Jackie Fitzsimmons (1st Year Undecided): She Loves Me (Spectrum) . PRODUCION STAFF FOR PIPPIN Russ Hicks (4 th Year Drama/Poetry Writing): The Foreigner , The Imaginary Invalid , Assistant Stage Managers ...... Bryon McClain, Chris Moneymaker Hair , Oklahoma !, T welfth Night , Arms and the Man , A...Alice , Terminal Bar , Till We Department Technical Director ...... Steve Warner Have Faces (U.Va. Drama) Technical Director ...... Alan Perez Angelica Jackson Assistant Technical Director ...... Jessica Cloutier Sylvia Kates (2 nd Year English/ Drama): Dead Man’s Cell Phone (U .Va . Drama) ; Scenic Design Faculty Advisor ...... Tom Bloom Sweeney Todd (FYP) ; The Vagina Monologues (Spectrum) . Scenic Shop Manager ...... David P. Hale Jeff Kmiec (1 st Year MFA Scenic Design ) Master Carpenter ...... Christopher Dickens Carpenters ...... Miguel Algarin, Mark Ambrose, Tom Christensen, Kirsten Kiwior (2 nd Year English): Sweeney Todd (FYP) . Diana Fang, Vincent Gurioli, Molly Kampmann, Rachel Lau, Max Krembs (2 nd Year Drama): Language of Angels , The Love Song of J. Robert Stephanie Maksymiuk, Christopher McElaney, Michele Miller, Oppenheimer (U. Va. Drama); Sweeny Todd (FYP) . Jimmy Norton, Justin Smith, Rita Sono and the Students of DRAM 223 Alice Layman (Accompanist, Dept of Drama, Music Theater Class): Oklahoma! (U.Va . Paint Charge ...... Jeff Kmiec Drama); Fiddler , Forever Plaid, City of Angels, South Pacific (HTF ). Assistant Charges ...... Mary Butcher, Virginia Berg, Kelsey Nix Richie MacLeod (2 nd Year Drama/American Studies): Language of Angels (U.Va. Painters ...... Virginia Berg, Jake Bloom, Garrett Majdic, Drama); Sweeney Todd (FYP); Footloose! (Live Arts). Kelsey Nix, Izzy Sazak Mickie Marie (2 nd Year MFA Lighting Design ) Props Master ...... Kristin Freshwater Perry Medlin : Hair , Arms and the Man , Waiting for the Parade (U.Va. Drama ); Sunday Props Crew ...... Laura Chilton, Angela Pirko, Olga Zeveleva in the Park with George , Oliver !, Little Shop of Horrors (HTF ); Gypsy (Live Arts); The Run Crew ...... Paul Truitt 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee , Rent , The Music Man Jr. , Once Upon a Mattress Costume Design Faculty Advisor ...... Gweneth West Jr. (Tandem) . Costume Shop Manager ...... Joshua Bond Alan Perez (2 nd Year MFA Technical Direction): Language of Angels , The Love Song of Lighting Design Faculty Adviser ...... R. Lee Kennedy J. Robert Oppenheimer , Day of Absence (U.Va . Drama) . Master Electrician ...... Dale Marshall Norman Reategui (3 rd Year Drama Major) Light Board Operator ...... Mark Ambrose Caroline Ryon (4 th Year English/Drama): The Seagull , Oklahoma! , So Careless , Hedda Moving Lights Programmer ...... Ryan Logue Gabler , Shakespeare’s R&J (U.Va. Drama); Mattress , Cabaret (FYP) . Electrics Staff ...... Danny Cackley , Ryan Logue, Paul Pershied, C.J. Whitaker Amara Shaker-Brown (3 rd Year Drama) Electrics Crew ...... Students of DRAM 213 Sound Design Faculty Adviser ...... Michael Rasbury Michael Shenefelt (4 th Year Spanish/Foreign Affairs): Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama); The Lion in Winter , Much Ado About Nothing (SOTL). Sound Board Operator ...... Eudora Chua Business Manager ...... James Scales Casey Stein (4 th Year Psychology, Jewish Studies): The Artist (Riverbend Films); Voices Assistant Business Manger ...... Jenny Mays of the Class 2008, 2009 (Spectrum); Grounds for Discussion (ODOS) . Box Office Manager ...... Andrew Burnett Ali Stoner (1 st Year Drama/Government, Dance Minor): Urinetown (FYP); Footloose Box Office Staff ...... Reina Abboud, Ally Boate, Sarah Edwards, (Live Arts) . Stephanie Harvey, Russ Hicks, Hunter Link, Amy Strayer (3 rd Year Foreign Affairs): Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama) . Danny Navarro, Leigh Spoden, Ashleigh White Gracie Terzian (1 st Year Drama): Urinetown: The Musical (FYP) . House Managers ...... Portia Henry, Maurice Patterson Matthew Toscano (6 th grade, Walker) : Oliver! (HTF ); Camelot , Sound of Music (Ash Concessions Manager ...... Ashley Henry Lawn); Match Girl (Live Arts) . Front of House Staff ...... Jarred Boone, Maurice Patterson Caroline R. Varney (2 nd Year MFA Costume Design & Technology) : Oklahoma! , Publicity Assistant ...... Audrey Edwards Fuddy Meers , The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama). Production Manager ...... Caitlin McLeod Katie Wall (3rd Year Media Studies): Oklahoma! (U.Va. Drama); Damn Yankees , Thoroughly Modern Millie (FYP) Special Thanks to Christina White : Camelot (Ashlawn); Screaming Mummies (Hershey Park); Flounder Star Hill Brewery & Cottonwood Bernina (Play-On); Woman