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WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS STEPHEN GABRIEL, PRODUCER PRESENT

BOOK BY and John ’Farrell MUSIC AND LYRICS BY Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick Conceived by Karey Kirkpatrick and Wayne Kirkpatrick

STARRING MATTHEW BAKER MATTHEW MICHAEL JANISSE GREG KALAFATAS EMILY KRISTEN MORRIS MARK SAUNDERS JENNIFER ELIZABETH SMITH RICHARD SPITALETTA

DREW ARISCO ABBY BARTISH EMMA BENSON ZACHARY BIGELOW KATIE SCARLETT BRUNSON JULIAN BURZYNSKI JR. BRIAN COWING ALEX EISENBERG TIM FUCHS ROBERT HEAD DEVIN HOLLOWAY DANNY LOPEZ KEELEY ANNE McCORMICK NICK PANKUCH AVEENA SAWYER ALLISON C. SCOTT PETER SURACE DORSEY ZILLER

SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN SCOTT PASK GREGG BARNES JEFF CROITER PETER HYLENSKI CASTING HAIR DESIGN MAKEUP DESIGN PRODUCTION MANAGER WOJCIK | SEAY CASTING JOSH MARQUETTE MILAGROS PORT CITY TECHNICAL MEDINA-CERDEIRA PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR MUSIC DIRECTOR & CONDUCTOR KRISTIN SUTTER STEVE BEBOUT MATTHEW CROFT TOUR MARKETING TOUR BOOKING AGENCY GENERAL MANAGEMENT ALLIED TOURING THE BOOKING GROUP WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS RICH RUNDLE, BRIAN BROOKS MUSIC SUPERVISOR & VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS MUSIC ARRANGEMENTS ASSOCIATE MUSIC SUPERVISOR PHIL RENO LARRY HOCHMAN GLEN KELLY BRIAN P. KENNEDY DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY CASEY NICHOLAW

ORIGINALLY PRODUCED ON BROADWAY BY KEVIN McCOLLUM, BROADWAY GLOBAL VENTURES, CMC, MASTRO/GOODMAN, JERRY & RONALD FRANKEL, MORRIS BERCHARD, KYODO TOKYO INC., WENDY FEDERMAN, BARBARA FREITAG, LAMS PRODUCTIONS, WINKLER/DESIMONE, TIMOTHY LACZYNSKI, DAN MARKLEY, HARRIS/KARMAZIN, JAM THEATRICALS, ROBERT GREENBLATT, JUJAMCYN THEATERS

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Minstrel...... DEVIN HOLLOWAY Brother Jeremiah...... MARK SAUNDERS Portia...... JENNIFER ELIZABETH SMITH Shakespeare...... MATTHEW BAKER Nick Bottom...... MATTHEW MICHAEL JANISSE Nigel Bottom...... RICHARD SPITALETTA Francis Flute...... BRIAN COWING Peter Quince...... DREW ARISCO Tom Snout...... TIM FUCHS Yorick...... NICK PANKUCH Robin...... ROBERT HEAD Snug...... DEVIN HOLLOWAY Lord Clapham...... PETER SURACE ...... PETER SURACE Bea...... EMILY KRISTEN MORRIS Eyepatch Man...... PETER SURACE Nostradamus...... GREG KALAFATAS Shakespeare’s Valet...... NICK PANKUCH Will Power Backup Boys...... ZACHARY BIGELOW, TIM FUCHS, JULIAN BURZYNSKI JR. Chef Trio...... ZACHARY BIGELOW, DEVIN HOLLOWAY, NICK PANKUCH Master of the Justice...... BRIAN COWING Ensemble...... DREW ARISCO, ABBY BARTISH, EMMA BENSON, ZACHARY BIGELOW, JULIAN BURZYNSKI JR., BRIAN COWING, TIM FUCHS, ROBERT HEAD, DEVIN HOLLOWAY, KEELEY ANNE MCCORMICK, NICK PANKUCH, AVEENA SAWYER, ALLISON C. SCOTT, PETER SURACE, DORSEY ZILLER

UNDERSTUDIES Swings and understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

for Brother Jeremiah—BRIAN COWING, PETER SURACE for Portia—EMMA BENSON, ALLISON C. SCOTT for Shakespeare—ZACHARY BIGELOW, NICK PANKUCH for Nick Bottom—DREW ARISCO, ROBERT HEAD, NICK PANKUCH for Nigel Bottom—TIM FUCHS, ROBERT HEAD for Bea—AVEENA SAWYER, DORSEY ZILLER for Nostradamus—BRIAN COWING, PETER SURACE

SWINGS KATIE SCARLETT BRUNSON, ALEX EISENBERG, DANNY LOPEZ, PETER SURACE

DANCE CAPTAIN DANNY LOPEZ

ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN KATIE SCARLETT BRUNSON

The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device or such photographing or sound recording inside this theater, without the written permission of the management, is prohibited by law. Violators may be punished by ejection and violations may render the offender liable for money damages.

