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This season we celebrate the 31st anniversary of THE JULIE HARRIS STAGE Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Founded in 1985, PO BOX 797 WHAT is the award-winning non-profit theater on 2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA 02667 Cape Cod that the New York Times says brought WHAT FOR KIDS TENT “a new vigor for theater on the Cape” and the 2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA Boston Globe says “is a jewel in Massachusetts’ (508) 349-WHAT (9428) • what.org crown.” Boston Magazine named WHAT the Best Theater in 2004 and the Boston Drama EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Critics Association has twice awarded WHAT its Jeffry George prestigious Elliot Norton Award. MANAGING DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Christopher Ostrom WHAT FOR KIDS IMPRESARIO Stephen Russell DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Joanna Marie Roche STAGE MANAGER/ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Jamaica Jarvis TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Richard Archer WARDROBE SUPERVISOR Carol Sherry SCENIC ARTIST Mike Steers MARKETING DIRECTOR Susan Blood BOX OFFICE/FRONT OF HOUSE MANAGER Courtney Reardon COMPANY MANAGER/ ADVERTISING SALES Ellen Rubenstein BOX OFFICE ASSOCIATE Pearl Kerber VOLUNTEER LIAISONS Dick and Val Rand COMPANY PHOTOGRAPHERS Michael and Suz Karchmer photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer CARETAKER Bob Junker Julie Harris Stage STAFF ACCOUNTANT 2357 Route 6, Wellfleet, MA (next to Post Office) Robin Weller-Haenschen CONTROLLER WHAT for Kids Tent Tammy Glivinski on the grounds of the Julie Harris Stage PLAYBILL DESIGN Kristen vonHentschel what.org 508-349-9428

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2015 Summer Season Seminar...... 16-17 16 Moby-Dick...... 18-19 Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill...... 26-27 Time Stands Still...... 30-31 Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story...... 32-33 Also inside: Letters of Supprt...... 4-6 Letter from the Board of Trustees...... 7 26 18 Ticketing Information...... 10 Letter from the Executive Director...... 13 The Players Ball...... 20 2015 Summer Music Festival...... 21 WHAT for Kids...... 22-23 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Summer Season...... 25 Hard Travelin’ with Woody...... 28-29 Playmaker Talkbacks...... 37 Thought Provoking Programming, Year Round...... 39 Michael & Suz Karchmer...... 40-41 WHAT Bar & Café...... 43 Season Corporate Sponsors...... 45 Yule for Fuel...... 46-47 22 WHAT Internship Program...... 48-49 Our Generous Donors...... 50-54 WHAT A Difference We Can All Make...... 56-57 32 Metropolitan Opera Live in HD 2014-15...... 58-59 30 Volunteer at WHAT...... 63 The Journey So Far...... 64-71 Directory of Advertisers...... 83 28

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3 4 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 5 April, 2015

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 31st season of live theater on the Julie Harris Stage and in the WHAT for Kids tent at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater! Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is one of the premier cultural institutions on Cape Cod. Their programming and quality of performance is second to none. WHAT. Whether visitor or local, I know that you will be enriched by your experience at Their collective program offerings truly provide food for our souls.

Please accept my best wishes for another successful and enjoyable season. Sit back and enjoy the show! Best Regards,

Sarah. K. Peake State Representative 4th Barnstable District

6 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Jeffry George

MANAGING DIRECTOR ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE Dear WHAT Community Christopher Ostrom We are celebrating the 31st year of WHAT and the 8th HONORARY BOARD CHAIR in perpetuity year in our magnificent new building. The theater has evolved Julie Harris from a 90 seat summer venue to a year round 220 seat year (1925-2013) round resource and venue for our community. Last year, more BOARD CHAIR than 20,000 patrons visited us to see not only our award John Dubinsky winning professional summer productions and the simulcasts PRESIDENT EMERITUS of the Metropolitan Opera, but numerous special productions, Carol Green some of which were in partnership with other leading Lower Cape organizations. Our programming this past year serving BOARD MEMBERS Judith Cicero the year round local community increased by 20% over the Shawn DeLude prior year. This past year we also celebrated the lasting Douglas Freeman legacy of Julie Harris and her support for WHAT. Gerald Garnick Carol Green Our continuing success is led by a dynamic group of Richard Grossman caring board members but most importantly by our very Mac Hay talented Executive Artistic Director Jeffry George. Jeffry and Susan Lloyd Kai Maristed his talented staff “make it happen.” Their dedication and Donna Ward commitment to the many challenges involved in leading a Kathryn Weill year round arts organization are exemplary. David Willard Jon Winder WHAT’s artistic and programming success are made Renée Zarin possible by the financial support of our donors, sponsors, and advertisers. Annually, we have a big nut to raise and ADVISORY COUNCIL Stephen Huff with hard work we continue to cover our operating expenses. Ursla Huff These next few years we also want to focus on raising the Joan Mark money for many necessary capital improvements, to payoff a Frank Risch Margarita Rudyak substantial portion of the remaining USDA mortgage on our Bob Seay building, and to build an endowment. We are targeting to Berta Walker raise $3.5 million over the next 3-5 years. We ask all of you Michael Zarin to be generous and to help us assure the long term success of the theater. WHAT is one of the “Crown Jewels” of the Lower Cape. We not only add to the cultural richness of the community but we add substantially to the economic health of the community. We provide substantial employment and local purchasing. We add to the area’s tourism attraction. We provide opportunity for students and interns wanting to develop future careers in the arts. If you knew the world would end We thank you for your past support. We ask you for your tomorrow what would you do? future support. “I would go to the theater” – Julie Harris John Dubinsky, On Behalf Of the Board of Trustees 7 8 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Best WaterveiW Dining

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Welcome! We’re so glad you’re here! So that all may enjoy the show, our patrons helped us create a short list of theater tips and etiquette. On behalf of those around you, please: > Arrive on time, preferably at least 10 minutes before curtain > Silence anything that makes noise > Refrain from texting during the performance > Do not photograph or film during the performance 2015 > Avoid wearing strong colognes OUR 31ST WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER and perfumes The Julie Harris Stage SEASON Thank you! WHAT Mission Statement The Mission of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater is to present professional quality theater to its audiences; to provide an alternative theater experience not found elsewhere in the region; to advance and preserve the art of the theater for the education and appreciation of the public.

10 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 11 12 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Who we are and who we want to be

“The word theater comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation” - Stella Adler Sandwich for the Regional Substance Abuse Council. Greetings Friends, So during this summer we ask the question: What happens when we are challenged on In planning our 31st season, Ms. Adler’s a daily basis with the intersection between quote was foremost in our minds. We felt it life, love and livelihood? The four summer reflected the idea that not only can one come plays we have selected, SEMINAR, to WHAT to be entertained, but also to be MOBY-DICK, LADY DAY and TIME STANDS engaged and to enter into a dialogue that STILL ask us to think about how their stories extends beyond the stage. We asked reflect on our own personal journey. Who ourselves, how can we best honor this notion do we want to be? How do we want our of the seeing place? As with most questions, story to be heard? the answer lies within. At the heart of every We are also happy to provide your endeavor at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater summer with an underscore of diverse music is the desire to thoroughly engage our in our music festival, now three years running. audience and start a dialogue within our And back by popular demand is Randy community. “Though-provoking programming” Noojin with his portrayal of Woody Guthrie is not just a slogan, it is who we are. – a musical voice that propelled discussion With that idea it was important to find of labor relations that speaks directly to our a way to deepen our relationship to the community in Wellfleet. community. For the third year we mounted It is you that we partner with in asking the a spring show that served the public and question “Who are we and who do we want Nauset Regional Middle School. This year’s to be.” We are grateful to have you, our selection was AROUND THE WORLD IN greatest advocates, to take this journey with. 80 DAYS. Not only did we have fun on What story will you tell when you leave the an early Friday morning with 220 students theater? present, but the production was also a critical success. With community programing in mind Sincerely, we have extended our season to the first week of November, presenting a rich look at Clarence Darrow’s landmark case in THRILL ME, THE LEOPOLD AND LOEB STORY. Jeffry George In addition, our continued development of Executive Artistic Director LOST WEEKEND; OR THE DRUG PLAY has launched us deep into a Cape wide effort to inspire young and old to talk openly about a disease that impacts lives on Cape Cod. Christopher Ostrom Our next reading will be held at Town Hall in Managing Director and Artistic Associate 13 Community Radio of CAPE COD Be Here, Anytime.

