The University of Tennessee School of Music Opera Theatre Presents ROBERT WARD'S

at the historic Bijou Theatre

Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m. TheSaturday, April Crucible 22 at 2:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Sunday, April 23 at 2:30 p.m.

John Proctor Ian Bolden and Tyler Padgett Elizabeth Proctor Allison Deady and Brynn Johnson Abigail Williams Kayla Beard and Emily Simmons Judge Danforth D.C. Miles and Darius Thomas Reverend John Hale Brandon Bell, Griffen Hogan Tracy, and Jacob Moreno cover Reverend Samuel Parris Joshua Taylor Allen and Ben Mason Tituba Julie Bélanger Roy Rebecca Nurse Katlyn Householder Francis Nurse Jacob Moreno Giles Corey Michael Gonzales Mary Warren Leslie Ostransky and Elena Stabile Ann Putnam Sierra L. Hammond and Meghan Renée Mayes Thomas Putnam James Berkeley Wilson Ezekiel Cheever Lee Brandt and Jack Francis Sarah Good Ryan Colbert and Kate Smith Betty Parris Marya Barry Bridget Booth Shelbi Matthews Mercy Lewi Haley Retterer Susanna Walcott Elizabeth Geist Ruth Putnam Claire Hoppen Martha Sheldon Ashlee King Chorus Zachery Dean Coffey, Leona Miller, Isiah Rankin, and Ellen Sudarshen

There will be one 15-minute intermission. Texting and the use of cell phones, pagers, cameras, or sound and video recording is strictly forbidden. SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS Act I The Reverend Samuel Parris kneels at the bed of his daughter Betty who became stricken herself has turned witch. Mary turns on John Proctor accusing him of being the Devil's after being found dancing in the woods. Abigail enters saying the town is whispering of man who has forced her into trying to confuse and overthrow the court. All but Reverend witchcraft, that Parris should make a denial. The Putnams enter to say their Ruth was stricken Hale close in on John Proctor with vindictiveness. also. They have sent for Reverend Hale, known for his skill in discovering witches. Act IV Rebecca and Francis Nurse enter with Giles Corey. When Putnam insists that witches are Abby comes to the prison and has bribed the jailer to let Proctor escape. John, broken by at work in Salem, Giles accuses him of using a witch scare to defraud his neighbors of their months of prison and torture, scornfully rejects the freedom. land. John Proctor's entrance only brings this quarrel to a higher peak. Hale and Parris try to persuade Judge Danforth to postpone the executions of Proctor As they sing a psalm, Betty writhes and tries to leap from the bed. Midst the commotion, and Rebecca Nurse. Danforth refuses, but agrees to ask Elizabeth to plead her husband’s Reverend Hale enters with information that Tituba has played an important role, having confession. been at the dancing. Ann Putnam asserts that Tituba knows conjuring, so Tituba is sent for. Abigail, who has been under severe inquisition by Hale, lashes out to accuse Tituba John is brought in and left alone with Elizabeth. She tells him that Giles Corey has died, of compacting with the Devil. Tituba confesses that she has been visited by the Devil, but pressed to death rather than say aye or nay to the charge of witchcraft, but that many have denies being persuaded into any wrongdoing. confessed in order to save their lives. John wishes to confess, but only if it won’t make her think ill of him for lying. Passionately, she answers that all she wants is him alive. He agrees Tituba's confession breaks Betty’s spell. As Abigail envies the attention being given to Tituba, to confess to witchcraft. she repents her own compact with the Devil and is asked to call out others of the Devil's crew. Rebecca however, refuses to confess, not wishing to damn herself with the lie. John is asked Act II to sign his confession, that it may be exhibited before the town. But this is too much: he will The witch trials have aggravated Elizabeth and John Proctor’s