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Rebecca Brighenti, (413) 448-8084 x11 [email protected] www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org

Christina Riley, (413) 448-8084 x15 [email protected] www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org

For Immediate Release, Please: Thursday, June 12, 2014

Berkshire Theatre Group Presents Kate Baldwin, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller, Maureen O’Flynn, and Graham Rowat in at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage

Pittsfield, MA– Berkshire Theatre Group presents ’s beloved and award-winning musical, A Little Night Music at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. Opening Night is July 5 at 8pm. Preview performances begin on June 30 at 8pm and the production closes July 19 at 8pm.

Tickets to A Little Night Music are $25-$65, all preview tickets are $50. Tickets may be purchased in person at the Colonial Ticket Office at 111 South Street, Pittsfield; at the Fitzpatrick Main Stage Ticket Office at 83 East Main Street, Stockbridge; by calling (413) 997-4444 or online at www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org. All plays, schedules, casting and prices are subject to change.

“The people in A Little Night Music swell and swoon with love,” director Ethan Heard said. “They yearn to be desired, and they act like fools in a midsummer night’s dream, falling over themselves in pursuit of their romantic goals. Sondheim and Wheeler capture these passionate exploits with wit, humor, and heartbreaking humanity. This is a romantic comedy with bite, or, as described it, ‘whipped cream with knives.’”

A Little Night Music offers an amusing and farcical tale of unexpected liaisons, relentless desire, and ill-fated heartbreak in the life of acclaimed actress, Desiree Armfeldt, played by renowned actress, vocalist and Berkshire native, Maureen O’Flynn with a career spanning more than 28 years in singing lead soprano roles at major opera houses including: The Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and Vienna Staatsoper. She is also a returning actress to BTG having last performed in the much acclaimed, in 2001.

"I am thrilled to be working again with Berkshire Theatre Group, most especially in this fabulous role in one of the best musical theatre pieces ever written,” Maureen O’Flynn said. “The only thing I love more than being on stage, is being on stage at home, so I am doubly blessed."

One eventful weekend, Desiree, her former beau and his wife, and Desiree’s current lover and his wife all arrive at a Swedish country estate. Long-held passions are soon rekindled in this classic waltz of a musical directed by Ethan Heard (who also directed BTG’s 2013 hit murder mystery, The Cat and The Canary) and also features Tony Award Nominated Kate Baldwin, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller and Broadway and television actor, Graham Rowat. Featuring Sondheim’s notable show tune, “Send in the Clowns,” A Little Night Music celebrates love and all the foolhardy particulars it entails.

“Our production explores the ecstasy and agony of being in love at all ages,” Ethan Heard explains. “Whether you are 70, 40, 18, or 13, romantic and erotic love holds sway over us. Although our story is set in turn-of-the- century Sweden, it might as well be taking place in twenty-first century Massachusetts. The trysts, jealousies, doubts, regrets, conquests, and cravings are all delightfully and devastatingly familiar to us here and now.”

A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim book by Hugh Wheeler orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick suggested by a film by Ingmar Bergman originally produced and directed by Harold Prince directed by Ethan Heard music direction by Nathan Dame choreography by Alex Sanchez featuring Kate Baldwin, Gregg Edelman, Penny Fuller, Maureen O’Flynn, and Graham Rowat

at The Colonial Theatre, Pittsfield June 30-July 4 Press Opening/Opening Night: July 5 at 8pm Talkback: July 7 Closing: July 19 Tickets: Preview: $50 Tickets: A: $65 B: $45 C: $25 Sponsored by Greylock Federal Credit Union and Greylock Insurance Agency

Performance Dates Monday, June 30 at 8pm (Preview) Tuesday, July 1 at 8pm (Preview) Thursday, July 3 at 8pm (Preview) Friday, July 4 at 8pm (Preview) Saturday, July 5 at 8pm (Opening Night) Sunday, July 6 at 2pm Monday, July 7 at 8pm (Talk Back) Tuesday, July 8 at 8pm Thursday, July 10 at 8pm Friday, July 11 at 8pm Saturday, July 12 at 2pm & 8pm Sunday, July 13 at 2pm Monday, July 14 at 8pm Tuesday, July 15 at 8pm Thursday, July 17 at 2pm & 8pm Friday, July 18 at 8pm Saturday, July 19 at 2pm & 8pm (Closing)

