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April May 2014 RIVERSIDE THEATRE 3250 Riverside Park Drive Vero Beach, FL 32963 BOX OFFICE: 772.231.6990 RiversideTheatre.com THE SCENES FEATURING Dancing with Vero’s Stars Dancing withVero’s BEHIND ALSO FEATURING APRIL MAY 2 APRIL MAY Cat intheHat Spring Fiesta 0 1 4 A Word from the BEHIND THE SCENES Producing Artistic Director Riverside Theatre’s 40th Anniversary Season is coming to a close. And, what a season it has APR 8-27 been! From the timelessness of Irving Berlin’s lyrical melodies in I Love a Piano, to the powerful Miss Saigon, to the grandeur of South Pacific, the productions on the Stark Stage have been moving and dynamic. On the Waxlax Stage, the comedy God Of Carnage and musical Closer Than Ever generated tremendous acclaim, and sold out performances! It has truly been a season of great success and artistic achievements. But, the season isn’t over yet! Our season finale is the type of exhilarating musical that made Broadway, Broadway. How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is big, exuberant, witty, and full of great fun. A satire of big business, this show was not only a great success when it first played on Broadway in the early 60’s, but garnered two incredibly well-re- ceived Broadway revivals – one starring Matthew Broderick in 1995 and the other with Daniel Radcliff of Harry Potter fame in 2011. Once again, we are honored to join forces with one of the most prestigious theatre companies in America, Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre, for table of contents this production. To think that tens of thousands of people will see the show created right here in Vero is not only a testament to Riverside’s artistic 3 How to Suceed... capabilities, but to the community that has supported Behind the Scenes this theatre for the past four decades. In this issue of Back Stage Pass, you will also find 8 2014-2015 SEASON DIRECTED BY CASEY HUSHION insightful information on other performances and Exuberant, Witty, Fun! events at the theatre and at the children’s theatre. 9 DLS Debate Winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying is a As we look forward to the 2014-2015 season and musical satire of 1960’s big business and all it holds sacred. This blockbuster musical follows the meteoric the wonderful productions that have been 10 Calendar of Events rise of J. Pierrepont Finch, who with the help of a little handbook, climbs the corporate ladder in an announced, I hope you will feel as passionate and inordinately quick fashion from lowly window washer to high powered executive. From the authors of excited about the year to come as I do. Guys and Dolls, this delightfully irreverent musical features a score packed with hit standards "I Believe Enjoy the final grand production of our year of 12 Fun for the Family at RCT in You," "Happy to Keep His Dinner Warm," "The Company Way," "Been a Long Day," "Rosemary" and celebration and I look forward to seeing you again "Brotherhood of Man." next season! 14 Comedy Zone 2013-2014 SEASON SPONSORS Sincerely, 16 Orchid Lobby Events 17 Dancing with Vero’s Stars Allen D. Cornell PATRON PRODUCERS 3 ACTORS WHO HAVE PLAYED J. Pierrepont Finch PRODUCTION How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying opened on Broadway Robert in 1961. It won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for drama and seven Tony Awards, Morse JEREMY MORSE including Best Musical. By the time Original 1961 as J. Pierrepont Finch the production closed, it was the Broadway 5th most popular musical in Production Jeremy Morse is making his Riverside Theatre Broadway history beat out by (in order) debut. A Drama Desk Nominee for Featured actor in Off-Broadway production Bloodsong of My Fair Lady, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Love, Jeremy has played Barnaby in Hello and The Sound of Music. Dolly, Patsy in Spamalot, Mordred in Camelot, Rock in Damn Yankees, and Harry in My Fair Lady at regional theatres around the country. He has been a featured actor in productions at Matthew Lincoln Center @ NYPL, Goodspeed Opera The Broadway Revival House, Papermill Playhouse, John W. Engeman opened at the original Broderick Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, York Theatre theatre, now renamed 1995 Broadway Revival Company, and the North Carolina Theatre. Richard Rodgers Theatre. Jeremy is a graduate of NYU with a degree in Vocal Performance Musical Theatre. Matthew Broderick won a Tony Award for Best John Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical. STAMos Replaced Matthew Broderick in the 1995 Daniel Broadway Revival Becky RAdcliffe Gulsvig 2011 Broadway John Larroquette won a as Rosemary Revival Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. Nick Jonas was nominated for Becky is delighted to be a part of this show! Broadway: Hairspray (Amber Von Tussle), Legally Blonde The Musical (Original Cast, Leilani/Elle Woods u/s). National Tours: JONAS a 2012 Broadway Beacon Legally Blonde (1st National, Elle Woods-special performance on 63rd Annual Tony of the Jonas Brothers Award for his performance Awards), Peter Pan (Wendy). Regional: 9 to 5 The Musical (Doralee Rhodes), A Funny in this role. Thing Happened… (Philia), Lawyers, Lovers And Lunatics (Eve Bursteter), Baby Case Replaced Danile Radliffe (World Premier, Ginger Rogers/Studio Sister), Grease (Patty Simcox). TV: “All My in the 2011-12 Children” (Jeannie Campion). Becky returns to Riverside Theatre after her Award Broadway Revival Nominated Performance in last season’s Les Misérables. 