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PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE UPCOMING PERFORMANCES APR 15 Spring Orchestra Concert The Upper School Musical APR 16 MS/US Spring Band Concert APR 17 MS/US Spring Vocal Concert APR 26 MS/US Spring Dance Concert APR 27 Dance Conservatory Spring Concert MAY 9-11 MS Play, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane MAY 16-18 LS Grades 4-5 Musical, Peter Pan, jr. TICKETS: www.smes.org/boxoffi ce SPECIAL APPRECIATION St. Margaret’s would like to thank all of the student and parent Mar. 20-23, 2019 MARCUS D. HURLBUT THEATER volunteers, PTF Arts Alliance, and the PTF Arts Alliance Chair Valerie Jones. A special thank you to Lisa Thompson. Cappies Critics and Award Program for High School Theater St. Margaret’s is proud to participate in the Cappies, a national Critics and Awards Program for High School Theater and Journalism. Orange County is one of the largest Cappies programs in the nation, with 30 schools participating. St. Margaret’s Cappies participants are trained as critics, a end shows at other schools, write reviews, and then a selection of those reviews are published online in The Orange County Register, or on Facebook @occappies Cappies Critics for 2018-2019 are: Elena Plumb (Lead Critic), Keely Yeargin (Assistant Lead Critic) Carson C de Baca, Sally Fales, Mina Farahbod, Natalie Haugan, Nicholas Jacome, Rylan Rodrigues-Zahn St. Margaret’s Episcopal School Upper School Performing Arts Presents Into the Woods March 20-23, 2019 Marcus D. Hurbut Theater Music and Lyrics by: Stephen Sondheim Book by: James Lapine Originally Directed on Broadway by: James Lapine Director: Dan Pacheco Music Director: Stacey Miles Choreographer: Michelle London Orchestra Conductor: Gene Wie Stage Manager: Shea Tomaselli* * denotes student Please turn off all cell phones and refrain from texting inside the theater. Photography and recording are prohibited. Into the Woods Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, MY 10019 Phone: (212) 541-4684 Fax: (212) 397-4684 www.MTIShows.com DIRECTOR’S NOTE Faculty Bios GENE WIE (Orchestra Director) appears internationally as a Careful the things you say, children will listen… conductor, chamber musician, and educator. His performances on violin, viola, clarinet, and saxophone have brought him Most agree that being a parent is less like a walk in the park and more across the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Italy, Austria, like stumbling through a forest fi lled with hopes, dreams, challenges, Swi erland, Slovenia, Croatia, Australia, and New Zealand, and and exhaustion. How do we raise our children to be independent, but into major venues such as the Sydney Opera House, the Salzburg Mozarteum, and Prague Liechtenstein Palace. From Founder still protect them? Children are shielded from the realities of life. We and First Violin of the Elegie and Monarch String Quartets, want them to pursue their dreams – but is there a price to pay in that Concertmaster of the Blackbird Music Project, and Principal Clarinet of the South pursuit? Into the Woods challenges us to think about the ramifi cations of Orange County Chamber Orchestra, to Conductor of the String and Concert chasing perfection, and what might happen after “happily ever after”. Orchestras at the Orange County School of the Arts and currently Music Director of As members of families and communities, our lives are inescapably the Community Youth Orchestra of Southern California, Mr. Wie has helped shape dependent, and we often forget that actions have consequences. Have the direction of ensemble education in Orange County since 2003. A member of you ever said something you wish you could take back? Parents and the St. Margaret’s faculty since 2006, he teaches orchestral ensembles and chamber children often do. Folk tales are entry points to the unconscious - a music in grades 4 through 12, coordinates music outreach to local preschool source of unexpected and signifi cant insights into the essence of the programs, collaborates with numerous colleagues in the Suzuki String Academy, Piano Academy, and Musical Theater, and is the Founding Artistic Director of the human experience. We learn from the revelation of a moral at the end of St. Margaret’s Summer Music Festival. In a unique dual role on campus, he also the story. In real life, however, our morality is regularly questioned and teaches Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science and Introduction to Software the path is never as straight. Engineering courses. He earned MFA Music and BS Information and Computer Science degrees from the University of California at Irvine. www.genewie.com This story is a collision of several fairy tales including Cinderella, Li le Red Ridinghood, Rapunzel, and Jack and the Beanstalk. Searching for GORDON RICHINS (Technical Director/Resident Designer) wish fulfi llment, they embark upon a quest, riddled with