymore, and Two by to Over My Dead Body to Enchanted April to It’s a Maze...... Mary, Ben, Dickon, and Martha Enter the Guardsman to Stones in His Pockets Barrie; Olney Theatre Center: Guys & Dolls, Hay Winter’s on the Wing...... Dickon to The 39 Steps; and, for lighting, The Runner Fever, Once on This Island, Angel Street, Witness Show Me the Key...... Mary and Dickon Stumbles A Christmas Carol Dancing at for the Prosecution, Charlie’s Aunt, Blithe Spirit, to to Scene 4: Archibald’s Library Carousel, Lend Me a Tenor; Everyman Theatre: Lughnasa to Death of a Salesman. Using lights A Bit of Earth...... Archibald and fabric is the same as painting on canvas The Crucible, Red Herring, My Children! My Scene 5: The Gallery to Jeannie. Presently, she is serving on the CP Africa!, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Watch on the Storm I...... The Company Rhine, Cripple of Inishmaan, Candida, Betrayal, Board as the Production Director. Lily’s Eyes...... Neville and Archibald Sight Unseen, Turn of the Screw, I Am My Own JULIEN C. JACQUES Wife, Our Town (choral composer/arranger); Scene 6: The Hallway Storm II...... Mary and Dreamers (Sound Designer, Effects) Bay Theatre Company: Master Harold… and the No stranger to Colonial Players, Julien has been Boys, The Norman Conquests: Table Manners. Scene 7: Colin’s Room involved with Colonial over the last 10 years Nancy teaches voice in the Theatre Department Round-Shouldered Man...... Colin in areas ranging from directing The Veritas of the Baltimore School for the Arts, operates Scene 8: On the Grounds/The Door to the Garden Machine in 2000, to filming projections for Bat her own studio (The Voiceworks), and is a Final Storm...... The Company Boy in 2014 and Annie in 2013 to, this year, singer/songwriter and musician. She has been consulting onVenus in Fur. He has run lights and a professional actor since 1975 and belongs to ACT II sound for many theater companies in the area, AFTRA, SAG, AEA and VASTA. Scene 1: Misselthwaite Manor including Bay Theatre, Summer Garden Theatre, The Girl I Mean to Be...... Mary ERIC LUND and Dignity Players, where he had the pleasure Scene 2: Archibald’s Dressing Room (Lighting Designer) of designing sound and projections on several Quartet...... Archibald, Neville, Rose, and Lily plays, most recently The 39 Steps. Outside of The Secret Garden is Eric’s fourth Scene 3: Colin’s Room the theater Julien is a producer, director and show working on lighting design Race You to the Top of the Morning...... Archibald director of photography for film, working on this season. He designed lighting an assortment of projects such as Anthem in for our most recent show, Scene 4: The Greenhouse Wick...... Dickon and Mary 2012 with Make Your Mark Media, which had Boeing Boeing, was nominated for a WATCH a national broadcast on PBS, and Patterson Award for best lighting for his work on Side Scene 5: Colin’s Room & Bonaparte, a documentary currently in Man in October, and teamed up with Alex Brady Come to My Garden...... Lily and Colin production. on the design for Venus in Fur in January. Eric Scene 6: The Maze/The Garden has worked extensively at Colonial Players and Come Spirit, Come Charm...... Mary, Martha, Dickon, Fakir, Ayah, Lily, and Company NANCY KREBS other theaters in the Annapolis area, including A Bit of Earth (Reprise)...... Lily, Rose, and Albert (Dialect/Vocal Coach) Dignity Players, where he appeared in several Scene 7: The Library Nancy is very happy to be productions and also served as lighting designer. Disappear...... Neville working with The Colonial He appeared on the CP stage in productions of Scene 8: Mary’s Room/Paris Players on this wonderful Rebecca, The Clearing, and various years of A Hold On...... Martha production. She is currently the Christmas Carol. He played Andrew at Bowie Letter Song...... Mary, Martha, and Archibald Resident Vocal/Dialect coach for the Annapolis Playhouse in Someone to Watch Over Me, Scene 9: Archibald’s Rooms in Paris Shakespeare Company, where credits include: winner of the Ruby Griffith award, and Eugene Where in the World...... Archibald Three Sisters, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio in Broadway Bound for Vagabond Players. How Could I Ever Know...... Lily and Archibald Play, As You Like It, Poe, Tale of Two Cities, Production credits at CP include directing Voice Scene 10: The Garden Two Gentlemen of Verona, Midsummer Night’s of the Prairie and the 1993 and 2000 productions Finale...... The Company Dream, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, of A Christmas Carol; lighting design for Frozen,

