th ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE o ANNIVERSARY6 SEASON ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE th 6oANNIVERSARY DINNER November 26, 2018 The Westin | Sarasota

6pm | Cocktail Reception

7pm | Dinner, Presentation and Award Ceremony

• Vic Meyrich Tech Award • Bradford Wallace Acting Award

03 HONOREES Honoring 12 artists who made an indelible impact on the first decade and beyond.

04-05 WELCOME LETTER

06-11 60 YEARS OF HISTORY

12-23 HONOREE INTERVIEWS

24-27 LIST OF PRODUCTIONS From 1959 through today

31 TRIBUTES o rep l aso HONOREES

Steve Hogan Assistant Technical Director, 1969-1982 Master Carpenter, 1982-2001 Shop Foreman, 2001-Present

Polly Holliday Resident Acting Company, 1962-1972

Vic Meyrich Technical Director, 1968-1992 Production Manager, 1992-2017 Production Manager & Operations Director, 2017-Present

Howard Millman Actor, 1959 Managing Director, Stage Director, 1968-1980 Producing Artistic Director, 1995-2006

Stephanie Moss Resident Acting Company, 1969-1970 Assistant Stage Manager, 1972-1990

Bob Naismith Property Master, 1967-2000

Barbara Redmond Resident Acting Company, 1968-2011 Director, Playwright, 1996-2003 Acting Faculty/Head of Acting, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, 1998-2011

Sharon Spelman Resident Acting Company, 1968-1971 and 1996-2010

Eberle Thomas Director, Actor, Playwright, 1960-1966 Co-Artistic Director, 1966-1973 Director, Actor, Playwright, 1976-2007

Brad Wallace o rep Resident Acting Company, 1961-2008

l Marian Wallace Box Office Associate, 1967-1968 Stage Manager, 1968-1969 Production Stage Manager, 1969-2010

John M. Wilson Master Carpenter, 1969-1977

asolorep.org | 03 aso We are grateful you are here tonight to celebrate and support Asolo Rep­—

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04 | asolorep.org aso asolorep belief inthepower andnecessity of live theatre for all. Our future isbright, andthisisonlypossible because of you, ourdedicated supporters, andyour decades. audience members, students andvolunteers whohave enlivened ourAsoloRep family for six Tonight we recognize not onlyourhonorees, butthethousands of artists, board members, donors, the work onstage. community engagement andoutreach programs. Ourimpact inthecommunity extends far beyond theatre that isaccessible for allthrough oureducational touring productions andever-expanding rotating repertory theatres inthecountry. We alsocelebrate oursteadfast dedication to create one of thecountry's most capable anddynamicproducing institutions andoneof thefew true As we reflect onAsolo Rep’s history andlook toward our future, we take prideinour evolution as been andwillalways beasanctuary for artists from around theworld to explore, evolve andcreate. Theatre that iscreated inourcommunity, for ourcommunity. At itscore, AsoloRep hasalways For nearly 60years, AsoloRepertory Theatre hasbeenacultural gem, presenting World Class whose contributions inthefirst decade of ourhistory set the stage for ourtheatre today. Thank you for joiningusto celebrate AsoloRep's 60thAnniversary andhonor12specialartists Producing Artistic Director Artistic Producing Michael Donald Edwards ­—Thank you for us all with being on this special evening. Managing Director Linda M. DiGabriele

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Right, Polly Holliday in known as the Asolo Theatre Festival. Festival. Theatre Asolo the as known becomes and Theater) Asolo Historic the as Theater, (now remodeled Asolo Ringling’s The at performs that in Sarasota company acting asummer start members faculty FSU 196o Reimer. I. Charles and Dorlag Arthur members faculty theatre University State Florida and attendees inspires play the Thomas; Eberle and Thomas Isa Millman, J. Howard Fallon, G. Richard artists features Clifford Girl, Odets’ The Country 1959 The Way ofthe World, 1962. comedies and operas per season. per operas and comedies century 18th of performances 50 to schedule its expands Festival The 1962 the first State Theatre of Florida. of Theatre State first the The Asolo Theatre Festival becomes 1965 company. repertory professional quality high- astable, Festival make the to out sets Fallon G. Richard Director General include works all from periods. historic broadens to repertory The Festival’s 1963 asolorep › › › asolo contract. Association Equity Actors’ an under operating begins company the and (LORT) Theatres Resident of League prestigious the of member a as community theatre national the joins Asolo Tour. On Asolo into develops that schools high Florida of tour afour-month funds grant A federal rep Directors. Co-Artistic as and Eberle Thomas Strane actor-directors Robert veteran Asolo appoints Fallon G. Richard Director now a year-round professional theatre, General Company, Theatre Asolo formed newly the For 1966 Richard G.Fallon Robert Strane Robert Eberle Thomas Eberle the State Theatre Company. Theatre State the Asolo, as known becomes company The 1969 in Director 1995. Producing Artistic as Asolo to returns Millman 1980. until holds he aposition Director, Managing first the becomes Millman J. Howard company. the with internships complete to students acting sending begins FSU 1968 End of Summer, starring Helen Hayes. company onceagain appears onPBSwith a performance of ThePatriots. The on itsnational television series with companies intheU.S.to be featured Theatre Company asoneof onlyeight PBS’ Theatre inAmerica chooses Asolo 1976 for the expanding touring operations. Linda Tour DiGabriele becomes Director Stage Two, Asolo managing stage After produced. is plays of season afull and Street First on Sarasota, downtown in Two created is Stage Asolo 1975 for Actor TrainingConservatory is born. andcomes the to FSU/Asolo Sarasota program MFAFSU’s Acting in 1973 United States. Eastern the and Florida throughout students of thousands of hundreds by seen are that plays producing 1990s, the through continues and audiences younger for created is component touring A new 197o Howard Millman Howard asolo rep .org | 07 Opening Night at the Mertz Theatre, December, 1989. Photo by Wayne Eastep.

