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G A SUBSCRIBER! 6 THE T D H Sherlock’s Last Case is only the beginning of a stellar lineup of plays for our 67th year of award- E N A U winning theater in Annapolis, and subscriptions are still available for the rest of the season. As a T O E R 67R E subscriber, you get the advantage of reduced ticket prices, are guaranteed your seating choices I N T H for the rest of the year, and won’t miss out on the array of music, drama, and comedy that will take us on a journey from England to New York to Boston and from the late Victorian era to 21st- century America. You can choose to buy tickets for four or six of the remaining productions. Information about season tickets is available in the lobby, online at thecolonialplayers.org or by calling 410-268-7373.

★ OCTOBER 16-31 is a memory play told by a narrator who relates the story of his parents' relationship over four decades from the 1950s to the 1980s. It focuses on the lives of side men - musicians who made their living playing gigs with headliners on tours and in recording sessions - at a time when rock and roll was edging out jazz and big band music. Side Man won a Tony Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Side Man contains strong language and mature themes.

★ NOVEMBER 20-DECEMBER 13 Morning's at Seven is a charming comedy set in the early 20th century and is the second in our series of classic American plays. Originally produced in 1938, it is a story of family relationships among four sisters, three husbands, and one son and his fiancée of 12 years. These are devoted and warm relationships complicated by unspoken longings, fears, and suspicions. The play has been revived twice on Broadway and won the 1980 Tony Award for best revival.

★ JANUARY 8-23 ’ Venus in Fur is a sexy and cerebral comedy about the encounter between a New York writer S holding auditions for his new play and a vulgar, disorganized actress late for her appointment. The play is based on an 1870 novel about sex and domination, and the audition becomes a game where power shifts repeatedly between the male and female characters. Venus in Fur was a Tony Award nominee for best play in 2010. The sexual themes and strong language in Venus in Fur are appropriate for mature audiences.

★ FEBRUARY 19-MARCH 12 Boeing Boeing, winner of the 2008 Tony Award for best revival, is a translation of a delightful French farce about an American who juggles his affairs with three fiancées. The play is set in 1960 before the movement to secure equal rights for women dramatically changed relationships between men and women. Complications arise when the three beautiful stewardesses, each SHERLOCK unaware of the others, arrive at Bernard’s apartment at the same time. ★ APRIL 8-MAY 8 The Secret Garden is an enchanting and haunting musical set in 1906 about an orphaned girl who comes from India to England to live in the unhappy household of her uncle. Slowly, she begins to put her troubles behind her and helps create a loving and caring family from the estranged occupants of her uncle’s house. With its extraordinarily beautiful music, this version of a classic children’s book won three in 1991 and was nominated for three others. LAST