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MATTHEW MATTHEW MICHAEL GREG EMILY KRISTEN MARK BAKER JANISSE KALAFATAS MORRIS SAUNDERS

JENNIFER ELIZABETH RICHARD DREW ABBY EMMA SMITH SPITALETTA ARISCO BARTISH BENSON

ZACHARY KATIE SCARLETT JULIAN BRIAN ALEX BIGELOW BRUNSON BURZYNSKI JR. COWING EISENBERG

TIM ROBERT DEVIN DANNY KEELEY ANNE FUCHS HEAD HOLLOWAY LOPEZ McCORMICK

NICK AVEENA ALLISON C. PETER DORSEY PANKUCH SAWYER SCOTT SURACE ZILLER

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ACT ONE Scene 1: A South London Street “Welcome to the Renaissance”...... Minstrel and Company Scene 2: The Theatre “God, I Hate Shakespeare”...... Nick, Nigel, The Troupe Scene 3: A South London Street/Outside Nick and Bea’s House Scene 4: Nick and Bea’s House “Right Hand Man”...... Bea, Nick “God, I Hate Shakespeare” (Reprise)...... Nick Scene 5: Soothsayer Alley “A Musical”...... Nostradamus, Nick, Ensemble Scene 6: A South London Street/Outside the Theatre Scene 7: The Theatre “The Black Death”...... The Troupe Scene 8: A South London Street “I the Way”...... Portia, Nigel Scene 9: The Park “Will Power”...... Shakespeare, Ensemble Scene 10: After-Show Party Tent Scene 11: Soothsayer Alley “Bottom’s Gonna Be on Top”...... Nick and Company

ACT TWO Scene 1: London “Welcome to the Renaissance” (Reprise)...... Minstrel “Hard to Be the Bard”...... Shakespeare and Ensemble Scene 2: The Theatre “It’s Eggs!”...... Nick, The Troupe Scene 3: Under London Bridge “We See the Light”...... Portia, Nigel, Brother Jeremiah, Nick, Ensemble Scene 4: The Theatre “To Thine Own Self”...... Nigel, Nick, Shakespeare, Shylock, Nostradamus, The Troupe Scene 5: A South London Street “Right Hand Man” (Reprise)...... Bea Scene 6: One Stage at the Theatre “Something Rotten!”...... The Troupe “Make an Omelette”...... Nick and Company Scene 7: Courtroom “To Thine Own Self” (Reprise)...... Nick, Nigel Scene 8: The Settlement “Finale”...... The Company

ORCHESTRA Music Director/Keyboard 1—MATTHEW CROFT Associate Music Director/Keyboard 2—SARAH POOL Bass—CRISSY MARTINEZ Reeds—MICHAEL WITSBERGER Drums/Percussion—JESSE-RAY LEICH

