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Fire and Air Has Been Dependent on Collaboration Welcome When planning this 50th anniversary season, I was keen to explore the notion that “classic” doesn’t always have to imply a play written in a past century or indeed written by a dead European. Hence the second “act” of our season is an exploration of American writers, one of them very much alive! I was also focussing on the notion that we can tell stories that explore classical ideas or look at lives that have influenced our thinking and challenged the “classical”. Challenging us is something that Terrence McNally has always done. He has also inspired us by exploring the lives of luminaries of both the opera and the ballet. Diaghilev was fundamental in influencing art in the 20th century. Without him we would not have dance as we know it today. He was a producer though, and like all producers he needed collaborations with great talents in order to fulfill his vision. This experience of working on Fire and Air has been dependent on collaboration. A marvelous group of actors, a long- nurtured series of design partnerships, and one of the most generous and theater-loving writers you would ever be lucky enough to meet. Terrence and I first worked together on The Visit on Broadway. It didn’t last long - but for me that hardly matters. What matters is the richness of the journey. Terrence makes it rich. I counted myself very lucky when he told me he had a new play he would like me to look at. That “look” manifests itself in the performance you see tonight. CSC is so thrilled to present this challenging new play - thank you, Terrence, for the opportunity. John Doyle Artistic Director Classic Stage Company JOHN DOYLE, Artistic Director presents FIRE AND AIR BY TERRENCE MCNALLY with JAMES CUSATI-MOYER, JOHN GLOVER, DOUGLAS HODGE JAY ARMSTRONG JOHNSON, MARSHA MASON, MARIN MAZZIE Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Wig, Hair, and Make-Up Design ANN HOULD-WARD JANE COX MATT STINE J. JARED JANAS Associate Scenic Design Associate Costume Design Associate Lighting Design DAVID L. ARSENAULT AMY SUTTON ADAM HONORÉ Casting Property Design Press Representative TELSEY + COMPANY ANDREW DIAZ THE PUBLICITY OFFICE ADAM CALDWELL, CSA WILLIAM CANTLER, CSA Production Stage Manager General Manager KARYN CASL, CSA LIBBY UNSWORTH TERESA GOZZO DIRECTED AND DESIGNED BY JOHN DOYLE By special arrangement with Hunter Arnold and Tom Kirdahy Cast in alphabetical order Vaslav Nijinsky....................................................................James Cusati-Moyer Dmitry “Dima”Filosofov .................................................................... John Glover Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ......................................................Douglas Hodge Leonide Massine .......................................................... Jay Armstrong Johnson Dunya................................................................................................ Marsha Mason Misia Sert ............................................................................................ Marin Mazzie Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................... Dane Urban THERE WILL BE ONE TEN MINUTE INTERMISSION UPCOMING APRIL 11 - MAY 26, 2018 BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS DIRECTED BY JACK CUMMINGS III CO-PRODUCED WITH TRANSPORT GROUP Who's Who JAMES CUSATI-MOYER Member of the National Youth Theatre. (Nijinsky) CSC debut. Broadway: JAY ARMSTRONG Six Degrees of JOHNSON (Massine) Separation (dir. Trip CSC debut. Broadway: Cullman). NY/Regional: On the Town, Hands On The Devil in The Soldier’s Tale featuring a Hardbody, Catch Me Michael Cerveris (Carnegie Hall, dir. If You Can, Hair. Off- Liz Diamond), Romeo in Romeo and Broadway: The Mad Ones, Working Juliet (Westport Country Playhouse, dir. (Drama Desk Award, Prospect Theater Mark Lamos), Portland Stage Company, Company), Wild Animals You Should Williamstown Theatre Festival. Know (MCC). Other NY: Candide (NYCO, Television: “Unbreakable Kimmy dir. Hal Prince), Sweeney Todd (NY Schmidt”, “The Path”, “Red Oaks”, “Blue Philharmonic, filmed for PBS), The Most Bloods”, “Time After Time.” Training: Happy Fella (City Center Encores!) MFA, Yale School of Drama. Candida, A Woman of No Importance (Symphony Space). TV/Film: “Quantico” JOHN GLOVER (Dima) (ABC), Sex and the City 2. www. Broadway: The Cherry jayarmstrongjohnson.org Orchard, Macbeth, Death of a Salesman, MARSHA MASON (Duyna) The Royal Family, has received four Waiting for Godot (Tony Academy Award and Drama League noms.), The Drowsy nominations for her roles Chaperone, Love! Valour! Compassion! in the films The Goodbye (Tony Award. Drama Desk and Drama Girl, Cinderella Liberty, League noms.), The Great God Brown Only When I Laugh, and Chapter (Drama Desk Award). Off-Broadway: Two. She has been the recipient of The Paris Letters (Drama Desk, Lucille