★ JUNE 3-25 through Good People is a gritty drama told with warmth and humor about working class people who live in South Boston. It is filled with characters who, while struggling to make ends meet, CASE 2015 nevertheless resonate with integrity, tenderness, and humor. Good People was a Tony Award September 4 nominee for best play in 2011. September 26, 2015/ 2016 season - 12 - THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE PRODUCTION STAFF COLONIAL Is summer a chance for you to take time off? In Director...... Beth Terranova PLAYERS, theory, that’s what we do here at The Colonial Producer...... Barbara Marder Players. We don’t mount any full-scale Stage Manager...... Danny Brooks INC. productions, instead sending a friendly Stage Crew...... John Bell wave to our brethren sweatin’ it out in their Set Designer...... Beth Terranova 108 East Street • Annapolis, MD 21401 Compromise Street garden space. But in reality, Floor Designer, Floor and Scenic Painting...... Mary Butcher Telephone: 410-268-7373 things are as busy here in summer as the rest of the year. We did a lot of housecleaning Lead Carpenter...... Dick Whaley thecolonialplayers.org at our annex, and here on East Street, we Carpenters...... Tom Gross, Bernhard Mueller-Anderson, Bob Mumper, removed risers under the front row of seats Jim Robinson, Grant Thorpe, Ted Yablonski BOARD OF DIRECTORS in the A section, eliminating a safety hazard. Lighting Designer...... Alex Brady You won’t notice the new AC that cools our Corporate Officers: Lighting Assistants...... Frank Florentine, Cece Lasley, Eric Lund, Ernie Morton, lobby…, but you would have had we let it strain President...... Darice Clewell Bernhard Mueller-Anderson, Tom Stuckey much longer! Coming soon near the bottom Vice President...... Herb Elkin Sound Designer...... Theresa Riffle of the lobby staircase is a custom display Secretary...... Theresa Riffle Lighting / Sound Board Operators...... Elizabeth Bateman, Lyana Morton, Andy Serb case to house the sterling silver Ruby Griffith Treasurer...... Kaelynn Miller Award. Hearty congratulations to the entire Costume Designer...... Carrie Brady Directors: production team of The Liar, which brought Costume Assistant...... Regina Todd Artistic...... Mickey Lund home the grand prize! Properties Designer...... Constance Robinson Education & Special Projects...... Scott Nichols Set Decoration...... Constance Robinson, Edd Miller, Kaelynn Miller, Beth Terranova Human Resources...... Shirley Panek In June, our gift of $3500 to Annapolis's Set Painting...... Tom Stuckey Marketing ...... Timothy Sayles Creating Communities helped sponsor their Special Effects...... Eric Hufford, Bernhard Mueller-Anderson Arts Mentorship Academy, which brought Operations...... Wes Bedsworth Play Consultant...... Scott Nichols Production...... Jean Carroll Christie music, movement, and mirth to some 50 local kids. In July we hosted Mark Costello, winner Dialect Coach...... BettyAnn Leesberg-Lane of CP's Promising Playwright Contest, for a Program Design...... Harlequin Designs CP SPECIAL EVENTS workshop weekend bringing to life his witty Program Cover / Poster Design...... Drama Queen Graphics Season Sneak Peek and touching script, Kid Turboni Brings the Photography...... Colburn Images Summer One Act Festival Rain. Amidst all that, our directors have cast Program Editor...... Tom Stuckey Promising Playwright Contest and started rehearsing all three of the shows Program Assistant...... Nancy Long Post Show Talk Back that CP will bring to the stage prior to the Scholarship Award holidays this year. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Season Celebration Beth Whaley Series Now you know what we did last summer. Carol Smith • Beth Schmeltzer • Michael Robinson • John Robinson Welcome back as we usher in Season 67 at East Christie Tuznik • Kaelynn Miller • Nova Strings, Inc. For information on these events, contact: Street with the very talented, tenured, and Bob Kurz, Prodigy Instruments, www.prodigyinstruments.com [email protected] hard-working director, cast, and staff of Sherlock’s Last Case. They, in turn, will usher you to Baker Street, where the game is afoot! Professor James Moriarty, a criminal mastermind described by Sherlock FRONT OF HOUSE Holmes as “the Napoleon of crime,” was mentioned in only a few of Conan Box Office...... Lynda Cunningham - DARICE CLEWELL Doyle’s mysteries, but his name is indelibly linked with that of Doyle’s master Subscriptions...... Lynda Cunningham detective. Moriarty controlled and protected London’s underworld as would Mary Beth Yablonski a spider guarding its web. Holmes shut down Moriarty’s network of crime in Ushers...... Jeanie Mincher a story set in 1891. He and Watson traveled to Europe in an attempt to evade News & Cues Editor...... Beth Terranova LIKE US ON retribution, but Moriarty tracked Holmes to Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, Webmasters...... Wes Bedsworth where they violently struggled and plunged to their deaths. After three years, Anne Sharpe FACEBOOK! Holmes returned to Baker Street to reveal that he had survived the fall and had STAY UP-TO-DATE ON chosen to allow Dr. John Watson, and the world, to believe he had perished. WHAT'S GOING ON AT CP. - Theresa Riffle

