SADDLEBACK COLLEGE December 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 107:30PMDecember3, 4, 112:30PM directed by Mark McQuown The DepartmentofTheatreArtspresents

musically directed by Cathy Tibbits Studio Theatre

choreography by Natalie Baldwin  scenic design by Kent McFann LaChiusa LaChiusa Michael Michael costume design by Lynn McQuown John John  by by

lighting design by Tim Swiss The Vignettes & Cast of Characters Over Texas On board Air Force One, en route from Fort Worth to Love Field, Dallas, Texas · November 22, 1963 Evelyn Lincoln...... Annalecia Wittwer Mary Gallagher...... Devon Watson A Presedential Aide...... Jared Schrimp Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...... Paige Vanderwarker

Where’s Mamie? Ike and Mamie Eisenhower’s bedroom The White House, 1957 Mamie Eisenhower...... Brigitte Espenschied Marian Anderson...... Daebreon Poiema* Ike (Dwight D. Eisenhower)...... Jared Schrimp Ike’s Chauffeur...... Devon Watson

Intermission

Olio Christian Democrat Mothers and Daughters Luncheon Washington, D.C., 1945-1953 Bess Truman...... Jared Schrimp Margaret Truman...... Devon Watson

Eleanor Sleeps Here The cockpit and back space of Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra 1935, night ...... Annalecia Wittwer Hick (Lorena Hickok)...... Auva Abedine Amelia Earhart...... Paige Vanderwarker

*Guest artist

2 Production Team

Fine Arts & Media Technology Staff Theatre Production & Operations Manager: Michelle Macdougall Jackson Lighting & Sound Designer: Tim Swiss Technical Director: Michael McCormick Senior Lab Tech/Carpentry: Marc Jackson Costume Designer: Lynn McQuown

Artistic & Production Staff Assistant Director: Natalie Baldwin Rehearsal Pianist: Cathy Tibbits Acting Costume Supervisor: Lynn McQuown Scenic Artist: Chris Holmes Stage Manager: Larcyn Burnett Cutters/Stitchers: Mehran Kalantari Print Media Design: Marisa Lowey-Ball Photographers: Chris Canada Marisa Lowey-Ball

Production Crew Maddie Rodriguez, Kristina Savage, Chris Powers, Hunter Klein, Nate Mayfield

Construction Crew Atefeh Madi, Chaz Szafirslei, Chloe Taylor, Christopher Heh, Hunter Klein, Jared Schrimp, Jason Rehbein, Joe Fernandez, Johnathon Magnialeno, Kathleen Banks, Lauren Towe, Maddie Rodriguez, Nate Mayfield, Shane Sloan, Tom Islava, Ty Kaneshiro, Zach Olshan, Kuriki Cabrejos, Patrick Grovich, Michelle Lane, Paige Roobitaille, Sara Stickler, Kaylie Manville, Joshua Hernandez, Katie Ann O’Keefe, Marley Rindshoj, Ty Sterling

THE VIDEOTAPING OR OTHER AUDIO OR VIDEO RECORDING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

3 Cast Annalecia Wittwer is a full-time Saddleback student majoring in Theatre. She attended Dana Hills High School and Oklahoma City University. Past roles include: Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast in Concert, Lucy in A Charlie Brown Christmas, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Marian in The Music Man, The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods, Rizzo in Grease, and Maggie in A Chorus Line.

Paige Vanderwarker is a full-time Saddleback student majoring in Theatre. She attended Capistrano Valley High School. Past roles include: Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, Mildred in Fahrenheit 451, Jackie in Mauritius, and Rose Fenny in Dogfight.

Devon Watson is a part-time Saddleback student majoring in Drama/. She attended San Juan Hills High School and plans to transfer to UCI. Her past roles include Angel in Little Shop of Horrors, ensemble in She Loves Me, 1st Faerie in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ensemble in Oklahoma!, Mrs. Pennywise in Urinetown, assistant director for The Crucible, Smitty in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, ensemble in Candide, and ensemble in The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

4 Cast Jared Schrimp is is a full-time Saddleback student majoring in English. He attended San Juan Hills High School. He plans to transfer after two years to the University of California, Irvine. His past roles include: Donald in You Can’t Take It With You, Mr. Maraczek in She Loves Me, Pig-Pen in A Charlie Brown Christmas, and Bernstein in Dogfight at Saddleback College. Roles at San Juan Hills High School include: Basil Bennett in The Diviners, Bela Zangler in Crazy For You, Jud Fry in Oklahoma!, J.B. Biggley in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and Caldwell B. Cladwell in Urinetown.