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GREG ANDERSON ERIN BRANIGAN friends, but mostly loves being on stage. Most endeavors. "Performing is food for the soul, and (Lieutenant Peter Wright) (Betsy/Mrs. Winthrop) recently seen in Holiday Magic with The Talent The Secret Garden has given me a feast." Greg feels blessed to be in Erin is excited to be making her Machine, Reid has also performed in Peter Pan this show, working with this Colonial Players debut in The and Camp Rock with The Talent Machine and in ALLY SWEIDERK terrific cast and crew and once Secret Garden. Other recent Haphazardly Ever After, Bugsy Malone Jr, and (Ayah) again singing and dancing with performances include Dogfight, The Canterville Ghost with Children's Theatre of Ally is thrilled to be in her daughter Kaitlin. A few months back, you might Triumph of Love, A Year With Frog and Toad, Annapolis. Reid would like to thank the cast and first show with The Colonial remember Greg as that strange husband, David and Avenue Q (Red Branch Theatre Company); wonderful team of directors and producers for Players! Ally is a Sophomore at Crampton, in that wonderful play, Morning’s At Ragtime and Urinetown (HCC Arts Collective); all of their guidance and support. Kent Island High School, where Seven … he certainly remembers you laughing! and Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, and Twelfth she's played roles such as Chip in Beauty and Greg’s favorite roles at CP include the Ghost Night (Maryland Shakespeare Company). When JUSTIN T. RITCHIE the Beast, Ariel in The Little Mermaid , Jr Lady of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol as she's not on stage, Erin can most often be found (Archibald Craven) Elaine in Chaos in Camelot!, and Meg Giry in The well as Shuffles, the Green Grocer, in Ernest writing and editing. Thank you for supporting Justin is excited to be making Phantom of the Opera. Ally enjoys singing and in Love. His all-time favorite roles elsewhere the performing arts! his Colonial Players debut in The dancing ballet, pointe, and tap, as well as playing include Bobby Dwayne Dillahunt; Fred Gailey Secret Garden. Though it has piano, guitar, and violin. She also composes (U.S. stage premiere); Leon Tolchinsky; Dr. DANNY BROOKS been more than 10 years since music in her spare time. Ally's dream is to one Nikolai Zubritsky; Bob Cratchit; Teddy Roosevelt (Ben Weatherstaff) his last time on a musical theater stage, he feels day be the star of a Broadway production. She Brewster; Andrew Makepeace Ladd III; The Danny is appearing in his 21st CP like he’s home! Justin has appeared on the stages would like to thank her family, friends, and Tin Woodman; G.W. Nethercott; Ken Gorman; production and his 80th overall. of DC area theaters including Signature Theatre, mentors for all of their support and hopes that Hysterium; Miles Gloriosus; President Art His favorite CP roles include The Keegan Theatre and the Actor’s Theatre of everyone enjoys the show! Hockstader; Billy Carewe; and especially Santa Chater (Arcadia), Scrooge (A Washington. In his time away from the theater, in The Elves Who Saved Christmas, written and Christmas Carol), Niels Bohr (Copenhagen), Justin has been a busy cabaret performer with KORY TWIT produced by daughter Tiffany Shannon. Greg and Bardolph (Lettice and Lovage). Some of shows in DC, New York, Chicago, and Fort (Captain Albert Lennox) thanks Suzanne for her love and support, and his favorites elsewhere include Felix (The Odd Lauderdale. His one-man show, On My Way Kory is happy to be part of appreciates Lois and Wendy extending this Couple) , Saunders (Lend Me a Tenor), Whiteside Here, was nominated for a WAMA award. Justin this great cast for his debut opportunity. Keep wondering, but keep smiling! (The Man Who Came to Dinner), and AtticusTo ( also won the 2013 MAC (Manhattan Association with Colonial Players. He was Kill a Mockingbird). Thanks to Lois and Wendy of Cabarets) award for the show, Tonight, New most recently seen as Lamar AUBREY BADEN III for giving me this opportunity. York City. In June 2014, Justin released his first in Godspell with Silhouette Stages. Kory is (Fakir) recording, Feels Like Home. “To Lois and Wendy particularly happy to be part of this show Aubrey is thrilled to be KEVIN CLEAVER – heartfelt thanks for casting me in this beautiful because since childhood he has loved The Secret performing in his tenth (Dr. Neville Craven) show with such a stunning cast. To Jason – all my Garden, a story of children being transformed production with Colonial The Secret Garden marks Kevin’s love.” www.justinthomasritchie.com through stubbornness into love and changing Players. An English teacher at third production with The the adults around them. As an uncle and Broadneck High School, Aubrey has been active Colonial Players. Previously, he CRISTINA SHUNK elementary school ESOL teacher, he is happy to in community theater for more than 35 years, appeared in Jekyll and Hyde (Mrs. Medlock) say that he has been forever changed by “his” performing in venues such as Annapolis Summer (Lord Savage) and A Christmas Carol 2010 (Ghost Cristina performed most kids. Kory wants to thank family and friends for Garden Theatre, Dignity Players, Merely Players, of Christmas Present). Recent local appearances recently at Annapolis Summer love and encouragement and his Lord Jesus for The Chesapeake Music Hall, and, most recently, have been with 2nd Star Productions (The Garden Theatre in The Mystery the joy in the journey. Soli Deo gloria. 