John Ulmer 1989

1978 › Linda DiGabriele assumes the role

The company’s annual operating budget of Managing Director. reaches the million-dollar mark. › The Company outgrows the original Asolo Theater and builds a new, state-of-the-art theatre with 1983 500 seats, and rehearsal, classroom, shop and

John Ulmer becomes Artistic Director office space. and Richard G. Fallon, by now the › Executive Director, moves his base of The Dunfermline Opera House, purchased from operations to Sarasota. Scotland, is reconstructed inside the new Asolo Center for the Performing Arts. The company’s Linda DiGabriele 1986 new mainstage is named the Harold E. and Esther

The Bette Oliver Theatre is created M. Mertz Theatre, in honor of its benefactors. in the Adolph “Chick” Frankel Building › for Conservatory and smaller Asolo Rep The new Asolo Center for the Performing productions. Arts opens with a production of Lee Blessing’s A Walk In The Woods.

Leon B. Stevens and Keir Dullea in A Walk in the Woods. Photo by Gary W. Sweetman.

08 | asolorep.org The theme of “company” comes directlyco from mpany. Asolo Rep’s origin as a festival performing in rotating repertory. With a long tradition in European theatre, rotating repertory 199o involves a resident company of actors presenting works Margaret Booker is appointed Artistic Director. from a particular “repertoire” (or, collection of plays). 1991 The Asolo Center is acquired by FSU, and the name is changed to FSU Center for the Performing Arts. 1994

› Playwright Bruce Rodgers (Lost Electra, Centerburg Tales) is appointed Associate Artistic Director.

› Donna Gerdes is appointed Interim Executive Director and goes on to serve as Development Director the following year.

› The Jane B. Cook Theatre opens and becomes the main performance venue for the Conservatory, and second stage for Asolo Theatre Company. Its first production, Noel Coward’s Hay Fever, opens on November 17th that year. 1995 Howard J. Millman returns as Producing Artistic Director and reinstates the resident company and rotating repertory schedule. He also reincorporates the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training into the operations of the professional company. 1996 The Sarasota Ballet moves into the FSU Center, sharing the facilities with Asolo. Asolo stages a triumphant production of The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Parts I & II. 1999 Asolo Repertory Theatre celebrates The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, its 40th Anniversary. Parts I & II, 1996. Photo by Gary W. Sweetman.

asolorep.org | 09 2oo3 Michael Donald Edwards Sarasota celebrates the centennial of the opera house that is now the Mertz Theatre, which first opened its doors in Dunfermline, Scotland in 1903. 2oo4 Managing Director Linda DiGabriele receives the Florida Professional Theatres Association's Richard G. Fallon Award for excellence in Professional Theatre. 2oo5 Greg Leaming becomes Director of FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. 2oo6 Michael Donald Edwards begins his tenure as Producing Artistic Director. The Asolo Theatre Company is renamed Asolo Repertory Theatre.

The Conservatory gives its first guest performance, The Parisian Woman, in the re-opened Historic Asolo Theater at the Ringling Museum. 2oo7 A Tale of Two Cities enjoys its world premiere and a sold-out run in the Mertz Theatre.

Asolo Rep presents Nobody Don't Like Yogi, its first guest performance in the Ringling’s Historic Asolo Theater. Asolo Rep is now performing in three theater venues: Mertz, Cook and Historic Asolo Theater. Top: Brad Wallace, Barbara Redmond and Jefferson Slinkard. Bottom: Jimmy Clarke in Broadway, 2000. Photos by Gary W. Sweetman.

10 | asolorep.org In addition to our honorees, many other people contributed to As a residentcommunity. theatre, Asolo Rep strives the founding of the Asolo Theatre Festival and success of the to present stories that matter to our fledgling company. community, be that the local community of Sarasota and Manatee Counties, the larger community of the state of Primary among these were Richard G. Fallon (General Director and Florida, and even the broader national Executive Director), Arthur Dorlag (Founder and General Director), community. Charles Reimer (Technical Director), Robert Strane (actor, director, Co-Artistic Director), Catherine King (Costume Designer and Shop Critic Eric Bentley once described Manager), Jimmy Hoskins (director and choreographer for FSU/Asolo Michael Donald Edwards theatre using the following formula: Conservatory), and Holmes Easley (designer). Long time members of “A performs B for C.” That final variable – the acting company included Paul Weidner (also a director), Isa Thomas, C – is the audience, a kind of community Albert Smelko, Michael Keenan, Robert Britton, C. David Colson and in itself. The arts community of Florida’s Charlotte Moore. Harlan Shaw and Joy Breckenridge served as costume southwest coast has worked hard, designers, William King as Production Manager and Assistant Director, over the course of Asolo Rep’s 60-year and Jody Peary as Executive Secretary. history, to establish the theatre as a cornerstone of this remarkable area.