Music Copying & Preparation—EMILY GRISHMAN

BROADWAY AT THE TENNESSEE 17 WHO’S WHO MATTHEW BAKER (Shakespeare). Born in England, Forum, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. now a proud New Yorker. London credits: Sweeney B.F.A.: Penn State. Thank you to Mom, Dad, Kristen, Todd (u/s Tobias), Hair (Woof). U.S. tour: Saturday Night Erica, SW Artists and the entire team. @RichardSpitzz. Fever (Tony). Regional: Mary Poppins (Northbrook) richardspitaletta.com. Engeman Theatre, Disney Cruise Line: OC Beauty and the Beast (u/s Lumiere/Cogsworth/Maurice). For DREW ARISCO (Ensemble, u/s Nick Bottom) Dorothy and his ever supportive family. is eggstatic to be touring with Something Rotten! Favorite credits: Dogfight (SpeakEasy Stage), West MATTHEW MICHAEL JANISSE (Nick Bottom). Side Story (Actors’ Playhouse), Hair (BoCo), Outlaws National tour: Cabaret (Max/Sax), Mamma Mia! (u/s (Goodspeed) and Grease (Royal Caribbean). The Bill, Harry). Regional: The Full Monty (Jerry), L5Y Boston Conservatory B.F.A. He would like to (Jamie), Into the Woods (Rapunzel’s Prince), Avenue Q thank the whole Rotten team, Dave, his friends, (Princeton) and Shrek (Shrek). Janisse would like mom, dad, siblings, nieces and nephews and you. to thank ATB Talent, his family and Carolyn for @thedrewarisco. making the journey “Something Wonderful!” Matthewjanisse.com. @matthewnofilter. ABBY BARTISH (Ensemble). A Cincinnati native. National tour debut! Regional credits: , GREG KALAFATAS (Nostradamus). Previous Funny Girl and Swing. Proud graduate of Indiana credits include the national tours of Buddy: The Buddy University (B.F.A. MT). Much gratitude to Wojcik|Seay Holly Story (Big Bopper) and . Casting and the Something Rotten! team. Endless love Also, Disney Cruise Line (Genie), Hairspray (Edna), to her family and friends. For Mom. The Full Monty (Dave), The Producers (Franz) and Chicago (Amos). Lots of love and thanks to family, EMMA BENSON (Ensemble, u/s Portia). National friends and everyone involved in this amazing tour debut! Emma just graduated from Shenandoah production. gregkalafatas.com. University, B.F.A. in musical theater, MT ’18. Favorite professional credits: Bebe in A Chorus Line (Heritage EMILY KRISTEN MORRIS (Bea). Regional: Theatre Festival), Penny in Hairspray (Shenandoah Mamma Mia! (Sophie) at Finger Lakes MTF, South Summer Music Theatre). Huge thanks to her family, Pacific at The Cape Playhouse. Also appeared at professors, her other half Zachy and her hilarious Weston Playhouse, New York and enthusiastic friends for absolutely everything. Festival, Summer Repertory Theatre and 42nd Street Emma-Benson.com. Moon. Performed in China with the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra as Sarah in Guys and Dolls, ZACHARY BIGELOW (Ensemble, u/s Shakespeare). among others. Proud CCM graduate. For Rocco. B.F.A. musical theater, Shenandoah Conservatory @emilykristenmorris. EmilyKristenMorris.com. ’18. Regional: Flat Rock Playhouse, ACT of Connecticut, Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre. Favorite roles: MARK SAUNDERS (Brother Jeremiah) couldn’t be Mick (Lysistrata Jones), Chip/Jesus (…Spelling Bee) , more excited to be making his national tour debut! Lumiere (Beauty and the Beast). Endless thanks to Recent/favorite credits include Nicely-Nicely Johnson family, friends, professors, sweet Kade and other half in Guys and Dolls, Ronnette in Little Shop of Horrors, Emma for their love and support. @zmbluvz2act. Schroeder in YAGMCB (Lippa), Miss Andrew in Mary zacharybigelow1.me. Poppins and Davey in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. saunderssings.com. @mas872. KATIE SCARLETT BRUNSON (Assistant Dance Captain, Swing) is so grateful to be making JENNIFER ELIZABETH SMITH (Portia) is her national tour debut! Regional: Singin’ in the thrilled to be a part of Something Rotten! Regional: Rain, 42nd Street (North Shore MT); Anything Goes Adam Lives (Goodspeed Opera House), Swing! (Prather (Westchester Broadway); Thoroughly Modern Millie, Entertainment). National tour: Cirque Dreams Holidaze. Carousel, Annie in 42nd Street (Reagle MT). The B.F.A. musical theater from The Boston Conservatory. Boston Conservatory, B.F.A. “Love and many thanks Endlessly grateful to mom and dad, Steve Bebout, to the Something Rotten! team, my dear family/friends Wojcik|Seay Casting and SW Artists. @jennsmith810. and Henderson Hogan! Xo.”

RICHARD SPITALETTA (Nigel Bottom) is thrilled JULIAN BURZYNSKI JR. (Ensemble) recently to join this rotten company! Off-Broadway: Me the finished traveling the world with Norwegian Cruise People. National tours: A Charlie Brown Christmas, Lines as a Principle Performer. “Thank you to Mom The Lightning Thief. Regional: Footloose, Newsies, Into and Dad for always believing in me.” Elon University the Woods, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the 2017. IG: Juliancookies.

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BRIAN COWING (Ensemble, u/s Brother Jeremiah, NICK PANKUCH (Ensemble, u/s Nick Bottom, Nostradamus) is a proud graduate of Oklahoma City Shakespeare) hails from Aurora, Ill., and graduated University from Madison, Wis. National tour: Annie from Baldwin Wallace University with a B.M. in music (Mr. Bundles). Regional credits: (Patsy), The theater. Favorite roles include Flynn Rider in Tangled Drowsy Chaperone (George), The 25th…Spelling Bee The Musical, Link Larkin in Hairspray and swing (Barfee). Huge thanks to his family, friends and the team dancing for In the Mood. He’d like to thank his family of Something Rotten! Enjoy the show! @brian_cowing. and friends, his mentors and Dr. Pepper.

