Avenue Q Music & LYRICS by Robert Lopez & Jeffmarx BOOK by Jeffwhitty Produced by Special Arrangement with Musi, Tlt•Alrt /111Trnational
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2012 - 2013 SEASON C PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JAC ALDER PRESENTS ... Avenue Q Music & LYRICS BY Robert Lopez & JeffMarx BOOK BY JeffWhitty Produced by Special Arrangement with Musi, Tlt•alrt /111trnational THEATRE ARTISTIC STAFF MUSICAL NUMBERS TOO DIRECTOR ACT I: Robert Lopez JeffWhitty Michael Serrecchia "The Avenue Q Theme" Company MUSIC & LYRICS BOOK COSTUME DESIGN "B.A. in English/Sucks to Be Me" Company Michael Robinson Mr. Lopez's firsttwo Broadway musicals, Mr. Whitty won the 2004 TonyAward PUPPET DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION "IfYou Were Gay" Rod & Nicky .. Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, forBest Book of a Musical forAvenue Dallas Puppet Theater - Pix Smith "Purpose" Princeton & Others have both been critical and commercial & Michael Robinson "Everyone's A Little Bit Racist" Q, which ran six years on Broadway SET DESIGN Princeton, Kate, Gary, Brian, & smash hits and Best Musical Tony Award and then moved to its current home JacAlder Christmas Eve winners. He shared Tony Awards forBest off Broadway at New World Stages. LIGHTING &SOUND DESIGN "The Internet" Kate &Trekkie Original Score and Best Book for The Additional mountings include five Monster Scott Guenther Book of Mormon. He also shared a Tony years in London's West End, U <:;, �rid "A Mix Tape " Kate VOCAL CAPTAIN forBest Original Score and a Grammy U.K. national tours, and dozens of "I'm Not Wearing Underwear Olivia de Guzman Emile Today" Brian nomination for Avenue Q, which he co international productions. In 2011, his wrote and conceived. With wife Kristen new musical premiered at the CAST "Special" Lucy Bring It On KATE/LUCY "You Can Be As Loud ..." Gary & Bad Anderson-Lopez, he co-wrote Finding Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, with a score News Bears *1'Megan Kelly Bates Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt by Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, and Lin "Fantasies" Rod, Princeton, & Kate NICKY/SWING Disney World since 2006), the Broadway Manuel Miranda. Whitty's plays include "My Girlfriend" Rod 1"�James Chandler bound original musical Up Here and The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, "There's A Fine, Fine Line" Kate CHRISTMAS EVE songs for Winnie the Pooh (Disney The Hiding Place, The Plank Project, Balls, Olivia de Guzman Emile feature animation, 2011). He shared and Suicide Weather. Theaters mounting ACTII: GARY COLEMAN "There Is Life Outside Your two Emmy Awards forhis music for The his work include the Oregon Shake 1'M. Denise Lee Apartment" Company Wonder Pets and an Emmy nomination speare Festival, the Alliance Theatre, BRIAN "The More You Ruv Someone" for the Scrubs musical episode. Member: Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Chester Maple Christmas Eve & Kate BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild, WGA, Repertory, Vineyard Theatre, and The PRINCETON/ROD "Schadenfreude"Gary & Nicky Matt Purvis AEA, Yale grad, and native NY'er. New Group, as well as The Eugene "I Wish I Could Go Back To College" O'Neill Theatre Center, which hosted TREKKIE/SWING Kate, Nicky, & Princeton 1 developmental workshops forAvenue Q 'Michael Robinson "The Money Song" Nicky, Princeton, &Company JeffMarx and Tales ofthe City. "The Money Song Reprise" M usrc & LYRICS Company ARTISTIC STAFF "For Now" Company Mr. Marx, with Robert Lopez, made their Broadway debut with Avenue Q PRODUCTION STAFF (Music and Lyrics, Original Concept). Michael Serrecchla DIRECTOR» Mr. AEA STAGE MANAGER They began writing Avenue Qin the BMI Serrecchia, a multi-talented member of the *Darius Warren Workshop in 1999, thinking it was a great Theatre Three family came on board with us TECHNICAL DIRECTOR idea fora TV series. Three years later it in 2003, and has stayed around. However, Daniel Pucul was produced Off-Broadway, Broadway he became a part of American musical the MASTER ELECTRICIAN (with three Tony Awards), Las Vegas and atre history as an original cast member of Ryan Flores the Pulitzer Prize winning musical, A Chorus PRODUCTION ASSISTANT London. Bobby and Jeff are currently writ Line, in 1975. During his 18 years perform *1'Sara Means ing the screenplay and songs fora new ing on Broadway, he worked and learned PRODUCTION CREW movie-musical forUniversal Pictures, as Katherine Marchant, Bonnie well as writing a new Broadway musical from some of the best- including Michael Hanvey, Charles Wallace with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the Bennett, Bob Fosse, Tommy Tune, Chita creators of South Park. Their other Rivera, Liza Minelli, Joel Grey, Carol Chan works include a new Muppet movie ning, Kander and Ebb, and Cy Coleman - ABOVE: Megan Kelly Bates called Kermit, Prince of Denmark (which and says each and every one of them helped received the coveted Ed Kleban Award), build his creative process. A professional and Ferdinand the Bull, a