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PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 15 May 14 - SEMINAR June 13 by Theresa Rebeck Thurs thru Mon starring Alan Campbell 8pm Young writers are like good books, you can’t enjoy them until you’ve broken their spines. directed by Christine Toy Johnson

Four aspiring young writers sign up for private writing classes with Leonard, an international literary figure. Under his recklessly brilliant and unorthodox instruction, some thrive and others flounder. Alliances are made (and broken), sex is used as a weapon, and hearts are unmoored. The wordplay is not the only thing that turns vicious as innocence collides with experience in this biting Broadway comedy.

Alan Campbell Theresa Rebeck

16 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER SCULPTURE “THE BASEMENT STACKS” BY WARY MEYERS DECORATIVE ARTS PHOTO BY JOHN MEYERS

Theresa Rebeck on Seminar Do you pull from what your own of give your power over to that person. insecurities or strengths were from that TR: You give your power over, yes, to a time? Do you channel that? lot of people. [Laughs.] You don’t have any TR: I think what I’m channeling from back power, and what you have, you just toss then is that feeling of desperation we all away – willy-nilly. had that we so terribly wanted to be writers, Weren’t you in seminars similar to the and the mystery of how you achieve that class in Seminar? was so deep in us. You know, we were TR: No, I was not. I mean, yeah… let me terribly confused, so the idea of getting even think. I was in a similar situation in graduate close to someone who has experience, has school… I was in seminars like that, and access, has knowledge, was a big hunger. I I was in some work situations where the remember when I was at Brandeis, Geoffrey head-writer had that kind of influence over Wolff, he was a great fiction-writing teacher. the younger writers – that kind of unholy He was the writer-in-residence, and for those influence. of us who wanted to be writers, you were so Not always healthy. excited to be in the same hallway as him. It TR: Yeah, not always healthy. Let’s put it had that kind of hunger in it. I’ve also drawn that way. on a lot of student experiences throughout (Excerpts from an interview with the years. Theresa Rebeck, by Kenneth Jones) And, when you are that hungry, you sort 17 June 18 - MOBY-DICK July 18 (World Premiere) Thurs thru Mon by James Armstrong, 8pm adapted from the novel by Consider the subtleness of the Herman Melville sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water... directed by Christopher Ostrom James Armstrong on Moby-Dick Some years ago – never mind how long would be reasonable for a play. Sadly, Chris precisely – I was approached by Christopher Catt, the man who gave me the idea to write Catt, a director who put on plays at the Snug the piece, passed away soon after I had Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island. completed my first draft. I am very excited, Since the center was originally built as a though, that Christopher Ostrom is bringing home for retired sailors, he got the idea that I the script to life at Wellfleet Harbor Actors should adapt Moby-Dick for him. There was Theater. I invite you all to climb aboard, as only one problem… I had never read it! we set sail on an adventure I hope you will I set about reading the book, confident never forget. that I knew the story. After all, there have been countless retellings and adaptations of the tale, and Ahab, the monomaniacal sea captain sailing the oceans in quest of revenge, has become ingrained in our col- lective psyche. What I discovered, however, was that the book was richer than I had ever imagined. In addition to being able to tell an epoch story, Melville was also one of the funniest writers America ever produced, and much of that humor comes through in Moby-Dick. The book also contemplates human existence in relationship to God, nature, and the universe, in the most concrete ways imaginable, a feat only accomplished by King Lear and a handful of other works. Also, while we think of Moby-Dick as an American novel, the crew of the Pequod is from all over the world, and they sail wherever they like, with only the slightest regard for national borders. It is per- haps the world’s first novel of globalization! As I adapted the book, I wanted to bring to audiences everything I had fallen in love with while reading, but within a timespan that 18 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER An ensemble cast of five aid narrator Ishmael in this account of the ill-fated voyage of the Pequod and its maniacal captain Ahab. Harnessing the power of Melville’s words, James Armstrong’s adaptation has a keen awareness of storytelling and theatricality.

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TUES, JUNE 30 Mainly Mozart WED, JULY 1 Big Band Swing Stage Door Canteen Stage Door Canteen TUES, JULY 7 Krisanthi Pappas and Edwige Yingling WED, JULY 8 Vocal jazz with String of Pearls TUES, JULY 14 George Gritzbach Blues Band WED, JULY 15 Mainly Mozart

George Gritzbach

String of Pearls 21 CELEBRATING ITS 14TH SEASON! WHAT FOR KIDS THE FOOL OF THE WORLD AND THE FLYING SHIP Directed and written by Stephen Russell July 6 - August 27 Mon thru Thurs, 7:30pm This season of WHAT for Kids is dedicated to Fran DeVasto (see page 76) A conversation with Stephen Russell about The Fool of the In Old Russia, things World and the Flying Ship. have been pretty much Q: This show was first wonderful writers and illustra- the same for as long as produced under the WHAT tors that semester. Among the anyone can remember. for Kids tent in 2008. What former was Arthur Ransome, Most people are made you decide to bring it best known for his Swallows back this year? and Amazons books, the first dreadfully poor and A: I’ve always really liked and the best of which are set even the Tsar can travel this one, if I can be so im- in the English Lake District. no faster than a horse modest, and it’s one of those Having spent my summers on shows of ours that people a lake in Western New York can gallop. But what seem to remember with great State, where, if we weren’t if he had a ship that fondness and frequently ask on the water we were in it, I if we’re ever going to do had the slightly discomforting could fly through the again. feeling, in reading about the air? He decides to give adventures of the Walker Q: You’re often working and Blackett children, that his daughter’s hand with well-known folk tales, someone had been eaves- like Rumpelstiltskin or Sleep- in marriage to the first dropping on my childhood. ing Beauty or Puss in Boots. Once I tore through that person who can bring This one seems to be a little series, I looked for other a Flying Ship to the off the beaten path. How things by Ransome to read. did you find the story? Palace. Who will be the Ransome is a complicated A: I first read this story figure in English letters. A lucky winner? Who but when I was in Library School recent biography of him, a Fool and his boatload at the State University of entitled, The Last Englishman, New York at Geneseo, of Fantastic Friends, suggests that this Englishman where I took a class on inter- may have been a double including the Listener, national children’s literature, agent during the early the Eater, the Strider, taught by an incredibly kind years of the Soviet Union. and knowledgeable profes- the Thirsty-One and He certainly was fluent in sor named Margaret Poarch. Russian and lived there for Mr. Cool! She introduced me to lots of

22 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 2008 production, with Dan Goldberg, Charlie Gregson, Peter Russell, Elliott Gallagher, Karl Thompsen, Alex Nelson, Justin Lovinger and Peter Hirst. many years, both before and be little more than some- great things, is actually fairly after the revolution and was thing waiting behind Door wide spread. It’s sort of The friendly with both Lenin and Number Three. So I made Bremen Town Musicians Trotsky. (His second wife, Princess Zillah a rather feisty, motif. You find variants of it Evgenia, had been Trotsky’s major character, with a heart in many folk tales, from many secretary.) During his time in and a mind of her own. I’ve different cultures. Including in Russia, he collected material also added a few songs and the tale of seven gunfighters for a volume of folk tales, may be adding more for who band together to bring published under the title Old this summer’s production. I peace to a small Mexican Peter’s Russian Tales. One of also wanted Ivan, the Fool, village. I’ve just tried to make the stories in that collection to have a bit more of an the parallels a little more was The Fool of the World active role in overcoming the apparent by actually quoting and the Flying Ship. impossible tasks the Tsar sets some of the classic lines from for him and for his kindness that film, which just happens Q: And that’s essentially to be the thing that wins the to be a favorite of mine. Any the story of the play, too? day. And then there’s the more questions? A: More or less. The Magnificent Seven… Tsar’s daughter really doesn’t Q: Just one more: You appear in the story, at least Q: I beg your pardon? wrote these questions your- as Ransome translated it, A: Yeah, I know, bit of self, didn’t you? except as a prize to be a stretch. But this fairy tale A: I have to admit, I’ve won, and it occurred to me motif, of a group of magical always been that she might have her own people who all have specific better at dialogue than ideas about the contest and skills or talents and band exposition. her father expecting her to together to accomplish

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La Traviata

25 July 23 - TRACEY CONYER LEE is Billie Holiday August 22 Wed thru Mon LADY DAY AT 8pm EMERSON’S I’m always making a comeback, BAR AND GRILL but nobody ever asks me where I’ve been. by Lanie Robertson directed by Stephen Nachamie

