Theatre Conservatory Presents the Summer Players in the Cast of Peter Pan

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Jerome Robbins JEFF POLUNAS KRISTEN CRUZ Stage Manager Sound Design ’ s Setting Cast of Characters The Darling Nursery and Neverland, circa 1905 (in order of appearance) SHANE IVERSON ��Wendy Darling Length JADEN FOGEL �� John Darling Two hours with one fifteen minute intermission NIKA NATALIE AYDIN ��Michael Darling KIRA WENDLAND ��Liza KYRA GOFF �� Nana, Cecco LINDSEY WIERCIOCH ��Mrs. Darling, Jukes NICK SLIMMER �� Mr. Darling, Captain Hook Staff CHRISTOPHER HUNTLEY �� Peter Pan Fight Director...... Richard Soto JASMINE O’HEA ��Tinkerbell Assistant Director...... Sanaz Toossi GRAYSEN AIRTH �� Lion Assistant Musical Director �� Brianna Beach SARAH COCROFT ��Kangeroo LAUREN LYONS �� Ostrich Music Captain...... Allie Mgrublian JAMIE OSTMANN ��Slightly Assistant Costume Designer �� Kate Poppen BENJAMIN SUSSKIND ��First Twin Costume Assistant ...... Brianna Ellis-Mitchell DOMINIC DANIEL BRACK ��Second Twin Assistant Stage Manager...... Kathleen Barrett SAUL RICHARDSON ��Curley Production Assistant...... Jasmine O'Hea MITCHELL HUNTLEY ��Tootles Technical Director...... John Gaddis IV KELSEY BRAY ��Nibs JOSHUA MYRAN ��Nemo Props Master...... Byron Bacon SEAN KATO ��Otis Lead Scenic Artist...... Judy Allen MIKEY COSTA �� Noodler Costume Shop Manager...... Amy Hutto BLAKE LASZLO ��Smee Master Electrician...... Lois Bryan CHRISTOPHER DELFINO �� Alan Herb Sound/Video Supervisor �� Ian Burch SAMMY LA SCALA �� Alf Mason GRACE TOMBLIN MARCA ��Canary Robb Wig and Makeup Supervisor...... Laura Caponera JULIA URONE ��Chay Turley Light Board Operator...... Sumner Ellsworth KATHERINE PARRISH ��Morgan's Skylights Sound Engineer...... Sam Levey SYDNEY PARDO ��Mullins Assistant Sound Engineer ...... Kelsi Halverson ALLIE MGRUBLIAN ��Starkey, Voice of the Mysterious Lady Deck Crew...... Emily Kettler ALLISON BAAYOUN ��Crocodile, Lean Wolf KAYLEE WAN ��Crocodile, Shooting Star Special thanks to Robert Nafarrete, accompanist RACHEL CHARNY �� Tiger Lily TATUM HARKAVY �� Crooked Fire About The Summer Players LAUREN BOVA ��Great Big Little Panther Today’s performers are students in or recent graduates of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory. The EMME O’TOOLE �� Little Loud Oak/Jane Summer Players have all completed at least one year in acting classes and range in age from MADDY NICKLESS ��Thundering Waterfall 9 to 20. The Summer Players program is the only one in the Conservatory that combines so TARA THOMPSON �� Turtle Blossom many ages and levels of experience. In order to be chosen as a Player, students must have KASEY JACQUES �� Wild Dove strong recommendations from their SCR acting instructors and go through an audition and interview process. They make a commitment to rehearse for 100 hours over five weeks and PETER PAN are held to the highest standards. These actors represent some of the most talented and Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). committed students. The SCR Theatre Conservatory is a vital and wide-ranging program All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. offering classes to adults and kids at every level of experience. Please visit scr.org for more 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 • Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com - See more at: http://www.mtishows.com/show_detail. information. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Media Partner J.M. Barrie

cottish playwright and author James Mat- thew Barrie (1860-1937) began his profes- Ssional career as a journalist after graduating from Edinburgh University in 1882. He published his first novel, Better Dead, in 1887. Although the book sold poorly, it marked the start of Barrie’s ultimately successful literary career, which yielded over 25 published novels and plays. The character of Peter Pan first appeared in Barrie’s 1902 novel, The Little White Bird. In 1904 Barrie’s play Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up premiered in London and quickly became the hit of the season. The play’s popularity inspired the author to write a novelization of the story, and J.M. Barrie, circa 1898 in 1911 he published Peter and Wendy. Although Barrie continued to write both plays and novels for the rest of his career, Peter Pan remains his best-known work. Barrie died of pneumonia in 1937 and gave Peter Pan’s copyright to a London children’s hospital as a part of his will. Mary Martin as Peter Pan in the original 1954 Broadway production of the musical The Boys Who