domestic troubles, with not set his hand to the destruction of his own name and the eternal shame of his sons. He Abigail at the center of both. Elizabeth wants John to expose Abby's fraud to Judge tears up the document. In fury Danforth orders John and Rebecca to be led out to execution. Danforth, and his reluctance convinces her he still harbors feelings for Abby. John's defense is double: that he has no witness to what Abby told him, and that she will avenge herself by revealing John's adultery with her. Elizabeth believes that Abby will not confess and insists John abandon all feelings he has left for Abby. PRODUCTION & ARTISTIC STAFF Mary Warren, one of Abby’s witch-finding crew, announces that the number of those arrested has tripled, and that Goody Osburn has been condemned to hang. Mary is troubled by this, James Marvel, STAGE DIRECTOR Patti Lynn Rogers, COSTUMER and demonstrates how the courtroom hysteria turned her into an accuser against her will. Kevin Class, MUSIC DIRECTOR AND Susan and Jason Herrera, WIGMASTERS When John threatens to whip her if she returns to court, she blurts that Elizabeth has been CONDUCTOR mentioned in court and that only Mary's defense of her prevented an accusation. Anna Campbell, MAKEUP DESIGNER Elizabeth, certain that Abby is behind this, pleads once more with John to go to court when Eileen Downey, VOCAL COACH Kathryn E. Wright, PROPERTIES MANAGER Reverend Hale and John Cheever enter with a warrant for her arrest. Abigail has also charged AND REHEARSAL PIANIST Elizabeth with employing a witch's poppet to kill her. John turns his attention to Mary to tell LEAD CARPENTER Kelvin Ying, REHEARSAL PIANIST David Silverthorn, her story in court even though it may provoke a charge of adultery from Abby and ruin both AND ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Abby and John completely. Christine Osborne, SCENIC ARTIST AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Act III Emi Kagawa, REHEARSAL AND COACHING PIANIST Abby tries to persuade John to abandon Elizabeth and join her in the holy work of cleansing Haley Retterer, ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER the town. He instead pleads that she stops the nonsense and threatens to expose her fraud. Bernadette Lo, REHEARSAL PIANIST Joe Casterline, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR She defies him and declares that Elizabeth’s ill fate will be of his doing. Kalliopi Altintasiot, REHEARSAL PIANIST As court begins, Giles Corey accuses Thomas Putnam of greed for his neighbors' land, and Will Lambert, LIGHT BOARD PROGRAMMER AND OPERATOR for bragging about his role in the charges of witchcraft. Judge Danforth sends Corey to jail Rebecca Parr, PRODUCTION MANAGER and torture for refusing to name his witnesses in this accusation. There is a great hubbub Ali Leonard, STAGE MANAGER Nan Lambrecht, Lisa Hester, as Corey leaps at Putnam, the man responsible for the arrest of his wife, himself, and Asher Smith, Lee Jon Taylor, and Rebecca Nurse. Ryan Colbert, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Claude Hardey, PRODUCTION SUPPORT John Proctor presents Mary's deposition that the entire witch hunt started as a game for the girls and is a fraud. He says Abby continued the game in an effort to dispose of Blair Mielnik, SCENIC DESIGNER Allison Deady, GRADUATE ASSISTANT Elizabeth, Abby’s motive being their affair, which he is now confessing. When Elizabeth, Tláloc López-Watermann, Chadwick Creative Arts, SUPERTITLES ordinarily incapable of a lie, fails to confirm John's confession, Abigail charges that Mary LIGHTING DESIGNER OPERA ORCHESTRA MEET THE ARTISTS

