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Original Choreography and Musical Staging by ARTHUR FARIA

Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations & Arrangements by LUTHER HENDERSON

Vocal & Musical Concepts by Musical Arrangements by JEFFREY GUTCHEON JEFFREY GUTCHEON & WILLIAM ELLIOT featuring DANIELLE LEE GREAVES KINGSLEY LEGGS LAVON FISHER-WILSON T. OLIVER REID DEBRA WALTON

Executive Artistic Director PAUL ALLAN Production Manager Casting Director BRIAN LOESCH Director of Operations MICHAEL BAKER & Technology Company Manager JEFF BELLANTE Director of Development Hampton Jitney’s service between the Tri-State Area and Florida is a stress free way BETHANY SORTMAN SCOT ALLAN to travel. You will ride to (or from) Florida aboard our motor coach, while we ship Costumes Scenic Design COSTUME WORLD Wig Design your car to your destination. MICHAEL BOYER TRENT PCENICNI Production Stage Manager Light snacks and beverages, and movies and music via headsets make this a most Lighting Design & SARAH L. PERLIN Musical Director enjoyable ride. Scenic Coordinator WILLIAM KNOWLES KIM HANSON Assitant Director & Choreographer Enjoy an overnight hotel stay en route, then arrive at your destination on the same JACLYN MILLER schedule as your car, where you can get in and drive away. Directed & Choreographed by Call 631.283.4600 ext. 343 or visit GERRY MCINTYRE HamptonJitney.com today Originally produced by The Manhattan Theatre Club Originally Produced on Broadway by Emanuel Azenberg, Dasha Epstein, The Shubert Organization, to schedule your next vacation. Jane Gaynor, and Ron Dante Ain’t Misbehavin’ is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. Transportation for your www.MTIshows.com Vehicle Only is also available! 8 SUMMER 2016 GATEWAY PLAYHOUSE 9 FROM BUSINESSES ON MAIN THE ER STREET TO YOUR FATS WA LL MUSI CAL FRIENDS DOWN CAST OF CHARACTERS THE STREET DANIELLE LEE GREAVES* KINGSLEY LEGGS* Working TOGETHER LAVON FISHER-WILSON* sets us apart. T. OLIVER REID* DEBRA WALTON*

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ORCHESTRA Music Director/Piano...... WILLIAM KNOWLES Bass...... PHILLIP BOWLER Drums...... NAPOLEON REVELS-BEY Trombone...... CLARENCE BANKS Trumpet...... ENDRE RICE Woodwinds...... ROBERT CARTEN

With community banking from Montauk to Manhattan, *Actors employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, Bridgehampton National Bank is committed to keeping the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. neighborhoods strong. One of New York’s fastest growing The Director/Choreographer is a member of the The Musicians employed in this production are Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, community banks, BNB works with our neighbors to help members of the American Federation of Musicians. Inc., an independent national labor union. others in need – so together, we all succeed.

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12 SUMMER 2016 GATEWAY PLAYHOUSE 13 LAVON FISHER-WILSON is thrilled to be making her WHO'S WHO Gateway Playhouse debut!!! Her credits include: Broadway: Newsies, Lysistrata Jones, Chicago, and The Color Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, Purple. National/ International Civic Light Opera South Bay (2 Ovation Award Tours: The Color Purple, Chicago, Blackbirds of Nominations) The MUNY, St. Louis Black Rep. TV: Broadway. Regional: Jelly’s Last Jam, Once on This “The Good Wife,” “Law and Order SVU,” “One Island, Crowns, Hairspray, etc. Movies: “Disney’s Life to Live,” and “City of Angels.” Teen Beach Movie” (Big Mama), T.V.: “Team Since 1985 Toon” (Iko’s Mom). Thanks to the Mom and T. OLIVER REID has been Husband Darrell for all of their support and my touring the country with his kids, Darrell Jr., Darrien, and DaVonna Wilson for one-man show, Drop Me being my best accomplishment yet!!! Off in Harlem, which won a Twitter@lavonfwilson or on my fan page Bistro Award for Outstanding Facebook@Lavon Fisher-Wilson. Theme Show; its New York engagements have included DANIELLE LEE GREAVES Lincoln Center’s Dizzy Club Coca-Cola, Birdland, Broadway: A Streetcar Named Feinstein’s/54 Below and the Metropolitan Room. Desire, Rent, Hairspray, Sunset He has also performed at the Town Hall, Lyrics Boulevard, Show Boat. National & Lyricists at 92Y and Lincoln Center’s Appel Tours: The Gershwins’ Porgy Room and Rose Hall. Among his other honors, and Bess, The Lion King, Rent, Tim received MAC Awards for Debut Artist- Regional: Vanya and Sonia and Male and Male Vocalist, and the Mabel Mercer Masha and Spike, All Shook Up, Ethel Waters – Foundation’s Julie Wilson Award. Tim made his His Eye is on the Sparrow, Caroline, or Change, Broadway debut in the revival of Kiss Me Kate, Swinging on a Star. Television: “Braindead,” and has since appeared in nine more musicals, “The Americans,” “Elementary,” “Show Me A including After Midnight, Sister Act and Mary Hero,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Smash,” “The Big C,” Poppins. He appeared at the New York City “Rescue Me,” “Damages,” “Whoopi,” “100 Center in Cotton Club Parade and Damn Yankees, Centre Street.” Voiceover: Grand Theft Auto: San and he was in the national tours of Guys and Andreas. Dolls and Once on This Island. Tim was seen in NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!,” and his other film and KINGSLEY LEGGS is very television credits include Jack and Diane, “Girls,” pleased to return to Gateway “Mercy,” “Sex and the City,” and Tony Awards where he appeared in and Kennedy Center Honors broadcasts. His Dreamgirls, The Full Monty, and website is toliverreid.com. Miss Saigon. Broadway: Sister Act (original company), The Color Purple (original company) NOTICE ABOUT PARKING: We strongly encourage and Miss Saigon. Touring: The Gershwin’s Porgy our patrons to always park on Gateway grounds. Parking and Bess (NAACP Theatre Award Nomination), is not allowed on Maplewood Drive north of the back Gateway exit. Parking is also prohibited on the east side Miss Saigon (Canada Asia, UK), Ragtime (Toronto, of the street (Gateway side). Observe the No Parking LA, Vancouver), It Ain’t Nothing but the Blues signs. The Village of Bellport has advised us that cars Architects (LA), Forbidden Hollywood (Chicago, Japan). parked in these areas will be ticketed. Please park on Regional credits include performances at Ford’s the west side of the street, opposite the Gateway fence, Landscape Architects Theatre, Main State Music Theatre, Fulton between the back exit and South Country Road. We Theatre, Baltimore Centerstage, North Shore appreciate your cooperation in making your visit to Engineers Music Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Alliance Gateway as pleasant as possible. Theatre, Goodman Theatre, 5th Avenue, Seattle Designing Award-winning Buildings, Spaces and Environments for Learning, Worshiping, Recreation and Performing! 14 SUMMER 2016 244 East Main Street , Patchogue, New York 11772  T(631) 475-0349  www.bbsarchitecture.com 20 Terry Street, Suite 121 CINEMA & Patchogue, NY 11772 (631) 438-0083 MEDIA ARTS A R TS CENTER www.plazamac.org