Wouldn’t Grow Up Peter Pan’s Lasting Popularity any historians claim that Peter Pan’s origins stem from an event in Barrie’s own childhood. In 1867, Barrie’s older brother, David, died just a day before eter Pan, Wendy, Tinker Bell and the Lost Mhis fourteenth birthday after he fell down and fractured his skull while ice- Boys remain popular characters among skating. Barrie, just six years old at the time of the accident, spent years caring for his Pchildren and adults alike due to the many grieving mother, who took comfort in knowing that her deceased son would stay a adaptations of Peter Pan. Although Barrie’s play carefree boy forever. was a holiday tradition in London for 50 years after Barrie also drew inspiration for Peter Pan its debut, the original text is now rarely performed, and his Lost Boys from his relationship with the and modern audiences are more familiar with the young Llewelyn Davies brothers: George, John, 1953 animated Disney film and the 1954 musical Peter, Michael and Nico. Barrie became close with adaptation. the family in the late 1890s and dreamt up the The musical boasts three Broadway reviv- stories of Peter Pan and his adventures to entertain als since its original production 60 years ago. the boys. When the brothers’ parents, Arthur and The role of Peter Pan was written for Broadway Sylvia, died just a few years apart, Barrie became star Mary Martin, who won a Tony Award for her the Llewelyn Davies boys’ legal guardian. performance. Today, the musical remains a favorite among families and is performed at theatres across the country. It has also been filmed for television Michael Llewelyn Davies, three times, and in 2014 NBC plans to air another A statue of Peter Pan in Eng- live performance of the Peter Pan musical. Barrie’s favorite of the broth- land’s Kensington Gardens ers, dressed as Peter Pan Musical Numbers Artist Biographies

ACT ONE Carolyn Leigh (lyrics) was born in New York City on August 21, 1926. After attending Queens College in New Overture York she worked as a copyrighter for radio stations and advertising agencies. Collaborating with composers such as Prologue...... Wendy, John, Michael, Mrs. Darling, Liza, Nana Cy Coleman and Moose Charlap, Leigh also wrote the Broadway stage scores for Peter Pan, Wildcat and Little Me. Tender Shepherd...... Mrs. Darling, Wendy, John, Michael Her catalog boasts some of the biggest standards to emerge from Broadway stage scores including “The Best is Yet To I Gotta Crow...... Peter Come,” “Young at Heart,” “How Little We Know,” “Westport,” “Spring in Maine,” “The Rules of the Road,” “Firefly,” Neverland...... Peter, Wendy “Witchcraft,” “I’m Flying,” “I Gotta Crow,” “I Walk a Little Faster,” “you Fascinate Me So,” “hey, Look Me Over,” “Tall I’m Flying...... Peter, Wendy, John, Michael, Liza Hopes,” “El Sombrero,” “One Day We Dance,” “It Amazes Me,” “The Other Side of the Tracks,” “Real Live Girl,” “I’ve Pirate March...... Hook, Pirates Got Your Number,” “Here’s to Us,” “a Doodlin’ Song,” “Stay With Me,” “On Second Thought,” “Pass Me By,” “When Hook’s Tango...... Hook, Pirates In Rome” and “Ouzo.” Leigh also contributed to the film scores of The Cardinal and Father Goose. Late in her career Indian Dance...... Tiger Lily, Indians, Neverland Beasts she also contributed to the scores for TV specials such as Heidi as well as the bicentennial show for Something to Do. Wendy...... Peter, John, Michael, Lost Boys, Neverland Beasts Carolyn Leigh died in New York on November 19, 1983. Hook’s Tarantella ...... Hook, Pirates \ Liza’s Dance...... Liza, Peter, Neverland Beasts Morris (Moose) Charlap (music) was a Jewish-American Broadway composer. Born Morris Isaac Charlip in Philadelphia, he was best known for Peter Pan (1954). The idea to do the show came from Jerome Robbins, ACT TWO who planned to have a few songs by Charlap and Leigh. However, the show evolved into a full blown musical, with Entr’acte additional songs by Jule Styne and Betty Comden and Adolph Green. It starred Mary Martin as Peter Pan and Cyril I Won’t Grow Up...... Peter, Lost Boys, Tiger Lily, Hook, Ritchard as Captain Hook. Moose Charlap is also listed as the composer for the movie musical Hans Brinker (lyrics Pirates, Indians, Neverland Beasts, Liza by Alvin Cooperman), which starred Eleanor Parker (her singing voice was that of Charlap's wife, Sandy Stewart), Oh, My Mysterious Lady...... Hook, Peter, Mysterious Lady Richard Basehart, John Gregson, Robin Askwith, Roberta Torey, Sheila Whitmill and Cyril Ritchard. It was based on Ugh-A-Wug...... Peter, Tiger Lily, Indians, Lost