Shakespeare in Love Based on the Screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard Adapted for the Stage by Lee Hall Music by Paddy Cunneen
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54th Season • 515th Production SEGERSTROM STAGE / JANUARY 13 - FEBRUARY 10, 2018 Marc Masterson Paula Tomei ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MANAGING DIRECTOR David Emmes & Martin Benson FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS presents the production of Shakespeare in love based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard adapted for the stage by Lee Hall music by Paddy Cunneen Ralph Funicello Susan Tsu Jaymi Lee Smith Jeff Polunas Annie Loui SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN SOUND DESIGN CHOREOGRAPHY Ken Merckx David Nevell Joshua Marchesi Joanne DeNaut, CSa Roxana Khan* FIGHT DIRECTOR VOCAL/DIALECT COACH PRODUCTION MANAGER CASTING STAGE MANAGER Music Director Scott Waara Directed by Marc Masterson Sandy Segerstrom Daniels Jean and Tim Weiss Honorary Producer Honorary Producer Haskell & White LLP Corporate Honorary Associate Producer Originally produced on the West End by Disney Theatrical Productions & Sonia Friedman Productions, directed by Declan Donnellan, and designed by Nick Ormerod SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Shakespeare in Love • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Will Shakespeare ......................................................................... Paul David Story* Kit Marlowe ............................................................................................. Corey Brill* Henslowe ............................................................................................ Bo Foxworth* Fennyman ..................................................................... William Francis McGuire* Lambert/Sir Robert de Lesseps/Burbage’s Heavy/Abraham ....... Stephen Caffrey* Frees/Wabash/Prince/Bishop .................................. Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper* Richard Burbage ................................................................................. Louis Lotorto* Mistress Quickly/Molly/Lady in Waiting ......................................... Alicia Erlinger* Edmund Tilney ................................................................................... David Nevell* Actor/Robin/Boatman/Lady Capulet ................................................... Adam Silver* Queen Elizabeth I .................................................................................. Elyse Mirto* Valentine/Barman/Peter/Tybalt/Adam/Gregory/Guard ................... Aaron McGee* Proteus/Waiter/Nol/Guard/Benvolio/Sampson .......................... James MacEwan* Viola de Lesseps .......................................................................... Carmela Corbett* Nurse .................................................................................................. Amelia White* Ralph/Juliet’s Nurse/Catling/Petruchio .................................. Matthew Henerson* John Webster ....................................................................................... Bing Putney* Lord Wessex ..................................................................................... Bill Brochtrup* Ned Alleyn ........................................................................................... Nick Gabriel* Sam/Juliet ............................................................................................. Ricky Abilez* Kate/Lady in Waiting ........................................................................... Fleur Zanna* Musician ..................................................................................................... Lex Leigh* Musician ............................................................................................... Scott Waara* Spot ........................................................................................ Cinnamon Dempsey* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. Electronic devices should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information, please visit www.SamuelFrench.com/whitepaper Photos may be taken before and after the show, and during intermission, but not during the performance. Show your appreciation for the play and scenic designer: #SCRinlove Media Partner Media Partner Media Partner P2 • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • Shakespeare in Love THE CAST: James MacEwan, Corey Brill, Matthew Henerson, Lex Leigh, Aaron McGee, Fleur Zanna, Alicia Erlinger, Scott Waara, Ricky Abilez, Adam Silver, Nicholas Mongiardo-Cooper, Nick Gabriel, Louis Lotorto, Bing Putney, Carmela Corbett, Elyse Mirto, Bo Foxworth, William Francis McGuire, Amelia White, David Nevell, Paul David Story, Stephen Caffrey and Bill Brochtrup. SETTING London, 1593. PRODUCTION STAFF Dramaturg ................................................................................................. Kat Zukaitis Assistant Stage Manager ........................................................................... Sue Karutz* Assistant Director .......................................................................... Brittany Campbell Assistant Lighting Designer .................................................................... Marissa Diaz Fight Captain ........................................................................................... Louis Lotorto Dance Captain .......................................................................................... Nick Gabriel Costume Design Assistant ............................................................... Kaitlyn Kaufman Stage Management Interns ....................................... Anna Klevit, Alexis McGinness Light Board Operator ................................................................. Jacqueline Malenke Sound Board Operator ............................................................................ Jim Lupercio Automation Operator ......................................................................... Latania Brown Deck Crew ............................................................................................ Sam Maytubby Wardrobe Supervisor/Dresser ........................................................ Stephanie Ebeling Dressers ........................................ Cassie DeFile, Anna De La Cour, Lisa Leonhardt Wig and Makeup Technician ............................................................ Gillian Woodson Wig Assistant ................................................................................... Alejandra Guerra Additional Costume Staff ................. Rome Fiore, Lalena Hutton, Megan Knowles, Melissa Meza, Tessa Oberle, Alexis Riggs, Lauren Smith, Sarah Timm Shakespeare in Love • South CoaSt RepeRtoRy • P3 Will’s World by Kat Zukaitis Despite the ever-present dan- Despite the relative novelty of gers of politics and plague, arts and professional theatre, Shakespeare’s o live in Elizabethan London culture flourished. A booming urban audiences in the 1590s were some was to live in a world of whirl- population, combined with rising lit- of the most experienced playgoers wind change. The city was eracy rates, aristocratic patronage and throughout all of history. Most com- growing with shocking speed, an influx of remarkable talent, set the panies staged a different play every reaching a population of almost stage for the emergence of a new art day, drawing thousands of audience T200,000 in 1600 to become the third- form. Gone were the morality plays members; on average, it’s likely that largest city in Europe. Even as Lon- and mystery cycles of medieval Eng- more than one-third of London’s don became more crowded, though, land, now deemed too ritualistic and adult population saw a play every it remained compact: it was still pos- maybe heretical; from their ashes rose month. Theatres closed frequently, sible to cross the city on foot in about the phoenix of modern theatre, com- however: performances were prohib- half an hour. Only one bridge tra- plete with playwrights and profession- ited during Lent, times of civil unrest versed the mighty River Thames and al acting companies. and outbreaks of plague, which hit the sides of the London Bridge were London’s first full-time, dedicat- London in 1563, 1578-9, 1582, 1592-3 packed with shops and houses up to ed professional playhouse, the The- and 1603, killing up to one-fifth of the seven stories tall—as well as poles on atre, was built in 1576 by James Bur- city’s population each time. which the heads of executed traitors bage (the father of Richard Burbage, A company of players was were displayed. who would go on to originate many of composed only of men and boys, The ruling Tudor dynasty was the most demanding roles in Shake- who played both male and female barely a century old and already in speare’s repertory, including Hamlet, roles. Scholars theorize that the Lord danger of extinction. Elizabeth I’s Richard III and King Lear). Because Chamberlain’s Men must have em- reign, which lasted from 1558 to 1603, playhouses were prohibited within ployed two extremely talented boys was long and prosperous; but the the city limits, most of them were in the late 1590s, based on the paired Queen had no children and refused established in the northern suburbs female roles of increasing