Tracey Conyer Lee

Lanie Robertson on Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill Is it too much to read a forgiving spirit into the title of songs that she wrote, “God Bless the Child” and “Don’t Explain”? LR: No. I think that’s true. She says in the play that her mother said she had a knack for picking the most rotten men to get involved with but I don’t think she blamed them. She was a very sexual person as we all are. I don’t think she ever lost that sense of romantic possibility. At least in the play, she’s romanti- cally involved with the accompanist. Despite being abandoned by her father, raped at 10 or 11, and becoming a prostitute at 14, it appears that she never thought of herself as a victim. Why set the play in Philadelphia? LR: Absolutely right. She was amazingly LR: The actual name of the club was not optimistic. She was never a downer. Not Emerson’s Bar and Grill. I made that up. But even in her down songs. She loved music not only did my friend see her there but also and she loved musicians. There is footage Philadelphia was a very loaded place for from a CBS-TV Sunday morning show in Billie. It was there that she was arrested on a which she’s singing with Lester Young and drug charge and was sent to prison, forced other musicians. She is like a fish in water, to go cold turkey. As she says in the play, moving through the music. You can tell from “Philly’s always been the rat’s ass for me. her expression. It’s one of sheer joy. When I die, I don’t care if I go to heaven or (Excerpts from an interview with Lanie Robertson, by hell long’s it ain’t in Philly.” Patrick Pacheco) 26 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie Holiday’s last performances, given just four months before her death. An intimate portrait of one of our greatest musical treasures, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill blends Billy Holiday’s greatest musical hits with candid reminiscences of her life’s struggles and triumphs. 27 Aug 2 & 9, 4pm HARD TRAVELIN’ Aug 4 & 11, 8pm WITH WOODY Hop a box car with Woody Guthrie and commune with the spirit,

stories and songs of America’s iconic folk- Written and performed by singer as he performs Randy Noojin. for a union meeting of Back by popular demand! striking mineworkers in Oklahoma.

“Noojin is the perfect host for the evening, interspersing Guthrie’s songs with witty repartee, folksy wisdom and humor. The evening is like taking a trip on a boxcar through time, rubbing elbows with hobos and striking workers. You leave wanting to know more about the man and the times – and wanting to see what Noojin will do next.” - Cape Cod Times

28 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 29 August 27 - TIME STANDS September 26 STILL Thurs thru Mon by Donald Margulies 8pm The wounds of the past cannot be filed away like old negatives.

directed by Michael Unger

Finding peace in a world that seems to have gone crazy. Sarah and James, a photojournalist and a foreign correspondent, have a partnership based on telling the toughest stories and making a difference. But when their own story takes a sudden turn, the adventurous couple discovers even domestic life has its dangers.

30 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER of betrayals, and how to understand the job Donald Margulies on of a journalist when met with atrocities. How Time Stands Still do you see them interlocking? DM: “Time Stands Still” is very much about the choices and compromises we all make – You’re writing about a conflict that in love, in work, and, particular to this play, continues, and the play considers questions in war. Ethical struggles touch on all aspects we don’t have answers to. Is it harder to of life. write about contemporary events than the [Sarah] propels the play, and her more distant past? relationship with James forms the wobbly DM: It’s tricky to take on current, ongoing emotional centre. How did you go about events in plays. I don’t feel that I’ve done that shading the character of Sarah? in “Time Stands Still.” There are references DM: I love smart, funny, complicated to things associated with the war in Iraq but women in life and in art. When I create a it is not “an Iraq play.” War is the backdrop character like Sarah, I get inside her head (as for what is essentially a domestic love – a I do with all of my characters) and improvise. relationship drama – in which the characters I had ready access to her caustic sense of happen to have high stakes professions. As a humour. There’s a lot of humour in “Time dramatist I’m always looking for ways to raise Stands Still” that leavens its intensity. the stakes for my characters; in the case of Audiences laugh in recognition of truths large “Time Stands Still” those stakes are particu- and small. larly high. I’m more interested in exploring behaviour than in answering questions about (Excerpts from an interview with Donald Margulies, contemporary foreign policy. by Ariel Ramchandani) Your play considers two ethical struggles: how to make a relationship work in the face

31 October 22 - THRILL ME: THE November 8 LEOPOLD AND Thurs thru Sat 7:30pm; LOEB STORY Sun 3pm Book, Music, and Lyrics Relationships can be murder. by Stephen Dolginoff A musical thriller. starring Adam Berry and Ben Berry directed by Jeffry George

32 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Welcome to THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD & LOEB

STORY, a cautionary tale about how relationships can be murder! When I first sat down to write this musical, I never imagined it would be performed all over the world in over 100 productions, in 14 countries and in 10 languages. The emotional journeys of the characters have proven to be universal and seem to speak to audiences in many different cultures. I have had the pleasure of visiting versions in cities such as Seoul, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles and Chicago; I even got to portray the role of “Nathan Leopold” himself Off-Broad- actor, Ms. Harris was known for taking risks, way and in Seattle. But this production is and for me, musicalizing a horrific crime in special. Many years ago, I had the privilege the hopes of somehow making sense of it of attending one of the final Broadway all, was a risk that I was personally willing to performances of Ms. Julie Harris. To say I take because I truly believed I had something was mesmerized by her artistry would be an to say. I hope you will enjoy THRILL ME. understatement. Having my work performed at this prestigious theatre bearing her name, – Stephen Dolginoff, is an honor that I can hardly believe. As an New York City 2015

This musical theatrical event recounts the chilling, true story of the legendary duo who committed one of the most infamous and heinous crimes of the twentieth century. Focusing on their obsessive relationship and utilizing Leopold’s 1958 parole hearing as a framework, Thrill Me reveals the series of events in 1924 Chicago that led about-to-be law students Leopold and Loeb to be forever remembered as “the thrill killers.”

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ERNA PARTOLL, Provincetown “On the Cape”, 1972, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24”

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36 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Playmaker Talkbacks If you’ve ever wished you could talk to of actors, directors, designers and special the people who created the plays, this is guests. Whether you have a burning ques- your chance! Join us in a frank and open tion or just aren’t quite ready to go home, discussion following a performance of each Playmaker Talkbacks always shed light on play. Moderated by the directors, each the plays and the creative forces that bring Playmaker Talkback includes a combination them to life.

Talkback from The Fabulous Lipitones, 2014. Photo: Michael & Suz Karchmer

SEMINAR TIME STANDS STILL MAY 21 & 28 SEPTEMBER 3 & 10 by Theresa Rebeck by Donald Margulies Directed by Christine Toy Johnson Directed by Michael Unger

MOBY-DICK THRILL ME: THE LEOPOLD JUNE 25 & JULY 2 AND LOEB STORY Written by James Armstrong OCTOBER 29 & NOVEMBER 5 Adapted from the novel by Herman Melville by Stephen Dolginoff Directed by Christopher Ostrom Directed by Jeffry George LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S Ticket holders from previous BAR AND GRILL performances are welcome, too! JULY 30 & AUGUST 6 by Lanie Robertson Directed by Stephen Nachamie

37 38 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Thought Provoking Programming Year Round What a year! Since last spring we have The Tempest hosted the Sea Change Series with Mass Audubon and WCAI, the Met Opera Live in HD broadcasts, two Stratford Festival broadcasts, and the Am Hayam Adult Ed Film Series. We’ve had lots of live music (including two record release parties and a celebration of songwriting), presented the first public reading of a new play (Lost Weekend, or the drug play, by Mike Poe) as part of our WHAT Emerging Playwrights Platform, and hosted events for WOMR, Outer Cape Health, Nauset Regional Middle School, SPAT, Cape Cod Institute and many others. We love sharing events and ideas with this community and are thrilled for the opportunity to do it again (and again).