James Fellenbaum, DIRECTOR OF ORCHESTRAS James Marvel, STAGE DIRECTOR Blair Mielnik, SCENIC DESIGNER Hometown: New Orleans, LA Hometown: New York, NY Violin I Cello Bassoon Recent: Das Rheingold (North Carolina Recent: Cosi Fan Tutte (UTOT); The Consul Ricardo Ferreira, Clara Johnson, principal Zach Millwood Opera); La Traviata (New Orleans Opera); (UTOT); I Sing the Rising Sea (Virginia concertmaster Hannah Haggitt Horn La Cenerentola (Opera Tampa) Stage Company) Benjamin Parton Bass Seth Hall, co-principal MUSIC DIRECTOR Jane Robertson Jon Hamar, principal Matthew Howard, Kevin Class, Tláloc López-Watermann, Evelyn Pieper AND CONDUCTOR LIGHTING DESIGNER Tony Tortora co-principal Hometown: Brussels, Belgium Hometown: Galisteo, NM Violin II Flute Trumpet Recent: Ulysses (UTOT), Suor Angelica Recent: Ricardo Primo (Pittsburgh Opera); Carolina Pons-Martinez, Elizabeth Wolfrey, principal David Marvel, principal (Oberlin in Italy), Don Giovanni (UTOT), Hydrogen Jukebox (Lawrence University); principal Shannon Frisco Elise Armstrong Complete Piano Sonatas of Mozart Ulysses (UTOT) Carson Bohner (Huntsville), numerous concerts with Oboe Trombone Clara Prinston Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Hindemith Patti Lynn Rogers, COSTUMER Sarah Emmons Matthew Peoples Viola Symphony (Manila), etc. Hometown: Morristown, TN Zachary Jerome, principal Clarinet Percussion Recent: Between a Ballad and a Blues Angela Baucom Matthew Little, principal Daniel Lankford Eileen Downey, VOCAL COACH (Carpetbag Theatre); Ulysses (UTOT); AJ Perry Adam Lion AND REHEARSAL PIANIST Shakespeare on the Square (Tennessee Hometown: Grand Ledge, MI Stage Company) Recent: Ulysses (UTOT); Pirates of SCHOOL OF MUSIC Penzance (Knoxville Opera); Falling Angel Susan Herrera, WIGMASTER (Janiec Opera Company at the Brevard Hometown: Tokyo, Japan Jeffrey Pappas, director of the School of Music Music Center) Recent: La Boheme (Knoxville Opera); Ulysses (UTOT); Pirates of Penzance James Marvel, associate professor and director of opera Kelvin Ying, REHEARSAL PIANIST (Knoxville Opera) Kevin Class, director of collaborative piano and music director of opera theatre AND ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR Hometown: Minneapolis, MN Jason Herrera, WIGMASTER James Fellenbaum, associate professor and director of orchestras Recent: Il Campanello (Independent); Hometown: Oak Ridge, TN Marjorie Bennett Stephens, associate professor of voice The Telephone (Independent) Recent: La Boheme (Knoxville Opera); Ulysses (UTOT); Pirates of Penzance Lorraine DiSimone, associate professor and coordinator of voice Bernadette Lo, REHEARSAL PIANIST (Knoxville Opera) Cecily Nall, lecturer of voice Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan Recent: The Medium (UTOT); Norma Anna Campbell, MAKEUP DESIGNER Andrew Skoog, associate professor of voice (Knoxville Opera) Hometown: Morristown, TN Andrew Wentzel, professor of voice and administrator of Knoxville Opera Studio Recent: La Boheme (Knoxville Opera); Emi Kagawa, REHEARSAL AND Ulysses (UTOT); Pirates of Penzance COACHING PIANIST (Knoxville Opera) Hometown: Osaka, Japan SPECIAL THANKS Recent: Knoxville Symphony Orchestra; Kathryn E. Wright, PROPERTIES MANAGER Faculty at Saint Joseph's University, UT Cultural Affairs Board Mary Costa Hometown: Pensacola, FL Philadelphia, PA Recent: Ulysses (UTOT); Busy Body (Clarence Jeffrey Pappas, WUOT Brown Theatre); The Consul (UTOT) director of the School of Music Kalliopi Altintasioti, REHEARSAL PIANIST WUTK Hometown: Serres, Greece dean of the Ali Leonard, STAGE MANAGER Theresa Lee, Knoxville Opera Recent: The Consul (UTOT) College of Arts and Sciences Hometown: Hendersonville, TN Sam Furrow Piano Teacher: Kevin Class Recent: La Traviata (Marble City Opera); Monroe and Sandra Trout New Opera Works Festival (Cleveland Opera Norcostco J. Michael and Melissa McCoy Theater); Tosca (Union Avenue Opera) Clarence Brown Theatre Caesar and Dorothy Stair Barbara Mott Brenda Maupin TERI Productions Joseph B. Trahern Jr., professor emeritus CAST CAST