2nd Star Productions inThe Music Man. Favorite Music Man-Quartet), ASGT (The Addams Family of Edwin Drood (ensemble), roles at Colonial include Walter E. Parsons in Caveman-ancestor), and Theatre at AACC Into The Woods (Jack's Mother), Swing, Inspecting Carol (his first Colonial show), Jacob (The Phantom of the Opera-Andre). Kevin is a Xanadu (Euterpe) and Anything Goes. She's Marley in one of the productions ofA Christmas member of the Red Branch Theatre Company in also appeared in various productions with The Carol, and the guard in Frozen. Aubrey thanks Columbia, where he also performed the role Pasadena Theater Company and Red Branch Lois, Carol, and Wendy for letting him perform of Horton in Seussical, the Musical. He recently Theatre. Cristina is excited to make her debut with a tremendously talented and dedicated completed a personal CD project, “In a City of appearance with The Colonial Players. The cast cast. He also thanks his family and friends for Strangers”; check it out at CDbaby.com or on and crew for this show have been wonderful. always supporting his theatrical pursuits. iTunes. When not performing, Kevin works in Most importantly, she'd like to thank her family the Neonatal ICU at AAMC. for putting up with her occasional theatrical

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Ella has been dancing since she was a young girl HEATHER MCMUNIGAL SAMUEL EDWARD ELLIS KAITLIN FISH and now studies dance at Creative Force Dance (Rose Lennox) (Dickon) (Claire Holmes/Dance Captain) Center. Ella also studies voice at The Peabody Heather is delighted to make her Sam is an eighth grade home- Kaitlin is thrilled to be returning Institute Prep School with Carol Cavey-Miles. “I Colonial Players debut in The schooled student from to the Colonial Players stage and would like to thank my mom, dad, brother, and Secret Garden. Heather grew up Millersville. Theater credits: once again sharing it with her friends for always supporting me in doing what performing in musical theater Ford’s Theatre: A Christmas father, Greg Anderson. She was I love. And a huge thanks to the artistic staff. It from a young age and received her Bachelor Carol (Tiny Tim, Young Scrooge, Turkey Boy), most recently seen playing Ethel Toffelmier in has been such an amazing learning experience of Arts in Music (voice) from Penn State 2014 Gala; Signature Theatre: Crossing, In The Music Man with 2nd Star Productions and for me and I couldn't be happier!” University. Heather remains an active singer Concert; The Talent Machine: Peter Pan (Peter Fred’s Wife in A Christmas Carol with Colonial and has worked for nonprofit arts organizations Pan), Camp Rock (Nate), Once On This Island Players. Kaitlin would like to give a huge thank MADI HEINEMANN for several years. Heather now helps to “Save (Agwe), Lil’ Abner (Scragg), Bring It On, The you to Lois, Wendy, Carol, and the rest of the (Mary Lennox) the Bay” working for the Chesapeake Bay Talent Machine holiday shows; Children’s production staff for this amazing opportunity Madi is excited to make her Foundation and lives not far from the theater in Theatre of Annapolis: Bugsy Malone (Dandy to be part of such a beautiful show. She'd also debut with The Colonial Players. downtown Annapolis. Many thanks to the cast Dan), The Little Mermaid (Sebastian), A Tribute like to thank the wonderful cast members, who She was last seen as Jane Banks and creative team for making this experience a to Roald Dahl. Along with other on-camera have felt like family from the first rehearsal. in Mary Poppins with Children's wonderful reentry into musical theater. credits, Sam stars in the short film,Cowlick , due She can't imagine "dying of cholera with style" Playhouse of Maryland. Although Madi's to hit film festivals in 2016. In the fall of 2016, or playing the death scarf game with a better favorite place is on stage, you can also find KAELYNN MILLER Sam will begin his high school journey in the group of people! her participating in choir, Girl Scouts, student (Alice) Performing and Visual Arts Magnet Program council, altar serving, and playing at home. Kaelynn is delighted to be back of Anne Arundel County, majoring in theater. KYLE GONZÁLEZ She would like to thank Ms. Lois for pushing