ALEX EISENBERG (Swing) is thrilled to be AVEENA SAWYER (Ensemble, u/s Bea) is thrilled making his national tour debut! Regional: Mary to be making her national tour debut! She is from Poppins (NSMT/TBTS), Singin’ in the Rain (MSMT), New York and just completed her B.F.A. in musical Spamalot (TBTS), ZM (Goodspeed). “Endless love theater from Kent State University. Most recent to Wojcik|Seay Casting, BLOC NYC, the entire professional credit is Ain’t Misbehavin’ at Porthouse Something Rotten! team and my loving family!” Theatre. She extends her heart to her family and Training: B.F.A. The Boston Conservatory ’17. friends for the constant support. @alexseisenberg. ALLISON C. SCOTT (Ensemble, u/s Portia). National TIM FUCHS (Ensemble, u/s Nigel Bottom). Natl. tour: tour debut! Regional: 42nd Street (Lorraine Fleming), 42nd Street (Swing). Cruise Ship: Cats (Mungojerrie). Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Time Step. Education: Regional: The Royal Family of Broadway (Barrington Montclair State University, B.F.A. musical theater/B.A. Stage), A Chorus Line (Al, Westchester Broadway), jurisprudence, law and society. “Endless thanks to Newsies (Davey, PCPA). From Ithaca, N.Y. Love to my mom.” allisoncscott.com. family and friends, Sierra, thanks Wojcik|Seay Casting and WLP. SUNY Cortland, Daniel Hoff Agency. PETER SURACE (Ensemble, Shylock, Swing, u/s timfuchs282.com. Insta: @timfuchsphotography. Brother Jeremiah, Nostradamus). National tour: Joseph… Dreamcoat (Canaan Days). Theater: Mary Poppins, The ROBERT HEAD (Ensemble, u/s Nick and Nigel Mystery…Drood, Singin’ in the Rain, Tangled: The Musical, Bottom). National tour debut! Regional: Mamma Mia!, Twice Charmed (Prince Charming), The Taming of Newsies, Shrek (Tuacahn Amphitheater); Fiddler on the the Shrew, Kiss of the Spider Woman. B.F.A. in musical Roof (Portland Center Stage); Austen’s Pride (Finger theater from Montclair State University. Love to Mom, Lakes MTF). Cruise Ships: Saturday Night Fever (Royal Dad and Laura! petersurace.com. @petersurace. Carribbean). Robert thanks the artistic team, Daniel Hoff Agency, Wojcik|Seay Casting and his loved ones DORSEY ZILLER (Ensemble, u/s Bea) Dorsey is for their support! IG: @robshead. egg-static to be part of this production! Previous credits: ’s The Wizard of Oz DEVIN HOLLOWAY (Ensemble, Minstrel). Tours: (national tour), Mary Poppins (Merry-Go-Round Motown (Berry Gordy u/s), 42nd Street (Andy Lee Playhouse) and Frozen (Disney Cruise Line). Proud u/s), Hair (Margaret Mead), Sesame Street Live (Swing). graduate of Point Park University. Love and thanks Regional: Cafe Variations (Siti Company), Carousel to her family. Proverbs 3:6. (Enoch). Much Love to his family and friends for their support. devinholloway.net. KAREY KIRKPATRICK (Book, Music and Lyrics) began his career as a screen and songwriter for DANNY LOPEZ (Dance Captain, Swing) is super Disney Animation, where he penned The Rescuers “egg-cited” to be part of Something Rotten! International Down Under and James and the Giant Peach. With more tour: Mamma Mia! He has also performed in many than a dozen feature films produced, screenplay credits regional theaters around the country. He would like include Chicken Run (Golden Globe nominee for to thank his family and friends for their unwavering Outstanding Comedy), Charlotte’s Web, The Hitchhiker’s love and support. dannylopezactor.com. @dlopez580. Guide to the Galaxy, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Over the Hedge, which he also co-directed. He directed the KEELEY ANNE McCORMICK(Ensemble) . Paramount Pictures film Imagine That starring Eddie National tour debut! Regional: The Producers (Theatre Murphy and co-produced, wrote and performed By ), Spamalot (Short North Stage). University on the film’s soundtrack. He recently directed the of Utah B.F.A. ’15. Thank you to Wojcik|Seay Casting Warner Brothers animated musical Smallfoot for and the entire Rotten team for this opportunity! Endless which he also co-wrote the screenplay and the songs gratitude to mom, dad and my favorite baby brother. (with brother Wayne). He has won a number of Instagram: @keeleycattt. Tony, Oscar and Grammy awards and that number is zero. Other credits: husband of Nada, father of Sami, Maia and Finn. You can follow him @kareykirk.