Family Concert

Rich Archer Magic

Lost Weekend

39 Honoring Michael and Suz Karchmer

Last year we asked Michael and Suz Karchmer to recreate an iconic shot of Julie Harris for I Am a Camera and a signature Hardy Boys illustration for The Surfside Snoops and the Ghost of Great Island. This year, we asked them for a noir shot of Adam and Ben for Thrill Me: The Leopold and Loeb Story. To say they embraced these challenges is a gross understatement. Michael and Suz approach sense of excitement from the Cod Viewfinders Camera Club. each project with curiosity, actors.” “We know how hard it is grace, and dedication. They Since moving to the Cape to have theater on the Cape, attend table reads and rehears- from the Washington, DC, financially,” Suz says. “To know als so they can better capture area seven years ago, they that we can sneak a few things the pivotal moments of each have given much of their time in that are our gift to the theater play (which they do in the dark, to supporting community orga- – how neat is that? We’re in front of a live audience). nizations. Their first experience doing something we love to “It takes awhile to figure out at WHAT, in fact, was taking do, and it serves.” what you want to accomplish,” photographs for the WE CAN We are so proud of the Michael says. “We’ve had to Cabaret in 2010, when Suz work our actors and design- come to grips with who we are was a member of WE CAN’s ers produce, and to have it and what are we trying to do. Board of Directors. Michael immortalized so beautifully is a The answer is, we’re trying to was President of Nauset gift indeed. Thank you for your reflect the energy that comes to Newcomers at the time. He is talent and your philanthropy, us. Our hope is to convey the currently President of the Cape Michael and Suz!

Thrill Me

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Fabulous Lipitones Period of Adjustment

I Am a Camera

Around the World in 80 Days photo: Liza Wanklyn

41 42 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Nicki Waite Photography Nicki Waite Photography

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46 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Over the last seven years, local and regional artists, the community, and you have raised tens of thousands of dollars at Yule for Fuel. Hosted by Stephen Russell, Yule for Fuel is four consecutive Saturdays of music, merriment and mirth, benefiting the Lower Cape Outreach Council and Housing Assistance Corporation (HAC). Musicians, writers, enter- tainers and more come together, donating their time and talent to help keep their neigh- bors warm over the holidays and beyond. Yule for Fuel is generously sponsored by Cape Cod Oil, Eastham Discount Oil, Marcey Oil, Snows Fuel Company and WOMR. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater gives thunderous applause and huge thanks to all the talent over the years that has made this community event great.

PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 47 WHAT Internship Program In December, six months prior to the start of the summer season, we cast a wide net searching for college students and emerging professionals who are eager to deepen their education and sharpen their theatrical and ad- ministrative skills in a professional environment. During the summer WHAT hires ten interns to work in all areas of the theater. Working in collaboration with WHAT’s production staff, guest designers, and administrative team, interns are involved in all areas of production including marketing, development, company management, box office, set construction and painting, electrics, wardrobe, stage manage- ment and sound, and run-crew for our main stage productions. Their contribution to the theater is immense, as is the work experience they come away with. In addition to their responsibilities as part of our team, interns participate in entrance and exit interviews, are required to keep a weekly journal and complete a self-evaluation at the end of their experience. Interns are also required to participate in weekly interactive professional development seminars. Topics for these seminars have included putting together a resume, portfolio and headshot; presenting new work; creating a theatrical environment; creative problem solving; taking the next step; and a conversation with a director.

48 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 49 DONORS Julie Harris Society Judy Cicero Wanda Olson and $10,000+ The Dunes 102.3 Robert Silverstein Anonymous Harold Grinspoon and Diane Daisy and David Paradis The Alec Baldwin Foundation Troderman Adam Parrish Yvette and John Dubinsky Family Mac’s Seafood John Van Rens and Sarah Lutz Charitable Foundation Michelle and Andrew McClennen Frank and Helen Risch Douglas and Beth Freeman MS Walker Fine Wines and Spirits Alix Ritchie and Martha Davis Carol Green Nauset Disposal Shelley and Nicholas Robinson Rick Grossman Buddy and Marla Perkel Sea Clam Rick Grossman in honor of Jeffry George Kathy Sharpless in memory of Ellen Grossman Snow’s Home and Garden Della Spring and Noa Hall Williams South Shore Playhouse Charles Steinhorn and The Howard Bayne Fund Associates, Inc. Elizabeth Frankel Arthur and Susan Lloyd Laurie Stillwell, CPA Stuart Vidockler Massachusetts Cultural Council Mary Ward Arend Vos in memory of Noa Hall Williams James and Stephania McClennen Kathryn Weill in honor of Michelle McClennen Dan Wolf and Heidi Schuetz and Jeffry George Marie-Helene Weill WOMR in honor of Kathryn Weill Orleans Toyota Christine and Jon Winder Lawrence S. Phillips Benefactor $1,000+ David Wuinee Phillips-Green Foundation Anonymous Michael and Renée Zarin Margarita Rudyak Arts Foundation of Cape Cod in honor of Carol Green Shubert Foundation Atlantic Importing Donna and Charles Ward III Berta Walker Gallery Angel $500+ Ralph Bevilaqua Am Hayam Executive Producer $5,000+ Cape Cod Five Cents Anonymous (2) Amy and David Abrams Savings Bank Charitable Elissa Arons Chris Beuscher Foundation Trust in memory of Daniel Arons Cape Air Cape Cod Oil Company Edward and Diane Bedrosian Cape Cod Five Cents David and Erica DeMarco Gary Bergstrom Savings Bank Eastham Discount Oil Chris and Susan Blood Jay and Christy Cashman Douglas and Beth Freeman The Bookstore and Restaurant in honor of Carol Green Aaron Franklin Patricia Bradley Gerald Garnick Carol Green Marilyn Bruneau in honor of Jeffry George Alan and Sallie Gratch Chequessett Chocolate The Hess and Helyn Kline in honor of Carol Green Foundation Arthur and Judith Huge Joan Lebold Cohen and in honor of Christopher Huge Jerome Cohen Michael and Susan Karchmer in honor of Carol Green Carol Lazarus John Markus Ross and Susan Coppelman Marcey Oil Company, Inc Sergei and Svetlana Nodelman Judith Davidson in honor of Carol Green Michael and Jennifer Maria Mary Jane Dutton Kai Maristed Fred and Sara Epstein Sustainer WHAT$2,500+ Ed and Joan Mark in honor of Carol Green The Angell Foundation Elizabeth Mellor and John Dubinsky Anonymous Monomoy Fuel Company Mark and Deborah Gaunya Anonymous MetropolitanRicki Nenner OperaJoseph N. Gibbons in honor of Jeffry George Niman Ranch and Steven Wynne Anonymous Emily L O’Connell Sue and Bob Goldstone in memory of Winifred Lubell GUILD

50 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER DONORS Gabrielle Hanna John Douhan Naomi Turner Chris Hardy Tonya Felix Wellfleet Alzheimer’s The Hauswald Charitable Fund of Allison Ferring Association Inc. the Philadelphia Foundation Marion Fischer Joseph Wittreich Michael and Cathy Haynes Allen and Rhoda Flaxman Ira Wolfson and Bernice Simon John Hart in honor of Jeffry George Annie Hile Flying Fish Café Director $100+ Robert and Kathryn Hubby Pamela Furth Arnold Aberman Stephen and Ursla Huff Susan and Martin Gauthier John Actman and Dennis Cole Myrna Keisman Arthur Geltzer Sunny and Jon Adler in honor of Carol Green Edward and Eileen Golden Anonymous (3) Melinda Krasting Lilli-Ann Green Anonymous in honor of Nicholas Gulde Dennis and Fay Greenwald in memory of Daniel Walker John and Antoinette Levin David and Harriet Griesinger Anonymous Christopher Lynch in honor of Judith Cicero John Gulow James and Lisa Lytle Mark and Karen Archambault Jennifer Hicks Fred and Deb Magee Judith S. Ball Joseph and Paula Himmelsbach Daniel Mullin Ernest and Patricia Bauer Meryl Kaye in memory of Ellen Grossman Alan and Dorothy Blumberg David and Janice Lawrence Jane Paradise William and Darby Boggess Lighthouse Restaurant Mark and Laurie Rheault Kathleen Bornhorst John Lipman Daniel and Giovanna Rosenbloom George and Ruth Bournazian Mac’s Parties and Provisions Bob Schechter Robert and Maria Bradley Hannah Shrand McDonnell Mechanical in memory of Edmee and James Silverman and Michael Cote Judy Minor Charles Bradley Michael and Merle Tarnow Jack and Barbara Morgan Russell and Nancy Braun Truro Treasures Dick Morrill and Leslie Fish-Morrill John Brewer Meredith Vieira and Richard Cohen Kermit Moyer and Amy Gussack Raymond and Elizabeth Brown Alexander Von Bismarck Stephen and Zella Ludwig Susan and Bertram Bruce Mindee Wasserman Dori Moulton Rita Burke David Willard Carolann and George Najarian Felix Cabrese and Richard Newburger Hassie Yankelovich Christopher Ostrom and Joseph Guglielmo in honor of You’re Baking Me Crazy Suz and Michael Karchmer Catherine Ould Steven Zelkowitz David Caplan and Barbara Epstein Pearl Restaurant and Amy Samuelson David Clive and Gloria Vigliani Morgan Porteus George and Katherine Cohen Brian Quigley Producer $250+ Tom Cole Anonymous Robina Ramsay and Nathaniel Litwak Thomas Condon Barbara Anthony Dick and Val Rand John Connolly and Lorena Melo Bruce and Nancy Bierhans Joseph and Eileen Reardon Margaret and Charles Crockett Maurice and Pam Boisvert Anthony Rogers and Anne Nugent Ralph Cuomo Cape Cod Mosquito Squad WHAT Richard Ruddy and Francine Curcio Herrick Chapman and Barbara Wriston Nancy and David Deppen Lizabeth Cohen Barbara Sass Amy and Michael Diamant Steve and Ingrid Clouther MetropolitanMichael Sharlet OperaMia Dillon Marvin and Jane Corlette Philip Susswein and Dorothy Dolan Kirk Cornwell and Claire Pospisil Barbara Epstein Steve Downey Laura and Kent Dickey GUILD

