FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE GREG LONGENHAGEN, Artistic Director • JOHN MARTIN, Managing Director 2018-2019 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT
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FLORIDA REPERTORY THEATRE GREG LONGENHAGEN, Artistic Director • JOHN MARTIN, Managing Director 2018-2019 SEASON HISTORIC ARCADE THEATRE • FORT MYERS RIVER DISTRICT PRESENTS SPONSORED BY TRULY NOLEN • MEDIA SPONSOR: BEASLEY BROADCASTING STARRING ensemble members VIKI BOYLE* • GREG LONGENHAGEN* • BRENDAN POWERS* • PETER THOMASSON* with JOE DELAFIELD* • FAITH SANDBERG* • ERIC SHOREY*• SYDNEY TORRES TOVA VOLCHECK • BRUCE WARREN* and JAKE BERNE, LANE FREE, ANNABELLE GRASMEIER, KEEHNON JACKSON, LIZA JAYNE LONGENHAGEN, CARSON R. MASCHMEIER, CHRISTIAN MILLER, SEBASTIAN MOORE, PATRICK MOUNCE, MATTEO OCCHINO, GRACE LAYNE RYAN, MIKEY REICHERT, GENEVIEVE TANKOSICH, CADENCE BAMBREY-ZEDD DIRECTED BY MARK SHANAHAN** MUSIC DIRECTOR CHOREOGRAPHER COMPOSER/ARRANGER ERIC SHOREY* STEPHANIE CARD** DREW WUTKE SET DESIGNER COSTUME DESIGNER LIGHTING DESIGNER SOUND DESIGNER CHARLIE ALICE NEFF CHRISTINA KATIE LOWE CORCORAN*** WATANABE*** PRODUCTION STAGE DECK CHIEF/ ASST. STAGE MANAGER MANAGER ASST. STAGE MANAGER ARTHUR D’ALESSIO* JANINE WOCHNA* BRIGHAM JOHNSON ensemble member ensemble member 2018-19 GRAND SEASON SPONSORS IN THE KNOW. IN THE NOW. This entire season sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Florida Repertory Theatre is a fully professional non-profit LOA/LORT Theatre company on contract with the Actors’ Equity Association that proudly employs members of the national theatrical labor unions. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association. **Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. ***Member of United Scenic Artists. ABOUT THE ADAPTER/DIRECTOR MARK SHANAHAN** returns to Florida Rep having directed How the Other Half Loves, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. In 2016, Florida Rep produced his play The Dingdong, the Off Broadway and CAST regional hit comedy adapted from Feydeau’s Le Actor 1 (Ebenezer Scrooge).........................Peter Thomasson*† Dindon. Mark’s directorial work has been seen on Actor 2 (Bob Cratchit, others)................Greg Longenhagen*† numerous stages across the country, including Actor 3 (Fred, Dick Wilkins, others)................Joe Delafield*† the Alley Theatre, Virginia Stage, the George Actor 4 (Mrs. Dilber, Mrs. Fezziwig, Madge).......Viki Boyle*† Street Playhouse, the Fulton Opera House, Actor 5 (Marley, Fezziwig, William, Arkansas Rep, Merrimack Rep, Penguin Rep, Christmas Future).................................Brendan Powers*† Florida Studio Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Weston Actor 6 (Fan, Catherine)...........................................Sydney Torres*† Playhouse, Hangar Theatre, Theatre Squared, Actor 7 (Mrs. Cratchit, Belle, others)...............Faith Sandberg* † Westport Country Playhouse, the White Heron Actor 8 (Jolly Gentleman, Mr. Westcott, Theatre and others. New York acting credits Christmas Present, Old Joe)................. † Bruce Warren* include the Broadway hit The 39 Steps (American Actor 9 (pianist, Belle’s husband, others).........Eric Shorey*† Actor 10 (violinist, Martha, others).....................Tova Volcheck Airlines , Cort Theatre); Small World (59E59); Child 1 (Christmas Past, Girl)..........Liza Jayne Longenhagen The Shaughraun and Tryst (Irish Rep); Checkers Child 2 (Tiny Tim)..........................................................................Lane Free (The Vineyard Theatre) As Bees In Honey Drown Child 3 (Boy, Young Scrooge)................................Christian Miller (Lucille Lortel Theatre); Philadelphia, Here I Come! Child 4 (Peter Cratchit, other).......................Keehnon Jackson (Roundabout); and many more. Regionally, he has Child 5 (Abigail Fezziwig, others)..................Grace Layne Ryan appeared extensively at the Alley Theatre and the Child 6 (Charlie Wray, Ignorance)...............Sebastian Moore Westport Country Playhouse, as well as Hartford Child 7 (Marcus, Ralphie Fezziwig)....Carson R. Maschmeier Theatreworks, the Bay Street Theatre, the Fulton, Child 8 (Isabella, ensemble).....................Annabelle Grasmeier Pioneer Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Denver Theatre Ensemble...........................................................................................Jake Berne Center, The Kennedy Center and others. Mark Candace Bambrey-Zedd has been seen on television on David Letterman Patrick Mounce and All My Children, and in the films Kill Me, Safe Matteo Occhino Mikey Reichert Men, Bug, Endsville, Yellow, Mad about Harry and Genevieve Tankosich more. Mark is a graduate of Brown University and holds an MA from Fordham University, where he teaches. He is an award-winning voice over TIME/PLACE: artist and Edgar Award-nominated playwright. 