The cast of A Tale of Two Cities, 2007.

asolorep.org | 11 “IF THEY’D DONE BORN YESTERDAY LIKE THIS ON BROADWAY SIX YEARS AGO, IT’D STILL BE OPEN.”

–Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal

This page: Cast of South Pacific, 2014. Photo by Cliff Roles.

Laura Osnes & Jeremy Jordan in Bonnie & Clyde, 2010. Photo by Frank Atura.

Christina DeCicco in Born Yesterday, 2017. Photo by Cliff Roles.

12 | asolorep.org Writing in the Miami Heraldartistry. in 1966, Lawrence Devine said of Asolo Rep:

Paul Whitworth and Michael Joseph Mitchell “In Italy, Asolo means a sunny hill town in Life of Galileo, 2009. Photo by Frank Atura. in the green ridges north of Venice. In Sarasota, it means a repertory theater of boisterous wit, free-fall nerve, unerring good taste and the daring of a cat burglar.”

In 2017, The Wall Street Journal theatre critic Terry Teachout wrote of Asolo Rep’s production of Born Yesterday, “‘If they’d done [it] like this on Broadway six years ago, it’d still be open.” These two critics, nearly 50 years apart, identify the same key element in Asolo

Rep’s story: artistic excellence. › 2oo8 2o1o A Tale of Two Cities opens on Broadway. Asolo Rep’s production of The Life of Grand opening of The Robert and Galileo garners national attention and Beverly Koski Production Center,

› With major gifts from Beverly Koski an outstanding review by The Wall February 22, 2012. Photo by Cliff Roles. and others, Asolo Rep purchases a Street Journal’s Terry Teachout. warehouse property at 1009 2o12 Tallevast Road, which will become Asolo Rep produces Bonnie & Clyde Michael Donald Edwards conceives the Robert and Beverly Koski following its world premiere at La and creates Asolo Rep's American Production Center—including Jolla Playhouse in 2009. Character Project, a five-year artistic The Joan Armour Mendell Scenic initiative exploring what it means to Studio and the Ted Weiller Rehearsal be American. Hall—dedicated in 2012. 2o11 After Warren Coville leads an effort to The Florida Professional Theatres

› Asolo Rep purchases 10 condos for “Burn the Mortgage” on Asolo Rep’s Association establishes the Victor “Vic” artist housing. Serenata condos, the Margot and Meyrich Award for Excellence in and Warren Coville Guest Artist Housing is Dedication to Professional Theatre in dedicated. the Area of Technical and Production 2oo9 Work in recognition of Asolo Rep’s Asolo Repertory Theatre celebrates Bonnie & Clyde goes to Broadway. longtime Production Manager, naming its 50th Anniversary. Meyrich its first recipient.

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Cast of West Side Story. Jenna Burns and Marie Antonini in West Side Story, 2015. Photos by Cliff Roles.

Deborah Cox in Josephine, 2016. Photo by Paul dePoo.

Michael James Leslie and E. Faye Butler in Show Boat, 2013. Photo by Frank Atura.

Cast of Grapes of Wrath, 2014. Photo by Cliff Roles.

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asolo rep .org | 15 2019 Assistant Technical Director, 1969-1982 Master Carpenter, 1982-2001 Shop Foreman, 2001-Present STEVE Hogan

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? The number of shows we’ve built is in the thousands. I’m especially proud of what I still believe is the most beautiful set, the one we created for Living on Love in 2016.

What are some of the biggest challenges you've faced at Asolo Rep? Staying here! The responsibility of being known for building some of the most beautiful AND highest quality scenery in the country. It’s a customized, craft driven effort to take what the designer wants and make it even better. Perfection without going too far from their vision.

What surprises you most about how Asolo If you could describe Asolo Rep in only three Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? words, what would they be? That I’m still here! This theatre has Not Enough Time! Actually, the three facilitated everything I’ve wanted to do, words should be “It’s My Life.” My life, even beyond the Asolo. It got me into the my family is here. circus, ice shows, band tours and gave me the opportunity to work with people like How has your time with Asolo Rep Helen Hayes. changed you? Asolo Rep has pointed me in directions Is there a particular moment or memory that I wanted to go, it FOUND me, gave me a stands out for you? reason to be creative; a focus. In The Plexiglass Slipper, the Fairy Godmothers are at their union hall waiting Is there anything else you’d like to share for the missing Fairy Godmother. Carolyn about Asolo Rep? Michel floats down from the ceiling like It’s ethereal. You build something Mary Poppins. beautiful and destroy it after. You are always hoping someone remembers.

16 | asolorep.org Resident Acting Company, 1962-1972 POLLY Holliday

I send greetings to all Asolo Repertory Theatre supporters! I wish I could be present for this celebration.

I wish I were there to hug all my theatre buddies. I keep in pretty good touch with my fellow actors, but I don’t forget the crew.

I send special greetings to the technical crew. Much love to Vic Meyrich, Bob Naismith, John Wilson, Steve Hogan, Stephanie Moss, and, of course, the one who kept the plays humming–Marian Wallace, the best stage manager I have ever worked with.

I will never forget Robert and Miriam Strane, Eb Thomas, Howard Millman, and Dick Fallon, who had the dream.

Asolo Rep provided me with the training to be an actor and the opportunity to perform classic plays that allowed me to study and love beautiful language. I’m forever grateful.

