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Illinois State University ISU ReD: Research and eData School of Theatre and Dance Programs Theatre and Dance Fall 2015 Brighton Beach Memoirs School of Theatre and Dance Illinois State University Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdp Part of the Theatre and Performance Studies Commons Recommended Citation School of Theatre and Dance, "Brighton Beach Memoirs" (2015). School of Theatre and Dance Programs. 36. https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/sotdp/36 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Theatre and Dance at ISU ReD: Research and eData. It has been accepted for inclusion in School of Theatre and Dance Programs by an authorized administrator of ISU ReD: Research and eData. For more information, please contact [email protected]. School of Theatre and Da'{~f 5_ 2016 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Jlll,wis Stale Universfly FineArts.IllinoisScace.edu E~ Opper~ Aw-ait. .. ~ Meadows Independent Living • Independent Living-Plus! 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Gloria Petrelli Laurle ...............................................................................................................................Cassandra Conklin Nora ..........................................................................................................................................Megan Tennis Stanley ....................................................................................................................................Jimmy Keating Jack ....................................................................................................................................... Graham Gusloff Directed by JONATHAN HUNT SELL Stage Manager Set Designer Costume Designer Dialect Coach MAGGIE HART BRIDGID BURGE LIZZIE TURNER CONNIE DE VEER Light Designer Hair/Makeup Design Sound Designer ETHAN HOLLINGER SAVANNAH WETZEL PAIGE SPIZZO ACTI Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York The Jerome family home, not too far from the beach. It is a lower middle income area Inhabited mostly by Jews, Irish and Germans. September 1937 - 6:30 p.m. ACT II Same location Wednesday, a week later. About 6:45 in the evening Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. •Denotes Master of Fine Arts or Master of Arts/Science candidate Additional Staff Technical Dlrector .......................................... ___......................................... ______ Dan Browder Assl Director ................... ___..................... ________.. ____..................., Grace Irvin Assl Stage Managers ....................... _____ ................. Mia Carretta & Braden Poapst Prop Maater ............ ----..................... ______________.. connor Herbeck Assl Costume Designer ................................................................................................ ___ Sarah Schwarzhaupt Master Carpenter ....................................................................................................................... ____ Jake Lambert Assl Light Deslgner ...................................................................................................................................Chandler Kadner Assl Sound Designer ...................................................................................................................................... Naomi Kibler Master Electrlclan ................................. ------ ___________ James Morrison Assl Master Electrician ..................................................... __________................. Halley Paluch Lighting/ Sound Supervisor ................. __________, ____ .................. Cassie Mings Charge Artist ............. ____________, ______,Samantha Gribben Wardrobe Supervisor ...................... _____...................................................................................., Katie McCarty Run Crew ...................................................................................................... Katie Capp, Sofia Morales, Marianne Burton Wardrobe Crew ............................................................................................ Johann Kerber, Alyssa Middleton, Nick Scott Leah Soderstrom, Chris Stevenson, Clare Supplltt, Jennifer Paulos Paint Crew .............................................. Brittany Adelman, Ashley Chitwood, Kelly Franklin, Julia Heeren, Dalja Nealy, Shakeyla Thomas Light Crew ____.................. Spence Brady, Alexis Handler, Gabrielle Munoz, Sarah Seidler, Natalie Trollinger Sound Crew _______ .... Chris Cvlkota, Taylor Eaves, Naomi Kibler, Amanda Labonte•, Jenna Wells 'Denotes Master of Arts candidate. Special Thanks Connor Harbeck, Lindsay Rowley, Lindsey Siders, Amber Saul, Balley Inman. Robert Quinlan, Shawn Malott, Grace Irving, Illinois Wesleyan University 3 - 1610 R.T. Dunn Dr. 1408 S. Main St. " Bloomington, IL Nonnal, IL 309-823-9115 309-452-5327 Proudly Supporting ISU Theatre! monsterpawn.com LOYALTY IS BACK ATTRACTIVE LEASE AND PURCHASE OFFERS NOW AVAILABLE ~ 4 SCHOOL OF """17'1o/,/r~~~1~r• "' I f ((('- '-~t\{'1~ . IUu,ouStatc lh,wmay AN~~~~ll»~:~ A NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR in the Anny Air Force Reserve he began writing comedy "I guess there comes a time in everybody's life when you scripts for radio and some popular early television shows. say, ~his very moment is the end of my childhood:" - Among them were Sid Caesar's Your Show of Shows In Eugene from Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon 1950, where he worked alongside other young writers including Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks and Selma Diamond. When we produce a play that takes place in the pas~ the His first two hits, Barefoot in the Park (1963) and the Tony following question is often asked: "Why?" Why do a play winning The Odd Couple (1965), made him a national written in 1982 that takes place in 1937? Why should we celebrity and a household name. Overall, he has garnered care about a Depression era family in 2015? The themes seventeen Tony nominations and won three. During one of this play are universal and timeless. A family is faced season, he had four successful plays showing on with unemployment, keeping a roof over their heads, and Broadway at the same time, and in 1983 became the only food on the table. They are threatened by an impending living playwright to have a Broadway theatre, the Neil war at the same time they struggle to move on after a Simon Theatre, named in his honor. After Simon won the sudden tragedy. Children confront the confusion and Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1991 for Lost in Yonkers, critics excitement of attaining adulthood mixed with the threat began to take notice of the depths, complexity and issues of losing their innocence. Almost 80 years after this play of universal interest in his stories, which expressed is se~ these are all themes that continue to resonate. Neil serious concerns of most average people. His comedies Simon's genius of sharing these serious themes through were based around subjects such as marital confict, uproarious comedy and heartfelt storytelling makes this infidelity, sibling rivalry, adolescence, and fear of aging. play a joy for any age, and I am proud and excited to share Simon's facility with dialogue gives his stories a rare Mr. Simon's story with you tonight blend of realism, humor and seriousness which audiences f,nd easy to identify with. ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Neil Simon (bom July 4, 1927) is an American playwright The play you are about to see is semi-autobiographical, and screenwriter. He has written more than seventy plays and is the first play in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy:' The and screenplays, and has received more combined Oscar other two are Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound. This and Tony nominations than any other writer. Simon grew trilogy follows the life of one of Simon's most famous up in New York during the Great Depression. 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