Coronado Playhouse’s 73rd Season: Adventure | Journey | Discovery PRESENTS
Book, Music and Lyrics by PigPen Theatre Co.
Storytellers: Young Woman, Fishmonger...... Dani Balmat Old Woman, Captain, Patron, Boatswain 2...... Kira Blaskovich Perry, Butcher, Bartender...... Ryan Burtanog Llewellyn...... Marc Caro Matheson, Fine Lady 1...... Russell Clements Mickey, Callahan, Fine Lady 2...... Daryl Daley Mabelu, Ben, Dog...... Joe Kao Old Man...... Jacob Sampson Bartley, Boatswain 1...... Heather Barton Tjalma Cookie, Solomon, Rooster, Clerk...... Santiago Valencia-Northrup The Old Man and The Old Moon Band: Acoustic Guitar...... Emily Nuthall Acoustic Guitar, Banjo...... Dani Balmat Keyboard, Accordion...... Joe Kao Keyboard...... Kira Blaskovich Violin...... Russell Clements Percussion...... Santiago Valencia-Northrup The Time and Place: Some time ago, on the land and on the sea Running Time: The Old Man and the Old Moon runs 1 hour and 45 minutes including a 15 minute intermission.
Acknowledgements
City of Coronado Kyle Waterman and San Diego City of Coronado Building Inspector & Junior Theatre Fire Marshal Dale Goodman Coronado Recreation Services and Special thanks to parents, spouses, Community Center Staff significant others, family, and friends Coronado School of the Arts whose love and support helped make Heather Deerfield and Fredericka Manor this production possible. Retirement Community Announcement Please turn off all electronic devices and cell phones during the performance. Restrooms are located in the recreation center near the front desk. If you need to exit during the performance, please use the rear exit of the theatre as light from the hallway interferes with the performance. THE VIDEOTAPING OF THIS PRODUCTION IS A VIOLATION OF UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAW AND ACTIONABLE FEDERAL OFFENSE
THE OLD MAN AND THE OLD MOON is presented by arrangement with Broadway Licensing Production Team and Theatre Staff
Director...... Desha Crownover Music Director...... Ian Brandon Resident Producer...... Anthony Zelig Resident Production Stage Manager...... Kathy Parks Additional Orchestrations & Vocal Arrangements...... Ian Brandon Set & Prop Designer...... Jacob Sampson Lighting Designer...... Chad Oakley Costume Designer...... Lisa Samson Puppet Designer...... Joe Fitzpatrick Movement Choreography...... Marc Caro Body Percussion...... Santiago Valencia-Northrup Lighting Tech...... Cynthia Bloodgood, Chad Oakley, Anthony Zelig Lighting Board Operator...... Anthony Zelig Sound Mixer...... Harrison Lange Seamstress...... Lisa Samson Sound Consultant...... Matt Lescault-Wood Master Carpenter...... Stan Soth Set Construction...... Chad Oakley, Stan Soth Set Dressing/Painting...... Duane McGregor Marketing and Graphic Design...... Barron Henzel Production Photography...... Ken Jacques Lobby Photography...... Pete Shaner Promotional Photos and Video...... Pete Shaner Additional Video...... Robert Stewart Poster Distribution...... Stacy Mycorn, Company Concessions...... Harry A. Granruth III FOH Manager...... Pam Everett Usher Coordinator...... Janis Vanderford Box Office...... Susan Skyrud, Kristy Connard Production Manager...... Anthony Zelig Managing Theatre Director...... Katy Skyrud A Note from the Playhouse - Member Supported Theatre
On behalf of the Coronado Playhouse to assist in their good works. For our last Board of Directors and Staff, WELCOME TO production, Cabaret we partnered with CORONADO PLAYHOUSE! Thank you for two groups. A book drive was held for the being a part of our production of The Old Coronado Library and we collected funds Man and the Old Moon! for the Anti-Defamation League of San Diego. I am proud to report that due to your CPH has a long theatrical tradition. Since generosity, several hundred books and CDs 1946, volunteers have put on productions were collected and well over $5000 was here and have done so continuously for 73 collected for ADL! seasons. We thank you for being a part of our great history. Our Charity Partner for The Old Man and the Old Moon is the Emilio Nares Foundation. To our Members and our Donors, your This fine group supports children and their support helps make this all possible! To our families going through cancer treatments. Volunteers, you keep the Playhouse going! Their main area of support is providing In addition, to our Patrons, without you, transportation for the children to be able to who would we perform for? get to their treatments. If not for this service, We are excited to be finalizing our 2020 many of these children would miss their season – the announcement will be made at treatments due to the lack of transportation the upcoming 2019 Membership meeting. or the long bus rides needed. Please help Since 2013, we have been partnering us help them, as we all give back to our each productions with a local non-profit community. charity organization. Our aim is to heighten Pamela Everett awareness of these groups and raise funds CPH Board Member