Have a lovely party!

–Polly Holliday 1964-65.in Hamlet, Holliday Polly

It was my training and experience at the Asolo Theatre from 1962-72 “that made me confident and able to have a 30-year career as an actor... I am forever grateful to have had the Asolo as my “acting home. –Source: Sarasota’s Asolo” by Brad Wallace

asolorep.org | 17 Technical Director, 1968-1992 Production Manager, 1992-2017 Production Manager & Operations Director, 2017-Present VIC Meyrich

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? The digital revolution has changed lighting, sound, how we build and how we transmit information. “Overnight” used to mean putting plans on a Greyhound bus. Now we can do what would have taken a whole day in 45 seconds. What are some of the biggest challenges How has your time with Asolo Rep Is there a particular moment or memory that you've faced at Asolo Rep? changed you? stands out for you? One of the many challenges was in 1992 I have no idea what my life would have The night we almost went broke. It was when we were facing a serious financial been like without the Asolo. A few hours before we couldn’t make payroll, crisis. We were literally looking at years ago I woke up and realized I’m the doors were closing. I went drinking bankruptcy. Several board members and still doing the same thing I was doing with a board member and he said senior managers met in Stuart Barger’s in elementary school. I take care of the he knew a way to save the theatre– office (he was president of the board theatre, I fix things, I keep everything enough to make payroll. at the time) and finally, late at night, we organized and I have not done came up with a solution to make payroll. anything different since elementary Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep John Welch became president and he school. It’s what I do. make you the most proud? and his wife Myrna stepped in to help I was fortunate enough to have an with the critical fundraising. With the Is there anything else you’d like to share opportunity to build most of these support of key donors, including Esther about Asolo Rep? buildings. I wrote the architectural Mertz and the Welches, we were able to We were always able to do almost plans for the performing arts center overcome the crisis and move forward. anything and Michael Donald Edwards and was the owner’s representative. took it even further. I often joked that Over time, I’ve done all the major If you could describe Asolo Rep in only the theatre was like a Ferrari that never structures: the Herman and Sharon three words, what would they be? had a real driver. Howard Millman laid Frankel Asolo Rep Annex, the Robert Professional, Efficient, Unique. the groundwork for everything at the and Beverly Koski Production Center Asolo and without him, we wouldn’t and other remodeling jobs. In many be having this conversation. Without ways, I have physically built Asolo Rep. Howard there wouldn’t be a Michael.

18 | asolorep.org Actor, 1959 Managing Director, Stage Director, 1968-1980 Producing Artistic Director, 1995-2006 H OWAR D Millman

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? I was there before the beginning; it has been close to my heart and solidly entrenched in the city, community, the state and the country for so long.

Is there a particular moment or memory that stands out for you? My favorite directing experience was the play Morningstar. It was first produced on Broadway, then I read a review of Frank Galati’s revival in Chicago and knew it was a show I had to do. I also kept reviving Inherit the Wind, which still has resonance today in America.

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? When I returned to the Asolo in 1995, I felt the theatre had lost touch with what made them a part of the community. I If you could describe Asolo Rep in only Is there anything else you’d like to share knew bringing back rotating repertory three words, what would they be? about Asolo Rep? and training young actors in a delicate Cultural, Icon, Sarasota. Think about how unusual this is–we balance with professional talent in a are celebrating the 60th anniversary first-class acting company was the most How has your time with Asolo Rep and nine of the people who were a important key to bringing the Asolo back. changed you? part of the beginning are still here, still I pulled the theatre out of $2 million in I was 37 when I first came to the Asolo. involved, part of the community. The debt when I returned, to an $800,000 I had a variety of theatrical experiences strong emotional connection between surplus when I left. and was excited to be part of the these people and others who have regional theatre movement–but had been part of the Asolo over the years is What are some of the biggest challenges no idea what to do. It was a struggling something we’ll never forget. you faced at Asolo Rep? company and I had to learn a lot, fast. During my first and second term with When I returned in 1995, I knew what I Is there any question we should have the Asolo, the challenges were both had to do and how to do it. I was much asked you, but didn’t? financial. How to maintain a first more confident about making the I learned everything from my mentor class acting company in a small town necessary big decisions and KNEW I who brought me here in 1968–Richard without industry sponsors–only private had to bring back the Asolo’s lifeblood, Fallon (Dean of Theatre at FSU at that donations. It was a struggle for survival, rotating repertory theare. That’s what time). He was the heartbeat of the something I always had to live with. the community was proud of. theatre for many years.

asolorep.org | 19 Resident Acting Company, 1969-1970 Assistant Stage Manager, 1972-1990 STEPHANIE

third monkey got a different costume. I Moss also worked with a goat on Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo. Bob Strane insisted we use a male goat and would not accept a female. The goat would crawl under the trailer and get its horns caught on the wiring. After the goat’s exit from the stage at one performance there was a loud crash and a woman screamed. We kept on with the show– later learning the goat had butted one of the scenery stacks and knocked it over. The actress playing La Straga had screamed–nobody was hurt.

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? That it’s still around! Its longevity is a testimony of its importance to the community.

If you could describe Asolo Rep in only three words, what would they be? Changing and Growing

How has your time with Asolo Rep changed you? I’m now out of theatre and in academia. If I’d gone back to New York as originally planned, instead of staying at Asolo Rep, I probably wouldn’t have been drawn to academia.