51 DONORS Peter and Erica Eisinger Jordan Kerber and Mary Moran Jennifer Regan Frank and Nora Fisher Jan Kelly John Rice Deborah and Daniel Foley Matthew and Jennifer King Carmen Richkin Tricia Ford James T Kirk Jr John and Linda Riehl in memory of Rex Peterson Barbara Knapp in memory of Rex Petersen Patricia Foster Raymond and Elissa Koff Mary and Lee Rivollier E Kristen Frederick Elaine LaChapelle Melissa and Scott Rockman Frederic and Fran Freyer Tom, Tess, Kat and Joey Landon Stephen and Diane Roehm Friends of the Truro Library Paul and Eileen LeFort Felicia Rubinstein in memory of Rex Peterson Lester Graves Lennon Margaret Sagan and Fugazzi Tent Rentals Michael Simons Ted Lewis Sherry Fulton in memory of Rex Peterson Michael and Arline Longo Susan and H. Ganse Little Richard and Kathleen Satz in memory of Kevin Fitzgerald Carol Magenau in honor of Carol Green Mike and Jean Gatzkiewicz Michael and Anita Malina Rita Satz in honor of Carol Green Kilty Gilmour Richard Mandel and Judith Motzkin David and Patricia Marshall Robert and Mary Ann Schaufus Paul and Monique Goetinck in honor of Cheap Seats Mary! Joseph and Kathleen Matthews Jerry and Helen Goodman Evelyn Scheffres Chester and Doris Greenleaf Elaine McIlroy and Stephen Russell in honor of Nicholas Gulde Walter and Gay Schenck Ann E. Groban in memory of Rex Peterson Robert McLaren Richard and Marilyn Guernsey Georgia Goddard Schneider John and Hannelore Meyer Hugh Guilderson and Arlene Kirsch Joe and Kathleen Schneider Kathy Michaud Nicholas Gulde Jay Shapiro and Rick Reinkraut Richard and Charlotte Miller Russell Haddleton Ted and Joan Shapiro Michael Minard and Phyllis Ross Mark Hammer and Ellen Kumata Robert Singer and Sandra Rhodes J. Suzanne Moore in memory of Ellen Grossman Keith and Janet Sisterson Michael and Ellen Mulroney Robert Hennes and Samantha Skove Jane Trinidad-Hennes Patricia and Richard E. Mulroy Bram and Barbara Smith Marie Hermann Sarah and Dowell Multer David Smith Frances Hitchcock Bob Myslik Mary Grace Smith Robert Hoch and Beverly Rothfeld Amy Nevis and Matthew Kamholtz Jonathan Sprogell and Jim Newcomer and Debra Hogestyn Kathryn Taylor Richard Wallace Gerald and Nina Holton Keith and Janet Sisterson in memory of Ellen Grossman Nancy and George Nicholson III Lynn Southey Thomas Holzman and John O’Hara and Martha Gordon Roy Steigbigel and Alison Drucker James Olney in memory of Franklyn and Sidonie Morrison Richard and Ann Organisciak Mathilda Holzman Christian and Elaine Stephens Harding Ounanian Jr. Janet Hymowitz and Will Sullivan Kevin and Joyce Stone Susan Page-Thompson and Neil Immerman and Susan Landau Jaqueline Stowell George Thompson Elisabeth Ingram in honor of Nancy Taverna Sandra and William Sulski in honor of Jean C. Avery and Ginny Parker Elizabeth Temin Burt Randall WHAT Samuel Parkinson Frederic and Jeanne Thomas Howard and Anne Irwin Wulf and Renate Paulick Noel and Elizabeth Tipton Bert Jackson Sanford Pomerance Selena Trieff and Robert Henry Vernon and Bimbi Jacob MetropolitanStephen R. Powell OperaFrank Ulyan Harry Jonas in memory of Julie Harris Nina and Salvatore Rabbio Richard and Mary Utt MarieGUILD D Vesselli

52 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER DONORS Kirsti Wastrom James and Barbara Finkelstein Mary Agnes McNulty in memory of Peter and Peter and Shirley Fisher Lorraine C. Moritz Laura Wastrom Martin Flusberg and Walter and Sarah Morrison Shirley Weber Helen Tager-Flusberg Nick and Beverly Muto Roberta Whalen Marla Freedman and Kevin Rice Frank and Nancy Netcoh Beth and Brad Whitman Barbara Fried Humbert Oliveira Stan Wiggins and Karen Possner Judy Fueyo in memory of Merrilee J. Possner Paul Pilcher Terry Gips John King and Jane Williams David and Marion Pollock Nat and Katherine Goddard Deborah Posin Charles Winkelstein, MD in memory of Dan Walker Robert Read Sheryl and Bruce Wolf Virginia Hardman Martin and Florence Richman Terry Woodward Robert Harvey and Gayle Mary Wright Wetmore Carol Ridker Jerrold and Linda Zindler Elizabeth Heard Catherine Riessman William Hildreth Matthew Roehrig and Corinne Demas Friend $50+ Joe and Mary Hintz in memory of Noa Hall Williams Anonymous (2) Bob and Joan Holt Richard and Susan Rogers Daniel and Roslyn Ashley Bruce Hunter and Madeleine Entel Jean Burger Romeo and Elan Babchuck Alice and William Iacuessa William Romeo in honor of Marion Pollock Burton and Eleanor Jaffe Jay Rose and Melanie Malherbe Joan and Pete Baldwin JB’s Pizza Bar and Grill Harriet Rubin and Dolores Filardi Allison and Les Beavan Debra Johnson in honor of Joyce Johnson Allen and Edwina Berliner in honor of Leo David and Sharon Rule-Agger John-Paul Bianchi Harry and Beverly Jonas Ramon and Lois Rustia Richard Bishop in memory of Connie Jonas Janet Rustow Daryl Bladen William Jones John Salsberg and Holly Newman Guitta Blau Wendy Kesselman David and Shira Sands Susan and Gorham Brigham III Dick and Joan Kingsbury Neil Schriever and Joanne Broderick Robert and Annette Klayman David Blackman in honor of Mary Bredemeir’s May Ruth Seidel Rachel Brown 90th Birthday Carol and John Seigel Michael Butterworth Stephen and Terry Kline Don and Linda Selsky Brian Cabral Marian Knapp David Chambers and John Crane in memory of Leon Knapp Patricia Shannon Elinore Charlton Dmitri Konon Evelyn Sheffres in memory of Ezra H. Sheffres Katherine Cima Frank and Gwyndolyn Korahais Norma Simon Nancy Conaty Lawrence and Cheryl Levy in memory of Marion Simon Janine Corsano Peter M Levy Edward and Susy Soo Betsy Cotton Curtis and Joan Lippincott Megan Sykes Phyllis and Joseph Crowley Doris B Lowenfels Simon and Donet Taylor Irene Daitch Christina Macort Jill Teitelman Clotilde DavisWHAT Barbara and Michael Mandel Peter and Charlotte Temin Richard and Carol Diforio Richard and Virginia Marr Martha Terrenzi Sidney and Cheryl Dockser T. McCready Jones and Mark Jones Stephen and Judy Underberg Wendy Doniger McGraw-Hill Education LLC Roger and Ellen Vacco Dan and TeresaMe English tropolitanElaine McIlroy and Stephen Russell Opera Paul Walley Susan Epstein in memory of Rex Peterson in memory of Carole Ann Walley Maria Ewald Kathleen McNeil JonathanGUILD and Edith Weil