Musical Numbers Coronado Playhouse is the Community’s Theatre ACT ONE SONG FROM THE STONE Coronado Playhouse is committed THE RAIN WILL FALL to giving back to the local community, THE SAILOR’S ANTHEM beyond offering quality entertainment, by THE RAIN WILL FALL (REPRISE) using its public platform to help those in SAIL FOR LOVE need. SAIL FOR LOVE (REPRISE)
ACT TWO JUST LIKE THE SEA PRISON FISH INTERLUDE 1 PRISON FISH INTERLUDE 2 PRISON FISH INTERLUDE 3 I CRASH During the run, Coronado Playhouse BREMEN is raising money and awareness for the Emilio Nares Foundation, helping Get social with us! families navigate their child’s journey with cancer. They assure that no child misses their cancer treatment due to lack of transportation. Please visit enfhope.org for more Coronado @CoroPlayhouse coronado information. Playhouse playhouse A Note from the Playhouse - Member Supported Theatre Director’s Notes
“We are debris arrangers. developed. It involves getting to work in your Equipped with what lives and your relationships on the artform the we have inherited, we you’re working in, and it’s your job to cultivate try to make a life, make that enthusiasm, because without it there are no a living and make art. legs and feet.” We are assemblers. We forge received parts into We need imagination. meaningful compositions. PigPen Theatre, the group who created this This state of affairs beautiful piece, talks about what’s outside of the is our plight and our screen: Desha Crownover, destiny, but it also offers “There is nothing more interesting than Director the opportunity to find something that is just out of sight. The idea of meaning as well as to find communion with keeping something just out of sight is central to others.” — Anne Bogart all great storytelling. Good storytelling provides I’ve heard it said that all storytelling can be the audience a space to engage with their distilled down to two plots: a man takes a imaginations. Every time we open the doors journey and a stranger comes to town. Every to a new audience, we’re really meeting a new fable, film, or book whether elaborate or group of collaborators for the first time and the straight-forward can be whittled down to either show can change immeasurably depending of these sentences. Whether or not you agree, I on what the audience takes or gives to each think it’s safe to say that most often it’s the way performance. It’s easy to forget the creative role we tell the story that makes it so engaging, and that an audience can play when it engages with not necessarily the plot itself. Consider these the performance.” one sentence summaries of famous stories We need a reason to tell stories. without the power of their narrative: Storytelling is one of the single most important • A boy befriends a bearded hermit and two traditions that human beings participate in. robots, goes into space, kisses his sister and Our enthusiasm and imagination are sparked kills his dad. (Star Wars) when we have something important we • Two teenagers fall in love and consequently need to say, and how we say it can be the six people die. (Romeo and Juliet) difference between obsolescence and legacy. Unfortunately, in being transparent in our own • A couple of tiny little blokes take three long personal stories, we run the risk those stories books to return a piece of unwanted jewelry may get twisted and re-told through cynical, (The Lord of the Rings) suspicious filters; for many, the price of being • Angsty prince broods, seemingly goes crazy, authentic is ridicule or worse. However, if we and kills many, including his uncle, who are able to overcome these fears, we find that had killed his father and married his mother. the opposite is also true: the more personal our (Hamlet) reasons to share a story, the more universal they • The hero Achilles spends ten years punching become. Storytelling builds bridges that connect people in the face. (The Iliad) us to the best and worst parts of each other. Well-told stories have entertained us, taught We need collaboration. us, motivated us, and brought us together as a Storytelling does not work without the community for as long as humans have had the storytellers or someone to tell the story to. I am power to communicate. What do we need to tell so grateful to have worked with this enthusiastic, a good story? imaginative, impassioned group of storytellers. Designers, singers, actors, musicians, and We need energy. artists have all come together to tell this story in Theatre theorist and stage director, Anne their own way, and we are eager to present it to Bogart, in regard to storytelling, says not to you, the final element we need to complete this underestimate “the role of enthusiasm. If you story, our audience. Thank you for collaborating look at the word enthusiasm etymologically, with us and sharing this unique experience. it means to be filled with God...you can’t fake enthusiasm, it has to be cultivated and —Desha Crownover Cast Bios (In alphabetical order)
