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Cabaret Playbill This project is sponsored in part by the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. OUTLAWS AND ANGELS By Richard Hopkins and Rebecca Hopkins. Arrangements by Jim Prosser. CAST JOE CASEY NICK LERANGIS MADALYN MCHUGH CAT PATTERSON J VANCE ROSIE WEBBER Music Director Costume Designer Lighting Designer DARREN SERVER SUSAN ANGERMANN MICHAEL CUMMINGS Sound Designer Sound and Light Board Operator THOMAS KORP HENRY HANSON Directed by CATHERINE RANDAZZO Underwriters Gaele Barthold, Joan & Larry Castellani, Ed & Judy Christian, The Exchange of Sarasota, Dr. Ty Gardner & Liza McKeever-Gardner, Wendy & Bob Grady, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Robert & Bonny Israeloff, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Patrick & Mary Mulva, Anne H.S. Nethercott Co-Producers Ron & Carolyn Vioni, Sarasota Magazine, ABC7 Outlaws and Angels will be The taking of photographs and performed in two acts with one the use of recording devices during the 15-minute intermission. show is strictly prohibited. Florida Studio Theatre is a Constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre. ARTIST PROFILES JOE CASEY is thrilled studio album, Stepping Stone, her performances and grateful to be back as the opening act for Kevin Bacon, Frank Vignola, at FST. FST: Guitar Girls, and Sidewalk Prophets and her performance in Blue Suede Shoes, Million the NYC reading of The Invisible Boy. Dollar Quartet, American CAT PATTERSON is thrilled Pie, and Poems, Prayers & to return to Florida Studio Promises. Regional: The Theatre! Off-Broadway, she Bridges Of Madison County appeared as the Baggage (Robert Kincaid), Million Handler in The Signature Dollar Quartet (Johnny Cash), The Crucible Project (Dunning, LLC). Her (John Proctor), Betrayal (Jerry), Honeymoon In credits include Martha in Vegas (Tommy Korman), Nite Club Confidential Spring Awakening (Three (Buck Holden), ‘57 Chevy (Elvis Presley), of Cups); Bank Manager Assassins (Czolgosz), Spike Heels (Edward), in Once (Oregon Cabaret Theatre); and Cindy Wait Until Dark (Mike). New York: Allen Wilder Lou in The Marvelous Wonderettes (Little Town 2.0 (Michael), The Great American Backstage Players). She holds a BA in Acting/Directing Musical (Johnny Brash). National Tours: Joseph... and International Affairs from Baldwin Wallace Dreamcoat (Pharaoh). TV: The Knick, A Crime University and a certificate from the Gaiety To Remember, and The Hunt With John Walsh. School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. NICK LERANGIS is so J VANCE is thrilled to be excited to be returning to performing again on the FST for Outlaws and Angels! Florida Studio Theatre He is a musician, singer, stage! He was a member songwriter, actor/musician, of the Acting Apprentice and producer born and Company from 2017-2018. raised in New York City. He Throughout his career, he has written Billboard top has appeared as Robin in 50-charting songs with Robin Hood (FST), Herbie electro-rock darlings Walk the Moon, toured in Minnie's Boys (Porchlight Music Theatre), with them and many other bands, and played and Crabbe in The Ballad of Lefty and Crabbe in the pits of musicals. Off-Broadway: Between - Workshop Production (Underscore Theatre Gods and Kings (Bedlam). Regional and More: Company). Once (FST, St. Michael's Playhouse); Once More, ROSIE WEBBER is an With Feeling; Into The Woods; The Threepenny Alabama native singer, Opera. Nick recently released Cannon & deVaron, actress, and songwriter which is available anywhere music is streamed. based out of New York MADALYN MCHUGH City. She previously Based in New York City, toured the country with Michigan native Madalyn the Tony Award-winning McHugh graduated with musical, A Gentleman’s a BA in music, going on Guide to Love and Murder. to complete NYC’s most Follow @composingrosie for more! Broadway-integrated CATHERINE RANDAZZO (Director/Associate training program, the Open Artist) is thrilled to work with the talented team Jar Institute. McHugh’s of Outlaws and Angels. This season she directed repertoire spans the genres of Musical Theatre– That’s Amoré! She directed last season’s Cabarets Opera, Pop, Country, and Contemporary The Wonder Years, Guitar Girls, and Unchained Christian. Notable achievements include her Melodies. She also directed FST’s Winter Cabarets ARTIST PROFILES Blue Suede Shoes; Mack the Knife: The Bobby The Marvelous Wonderettes, Wednesday’s Child, Darin Songbook; Piano Men; Gypsies, Tramps, Hand to God, Straight White Men, The Wonder and Thieves; and Yesterday. In addition to Years: The Music of the Baby Boomers, Guitar directing FST Cabarets, Catherine has been on Girls, Unchained Melodies, Other People’s Money, the development teams for Guitar Girls, Mack Murder for Two, Always...Patsy Cline, Honor The Knife, and Piano Men. Catherine also leads Killing, Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Robin Hood, the artistic oversight for FST’s Summer Cabaret Once, The Exonerated, Stalking the Bogeyman, Sidekick Series. For the 18-19 Stage III season, Yesterday, Older Than Dirt, Piano Men, and she directed Buyer & Cellar. Catherine has been Chapatti. a