53 DONORS Wellfleet Public Library Austin and Aili Flint Lisa Paige Lilo Werner Cindy Garrison Mark Paikin in honor of Stephen Russell in honor of Nika Fleissig Todd Perkins Roger Widmer and Barbara Penn Nancy Giles James Petcoff Lesley Williams Harriet Goodman William Price Martha R. Wilson John and Joan Grant Gerald Quigley Steven Winnick and Martha Jacobs Joan Gray Safoura Rafeizadeh Lewis Wise and Amy Charney Lilli Green Peter and Wendy Rennert Suzi Wojdyslawski and Diane Greene Margot Reubens Andrew Goldberg Lisa Gross Jennifer Revill Sandra Wonders Katherine Hallal Susan and Lionel Ribeiro Mort and Meredith Young John Harper Paul and Margaret Rogosienski Deborah and Alan Hope Martin and Lorraine Rosenbaum Up to $50 John Hord Arlin and Sarita Roy Frederick Allen Mort and Sharon Inger Edward and Earline Rubel Diana Alvarez Kathy Jackson Kathleen Salzberg D.C. Anderson Robert Jackson Blanche Saul Skip Andres Loretta Jaksic Kristin Scotchmer Anonymous (16) Sandra R. Johnson Susan Schappert Phyllis Arnold Mike Keaveney William Secor and Martha Edgar Bernard and Eva Balter Terence Kerans in honor of Dr. Thomas R. Blom Barbara Shandelman Richard and Linda Kerber Kelly and Judith Barber Ira Silverman Jean Klein Timothy Barr Michael Simons Edith Kuhne Edward Smith Katherine and Thomas Ben-Aroch in memory of Ellen Grossman Manny and Liz Smith Amy Blais Andrew Levey and Roberta Falke Jason Blonstein Alice Stewart Suzanne Lawlor in honor of Elizabeth Neustadt Brian Briody Martha Rodgers Magane Susan Stinson Barbara R Britton in memory of Rex Peterson Valerie Stinson Laura Boylan Cindy Maressa Stop and Shop John Buchheit Leon and Marilee Martel Sam and Joan Teller John and Janet Bush Genevieve Martin Patti Tetrault Carol Carbaugh Jennifer Mayer Robert Thomas Karen Chenail Lori McCrave Ruth Thompson Frank Cicha Sonya Michel Kevin Usher Spencer Coffin Susan and Peter Milsky Lynne Viti Susan Cohen Jacob and Elaine Miller Wendy Walker Norman and Roberta Coppinger Camille Motta George and Renate Wasserman Chandler and Carolyn Crowell M.J. Bruder Munafo Susan Welch Stephen Czick Julia Murphy Laurie Weltz Walter and Myra Dorrell Stephen and Jane Needel Fred White John Driscoll WHAT in memory of Phyllis Loewenstein Barbara Wood and Jay Vivian Roberta and Harry Eggart Hugh O’Doherty Paula Young Eva Enos John O’Hara Joanna FabrisMe tropolitanMichele Olem Opera Nika Fleissig and Alicia Magal Steven Oney GUILD

54 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER THEN AND NOW A Centennial Celebration of the Provincetown Players July 2 - 18, Thursday through Saturday

Presented by Provincetown Theater at 238 Bradford Street, Provincetown Co-produced with Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Payomet Performing Arts Center, and CTEK Arts

TRIFLES by Susan Glaspell, directed by Judy Israel, Payomet SUPPRESSED DESIRES by George Cram Cook and Susan Glaspell, directed by Jeffry George, WHAT THE SNIPER by Eugene O'Neill, directed by Margaret Van Sant, CTEK Arts CONSTANCY by Neith Boyce, Provincetown Theater PAINTING BY ANDREA M. SAWYER provincetowntheater.org • 508-487-7487 THE PROVINCETOWN THEATER

PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 55 WHAT A Difference We Can All Make Dear We have launched a capital campaign WHAT that is structured to vastly improve what we patrons, are able to offer the community and how supporters, we operate internally. Our objective is to partners, raise 3.5 million dollars by 2018 which will and friends; provide WHAT with a permanent WHAT Each for Kids structure available for use by the year, community during the shoulder seasons, many thousands of necessary capital improvements along with visitors are much needed debt relief and the formation of drawn to an endowment that will ensure a sustainable the Cape to and stable business model for WHAT. Yes, experience we have a beautiful facility, but after 8 years, our beautiful there are things that need updating and we

photo: Joe Navas, Organic Photography beaches have figured out more cost-effective ways to and rich arts programs. By accomplishing operate the building itself. our mission of providing thought-provoking I would love to talk to you. Please contact programming year-round, WHAT supports me at [email protected] or (508) 349-9428 our economy by being a go-to destination for x102 so we may find a giving plan that best tourists and residents and employing nearly suits you. Alternatively, you can use the pink 100 seasonal and year-round artists, envelope provided with this playbill or go to administrators, and technicians. what.org to make your donation today. As the Cape has more non-profits than large companies, we support each other. Warmly, WHAT hosts functions, fundraisers and Joanna Marie Roche programs that directly benefit those in need. Development Director Additionally, we keep our ticket prices affordable so that all members of our You are the difference community, from children to adults to seniors, maker and we appreciate that are able to participate in the gift of cultural arts. While we have streamlined staffing and immensely. maximized operational efficiencies and 82% of revenue is spent purely on programming, since ticket sales only cover roughly 30% of our annual budget, it is you that has helped make all this happen. By supporting WHAT, you have been a difference maker on Cape Cod for the past 30 years. Now, we ask that you come with us to preserve this important stem of A new, permanent WHAT for Kids economic and community support for the Structure for use by the community during next 30 years. the shoulder seasons.

56 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Support WHAT All we do happens because of you. It is sponsors, are seen, heard and understood your support that makes WHAT one of the as supporters of the culture and economy leading not-for-profit cultural institutions on of the Cape Cod. As research shows, Cape Cod providing thought provoking organizations that are seen to support the arts programming year round. are supported by the patrons of the arts. Please choose a way to support us that WHAT Metropolitan suits you: Opera Guild Annual Fund Whether it is your love of this incredibly Your tax-deductible gift enables WHAT popular to continue producing world-class regional WHAT program theater and performing arts programs that Metropolitan Opera we run inspire and enrich our community. GUILD from Capital Campaign October through May or your desire to collaborate We recently announced the launch of a with like-minded aficionados at pre-opera capital campaign that is structured to vastly receptions, your membership supports this improve what we are able to offer the year round programming at WHAT. community and how we operate internally. Our objective is to raise $3,500,000 by 2018 which will provide WHAT with a OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO permanent WHAT for Kids structure available for use by the community during the shoulder SUPPORT WHAT seasons, many necessary capital Sustained Giving Smaller, automatic, improvements along with much needed debt monthly donations make a very big relief and the formation of an endowment difference. that will ensure a sustainable and stable Donate stock, request a matching gift from business model for WHAT. your employer, or make a gift in honor or in memory of someone. Donor Membership Planned Giving Enhance your This year, experience the theater like philanthropy and address other financial and never before, joining estate planning needs while making a gift friends beyond the and sustaining WHAT far into the future. Access seats and behind the scenes! From Contact Joanna today at [email protected] back stage tours to or (508) 349-9428 x102 for assistance with exclusive events with the cast, WHAT pulls any of these. Alternatively, simply use the pink back the curtain with unique access and envelope provided with this playbill or go to opportunities. what.org. Corporate Sponsorship Sponsor WHAT is a program designed to maximize the benefit We are so grateful for your Sponsor of a relationship between our valued support. Thank you! organizations. Our

57 Kristine Opolais as Manon Lescaut

PHOTO: KRISTIAN SCHULLER / METROPOLITAN OPERA 58 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Il Trovatore OCT 3 Verdi

