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The Matchmaker Season Production Sponsor 2010–2011 MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES THE MATCHMAKER Written by Thornton Wilder October 27–31, 2010 Patricia Corbett Theater Th rough your support, Macy’s Gives contributes to initiatives important to you and your community – women’s health and wellness, arts, education, the environment, and HIV/AIDS research and awareness Together, we give everyone the chance to shine. CCM DIVISION OF OPERA, MUSICAL THEATRE, DRAMA, ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND Theatre DESIGN & Production PRESENTS The MATCHMAKER Written by Thornton Wilder Set Designer Costume Designer Brian Ruggaber *Amanda Rae Janke Lighting Designer Wig & Make-Up Designer *Weston B. Wetzel *Anna M. Eilers Sound Designer Vocal Coach *Valerie Lawrence Rocco Dal Vera Music Director Stage Manager Steve Goers *Elena Russo * CCM Student Director Richard E. Hess Patricia Corbett Theater October 27-31, 2010 Season Production Sponsor Macy’s Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. New York City CCM is an accredited institution of the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Schools of Theatre and a member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. CCM 2 DIRECTOR DIRECTOR’S NOTE The first time I met Dolly Gallagher Levi was in 1974 when my sister played Ermengarde in a local production of Hello, Dolly! in Buffalo, New York where I grew up. She was full of good advice then, and now that we have returned to the source, to the Thornton Wilder original, in a time where we all have economic and spiritual worries, she seems even wiser. We could all learn a little from Dolly: • “Money should circulate like rain water. It should be flowing down among the people, through dressmakers and restaurants and cabmen, setting up a little business here, and furnishing a good time there.” • “The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous and can shatter the world; and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight and that, also, can shatter the world.” • “Money -- pardon my expression -- money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.” Welcome to the first CCM Drama Mainstage production of the season. We hope you enjoy the craftsmanship and wisdom of the great American playwright Thornton Wilder (and come back again in April to see our production of the Pulitzer Prize- winning Thornton Wilder favorite Our Town), and that you have a great time this evening watching our student actors and design team breathe glorious life into this wonderful story. Thank you for joining us in the adventure of enjoying and supporting live theatre, and as Barnaby says at the end of our play, “May your lives have just the right amount of adventure.” Thank you for encouraging young things to grow. -Richard E. Hess director, A.B., Dolly, Ralph and Julia Cohen Chair in Drama CCM 3 2010–2011 MAINSTAGE SERIES OPERA • MUSICAL THEATRE • DRAMA EVITA Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Tim Rice November 17–21, 2010 THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte February 10–13, 2011 RENT Music, lyrics and book by Jonathan Larson February 24–27 & March 3–6, 2011 OUR TOWN Written by Thornton Wilder April 21–24, 2011 DIALOGUES OF THE CARMELITES Composed by Francis Poulenc Libretto by Emmet Lavery May 12–15, 2011 Subscribe to CCM’s 2010-11 Mainstage Series and save. Customize your theatergoing experience with four- and three-show packages. Subscribers are entitled to preferred seating, discounts off single ticket prices, access to concert flex ticket packages and other exclusive perks. Contact the CCM Box Office today: CCM 4 COMPANY THE COMPANY IN ORDER OF Appearance Horace Vandergelder .................................................................MacK HARDEN Ambrose Kemper ........................................................................... JacK CONROY Joe Scanlon .......................................................................................KevIN MacKU Gertrude .................................................................................. MIKAYLA StaNLEY Cornelius Hackl ....................................................................KRIstopher DEAN Ermengarde .................................................................................. CLARE M. WARD Malachy Stack .....................................................................Alec SIlberblatt Mrs. Dolly Levi ............................................................................ TAYlor CloYes Barnaby Tucker ...................................................................................... WILL KILEY Mrs. Irene Molloy ........................................................................ELLIE JamesoN Minnie Fay ..............................................................................MARIEL TOMPKINS A Cabman ....................................................................................STEPHEN SHORE Rudolf ..........................................................................................KevIN MALARKEY August .......................................................................................PARKER SEARFoss The Gypsies ..........................................................IAN WEBER, KevIN MacKU Miss Flora Van Huysen .............................................................HOPE SHANGLE Cook .......................................................................................... MIKAYLA StaNLEY Act I Mr. Vandergelder’s house in Yonkers, New York Act II Mrs. Molloy’s hat shop, New York Act III The Harmonia Gardens restaurant on the Battery Act IV Miss Van Huysen’s house, New York There will be one 10-minute intermission between Acts II and III. CCM 5 Cinderellabook by Joseph McDonough lyrics by David Kisor music by Fitz Patton December 1-31, 2010 Silver Season Sponsors: Anonymous Dr. & Mrs. Charles O. Carothers The Mitchell S. & Jacqueline P. Meyers Foundation John & Ruth Sawyer “This is the best show for young audiences during Cincinnati’s holiday season.”– backstage.com “There’s a lot to like about Cinderella…young theatergoers are going to be happy.”– Cincinnati Enquirer Image by Ryan Kurtz Join us for the 2010-2011 Season! Subscriptions on sale now! ENSEMBLE THEATRE OF CINCINNATI 1127 Vine Street | Historic Over-the-Rhine Tickets: 513.421.3555 www.cincyetc.com CCM 6 CAST CAST PROFILES TAYLOR CLOYES Mrs. Dolly Levi Senior from Houston, Texas At CCM: Helen Potts in Picnic, Eos/Cathy in Transmigration: Flushed, Eva Temple in Orpheus Descending, Death in Blood Wedding, Gabrielle in Transmigration: (fun)eral. Elsewhere: The Courtier in As You Like It at Cincinnati Outdoor Shakespeare, Willow/Rose in Sophie’s Dream at Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Ashley in Somewhere Never Traveled (film), The Girl in The Silent Song (film). JACK CONROY Ambrose Kemper Sophomore fom Burlington, Vermont At CCM: Chorus/Newsboy in Bury the Dead. Elsewhere: Sebastian in Twelfth Night at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (London), Wisehammer/Captain Philip in Our Country’s Good at Walnut Hill School for Performing Arts (Boston), Frog in A Year With Frog and Toad at St. Michael’s Playhouse (Burlington, Vt.). KRISTOPHER DEAN Cornelius Hackl Junior from Lansdale, Pennsylvania At CCM: First Soldier in Bury the Dead, Grandpa in You Can’t Take It With You. Elsewhere: Longaville in Love’s Labour’s Lost at Cincinnati Outdoor Classics, Mickey in Damn Yankees! and various characters in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde at Cortland Repertory Theater (Cortland, N.Y.). MACK HARDEN Horace Vandergelder Junior from Denver, Colorado At CCM: Soldier in Bury the Dead, creator/performer in Transmigration: Happiness Is A Supple Puppy, Pee Wee in Orpheus Descending. Elsewhere: Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost and Adam in As You Like It at Cincinnati Outdoor Classics, Gravedigger in Hamlet and Boy in Much Ado About Nothing at Denver Center Theater Company. ELLIE JAMESON Mrs. Irene Molloy Sophomore from Olympia, Washington At CCM: Christine Shoenwalder in Picnic, Erde in Transmigration: Flushed. Elsewhere: Olive in Sophie’s Dream at Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible and Karen Andre in The Night of January 16th at Pacific Arts Center (Olympia, Wash.). CCM 7 CAST CAST PROFILES WILL KILEY Barnaby Tucker Sophomore from Cincinnati, Ohio At CCM: Doctor in Bury the Dead, Cult Member in Transmigration: Change Corps. Elsewhere: Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Jerry in Betrayal, Phaeton/Midas/Erisychthon in Metamorphosis and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at Sycamore High School (Cincinnati), The Devil in The Devil and Billy Markham at National High School Institute (Chicago). KEVIN MACKU Joe Scanlon, Gypsy Senior from Cincinnati, Ohio At CCM: Pvt. Levy in Bury the Dead, Ensemble in Transmigration: 47 Bottles in a Lake, Mac in You Can’t Take It With You, Woodcutter in Blood Wedding, The Writer in Barren, Georg/Gaston in Spring Awakening. Elsewhere: Ensemble in It Might Be Okay at Cincinnati Fringe Festival, Ensemble in Seven Jewish Children at the Human Race Theatre Company. KEVIN MALARKEY Rudolf Senior from Yellow Springs, Ohio At CCM: Tom Driscoll in Bury the Dead, Val Xavier in Orpheus Descending, Leonardo in Blood Wedding, Chad in Transmigration: Side Effects, Fetch in Spring Awakening. Elsewhere: Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest at The Miami Valley Theatre (Kettering, Ohio). PARKER SEARFOSS August
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