Auva Abedini is a full-time Saddleback student majoring in Theatre with a minor in English. She plans to transfer to either Cal State Fullerton or Cal State Long Beach. She attended Tesoro High School. Past roles at Tesoro High School include the King in The Little Prince, Watchmen in Much Ado About Nothing, and Dobchinsky in The Government Inspector. She also played Rory in Bare at Saddleback College.

Brigitte Espenschied is a student at Aliso Niguel High School. She plans to study Theatre, Voice, and English in college. This is her first major role in a play. She had minor roles in high school plays and she studied Drama.

5 Guest Artist

Daebreon Poiema is a Southern California native, who attended The Orange County High School of the Arts (OCHSA) where she pursued her love of acting playing Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors, Deidre in Runaways, Gabby/Bobbi in City of Angels, and Erzulie in Once on this Island. While at OCHSA, she was a member of the performance group Kids Next Door. Daebreon received a BA in Theater Performance, with a concentration in Theater for Children, from The University of Texas at Austin. Starring as Lilly in Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse, she toured elementary schools throughout Texas. As Akela the Wolf in The Jungle Book, Daebreon had the privilege of performing for children from Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Texas School for the Deaf. These experiences shaped her passion for the art of acting, and created a desire within her to move people through sincere expression. She continued to further her education and training by completing the Master’s program of The Actors Studio Drama School in New York. Daebreon Poiema has been performing professionally for over 15 years. As a gifted actress and singer, Daebreon feels extremely blessed to have graced stages in Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Japan, and throughout the . She is excited about the doors opening for her in commercials, film, and television.

First Lady Suite is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

6 Director’s Note

Michael John LaChiusa is an American musical theatre and composer, lyricist, and librettist. He is best known for shows such as , , The Wild Party, and . He was nominated for four in 2000 for his score and book for both Marie Christine and The Wild Party. is a musical and was produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival at from November 30, 1993 through December 26, 1993, running for 32 performances. The musical contains four separate segments about four of the First Ladies of the United States of America and the people surrounding them. They are: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, Mamie Eisenhower, Bess Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt. The show premiered Off-Broadway in 1993. The four vignettes of First Lady Suite are “Over Texas,” “Where’s Mamie?,” “Olio,” and “Eleanor Sleeps Here.” The time period covered is 1933 to 1963. “Over Texas” takes place on Air Force One, the day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Texas during a motorcade. On the plane with Jackie Kennedy and her husband, President Kennedy, are Evelyn Lincoln and Mary Gallagher. Evelyn Lincoln was the personal secretary to John F. Kennedy from his election to the United States Senate in 1953 and then later worked with Mary Barelli Gallagher, Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal Secretary until 1964. Mary Gallagher was a secretary for John F Kennedy in 1953 and became Jacqueline Kennedy’s secretary in 1957 to 1964. She worked for the Kennedys for over eight years. “Where’s Mamie?” takes us on a tour of the days of Ike Eisenhower’s Presidency and his work as General Eisenhower in World War II. This vignette includes the character Marian Anderson, who was an African-American contralto and considered one of the best voices of the twentieth century. Mamie Eisenhower made friends with Marian Anderson after the DAR refused to let her sing a concert in Washington D.C. which Mamie Eisenhower later changed by providing a concert venue for Marian Anderson to sing in. Also in this sketch is (continued on p. 8) 7 Director’s Note Kay Summersby, the English transport driver and chauffeur to General Eisenhower, rumored to have had an affair with the General for many years. “Olio” is an act break, very short, (less than four minutes), and includes Bess Truman (played by Jared Schrimp) and Margaret Truman, Bess’s daughter. Bess Truman, played by a man, in many ways sums up how she felt about the White House and her years as First Lady. “Eleanor Sleeps Here” tells the true story of how Amelia Earhart talked Eleanor Roosevelt into leaving a Washington D.C. dinner and take a flight to Baltimore just for the heck of it. They took with them Lorena Hickok, who was a famed AP Journalist and friend to Eleanor Roosevelt, with possible love connections to Mrs. Roosevelt. Lorena was gay, lived in the White House on a cot just down from Eleanor Roosevelt’s room and was an avid cigar smoker. These vignettes are connected to each other only through the string of the desire of these women to have been somewhere else, during the elections, the campaigns, the lonely nights and the infidelities. In the end, these great ladies just wanted to fly away from the responsibilities of being First Lady – they wanted to be free, like birds on a wind that would eventually take them home, home – away from the White House and politics. Of all the characters in the four vignettes, Mary Barelli Gallagher is the only one left alive and she is over 90 years young.

