DIFFERENT STAGES’ REPERTORY Begun as Small Potatoes Theatrical Company 1981: August Strindberg’s Creditors and The Stronger. 1982: William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 1983: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida; Anton Chekhov’s The Brute, Swan Song, and Celebration. 1984: Luigi Pirandello’s Right You Are (If You Think You Are); Jane Martin’s Talking With… 1985: Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9; William Shakespeare’s As You Like It; Carl Sternheim’s The Underpants; Michael Weller’s Moonchildren. 1986: Amlin Gray’s How I Got That Story; William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale; Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Ho- rizon. 1987: Michael Weller’s Loose Ends; Aristophanes’ The Wasps; Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart; Arthur Schnitzler’s Anatol. 1988: Wallace Shawn’s Aunt Dan and Lemon; Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood; Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky; Jean Racine’s Phaedra; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Misanthrope. 1989: Caryl Churchill’s Fen; Charles Ludlam’s The Artificial Jungle; William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. 1990: Eric Overmeyer’s On the Verge; Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Milan Kundera’s Jacques and His Master; Tom White’s The Trouble with Tofu; William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. 1991: George Kelly’s The Show-Off; George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Keith Reddin’s Life and Limb; Mozart/Lorenzo da Pon- te’s Così fan Tutte; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Learnèd Ladies. 1992: Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind; Carlo Gozzi’s The Raven; Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck; Charles MacArthur’s Johnny on a Spot; George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer. 1993: Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good; Charles Ludlam’s The Secret Lives of the Sexists; Tennessee Williams’ Orpheus Descend- ing. 1994: Constance Congdon’s Tales of the Lost Formicans; William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline; George M. Cohan’s The Tavern; Marlayne Meyer’s Etta Jenks. 1995: Pierre Marivaux’s The Tri- umph of Love; Tom Stoppard’s Travesties; Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me; Alexander Ostro- vsky’s The Diary of a Scoundrel. 1996: Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest; Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee; William Congreve’s The Way of the World. 1997: Terrence McNally’s A Perfect Ganesh; Dorothy Parker’s Here We Are; Alan Ayckbourn’s Drinking Companion; Terrence McNally’s Noon; George M. Cohan’s Seven Keys to Baldpate; Sean O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock. 1998: Tom Stop- pard’s Arcadia; Aeschylus’ Agamemnon; Giles Havergal’s Travels with my Aunt; Arthur Miller’s All My Sons. 1999: Edit Villareal’s My Visits with MGM; Jean-Baptiste Molière’s The Hypochondriac (tr. Martin Sorrel); Edward Percy and Reginald Denham’s Ladies in Retirement; Anton Chek- hov’s Uncle Vanya. 2000: Peter Parnell’s The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket; Ann Ciccolella’s Fruits and Vegetables; George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly’s Merton of the Movies; Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan. 2001: Milcha Sanchez-Scott’s Roosters; George Bernard Different Stages Presents W. Somerset Maugham’s Shaw’s The Devil’s Disciple; J. B. Priestly’s Dangerous Corner; Tennessee Williams’ Summer and Smoke. 2002: Ann Ciccolella’s Madame X; David Linsay-Abaire’s Fuddy Meers; Agatha Christie’s The Unexpected Guest; Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba. 2003: Christopher Too Many Husbands Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation; Horton Foote’s The Traveling Lady, William Shakespeare’s •❦• Two Gentlemen of Verona; Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband. 2004: John Patrick’s The Hasty Heart; Tom White’s The Misses Overbeck; Brian Friel’s Molly Sweeney, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man. 2005:William Shakespeare’s Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Edit Villareal’s Marriage is Forever; June 24 – July 16, 2011 Agatha Christie’s Appointment with Death; John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western The Vortex, 2307 Manor Blvd World. 2006: Two into War (The Gifts of War and The Retreating World); Amy Freed’s The Beard Thursday – Saturday 8 PM, Sunday 7 PM of Avon; Agatha Christie’s The Hollow; Christopher Durang’s Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas “Pick your Price: $15, $20, $25, $30” Binge. 2007: Edward Albee’s The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Peter Shaffer’s Lettice and Lovage, W. For tickets and information call 478-5282 Sommerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife. 2008: Tennessee Williams’ Garden District: Something Unspoken & Suddenly Last Summer, Diana Son’s Stop Kiss; Tom White’s What I Want Right Now; George Bernard Shaw’s Getting Married. 2009: Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon; Caryle Churchill’s A Number; J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls; Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth; 2010: Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice; Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children; Agatha Christie’s Spider’s Web; Paul Osborn’s Morning’s at Seven; Charlotte Jones’ Humble Boy; Tennessee Williams’ The Night of the Iguana Different Stages presents FUNDING AND DONATIONS

Too Many Husbands This project is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural by W. Somerset Maugham Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from Director...... Norman Blumensaadt the National Endowment for the Arts, which Assistant Director...... Nikki Zook, Phoebe Greene believes that a great nation deserves great art. Stage Manager...... Josey Logan Set Design...... Elaine Jacobs Light Design...... Patrick Anthony Costume Design...... Tiffany Harris Director Level $5000+ The City of Austin CHARACTERS AND CAST Actor Level $1000 - $5000 Victoria, a dear little thing...... Martina Ohlhauser Karen Jambon & Jennifer Underwood, Miss Dennis, a manicurist...... Amy Lewis Jack Grimes, Ameriprise Financial Taylor, a parlor maid...... Phoebe Greene Mrs. Shuttleworth, a mother-in-law...... Lydia Blanco Stage Manager Level $500-$999 Mr. Leicester Patton, a wangler...... Tony Salinas Frederick Lowndes, a hero...... Joe Hartman Craig Kanne, AMD Foundation/Paul Arndt William Cardew, another hero...... Brian Villalobos Nannie, a nurse...... Ashley McNerney Designer Level $250-$499 Mrs. Pogson, a respectable woman...... Paula Ruth Gilbert Irene Dubberly, Sarah & David Seaton, Royce Gehrels, Bruce Mr. A.B. Raham, a solicitor...... Philip Cole McCann, Emily and Kent Erington, Connie McMillan, Harvey Miss Montmorencey, a maiden lady...... Julie Winston-Thomas Guion, Ann Bower Clarence, a boy...... Wade Belew Stage Hand Level $100-$249 The action of the play takes place at Victoria’s house in Steven Kinslow, Diane Herrera, John & Betty Wood, Andy & Westminster, towards the end of November, 1918. Renee Brown, Roy & Leona Kaskin, Annette Sherman, Keith Yawn, Pamela Bates, Marla Boye, Melanie & Travis Dean, The ACT ONE Pfizer Foundation, Bonnie & Frank Cahill, Tom White, David Victoria’s bedroom Smith, Paula & Bill Kemp, Anonymous.

Intermission Audience Level $20-$99 ACT TWO Mary Alice Carnes, Patricia Bennett, Cade & Al Minder, Ger- ald Moore, Paula Gilbert, Richard Collins, Kelly Slupek, Cecilia The drawing room at Victoria’s house Berg, Rebecca Robinson, Reba Gillman, Charles Ramirez Berg, Intermission Dianne & Donna Le Roy, Richard Collins, Miriam & Larry Ru- bin ACT THREE The kitchen In-Kind Donations Mary Alice Carnes, Sarah Seaton PRODUCTION STAFF ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Light/Sound Operator...... Adrian Arriaga William Somerset Maugham was born in the British Embassy in Paris, France on Set Construction...... Ann Marie Gordon, Michael Coslett, January 25, 1874, where his father, Robert Ormond Maugham, a wealthy solicitor, ...... Charlie Saenz, Wade Belew, Thursday worked. By the age of ten, both William’s parents were dead and he was sent to live Properties...... Norman Blumensaadt with his uncle, the Rev. Henry Maugham, in Whitstable, Kent. Webmaster...... Martina Ohlhauser After an education at King’s School, Canterbury, and Heildelberg University in Photography...... Bret Brookshire Germany, Maugham became a medical student at St. Thomas Hospital, London. Program Design...... Emily Erington While training to be a doctor Maugham worked as an obstetric clerk in the slums Publicity...... Carol Ginn, Norman Blumensaadt, Martina Olhauser of Lambeth. He used these experiences to help him write his first novel, Liza of Lambeth (1897). ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND SPECIAL THANKS The book sold well and he decided to abandon medicine and become a full-time Lorella Loftus, Douglas Kelly, Zimmer, Bonnie Collum, Phoebe Greene, Elaine Ja- writer. Maugham achieved fame with his play Lady Frederick (1907), a comedy about cobs, Paula Gilbert, Dougherty Arts Center, Austin Creative Alliance, Nikki Zook, money and marriage. By 1908 Maugham had four plays running simultaneously in Carol Ginn, Jeff Miller - Acorn Design, LLC, and The University of Alabama London. Department of Theatre On the outbreak of World War I, Maugham, now aged forty, joined a Red Cross ambulance unit in France. While serving on the Western Front he met the 22 year ABOUT DIFFERENT STAGES old American, Gerald Haxton. The two men became lovers and lived together for Different Stages, Inc. has been a community-based organization since its incep- the next thirty years. During the war Maugham was invited by Sir John Wallinger, tion in 1981 and incorporation in 1984. It produces works by playwrights whom head of Britain’s Military Intelligence (MI6) in France, to act as a secret service we believe to be defining forces in theatre. We seek to entertain with- perfor agent. Maugham agreed and over the next few years acted as a link between MI6 in mances that reveal life in all its comedy, tragedy and intensity; and we hope to London and its agents working in Europe. educate by choosing plays that provide exceptional insight into the human con- Maugham had sexual relationships with both men and women and in 1915, Syrie dition. By challenging ourselves as artists, and our audiences as participants, Wellcome, the daughter of Dr. Thomas Barnardo, gave birth to his child. Her we endeavor to provide the community with vigorous and exciting live theatre. husband, Henry Wellcome, cited Maugham as co-respondent in divorce proceed- ings. After the divorce in 1916, Maugham married Syrie but continued to live with Producing Artistic Director Gerald Haxton Norman Blumensaadt During the war, Maugham’s best-known novel, Of Human Bondage (1915) was pub- lished. This was followed by another successful book, The Moon and Sixpence (1919). Board of Directors Maugham also developed a reputation as a fine short-story writer, one story, Rain, Karen Jambon, T.J. Moreno, Norman Blumensaadt which appeared in The Trembling of a Leaf (1921), was also turned into a success- ful feature film. Popular plays written by Maugham include The Circle (1921), East Operating Board of Suez (1922), The Constant Wife (1926) and the anti-war play, For Services Rendered Norman Blumensaadt, Sarah Seaton, Royce Gehrels, Paula Ruth Gilbert (1932). In his later years Maugham wrote his autobiography, Summing Up (1938) and works of fiction such asThe Razor’s Edge (1945), Catalina (1948) and Quartet (1949). William Somerset Maugham died in 1965. CAST BIOGRAPHIES JOSEY LOGAN (Stage Manager) has been involved with theatre in the Austin WADE BELEW (Clarence) was born in Austin and has also lived in Hawaii, area for five years now. This is her first show at The Vortex and with Different Dallas, and Lockhart. He went to Blinn Jr. College in Brenham Texas. When he Stages. Stage managing Too Many Husbands has been a very fun and educational attended Blinn he was in Miss Nelson is Missing, Good Women of Setzuan, Little Shop experience.She hopes to continue with her involvement in theatre for many years of Horrors, and Aladdin or the Wonderful Scamp. He would like to thank his family, to come. friends, and mentors though this process NIKKI ZOOK (Assistant Director) is excited to be working with Different Stages LYDIA BLANCO (Mrs Shuttleworth) was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico again. Last summer, she played Clarissa in Spider’s Web (B. Iden Payne nomination). and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas. Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Texas This is the second time she has served as Norman’s assistant director. The first was A&M University – Corpus Christi where she studied Theater, Television, and Film. on Getting Married. Her directing credits include a scene from Austin Shakespeare After graduating from college, she made herself at home in the Austin market Festival’s Will Power: Your Imaginary Forces and short plays in three incarnations of where she began her on-camera career in such independent films as The Right Girl Loaded Gun Theory’s Slapdash Flimflammery. Nikki has appeared on stage in many and Beyond Words. She was also honored with a B. Iden Payne nomination for best productions for numerous theatre companies in and around Austin. Some of her leading actress for her work in My Visits with MGM. Shortly after moving to Los most cherished roles include Feste in Twelfth Night (Austin Critics Table win), Dr. Angeles in 2001, she began a successful television and film career. She has been Sarah King in Appointment with Death (Austin Critics Table win), Pegeen Mike in The fortunate enough to work with Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks in The Terminal; Playboy of the Western World (B. Iden Payne nomination), and Tiny Tim in Mrs. Bob Kate Winslet and Jack Black in Nancy Meyer’s film The Holiday; as well as Mark Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge. Nikki would like to thank her family for their never- Ruffalo in his directorial debut in Sympathy for Delicious. Most currently, she worked ending love and support, and the cast and crew for making this so much fun! with Ivan Reitman in his filmNo Strings with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. Most notable television roles include Prison Break, Southland, Desperate Housewives, Better Off Ted, Monk and The Shield, to name a few. She is most recognized for her role as Maria, Larry David’s housekeeper, in HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Different Stages 2011 - 2012 Season PHILIP COLE (Mr. A.B. Raham) got his start at Second City in Chicago. In ad- dition, he appeared in several productions with the Loop Players, as Stanley Kowal- ski in A Streetcar Named Desire and as Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit. Locally, he Well has performed in Don DeLillo’s Valparaiso and Dream One with The Search Party, by Lisa Kron The Skin of our Teeth with Different Stages, and in The Shadow Box with North by Nov-Dec Northwest. The Children’s Hour PAULA RUTH GILBERT (Mrs. Pogson) and Norman Blumensaadt began by Lillian Hellman working together in 1981 with The Tempest. Some of her favorite roles in Differ- January ent Stages shows where she was cast as leads and support roles alike include Wasp Chorus in The Wasps, Lady in Orpheus Descending, Caro the snake handler in Talking Saint Joan With..., and various characters such as Agatha Christie Aged Aunts and Mothers. by George Bernard Shaw Paula has worked for other groups in Austin such as the Vortex, Zachary Scott March-April Theatre, among others. She occassionally directs a play, is a professional union wardrobe hand, and currently Vortex board member. Life is good. Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie PHOEBE GREENE (Taylor/Assistant Director) holds degrees in History and June-July Radio/Television/Film from The University of Texas at Austin. She previously tory Dance Theatre, and In a Garden (UA Opera). At Texas State she served as performed in numerous productions Costume Designer for Big Love (2009). She would like to thank Becky Freeman at FOUR SONS’ with The Violet Crown Radio Play- the University of Alabama for all of the wonderful borrowed costumes, Lindsay ers, notably as Doris Walker in Mir- Jones for helping to fill in the last minute costume gaps, and her amazing family QUALITY CLEANERS acle on 34th Street, Hazel in Dorothy (especially her mother) for putting up with the make-shift “costume shop” that Parker’s Big Blonde and as an audio en- took over half of the house during production; “I could not have done this with- MR COOL SAYS gineer for King Kong, which garnered out you guys!!” a B. Iden Payne Awards Nomination “For Quality for Outstanding Sound Design. She ELAINE JACOBS (Set Design) After taking this project on, then reading the recently appeared as Frau Fahren- script, Elaine thought - uh oh, there are three different sets! How can I possibly Four Sons” kopf in Different Stages’ The Night fit all this into a space for one, and with no wings? 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AMY LEWIS (Miss Dennis) is a graduate of McMurry University with a BFA in Theatre. She is very active in the Austin theatre community as both an actor and a lighting designer. Amy’s Austin area acting credits include, Sordid Lives, Human Sketches, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Time Flies, Babels in Arms, and All in the Timing at Sam Bass Community Theatre, Dracula at the Bastrop Opera House, The Laramie Project at City Theatre, Bitten! A Zombie Rock Odyssey, The Automat, Bride of Slapdash, Slapdash Cinco de Flimflam, Slapdash Live Six Show, and Seven Deadly Circles of Slapdash with Loaded Gun Theory, of which she is also a member and resident lighting designer. Past productions with Different Stages include The Skin of Our Teeth, An Inspector Calls, What I Want Right Now, Mrs. Gentlemen of Verona, Betty’s Summer Vacation, and Fuddy Meers. Other (relatively) re- Bob Crachit’s Wild Christmas Binge, The Hollow, and Playboy of the Western World. She cent productions include Shrewd’s Feast of Fools, Gnap!’s 69 Love Scenes, Vestige was also recently in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot with the Royal Pretenders. Group’s Marisol and Anton in Show Business, and Loaded Gun Theory’s Little Murders. Thanks to Tim, her husband, who she hopes thinks she is a great card player, and ASHLEY MCNERNEY (Nurse) recently graduated from East Carolina Uni- her kids Stella and Etta for all their love and support! versity in Communication and has been living in Austin for a little over a year. Since moving to Austin she has become active in the local theatre scene. Ashley was last seen at the Curtain Theatre during Austin Shakespeare’s Shakespeare Birthday celebration. This is her second Different Stages production. Her first being an understudy for Hilda in The Night of the Iguana. Over the winter Ashley was a Chin Puppet in There is No Us or Them, a Frontera short fringe play at Hyde Park Theatre. Her favorite role she has played is Juliet in Romeo and Juliet. Ashley is a proud mem- ber of A Working Group-a two year Meisner training program taught by Richard Robichaux. She also attends weekly Artist’s Way sessions lead by Ann Ciccolella.

MARTINA OHLHAUSER (Victoria) marks her third production with Differ- ent Stages, having played feisty, young things in The Constant Wife and The Playboy of the Western World. She has also appeared the NxNW production of Hay Fever, a DIRECTION AND DESIGN BIOGRAPHIES staged performance of an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 by The Institution The- ater, and Zilker Summer Theatre’s production of Annie. She expresses her sincerest PATRICK ANTHONY (Light Design) has been designing lights in Austin thanks to Norman for allowing her to play such a delicious character and to Nikki Texas for two years. He graduated Loyola: New Orleans with a BA in theatre and Zook and the brilliant cast for all their help, inspiration, and kinship. promptly moved back home. Too Many Husbands is his third production with Dif- ferent Stages, having previously lit Eurydice and Spider’s Web. TONY SALINAS (Leicester Paton) is very excited and happy to be a part of this production. His other theater credits include: Crumpet in Santaland Diaries, San NORMAN BLUMENSAADT (Director) is the Producing Artistic Director for Miguel in La Pastorela, Walker Harris in Two Rooms, Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Different Stages. As an actor he has worked in Shakespeare Festivals in Odessa, Dream, Sefton in Stalag 17, Adam Trainsmith in Comic Potential; The Ringmaster in Texas, Madison, New Jersey and Dallas, Texas. For Different Stages, he has recently Wilhelm Reich in Hell. Tony hopes you enjoy the show! appeared in Humble Boy, Eurydice, A Number, The Miser, Arms and the Man and The Playboy of the Western World. Among the numerous shows that he has directed are BRIAN VILLALOBOS (William Cardew) is grateful, and very happy besides, The House of Bernarda Alba, An Ideal Husband, The Beard of Avon, The Hollow, The for this opportunity to work with Norman and Different Stages; he has wanted to Constant Wife, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Carpetbagger’s Children. In celebration for some time now. He is delighted further, and uniquely blessed, to share a stage of his long and outstanding work in the Austin theater scene, the Austin Circle of with such a singularly merry and remarkably talented group of folk. Thanks for the Theaters bestowed upon Norman the 1998 Deacon Crain/John Bustin Award. His fun. He is thankful to God, and to his wife, Akasha. He owes her one. He hopes productions of The Hasty Heart and The Goat or Who is Sylvia won ACOT Awards you enjoy the show. for Best Production of a Drama. Different Stages was also the first theatre compa- ny in Austin to produce Arcadia by Tom Stoppard; that production won the Austin JULIE WINSTON-THOMAS (Miss Montmorencey) is an actress, director Theater Critics Award for Best Comedy. and occasional playwright who earned a BA in Theatre at UT. She is a Co-Artistic Director and the Business Manager for Loaded Gun Theory, for whom she most TIFFANY M. HARRIS (Costume Design) is a graduate of Texas State Uni- recently acted in Slapdash 7. Julie thanks Norman for the chance to spend another versity with a BFA in Costume Design and Technology. She is currently working summer on stage at the Vortex; last summer she was the Inspector in Spider’s Web. towards a masters in Theatrical Costume Design and Technology at The University Other Different Stages shows she has appeared in are Appointment with Death, Two of Alabama, from which recent design credits include Screwtape, Alabama Reper-