FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE GREG LONGENHAGEN, Artistic Director • JOHN MARTIN, Executive Director 2019-2020 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT
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FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE GREG LONGENHAGEN, Artistic Director • JOHN MARTIN, Executive Director 2019-2020 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT BOOK & LYRICS BY ROBERT L. FREEDMAN MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEVEN LUTVAK ORCHESTRATIONS BY JONATHAN TUNICK VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY DIANNE ADAMS MCDOWELL & STEVEN LUTVAK SPONSORED BY ELLIE FOX STARRING DAVID DARROW* • MARCUS STEVENS* • GAIL BENNETT* • ALEX MAY* • JAN NEUBERGER* WITH KYLIE GRAY MASK • CHRISSY ALBANESE • JON COOPER* SAMUEL FLOYD* • THOMAS HADZERIGA THE BAND VICTORIA CASELLA • MATT KOLLER • CLIFTON LEWIS • DAVID VALBUENA DIRECTED BY ensemble member JASON PARRISH** MUSIC DIRECTOR VICTORIA CASELLA CHOREOGRAPHER KYLE BRAND COSTUME DESIGNER SET DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER CHARLENE GROSS*** DAVID ARSENAULT*** TYLER M. PERRY*** SOUND DESIGNER/ENGINEER PRODUCTION STAGE KATIE LOWE MANAGER ASST. STAGE MANAGER JANINE WOCHNA* JOSHUA QUINN* PROJECTION DESIGNER ensemble member ROB SILER*** A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com Original Broadway Production Produced by Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, 50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhoda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy, Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley, Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/ Mano-Horn Productions, Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell, Michael T. Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick, And Green State Productions In association with The Hartford Stage and The Old Globe A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was developed, in part, at the 2006 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing Post-Lab Support through its initiative with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Any taping, filming, recording or broadcast of this play (musical or otherwise) is strictly prohibited 2019-20 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS IN THE KNOW. IN THE NOW. This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. ABOUT THE WRITERS ROBERT L. FREEDMAN (Book & Lyrics) won a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical for the Tony-winning Best Musical of 2014, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. He was also nominated for a Tony Award for Best Score, with composer and BOOK & LYRICS BY ROBERT L. FREEDMAN MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEVEN LUTVAK co-lyricist Steven Lutvak, with whom he shared the 2014 Drama Desk Award for Best Lyrics. Among his television career THE CAST highlights, Robert won the Writers Guild Monty Navarro..................................David Darrow* Award for HBO’s A Deadly Secret, and D’Ysquith Family..........................Marcus Stevens* was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Sibella Hallward...................................Gail Bennett* Writers Guild award for the miniseries Life Phoebe D’Ysquith.......................................Alex May* With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows. Miss Shingle/Woman 1............Jan Neuberger* Other teleplays include Rodgers and Woman 2............................................Kylie Gray Mask* Hammerstein’s Cinderella, for which he Woman 3........................................Chrissy Albanese* received a third Writers Guild nomination; Man 1..............................................................Jon Cooper* What Makes A Family, which received a Man 2.........................................................Samuel Floyd* GLAAD Award and for which Robert was a Man 3.............................................Thomas Hadzeriga Humanitas finalist; What Love Sees, winner of the Silver Plaque at the Chicago International THE ORCHESTRA: Television Festival; as well as the highly-rated Victoria Casella (Keyboard) true crime dramas Murder In The Hamptons, Matt Koller (Drums) • Clifton Lewis (Violin) David Valbuena (Clarinet) The Pastor’s Wife, Honor Thy Mother, and * Bitter Blood. In 2006, Freedman and Lutvak received both the Fred Ebb Award for TIME AND PLACE: songwriting and the Kleban Award for lyric London, 1909. writing for their work on the musicals A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and PRODUCTION STAFF: Production Assistants: Danica Murray, Rachel Van Pamel Campaign of the Century. Born and raised in Wardrobe Supervisor: Tony Toney Los Angeles, Robert has B.A. in Theatre from Wig Supervisor: Jasmine Harvey Wardrobe Crew: Andrew Burns, Jessica Lang UCLA and an M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing and Lighting/Sound Board Op: Jackson Berkhouse Musical Theatre from NYU’s Tisch School of Sound Engineer/A1: Katie Lowe the Arts. Robert is currently at work on a film A2: Ansley Gayton Run Crew: Keifer MacDonald for HBO and Sundance Films. He is married Dance Captain: Jon Cooper to actress Jean Kauffman, and they are the proud parents of Max Freedman, a writer Understudies: Thomas Hadzeriga (D’Ysquith Cover) Asher Van Meter (Monty & Male Ensemble Swing) and community activist living in Brooklyn. Bailey Cecile Tyler (Sibella/Woman 1) Bethany Mansfield (Woman 2 & 3) STEVEN LUTVAK (Music & Lyrics) made There will be one 15-minute intermission. his Broadway debut with his score to A Gentleman’s Guide to Love And Murder, The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. for which he supplied the music, and co- †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s wrote the lyrics with Robert L. Freedman. A Ensemble of Theatre Artists. Gentleman’s Guide won the Drama League, See page 31 for the entire ensemble. the Outer Critics Circle, the Drama Desk and the Tony Awards for Best Musical of 2014. * The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, Since its successful run of over two years the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. on Broadway, there have been two National Tours (the second of which is currently on ** the road), and productions have already been seen in Sweden, Japan, and the first Chinese language production opens this December. *** MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Overture............................................................................................................Orchestra A Warning to the Audience.....................................................................Ensemble You're a D'Ysquith..........................................................Miss Shingle and Monty I Don't Know What I'd Do................................................................................Sibella Foolish to Think....................................................................................................Monty A Warning to Monty....................................................................................Ensemble I Don't Understand the Poor..........................Lord Adalbert and Ensemble Foolish to Think (Reprise)...............................................................................Monty Poison in My Pocket..............................Monty, Asquith Jr., and Miss Barley Poor Monty..............................................................................Sibella and Company Better With a Man........................................................................Henry and Monty Inside Out......................................................................................Phoebe and Monty Lady Hyacinth Abroad.....................................Lady Hyacinth and Ensemble The Last One You'd Expect.....................................................................Company ACT TWO Entre'acte.........................................................................................................Orchestra Why Are All the D'Ysquiths Dying...............Lord Adalbert and Mourners Sibella.........................................................................................................................Monty I've Decided to Marry You...................................Phoebe, Sibella, and Monty Final Warning.................................................................................................Ensemble Poison in My Pocket (Reprise)......................................................................Monty Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun.............................................Lord Adalbert Stop! Wait! What?!...............................................................................................Monty That Horrible Woman......Sibella, Phoebe, Detective, Magistrate, Guard Finale...................................................................................................................Company WHO’S WHO CHRISSY ALBANESE Stage, Theatre Latte Da, Asolo Repertory Theatre, (Woman 3) Off-Broadway: Project Y Theater (Innovative Theater Award: Best PUFFS (Sally/Others). Featured Actor), and others. He has also written Favorite regional credits several musicals which have been produced or include Austen’s Pride developed at The NAMT Festival, Village