children's actor, choreographer and director with a Please silence your cell phones and all wide range of acclaimed productions to his electronic devices. No photography or musical forTheatreWorks/USA. videography is allowed without the consent of credit, his projects range from plays, films the theater. and musicals at Theatre Three, Uptown '" indicates members working under Actors' Equity Association contracts in this production, Players, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, ·k* indicates a performer enrolled in the AEA There will be one 15 minute intermission IC T Mainstage, Irving, WaterTowerTheatre, membership candidate program between Acts I & II, C AVENUE Q BIOGRAPHIES LEFT TO RIG HT: Olivia de Guzman Emile, James Chandler, M. Denise Lee, and Matt Pur vis Addison, and La Paloma ing repertoire, and working Centre Theatre; Dallas Chaperone and Crazy for Theatre and Film in Plano; recording projects and Films to classics and opera in the community and in Opera; Santa Fe Opera; The You. Megan has credits and the McKinney Summer recently played SXSW 2013. in UNT. Michael was Texas for the promotion Dallas Summer Musicals, in area theatres including: Musicals in McKinney. He is She has a BFA in musical selected for the 2011 Natalie of the arts. In this latter and Brookhaven College. WaterTower Theatre, Addi- a three-time Column Award theatre from The University Skelton Award for Artistic capacity, he served on the Scott received a B.F.A. in son; Contemporary Theatre nominee. His credits in of North Texas. Excellence forhaving board of Texas Non-Profit theatre design and produc- of Dallas, Casa Mariana, regional/national theatre "invested (his) life to artistry, Theatres, is a member of tion from the University of Ft. Worth; Flower Mound work include Willis Kent M. Denise Lee GARY teaching, and directing at the President's Council Texas at Arlington. Recent Performing Arts Theatre, in The Road to Ruin, The COLEMAN» Ms. Lee, a a truly outstanding level". of the Arts Magnet High show credits include The and ICT Mainstage, Irving. York Theatre, NYC; and Dallas-based actress and Michael is also the Musical School, is on the KERA Diary of Anne Frank, Shoot- In regional and national Mr. Jordan in Heaven Can musician, working in stage, Theatre Degree Program Advisory Board, and, ing Star, The Lieutenant of theatre work, she played Wait. Another artistic television and film, debuted Chair at KD College in Dal- through the Dallas Area lnishmore, Black Pearl Sings, the role of Ishmael in Moby interest is The Alternative atTheatre Three in 1997 as las. Thank you toTheatre Cultural Advocacy Coalition, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Dick, The Musical, NYC. Comedy Theatre's (ACT) Mama Euralie in Once On Three, this amazing cast is a member of the 2013 My First Time and Forever She has earned multiple The Victims improv troupe This Island. In addition to and the incredible talents of Advisory Committee for Plaid all for WTT. At BHC Column Awards and a Libby in Dallas. James received performing as an original Michael Robinson and the Dallas Arts Advocacy Day. recent shows include The Award. Megan makes her his training at Marymount cast member ofTheatre Dallas Puppet Theatre for He is supported in the Triangle Shirt Factory Project, home in Carrollton with her Manhattan College, New Three's Avenue Q, she main- this wonderful experience. mission ofTheatre Three Chess and Rent. husband, Stephen, and two York and now makes his tains a busy stage career by many artists, a hard- daughters, Lilly and Molly. home in Dallas. and performs in various live Jae Alder SET DESIGN» Mr. working and dedicated CAST music venues as an R&B/ Alder serves Theatre Three staff, and the energies of 1 James Chandler NICKY/ Olivia de Guzman Emile jazz vocalist. She has also as Producer-Director. He the theatre's generous Megan Kelly Bates KATE/ SWING» Mr. Chandler, an CHRISTMAS EVE/VOCAL been seen on the big and is a co-founder (in 1961) of and inventive Board of LUCY,, An original cast original cast member of COACH» Ms. Emile is an small screen in such shows TheatreThree, following Directors. His thanks to all, member ofTheatre Three's ] TheatreThree's Avenue original cast member of as Dallas, Memphis Beat, the readership of his late and to all ofTheatre Three's Avenue Q, Ms. Kelly Bates Q, is a familiar face to Theatre Three's Avenue Q. and the films Mad Money wife, Norma Young. Jae playgoers, he extends his debuted with us in 2003 in Theatre Three patrons, Her previous work includes with Diane Keaton and the directed and designed Lost usual admonition: "Enjoy Batboy: The Musical and having portrayed Eddie productions with Sundown upcoming film Cowgirls a[ in the Stars, Amy's View, 33 yourselves!" continued to grace our in Seasons Greetings, and Collaborative Theatre, Angels with James Cromwell. Variations, Travesties, See stage as Logan in The 25th Harry Thunder in Wild Theatre Britain, Music Denise is the proud parent What I Wanna See, and A Scott Guenther LIGHTING Annual Putnam County Oats. James has acting Theatre Denton, Garland of Janelle andTraci.