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Manon Lescaut MAR 5 Puccini

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60 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 61 Very special thanks to our VOLUNTEER AMBASSADORS We couldn’t do it without you! Liz Aberdale Barbara Epstein Catherine Myers Gayle Adams Valerie Falconieri Irene Nelson Evelyn Adler Laura Ferri Roger Nelson Anna Mary Andolina Carol French Don Nuendel Susan Bachman Judy Fueyo Bonnie Nuendel Pat Bartlett Maura Ghedini Myrna Patterson Randy Bartlett Shirley Ginsberg Susan Peters Elaine Baskin Marty Ginsberg Dick Rand Tony Becker Hope Goodrich Val Rand Gail Bell Claire Goyer Barbara Ravage Edwina Berliner Robert Granville Nancy Rea Alexandra Berns Karen Harmon Mitch Relin Carol Bishop May Haynes Yvonne Relin Cindy Blum Bernie Hutchens Patricia Renaud Nancy Bone Vicky Hutchens May Robertson Dot Boulia Sara Hutchings Robin Robinson Larry Boulia Olga Kahn Paul Roux Patricia M. Bradley Carolyn Kany Jonathan Ryder Bethia Brehmer Pat Kennedy David Sands Marie Broudy Walter Klar Shira Sands Joe Burke Carol Klass Leslie Shaw Martha Carroll Marti Knapp Lynda Shuster Andrea Close Portia Kornilakis Shelley Spar Tom Cole Luella Kramer Donna Sprague Tara Conklin Sharon Krause Sharon Stout Annette Cremisi Elaine LaChapelle Carol Symanski Julius Cremisi Diane LeDuc Jeff Tash Marsha DeBeau Denya LeVine Lois Tash Bob DeBeau Martha Magane Joyce Tibbetts Sue DeCarlo Rich Mandel Flo Ulrich Jim Denietolis Lauren Markram Sandi Vandercar Carol Dickerson Eve Martin Mark Vandercar Kevin Donovan Bill Mastellon Natalie Wall Kathy Donovan Pat Mastellon Susan Weegar John Elkins Judith Merl Allan Weissman Kathy Elkins Janet Morrissey Barbara Weissman Patricia Elwell Richard Mandel Sebastian Wheeler Madeleine Entel Judith Motzkin Mary Wright

This year we connected with AmeriCorps volunteers through Cape Cod Volunteers. They volunteer at WHAT about twice a month, so you’ve likely seen them (and know how wonderful they are)! For more information on AmeriCorps, visit americopscapecod.org.

62 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER I have always loved live theater and supported it by buying tickets when I could, so, was excited to learn I could volunteer at WHAT and give more that way. I began when WHAT was a small theater on the harbor and continued at the big, beautiful theater we have now. Although I would have bought tickets for what I was interested in, by volunteering I was able to see everything and discovered I enjoyed many of the productions I could not have afforded to buy tickets for. It is clear the range of my taste and appreciation has expanded greatly from this experience. The big, new wide screen and state of the art audio make watching anything, including opera straight from the Met in New York, a complete pleasure! And another big bonus has been that WHAT supports many non-profits on the Outer Cape and has greatly expanded its range of presentations, movies and panels, such as from Wellfleet Bay Audubon Sanctuary, which has enabled me to contribute to the larger community as well. Do I sound like a big fan? I absolutely am! -Marie Broudy

63 The Journey So Far... The six original founders of WHAT – Gip In 2002, Stephen Russell, an actor with Hoppe, Vicky Shepard, Kevin Rice, Dan the company since 1987, began WHAT Walker, Dick Morrill and Laurie Swift – all for Kids. met and became friends in 1982 while Having outgrown the stage at the harbor, working for a Wellfleet based theater WHAT added a new 220-seat theater on company called the Outer Cape Performance Route 6. Company. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater In June, 2007, the new building was was born in 1985, in the space next to the dedicated, with its state-of-the-art Julie Harris iconic Uncle Frank’s Donut Shop. Stage at its heart.

1985 Entertaining Mr. Sloan Rhinoceros by Joe Orton by Eugene Ionesco 1987 American Buffalo Greater Tuna by David Mamet by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears 1986 and Ed Howard The Foreigner Orphans by Larry Shue by Lyle Kessler Talking With The Lady’s Not for Burning by Jane Martin by Christopher Frye My Sister in This House A Lie of the Mind by Wendy Kesselman by Sam Shepard 1988 On the Verge by Eric Overmyer Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe Black Comedy and the Actor’s Nightmare by Christopher Durang Glengarry Glenn Ross by David Mamet 1989 The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson Buried Child by Sam Shepard French Gray by Josef Bush The World of Lenny Bruce written and performed by Frank Speiser The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel The Fall of the House of Usher written and directed by Gip Hoppe 64 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER Untamed Love The Artificial Jungle (co-production with the Academy by Charles Ludlam Playhouse in Orleans) Heart of Jade written and directed by Gip Hoppe (world premiere) written and directed by Gip Hoppe 1990 The Kathy and Mo Show Frankie and Johnny in the Claire De Lune by Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney by Terrence McNally Johnny Got his Gun In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe by Bradley Rand Smith by Eric Overmyer Dear Liar Some Things You Need to Know Before the (benefit) World Ends by Jerome Kilty by Levi Lee with Julie Harris & Alvin Epstein The Road to Nirvana by Arthur Kopit 1993 Terminal Hip Heart of Jade written and directed by written and directed by Mac Wellman Gip Hoppe with Stephen Mellor The Baby Dance The Mystery of Irma Vep by Jane Anderson by Charles Ludlam The Swan Death of a Salesman by Elizabeth Egloff (co-production with the Academy Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll Playhouse in Orleans) by Eric Bogosian by Arthur Miller The Kathy and Mo Show 1991 by Kathy Najimy & Mo Gaffney The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam And Baby Makes Seven by Paula Vogel Giggle and Scream (world premiere) by David Steven Rappoport directed by Alan Zadoff The Speed of Darkness by Steve Tesich Fool for Love by Sam Shepard Tales of the Lost Formicans by Constance Congdon A Visit to the Duplex Planet created & performed by Richard Greenberger Cabaret du Somerville created & performed by Chandler Travis Love Letters (benefit) by A.R. Gurney with Julie Harris & Ben Gazzara 1992 Speed the Plow by David Mamet Reckless by Craig Lucas

65 The Secretaries (world premiere) by The Five Lesbian Brothers Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith Four Dogs and a Bone (New England premiere) by John Patrick Shanley Hot ’N’ Throbbing (New England premiere) by Paula Vogel 1996 Durang Durang by Christopher Durang All in the Timing by David Ives Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense by Jimmy Tingle Simpatico (New England premiere) by Sam Shepard 1997 A Life in the Theater by David Mamet Dark Rapture Prelude to a Kiss by Eric Overmyer by Craig Lucas Rush Limbaugh in Night School The Baltimore Waltz by Charlie Varone by Paula Vogel Future Hollow 1994 by Gip Hoppe (10th Anniversary Season) Jimmy Tingle’s Uncommon Sense written and performed by Jimmy Tingle 10,000 Hands Have Touched Me (world premiere) written and performed by Michael Klein Savior of the Universe (world premiere) by Gip Hoppe directed by Tim Banker Oleanna by David Mamet Cosmologies (world premiere) by David Rabe Siberian Summer (world premiere) written and directed by Kevin Rice Are You There (world premiere) written & performed by Frank Speiser 1995 Keely and Du by Jane Martin 66 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER 7 Blowjobs (New England premiere) by Mac Wellman 1998 The Seagull: Wellfleet 1990s (New England premiere) written and directed by Jeff Cohen (adapted from Anton Chekhov) Actorz…with a Z written and performed by John Kuntz Stonewall Jackson’s House (New England premiere) written by Jonathan Reynolds Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett Nixon’s Nixon by Russell Lees 1999 Private Eyes by Steven Dietz Psychopathia Sexualis by John Patrick Shanley Mere Mortals by David Ives The God Show created by Paul Wagner Killer Joe (New England premiere) by Tracy Letts 2000 Cooking With Elvis (American premiere) The Beauty Queen of Leenane by Lee Hall by Martin McDonaugh Horrifying, Absolutely Real, True Disasters Ruby Tuesday (world premiere) (world premiere) written and directed by Gip Hoppe written & directed by Gip Hoppe Jimmy Tingle for President 2002 created & performed by The Homecoming Jimmy Tingle by Harold Pinter Starfuckers Professional Skepticism created & performed by John Kuntz (world premiere) Fuddy Meers by James Rasheed (New England premiere) Fully Committed by David Lindsay-Abaire by Becky Mode Closer The Dog Problem (New England premiere) by David Rabe by Patrick Marber Driving on the Sidewalk 2001 (world premiere) by Jesse Kellerman Women Who Steal (New England premiere) One Night in the Life of Denise Ivanovich by Carter L. Lewis (American premiere) by Kevin Rice Lemonade (New England premiere) A New War by Eve Ensler (world premiere) written and directed by Gip Hoppe 67 Glitterati (New England premiere) written and performed by John Kuntz Gizmo Love (world premiere) by John Kolvenbach Immoral Imperatives (New England premiere) by Jeffrey Sweet Private Jokes, Public Places (New England premiere) by Oren Safdie The Three Sillies* (world premiere) written and directed by Stephen Russell 2005 Public Exposure (world premiere) by Robert Reich Once Upon A Wolf* Pugilist Specialist by Stef DeFerie (New England premiere) Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale Detective* by Adriano Shaplin by Stef DeFerie The Lovers (The Lover & Ashes to Ashes) by Harold Pinter 2003 Hazard County A New War (New England premiere) (transfer to Jimmy Tingle’s by Allison Moore Off-Broadway in Somerville, MA) Bug Winner of 2003 Elliot Norton by Tracy Letts Award: Outstanding Production The Dream Express by a Small Visiting Company written and directed by written and directed by Gip Hoppe Len Jenkins The Unexpected Man by Yasmina Reza Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater “One of the finest The Art Room and funniest plays you’re likely (New England premiere) to see.” by Billy Aronson New York Times Live Girls 07 (world premiere) by Victoria Stewart Jewbano written and performed by Frank Speiser Proof by David Auburn Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan True West by Sam Shepard