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WAYNE KIRKPATRICK (Music and Lyrics) is of Most Happy Fella, Anyone Can Whistle and the Grammy Award-winning songwriter of “Change (direction/choreography). the World” by (Song of the Year). Top 10 singles include “Every Heartbeat,” “Good for Me” PHIL RENO (Music Supervisor and Vocal Arrangements). (); “Wrapped Up in You” (); Broadway: Something Rotten!; Elf; Promises, Promises; “Boondocks,” “Bring It on Home,” “Little White The Drowsy Chaperone; The Producers; Thou Shalt Not; Church” (); “Place in This World” Dame Edna: The Royal Tour and Back with a Vengeance; (Michael W. Smith). He is a multi-formatted songwriter Cats. Off-Broadway: The Diva is Dismissed (Public), with songs recorded by , , A New Brain (Lincoln Center). National tours: Joseph… , Gabe Dixon, , (with Donny Osmond), original company of Music of and , among others. His songs have the Night, Starlight Express, Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity. been featured in TV shows (“Grey’s Anatomy,” Television: music director/conductor for “Broadway “True Blood,” “Hart of Dixie”) as well as feature films Under the Stars” (CBS 2002–2006), “CBS Tree Lighting ( Almost Famous, Phenomenon, Smallfoot). Wayne lives in Bryant Park” (2006–2011). Film: The Producers. in Nashville with his wife Fran and has recently been Two-time Grammy-nominee as co-producer of The inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Drowsy Chaperone and Something Rotten! cast albums. for 2018. Favorite productions: Kourtney, Shelby and Carson. SCOTT PASK (Scenic Designer). Over 50 Broadway designs including The (Tony Award); JOHN O’FARRELL (Book) is one of the UK’s best The Pillowman (Tony); The Band’s Visit (Tony nomination); known comic authors and script writers. Best-selling Mean Girls (Tony nomination); Waitress; Oh, Hello!; novels include The Best a Man Can Get, May Contain (Tony nomination); Something Rotten!; The Visit; Nuts and The Man Who Forgot His Wife. Non-fiction An Act of God; It’s Only a Play; I’ll Eat You Last; A Steady includes An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, the Rain; The Coast of Utopia (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer political memoir Things Can Only Get Better and its Critics Circle and Hewes awards); Pal Joey (Tony recent sequel plus three collections of his satirical nomination); Les Liaisons Dangereuses (first revival, columns for the Guardian newspaper. O’Farrell’s books Tony nomination, ); A Behanding have been translated into 30 languages and adapted in Spokane; Nine; Promises, Promises; Speed-the-Plow; for BBC Radio and television. Winner, British Comedy Take Me Out; Martin Short…; The Vertical Hour; Sweet Award. Previously a writer (and later panelist) on BBC’s Charity; Urinetown. London: The Book of Mormon, “Have I Got News For You” and lead writer on 10 The Playboy of the Western World, The Country Girl, series of ITV’s “Spitting Image.” Currently writing the LoveSong, On an Average Day… (all West End); Tales sequel to Chicken Run, and adapting one of his novels from Hollywood, Take Me Out and The Same Deep for Sony International Pictures. @mrjohnofarrell. Water as Me (Donmar). Also Peter Grimes (Met Opera); ’s Amaluna; John Mulaney Kid CASEY NICHOLAW (Director, Choreographer) . Gorgeous; and Oh, Hello! on Netflix. Represented on Broadway as director/choreographer of The Prom, Mean Girls (2018 Tony nominations for GREGG BARNES (Costume Designer). Broadway: Best Direction and Choreography), Disney’s Pretty Woman, Mean Girls (Tony nomination), Tuck (2014 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Everlasting (Tony nomination), Something Rotten!, award nominations for Best Choreography); and Aladdin, (2013 Tony nomination), Follies co-director and choreographer of The Book of Mormon (2012 Tony Award, Drama Desk Award), Elf, Legally (2011 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Blonde (2007 Tony nomination), The Drowsy Chaperone awards for co-director and nominations in the same (2006 Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle categories for Choreography; Olivier Award-winner awards, Olivier nomination), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, for Best Choreography). Represented on the West (2003 Tony nom.), , To Be End as director and choreographer of , The or Not to Be. Other: Dreamgirls (Olivier nomination), Book of Mormon and Aladdin. Other Broadway credits The Wizard of Oz, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, as director/choreographer: Tuck Everlasting, Something Cinderella and The Merry Widow (New York City Opera), Rotten! (2015 Tony nominee, Best Director), Elf: The Pageant (the Blue Angel and London’s West End— Musical, The Drowsy Chaperone (2006 Tony, Drama Desk Olivier nom.). TDF Young Master Award. and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Monty Python’s Spamalot directed by Mike Nichols (2005 Tony, Drama JEFF CROITER (Lighting Designer). Bandstand, Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations Best Falsettos, Holiday Inn, Something Rotten!, Disaster, Pen & Choreography). Additional New York credits: for City Teller, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony award), Center Encores!: the highly acclaimed productions Mothers and Sons, A Time to Kill, Soul Doctor, Jekyll & Hyde, The Anarchist, The Performers, The Pee-wee Herman