- Mark McQuown

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...... July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994 (age 64) Mamie Eisenhower...... Nov 14, 1896 - Nov 01, 1979 (age 82) Bess Truman...... Feb 13, 1885 - Oct 18, 1982 (age 97) Eleanor Roosevelt...... Oct 11, 1884 - Nov 07, 1962 (age 78)

8 Creative Team Mark McQuown(Director) has worked in theatre as an Actor, Director, Technical Director, Educator, Playwright, Designer and Artistic Director. In the last forty years the productions which still resonate with him are: the directing of Equus, the designing/directing of Noises Off in Boulder, Colorado and as head of the Acting program at the University of Colorado, the direction of Celebration, Robber Bridegroom and Bob Eisle’s The Green Room. This list would also include the direction of Caucasian Chalk Circle, Playwright/Director for award winning P.J., the Design for Our Country’s Good for Pasadena City College Theatre Arts and Playwright/ Director/Designer for Keys To The Kingdom at Theatre Unlimited in North Hollywood. Recent productions include Macbeth for The Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival, It’s All In The Timing and Museum for Saddleback College Theatre Arts. Mr. McQuown has taught theater arts at The University of Colorado, Boulder, California Institute of The Arts in Valencia, Pasadena City College, Saddleback College, Rancho Santiago College in Orange, The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong, and most recently for Cerritos College in Norwalk teaching Acting One. Mark is a member of Actor’s Equity in New York, The Screen Actors Guild/AFTRA in Los Angeles, The New York Dramatist Guild and The Association of Los Angeles Playwrights(ALAP). Mr. McQuown is a produced playwright/screenwriter and his television and motion pictures credits can be found on the IMDB.

Larcyn Burnett(Stage Manager) is a full-time Saddleback student majoring in Entertainment and Theatre Technology. She attended Capistrano Valley High School, and she plans to attend Cal State Long Beach next spring. This is her fifth Saddleback production working backstage. She hopes to become a professional stage manager in a major city one day. Past positions include Assistant Stage Manager for Bonnie & Clyde and Grease, and Stage Manager for Dogfightand Beauty & the Beast.

9 Department of Theatre Arts Faculty & Staff

Kent McFann*, Chair William Francis McGuire*, Head of Acting and Performance

Entertainment & Theatre Technology

Chris Holmes Tim Swiss* Mark Caspary Lynn McQuown Marc Jackson* Jerold Enos Michelle Macdougall Jackson* Michael McCormick* Ineke Pretourius

Acting & Performance

Jonelle Allen David Anthony Beverly Arrowsmith Trevor Biship Hal Landon Lex Leigh Maria Mayenzet* Robert Prior Olivia Trevino Joanne DeNaut Mark McQuown Scott Farthing* Deidre Cavazzi*

*Full Time

Division of Fine Arts & Media Technology Staff

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staged reading of “TUMBLEDOWN” by Red Shuttleworth McKinney Theatre · March 16 at 7:30PM · $5 general Poet and playwright Red Shuttleworth received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum for “Woe to the Land Shadowing.”

Once Upon A Mattress Music by Mary Rodgers · Lyrics by Marshall Barer Book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer McKinney Theatre · April 7, 8, 13, 14, 15 at 7:30PM · April 9 at 2:30PM $15 general � $12 seniors � $10 students � $8 children 12 & under This popular musical that marked the Broadway debut of Carol Burnett is based on “The Princess and the Pea” by Hans Christian Andersen. With wonderful songs, hilarious and raucous antics, romantic and melodic courtships, chances are you’ll never look at fairy tales the same.

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