DANI BALMAT (Young Festival), La Pastorela de Plata (Teatro Woman/Fishmonger) Máscara Mágica), The Me Nobody Knows is excited to make her (SDSU), Broadway Rocks! (San Diego Coronado Playhouse Symphony). debut in The Old Man and The Old Moon. MARC CARO Other credits include (Llewelyn) is Heathers the Musical delighted to be (Off Broadway Theatre back at Coronado Company), Into the Playhouse with this Woods and The 25th Annual Putnam talented group of County Spelling Bee (San Diego Junior artists. Previous CPH Theatre). credits: Wickersham in Seussical (Blue Ribbon KIRA BLASKOVICH Award) and Mark (Old Woman/Captain/ in A Chorus Line. Other credits include: Patron/Boatswain 2) is She Loves Me (SRT), Shockheaded thrilled to be back at Peter and Supers (Cygnet), Avenue Q Coronado Playhouse and Reefer Madness (OB Playhouse), La with such a fun team! Posada Magica (HAT) and The MENding Since moving to San Monologues (Innermission Productions). Diego she has had the pleasure of working RUSSELL with Coronado CLEMENTS Playhouse and Lamplighters Theatre. (Matheson/Fine Previously, she has enjoyed working with Lady 1) is ecstatic Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Seattle to be back at CPH! Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Past credits include Theater and Labyrinth Theater Company. Character Actor in An actor, teacher and writer, she is blessed Bullshot Crummond with the constant love and support of her (OnStage Playhouse), husband and daughter. Kira received her Actor 1 in Baskerville BA from Berkeley and her MFA from ACT. (Scripps Ranch Theater), Paige/Achmed in Magic in this Soul, Pepper/Robert in RYAN BURTANOG Untold (SD Fringe), Banquo in Macbeth, (Perry/Butcher/ Oatcake in Much Ado About Nothing, Bartender) is excited Clown in The 39 Steps (CPH), Derrick in to return to Coronado Know More!, John N in Failure: A Love Playhouse after Story, Pappy in And Then They Came appearing as Fester for Me, Faustus in Tragical History of Dr. in The Addams Faustus and others. Phil 4:4 Family and Horton in Seussical the Musical. DARYL DALEY Select credits: South (Callahan/Mickey/Fine Pacific (San Diego Musical Theatre), The Lady 2) SPONSORED Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, BY DARLENE DALEY Les Misérables (STAR Repertory), In the is happy to be back Heights, How to Succeed in Business on the Coronado Without Really Trying (Patio Playhouse), Playhouse stage The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla after appearing in Playhouse), The Test (San Diego Fringe The Addams Family last year. Other appearances at CPH include Girl Bear from Stephens College before moving to in Avenue Q, Turtle in A Year with Frog NYC where he worked as a properties and Toad, Mary Sunshine in Chicago, carpenter/artisan. Jacob spent two Beauty in Sleeping Beauty or the Famous summers with Santa Fe Opera as a Rose Taboo as well as ensemble roles in properties carpenter and now works in the Thoroughly Modern Millie, Seussical the prop department at The Old Globe. Thank Musical, Godspell, Spamalot, TBLWIT and you for your continued support for the arts. The Drowsy Chaperone. HEATHER BARTON JOE KAO (Mabelu/ TJALMA (Bartley/ Ben/Dog) is excited Boatswain/Rebel/ to be returning to Sailor) is over the Coronado Playhouse moon to be playing for such a creative with this amazing production led by an group of performers. incredible creative She was last seen on team. Past shows the CPH stage in the include Joseph ensemble of Guys and and the Amazing Dolls. Previous CPH credits include Muzzy Technicolor Dreamcoat at Coronado in Thoroughly Modern Millie and as Jewel Playhouse (2018) and Mamma Mia at in The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. Encore! Theater (2019). He would like to She would like to thank the director and thank the cast, crew and the production creative production team for allowing her team for their support and Dr. Julie to be part of this playful adventure. She Wong for her past training. Thank you looks forward to her next project with CPH for supporting live theater. Instagram @ and hopes you enjoy the show. itsjoekao. SANTIAGO EMILY NUTHALL VALENCIA- (Acoustic Guitar) is NORTHRUP (Cookie/ thrilled to be returning Solomon/Rooster/ to the stage providing Clerk) is honored music for her debut to be making his show at Coronado debut with Coronado Playhouse! Her Playhouse. He is a favorite past roles San Diego-based include: Gretchen in actor, percussionist Boeing Boeing (Centre and motivational performer. Previous College), Dana in The Sweetest Swing in credits include Angelo (Measure for Baseball (Centre College) and Brianna in Measure), Petruchio (Taming of the Shrew), In The Event of My Death (Farm Theatre and Don Jon (Much Ado about Nothing). Collaboration). He has traveled around the world with the ensemble percussion group Crew over the JACOB SAMPSON last year and is glad to get back into the (Old Man/Set & full of acting with such an inspiring show. Prop Designer): Santiago would like to thank his family and This marks Jacob’s friends for supporting him, as well as his sixth production mentor, Chris Rubio. with CPH, most recently designing Macbeth. Jacob is a native San Diegan and lifelong theatre junkie. He received a BFA in theatre arts Creative Team Bios