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By Sarah Ruhl 2004 Directed by Jeff Zinn Cuckooland THE CLEAN HOUSE (world premiere) june 21 - july 21 WED - SUN 8:15 PM / SAT June 23 & July 21 5:15 PM the julie harris stage 2357 Route 6 sponsored by written and directed by Gip Hoppe (next to Post Office) Van Rensselaer’s phone (508) 349-WHAT (9428) Restaurant & Raw Bar www.what.org season sponsors To My Chagrin tickets Grand Opening $29 & $75 Premiere General Admission $29 / Outer Cape Voters $26 Student Rush $14.50 / Group Discount Available the wicked oyster written and performed by Peggy Shaw VISA/MC/AMEX ACCEPTED / Air Conditioned Handicapped Accessible 68 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER McReele WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER by Stephen Belber The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin* JULIE HARRIS STAGE (world premiere) World written and directed by Stephen Russell Premiere! Mercy on the Doorstep (world premiere) written and directed by Gip Hoppe 08 2006 The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (New England premiere) by Rolin Jones Candy & Dorothy (New England premiere) by David Johnston Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun FABULOSOAUGUST 14-SEPTEMBER 6 adapted for the stage by Bradley Rand Smith WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN KOLVENBACH Red Light Winter

(New England premiere) TUESDAY- SATURDAY, 8:00 pm MATINEE: AUGUST 16, 3:30 pm by Adam Rapp Shakespeare’s Actresses in America SPONSORED BY created & performed 2357 ROUTE SIX, NEXT TO WELLFLEET POST OFFICE by Rebekah Maggor General Admission $32 Matinee $22 Student Rush $16 Outer Cape Voters $26 Group Discounts Available. 2008 SUMMER SEASON SPONSORS Handicap Accessible. Air Conditioned. On An Average Day 508.349.WHAT (9428) (New England premiere) WWW.WHAT.ORG by John Kolvenbach Romance Daisy Crockett, Frontiersperson!* (New England premiere) (world premiere) by David Mamet written and directed by Stephen Russell The Captain’s Doll What Then (world premiere) by Rinne Groff by D.H. Lawrence American Buffalo adapted & directed by Jeff Zinn by David Mamet Jonathan Katz – Live! Indian Blood Xenia Hedgehog’s Academy of by A.R. Gurney Etiquette For Naughty Boys and Girls: Love Song Nine Convenient and Easy Lessons* by John Kolvenbach written & directed by Stephen Russell 2007 2008 Last Train to Nibroc Mojo by Arlene Hutton by Jez Butterworth Intimate Apparel The Clean House by Lynn Nottage by Sarah Ruhl What the Butler Saw Dark Yellow by Joe Orton (New England premiere) by Julia Jordan The Pillowman Hunter Gatherers by Martin McDonagh (East Coast premiere) Fabuloso by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (world premiere) School For Wives written & directed by John Kolvenbach (L’Ecole des Femmes) The George Place (New England premiere) (world premiere) by Moliere by David Johnston Presented by Triumph of Love Shakespeare on the Cape by Marivaux Presented by Shakespeare on the Cape 69 Fool of the World and the Flying Ship* The Storytelling Ability of a Boy (world premiere) by Carter W. Lewis written & directed by Stephen Russell Robin Hood or Marian of Sherwood* Ride written & directed by Stephen Russell (world premiere) by Eric Lane 2011 Shortstack Jihad Jones and the Kalashnikov Babes (world premiere) by Yussef El Guindi by Rolin Jones Boeing Boeing The Mistakes Madeline Made by Mark Camoletti by Elizabeth Meriwether Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband Sexual Perversity in Chicago adapted by Daniel Morris by David Mamet Bakersfield Mist Shining City by Stephen Sachs by Conor McPherson Body Awareness by Annie Baker 2009 A Behanding in Spokane The Mystery of Irma Vep by Martin McDonagh by Charles Ludlam Neighborhood3: Requisition of Doom Noises Off by Jennifer Haley by Michael Frayn The Betrothed The Little Dog Laughed by Dipika Guha by Douglas Carter Beane The Ding Dongs, or What Is the The Blue Room Penalty in Portugal? by David Hare (world premiere) The Happy Oyster Spectacular Show by Brenda Withers by Dave Kennedy The Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin* The Bald Soprano written and directed by Stephen Russell by Eugene Ionesco Laughing Wild by Christopher Durang “...a jewel in Massachusetts’ crown” -Boston Globe

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2012 References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot by Jose Rivera The Consequences (a musical) (world premiere) by Nathan Leigh and Kyle Jarrow Saving Kitty (world premiere) by Marisa Smith Hysteria, or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis by Terry Johnson Oblomov (American premiere) by Kevin Rice Sleeping Beauty (La Belle Au Bois Dormant)* (world premiere) written & directed by Stephen Russell 2013 39 Steps A Parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s Utility Monster (American premiere) By Marina Keegan Six Characters in Search of an Author (world premiere of WHAT adaptation) adapted by Matt Foss

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74 2015-2016 WELLFLEET HARBOR ACTORS THEATER PLEASE... THANK OUR ADVERTISERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT 75 Fran DeVasto, August 13, 1952 - March 21, 2015 This year good friend, Fran. saw the “Frannie and I were arguing. The waiter passing of a had long ago cleared away our bowls of larger than life won-ton, and fluttered hopefully about, member of our waiting for us to pay up and leave. I nursed Cape theatre the remnants of my second beer, while community, Frannie mostly ignored the finger of whiskey Fran DeVasto. remaining in his glass. Fran acted in Frannie and I argued a lot. We argued and directed quietly, intensely, and, for my part, gleefully. plays all We argued over points of art, over politics, over the over sports. And the funny thing was, our Cape and views were rarely terribly far apart. But we brightened many a Wellfleet winter’s night argued anyway. with his productions of The Mouse That I met Fran 25 years ago, when he cast Roared, It’s A Wonderful Life and his my then wife, P.J. as Teddy the Bear in memorable staging of Our Town, with a cast his Periwinkle Players production for the of scores of Wellfleetians. As the guiding summer. Back then, P.J. and I were entering force behind the Periwinkle Players, for seven Cape theatre via many venues. years, he wrote, produced and directed P.J.’s involvement with the Players seemed The Forest of John the Fox plays at the a given by the second summer. I was a little Rec Department tent at Baker’s Field, thus startled at how successful the shows were. establishing a fun and vibrant tradition of I had seen them. They seemed so simple to summer children’s theatre in Wellfleet, geared me. And then I realized that Frannie’s shows for all ages. It’s no exaggeration to say that were simple in their honesty. Frannie’s humor WHAT for Kids would not exist without the was borne of un-harnessed joy. Kids liked model that Fran provided. We would like to it. And their parents did too. dedicate this season of WHAT for Kids to I was privileged enough to work with his memory. Frannie many times over the years. We We asked Rich McKey, who has been have directed each other in all too few one of our W4K stalwarts for many years, productions. And have not had nearly to share some memories of working with his enough arguments.“

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