part of the Sarasota artistic community since MICHAEL CUMMINGS (Lighting Designer/ 1990, and has appeared in plays, musicals, Lighting Supervisor) recently obtained his cabarets, new play readings, voice overs, M.F.A. in Lighting Design & Technology from commercials, fundraisers, and toured in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. national and international productions. She is Lighting design works include Pinocchio, That’s the recipient and nominee of various awards Amoré! (FST); February Dance 2019 (UIUC); for education, national arts awards, and local Jesus Christ Superstar (Salisbury University); La performance awards including “Best Actress in a Bohème (UIUC); In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Musical” for her performance as Fanny Brice in Play) (UIUC); and Studio Dance 1 (UIUC). Assistant Funny Girl. Other favorite performances include lighting designs include Barbecue (UIUC) and Mr. Forbidden Broadway, Cats, The Rocky Horror Burns, a Post-Electric Play (UIUC). He also served Show, and The Full Monty, to name a few. Most as the Master Electrician at Adirondack Theatre recently, she appeared as Eve in FST’s Mainstage Festival. production of Rich Girl. She was named one of THOMAS KORP (Sound Designer) As FST’s Sound “Sarasota’s Funniest People” for her comedic Supervisor, Thom does more than wrangle rogue styles seen in Sarasota’s original political microphones. Sound design credits include: comedy group, License to Bash, which was a Bright Star, Pinocchio, That’s Amoré!, Who Loves part of FST’s Cabaret Fringe Festival in 1996. You, The Swingaroos: Hollywood Serenade, The As Associate Artist, Catherine serves as Literary Cottage, Ethel Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow, Manager, In-Residence Director, Teaching Artist, Come Together: When the 60s Met the 70s, The and professional actor. Catherine is a graduate Marvelous Wonderettes, Wednesday’s Child, The of Otterbein University in Ohio with a BFA in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The performance, and she is a proud member of Wonder Years: The Music of the Baby Boomers, Actors’ Equity Association. Straight White Men, Guitar Girls, Unchained DARREN SERVER (Music Director) is proud to Melodies, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and be back at FST for his fifth season. Most recently, Murder, and Once. Mixing Credits: Next to Normal, Darren music directed That’s Amoré! Last season, Smokey Joe’s Café, The World Goes Round, Tango: he music directed The Marvelous Wonderettes. Buenos Aires, and We Will Rock You. Unchained Melodies, The Wonder Years and A HENRY HANSON (Sound and Light Board Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. Interesting Operator) is a Director and Stage Manager fact: Darren’s grandfather is “Curly” Howard of originally from Shawnee, KS, and a recent The Three Stooges and his greatuncles are Moe graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in and Shemp Howard. This has always been a New York, NY with concentrations in Producing source of pride and inspiration for him. & Management and Theater Performance. He SUSAN ANGERMANN (Costume Designer) has worked with Untitled Theatre Company #61, began designing for Florida Studio Theatre in Adirondack Theatre Festival, Theatre for Young 1993 for the WRITE A PLAY production of The America, The Kansas City Fringe Festival, Home Emperor’s New Clothes. She has designed for Grown Theatre Company, and Negative Space FST’s Mainstage, Stage III, Cabaret, and WRITE Theatre Company. A PLAY productions. Recent productions include EXECUTIVE STAFF RICHARD HOPKINS (Lead Developer) is on That’s Amoré! and is on the development team the Producing Artistic Director of Florida for Light My Fire. Previously she was the Lead Studio Theatre. Mr. Hopkins has fostered the Developer on The Wonder Years: The Music of the development of FST’s Mainstage and Cabaret Baby Boomers; Unchained Melodies; Blue Suede productions. His many directing Mainstage Shoes; Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves; Yesterday; credits include: Curious Incident of the Dog in the American Pie; and Poems, Prayers, and Promises. Night-Time, Honor Killing, Inspired Lunacy, The She has been the head writer on all fiveLaughing Best of Enemies, Next to Normal, Race, Ruined, The Matters shows. Some of her favorite shows she 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Boleros helped develop include: Mack the Knife; The for the Disenchanted, Permanent Collection, and Prima Donnettes; That’s Life; The Wanderers; My Metamorphoses, among numerous other plays. One and Only Gershwin; Hot and Cole; The British Mr. Hopkins led the development of FST’s Cabaret Invasion; The Flip Side; and Outlaws and Angels. productions of Guitar Girls, Mack the Knife, Older In addition, she is the Founder and Producer of than Dirt, Piano Men, and The Prima Donnettes. FST Improv and the Sarasota Improv Festival. Mr. Hopkins also serves as the Chief Executive Mrs. Hopkins serves as Managing Director for Officer of Florida Studio Theatre. This includes Florida Studio Theatre, and as such, is the Chief overseeing the creation and implementation Operations Officer.