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Governors State University OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia Center for Performing Arts 3-3-2001 Crazy for You® Center for Performing Arts Follow this and additional works at: http://opus.govst.edu/cpa_memorabilia Recommended Citation Center for Performing Arts, "Crazy for You®" (2001). Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia. Book 170. http://opus.govst.edu/cpa_memorabilia/170 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Performing Arts at OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Center for Performing Arts Memorabilia by an authorized administrator of OPUS Open Portal to University Scholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. fOR PEftfORhlHC flftT5 Governors State University Presents Mainstage Productions, L.L.C. CRAZY FOR YOU® The New Gershwin® Musical "The worldwide copyrights in the music of George and Ira Gershwin® for this presentation are licensed by the Gershwin Family." CRAZY FOR YOU®, THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL is presented by arrangement with TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. 560 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York 10022" "GERSHWIN is a registered trademark and service mark of Gershwin Enterprises." "CRAZY FOR YOU is a registered trademark and service mark of CRAZY FOR YOU Enterprises." Saturday, March 3,2001 8:OOPM 2000/2001 Season sponsored in part from a grant from the: <l o c i 1 Mainstage Productions, L.L.C. CAST presents (In order of appearance) Tess Jessica Hillman CRAZY FOR YOU® Patsy Jennifer Leigh Schwerer THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL Stage Manager/Mingo/CowboyTrio Paul Ashley Stage Hand/Wyatt Tom Pacio Bobby Child Matthew LaBanca Music and Lyrics By Book By Bela Zangler James Bulleri George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Margie Amy Melissa Smith Book By Ken Ludwig Elaine Joy Pearson Original Broadway Choreography by Susan Stroma Mitzie Laura West Louise Michele Utzig Susie Megan Bowen Co-Conception by Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent Betsy Laura McKenzie Inspired by Material by Guy Bolton and John McGowan Irene Roth Joy Suprano Originally Produced on Broadway by Roger Horchow and Elizabeth Williams Lottie Child (Mother) Tracy Jordan Chauffer/Junior Joe Abraham Starring Perkins/Custus John Cormier Matthew LaBanc Christine Negherbon James Bulled Moose/Cowboy Trio Adam Heath Vargas Sam/Cowboy Trio John Raterman Musical Director/Conductor Lighting Design Wigs, Hair and Makeup Design Harry (Bartender) Brook Castleberry Hall Camille Villalpando Jeremy Rolla Patricia DelSordo Pete Robert Spring Sound Design Technical Director Scenery Bill/Mr. Eugene Fodor James Corrothers Jess Feltz Billy Kimbley Gateway Performing Arts,Inc Polly Baker Christine Negherbon Bellport, NY Everett Baker Frank Purcell Lank Hawkins Fletcher Young Lighting and Sound Casting Costumes Northern Sound and Light, Inc. Bob Cline Fullerton Civic Light Opera and Mrs. Patricia Fodor Jennifer Smith Dodger Costumes The Ensemble Joe Abraham, Paul Ashley, Megan Bowen, John Cormier, James Corrothers, Brook Castleberry Hall, Jessica Hillman, Directed and Choreographed By Paula Sloan Laura McKenzie, Tom Pacio, Joy Pearson, John Raterman, Jennifer Leigh Schwerer, Amy Melissa Smith, Robert Spring, Michele Utzig, The worldwide copyrights in the music of George and Ira Gershwin® Adam Heath Vargas, Laura West for this presentation are licensed by the Gershwin Family. UNDERSTUDIES CRAZY FOR YOU® Polly Baker Joy Pearson THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL Bobby Child John Raterman is presented by arrangement with Bela Zangler Brook C. Hall TAMS-WITMARK MUSIC LIBRARY, INC. Lottie Child (Mother) Jennifer M. Smith Irene Roth Laura West Gershwin is a registered trademark and service mark of Gershwin Enterprises. Tess/Patsy/Mitzie Michele Utzig CRAZY FOR YOU is a registered trademark and service mark of CRAZY FOR YOU Enterprises. Mrs. Fodor & 2nd U/S for Tess/Patsy/Mitzi Amy Melissa Smith Scene 9: The Stage of the Gaiety Theatre Moose Joe Abraham "SLAP THAT BASS"* Bobby (as Zangler) &Company Mingo Tom Pacio "EMBRACEABLE YOU" Polly'& Bobby (asZangler) Sam Robert Spring Scene 10: The Gaiety Theatre Dressing Rooms, opening night "TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT"** Chorus ORCHESTRA Scene 11: Main Street, Deadrock "I GOT RHYTHM" Polly, Bobby & Company Musical Director/Conductor. Camille Villalpando Percussion Mia Eaton INTERMISSION 1st Trumpet Mark Hereth 2nd Trumpet Jeffrey Katz ACT TWO Trombone Wes Wadley Woodwinds Edward D. Renz ENTR'ACTE:"THEREALAMERICANFOLKSONG(IsaRag)" Bass Dylan Spielvogel Cowboy Trio&Chorus Keyboards Kevin J. Casey Scene 1: Lank's Saloon, later that evening "WHAT CAUSES THAT?" Bobby & Zangler Scene 2: Lank's Saloon, the next morning CRAZY FOR YOU® "NAUGHTY BABY" *** Irene, Lank & Male Quartet THE NEW GERSHWIN®MUSICAL Scene 3: Stage of the Theatre "STIFF UPPER LIP"Eugene, Patricia, Bobby, Polly & Company SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS "THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME Bobby "BUT NOT FOR ME" Polly ACT ONE Scene 4: Street in front of Zangler Theatre "NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT" Bobby & Girls Scene 1: Backstage at the Zangler Theatre, New York City, in the 1930's Scene 5: Main Street, Deadrock, three days later "K-RA-ZY FOR YOU" Bobby FRENCH REPRISE: BIDIN' MY TIME Cowboy Trio Scene 2: 42nd Street, outside the theatre REPRISE: THINGS ARE LOOKING UP Everett "I CAN'T BE BOTHERED NOW" Bobby & Girls FINALE... Company Scene 3: Main Street, Deadrock, Nevada "BIDIN' MY TIME" Cowboy Trio & Men "THINGS ARE LOOKING UP" Bobby *Orchestration by Sid Ramin, Scene 4: Lank's Saloon ** Lyric by Ira Gershwin and Gus Kahn. "COULD YOU USE ME?" Bobby & Polly ***Lyric by Ira Gershwin and Desmond Carter. Scene 5: In the Desert "SHALL WE DANCE?" Bobby & Polly Scene 6: The Gaiety Theatre GIRLS ENTER NEVADA (BRONCOBUSTERS) Chorus Scene 7: Main Street, Deadrock, three days later "SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME" Polly Scene 8: The Lobby of the Gaiety Theatre, two weeks later WHO'S WHO CRAZY FOR YOU® THE NEW GERSHWIN® MUSICAL MATTHEW LABANCA (Bobby Child) is honored to be a part of Music and Lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Crazy ForYou® Matt has studied tap since childhood, both in the United States Book by Ken Ludwig and in England at the British Ballet Organization. National tours: Anything Goes starring Gloria Loring, as Billy U/S and The King and I with performances both as Crazy For You®, The New Gershwin® Musical is pure magic—the one the King and the Krahalome. Regionally, Matt has been seen as Sparky in show in years that has brought back the lost paradise of the American Forever Plaid, the Scarecrow in The Wiz, Bernardo in West Side Story, and Elliot musical in all its glory. A 1930's style musical comedy filled with a great in The Goodbye Girl, among others. Recently, Matt was given the honor of collection of unforgettable songs from George and Ira Gershwin, this sharing the stage with the legendary Chita Rivera in Paper Mill Playhouse's fall 1992 Tony Award-winning "Best Musical" has been hailed by critics and production of Anything Goes. Love and thanks to his ever-supportive friends audiences alike from New York to London, Tokyo to Toronto, Australia, and family, but this one's especially for Mom and Dad: Who could ask for and beyond. any thing more!!? Based on the Gershwin musical, Girl Crazy, Crazy For You®, The New CHRISTINE NEGHERBON (Polly Baker) is delighted to be touring again Gershwin® Musical retains the zany, lovable boy-meets-girl, boy-loses- with her favorite show. Some of her recent credits include Peggy Sawyer in the girl, boy-gets-girl plot line. The best of the original show's timeless songs European tour of 42nd Street and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Favorite include "Bidin' My Time," "Embraceable You," "But Not For Me" and "I regional roles are Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain and Maggie in A Chorus Got Rhythm." Hits from other Gershwin musicals were added to this Line. She was also seen in the national tour of Meet Me in St. Louis, The already heady list of memorable standards as the show's playwright and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and onboard the TSS Seawind Crown. Christine is originally from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and now lives in New York director searched the Gershwin catalogue for just the right song for the City. She graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Theatre from Allentown right moment. GERSHWIN is a registered trademark and service mark College. She dedicates this show to Tats! "Live one day at a time and make it a of Gershwin Enterprises. masterpiece." A new book by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me A Tenor and Moon Over Buf- JAMES BULLERI (Bela Zangler) has recently performed in the national falo) is a farce-flavored text set in the 1930's. Bobby Child, a playboy tour of Hello Dolly!, a Mainstage Productions tour. His New York credits include banker, is smitten with show business and yearns to perform in "Zangler's A Chorus Line, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Follies" on Broadway. To cure him of this unhealthy desire and to get him Weill, Jacques Briel..., and The 1997 Abbott Awards (with Joel Grey, Deborah to marry his fiance', Irene, he is sent by his no-nonsense mother to Monk, and Karen Ziemba). Regionally, James has performed in Anything Goes, foreclose on an old vaudeville theatre in Deadrock, Nevada. Instead, he Gypsy, The Most Happy Fella', The Secret Garden, Peter Pan, Cinderella, The falls for the theatre owner's daughter, Polly Baker, the only girl in town. Sound of Music, She Loves Me, The Mousetrap, Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer In a bid to win her affection, he tells her that he knows Zangler personally Night's Dream, The Music Man, Meet Me in St. Louis, and West Side Story. and can convince the show biz legend to put on a show to save the James's film and television credits include "The Quest" (The Learning Channel) theatre.