IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE FEATURING FRANK MCCOURT’S THE IRISH…AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY A CELEBRATION OF ENDURANCE AND PERSEVERANCE THROUGH HARD TIMES IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE CHARLOTTE MOORE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR | CIARÁN O’REILLY, PRODUCING DIRECTOR A PERFORMANCE ON SCREEN A CELEBRATION OF ENDURANCE AND PERSEVERANCE THROUGH HARD TIMES BY FRANK McCOURT DIRECTED BY CHARLOTTE MOORE MUSICAL DIRECTION AND ARRANGEMENTS BY RUSTY MAGEE STARRING TERRY DONNELLY, BOB GREEN (ON FIDDLE), MARIAN TOMAS GRIFFIN, CIARÁN O’REILLY, RUSTY MAGEE, AND CIARÁN SHEEHAN THE 1998 PRODUCTION FEATURED SCENIC DESIGN BY SHAWN LEWIS, LIGHTING DESIGN BY DAN WALKER, COSTUME DESIGN BY DAVID TOSER, AND CHOREOGRAPHY BY ALEXIA HESS SHEEHAN. WE WISH TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDE TO THE PERFORMERS’ UNIONS ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS, AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS, AND SAG-AFTRA THROUGH THEATRE AUTHORITY, LNC. FOR THEIR COOPERATION IN PERMITTING THE ARTISTS TO APPEAR ON THIS PROGRAM. THIS PRODUCTION IS MADE POSSIBLE WITH PUBLIC FUNDS FROM THE NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, AXE-HOUGHTON FOUNDATION, AND OTHER PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND CORPORATIONS, AND WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF THE MANY GENEROUS MEMBERS OF IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE’S PATRON’S CIRCLE. IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE SET LIST ACT 1 OPENING MONTAGE THE COMPANY “MRS. McGRATH” CIARÁN O’R, COMPANY TRADITIONAL “MOTHER MACHREE” RUSTY MUSIC BY ERNEST R. BALL AND CHAUNCEY OLCOTT, LYRICS BY RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG “THE RARE OULD TIMES” CIARÁN S, COMPANY BY PETE ST. JOHN “THE FIELDS OF ATHENRY” MARIAN, COMPANY BY PETE ST. JOHN “SKIBBEREEN” CIARÁN S TRADITIONAL “SHORES OF AMERIKAY” COMPANY TRADITIONAL “NO IRISH NEED APPLY” RUSTY, CIARÁN S, COMPANY TRADITIONAL “AN IRISH WASHERWOMAN” MARIAN, TERRY TRADITIONAL “NO IRISH NEED APPLY” (REPRISE) TERRY, MARIAN, COMPANY “ERIE CANAL” COMPANY BY THOMAS ALLEN ACT 2 “GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY” COMPANY BY GEORGE M. COHAN “YANKEE DOODLE DANDY” COMPANY BY GEORGE M. COHAN “I’VE GOT RINGS ON MY FINGERS” TERRY MUSIC BY MAURICE SCOTT, LYRICS BY R. P. WESTON AND F. J. BARNES “HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN KELLY?” MARIAN MUSIC AND LYRICS BY C. W. MURPHY, WILL LETTERS, AND WILLIAM J. MCKENNA SET LIST “GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROADWAY (REPRISE)” COMPANY “PADDY ON THE RAILWAY” COMPANY TRADITIONAL “MOONSHINER” COMPANY TRADITIONAL “DANNY BOY” CIARÁN S TRADITIONAL MUSIC, LYRICS BY FREDERICK WEATHERBY “WHO THREW THE OVERALLS IN MRS. MURPHY’S CHOWDER?” CIARÁN O’R, CIARÁN S BY GEORGE L. GIEFER “FINNEGAN’S WAKE” TERRY, COMPANY TRADITIONAL “IRELAND BOYS HURRAY” CIARÁN S, MARIAN, COMPANY TRADITIONAL “THE GHOST OF MOLLY MCGUIRE” CIARÁN O’R, CIARÁN S, COMPANY TRADITIONAL “YOU’RE A GRAND OLD FLAG / OVER THERE” COMPANY BY GEORGE M. COHAN “JOHNNY, I HARDLY KNEW YE” COMPANY TRADITIONAL “I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR” COMPANY MUSIC AND LYRICS BY PAUL HEWSON, DAVE EVANS, ADAM CLAYTON, AND LARRY MULLEN USED THROUGH COURTESY OF POLYGRAM INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PUBLISHING, B.V. SPECIAL THANKS PRESIDENT OF IRELAND MICHAEL D. HIGGINS CONSUL GENERAL OF IRELAND CIARÁN MADDEN WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST TERRY DONNELLY has Award for the modern dance composition been a member of both Face to Face. Music has taken him to 12 the Abbey Theatre Dublin countries and 23 states, including Japan and the British National with composer/banjoist Akira Satake, Theatre London. Among who he assisted with an album on Alula many plays at the Irish Records, and Jordan, Israel (Trip Diary) Rep – Lady G: Plays and and Australia as accompanist to Whisperings of Lady Gregory, The O’Casey folksinger/harpman Saul Broudy. He has Cycle, The Dead, 1904, Three Small Irish performed at: Carnegie Hall with the Clef Masterpieces, Juno and the Paycock, Club Orchestra, Lincoln Center with Hazel Transport the musical, Honor Molloy’s Dickens, Lone Star RoadHouse with Crackskull Row, Grandchild of Kings Shawn Colvin, Birchmere with Laurie directed and adapted by Harold Prince, Lewis, Kerrville and Falcon Ridge Folk Frank McCourt’s The Irish…and How Festivals with John Herald, and at They Got That Way in both Boston and Symphony Space, Town Hall, and the New York companies, The Shaughraun, Bottom Line. Before New York, he made Sive, Bailegangaire, The Yeats Project, his home in Ohio/Kentucky, working with The Colleen Bawn and many more. Harley Allen (Folkways Records) and Regionally she has played several lead- Muddy River. Prior to that, he did stints in ing roles in Dancing at Lughnasa, and The a variety of New England bluegrass and Streets of New York at the Westport folk acts, including ‘Raintree’ (Green Playhouse. Film and television: “A Hungry Mountain Records), and The Valley