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Carol Carman Frances Dryer I love detective fiction, especially with a good at what they signed on to do, then pick up the Thank you for your support. Your generous Mr. & Mrs. Brian Hanks Skip & Midge Eastman plot twist. Taking on a show that is both an slack and close the gaps to make it all happen. gifts help us to continue to provide educa- Robert & Janet Downey Mr. & Mrs. Robert Gavazzi example and a send-up of one of the greatest Sherlock and I owe thanks to a bunch of these tional and training programs, encourage- Carol & Joe Friend Jeff & Carol Goldring literary detectives of all time seemed like an volunteers: to my hard-working cast who put ment and entertainment to all who are Frank & Verna Galloway Sue & Nelson Goodman intriguing challenge last March… But for much up with…a lot; to a great staff and design team interested in dramatic arts. Ellen & Wes Gardner Natalie Green & Tim Heiks of the summer, the biggest mystery to me was Barbara, Brady, Carrie, Connie, Danny, Eric, Cynthia G. Garn Alice Riley Hall Mike & JoAnn Gidos Elizabeth Hepler how I got talked into directing a show with John, and Theresa; also to Bernhard, Mary and Tom G who showed up kinda out of nowhere LIFE MEMBERS Ed & Carolyn Cohee Valerie Gutterson Karen Hirakawa production challenges galore at a time of year Fred & Susan Eckert Dr. Ross & Patricia Heisman Elia & John Howser when (plot twist!) pretty much everyone took just when I really needed the help; and to all Cdr. William R. Curtis Dr. Stephen Lisa & Richard Hillman Emily Joyce off for vacation and my promised “all summer those other folks you’ll see listed as “Production Fred & Paula Fishback & Christine Killian Deborah Hoffman Eugenia Conlin Judge in the theater” got whittled down by three Staff” who helped us get the show from page Richard Gessner Alice Kurs Dianne & Duncan Hood Lynn Landon special projects and one emergency repair. to stage. And special thanks to Scott, who went & Chris Beaton Sally Larson Helena & Bill Hunter Jane Lunney Robert Giddings above and beyond to hold things – and me! – Lynne & Steve Malley Robert Hyers Patricia A. Lynch Bill & Peggy Griswold What is not a mystery is how we managed to together. Lois & Noel Milan Rebecca Jones Anonymous Daniel G. Higgs put on a show despite all. Nothing frustrates Anne & Manfred Muecke Bernard & Hannah Kaufman Elizabeth & Leon McKenzie Judi Hilton-Hyde me more than to hear the well-meant Sherlock family: I raise my glass of Chateauneuf- Sharry & Don Reed Sally A. Laing Para & Miller Families Frank McLane Hyde Sandra Sundeen David & Katherine Larrabee Susan Millman “encouragement”: “Oh it will come together du-Pape 1798 to you all! Irene E. Norton D. Romaine Towers Helen Fisher Leitch Bill & Priscilla Mitchell – it always does.” Shows do not just “come Ronald Powell Dr. Stephan Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Liddick Jack & Vesta Phiel together.” Shows happen because a handful – BETH TERRANOVA Dr. & Mrs. James W. Ross & Tamara Tymkiw Barbara Marder Edward & Marcia Price of crazy, dedicated volunteers work like mad Col. USMC (Ret.) Catherine & Dick Whaley Mr. & Mrs. Henry L. Mortimer Sandy & Ken Reinhard & Mrs. Richard W. Smith Virginia & Chris White Pam & Ted Mussenden Faye & Bernie Rosenberg Allan Starkey Carol Youmans Things, Inc. Beth Shoults Mrs. Benjamin B. Wills, Jr. ABOUT THE DIRECTOR Sandy & Phil Ourisson Madeleine Tierney DESIGNERS PRODUCERS Edgar & Jeanne Paglee Dr. & Mrs. William A fan of police and legal to producer, stage manager, and set designer Richard & Amy Atha-Nicholls Dan & Joan Placido & Joanne Trepp procedurals, BETH TERRANOVA credits, she is often sought as a costume Anonymous Pat & Karen Brown Maureen & Ken Reightler Sharie Lacey Valerio was intrigued with the idea of designer and earned WATCH nominations for her Bill & Susan Allen Mal & June Fordham Carolyn Rhoads Joan & Bill Weingartner using her directorial skills to costume designs for Cinderella Waltz and Going Col. USA (Ret.) Fred Doris Gomoljak John & Constance Robinson Brian & Sue Whaley & Donna Arquilla solve Sherlock’s Last Case in to St. Ives. On stage, Beth was most recently Frederick & Anne Hallett Helena & Joseph Scher Carvel & Margaret Wolfe Wes Bedsworth her 37th venture with Colonial seen at CP as Aunt March in Little Women and Tylar & Carol Ann Hecht Joyce & Charles Shue & Kaelynn Miller John & Judith Youngblood Players. For CP, Beth previously directed 1776, as Ellen in Two Rooms, which earned her a Michael J. Keller Irwin Silber Tim Brown Linda & Roger Lark Dennis & Maureen Sullivan She Loves Me!, One Act Festival favorites Star WATCH nomination for featured actress. Beth Cardinal Engineering Dan & Nancy Long Carol & Allen Sures Crossed and Fin and Euba, and the highly also serves on a number of CP committees James W. Cheevers Joyce C. Miller Philip Tawes acclaimed courtroom drama Hauptmann, for and currently produces CP’s “News and Cues” Meg Hosmer Thea B. Pinskey Pat & Stephen Troy which she received the 2008 Washington Area newsletter. In all, Beth has pursued her interest Gary & Janice Jobson Steve Collins Carolyn Wells Theater Community Honors (WATCH) award for in theater on stage, backstage, and behind the Nancy Morgan Jim & Charlotte Robinson Elizabeth Wilson Michael & Sage Mumma outstanding director. Other favorite directing scenes for over 40 years in four states and two Marcia G. Sandground Dr. Jim & Gail Wise David & Patricia Mutschler jobs include The Diary of Anne Frank (Dignity countries. By day, Beth is a program analyst Earl & Michele Schaffer Karen & John Wright Eleanor Perfetto Players), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Annapolis for the Navy’s Enterprise Business Solutions Francis & Maureen Wright & John McLeod Judy & Jack Schuyler Summer Garden Theatre), A House Full of Fish Program, where her left brain gets a workout. To Joan & Rolph Townshend Richard & Mary Rea (Playwrights’ Workshop, Cocoa Beach, FL), and balance that, she is thankful for the right brain Judith Vandever PATRONS Colonial Players Bob Sherer Jennifer Abner Take Five William & Gazella Weigand gratefully ac- (Phoenix Youth Theater, Melbourne, exercises that theater provides. Then, of course, Con & Donna Silard Barbara E. Aisley Mary Beth & Ted Yablonski knowledges the FL). Beth has numerous other credits at CP. there is a show like Sherlock’s Last Case, which Karen M. Whaley Meredith Allison She most recently produced the iconic military affords ample opportunity for both sides of the & James J. Magner generous bequest Timm & Kathleen Anderson John & Judith Wobensmith SPONSORS from Roland Riley, legal drama, A Few Good Men, which earned brain. After this, Beth’s brain is taking a well- Pamela Brune a WATCH nomination for best play. In addition deserved rest! Jim & Judy Barrowman Pat & Bill Cameron a longtime patron DIRECTORS Charles & Mary-Jo Bedsworth Alice Chambers whose gift helps Dr. C. D. Allen Mary Evelyn Bell Dianne Crews assure the future Don & Lucy Arthur Dr. Michael & Ellen Berger Hemingway economic viability Dr. & Mrs. James H. Babcock Nick & Janet Berry Al & Pat Crosby of our theater. Pat & Jim Church Bill Brewer & Collot Guerard Richard Davis