Artistic Bios

Ethan Heard (Director, A Little Night Music) is thrilled to return to Berkshire Theatre Group after directing John Willard's The Cat and the Canary at the Unicorn last summer. Recent directing includes: and The Coronation of Poppea (Princeton University); Fit For A King (Fordham/Primary Stages); Blogologues: Fame (Lively Productions); Sunday in the Park with George, Julius Caesar, Lottie in the Late Afternoon, Rodeo, and Eligible Receivers (Yale School of Drama); Pierrot Lunaire, All This Noise, Basement Hades, and Trannequin!(Yale ); Proof and Iphigenia and Other Daughters (Santa Fe Theatre Festival);The Gay Ivy (Dixon Place); ArdoArdo: Monteverdi in Motion and L'Orfeo (Yale Baroque Opera Project); Pullman WA and in a word (Williamstown Workshop); In BoccaAllaLupa (Grotto Theatre). He was Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret's 45th season and founding Co-Artistic Director of Umbrella Hat Productions. He has also assisted directors Nicholas Martin, Thomas Kail, Mark Brokaw, Gilbert Blin, and Annette Jolles, and this spring, he taught Acting and Directing in Musical Theater at Princeton University with . He was named Resident Director of the chamber music group Cantata Profana and recently became a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.

Alex Sanchez (Choreographer) is thrilled to be making his debut at BTG. New York choreography: Far From Heaven, New York Playwrights Horizon. Fiorello, Encores!, Giant, , Where’s Charley? New York City Center Encores! Regional: Follies, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Far From Heaven, Williamstown Theater Festival. Roman Holiday, Guthrie Theater. 42nd Street, Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Giant, Dallas Theater Center. Camelot, Glimmerglass Opera. Mary Poppins, Aladdin & The Little Mermaid, St. Louis Muny. Stage Directors & Choreograhers Dancebreak 2010 Alumni. Alex was a soloist with Ballet Chicago and Ruth Page Ballet. In New York he performed in over 10 Broadway shows. Thanks Ethan & BTG staff. Special thanks to Lainie Sakakura, Avelina and Isabela Sanchez, my inspiration, love and support.

Nathan Dame (Music Director) is originally from Ogden, Utah and makes his home in Brooklyn, New York. Some recent credits: Music Supervisor: Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn, music by Michael Friedman (Playwrights Horizons). Music Director: Adam Lives by Rob Baumgartner (Goodspeed NMF); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Geva Theatre); The Lightning Thief (Theatreworks USA); Assoc. Music Director: What's It All About? (New York Theatre Workshop); Fly By Night (Dallas Theater Center); Triassic Parq: The Musical (Amas Musical Theatre); Himself and Nora (NYMF, Tritone Productions); 40 Naked Women, a Monkey, and Me (O'Neill Cabaret Conf.); Nightmare Alley (NYMF, Tritone Productions); Music Assistant: First National Tour of The Addams Family.

Performers’ Bios

Kate Baldwin (Countess Charlotte Malcolm) Broadway: Big Fish, Finian's Rainbow (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle noms.), , Thoroughly Modern Millie,. NY: Fiorello! (Encores!), Giant (Public Theatre, nom.), Opening Doors (Zankel Hall, Encores!). Tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Regional: Giant, The Women at San Diego’s Old Globe, The Music Man and at , (IRNE nom.) at Huntington Theatre and Williamstown Theatre Festival, Henry V at Shakespeare Theatre of NJ. Concerts: Chicago Humanities Festival, NSO, PSO and the American Songbook Series. TV: Law & Order: SVU (guest star). PBS: Live From Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim’s . Recording: Let’s See What Happens (PS Classics). Graduate: .

Monique Barbee(Petra) has worked with the wonderfully talented Ethan Heard on seven productions! She's originally from Southern Oregon and recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama, '13. Credits include understudying at The Metropolitan Opera, Dot & Marie in Sunday in the Park with George (Yale School of Drama), The Music Man and Servant of Two Masters (Oregon Shakespeare Festival).