with Cellphone (Offstage Theatre); Honey House (VA Book Festival) . The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. CAST OF CHRACTERS ORCHESTRA Leading Player ...... Ali Stoner Bass ...... Jason Kapp Pippin ...... Andrew Cronacher Drums ...... Rob Wiederecht Charlemagne ...... Michael Shenefelt Flute, Clarinet ...... Christine Willard Lewis ...... Russ Hicks Flute ...... Marjorie Katz Fastrada ...... Caroline Ryon Guitar, Violin ...... Shankar Srinivasan Keyboard ...... Alice Layman Presents Fastrada (4/23) ...... Sylvia Kates Berthe ...... Katie Wall Keyboard ...... Karen Dalton Catherine ...... Gracie Terzian Percussion ...... Bruce Penner Theo ...... Matthew Toscano Trumpet ...... Ian Lamb Players ...... Emily Andrysick , Jemmy Chen , Jackie Fitzsimmons , Angelica Jackson , Kirsten Kiwior , PIPPIN DIRECTOR’S NOTE Richie MacLeod , Norman Reategui , Amara Shaker-Brown , Steven Schwartz wrote the original version of Pippin when he was an Casey Stein , Christina White undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. But it wasn’t until the success of his Godspell , that producer Time: 780 A.D. Or Thereabouts Stuart Ostrow agreed to present Pippin in New York, bringing in Roger Hirson to rewrite the libretto and Bob Fosse to direct and choreograph the Place: The Holy Roman Empire And Thereabouts Book by Music and Lyrics by show. Fosse’s “reinterpretation” of the musical included casting out any real sense of “period,” or history, for that matter, except for the fact that there was Roger O. Hirson Stephen Schwartz MUSICAL NUMBERS a Charlemagne and he did have a son who was renamed Pippin. Fosse includ - ACT I ed vaudevillian and commedia dell’ arte elements coupled with his signature Originally produced on the Broadway stage by Stuart Ostrow Magic To Do ...... Leading Player & Players choreography in his reworking of the musical. The show was written during a Directed on the Broadway stage by Bob Fosse Corner Of The Sky ...... Pippin time when the U.S. was involved in a seemingly never-ending war and it Welcome Home ...... Charlemagne & Pippin revolves around a young man who is trying to find himself and happiness as Directed by Robert Chapel War Is A Science ...... Charlemagne, Pippin, & Soldiers he learns about war, sex, and social causes. Sound familiar? I had always Musical Direction by Alice Layman Glory ...... Leading Player & Soldiers thought of it as a “1970’s musical” but it seems to resonate as much to today Simple Joys ...... Leading Player as with that era. The God/Devil Leading Player is a direct throwback to the Chorography by Perry Medlin Emcee in Cabaret for which Fosse received the Oscar for directing. This “play No Time At All ...... Berthe & Chorus Boys Scenic Design by Jeff Kmiec within a play” ran for over 1,900 performances during its original stint on Costume Design by Caroline Varney With You ...... Pippin, The Women & The Boys Broadway. It has been a joy to work with this cast of “triple threats” who can Lighting Design by Mickie Marie Spread A Little Sunshine ...... Fastrada sing, dance, and act with such heart and verve. I hope you enjoy the “Magic Sound Design by Max Krembs Morning Glow ...... Pippin & Soldiers We Do” while we’re “On the Right Track” in our little “Corner of the Sky.” Technical Direction by Alan Perez 15 minute intermission –Bob Chapel Production Stage Management by Allison DeBlois ACT II WHO’S WHO IN PIPPIN On The Right Track ...... Leading Player & Pippin Emily Andrysick (3rd Year Drama): The Imaginary Invalid (U.Va. Drama) . PIPPIN There He Was ...... Catherine is presented through special arrangements with Robert Chapel (Professor, Musical Theatre and Directing, Producing Artistic Director, Kind Of Woman ...... Catherine & the Girls Heritage Theatre Festival) Music Theatre International (MTI). Extraordinary ...... Pippin Jemmy Chen (2 nd Year MFA Acting) : The Imaginary Invalid , Fuddy Meers (U.Va. All authorized performance materials are also supplies by MTI. Prayer For A Duck ...... Pippin Drama) . 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Love Song ...... Pippin & Catherine Andrew Cronacher (2 nd Year MFA Acting): The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer , Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 The Foreigner , The Seagull (U.Va. Drama); Oliver! (HTF ); The Garden (Live Arts). www.MTIShows.com I Guess I’ll Miss The Man ...... Catherine Finale ...... Pippin & The Players Allison DeBlois (3 rd Year Drama/Foreign Affairs): The Foreigner , The Two Gentlemen of Theo’s Corner ...... Theo Verona , Day of Absence (U.Va. Drama); Damn Yankees , Thoroughly Modern Millie (FYP).