1843 London • Christmas www.mark-shanahan.net Wardrobe Supervisors: Emma Lodgard, Anna Barge Lighting and Sound Board Op: Caycelynn Hoggard ABOUT THE WRITER Young Actor Guardian: Skylar Shelton CHARLES DICKENS, (born February 7, 1812, Understudies: Cadence Bambrey-Zedd (Child 2/5), Portsmouth, Hampshire, England—died June Matteo Occhino (Child 3/4/6/7), 9, 1870, Gad’s Hill, near Chatham, Kent), English Annabelle Grasmeier (Child 1) novelist, is generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era. His many volumes include A A CHRISTMAS CAROL will be performed with Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. one 15-minute intermission. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity during his The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any lifetime than had any previous author. Much in means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. his work could appeal to the simple and the sophisticated, to the poor and to the queen. His long career saw fluctuations in the reception and †Member of Florida Repertory Theatre’s sales of individual novels, but none of them was Ensemble of Theatre Artists. negligible or uncharacteristic or disregarded, and, See page 25 for the entire ensemble. though he is now admired for aspects and phases * The Actors & Stage Manager employed in this of his work that were given less weight by his production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, contemporaries, his popularity has never ceased. the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The most abundantly comic of English authors, he was much more than a great entertainer. ** The range, compassion, and intelligence of his apprehension of his society and its shortcomings enriched his novels and made him both one of the great forces in 19th-century literature and *** an influential spokesman of the conscience of his age. ABOUT THE CAST PETER THOMASSON*† Theater), Photograph 51 (Fountain Theater), (Ebenezer Scrooge) first The Dingdong (Florida Rep), The Hound of the appeared at Florida Rep 15 Baskervilles (Hudson Stage), The 39 Steps (Mile years ago, this very month. A Square Theater), and The Autumn Garden, The company member ever since, Seagull, Macbeth, The Crucible, and The Liar he last performed as Captain (LA’s Best Supporting Actor Ovation Award Keller in The Miracle Worker. He nomination) all at LA’s Antaeus Theater. TV/Film appeared here in The Seafarer and Camping with credits include The Sopranos, All My Children, Henry and Tom, and two productions of To Kill a Filmic Achievement, and Company K. Joe holds Mockingbird, as well as Becky’s New Car, Twelve a BA from Columbia University and an MFA Angry Men and The Cocktail Hour, his favorites. from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. A member of Actors Equity for 41 years, he now resides in beautiful Asheville, NC where he runs VIKI BOYLE*† (Mrs. Fezziwig & an Airbnb with his partner Paul, volunteers with others) is a 40-year veteran of CarePartners hospice organization, plays bridge, New York and regional theatre, and has a continuing relationship at Flat Rock film, and TV. She is an ensemble member here at Florida Rep Playhouse for 25 years. and last appeared in Outside Mullingar, The Miracle Worker, GREG LONGENHAGEN*† George Washington’s Teeth, Over the River and (Bob Cratchit, others) is also Through the Woods, A Christmas Story, Vanya the Artistic Director of The and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Arsenic and Florida Repertory Theatre Old Lace, Noises Off, and Neil Simons’ Rumors. where he most recently Off-Broadway credits at the Roundabout, MCC, appeared as Artie in The and American Globe theatres include her own House of Blue Leaves. A proud work The Whole Truth, winner of the Samuel company member of the Rep since its first French Short Play Series, and Term Limit for season in 1998, Greg has performed numerous which she won the top prizes for both acting roles over its last 21 seasons. Other regional and writing. She received two Carbonell Awards acting credits include Mitch in Tuesday’s with for The Little Foxes and Don’t Dress for Dinner Morrie at The Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Nick at the former Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton. in Over the River… at The Charlotte Repertory Her movie and TV credits include The Wolf of Theatre, Homer in The Centerburg Tales, The Wall Street, The Leftovers, Person of Interest, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Marce in Baby’s and over 200 commercials, where her work has Blues at The Pittsburgh Playhouse, Tristan been recognized with the CLIO award. Besides Tzara in Travesties for Pittsburgh Irish and contributing to the wonderful musical tribute Classical Theatre, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet A Dash of Rosemary, she and writing partner at The Mountain Playhouse, Weissman in The Doug Kampsen publish NYC Trivia Tours, a series Puppetmaster of Ludz at