Feeling,” “Law and Order,” “The Silver Partners (Old Homestead Records). He Tassie,” “The Crezz.” In 2019, Terry was started out playing godless Rock + Roll awarded the 2019 Sustained Excellence in his native state of New Jersey. Award from Irish Repertory Theatre. MARIAN TOMAS GRIFFIN BOB GREEN Theatre Marian is a singer, credits include: Frank songwriter, and actress McCourt’s The Irish... and born in New York City How They Got That Way at and raised in County Irish Rep, Prophets and Mayo, Ireland. Marian Heroes with Vanessa has been a part of the Redgrave and Tommy New York music, theatre and film scene Makem, musical direction of Buffalo Gals and now resides in LA. As lead singer at the Oldcastle Theatre Company. He and guitarist with bands including received a 1995 Meet The Composer Aisling Eire and as a solo performer, has WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST entertained audiences at Tír Na Nóg, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin and made Fitzer’s, Tommy Makem’s, Fibber his Broadway debut in The Corn is Green. McGee’s, Paddy Reilly’s, and the Films include The Devil’s Own (starring Guinness Fleadh. Her first CD, Tales Of Harrison Ford), “Law & Order,” “The Irish Erin, released in 1998, featured the and How They Got That Way,” “Third single Angela’s Smile inspired by Frank Watch,” “Bored to Death” and “The McCourt’s Pulitzer prize winning memoir Knick.” Favorite directing credits include: Angela’s Ashes, as seen in Conor Lady G: Plays and Whisperings of Lady McCourt’s documentary, The McCourt’s Gregory, Dublin Carol, The Shadow of a of Limerick. At Irish Rep, Marian made Gunman, The Seafarer, The Dead, 1904, her debut in Frank McCourt’s The Irish... Shining City, Off the Meter, on the Record, and How They Got That Way, and also The Weir (Calloway Nom.), Banished appeared in The Shaughran. Marian has Children of Eve, The Emperor Jones, appeared as part of the Irish Rep Gala (Callaway Award, O’Neill Credo Award, with stars as Gabriel Bryne, Sinead Drama Desk, Drama League, and Lucille Cusak, Angela Lansbury, and Frances Lortel Nom.), The Hairy Ape (Drama Desk Sternhagan. On screen, Marian has Drama League and Callaway Nom.), worked with Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford Philadelphia, Here I Come! (Drama Desk in Columbia Picture’s The Devil’s Own, Nom) Ciarán has been inducted in to the in Nye Heron’s “Sax & Violins”, and Irish America Hall of Fame and was “Days of Darkness.” Marian starred in awarded the Presidential Distinguished CBS’s “As The World Turns” as Mary Service Award for the Irish Abroad, 2019 Mennihan (Psycho Nanny), and appeared by President Michael D. Higgins. in the lead of Nova’s docudrama “Typhoid Mary” in 2004. RUSTY MAGEE (1955 - 2003), was an accom- CIARÁN O’REILLY Irish plished comedian, sing- Rep acting roles include: er, actor and composer/ Da, Juno and the Paycock, lyricist for theatre, televi- Dancing at Lughnasa, sion, film and commer- Molly Sweeney, Candida, cials. His musical, The Aristocrats, A Whistle in Green Heart, written with Charles Busch, the Dark, The Shaughraun, was staged by Manhattan Theatre Club and The Irish and How They Got That Way. and he composed the children’s He appeared in the Roundabout Theatre Christmas opera Flurry Tale performed at Company’s production of A Touch of the Lincoln Center in 1999. Other works Poet with Gabriel Byrne. He has appeared include the scores to ART’s Ubu Rock, WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST Lincoln Center’s The House of Blue sold out performances at Carnegie Hall, Leaves, Irish Rep’s The Irish…and How The National Concert Hall in Dublin, They Got That Way, and musical contri- Ireland, performing the American National butions to television shows like “Out of Anthem at New York State Governor The Box” and “The Wubbulous World of George Pataki’s inauguration, as well as Dr. Seuss.” Mr. Magee won the New York at various professional sporting arenas Outer Critics’ Circle James Fleetwood including Giants Stadium, opening the Award for his music and lyrics for dedication of the Irish Hunger Memorial in Moliere’s Scapin in 1993. NYC, soloist at the internationally televised memorial mass for John and CIARÁN SHEEHAN B’way: Carolyn Kennedy Jr., serenading Ed and Les Miserables, The Allison Lucas during their wedding Phantom of the Opera, ceremony on the infield of old Yankee Brigadoon, Camelot. NY Stadium, soloist at the funeral service for stage performances Beau Biden, son of Joe Biden. He is cur- include: The Hostage, The rently a member of the international Irish…and How They Got touring group The Four Phantoms In That Way, Camelot (with Jeremy Irons), Concert. and Finian’s Rainbow (Irish Rep,) Carousel (The Reagle Music Theatre.) Television FRANK McCOURT (Playwright) (1930 – appearances include “Law and Order”, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and “One Life To Live”, “Another World”, “Late writer, best known for Angela’s Ashes, his Night with David Letterman”, and numer- 1996 Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir about ous appearances on PBS Stations nation- his childhood in Brooklyn and Limerick, ally.