Boys, Liza, Neverland Beasts the novel by Mary Mapes Dodge. Charlap was married to singer Sandy Stewart, whose biggest hit was “My Coloring Distant Melody...... Peter, Wendy, Michael, John Book” in 1962. They had one son—Bill Charlap, a well-known jazz pianist. Charlap had a daughter Anne Charlap Hook’s Waltz...... Hook, Pirates and son Tom Charlap, a bass player, from a previous marriage. Crow Reprise...... Peter, Liza, Lost Boys, Indians Nursery Music...... Darling Family, Lost Boys Betty Comden and Adolph Green (additional lyrics). The team of Betty Comden and Adolph Grow Up Reprise...... Darling Family, Lost Boys Green, 1991 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors, and the longest running creative partnership in theatre history, Finale Ultimo ...... Peter, Jane, Grown-up Wendy began writing and performing their own satirical comic material in a group called The Revuers, which included the Bows ...... Full Cast late Judy Holliday. They went on to collaborate with Leonard Bernstein and Jerome Robbins on what was the first show for all of them, On The Town. Also with Bernstein they collaborated on the score for Wonderful Town. With Jule Styne they wrote the book and/or lyrics for Bells Are Ringing, Do Re Mi, Subways Are For Sleeping, Peter Director’s Notes Pan and others. They also wrote the book for Applause, the book and lyrics for On the Twenith Century and the “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” lyrics for The Will Rogers Follies, with Cy Coleman, and A Doll’s Life. Five of these, Applause, Hallelujah Baby, - J. M. Barrie Wonderful Town, On the Twentieth Century and The Will Rogers Follies won them six Tony Awards, and A Doll’s n choosing a Players show Music Director, Erin McNally, and I look for a script that will Life, a Tony nomination. Their many film musicals include Singin’ in the Rain, The Band Wagon, On the Town, provide a challenging educational experience for our young student actors. We choose Bells are Ringing, It’s Always Fair Weather, Good News and The Barkleys of Broadway. Their non-musicals Imaterial that demands the actors “fire on all cylinders”—testing their training of voice, include Auntie Mame and What a Way To Go. Two of these musicals, The Band Wagon and It’s Always Fair body, intellect, emotion, and imagination, requiring both individual bravery and generous Weather, received Academy Award nominations and, along with On The Town, won the Screen Writers’ Guild award. ensemble work. It is important that the story can be explored from their truth and shared in Singin’ in the Rain was voted one of the ten best American films ever made and, by a vote of international film critics their voice. Peter Pan is the most beloved of stories, touching on themes of family, indepen- dence, childhood, and the power of both storytelling and belief. Our Pan emerges from the conducted by the prestigious magazine Sight and Sound, it was ranked third among the ten best films of all time. As imaginations of the Darling children within the walls their nursery—a place where flying performers, Comden and Green appeared in On the Town and later did an evening at the Golden Theatre, A Party is possible, fairies do exist, and Neverland is always just outside the window. Theatre is also With Betty Comden and Adolph Green, comprised of material from their own shows and movies, and from their act, limitless; a place where a top hat can turn a young actor into an Edwardian father or a fake The Revuers. In 1977 they did a new version of A Party, and toured with it. A Party received an Obie Award when it moustache into a pirate captain. Theatre enables us all to fly—and realize that possibility is was first performed. They are both members of the Council of the Dramatists Guild, have been elected to the Theatre only limited by our imagination. So together let us make believe that we can all fly and seek Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and have received the Mayor of New York’s Certificate of Excellence. to keep our hearts forever young. Erin and I thank the cast for their inspiring commitment Comden received the Woman of the Year Award from the Alumni Association of New York University. She appeared in and open hearts, our incomparable artistic and production team and SCR’s incredible staff for the films Garbo Talks and Slaves of New York, and on the stage in the Playwrights’ Horizons production of Wendy their caring work, limitless support and generosity. Wasserstein’s Isn’t It Romantic? Green appeared in the films Simon, My Favorite Year, Garbo Talks, Lily In Love —Hisa Takakuwa and I