4 5 SHEPHERD MEAD AUTHOR Shepherd Mead was born Edward Mead IV in St. Louis in 1914. He attended the Country Day School and Washington University on scholarship. He graduated from Washington University Phi Beta Kappa in 1936 and moved to New York. His first job was in the mail room of Benton & Bowles, where he rose to the position of Vice President over the course of Scenic Charge Artist Dusty Terrell & twenty years. While at B&B, he specialized in television adver- tising, introducing campaigns for Tide and Crest. He produced Scenic Charge Intern, Sam Laird, the first ads using animated cartoons. FRANK paint a drop that will appear in Using the pen name Shepherd Mead, he wrote his first three LOESSER the show on the Stark Stage. novels in his spare time while at B&B, including How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (A Dastard's Guide to Fame and Fortune) in 1952. Although initially rejected by COMPOSER publishers, the book remained on the best seller list for twelve DID YOU KNOW: weeks. Chapters in the book included: “How to Make Money,” & LYRICIST “How to Keep Money,” and “Be a Meeting Leaver.” The book's Frank Loesser is an American tips included strategies such as “busyness through strategic How to Succeed in Business songwriter, who wrote the lyrics and desk management” and “Work for a company that is big music to the Broadway hits Guys & enough so that no one knows exactly what anyone else is Without Really Trying Dolls and How To Succeed In doing.” Even though the book contains many old-fashioned Business Without Really Trying, was an instant smash hit references, the satirical dialogue and situations continue to among others. He won separate amuse readers today. in 1961, running for three Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the and half years and In 1957, Mead vacationed in Switzerland with his wife and Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the latter. three children and decided to live in Europe. The family He also wrote numerous songs for 1,417 performances. remained in Switzerland for one year, and then moved to films and Tin Pan Alley, many of England where Mead worked as an advertising consultant and which have become standards, and author. In 1968, Mead returned to Switzerland because was nominated for five Academy England was proposing to tax his royalties at 97%. After Awards for best song, winning once, winning tax relief in 1978, he moved back to England, where for "Baby, It's Cold Outside". In the 1961 Broadway he remained until his death in 1994. Production, Rudy Shepherd Mead published nineteen novels. His titles include: Mr. Mead was known for Vallee wanted to insert How to Get Rich in TV without Really Trying (1956), Admen his memorable quotes. (1958), Four Window Girl or How to Make More Money than The most famous is: some of his songs from Men (1959), How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying “Not even computers the 1930's, but (1964), and How to Succeed at Business Spying by Trying will replace committees, (1968). The more Mr. Mead's books attacked society and because committees producers declined to business practices, the greater was his fame and success. buy the computers.” include them. 6 7 2014-2015 SEASON Bringing the Oxford union CRAZY and robust English style FOR YOU debating to Vero Beach. OCT 28-NOV 16 JAN 13-FEB 1 JAN 27-FEB 8 SIDE BY SIDE BY SIDE FEB 17- MAR 8 MAR 10-22 APR 7-26 Tuesday, April 15, 2014 5:00 p.m. Reception IMPORTANT RENEWAL SCHEDULE 5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Debate & Voting SEASON TICKETS ALL CHANGES: MAR 17 to 31 MOTION: FEAR CHINA This special two-week period has been added for your convenience. To change your Seats and/or Performance Days / Times, call or visit the Box Office. Requests will be accommodated upon receipt (first come, first served). Your tickets will be issued immediately. Hear experts argue Again, we encourage you to renew your current seats prior to March 17 to guarantee that you retain FOR and AGAINST, your current seats, should an acceptable change not be available.
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