, 1968-69. Homecoming , The Is there anything else you’d like to share about Asolo Rep? For the folks who will be at the 60th anniversary celebration, there is a bond that time and space hasn’t broken. There was something important about Stephanie Moss in Stephanie those beginnings. I love them all, we What surprises you most about how Asolo Is there a particular moment or memory were a close group. Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? that stands out for you? I left the Asolo right after the first season I worked with animals a number Is there any question we should have asked in the new theatre. The environs were of times and they are always you, but didn’t? so differrent from what we’d become unpredictable. We were working with What was my favorite show? It was a accustomed to. Prior to this we didn’t an organ grinder monkey for one Kurt Weill revue, which included his have a centralized place. It was quite an show and the first monkey died–we work from NY and Germany, and it was adjustment for me to work in the larger said it was because he didn’t have a directed by John Ulmer. I loved working theatre. costume. The second monkey got a with him! costume but when it died, we joked it must have hated the costume. The

20 | asolorep.org Property Master, 1967-2000 BOB Naismith

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? I'm amazed by how things have changed, everything is computerized now, we did it the hard way! When I left, they were just starting to work electronically. We took Polaroids, stuck them on poster boards, numbered the pictures and sent them (physically) to the designer. Then we had a conference call–at the time, people thought this was quite amazing. Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep How has your time with Asolo Rep Is there a particular moment or memory that make you the most proud? changed you? stands out for you? One designer wanted an Art Nouveau I truly cherish the friends I made like One memory that stands out for me, at style for the sets. As a fluke, my Dee Soluri and Jeff Dean. We knew the end of The Three Musketeers, the partner’s mother gave me a book on each other so well that, when handed director wanted to show the villainess Tiffany stained glass–it became my a list we could pull props without any being executed in the woods. We created bible. Stained glass took over my life for further discussion. a “convenient” tree stump with a hidden 8-10 years! I worked on it during breaks, beheading mechanism. As the assistant then spent my time outside the theatre Is there anything else you’d like to share executioner moved between the stump absorbed in making reproductions. about Asolo Rep? and the audience, the actress to be I thoroughly enjoy going to shows beheaded pulled the release and her What are some of the biggest challenges you now, understanding what’s going on head rolled. The first time we tried it faced at Asolo Rep? backstage while I sit back and enjoy in tech, even the crew gasped. Later, I was the first person hired from outside the performance. audiences applauded. It was tough to the company or FSU. I learned a lot carry through the last scene in the show doing research on shows, working 12-14 after that. hours a day, 7 days a week.

asolorep.org | 21 Resident Acting Company, 1968-2011 Director, Playwright, 1996-2003 Acting Faculty/Head of Acting, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, 1998-2011 BARBARA Redmond

Is there a particular moment or memory that stands out for you? Right after Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, on July 20, 1969, we had a performance of The Hostage on the original Asolo stage. In that production I sang an irreverent number called “Don’t Muck About with the Moon,” which I approached on this occasion with some trepidation, fearing that the audience would find it critical of the space program and, in fact, unpatriotic. As it turned out, I’ve never had more fun onstage. There was laughing and cheering and jubilation over the astronauts’ astounding achievement and the insane coincidence of this song. I’ll never forget it. Barbara Redmond in The Crucible, 1972-73.

The theatre is one of the last places we can go to “ hear the truth. – Barbara Redmond and Eb Thomas ” –Source: Sarasota’s Asolo by Brad Wallace

22 | asolorep.org Resident Acting Company, 1968-1971 and 1996-2010 SHARON Spelman

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? I began and ended my acting career at the Asolo. 1968-1971, 1996-2007, 2010. My first show was Arms and the Man by G.B. Shaw. I played Raina opposite Brad Wallace. In my last show I played Maxine in Managing Maxine by Janece Shaffer in 2010.

If you could describe Asolo Rep in only three words, what would they be? Location, Location, Location. I’m joking, of course. It’s impossible to sum it up in three words.

How has your time with Asolo Rep changed you? It was my first Equity job (thanks to Eb Thomas) and we were all so young. As a pure rotating repertory theatre, Is there a particular moment or memory that the resident actors were nearly always stands out for you? rehearsing and performing–including a Oh! What a Lovely War. It’s a musical satire school tour for 10 months a year. The of World War I, originating in England in variety of roles offered to the youthful 1963, but obviously appropriate for the actors was emotionally fulfilling, but chaotic times in 1969 during the Vietnam often artistically challenging (e.g., I War. Having lost my father in WWII, the played Barbara Redmond’s mother in scenes and songs hold an emotional Misalliance and she played mine in resonance for me. The show is funny All’s Well That Ends Well). It was a and sexy, but also poignant and so sad at learning experience like no other and times. As a true ensemble, the whole cast I am forever grateful for it. wore variations of traditional Pierrot and Pierrette costumes, and added wardrobe Is there anything else you’d like to share pieces to delineate characters. Backstage, about Asolo Rep? a table was piled high with hand-held props After all these decades, many of us grabbed on the run by the performers. I remain close friends and are still an have no idea if the show was a box office important part of each other’s lives. hit; I just know we loved doing it. We are, in the truest sense, family.

asolorep.org | 23 Director, Actor, Playwright, 1960-1966 Co-Artistic Director, 1966-1973 Director, Actor, Playwright, 1976-2007 EBERLE Thomas

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? Having spent more than 60 years working in the professional theatre, very little surprises me. If I were asked specifically whether I am surprised by the fact that the Asolo is still alive and well almost 60 years after we opened our first season in the summer of 1960, my answer would be “No.” During the times in which I worked here or observed work here in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and the first two decades of the 21st century I found the Asolo to be that rarity among theatres—a place where a mixture of good humor, hard work, and comradeship is the norm for all its workers, from the ushers to the producing artistic director.