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Show, Next Fall, Kiki & Herb. Off-Broadway includes STEVE BEBOUT (Associate Director) also served as The True, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Jerry Springer The Opera, associate director of The Book of Mormon (Broadway, Tiny Beautiful Things, Cost of Living, Sweet Charity, Head of tour), The Addams Family (Broadway, tour, Brazil and Passes, Ordinary Days, Last Five Years, The Internationalist. Australia), Sister Act (Broadway), 101 Dalmatians (tour) Other: Big Apple Circus, Penn & Teller at the Rio in Las and Girl Crazy (Encores!). Directing credits include Vegas, Jennifer Muller the Works. Jeff has received Tony, I Got Fired and Two Rooms in NYC. Regional: Newsies Hewes and Bass awards and Drama Desk, Outer Critics (NCT), The Full Monty, The Buddy Holly Story and Little Circle, Lortel, Ovation, Irne and Audelco nominations. Shop of Horrors. NYU: Urinetown: The Musical and . Thanks to Casey and the Rotten team, and PETER HYLENSKI (Sound Designer). Grammy, to Holly and Gus. Olivier and four-time Tony award nominee. Selected Broadway designs: After Midnight, Motown, The BRIAN P. KENNEDY (Associate Music Scottsboro Boys, Rock of Ages, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Supervisor). National tour: Something Rotten! (Music Broadway, Shrek the Musical, On a Clear Day…, Lend Me Director/Conductor), A Bronx Tale (Music Director/ a Tenor, Elf, Wonderland, Cry-Baby, The Times They Are Conductor). Los Angeles: Carrie, William Finn’s A-Changin’, The Wedding Singer, Sweet Charity, Martin Short: Make Me a Song, Harps & Angels, Re-Animator, Fame Becomes Me, Little Women, Brooklyn. Other credits: Silence: The Musical, Oklahoma!, Hello! My Baby! Le Rêve at Wynn Las Vegas, Ragtime (London), Rocky das (Arrangements/Orchestrations). Broadway: 13 Musical (Hamburg), King Kong (Melbourne), How to Train (Music Assistant). Graduate of UNC-Greensboro. Your Dragon, Walking with Dinosaurs. brianpkennedy.com.

LARRY HOCHMAN (Orchestrations). Broadway: On MATTHEW CROFT (Music Director) is thrilled the Twentieth Century, The Book of Mormon (Tony, Drama to be music directing the second national tour of Desk awards), , Pippin, , The Scottsboro Something Rotten! Broadway: The Illusionists: Turn of Boys (Tony nom.), Spamalot (Tony nom.), the Century (Music Director/Keyboard 2, Palace (Tony nom.), (Tony nom.), Jane Eyre. Theatre). Touring: Motown: The Musical (Music Director); Television: composer of “The Wonder Pets!” (five The Producers, Guys and Dolls (Associate Conductor/ Emmys). Twenty-five regional and Off-Broadway shows, Keyboards). Regional: Forever Plaid, I Love a Piano, Altar including Death Takes a Holiday () and Boyz, Hair (Music Director and Keyboard); You Never ’s The Nutty Professor. Seventeen films, Know, Lysistrata Jones (Associate Conductor/Keyboards). including The Informant! (Marvin Hamlisch). Recordings, “Thanks to Phil, Brian, Wayne and Karey, our creative concerts: Paul McCartney, , , team, the cast and crew, and my fantastic “Rotten” , Audra McDonald, , band. All my love to my incredible fiancée, Aubrey— , Boston Pops, New York Philharmonic. can’t wait to marry you! F&A.” matthewcroftmusic.com. LarryHochman.net. KRISTIN SUTTER (Production Stage Manager) . JOSH MARQUETTE (Hair Designer). N.Y./London: B.F.A. from Wright State University. National tours: Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, Present Laughter, Dreamgirls, A Christmas Story (’16 and ’17), The Buddy Holly Story Paramour, Tuck Everlasting, School of Rock, Something (’15 and ’16). Regional: Sweeney Todd; Avenue Q; Rotten!, Aladdin, Kinky Boots, The Book of Mormon, Trip of Lombardi; Band Geeks!; Caroline, or Change; Footloose; Love, First Date, Elf, Dogfight, The Best Man, Look Back Dames at Sea; The Fantasticks, …Spelling Bee; Crazy for in Anger, The Drowsy Chaperone, Pig Farm, The…Trailer You; Bonnie and Clyde; Grease; Ring of Fire. Cheers! Park Musical, Altar Boyz, Show Boat at Carnegie Hall, Mamma Mia!. Encores!: Most Happy Fella and Follies. ARTHUR J. M. CALLAHAN (Company Manager) West Coast: Robin and the 7 Hoods, Peep Show, is egg-cited to make every city Rotten! Recent national/ Minsky’s, Vanities. Television: “The Slap,” “30 Rock,” international tours: Motown: The Musical, 20th anniversary “SNL.” Instagram: @josh_marquette. tour of Rent, Ragtime, Peter and the Starcatcher, Rock of Ages, The Color Purple, Smokey Joe’s Cafe and Grease with GLEN KELLY (Music Arranger) arranged music for Frankie Avalon. Special thanks to Mom, the fam and JCM Broadway’s Mean Girls, Aladdin, The Book of Mormon, for never-ending support. “Happiness is not out there; The Scottsboro Boys, Something Rotten!, A Christmas it’s in you.” Story, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spamalot and Beauty and the Beast, among others. He supervised and arranged ’ The Producers and Young Frankenstein. He arranged and wrote lyrics for Bullets Over Broadway, and won the New York Drama Desk Award for his original score to The Nance. Upcoming project: The Prom.

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BDB MARKETING (Marketing Services) is a division ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a of bdb productions, an entertainment company focusing full-service engagement management agency on live theatrical productions. In addition to Something representing Broadway tours and other live touring Rotten!, bdb marketing also represents The Play That events across North America. Current tours: The Goes Wrong. Previous clients have included Wicked, Book of Mormon; Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Penn & Teller, Stomp, If/Then, Annie, Oleanna, Don’t Quit Factory; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Hello, Your Night Job and Feinstein’s/54 Below. For more Dolly!; Kinky Boots; The Play That Goes Wrong; Rent; information: bdb-productions.com. Rock of Ages; School of Rock; Something Rotten!; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Upcoming tours: Ain’t Too WOJCIK|SEAY CASTING (Casting) is Scott Proud, Bandstand, Clue—Live on Stage, The Lightning Wojcik and Gayle Seay. Along with Holly Buczek Thief, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, Mean Girls, and Kevin Metzger-Timson, they cast all mediums. The SpongeBob Musical. Tours: Motown: The Musical, Rent, Kinky Boots, Vocalosity, Flashdance, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jekyll & Hyde THE BOOKING GROUP (Tour Direction). Since its (national and Korean), Dreamgirls (Korean tour) inception in 1996, The Booking Group has represented Joseph…Dreamcoat, Oklahoma! and A Chorus Line. Off- 25 Tony Award-winning Best Musicals and Plays. Broadway: Church and State, Othello: The Remix, The Current touring productions include Hamilton; Portal, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Character Play with Anastasia; Come from Away; Dear Evan Hansen; Hello, Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif, Handle with Care Dolly! starring ; The Book of Mormon; with Carol Lawrence, Triassic Parq, National Pastime, School of Rock; Waitress; On Your Feet!; Rent: the 20th 666 and more. Regional: Multiple seasons/shows for anniversary tour; Fiddler on the Roof; The Play That Riverside Theatre—Fla., The Engeman Theatre— Goes Wrong; and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Future N.Y., Theatre Raleigh—N.C., Stages St Louis—Mo., productions include The Cher Show, Mean Girls, My Fair Theatre Aspen—Colo. and Tuacahn PAC—Utah. Lady, Pretty Woman and To Kill a Mockingbird. Pilots: “Upstate” and “Stand-In.” Films: Best Man in the Dark, Tommy Battles the Silver Sea Dragon, My WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS (General Prologue. Webseries: “The Fuzz.” Many commercials. Management). Dedicated to creating and producing live wscasting.com. entertainment. Current productions: Something Rotten!, Rent 20th anniversary tour, Cinderella, White Christmas. PORT CITY TECHNICAL (Production Currently developing Clue, a new stage play based on Management) is a production management company the Paramount movie. Upcoming: 2016 Olivier Award- based in Charleston, S.C. Also referred to as “Work winning production of Jesus Christ Superstar, Bandstand Light South,” PCT was initially started in 1993 as and Ain’t Too Proud. Produced Julie Andrews, The Gift of Technical Theater Solutions by Rhys Williams. Music at The Hollywood Bowl and London’s O2 Arena. TTS worked with WLP on many shows, including Other recent touring productions include the Tony American Idiot, Nice Work If You Can Get It, In the Award-winners American Idiot, In the Heights, Avenue Q, Heights and Avenue Q. Since the conception of PCT, Vocalosity and Mamma Mia! WLP is led by founding tours with WLP have included Mamma Mia!, Vocalosity, partner and President Stephen Gabriel and Vice and Motown: The Musical. Current tours include Rent, President Nancy Gabriel. worklightproductions.com. Cinderella, Something Rotten!, White Christmas and the pre-broadway Ain’t Too Proud: The Temptations Musical.