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NICK BESCHEN and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) short plays, producer for These Shining Lives, Comedy. Theresa is the Secretary on the CP (Dr. Watson) in London. He is thrilled to be performing in a and director of Taking Steps. Barbara retired as Board of Directors and the co-chair of the CP Nick has worked with Colonial light-hearted play that the entire family can see! chairman of Performing Arts at Anne Arundel Archives Project Team. She would like to thank Players since 1990, and he says: Community College, where she directed a Beth for asking her to be part of this fantastic “With each show I get to meet ERIN LEIGH HILL large variety of plays and musicals over a 35- production, and, as always, she sends a big new people and work with old (Liza Moriarty) year career. Additionally, she has served as an thank you to Jem and Josh for their boundless friends. I worked with Jim Gallagher 17 years Erin is happy to be back on the adjudicator for the American College Theatre love and support. ago in Cabaret and Morey Norkin 25 years Colonial stage in Sherlock's Last Festival for many years, as a board member of ago in Catch Me If You Can. That’s what is so Case. She was last seen as Lt. the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, CONSTANCE ROBINSON wonderful about theater, it’s like family, only Commander Jo Galloway in A and for several years as a theater panelist for (Properties Designer) better!” This will be Nick's third production with Few Good Men. Erin has enjoyed performing the Maryland State Arts Council. Currently she In past years, Connie has Beth Terranova, and he sends a HUGE thank you on the CP stage for the past five years. Previous is again reviewing theater companies for the volunteered as marketing to Beth and Scott for their tremendous support credits include Alais (Lion in Winter), Babs (Mrs. Maryland State Arts Council and enjoys working assistant and graphic designer and encouragement!!! When not on stage, California), and Mrs. Daldry (In the Next Room). part time as a standard patient/role player for for Colonial Players in addition to Nick runs a home improvement business in She also starred in and was nominated for a local medical schools. manning the phone at the box office. She is a new Annapolis. Nick would like to thank his beloved WATCH award for her performance as Sara in volunteer for the current Marketing Committee. Leigh for all her love and support, and he Earth and Sky. Erin extends a heartfelt thanks to THERESA RIFFLE Connie was properties designer for Collected sincerely hopes you enjoy the show!! a great cast and crew, especially her good friend (Sound Designer) Stories at Dignity Players. At Colonial Players, she and mentor, Beth Terranova. Erin's favorite role After serving as sound designer enjoyed collecting props for In The Next Room, JIM GALLAGHER to date is simply "mommy" to her beautiful little for Coyote on a Fence (WATCH Or The Vibrator Play (for which she received (Sherlock Holmes) girl, Teagan. Everything she does is and always Award winner) and as assistant a WATCH nomination), Annie, Rocket Man, A Jim has been acting at Colonial will be to make her smile. director and sound designer Christmas Carol, and Watch on the Rhine. She Players since 1989. His first for A Few Good Men, Theresa is excited to be also was set decorator and properties designer performance was as Dr. Treves in AIDEN JACOBS working with this fabulous production staff, for Dead Man's Cell Phone. Connie thanks her , and his most (Holmes Look-Alike) cast, crew, and dear friends. As an actor, she husband, John, for his prop modifications and recent performance was as Howie in Aiden, a recent transplant from was last seen on the CP stage as Sara Mueller in support. She also thanks her son, Michael, for in 2008. Other CP productions include Hogan’s "the mother country," is excited Watch on the Rhine. You also may have seen her transporting the very heavy vintage barber chair Goat (2000), The Zoo Story (1999 Regional to be making his Annapolis debut at CP as Anna Hauptmann in Hauptmann, Evelyn from Leesburg, VA for this show. Award Winner), Cabaret (1998), Prelude to a with Colonial Players and thanks in Kindertransport, or Phoebe in Romantic Kiss (1993), The Boys Next Door (1992), Anne his girlfriend, Irene, for urging him to audition. of the Thousand Days (1991), and (1990). Other acting credits include Death CASEY LEE Trap, Betrayal, Oleanna, and The Foursome at (Damion Moriarty) the Bay Theatre Company; Art, Doubt, Blue/ A military brat, Casey has had the Sherlock Holmes owned a Stradivarius violin and was an accomplished violinist Orange, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of opportunity to perform on stages and a music aficionado. His musical tastes were eclectic, just as you might Oscar Wilde, and The Laramie Project at Dignity in three countries. Currently a expect from the Great Detective. Musical references were strewn throughout Players; Pericles, A Streetcar Named Desire, staff member at the National the Conan Doyle stories. Through Dr. Watson’s accounts, Holmes expressed his , and The Cripple of Inishmaan Cryptologic Museum at Fort George G. Meade, appreciation of the music of Chopin, Sarasate, Paganini, and Wagner. Holmes for Theatre Hopkins; and Twelfth Night at The MD, Casey could not resist the opportunity to had studied the motets of Lassus and had composed a monograph on the Shakespeare Theatre. Jim also directed Colonial match wits with (arguably) the greatest crime subject, which was considered the final authority on the topic. Dr. John Watson Player’s productions of Frozen (2010), Jacques solver of all time! Casey enjoys the theater enjoyed the music of Offenbach as well as the popular music of the period. Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1999), classes and productions at Montgomery College, He would often ask Holmes to play some of his favorites. If you listen carefully (1996), and Rebel Armies Deep where he is a part time student. Favorite roles throughout this production, you will hear representative works of these Into Chad (1993). He will be directing Venus in include Federigo in Servant of Two Masters and composers, as well as some musical nods to current detective procedurals and Fur for CP in January 2016. Jim trained at The Inspector Doppler in . Sherlock Holmes adaptations. Shakespeare Theatre and Studio Theatre in D.C., - Theresa Riffle

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ALEX BRADY MARY BUTCHER MOREY NORKIN LISA KB RATH (Lighting Designer) (Floor Designer/Floor and (Inspector Lestrade) (Mrs. Hudson) Alex has been designing lighting Scenic Painting) Morey is excited to return to Lisa enjoys languages, so she in Annapolis and Baltimore since Mary comes to us from Colonial Players’ stage. Morey’s is delighted to add a Scottish 2002. Over the last 15 years, he Charlottesville, VA, where she last performance here was brogue to her bag of tricks. She has worked with such diverse spent five years working with in 2010 as Marley’s Ghost in earned a BFA degree in Theatre companies as Everyman Theatre, Colonial nonprofit volunteer theaters designing, building, A Christmas Carol. He most recently (2012) Performance from Denison University and has Players, Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre, and painting sets. She has an undergraduate appeared as Yvan in the Bowie Community performed for Maryland Hall Story Theatre, the AACC Dance Company, and many high degree in Architecture and a Masters in Urban Theater production of Art. Prior to that, Take One Video, and voiceover series work for schools and colleges. His recent lighting design and Environmental Planning from the University Morey made frequent on-stage appearances Lippincott and McGraw-Hill. Past performances credits include The Liar and These Shining Lives of Virginia. She's looking forward to becoming in Annapolis from the late ‘70s to the mid-90s at Colonial Players include The Curious Savage at Colonial Players, Oliver! at St. Mary's High part of the Colonial Players family! at Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre and and Improvisation or The Shepherd's Chameleon. School, Lord of the Flies at Severn School, and Annapolis Theater Project as well as Colonial With Dignity Players, Lisa performed in the Spring Migration 2015 with the AACC Dance BETTYANN LEESBERG-LANE Players. Favorite roles/shows have included premiere of Bloodlines. Her company, At Your Company. Alex is a proud alumnus of the (Dialect Coach) The Foreigner (Ellard), (Felix), Service Annapolis, provides concierge services Graduate Institute of St. John's College and BettyAnn serves as dialect coach Oliver! (Fagin), Can-Can (Boris), Wenceslaus to help individuals, visitors, and companies. also teaches for the Humanities Department for many professional theaters Square (Vince), The Ghost Writer (Shakespeare), Lisa's fine art photography has been accepted at Anne Arundel Community College. In his in the Baltimore/DC area. She The Dining Room (ensemble), Anything into juried competitions and galleries and is spare time, he enjoys studying and fighting with last worked with The Colonial Goes (Sir Evelyn), and Catch Me If You Can currently on display in Arterie Fine Art Gallery several medieval and colonial weapons systems, Players on The Unexpected Guest. She will be (Inspector Levine). Morey previously served as (Naperville, IL) and The Honey Hive (Edgewater, including the longsword, the sword and buckler, dialect coaching for Studio Theatre's production vice president of Annapolis Summer Garden MD). Her photography sites are LisaRath.com and the dueling saber. of Chimerica going up soon. BettyAnn was Theatre. Morey is a technical writer and works and Facebook: Lisa Rath Photography. Special dialect coach for HBO's The Wire as well as a proposal manager for AT&T. He enjoys his thanks to her personal cheerleading team: her CARRIE BRADY as Howard Stern. In her coaching business, semi-retirement from the stage spending time husband, Roger Rath, and her children, Taylor, (Costume Designer) Talking Well Consulting, LLC, BettyAnn works with his wife, Yukiko, and their cat, Hotaru. Emma, Connor, and Hayley Gilbert. Carrie is working with Colonial kinesiologically with internationals to clarify Players for the first time. their speech but keep their ethnicity. BettyAnn ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT Previously, she has costumed retired as Associate Chair of the Drama for Spirited Productions and the Department of Catholic University of America. CHARLES MAROWITZ was an American Open Space Theatre’s 1974 season. He set to Moonlight Troupers, covering shows such as The She is one of the earliest members and former playwright, theater director, and critic who work writing and, in just 14 days, completed a Appeal, Twelfth Night, and Ragtime. From time president of the Voice and Speech Trainers was best known for his theatrical endeavors 90-minute script in time for an opening on July to time, Carrie enjoys helping out at her alma Association, an international organization for in England. In London, he was artistic director 24. He expanded it to a full-length play when mater, St. Mary's High School Drama Club, with speech professionals. of the Open Space Theatre, where Sherlock’s approached by a Broadway producer about set construction and costumes. She would like Last Case was born. Marowitz had been bringing it to the U.S. It opened on Broadway to thank everyone who has helped out so much BARBARA MARDER mulling an idea for a new play about Sherlock on Aug. 20, 1987 after a tryout in Washington at with this show. (Producer) Holmes when a cancellation left a hole in the the Kennedy Center. Barbara has been associated DANNY BROOKS with Colonial Players for more ABOUT OUR NEXT PLAY (Stage Manager) than 25 years. She has served on Danny usually appears on the board as Education/ Special Our October production, Side Man, was a big by Glimmer’s son, scenes alternate between stage, but he is no stranger to Projects Director, as a play director, and on a winner of top prizes for American playwriting the family’s dowdy New York City apartment stage managing. He has acted variety of committees, including Play Selection in 1999, winning the Tony Award for Best Play and the smoky jazz clubs of an earlier era in an and stage managed at CP for and Promising Playwrights Play Selection. Last and both the Outer Critics Circle and Drama evocative and explosive examination of Gene’s Beth and is happy to be working with her season, she served as producer for The Liar, Desk awards for Outstanding New Play. It was tumultuous marriage to his alcoholic wife and again. Thanks to her, the cast and crew, and winner of the 2015 Ruby Griffith Award for best a finalist for a . Warren his relationships with his musician friends. Side everyone else who has worked to make this all-around production. Other projects in recent Leight’s play focuses on Gene Glimmer, a Man runs from Oct. 16-31 with performances show a success. years have involved play consultant for several talented jazz trumpeter, and a group of friends Thursday through Sunday. Side Man contains who eke out a living floating from gig to gig strong language and mature themes. while dreaming of hitting the big time. Narrated

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THE COLONIAL PLAYERS, INC. presents

Written by CHARLES MAROWITZ

Directed by BETH TERRANOVA

THE CAST TIME (in order of appearance) September, 1897 Dr. Watson...... Nick Beschen PLACE Sherlock Holmes...... Jim Gallagher Victorian London, England Mrs. Hudson...... Lisa KB Rath ACT I Liza Moriarty...... Erin Leigh Hill Scene 1: The Baker Street Flat Inspector Lestrade...... Morey Norkin Scene 2: The Baker Street Flat Scene 3: The Baker Street Flat Holmes Look-Alike...... Aiden Jacobs Scene 4: A Cellar Damion Moriarty...... Casey Lee ACT II Scene 1: The Baker Street Flat Scene 2: A Cellar Scene 3: The Baker Street Flat

There will be one intermission between Act I and Act II.

Produced by Special Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Taking photographs and using any recording devices are strictly prohibited. Smoking is prohibited throughout the building.

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