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RC: Was being a director something you always knew that do you keep the direction fresh? How do you keep yourself you wanted to do? And if not, what made you decide that from getting bored with the same libretto when you work you wanted to become a director in theater? on a production for long periods of time? DR: I was lucky and found theater early on. I didn’t know that DR: Being a Resident or Associate Director on a long running I wanted to be a director per se, but I knew I wanted to work show is tricky. You can't re-invent the wheel, but you are tasked behind the scenes. I actually wanted to be a lighting designer in with keeping performance 952 feeling as exciting as opening High School. I had a terrific theater program that allowed us to night. My approach to it involves a lot of conversation. I try to explore all aspects of theater and when it came time for me to keep the actors thinking about their characters - once they’re on direct, it made perfect sense to me. I realized that I just wanted autopilot we’re in trouble. To avoid that, I’ll change an intention my hand in everything. here or there which keeps everyone on their toes and I try to keep an open mind so the actors feel the freedom to change RC: Looking over your credits, you have never directed a line delivery. You can say a line a hundred different ways and Priscilla Queen of the Desert before. How do you prepare still tell the same story. Cast turnover is also helpful on a long yourself for directing a show that you’ve never directed run - especially on the shows I’ve worked on. On School of Rock, before? Laurence Connor, the director, isn’t interested in cookie cutter DR: I always try to find my way in - how do I connect to the story, replacements or understudies, so it gives me an opportunity to what do I find interesting about it, why should someone want to create a performance with someone new that will be different hear this story? What did it for me with Priscilla, was that beyond enough to get the rest of the cast thinking again. the party and the pop music, there was a very real, complex and relatable tale of three brave people on a journey to face their RC: You have had a lot of success recently, most notably fears. Tick is about face his son for the first time and is terrified of working as the Associate Director with Lord Andrew Lloyd being rejected; Bernadette, having just lost her partner, is facing Webber on School of Rock. But as many of us know, success a life alone; and Adam is trying to figure out how he fits in the is often built on failures. What obstacles did you have to world having spent his childhood being rejected by his family. overcome or personal failures did you have that helped to They’re universal stories made even more complex by the fact that launch your career to where it is today? our leads are drag queens for a living and Bernadette is an older DR: I’ve been really lucky, and the path I’m on has been relatively trans-gendered woman. The beauty of this story is that we can all smooth. I mean, the tiny size of the theater community is a huge relate to what they’re going through. obstacle in itself, but once you break in and you prove yourself, RC: Splashy and fun shows like School of Rock and Priscilla the work kind of manifests on its own. At least on the Associate Queen of the Desert have really great messages, but can Director track, which I’ve been on for the last several years. often be lost due to the nature of the shows. How do you Thankfully, I had a good foundation from my work at Gateway, direct your actors to help keep those messages resonating and some of my winter jobs in casting offices that made me with audiences, rather than getting lost behind the rock appealing on paper for someone my age when I was starting out. and roll, and glitzy glamour, respectively? Now, the next step is making the leap from Associate Director to Director, which I’m thrilled to be doing back home at Gateway. DR: The story is the most important thing to hang onto. If you’re just rocking out, if you’re just dancing around in drag, you’re RC: As you know, we have The Gateway: School for the dead. The audience wants to have a good time, but they also Performing Arts. Many of these students look up to want to be moved in some way. They can’t do that if they aren’t people like you and want to follow in that same direction. connecting with the actor, and they can’t connect with the actor What advice can you give them to have a career in the if he’s not telling his character’s story. performing arts and theater as a whole? RC: You were on the Phantom of the Opera Tour and have DR: Just keep doing it. If you love it and there’s nothing else been working on School of Rock for some time now. How you can think of to do, it will work out in some way. 18 SUMMER 2016 GATEWAY PLAYHOUSE 19 DEBRA WALTON Broadway & Off Broadway highlights include WHO'S WHO The Pajama Game, Storyville!, Continued from page 14... The Bubbly Black Girl and Cookin’ At the Cookery, The Life and SARAH L. 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