Joshua Taylor Allen, Zachary Dean Coffey,CHORUS Claire Hoppen, RUTH PUTNAM Tyler Padgett, JOHN PROCTOR REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS Hometown: Knoxville, TN Hometown: Orlando, FL Hometown: Big Sandy, TN Hometown: Hickory, NC Recent: Choir, St. Paul United Methodist Church Recent: Chorus in Ulysses (UTOT); Chorus Recent: Masetto in Don Giovanni (UTOT); Recent: Ulysses in Ulysses (UTOT); Voice Teacher: Cecily Nall in Don Giovanni (UTOT); Chorus in Hansel Pirate King in Pirates of Penzance Mr. Upfold in Albert Herring (Meredith and Gretel (Knoxville Opera) (Tennessee Valley Players); Mr. Kofner in College); Earl of Leicester in Maria Stuarda Ryan Colbert, SARAH GOOD/ Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel The Consul (UTOT) (East Carolina University) ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Hometown: Cleveland, TN Katlyn Householder, REBECCA NURSE Recent: Fortuna in Ulysses (UTOT); Annina Hometown: Knoxville, TN Haley Retterer, MERCY LEWIS AND ASSISTANT Marya Barry, BETTY PARRIS cover in La Traviata (Marble City Opera); Recent: Ericlea in Ulysses (UTOT); Fidalma STAGE MANAGER Hometown: Debary, FL Mrs. Webster in Sweets by Kate (Marble in Il matrimonio segreto (Red River Lyric Hometown: Elmhurst, IL Recent: Melanto in Ulysses (UTOT); City Opera) Opera); Third Lady in The Magic Flute (UTOT) Recent: La traviata (Marble City Opera); Bradamante in Alcina (Oberlin in Italy); Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Ulysses (UTOT); Gallantry/La Divina Mother in The Consul (UTOT) (Marble City Opera) Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Allison Deady, ELIZABETH PROCTOR AND Brynn Johnson, ELIZABETH PROCTOR Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone GRADUATE ASSISTANT Hometown: Neenah, WI Kayla Beard, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Hometown: Fairport, NY Recent: Penelope in Ulysses (UTOT); Kate Meghan Renée Mayes, ANN PUTNAM Hometown: Buffalo, MN Recent: Edith in Pirates of Penzance in Pirates of Penzance (Knoxville Opera); Hometown: Seymour, TN Recent: Minerva in Ulysses (UTOT); Mrs. (Knoxville Opera); Penelope in Ulysses Serse in Serse (Oberlin in Italy) Recent: Amore Ulysses (UTOT); Knaben in P in Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (UTOT); Pitti-Sing, cover, in The Mikado Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone The Magic Flute (UTOT); Anne in The Rakes (Brigham Young University, Idaho Opera (Chautauqua Opera) Progress (VolOpera) Scenes); Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Ashlee King, MARTHA SHELDON Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens (Winona Community Theater) Hometown: Maryville, TN Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone Jack Francis, EZEKIEL CHEEVER Recent: Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro and D.C. Miles, JUDGE DANFORTH Hometown: Nashville, TN Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte (VolOpera) Hometown: Mc Gehee, AR Julie Bélanger Roy, TITUBA Recent: Telemaco in Ulysses (UTOT); Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone Recent: Iro in Ulysses (UTOT); Sam Polk in Hometown: Montréal, Québec Armoured Guard in The Magic Flute Susannah (Red River Lyric Opera Summer Recent: Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica (UTOT); Chorus/Parasol Boy Ben Mason, REVEREND SAMUEL PARRIS Festival 2016); The Magician Nika Magadoff (Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre); Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog Hometown: Brentwood, TN in The Consul (UTOT) Abandoned in Ghosts of Crosstown Recent: Jupiter in Ulysses (UTOT); Younger Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog (Marble City Opera); Benoît/Alcindoro in Elizabeth Geist, SUSANNA WALCOTT Son in Medea (UTOT); Chrous in Don La Femme Bohème (Marble City Opera). Hometown: Knoxville, TN Giovanni (UTOT) Jacob Moreno, FRANCIS NURSE Recent: Coro in Cielo in Ulysses (UTOT); Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog Hometown: Oak Ridge, TN Brandon Bell, REVEREND JOHN HALE General Stanley's daughter in The Pirates Recent: Reuban in Joseph and the Amazing Hometown: Suffolk, VA of Penzance (Tennessee Valley Players); Shelbi Matthews, BRIDGET BOOTH Technicolor Dreamcoat (ORHS) Recent: Tempo/Nettuno in Ulysses (UTOT); Chorus/Fair Maiden of the Window in Don Hometown: Nashville, TN Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream Giovanni (UTOT) Recent: Knaben in The Magic Flute (UTOT); (Janiec Opera Company); Leporello in Don Voice Teacher: Cecily Nall Chorus in Don Giovanni (UTOT) Leslie Ostransky, MARY WARREN Giovanni (UTOT) Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel Hometown: Frederick, MD Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel Michael Gonzalez, GILES COREY Recent: Gretel in Hansel and Gretel Hometown: New Orleans, LA Leona Miller, CHORUS (Wheaton College); Isabel in Pirates of Ian Bolden, JOHN PROCTOR Recent: Eumete in Ulysses (UTOT); Richard Hometown: Gilt-Edge, TN Penzance (Knoxville Opera); Melanto in Hometown: Akron, OH Dauntless in Ruddigore (Greensboro Light Recent: Milly in Seven Brides for Seven Ulysses (UTOT) Credits: Anfinomo in Ulysses (UTOT); Samuel Opera); Doofey in Sweets by Kate (Marble Brothers, and Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens in The Pirates of Penzance (Knoxville Opera) City Opera) Prejudice (Tipton-Rosemark Academy); Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog Cunegonde in Make Our Garden Grow Isiah Rankin, CHORUS (Opera Memphis Scenes Program) Hometown: Memphis, TN Lee Brandt, EZEKIEL CHEEVER Sierra L. Hammond, ANN PUTNAM Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel Recent: Composition Premier, Wade in the Hometown: Knoxville, TN Hometown: Dallas, TX Water (UT School of Music Black History Recent: Eurimaco/Pisandro in Ulysses (UTOT) Recent: Minerva in Ulysses (UTOT); Chorus Month Concert) Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog in Don Giovanni (UTOT); Anna Gomez in Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog The Consul (UTOT) Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel CAST Emily Simmons, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Darius Thomas, JUDGE DANFORTH Hometown: Phoenix, AZ Hometown: Sherman, TX Recent: Fortuna/Giunone in Ulysses Recent: Ulysses in Ulysses (UTOT) Jean (UTOT); Frasquita in Carmen (CCM Valjean in Les Miserables (Southeastern Summer Opera Bootcamp); Alcina in Alcina Oklahoma State University); Eisenstein in (Cincinnati College, Conservatory of Music) Die Fledermaus (Southeastern Oklahoma Voice Teacher: Marjorie Bennett Stephens State University) Voice Teacher: Andrew Skoog Kate Smith, SARAH GOOD Hometown: Knoxville, TN Griffen Hogan Tracy, REVEREND JOHN HALE Recent: Kate Stanley in The Pirates of Hometown: Golden, CO Penzance (Tennessee Valley Players); Recent: Neptune/Time in Ulysses (UTOT); Chorus in The Pirates of Penzance Leporello in Don Giovanni (Lamont Opera (Knoxville Opera); Chorus in La Bohème Theatre); Sir John Falstaff in The Merry (Knoxville Opera) Wives of Windsor (Lamont Opera Theatre) Voice Teacher: Lorraine DiSimone Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel

Elena Stabile, MARY WARREN James Berkeley Wilson, THOMAS PUTNAM Hometown: St. Paul, MN Hometown: Cary, NC Recent: Polly Peachum in The Beggar's Recent: Papageno in The Magic Flute (Berlin Opera (Lawrence University); Elvira in Opera Academy); Bob in The Old Maid L'Italiana in Algeri (La Musica Lirica); Amore and the Thief (Coastal Carolina University); and Giunone in Ulysses (UTOT) L'Umana Fragilita in Ulysses (UTOT) Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel

Ellen Sudarshan, CHORUS Hometown: Brentwood, TN Recent: Chorus in Don Giovanni (UTOT); Angel/Gingerbread Child in Hansel and Gretel (Knoxville Opera) Voice Teacher: Andrew Wentzel