Want To Go Home. Some of their best-known songs include “Just In Time,” “The Party’s Over,” “Make Someone Southern Utah University, The New Swan Shakespeare Festival, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Breath of Fire Latina Happy,” “New York, New York,” “Neverland,” “It’s Love,” “Lonely Town” and “Some Other Time.” Stars they have Theater Ensemble, Teatro Jornaleros, The Wooden Floor, Sage Hill High School, Fugitive Kind and Sacred Fools. Her written for in their musicals and films include Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell, Judy Holliday, work has also been seen in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania. www.kdlightingdesign.com. Mary Martin, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett and Nancy Walker. Jeff Polunas (sound design) is thrilled to be designing this production for the Summer Players after spending Jule Styne (additional music) made Broadway sing for 50 years as composer of High Button Shoes; Gentlemen the past two summers mixing. Polunas received his MFA in sound design at UC Irvine and is currently the production Prefer Blondes; Two on the Aisle; Hazel Flagg; Gypsy; Peter Pan; Bells Are Ringing; Say Darling; Do Re Mi; sound engineer at CSU Fullerton. He has designed over 85 productions in his career. Credits include In the Red and Subways Are for Sleeping; Funny Girl; Fade Out-Fade In; Arturo Ui (the dramatic score); Hallelujah, Baby!; Brown Water, 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, (UCI); Ivy & Bean, Anastasia Krupnik, Between Us Chickens (South Red Shoes; Darling of the Day; Lorelei; and Sugar. His many film scores include Anchors Aweigh and My Sister Coast Repertory); The Full Monty, Peter Pan, The Wedding Singer, The Producers (Summer Repertory Theatre); Eileen as well as the title song of Three Coins in the Fountain. His songbook includes the standards “All I Need Is and Company, Much Ado About Nothing, The Importance of Being Earnest (PCPA Theaterfest). He has been the Girl,” “I Don’t Want to Walk Without You,” “Just in Time,” “People,” “I Guess I’ll Hang My Tears Out to Dry,” nominated four times for the KC/ACTF Regional Sound Design Award. He would like to thank his wife Valerie for her “Everything’s Coming Up Roses,” “I Fall in Love Too Easily,” “Small World” and “Time After Time.” He is a member love and support. of the Songwriter’s and Theatre Halls of Fame; a 1990 Kennedy Center Honoree; and the winner of two Grammys, an Oscar for “Three Coins in the Fountain,” an Emmy, the Donaldson Award, and the Drama Critics Award as a producer. Kelly Todd (choreography), a UCLA theatre graduate, has directed, choreographed and performed in musicals The following lyric writers have collaborated with Styne: Frank Loesser, Sammy Cahn, Leo Robbin, Bob Hilliard, E. Y. in Los Angeles and New York. She is a proud resident artist at the Chance Theater, where some of her favorite projects Harburg, Stephen Sondheim, Susan Birkenhead, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and Bob Merrill. Styne served on the have been West Side Story, for which she received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) 2012 Special Award for Dramatists Guild Council and has been a member of ASCAP for more than 50 years. Fight Choreography, and Triassic Parq in 2013 and Jerry Springer: The Opera in 2011, both of which won the Ovation Award for Best Musical in an Intimate Theatre and garnered her Ovation Award nominations for Best Choreography; Hisa Takakuwa (director) is a classically trained actor, director and educator. She has worked at many and the professional world premiere of The Girl, The Grouch, and The Goat by the Tony Award-winning composer theatrical institutions around the country including Sundance Children’s Theatre, The Music Center on Tour and of Urinetown, Mark Hollman. She was named Southern California’s Choreographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by Indiana Repertory Theatre. At SCR she appeared in The Man Who Came to Dinner and in 14 seasons of A Christmas StageSceneLA. Other credits include Ivy+Bean, The Musical, Absurd Person Singular and Seussical at SCR, The Carol and Education Touring Productions. She is the Director of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory and directed past Players Who’s Tommy at Segerstrom Center for the Arts and two world premieres, Keep Movin’ On, featuring the music of Sam productions of Metamorphoses, Hard Times, Cinderella, Mansfield Park, Into the Woods, Snow Angel, Seussical, Cooke, and What’s Going On, featuring the music of Marvin Gaye. Annie and Bliss. While a longtime resident artist at the classical repertory company A Noise Within, she appeared in many productions including The Triumph of Love, The Comedy of Errors, The Misanthrope, Another Part of the Kristen Cruz (stage manager) is excited to be working on the Summer Players show for her fourth production. Forest, The Seagull and Our Town. She directed Henry V, Twelfth Night and Shooting Stars at the Actors Co-op She grew up dancing, singing and acting, so as her love for the arts and organizational talents aligned, she found her theatre in Hollywood. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. passion: Stage Management. Her other theatre credits include Laguna Playhouse, Irvine Barclay Theatre, The Wooden Floor, Little Fish Theatre, The Actor’s Fund, American Coast Theatre Company, Chance Theater and numerous dance Erin McNally (music director) is an accomplished actor, vocalist and educator. She has been inspiring young companies in Southern California. She holds a MFA in stage management from UCI and a BA in theatre arts and actors at SCR for over 11 years, including musical direction for the last eight Summer Players’ shows and the creation minor in music from Vanguard University. Following this production, she will be joining Actor’s Equity and SCR’s stage of a musical theatre class for the advanced teen students and Summer Acting Workshop. Armed with a BA in acting and management team. musical theatre from CSU Fullerton, she has been a guest artist at the Hollywood Bowl for 13 years and has performed with such greats as Patti LuPone and Kristen Chenoweth. Her concert and cabaret credits are extensive, including two Sanaz Toossi (assistant director) is thrilled to be back at SCR, where she graduated from the conservatory and sold out solo concerts this season at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. When she is not performing, McNally last assisted in directing Bliss. She is a proud graduate of UC Santa Barbara. Her first Summer Players show was East of also shares her passion for acting and voice with students at Tri-School Theatre, St. Juliana School and Disneyland, the Sun, West of the Moon, in which she portrayed a villainous troll stepsister. Sanaz would like to thank Hisa and Erin where she is a teaching artist for Disney Performing Arts. for their endless support and her parents for their endless patience.

Sara Ryung Clement (costume and set design) returns to SCR where her recent projects include costumes Brianna Beach (assistant music director) was the assistant music director for the Summer Players production for 4000 Miles and Bliss, sets and costumes for The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois and How the World Began (both of Seussical and the assistant director for the Teen Players’ Alice vs Wonderland. A former Conservatory student, she world premieres) and the set design for Absurd Person Singular. Additional regional and local design credits include also appeared in several SCR productions, including A Christmas Carol, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden, Hard East West Players, Open Fist Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Cornerstone Theater Company, Denver Center Theatre, Times and Peter Pan. She graduated from UC San Diego with a BA in theatre in 2012 and is currently pursuing her Yale Repertory Theatre, CenterStage, A Noise Within, Marin Theatre Company, SPF, Elephant Theatre Company and K-8 teaching credential at CSU Long Beach (where she hopes to instill a love of theatre within all her students!). She'd Deaf West Theatre. She holds a MFA in design from the Yale School of Drama and received her AB from Princeton like to thank Hisa, Erin, Sanaz and Kristen for making the process incredibly fun, as well as the cast of Peter Pan for University. sararyungclement.com always bringing their best selves.

Karyn D. Lawrence (lighting design) is a Los Angeles based lighting designer with a MFA in lighting design Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, from UC Irvine. Lawrence is proud to have worked with SCR’s Conservatory on past productions of Bliss, Jack and granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest the Giant Beanstalk, Annie, Alice Vs. Wonderland, Seussical and Snow Angel. Lawrence designs for companies selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers including Radiance Lightworks, Universal Studios Hollywood, UC Irvine, California State University of Los Angeles, of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. See more at: http://www.mtishows.com/content.