on the CP stage! This is her In his spare time, he loves playing piano and (Lieutenant Shaw) her to bring out Mary Lennox; Ms. Wendy for seventh season with CP, and she performing magic tricks. Sam is very excited to Kyle is elated to be back at helping her with all the tough music and driving has volunteered both on the be in his first production with Colonial Players! Colonial Players for his second her to/from rehearsals; Ms. Nancy for helping stage and off in a variety of roles, from actress production since moving to perfect her British accent; Ms. Carol for her to go-button pusher to steampunk wig maker LINDSAY ESPINOSA Annapolis from Colorado in choreography, especially the Hindu speaking to Looney Tunes sound effect specialist to (Lily Craven) 2013. He portrayed Corporal Hammaker in A chants; Ms. Fran and Ms. Paige for making her smushed-banana cleaner. Kaelynn currently Lindsay is excited to be making Few Good Men at CP and Bill Lawlor in ASGT'S look like Mary; and the wonderful cast and crew serves as Treasurer on Colonial Players’ Board her debut with Colonial Players. 42nd Street. Kyle sends a shout out to his for their hard work and commitment to making of Directors. To pay her pesky bills, she works She recently returned to phenomenal students and the Severna Park the show great! Finally, she would like to thank in the music industry as a customer service Annapolis after receiving her High School faculty. He would like to thank his her family and friends for their love and support. representative for an instrumental accessory bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Baldwin- incredibly supportive family and his husband, distributor, where some days she actually gets Wallace College and Colorado State University. Christian: “Tesoro, gracias por aguantar la locura CORY JONES to use her bachelor’s degree in Music. If you are During her last year at CSU, she was an apprentice y el estúpidez que triago. Te quiero tanto.” (Major Holmes) watching this performance on May 6, 7, or 8, artist with Opera Fort Collins and was awarded Cory is grateful for the please note that the role of Alice will be played an Honorable Mention in the Denver Lyric Opera ELLA GREEN opportunity to make his Colonial by Kaelynn Bedsworth – because only Kaelynn Guild’s competition. Other roles include: Adina (Martha) Players debut in this wonderfully would be marrying a man who is so supportive (Elixir of Love, Donizetti), Laurie (The Tender Land, Ella is a junior at Severn School exciting show! Selected recent and patient that he was totally fine with her Copland), and Young Heidi (Follies, Sondheim) in Severna Park. She regularly roles include Mr. McGregor in Red Branch Theatre being in a show literally ON their wedding day. at OFC; Celie (Signor Deluso, Pasatieri), Nella performs in shows at the Company's world premiere of Peter Rabbit: A Wes Bedsworth, I love you! (Gianni Schicchi, Puccini), La Fée (Cendrillon, Children's Theatre of Annapolis, New Musical, Frog in A Year with Frog and Toad Massenet), and Gabriel (The Creation, Haydn) including the roles of Kate (Legally Blonde), (also at Red Branch), and Father in Howard REID MURPHY at CSU; Zerlina (Don Giovanni, Mozart), Gontran Fairy Godmother (Shrek the Musical), Winifred Community College Arts Collective's production (Colin Craven) (Une Education Manqée, Chabrier), Musetta (La Banks (Mary Poppins), and many more. Ella of Ragtime. He's grateful to friends and family Reid is thrilled to make his debut Bohème, Puccini), at BWC. She has auditioned is also frequently in productions with Severn for all their support, and the wonderful creative at Colonial Players. Reid is an for many young artist programs this year and School's Water Street Players. She has been team for bringing this show to life! 11-year-old fifth-grader who is awaiting responses from the Miami Music seen as Chastity in Anything Goes, The Witch in works hard and plays hard. He Festival, Classical Singer Competition, and the Big Fish, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, enjoys playing soccer and hanging out with Annual Vocal Competition with Annapolis Opera. and The Duchess in Nice Work If You Can Get It.

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There will be one intermission between Act I and Act II. Original Broadway production produced by Heidi Landesman, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, Produced by Special Arrangement with Samuel French. Elizabeth Williams, Jujamcyn Theaters/TV ASHIA and Dodger Productions Taking photographs and using any recording devices are strictly prohibited. Smoking is prohibited throughout the building. Originally produced by the Virginia Stage Company, Charles Towers, Artistic Director

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