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24 BROADWAY AT THE TENNESSEE STAFF STAFF FOR SOMETHING ROTTEN! Production Electrician...... Heather Hunter General Management Moving Light Programmer...... Sean Beach Production Audio...... Jeff Human WORK LIGHT PRODUCTIONS Stephen Gabriel Nancy Gabriel Assistant Production Audio...... Devon Swiger Scott Seay Anièle Fortin Kevin Greene Production Assistant...... Aliyah Kiesler Carolyn Clark Smith Victoria Buczynski Production Photographer...... Jeremy Daniel Courtney King Noelle Hedgcock Marketing Services...... bdb marketing/ Betsy Bernstein Company manager Accountant...... WithumSmith+Brown/ Arthur J.M. Callahan Robert Fried, CPA, Karen Kowgios, CPA, Anthony Moore, CPA Production management Comptroller...... Galbraith & Company/ Sarah Galbraith PORT CITY TECHNICAL Rhys Williams Mackenzie Foster Insurance...... Maury Donnelly & Parr, Inc./ Susie Prueter Tom Klonowski Bob Middleton, Meghan Shriver Rossella Human Ilana Olken Banking...... Signature Bank/ Margaret Monigan Tour Marketing Payroll...... People, Inc. Housing Coordination...... Road Rebel ALLIED TOURING Marya K. Peters Andrew Damer Merchandising...... Creative Goods/Pete Milano Mary Alyce Blum Anne Waisanen Creative Services...... Allied Integrated Marketing/ Jessica Cary Sarah Dahlberg Jennifer Gallagher Debbie Allamong, Eric Stormoen Meghan Kastenholz Anne Dailey Meyer Scott Praefke Jacqueline Smith Shae Woodward RottenBroadway.com CREDITS TOUR BOOKING AGENCY Scenery constructed by Hudson Scenic Studio, PRG-Scenic THE BOOKING GROUP Rich Rundle, Brian Brooks Technologies, a division of Production Resource Group, tbgtours.broadway LLC, Scenic Arts Studios and TTS Studios. Lighting equip- ment by PRG Lighting, Inc. Sound equipment by PRG Sound, Casting Inc. Props fabricated by Tom Carol Scenery, Joseph Cairo, Jeremy Lydic Design, Daedalus Design and Production, WOJCIK | SEAY CASTING Gayle Seay Scott Wojcik Jerard Studio, Matt Hodges, Sarah Odam Hodges, Marcus Holly Buczek Kevin Metzger-Timson Kean, Atalantia Siegel, Rob McFayden, R. Ramos Upholstery, Raphael Mishler and Peter Sarafin. Hag noses created by LEGAL COUNSEL Thomas Denier and Vincent Schiccchi. Costumes by Arel LEVINE PLOTKIN & MENIN, LLP Studio Inc.; Artur & Tailors Ltd.; By Barak, LLC; Carelli Loren Plotkin, Conrad Rippy, Susan Mindell Costumes Inc.; Costume Armour, Inc.; Cygnet Studio, Inc.; Daniel Watkins, Emily Erstling Eric Winterling, Inc.; Ingrid Helton; Jackson Wiederhöeft; Jan Parran LLC; Jennifer Chapman Studios LLC; Jennifer Production Stage Manager...... Kristin Sutter Love Costumes; Katrina Patterns, Inc.; Lynne Baccus; Pae Assistant Stage Manager...... Brandon Martin & Kim’s Custom Tailoring; Redthreaded; Tricorne, Inc.; the Dance Captain...... Danny Lopez Work Room. Costume painting, dyeing and distressing by Assistant Dance Captain...... Katie Scarlett Brunson Jeff Fender Studio and Gene Mignola, Inc. Crafts by David Associate Director...... Steve Bebout Crittenden; Judith E. Marsh; Miodrag Guberinic. Boots made Associate Scenic Designer...... Gabriel Firestone by T.O. Dey Shoe Company. Custom shoes by LaDuca Associate Costume Designer...... Alexander Cole Gottlieb Shoes. Millinery by J. Doug James Millinery; Lynne Mackey Assistant Costume Designers...... Dara Affholter, Studio; Monica Viani; Rodney Gordon Inc. Custom jew- James Nguyen elry by Moans Couture. Special thanks to Bra*Tenders for Associate Lighting Designer...... Aaron Tacy hosiery and undergarments. Assistant Lighting Designer...... Jason Flamos Associate Sound Designer...... Jeff Human SPECIAL THANKS/SPONSORS Keyboard Programming...... Jim Abbott Special thanks to Stephen Cabral at Associate Hair Designer...... Kevin Maybee TDF Costume Collection. Assistant Makeup Designer...... Angela Johnson Head Carpenter...... Noah Smith The Director and Choreographer are members of Assistant Carpenter/Flyman...... John White the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Inc., Head Electrician...... David Salazar an independent national labor union. Assistant Electrician...... Michael Smith Backstage and Front of the House Employees are Head Audio...... Brian Davis represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Assistant Audio...... Robert Isley Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.). Head Props...... Amy Laemmerhirt Assistant Props...... Zachary Maurer United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic Head Wardrobe...... Catherine Lovejoy painters for the American Theatre. Assistant Wardrobe...... Topher Jones Head Hair/Makeup...... Adrienne Maurer

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Did You Know? Young people who participate in the arts for at least three hours on three days each week through at least one full year are:

• 4 times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement • 3 times more likely to be elected to class office within their schools • 4 times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance • 4 times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem