THE AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER presents

by George Axelrod THE AMERICAN CENTURY THEATER The American Centurypresents Theater presents

About The American Century Theater The American Century Theater was founded in 1994. We are a professional nonprofit theater company dedicated to presenting great, important, and worthy American plays of the twentieth century—what Henry Luce called “the American Century.” The company’s mission is one of rediscovery, enlightenment, and perspective, not nostalgia or preservation. Americans must not lose the extraordinary vision and wisdom of past playwrights, nor can we afford to surrender the by Georgeby George Axelrod Axelrod moorings to our shared cultural heritage. Our mission is also driven by a conviction that communities need theater, September 20–October 11, 2014 and theater needs audiences. To those ends, this company is committed to producing plays that challenge and move all Americans, of all ages, origins, Gunston Theatre Two and points of view. In particular, we strive to create theatrical experiences 2700 South Lang Street, Arlington that entire families can watch, enjoy, and discuss long afterward. Production Manager Director Stage Manager Ed Moser Rip Claassen Lindsey E. Moore Board of Directors Lighting Design Set Design Sound Design Chair Louis George Marianne Meadows usa Trena M. Weiss Ed Moser Vice-Chair Wes MacAdam Costume Design Properties Design Treasurer Wendy Kenney Rip Claassen Hannah Schneider Board Gabe Goldberg, Madi Green, Vivian Kallen, Jack Marshall, Kevin McIntyre Staff The action takes place in the apartment of the Richard Shermans, in the Gramercy Park section of New York City. Jack Marshall Artistic Director Act One Rip Claassen Tom Fuller Emily Morrison Brian Crane Rhonda Hill Ed Moser Scene 1 About eight o’clock on a summer evening Ellen Dempsey Steven Scott Mazzola Joli Provost Scene 2 Immediately following Kate Dorrell Lindsey E. Moore Ginny Tarris Act Two Scene 1 Evening, the following day Scene 2 Two hours later This program is supported in part by Arlington County through Act Three the Arlington Commission for the Arts and Arlington Cultural Affairs, a division The following morning of Arlington Economic Development; the Virginia Commission for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; and many generous donors. There will be one fifteen-minute and one ten-minute intermission.

Please—Silence and stow all electronic devices. The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. The Seven Year Itch is produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service. Cast Richard Sherman...... Bruce Alan Rauscher The Girl...... Carolyn Kashner * The Seven Year Itch, by George Axelrod (1952) Helen Sherman...... Emily Morrison When we thought about a 20th century stage comedy that would Dr. Brubaker ...... Steve Lebens aptly and nobly represent that genre as The American Century Theater Tom MacKenzie...... Ric Andersen completes its two-decade journey in this, its final season, the first and best Miss Morris ...... Rachel Murray play that leapt to mind was George Axelrod’s The Seven Year Itch. Elaine...... Rachel M. Loose Marie Whatever-Her-Name-Was ...... Chanukah Jane Lilburne Axelrod (1922–2003), a versatile playwright, screenwriter, and director Pat ...... Eileen A. Farrell (who was also represented here at TACT by his Hollywood satire, Will Ricky Sherman...... Ethan Ocasio, Xavier Wolf Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, which launched the career of Jayne Mansfield) is the archetypal TACT playwright. He was as celebrated in his day as * Equity Membership Candidate Terrence McNally or Neil Simon, but as his works were superseded by more recent Broadway hits, and their familiarity faded with new generations of Production staff producers and playgoers, he went “out of fashion.” In cases like Axelrod’s, Director ...... Rip Claassen that simply means, “We’ve forgotten how good this guy was, and we’ll Production Manager...... Ed Moser suffer for it.” Associate Production Manager ...... Lindsey E. Moore Stage Manager ...... Lindsey E. Moore The Seven Year Itch also exemplifies a large category of neglected Set Design and Construction...... Trena M. Weiss masterpieces that TACT has profitably revived: Plays That Became Such Carpenters ...... Robert Teague, Michael Salmi Famous Movies That Everybody Forgot They Were Plays First. The film of Lighting Design...... Marianne Meadows usa The Seven Year Itch, of course, was turned into a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe, Sound Design ...... Ed Moser and not just any vehicle, but the one that provided the image that made Costume Design...... Rip Claassen her a deathless icon: MM standing over a New York City subway grate, Costume Design Apprentice/Wardrobe...... Catherine Casino trying to suppress her enthusiastic white dress as it billows up around her. Properties Design...... Hannah Schneider Despite director and script adapter Billy Wilder’s brilliant cinematic Assistant Stage Manager/Board Operator...... Chris Beatley flourishes, the film isn’t as good as Axelrod’s version. For one thing, ASM/Deck Manager...... Rachel Lau Hollywood censors made Wilder change the ending to a cop-out. Publicist...... Emily Morrison Nonetheless, in the wake of the film’s fame, the reaction of potential Production Photography ...... Johannes Markus theatrical producers when considering The Seven Year Itch became, “Oh, Preproduction Photography ...... Angelisa Gillyard everybody’s seen that!” (but they hadn’t) and, “You have to have Marilyn Program Design ...... Michael Sherman Monroe,” which is ridiculous. The play never had Marilyn Monroe, and House Manager ...... Joli Provost the character, just called “The Girl,” is not especially like Marilyn. Marilyn USA = Member, United Scenic Artists Monroe just played her that way, and you can hardly blame her. What really distinguishes The Seven Year Itch, however, among 20th Special thanks to— century comedies, is that it’s as funny now as it ever was. We discovered, Don Barton Clementine Morrison sometimes to our horror and sadness, that even the best comedies Ellie Cain Eddy Parker, frequently do not age well and lose laughs and relevance with each Liz and Lynn Crane-Wexler Little Theatre of Alexandria passing year. Sometimes the reason is that a play was a comic trailblazer, Rachel Erichsen, Scott Schneider and Miriam Struck and what was once a gut-busting shock was imitated and exceeded by the Olney Theatre Center Silver Spring Stage genre it inspired, making once-hilarious gags seem warmed-over clichés. Mister Roberts, which launched the “behind the lines” military spoof, suffered this fate. Other older plays found laughs in conduct that we no Who is Richard Sherman? Who are any of us? Is a person his reality, his longer find funny, like elder abuse and mental illness The( Effect of Gamma memories, or his dreams? In this play we meet Richard Sherman and Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), alcoholism (many), and parental explore these aspects of who he is. What do our dreams tell us about neglect (A Thousand Clowns). ourselves? How do our memories effect/affect our actions? Is our The whole genre of sophisticated “smart set” comedies—American Noel physical “reality” all there is to us? These questions are what Richard Coward–style plays—mastered by Broadway-conquering playwrights like should ask himself, if not Dr. Brubaker. We could all use asking ourselves S.N. Behrman and Philip Barry now seems like science fiction. These kinds the same questions. of urbane, elegant, witty people simply don’t exist anymore, and it’s hard —Rip Claassen for modern audiences to believe they ever did. There are the archaic “feel Director, The Seven Year Itch good” comedies, driven by character and plot rather than jokes, which appealed to a slower-paced world where a happy ending and some smiles Cast along the way were reward enough for three hours in a theater. Most Ric Andersen (Tom MacKenzie) previously appeared at The American common of all the lapsed comedies are those that derive their humor from Century Theater in Bang the Drum Slowly and Abe Lincoln in Illinois jokes, characters, references, and situations based upon events and well- (staged reading). Other area roles include Ian Brown in the world known personalities of the times. No matter how well-crafted such plays premiere of Another Day on Willow Street, Bob Ewell in To Kill a were, or how much they pleased contemporary audiences, their virtues Mockingbird, and Montague in Romeo and Juliet (all, Compass Rose become undetectable as times and tastes change, as they inevitably must. Theater), the Vicomte de Jodelet in The Affected Young Ladies (Capital For The Seven Year Itch, however, George Axelrod chose an eternally Fringe Festival), Nils Krogstad in A Doll’s House (Embassy Players), County rich comic topic with no expiration date: the fantasies and longings of Attorney in Trifles (MuseFire Productions), and Sentinel Jumper in married, middle-aged men. While such men have been at once ridiculous Jumpers (Washington Shakespeare Company). Ric also performs improv and sympathetic on stage since the comedies of Plautus, Jonson, and comedy with Precipice Improv Theater. Shakespeare, few writers have exploited their potential, comic or dramatic, Eileen A. Farrell (Pat) has appeared in a variety of roles over the years in more deftly. area community theatres. As usual, we hope other companies will agree, and give this masterpiece Carolyn Kashner * (The Girl) is thrilled to return to The American the place in the American stage repertoire it deserves Century Theater after performing there in Ah, Wilderness! and Marathon —Jack Marshall ’33. Recent credits in the DC area include The Balcony and The Plague Artistic Director, 1995–2015 (Scena Theatre); Man of La Mancha, Rent (Helen Hayes Award for Best Ensemble), and National Pastime (The Keegan Theatre); The Last Five Years (1st Stage); Richard III (WSC Avant Bard); Witness for the Prosecution (Olney Theatre Center); A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits (E.M.P. Collective); James Joyce’s The Dead and The Iceman Cometh (Quotidian Theatre Company); Richard III (NextStop Theatre Download the podcast. Listen in as Artistic Director Jack Company); Failure, A Love Story (The Hub Theatre); and The Wonderful Marshall discusses The American Century Theater production of World of Dissocial (Theater Alliance). Carolyn has also performed with George Axelrod’s The Seven Year Itch with Director Rip Claassen the New York Fringe Festival in The Fall of the House of Usher and Exiles and actors Carolyn Kashner (The Girl) and Emily Morrison (Helen from the Sun. Carolyn is an Equity Membership Candidate. Sherman). On the web at americancenturytheater.blogspot.com * Equity Membership Candidate Steve Lebens (Dr. Brubaker) has been seen at The American Century Assistant Director, tick, tick....BOOM! (Quackensteele Theatre Company); Theater in Judgment at Nuremberg, I Do! I Do!, J.B., Marathon ’33, Will Storyteller, Blood, Bloody Andrew Jackson (Highwood Theatre); Director/ Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Stalag 17, Visit to a Small Planet, Stage Door, The Producer, R.U.R. (Naked Theatre Company, Capital Fringe 2013); Director, Country Girl, Hellzapoppin’, and Drama under the Influence. Regional: The [title of show] (Annapolis Summer Garden Theatre) and Arsenic and Old Guthrie Theater: The Entertainer. DC area: Signature Theatre: Cabaret; Lace (VpStart Crow Productions); Jay-Jay/Prius, Cyanocitta/Collider (Source Passion. Studio SecondStage: Hot Fudge; The Virgin Molly; Muzeeka; A Festival); Assistant Director, Six Degrees of Separation (VpStart Crow); Clockwork Orange. The Folger: The Merchant of Venice; Playing Juliet Mollie Ralston, The Mousetrap (VpStart Crow); and Tiffany, A Prom to Die Casting Othello; Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Purloined Patience. For! (Mystery Dinner Playhouse). She is an actor at National Children’s No Rules Theatre Company: The Fantasticks. Film: Field of Lost Shoes Museum, performer for Kids Rock!, teaching artist with Adventure (opens Sept. 26); King Lear (2015). Television: House of Cards; VEEP; Law Theatre-MTC, and a founding company member, Naked Theatre and Order/ Criminal Intent; Pigeon the Series. Company. She holds a BA in English and Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech. Chanukah Jane Lilburne (Marie Whatever-Her-Name-Was) has been Ethan Ocasio (Ricky Sherman) is eleven years old and in the sixth working professionally in television and film and on stage since she was grade. This is his first production with The American Century Theater. a little girl. She has worked at The American Century Theater in Babes in He played the role of Child in King John (WSC Avant Bard) and has Arms (staged reading), Marathon ‘33, and J.B. She is an original member of played multiple roles in school productions including Wicked, Frozen, The Turtle Teens collective in New York City. and Much Ado about Nothing. Rachel M. Loose (Elaine) is in her third production with The American Bruce Alan Rauscher (Richard Sherman) began his career in “The Biz” Century Theater. She previously appeared as Ida/Angel in Marathon ‘33 right after high school performing as a magician and producing short and in the Ensemble for Babes in Arms (staged reading). Other credits: film comedies. After acting in various productions around the tri- Shining City (Capital City Players), Sex on the Brain (Forum Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Silver Spring Stage), 7 Lessons on Suicide, The Foley Artist, and The Frustrations of Stoker Pratt (Zero Hour Theatre Company). Rachel is Audience Services Manager at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and holds a BA with honors in Drama from Washington College and an MA in Arts Management from George Mason University. Emily Morrison (Helen Sherman) Theater: Cinderella (The New York Children’s Theatre Festival); DC area—Little Murders and Stage Door (The American Century Theater), The Marriage of Maria Braun and The War of the Worlds (Scena Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Brave Spirits), But Love Is My Middle Name! (an original one-woman show) and The Pundit (Capital Fringe Festival); Los Angeles—Elizabeth in Richard III: Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune; How I Learned To Drive; Lie With Me. Film: Geographically Desirable, The Nextnik, Blonde in Summer (AFI), Three Sessions, A Family Affair (LAFS). Television: Evil Twins, Who the Bleep Did I Marry?, and I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant! Emily is publicist for TACT and President of the Board of the Actors’ Center. [email protected] Rachael Murray (Miss Morris) DC area credits include: Producer, Bitch: A Play about Antigone (Naked Theatre Company, Capital Fringe 2014); State area and a brief stint at the American Film Institute to study film Theatre), Amelia (a Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage reading), and A production, he traveled to Pasadena California where he attended the Christmas Carol, Underneath the Lintel, and Tuesdays with Morrie for Paul American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Returning to the DC area, Bruce Morella. Favorite musical credits include Señor Discretion Himself (Arena resumed working with many area theatre companies, among them: The Stage), Urinetown (University of Maryland), David in Shadow and Light American Century Theater, Washington Shakespeare Company, Signature (Theater J), and Godspell (Olney Theatre Center). Favorite designs for The Theatre, and Source Theatre. Favorite roles include Joseph Merrick in American Century Theater include Native Son, Treadwell: Bright and Dark, The Elephant Man, Alan Strang in Equus, Martin in Feeding the Moonfish Visit to a Small Planet, The Country Girl, Little Murders, and Marathon ’33. (SETC award for Best Actor), Clark Storey in The Second Man, Alan Turing Since becoming Production Manager for TACT, Ed has produced Come in Breaking the Code (ACT award for Best Actor), Edgar in King Lear, Gary/ Blow Your Horn, Bang the Drum Slowly, Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . . , Judgment at Roger in Noises Off, Rev. Hale in The Crucible, and Edward III in Edward III. Nuremberg, and An Evening with Danny Kaye. Bruce has been honored with a Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actor Lindsey E. Moore (Associate Production Manager and Stage Manager) for his performance as Col. N.P. Chipman in TACT’s production of The has been Stage Manager at The American Century Theater for An Evening Andersonville Trial and a Mary Goldwater Award for acting by The Theatre with Danny Kaye, Judgment at Nuremberg, Bang the Drum Slowly, Lobby. In 2008, Bruce completed a week-long run off Broadway in The I Do! I Do!, Voodoo Macbeth, The Show-Off, Marathon ’33, and Stage Door. Keegan Theatre’s production of Love, Peace and Robbery as part of the 1st She was Assistant Stage Manager for TACT’s Come Blow Your Horn and Irish Play Festival. This is Bruce’s twelfth production with TACT. Oh Dad, Poor Dad . . . and Properties Designer for Biography. Lindsey Xavier Wolf (Ricky Sherman) can be seen in Captain America: The Winter worked in stage management in Roanoke VA for shows including Soldier as little Captain America, as a zombie in the upcoming movie Antigone, An Evening of Comic Variations by David Ives, The Laramie Project, Z*Con, as a camper in The Summer Before, and as Eric Freeman in Evil Kin/ The Sandbox, The American Dream, and The Good Woman of Setzuan. She Investigation Discovery. He also played the Cat in Pinocchio (Mount Vernon earned her BA in Theatre and Design from Roanoke College. Children’s Theater). At ten years old, Xavier has been acting for four years. Catherine Casino (Costume Design Apprentice/Wardrobe) was Wardrobe Mistress for The American Century Theater productions of Production Staff Rip Claassen (Director, Costume Design) is owner/impresario of The American Backstage Company in Alexandria. A fixture on the Washington theatre scene for many years, Rip has taught theatre and acting at the Institute for the Arts for Fairfax County Public Schools, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and other local theatre programs. For The American Century Theater, he has directed (Come Blow Your Horn, J.B., Visit to a Small Planet, Babes in Arms, and Life with Father), produced (One Night with Fanny Brice, Native Son, and The Tenth Man), and costumed innumerable shows. Rip founded the Northern Virginia Theatre Festival for high schools, and coaches theatre students seeking admission to competitive programs. He is Artistic Director of Teens and Theatre (TnT), a nonprofit theatre education company. Ed Moser (Production Manager, Sound Design) is a regional audio- production veteran whose designs include The Veil, Long Day’s Journey into Night, A Little Trick, Afterplay, and Master Harold and the Boys (Quotidian

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Tickets: scenatheater.org Judgment at Nuremberg and An Evening with Danny Kaye. She costumed Dracula, A League of Their Own, Arabian Nights, and Antony and Cleopatra Thank you to the many generous donors who provided support from September 1, 2013­– for the Lake Braddock Theatre. September 15, 2014. Marianne Meadows (Lighting Design), a member of United Scenic Artists Local #829, is the Resident Lighting Designer for the Washington Group Theater Goers ($5,000+) Arlington Commission for the Arts Virginia Commission for the Arts Stage Guild (since 1994) and for Solas Nua (Johnny Meister and the Stitch, Estate of Suzy Platt Scenes from the Big Picture, and La Corbière). Her designs for The Adding Machine (Washington Jewish Theater), Quills (Woolly Mammoth Theatre), Provincetown Players ($2,500–$4,999) The Chosen (Theater J), and Old Wicked Songs (Studio Theatre) earned Ellen Maland and Donald Adams Wendy and Bob Kenney Anonymous Kevin and Jennifer McIntyre her Helen Hayes Award nominations. For The American Century Theater, Arlington Community Foundation she has designed Come Blow Your Horn, Beyond the Horizon, and On the Waterfront. Other design credits include A Couple of Blaguards (Ford’s Theater Guilders ($1,000–$2,499) Theatre), The Dead Monkey (Woolly), The Chosen and Miss Margarida’s Way The Boeing Company The McElwaine-Stroock Fund Noreen Hynes and Seth Carus of the Jewish Communal Fund (Studio Theatre), Evita and Songs from a New World (Open Circle Theatre), Mary McGowan and Steven Cohen Victor Shargai the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington (ten seasons), and national tours Suzanne Thouvenelle and Dennis Deloria of Cook, Dixon, and Young (the original Three Mo’ Tenors) and The Acting Company. She received a Theatre Lobby Mary Goldwater Award in 2004. Mercury Theater Backers ($500–$999) Ellen Dempsey and Louis George Harriet McGuire and the Troy Foundation Hannah Schneider (Properties Design) most recently worked as