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? Having been involved in the original decisions to hire Bob Strane (1961), Brad Wallace (1961), Pamela Payton- Wright (1962), David Colson (1965), Joy Breckenridge (1966), Howard Millman (1967), Bob Naismith (1967), Anthony Heald (1967), Vic Meyrich (1968), Sharon Spelman (1968), Barbara Redmond (1968), and Jimmy Hoskins (1969).

If you could describe Asolo Rep in only three words, what would they be? Caravan of Dreams.

How has your time with Asolo Rep changed you? Probably not at all. It’s kept me Eberle Thomas in Richard III, 1977-78. young.

24 | asolorep.org Resident Acting Company, 1961-2008 BRAD Wal l a c e

Is there a particular moment or memory that stands out for you? Over the years I have been in many productions, the memory of which make me smile with a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. I would have to say my favorite was John Guare’s, The House of Blue Leaves, produced in 1972. I was joined onstage by old friends Polly Holliday, Eberle Thomas, Barbara Redmond and Richard Hopkins who played my son, Ronnie. It was a show I loved.

What are some of the biggest challenges

you faced at Asolo Rep? 1973-74. Broadway, When I started with the Asolo in 1961 I spoke with a southern accent that was so thick the director of the Commedia cast me as Tartalia, who he said was traditionally played in Wallace Brad with a stutter or as a mute. He How has your time with Asolo Rep Is there anything else you’d like to share wanted me to play him as a mute. changed you? about Asolo Rep? So I began the season that was to When I first came to the Asolo I performed in over 160 productions change my life by being told I could I was a true novice, as green as at the Asolo between 1961 and 2008. I make my greatest contribution to grass. There were five actors in have worked in other regional theaters the company by keeping my mouth the company who were graduate – from the Utah Shakespearean shut. It was a challenge to learn students at Yale, the finest theater Festival to the Cape Playhouse in how to hear sounds and then to school in the country, plus people Massachusetts – but I have always duplicate what I heard. like Eberle Thomas and Polly considered my home to be with the Holliday. I assumed that all regional Asolo and Sarasota. In those years If you could describe Asolo Rep in only theaters had the same sort of talent I have been the happy partner in a three words, what would they be? but I soon learned that was not 55-year-old marriage, raised three I would have to say the company so. The examples provided by the wonderful children and been a part has always been innovative, actors of that first summer became of Florida’s cultural center. For me, it resilient and principled. a basis for my career in the theater. couldn’t get much better than that.

asolorep.org | 25 Box Office Associate, 1967-1968 Stage Manager, 1968-1969 Production Stage Manager, 1969-2010 MARIAN Wal lac e

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? I have always marveled at how a community the size of Sarasota could support and embrace as many arts organizations as it does. Community support for the Asolo, coupled with inspired leadership, has helped the company grow into a major regional theatre, mounting complex musical productions and wonderfully entertaining and thought provoking straight plays, both comedies and dramas. I am surprised that growth has remained steady over the years and that, as an audience member, I am continually thrilled, moved and entertained.

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? There have been many but I will describe the first. In 1970, we produced Dr. Faustus, adapted from the Marlowe by Eberle Thomas and Robert Strane. It was enormously was 23 when I began stage managing complicated and everyone pitched in and nearly 66 when I retired in 2010. to finish the set. Actors helped move That’s a lifetime. I learned the value of some scenery; I sewed the hem on compromise and helping to bring all a drop. Victor Meyrich fainted from creative elements together into one fatigue during one all-night work call cohesive and stimulating production. while installing the set. We never completed a run-through before Is there anything else you'd like to share opening night. Terrified, we pushed about Asolo Rep? through and had a great show and a Brad and I consider ourselves successful run. I am proud of that and fortunate to have been able to live our of the company who came together to professional lives at Asolo Rep. For a make it a success. profession not known for its stability we have been able to have careers How has your time with Asolo Rep working for a distinguished and exciting changed you? company while raising our family in The most obvious and funniest answer Sarasota. That’s equivalent to having to this question is that I got old. I our cake and eating it too.

26 | asolorep.org Master Carpenter, 1969-1977 JOHN M. Wilson

What surprises you most about how Asolo Repertory Theatre has changed over the years? That it stayed in rotating rep as long as it did. Expensive and a nightmare to schedule. Like being on a submarine in the theatre, all day and all night.

Is there a particular moment or memory that stands out for you? Dr. Faustus–It was a huge, complex show with cues every 10 seconds. Also the opening night of The Subject Was Roses, which I designed.