allegory, has worked as a set designer and teacher for more than 20 years. symbolism, and life lessons learned. James Lapine’s book bounces His experience includes working with Long Beach City College between farce and tragedy, acknowledging the absurdities of the original and Lawrence Welk Resorts Theatre as a set designer for several Grimm fairy tales. The story is told through a score that is considered productions. He has taught at Orange County School of the one of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpieces. Long before Hamilton, these Arts, The Art Institute of California – Orange County, Chapman characters use spoken word to express themselves in a way that even University, and Mt. San Antonio College. Mr. Richins has also singing cannot. The music takes us on a journey from its bright, satirical worked at Disneyland Entertainment Art as an artisan for the ‘It’s surface into the shadowy, thorny alcove of the confl icted heart. This a Small World’ Christmas renovation, The Hercules Parade and Disney’s Mulan musical won 3 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards for its original Exhibit. He was an Assistant Designer for John Iacovelli for shows, including the stage musical, Peter Pan, starring Cathy Rigby, Zoot Suit, and A Streetcar Named Broadway production and has become an American treasure that teaches Desire. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Technical Theater with an emphasis in us lessons about life to this day. Set Design from Utah State University and a Master of Fine Arts in Drama with an emphasis in Set Design, from the University of California, Irvine. Each and every participant, onstage and off , collaborated beautifully to bring this cautionary tale to you tonight. Actors spent countless hours dissecting Sondheim’s complex lyrics so that audiences could absorb LINDA VICK (Costume Designer) has been a theatrical costume designer for over 30 years. She has designed costumes for the value of each word. Our mission at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School countless shows across the United States. In addition to leading is to educate the hearts and minds of young people for lives of learning, this year’s six productions at St. Margaret’s, Linda works with leadership, and service. By going Into the Woods, my hope is that we have Theatre Company Costumes in Upland, CA. Ms. Vick started done just that. her creative journey as a young ballerina and was intrigued by the backstage world of the theater. Later, she studied art and Mr. Dan Pacheco history. Once she learned how to sew in a Home Economics class, she has not stopped since. Linda is happy to be joining the St. Margaret’s community more extensively this year to oversee costumes for the six main theater productions. Faculty Bios MUSICAL NUMBERS DAN PACHECO (Director) is the Upper School drama program INTO THE WOODS is presented in Two Acts, with a 15 minute intermission. director. He is directing the Middle School musical, the Upper School musical, the Middle School play and is a Cappies critics ACT 1 program mentor. He splits his time between NYC and California. Some of his past credits include playing Boq on the Broadway tour Prologue: Into the Woods Narrator, Company of Wicked and many years playing Aladdin in Disney’s Aladdin. He Cinderella at the Grave Cinderella, Cinderella’s Mother has done numerous commercials and sung for thousands, touring Hello Li le Girl Wolf, Li le Red Ridinghood across Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He was selected to sing Disneyland’s 50th Anniversary Anthem on national TV and was a host for Radio I Guess This is Goodbye Jack Disney, collaborating with many chart-topping artists and bands. As a Broadway Maybe They’re Magic Baker’s Wife, Baker Connection Master Teacher, Mr. Pacheco taught workshops at universities across Our Li le World Witch, Rapunzel the country. He is the Director of Creative Arts and Athletics in NYC, a summer intensive, and has students who are currently on Broadway. Dan is a proud Baker’s Reprise Baker alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. I Know Things Now Li le Red Ridinghood A Very Nice Prince Cinderella, Baker’s Wife STACEY MILES (Music Director) has been teaching at St. First Midnight Company Margaret’s since 2004, and has experience ranging from pre- Giants in the Sky Jack kindergarten through grade 12. Her vocal credits include roles in Bye Bye Birdie, L’Elixir d’Amore and three years as principal Agony Cinderella’s Prince, Rapunzel’s Prince vocalist in Cirque du Soleil’s production of Mystère at Treasure A Very Nice Prince (Reprise) Cinderella, Baker’s Wife Island Hotel in Las Vegas. In 1992, she sang soprano with the It Takes Two Baker, Baker’s Wife Westminster Symphonic Choir on a recording of Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci performed in Carnegie Hall, with the title role sung by the Second Midnight Company late legendary tenor Luciano Pavaro i.