Matt Dengler(Henrick Egerman) has performed on Broadway in the revival of A Little Night Music (Henrik u.s.). He has appeared Off-Broadway in Avenue Q (Princeton/Rod u.s.), The Fantasticks (The Mute/Matt), and Harold & Maude (Harold) with The York Theatre Company's Mufti Series. His regional credits include (Gabe) with Pioneer Theatre in Salt Lake City, The Monster in the Hall (Lawrence) with The City Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Drop Dead Perfect (The Ingenue) with Penguin Rep, and, most recently, as Laurie in Theatre Works Palo Alto's Little Women. He is featured as Charlie in the new webseries, Wallflowers, which can be found at wallflowers.tv. Matt hails from Syracuse, NY and is a graduate of NYU and CAP21.

Gabriel Douglas (Frid) is a recent graduate from the School of Drama Class of 2014 at the UNC School of the Arts. Gabriel was raised in High Point, North Carolina, so he was always close to home during his stay at UNCSA. Gabriel has hit the ground running right out school with his first professional debut of Frid in A Little Night Music. After A Little Night Music closes he will be working with Cirque Du Soleil back in Winston-Salem, NC where he will be directing a movement piece entitled The Sun and the Moon. Gabriel will be moving to NYC at the end of the summer where he will become a full time actor. There is much to behold in this young actor!

Gregg Edelman(Fredrik Egerman) Last season’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood marked the 15th Broadway production of Gregg Edelmanʼs career. Since his first Broadway appearance in the original Broadway production of Harold Princeʼs , Gregg has gone on to star in such productions as , 1776, , , , Wonderful Town, and Cabaret. He has earned four TONY Award nominations for his performances, as well as numerous other honors including the Drama Desk Award. Recent credits include the record-breaking world premiere production of A.R. Gurneyʼs Black Tie at Primary Stages, Sweeney in the critically acclaimed production of Sweeney Todd at the Drury Lane Theater in Chicago, and the award-winning George Street Theatre production of 12 Angry Men in which he portrayed Juror #8, a role made famous by Henry Fonda. Film credits include Little Children, Spiderman2, Crimes and Misdemeanors, City by The Sea, Green Card, Hollywood Ending, Liberal Arts and the just completed Jane Wants A Boyfriend and Market Trip. He was a regular on the CBS series Hack; has guest-starred on numerous television series such as 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Blue Bloods, Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, and Law and Order: Criminal Intent; and no list of Greggʼs television work would be complete without mentioning the time he spent as the voice of the peanut M&M. His concert and recording work have given him the opportunity to travel all over the world, appearing with such orchestras as the Boston Pops, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony, as well as the Philadelphia and Chicago Pops. His many appearances at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops have allowed him to help honor such friends as John Kander, Fred Ebb, and Charles Strouse. He has also grown to love performing solo concerts in such intimate rooms as Feinsteinʼs. These smaller venues give him a chance to perform great music in a subtler and more personal way. His 17 recordings of Broadway shows include the cast albums of City of Angels, Wonderful Town, 1776, and Into The Woods and studio recordings of On The Town, Cabaret, Anything Goes and Sweet Charity.

Emma Foley(Fredrika Armfeldt) is thrilled to be joining this amazing cast of A Little Night Music, playing the dream role of Fredrika. Last summer Emma could be seen flying through The Colonial Theatre as Wendy in Peter Pan. Other local productions include A Christmas Carol (Fan), The Wizard of Oz (Munchkin) and Annie (July) at Berkshire Theatre Group, and (Shprintze) at Barrington Stage. A resident of Pittsfield, Emma will attend Taconic High School in the fall as a freshman and is excited to continue her theatre studies there. She would like to give a "shout out" to her family (especially her Mom), her theatre family and MRD neighbors for supporting her acting endeavors.

Penny Fuller(Madame Armfeldt) began her Broadway career starring in Barfeoot In The Park, three Shakespeare-in-the-Park productions, and the musicals Cabaret, Rex (Drama Desk nom.), and (Tony nomination for “Eve Harrington”). Her television work garnered her six Emmy nominations and the Emmy Award for ABC’s . Recent Broadway: Horton Foote’s Dividing The Estate, ’s The Dinner Party (Tony nom.). Lincoln Center: ’s A New Brain (Drama Desk nom.). Off- Broadway: Love, Loss, And What I Wore, Beautiful Child, Southern Comforts, Three Viewings (Drama Desk nom.), New England. Regional: “Amanda” The Glass Menagerie, “Arkadina” , “Desiree” A Little Night Music, “Leona” Do I Hear A Waltz, “Claire” A Delicate Balance, An American Daughter. With the encouragement of cabaret director, Barry Kleinbort she has embarked on a new career as cabaret artist in New York clubs and theaters. Their latest collaboration is a solo musical play: Thirteen Things About Ed Carpolotti, (book, music and lyrics by Kleinbort) seen at 59E59Theaters and scheduled for Merrimack Repertory in Lowell in December 2014.