DESHA CROWNOVER (Director) is an (Sadlers Wells), Violet (Young Vic), Scales award-winning stage and musical director of the Unexpected, (Edinburgh Festival, with over 75 shows to her name, ranging European Tour), Children of Eden, Once from intimate black-box style plays to On This Island, The Wiz (Bridewell Theatre), fully-staged musicals. She has had the Her Aching Heart (Hope Theatre), Forever opportunity to direct, teach, and perform Plaid, Starting Here Starting Now, Working across the country for the past twenty- (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) and Pippin (The five years where her work has been Kings Head & Arts Depot). He has written commended by such theatre notables as original music for numerous short films, Edward Albee, Ming Cho Lee, Patricia plays and recordings and his songs have Zipprodt, and Timothy Near. She holds been performed in the West End and Off- a Master’s degree in Theatre from SDSU Broadway. and a B.A. in Theatre with an emphasis in ANTHONY ZELIG (Resident Producer Performing from UCSD and has served on & Production Manager) is excited to be the teaching faculty of SDSU, Cuyamaca working with such a talented and special College, and Santa Fe Christian Schools group of artists. After 24 years in New York, teaching music, acting, theatre history, working on and off Broadway, he is very public speaking, and speech and debate. happy to have made his way to San Diego Her work as a playwright has been and found a home at Coronado Playhouse. produced at UCSD, SDSU, and Santa Fe Previous CPH credits include designing Christian Schools, as well. Desha currently lights for four recent CPH shows as well as serves as the Artistic Director of San Diego producing our recent productions of Guys Junior Theatre where she has taught and and Dolls, Bare: In Concert and Cabaret. directed for the past twenty years. She is honored to be back at CPH where she has CHAD OAKLEY (Lighting Designer) At directed Seussical, The 39 Steps and last Coronado Playhouse: Set Design: Cabaret. season’s Macbeth. Lighting Design: Cabaret, King Charles III, Altar Boyz, A Chorus Line, Sordid Lives, A IAN BRANDON (Music Director) recently Little Night Music, Chicago, 42nd Street. moved to San Diego from London At other theaters: Lighting and Set Design: where he worked as a Music Director, Xanadu, Spike Heels, Spring Awakening, Composer, Vocal Arranger, Orchestrator Play It Again Sam, Coyote on a Fence, and Actor in the West End and on the Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story (OnStage London Fringe. Musical Direction credits Playhouse), And then There Were None include: Cabaret (Coronado Playhouse), (Pickwick Players). Lighting Design: Ragtime (Arena Stage, Washington D.C.), Cabaret (Ion theatre), Frankie and Johnny Spring Awakening (Chelsea Theatre), Ishq
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coronado playhouse in the Claire de Lune, As Bees In Honey of Horrors and Avenue Q at Coronado Drown, November, Blithe Spirit, the Glass Playhouse. Menagerie (OnStage Playhouse) and many more... KATHY PARKS (Resident Stage Manager) is delighted to be working with this LISA SAMSON (Costume Designer) is great cast and crew on such a creative a graduate of UCSB and a recovering and heart-warming show. Kathy has theatre mom with a passion for theatre and worked backstage on numerous shows costuming that dates back to her childhood days at San Diego Junior Theatre. She is at Coronado Playhouse, Trinity Theatre very happy to be returning to Coronado Company, Pickwick Players and Ocean Playhouse for The Old Man and the Old Beach Playhouse. She is grateful to her Moon, after doing costumes for Macbeth friends and family for their continued love last fall. She also recently worked on and support. costumes on Seussical at San Diego HARRISON LANGE (Live Sound Mixer) is Junior Theatre. She would like to thank Desha and CPH for continuing to offer her excited to be back at Coronado Playhouse opportunities to express her creativity. after working on Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Follies last JOE FITZPATRICK (Puppet Designer) was season. Some of his other credits include the theater manager and a performer for the Addams Family Jr (CPMA), The Lion King Jr Puppet Theater in Balboa Park for 16 years. As a singer, Joe last performed in the Burt (CYT), Alice a New Musical (CYT+), Beauty Bacharach Cabaret at Coronado Playhouse and the Beast Jr (CYT), Hairspray (JCC), in 2018. He was the puppet master for The Madagascar Jr (CYT), and Traditions of Tempest and Macbeth at the Old Globe, Christmas (CCT). He also was the assistant Avenue Q at OB Playhouse and Little Shop director for Junie B Jones (UPSES). Coronado Playhouse is a proud member of ACT San Diego Around town at other ACT theatres...
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