Which of your achievements at Asolo Rep make you the most proud? Rotating Repertory: 8-9 performances a week, Wednesday and Saturday matinees. Knowing how to use space and fit the show that needed to be on next into the wings. How has your time with Asolo Repertory Theatre changed you? What are some of the biggest challenges It gave me a depth of experience in the you faced at Asolo Rep? theatre and on tour that allowed me to Tearing down shows every day, further my career. sometimes twice. Six shows in rotating rep season. We had the top scenic Is there anything else you’d like to share designers in a very small theatre. Every about Asolo Rep? designer wanted a bigger, better show. We ran in the theatre from February- September and then we took a short If you could describe Asolo Rep in vacation, then built the tour show and only three words, what would they be? went on the road. I became a theatrical I’m still tired. engineer.

asolorep.org | 27 28 Theatre'sAsolo Repertory | asolo The Bald Soprano Oedipus theKing A ManFor AllSeasons The Miser Much Ado AboutNothing Asolo RepProductions: 1965-66 Tiger at theGates Volpone The Importance of BeingEarnest Hamlet Asolo RepProductions: 1964-65 The Schoolfor Scandal The Lady’s Not For Burning The Imaginary Invalid Twelfth Night orWhat You Will Asolo RepProductions: 1963-64 Cyrano DeBergerac The Schoolfor Wives The Rivals The Mistress of theInn The Taming of theShrew Asolo RepProductions: 1962-63 The Music Master La Serva Padrona The Misanthrope The Barber of Seville Commedia Dell’Arte The Way of theWorld Asolo RepProductions: 1961-62 The Secret Marriage Tartuffe She Stoops to Conquer Commedia Dell’Arte The World intheMoon The Country Wife Asolo RepProductions: 1960-61 The Manof Mode The Beggar’s Opera The Servant of Two Masters The Rivals The Doubles The Ridiculous Ladies Asolo RepProductions: 1959-60 rep .org 6o seasons6o The Glass Menagerie Asolo RepTours: The Tortoise andtheHare The Prince All’s Well That End’s Well Life withFather A Flea inHerEar Doctor Faustus Oh Dad, Poor Dad… The Physicists Misalliance The Glass Menagerie Blithe Spirit Asolo RepProductions: 1969-70 The Misanthrope Arms andtheMan Asolo Rep Tours: The Silver Thread Uncle Vanya The Hostage The Lark You Can’t Take ItWithYou Two Gentlemen of Verona The Homecoming The LioninWinter Oh! What aLovely War The Misanthrope Arms andtheMan Asolo RepProductions: 1968-69 The Servant of Two Masters Henry theFourth, Part One Asolo RepTours: The Caretaker Wilde! The Visit The Alchemist A Midsummer Night’s Dream Antigone Look Back inAnger J.B. Tartuffe The Servant of Two Masters Henry theFourth, Part One Asolo RepProductions: 1967-68 Major Barbara As You Like It Asolo RepTours: Romeo andJuliet Eleanora Duse The Farce of Scapin The Madwoman of Challiot The CherryOrchard The Fan Major Barbara As You Like It Asolo RepProductions: 1966-67 Just SoStories Cinderella Twelfth Night orWhat You Will Asolo Rep Tours: The KingStag The Legend of Sleepy Hollow The Timeof Your Life War andPeace The Disciple The Matchmaker The House of BlueLeaves Dracula Hay Fever The Best Man Twelfth Night orWhat You Will The Front Page Asolo RepProductions: 1971-72 Hansel andGretel Androcles andtheLion Candide Asolo RepTours: The Snow Queen The Puppet Prince Indians Our Town Charley’s Aunt The SubjectWas Roses Love for Love The Comedyof Errors Joe Egg Candida Born Yesterday Asolo Rep Productions: 1970-71 Aladdin Two Pails of Water Jack and theBeanstalk Angel Street Asolo RepTours: The WindintheWillows The Canterville Ghost Aladdin Big Klaus andLittleKlaus The Merchant of Venice The Rose Tattoo Little MarySunshine The Effect of Gamma Rays ... Hotel Paradiso The Crucible The Philadelphia Story Angel Street Pygmalion Asolo RepProductions: 1972-73 Heracles Rumpelstiltskin Mistress of theInn Asolo RepTours: Trolls andBridges The Patriots King Lear Tartuffe Guys andDolls The Sea Heartbreak House Tobacco Road The PloughandtheStars Mistress of theInn There’s OneinEvery Marriage Asolo RepProductions: 1974-75 Reynard theFox The Brave Little Tailor Private Lives Asolo RepTours: Story Theatre Don Quixote of La Mancha Macbeth Ring Round theMoon Inherit theWind Arsenic andOldLace A Delicate Balance Broadway The Devil’s General Private Lives Trelawny of theWells Asolo RepProductions: 1973-74 asoAntigone Something WithJamie inthe Title Peck’s Bad Boy Hansel andGretel The Patriots Asolo RepTours: Two for theSeesaw Serenading Louis Oh! Coward The Sea Horse Knock Asolo Stage Two: 1776 ...AndAllThat Jazz Win WithWheeler Look Homeward, Angel The Music Man The Quibbletown Recruits A Streetcar NamedDesire Boy Meets Girl Going Ape Hogan’s Goat The New York Idea Asolo RepProductions: 1975-76 lorep asoRaduz andtheThree Clouds Press Cuttings Plain Folk Asolo RepTours: The CherryOrchard Stag at Bay Othello A History of American Film Long Day’s Journey into Night Let’s Get aDivorce Volpone The Shadow Box Design for Living Asolo RepProductions: 1978-79 Wiley andtheHairyMan The Bald Soprano Vasilia Asolo RepTours: lCatsplay The Inspector General The ManWhoCameto Dinner Richard III Travesties oThe Schoolfor Wives She Stoops to Conquer Juno andthePaycock The Royal Family Asolo RepProductions: 1977-78 The Doctor inSpite of Himself Hey There –Hello Step onaCrack Queen Bird andtheGoldenFish Asolo RepTours: repThe GoodDoctor The Importance OfBeingEarnest A Christmas Carol Scapin! Second Stage: Cromwell Saturday, Sunday, Monday Cyrano DeBergerac My Love to Your Wife Desire UndertheElms Waltz of theToreadors Cat onaHot TinRoof Mummer’s End The Ruling Class Asolo RepProductions: 1976-77 Canterbury Tales Hercules andFriends Peter andtheHungryWolf Angel Street Asolo RepTours: Dark of theMoon The Winslow Boy Sherlock Holmes Man withaLoad of Mischief Misalliance A View from theBridge The DiningRoom Asolo RepProductions: 1982-83 Comedies of Courtship The IceWolf Pinocchio The SongisKern Asolo RepTours: The Girlof theGoldenWest The MaleAnimal Charley’s Aunt The AllNight Strut The Show-Off Mrs. Warren’s Profession A Midsummer Night’s Dream Asolo RepProductions: 1981-82 The Men’s Cottage Rashomon Aladdin Asolo RepTours: Once inaLifetime Picnic The Three Musketeers The SongisKern Terra Nova The Beggar’s Opera On GoldenPond Asolo RepProductions: 1980-81 The Marriage Proposal Macbeth The Tingalary Bird Beauty andtheBeast Asolo RepTours: Stand-Off At Beaver andPine Transcendental Love The Warrens of Virginia Idiot’s Delight Man andSuperman Tintypes Da The Tempest Ah, Wilderness! Asolo RepProductions: 1979-80 Frankel Building for Conservatory andFrankel smaller Asolo Rep productions. Building for Conservatory 1986