Ashton Heyl(Mrs. Andersson) is thrilled to be back in the Berkshires again, after working on The Cat and the Canary at the Unicorn last summer. Recent credits include Hedda in Hedda Gabler, As You Like It, I'm Sorry I Brought Up God, Lottie in the Late Afternoon, Sunday in the Park with George, Iphigenia Among the Stars, and Fen (Yale School of Drama). Other credits include A Streetcar Named Desire and The Winter’s Tale (u/s Yale Repertory Theatre); Belles (Theatre Row); Tartuffe (Yale Summer Cabaret); After the Revolution, Golden Gate, The Egg-Layers with the Fellowship Company (Williamstown Theatre Festival); 1776, Twelfth Night (Texas Shakespeare Festival); A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the LIVE! Company (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Radio Hour, The Mystery Boy, and Chamber Music (Yale Cabaret). BFA: Carnegie Mellon. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Denis Lambert (Mr. Lindquist) is thrilled to be part of A Little Night Music and make his Berkshire Theatre Festival debut. Broadway: A Chorus Line. New York: (Carnegie Hall), Pipe Dream, Finian’s Rainbow (City Center Encores!), Yank!(York Theatre), Craig/Peter in Dying City (TBG Theatre), Getting Tall (Solo Show). National Tours: Phil Davis White Christmas, The Producers, A Chorus Line. Regional: Rooster in Annie (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera/Music Theatre of Wichita), Frank Schultz in (Asolo Rep), Skylights in Fly (Dallas Theater Center, world premiere), The Visitor in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Bob Wallace in White Christmas (Syracuse Stage), Wykowski in Biloxi Blues (Forestburgh Playhouse), Hugo in Aspects of Love (Walnut Street Theatre), Hello, Dolly! (), The All Night Strut (Gem Theatre) and Carnival (Kennedy Center). He is a graduate of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). www.denislambertonline.com

Jamilyn Manning-White(Mrs. Nordstrom)Her 2013-14 season includes Euridice in Charpentier’s La descente d'Orphée aux enfers with Gotham Chamber Opera (NYC); soloist in “Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Hartford Symphony Orchestra; My Fair Lady in concert with Yale “Musical Theatre on the Air” series; Opera Singer in The Architecture of Becoming with The Women’s Project at NYC Center Stage; and title role in Lucia di Lammermoor with Heartbeat Opera (NYC). In summer of 2014 she sings Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte and Mlle. Goldentrill in The Impressario with the Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theatre (Martha’s Vineyard). In 2012-13, she was featured soloist in an evening of opera arias and duets with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, sang Flavia Gemmira in Cavalli’s Eliogabalo with Gotham Chamber Opera, and Messiah with the New Haven Symphony. In 2014-15 she sings “Incidental Music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream” with Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.

Patricia Noonan (Mrs. Segstrom) is thrilled to be back in the Berkshires! NYC credits include creating roles in Maury Yeston's Death Takes a Holiday (Sophia), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennett), Baby Case (Betty Gow), and Signs of Life (Lorelei), Carousel with the NY Philharmonic (PBS Live from Lincoln Center), and Merrily We Roll Along (Meg), Most Happy Fella, Where’s Charley?, and Girl Crazy all with City Center Encores!. Regional credits include Carousel (Julie Jordan), Neurosis (Abby, original cast), Titanic (Caroline Neville), Pirates of Penzance (Mabel), Little House on the Prairie (original cast), Camelot (Nimue), How to Succeed… (Rosemary),Ragtime (Evelyn), Secret Garden (Lily). Patricia has appeared as a featured soloist at The Kennedy Center and Bass Hall and can be heard on the Death Takes a Holiday and Merrily We Roll Along cast albums. She is a graduate of Boston College (Presidential Scholars Program). Special thanks to Alan Filderman and The Mine!