two Golden Globe Awards for her film Lortell, Drama League noms.), The roles and received an Emmy Award Marriage of Bette and Boo, Nicholi and nomination for her role on Frasier. TV: the Others, Much Ado About Nothing, “The Middle”, “Grace & Frankie”, “The Troilus and Cressida. Regional: Some Good Wife”. Broadway: Impressionism, Men (Barrymore nom.); The Lisbon Steel Magnolias. Regional: Watch on Traviata (Helen Hayes nom.); Lips the Rhine (Arena Stage) Arms & The Together, Teeth Apart. Television: 5 Man (Old Globe). Director: Chapter Two, Emmy noms. Film: numerous. Act of God, Steel Magnolias. DOUGLAS HODGE MARIN MAZZIE (Misia) (Diaghilev) CSC debut. Broadway: Broadway: Old Times The King and I; Bullets (Director), Cyrano de Over Broadway (Outer Bergerac (Roundabout Critics Circle Award); Theater), La Cage Aux Next to Normal; Enron; Folles (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Kiss Me, Kate (OCC Award. Tony, Drama Circle, Olivier Awards). West End Desk, Olivier noms.); Ragtime (Tony, includes: Charlie and the Chocolate DD, OCC noms.); Passion (Tony nom., Factory (Olivier Best Actor nom.). PBS); Spamalot (also London); Man of Many shows at Royal Court , Almeida, La Mancha; Into the Woods; Big River. Donmar, Shakespeare’s Globe and Encores!: Zorba, Kismet, Out Of This National Theatre. Associate Director World. Off-Broadway includes: Carrie Donmar Theatre 2007 - 2011. Ten (Drama Desk nom). TV includes: “The Big years working exclusively with Harold C”, “Smash”, “Without a Trace,” “Still Pinter as actor/director. Upcoming Standing”. American Theater Hall of film: Red Sparrow, The Bet, High Wire, Fame Inductee. www.marinmazzie.com Wanderland, Jonathon. Upcoming TV: “Black Mirror”, “Watergate”, “Maigret”. Stiles and Drewe 2012 Best New Song Award. Trained at RADA and was Council Who's Who TERRENCE McNALLY (Playwright) Poets Society, Pacific Overtures, As You is a recipient of the Dramatists Guild Like It. Broadway includes: The Color Lifetime Achievement Award and the Purple, The Visit, The People in the Lucille Lortel Lifetime Achievement Picture, A Free Man of Color (Drama Award. He has won four Tony Awards for Desk nom.), A Catered Affair (Drama his plays Love! Valour! Compassion! and Desk nom.), Beauty and the Beast Master Class and his musical books for (Tony Award), Into the Woods (Tony and Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ragtime. Drama Desk noms.), Falsettos, Sunday Other select Broadway: Frankie and in the Park With George (Tony and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, It’s Only Drama Desk noms.), Saint Joan, Little a Play, The Visit, and Anastasia. Select Me. Off-Broadway includes: Notes from Off-Broadway: Where Has Tommy the Field, The Blue Flower, Russian Flowers Gone?; The Lisbon Traviata; Transport, Road Show, Lobster Alice, Lips Together, Teeth Apart; A Perfect Cymbeline. Ms. Hould-Ward’s work Ganesh; Corpus Christi; And Away We can be seen in over 35 international Go. TV: “Andre’s Mother” (Emmy Award). companies of Beauty and the Beast, Opera librettos: Dead Man Walking, and her other designs are featured in Great Scott. shows all over the world. More than 100 regional theater credits. Recipient of JOHN DOYLE (Director and Scenic the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Designer) Patricia Zipprodt Award. CSC: Passion, Allegro, Peer Gynt, Dead Poets Society, Pacific Overtures, As JANE COX (Lighting Designer) You Like It. Broadway: Sweeney Todd CSC: Pacific Overtures, Peer Gynt, (Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Allegro, Passion and A Winter’s Tale. Best Director of a Musical), Company Broadway: Jitney (Tony nom.); Amelie, (Tony Award for Best Musical Revival), Color Purple (Drama Desk nom.); A Catered Affair (Drama League Machinal (Tony and Drama Desk Award for Best Musical Production), noms.); All the Way; Come Back, Little The Visit (Tony nom. for Best Musical), Sheba; Picnic. Jane is a member of the The Color Purple (Tony Award for Best Monica Bill Barnes Dance Company, Musical Revival, Drama Desk Award has a long collaboration with the for Best Director of a Musical). Off- Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and is Broadway: Wings (Second Stage the director of the theater program at Theatre); Road Show (Public Theater); Princeton University. Where’s Charley?, Irma La Douce (Encores!). Regional: Kiss Me, Kate MATT STINE (Sound Designer) (Stratford Festival); The Caucasion CSC: The Liar, Dead Poets Society, Chalk Circle (ACT); Merrily We Roll Nathan The Wise, Mother Courage And Along, The Three Sisters (Cincinnati Her Children. Broadway: Misery (Music Playhouse in the Park); Ten Cents a Producer). Off-Broadway: Sweeney Dance (Williamstown); The Exorcist (L.A.). Todd (Drama Desk, Lortel, Outer Critics In the U.K., John Doyle has been artistic Circle Award noms., Outstanding Sound director of four regional
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