The Bette Oliver Theatre is created in the Adolph “Chick” “Chick” Adolph the in created is Theatre Oliver Bette The The Doctor inSpite of Himself Wiley andtheHairyMan Androcles andtheLion Children of aLesser God Asolo RepTours: Twice Around thePark You Can’t Take ItWithYou A Month intheCountry Dames at Sea The Little Foxes And aNightingale Sang Amadeus Children of aLesser God Asolo RepProductions: 1984-85 Prince Hamlet Step onaCrack The Nightingale Promenade, All! Asolo RepTours: The Importance of BeingEarnest Rashomon The Drunkard Death of aSalesman Promenade, All! The GinGame Waiting for Godot Arms andtheMan Asolo RepProductions: 1983-84 Spoon River Anthology Orphans A Life intheTheater Second Stage: The Foreigner How theOtherHalfLives Tartuffe Forgive Me, Evelyn Bunns As Is Hamlet Sleuth A Moonfor theMisbegotten Greater Tuna Scrooge andMarley A Christmas Carol: Asolo RepProductions: 1985-86 Candide In aRoom Somewhere The Arkansaw Bear Rumplestiltskin Mass Appeal Asolo RepTours: Why Can’t You BeHim? Mass Appeal First TimeAnywhere! Second Stage: Berlin to Broadway withKurt Weil I’m Not Rappaport Pump Boys andDinettes Ladies inRetirement Of MiceandMen The Heiress Philadelphia, Here ICome! Nunsense Asolo RepProductions: 1987-88 Soldiering The New Kid Reynard theFox The Brave Little Tailor Asolo RepTours: All MySons The Perfect Party Our Town Nunsense Deathtrap Orphans Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Rainmaker Marley A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Asolo RepProductions: 1986-87 Social Life The CodeBreaker Puss’n Boots The Reluctant Dragon Toward Zero Asolo RepTours: Quarry Driving Around theHouse Second Stage: Cyrano deBergerac Eleemosynary de Lune Frankie andJohnny intheClaire Medea Burn This As You Like It The Boys Next Door Towards Zero Side by Sideby Sondheim Asolo RepProductions: 1988-89

asolo rep .org | 29 30 Theatre'sAsolo Repertory | asolo Dancing at Lughnasa Forty-Four Sycamore Das Barbecu Okiboji From theMississippiDelta Big Top King Lear Theatre: Asolo RepintheMertz 1993-94 Letters Love Legacies Lips Together, Teeth Apart Nora Sweet andHot Centerburg Tales The Substance of Fire Real Women Have Curves Theatre: Asolo RepintheMertz 1992-93 Remembrance Lost Electra Svengali Songs of DonJuan Fences Odd Jobs Man of Mode My Three Angels Theatre: Asolo RepintheMertz 1991-92 Bedroom Farce Master Harold...and theBoys Heidi Chronicles Only Kidding A Tale of Two Cities Driving MissDaisy The Cocktail Hour Other People’s Money Theatre: Asolo RepintheMertz 1990-91 The CodeBreaker Troubled Waters This isNot aPipeDream The JungleBook Blithe Spirit Asolo RepTours: The Mystery of IrmaVep Quarry Steel Magnolias Talking Pictures 70 Girls70 Eastern Standard Man andSuperman Blithe Spirit A Walk intheWoods Theatre: Asolo RepintheMertz 1989-90 rep 6o seasons6o .org

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