Maureen O’Flynn (Desiree Armfeldt) Born and raised and still living in her beloved Berkshires of Massachusetts, Maureen O'Flynn has had a more than a 28 year career singing leading soprano roles in virtually every major opera house in the world; Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Vienna Staatsoper, Dallas Opera, La Fenice, Dallas Opera to name a few. She has shared the stage with Bryn Terfyl, Stephanie, Blythe, Renee Fleming, Leo Nucci, RobertoAlagna and sung under the batons of Riccardo Muti, Marco Armiliato, Nello Santi, and Maurizio Benini. Throughout her career, Ms. O'Flynn performed as much musical theatre and straight theatre as her opera career would allow. She played the role of Guenevere in Camelot, and Eliza in My Fair Lady with Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jenny in Company with Berkshire Public Theatre, and the dual roles of Queen/Claudia in Joan Ackermann's The Taster at Shakespeare & Co in 2010. In 2011, Maureen presented her first cabaret, At the Crossroads, at Feinstein's in NYC. Still performing, she teaches voice at Hartt School of Music, and maintains private voice studios in the Berkshires and NYC.

Graham Rowat (Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm)Broadway: Mamma Mia, Guys and Dolls (2009), LoveMusik, Dracula, Beauty and the Beast. Off-Broadway:The Blue Flower (Second Stage), The Boys in the Band (Transport Group), The Minister's Wife (Lincoln Center Theater). Tours: Irving Berlin's White Christmas (San Francisco, Detroit, Toronto), Les Misérables (US and China). Regional Theater: The Game (Barrington Stage), Saved (Kansas City Rep), Forum(Williamstown Theatre Festival). TV: The Good Wife, Law and Order, As The World Turns. Recordings: LoveMusik, Life Begins at 8:40, Sweet Bye and Bye (PS Classics). Mr. Rowat is husband to actress Kate Baldwin and father to Colin.

Phillipa Soo (Anne Egerman) Since October 2012 played Natasha in the critically acclaimed and award-winning immersive musical, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, presented first by Ars Nova, then in the meatpacking district and most recently at Kazino in the heart of the theater district. For her performance, which marked her New York theatrical debut, she received Clive Barnes, Drama League, and Lucille Lortel award nominations. This spring was seen in the lab/workshop of by Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as of Alice by Heart by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater with Jessie Nelson. Film/TV: "Dangerous Liasons" (), "" (NBC). Phillipa is a graduate of the Juilliard Drama Division (Group 41). Coming up next season, she will appear in the highly anticipated production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s, Hamilton, at The Public Theatre.

Eric Van Tielen(Mr. Erlanson) is a native of Salt Lake City. He has been seen on Broadway in A Tale of Two Cities. National tour credits include Les Miserables and Fiddler on the Roof. Select regional credits include Indiana Rep, Pioneer, Syracuse Stage, and three seasons with Utah Shakespeare Festival. Acting MFA, Indiana University. Thank you to Alan Filderman and DGRW.

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About Berkshire Theatre Group The Colonial Theatre, founded in 1903, and Berkshire Theatre Festival, founded in 1928, are two of the oldest cultural organizations in the Berkshires. Having united in November of 2010 under the leadership of Artistic Director and CEO Kate Maguire, these two institutions are providing the Berkshires and beyond with the finest in live theatre, music, dance and the visual arts on five stages in Stockbridge, MA and Pittsfield, MA. The Fitzpatrick Main Stage (400 seats), cataloged by the National Register of Historic Places, was originally designed and built by Stanford White as the Stockbridge Casino in 1888. The intimate Unicorn Theatre (122 seats) is a home for emerging artists and new theatrical ideas. The Colonial in Pittsfield (780 seats) re-opened in August of 2006, following a $21 million restoration, and boasts pristine acoustics, classic gilded age architecture and state-of-the-art technical systems. BTG also performs at the outdoor Neil Ellenoff stage, located on the grounds of BTF in Stockbridge, and at The Garage, a music venue located in the lobby of The Colonial. BTG serves over 100,000 patrons per year and reaches over 17,000 students through its educational and outreach programs. For more information on BTG call (413) 448-8084. To purchase tickets, call (413) 997- 4444 or go online to www.BerkshireTheatreGroup.org.

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