Stage Vivian and Arthur Kallen Sheldon and Marilyn Wallerstein Manager for Quotidian Theatre’s US premiere of Conor McPherson’s The Wes Macadam Veil. She earned her MA in Theatre Arts from Stonybrook University with Living Theater Lovers ($250–$499) and BA in Stage Management from Muhlenberg College. Richard and Jean Barton Margaret E. Kenna Robert DuBois Raymond Kogut Robert Teague (Carpenter) is working on his first production with The Dr. Coralie Farlee Constance McAdam American Century Theater. Previously, he has worked with The Keegan Tracy Fisher Richard and Dorothy Miller Theatre, primarily as a sound engineer, though he has a long background Marian Flynn Marie Milnes-Vasquez Edwin Fountain Carl and Undine Nash in set construction. Previous professional productions include National Barbara Gallagher Ralph and Susan Shepard Pastime, Working, Spring Awakening, The Full Monty, and Hair. Edward and Shelley Grossman David and Willa Siegel Irene Szopo and Alan Herman Frontis Wiggins Trena M. Weiss (Set Design and Construction) has designed and built Rhonda Hill Audrey and Michael Wyatt the set for numerous productions with The American Century Theater, IBM International Foundation including Come Blow Your Horn, J.B., Life with Father, An American Century The Players ($100–$249) Christmas, Dr. Cook’s Garden, The Titans, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, AARP Carl Fretts and Cops. She works as a director, designer, and theatre teacher in Rose Kobylinski and Rick Albani Margaret Gaffen professional, community, and educational venues and has a BA in Acting- Sally Beth Berger James and Maria Gentle David and Janet Bond Brenda Pommerenke and Larry George Directing and MAs in both Theatre and Education. Elizabeth Borgen Gabriel Goldberg and Kim Rendelson Ron and Dorothy Brandt Madi Green David W. Briggs and John F. Benton Bob Gronenberg Kenneth Cline Jean Handsberry Become a fan of The American Century Theater on Facebook. Sally H. Cooper Pat and Bruce Harrison Dan and Nan Cooper Roxanne Hoare, in memory of Sean R. Hoare Keep up with shows, auditions, volunteer opportunities, Gloria M. Dugan Roger and Katharine Hood podcasts, videos, and more. www.AmericanCentury.org State Senator Barbara Favola Thomas Hoya CEN AN TU C R I Y R The Players ($100–$249) E M

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Crime and Punishment in America, two one-act plays in repertory The Federal Theater Funders ($10–$99) Susan Barrett Herschel Kanter January 9–31, 2015— Michael and Lissa Barry Phil and Mary Jane Klingelhofer Allida Black Robert Kraft Cops (1976) by Terry Curtis Fox, directed by Stephen Jarrett Patricia Bragdon Kathryn and Robert Krubsack Susan Sonnesyn Brook Dianne Levine Hello Out There (1941) by William Saroyan Boris and Earlene Cherney Margaret Lorenz Charlotte Cleary Dee Brown and Glen Macdonald directed by Ellen Dempsey Ronald Cogan Ozzi Mask Andrea Creel Phebe Masson Joseph Cross Marjorie Mayer Karen Darner Margaret Meath Judy Davis Ruth Mitchell American Century’s Broadway Hit Parade, March 19–22, 2015 Pam Diramio Toni Muller A retrospective of songs from favorite TACT musicals, Robert Draba Pamela Nash Walter and Susan Duka Karen Ostensoe compiled and scripted by Artistic Director Jack Marshall, William Erdmann Eva Pataki directed by Jackie Manger, with musical direction by Tom Fuller Donna Feirtag Charles and Ruth Perry John Foster Gerda Picco Martin L. Ganderson Patrick Riley Clare Gibson Francis Roche Judith Gillspie Marianne Soponis Aron Golberg Joyce Suydam Twelve Angry Men (1964) by Reginald Rose Lawrence Gordon Renate Wallenberg July 17–August 8, 2015 Christine Gregory Barbara Washburn Our very first show and first hit, Art Hauptman Nancy White Rachel Clifford Whitham featuring an all-star cast from TACT’s stage history. Hecht Tammy Wiles Directed this final season by Artistic Director Jack Marshall Jonathan Helwig Bob Skelly and Bonnie Williams Daniel Hodes Raymond Wolfe Nancy Jarvis Carol and Henry Wolinsky Philip John Dennis Wright Subscriber benefits include The Marilyn Johnson Sewing Design Studio LLC complimentary Audience Guide, reserved seats, and easy ticket exchange

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