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SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK Sept. 29 – Oct. 2 Academy Park (former BGA Campus) SHAKESPEARESHAKESPEARE ININ THETHE PARKPARK TM SHAKESPEARESept.Sept. 2929 –– Oct.Oct. 2 INAcademyAcademy THE Park Park (former (former PARK BGA Campus)Campus) TM TM TM Featuring the music of DAVID OLNEY,LARI WHITE, STAN LAWRENCE, & JACK KINGSLEY Featuring the music of DAVID OLNEY,LARI WHITE, Featuring the music STAN of LAWRENCE, DAVID OLNEY,LARI & JACK KINGSLEY WHITE, STAN LAWRENCE, & JACK KINGSLEY Featuring the music of DAVID OLNEY,LARI WHITE, NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SHAKESPEARE NASHVILLE STAN LAWRENCE, & JACK KINGSLEY » MICHAEL NOTT DESIGN NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SHAKESPEARE NASHVILLE DESIGN » MICHAEL NOTT DESIGN NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SHAKESPEARE NASHVILLE 6:00 Food Trucks open & ‘Talking Shakespeare’, 6:30 Pre-show, 7:30 Show » MICHAEL NOTT DESIGN 6:00 Food Trucks open & ‘Talking Shakespeare’, 6:30 Pre-show, 7:30 Show $10 Suggested$10 Suggested donation donation per person person 6:00 FESTIVAL SHAKESPEARE NASHVILLE Food Trucks open & ‘Talking Shakespeare’, 6:30 Pre-show, 7:30 Show $60 Royal$60 PackagesRoyal Packages include include reserved reserved seating, parking, parking, and and dinner dinner » MICHAEL NOTT DESIGN $10 Suggestednashvilleshakes.org donation per person $60 Royal Packages include reserved seating, parking, and dinner nashvilleshakes.org nashvilleshakes.org Franklin Playbill.indd 1 9/20/2016 1:54:32 PM DIRECTED BY DENICE HICKS This project is funded in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and under an agreement with the Tennessee Arts Commission. Franklin Playbill.indd 3 9/20/2016 1:54:37 PM Director’s Note BY DENICE HICKS I, to the world, am like a drop of water, that in the ocean seeks another drop. The family of Aegeon (David Olney) has been scattered for many years, but faith, perseverance, love and chance can bring them back together. Even as a drop of water is seeking another single drop in the ocean, the truth is that both already are the ocean. Every person is an individual, but on a spherical, self- contained planet, the greater truth is that we’re all one. So often we seek for what we have, what we know, and who we are, but need the journey and the search to find that truth. Setting The Comedy of Errors in a Nashville-like Ephesus in the late 1960s occurred to me when I saw the current exhibit at the Coun- try Music Hall of Fame, “Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats.” To me, pairing Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan sounds like a comedy of errors, but the truth is that they inspired each other to make some exceptional music and found a way to blend the conservatism of Nashville with the liberality of folk music. Thus this musical ver- sion of Shakespeare’s shortest play was born! With feisty women and rambunctious men, the tales of the lives of country music stars frequently veer into Shakespearean proportions, and adding music when characters can no longer express themselves through mere poetry gives this comedy heart and soul. I’d been anxious to bring David Olney and Stan Lawrence back to our stage, and with additional songs written by dear friends Lari White and Jack Kingsley, there was no question that this show was going to be another Nashville Shakespeare Festival signature pro- duction. I sure hope you have a good time tonight and bring your friends back to see it again. If you don’t have a good time, write to me and I’ll hear you out. After all, we’re doing this for you and in the end we’re all in this together. Enjoy! * Franklin Playbill.indd 5 9/20/2016 1:54:43 PM CAST Antipholus of Syracuse ................................... Taylor Kelly Antipholus of Ephesus ............................... Sawyer Wallace Dromio of Syracuse ......................................... Erik Schiller Dromio of Ephesus ........................................ Will Miranne Adrianna ....................................................... Tonya Pewitt Luciana ........................................................... Jordan Scott Aegeon .......................................................... David Olney Solinus / Balthazar .................................. Randall Lancaster Angelo ............................................................. Ross Bolen Tiny (of the Porpentine) .................................. Bonnie Keen First Merchant, Dr. Pinch ............................. Stan Lawrence Second Merchant ............................................. Brad Brown Officer / Jailer / Nell ......................................... Bob Roberts Aemelia ........................................................ Denice Hicks Ensemble ................ Ann-Marie Bagge, Alexandra Chopson Morgan Davis, Mary Elizabeth Roberts, Ara Vito Understudy Aemelia & Tiny .................. Mary Jane McClarty Understudy Angelo ................................... Jonah M. Jackson THE JAILHOUSE BAND Music Director - Stan Lawrence Bass - Mark Clark Drums - Bob Roberts, Brad Brown Guitars - David Olney, Jack Kingsley Franklin Playbill.indd 7 9/20/2016 1:54:45 PM SONGS ACT 1 “Until I Find My Own” by David Olney “You Can’t Shoot ‘Em” by Lari White “When One Door Slams” by Stan Lawrence “Teach Me How to Think and Speak” by Jack Kingsley “It All Comes Back” by Lari White ACT 2 “Get the Hell Outta Him” by Stan Lawrence “Hoppin’ Mad” by Stan Lawrence “We’re All in It Together” by Stan Lawrence SYNOPSIS by Bob Roberts Years ago in Syracuse, twin boys were born to a folk singer, Aegeon, and his wife, Aemilia. The couple also adopted another set of identical twin broth- ers, orphaned at birth, and raised those boys as servants to their own sons. Shortly thereafter, Aemilia and Aegeon split, each taking one from each set of twins. As Aegeon’s sons grew and eventually came of age, they decided to seek out their long-lost twin brothers and their mother. After seven years with no word from his boys, Aegeon has hit the road himself to find them. This journey brings the road-weary troubadour to the city of Ephesus [E], which is at odds with the city of Syracuse [S]. Aegeon tells his life story with a song, but is arrested and, according to the law barring anyone from Syra- cuse to step foot in Ephesus, must either pay an enormous fine or be put to death. Taking pity on him, the Duke of Ephesus (Solinus) gives Aegeon until 5pm to come up with the fine. That same day, Aegeon’s son Antipholus (also of [S]) and his companion Dromio [S] arrive in Ephesus, still seeking their fortune and their brothers. Unbeknownst to them, their brothers do indeed live here, look exactly like them, and are also named Antipholus [E] and Dromio [E]. After sending Dromio [S] to the boarding house, Antipholus [S] encounters his servant’s Franklin Playbill.indd 9 9/20/2016 1:54:49 PM twin, who has been sent to bring his own master home to lunch. Sent away in confusion, Dromio [E] returns home to tell Antipholus’ [E] wife, Adriana, that his master refuses to come home and is behaving strangely. Adriana seeks her own Antipholus [E], only to find his twin and the other Dromio [S]. Bringing the Syracusians home and desiring privacy, she inadvertantly locks out the actual men of her household. Upon finding themselves locked out of their home by unknown men, Antipholus [E] and Dromio [E] leave to eat at the World Famous Porpentine with friends and devise a proper payback for Adriana’s suspected infidelity. Antipholus [S], unimpressed by his supposed wife, has instead fallen in love with her sister, Luciana, and woos her with song. Meanwhile, Dromio [S] is wooed by Nell, a rather intimidating kitchen maid who is actually mar- ried to Dromio [E]. As the Syracusian brothers ponder their circumstance, the Ephesian brothers devise a scheme to enflame Adriana’s jealousy by acquiring a gold necklace promised to her and instead bestowing it upon Tiny, the owner of the Porpentine. The jeweler, Angelo, mistakenly deliv- ers the necklace to Antipholus [S], and later comes to collect payment from Antipholus [E] so that he may settle a debt of his own. Denying receipt of the necklace, Antipholus [E] is arrested and sends Dromio [S] to get bail money from Adriana. Shortly thereafter, Dromio [E] arrives without the bail, fol- lowed close behind by Adriana and Luciana who have become convinced that Antipholus [E] is mad and/or possessed. A holy man, Dr. Pinch, attempts to exorcise the enraged and confused husband, and ultimately takes both Ephesian brothers away, bound and gagged. During this confusion, the Syracusian boys have reconnected; though some- what charmed by the beauty and generosity of the locals, they fear that the town is enchanted and make plans to sail away on a boat that evening. They encounter Angelo and his debtor, who begin a brawl over the money for the necklace, causing the Syracusians to take refuge in a nearby nunnery. Adri- ana entreats the Duke, who is about to pass sentence on Aegeon, to try and reason with the men she saw flee into the nunnery, only to be approached by her actual husband and his servant, newly escaped from their bonds and seeking justice of their own. Aegeon mistakes Antipholus [E] and Dromio [E] for their Syracusian brothers, but they do not recognize him. A nun brings Antipholus [S] and Dromio [S] out of the nunnery, and Aegeon both recog- nizes his boys and recognizes the nun as his estranged wife, Aemilia. The family is happily reunited and all wrongs are settled. Aegeon is pardoned by the Duke, and the singer rejoins his wife; the jeweler drops his charges against Antipholus [E]; the brothers have at last found one another; Antipho- lus [E] is reconciled with Adriana; Antipholus [S] is free to woo Luciana; and Dromio [S] is happy to get to know Dromio [E] and leave the kitchen wench in his brother’s care. * Franklin Playbill.indd 11 9/20/2016 1:54:52 PM The Comedy of Errors Cast ROSS BOLEN (ANGELO) is a Nashville-based actor, director, filmmaker, and arts educator with numerous regional theatre credits as an actor and director in Nashville, Cincinnati, Louisville, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles.