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4 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON Hi, My Name is Ben | 11 Cast of Characters | 12 Musical Numbers | 13 Who’s Who | 14 Authors’ Notes | 20 About Goodspeed Musicals | 22 History of The Terris Theatre | 23 Our Mission | 23 The Goodspeed Opera House Foundation | 25 Corporate Support | 26 Foundation & Government Support | 26 Looking to the Future | 27 Memorial and Tribute Gifts | 29 Special Gifts | 30 Goodspeed Musicals Staff | 34 For Your Information | 41 Editor: Lori A. Cartwright ADVERTISING Onstage Publications 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: [email protected] www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with Onstage Publications, 1612 Prosser Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of Onstage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2019. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON 7 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON 9 A Non-Profit Arts Organization MICHAEL GENNARO Executive Director presents Book and Lyrics by SCOTT GILMOUR Music by CLAIRE MCKENZIE With HEATHER AYERS DAVID BAIDA LEE HARRINGTON ADAM KAPLAN KEN LAND CARLOS LOPEZ CJ PAWLIKOWSKI JOEL ROOKS ABIGAIL E. STEPHENSON BARBARA WALSH Scenic Design by Costume Design by Lighting Design by Projection Design by EDWARD PIERCE LARA de BRUIJN MASHA TSIMRING C. ANDREW BAUER Sound Design by Production Manager Production Stage Manager JAY HILTON ERICA GILROY CHRIS ZACCARDI Casting by General Manager Producer PAUL HARDT STEWART/ RACHEL J. TISCHLER DONNA LYNN WHITLEY CASTING COOPER HILTON Music Direction by GAVIN WHITWORTH Choreographed by EMILY-JANE BOYLE Directed by ANDREW PANTON First Performance: May 17, 2019 at The Terris Theatre Founding Director MICHAEL P. PRICE Developed in association with Dundee Rep Theatre, UK Sponsored by: Marquee Producing Partners: STEPHANIE & LUKE WILLIAMS GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON 11 CAST OF CHARACTERS Ben .............................................................................................................. JOEL ROOKS Young Ben ................................................................................................ ADAM KAPLAN James ............................................................................................................... KEN LAND Young James .......................................................................................CJ PAWLIKOWSKI Lucy ....................................................................................... ABIGAIL E. STEPHENSON Helen .................................................................................................. LEE HARRINGTON Juan ........................................................................................................CARLOS LOPEZ Jorge ........................................................................................................... DAVID BAIDA Joan/Meta............................................................................................. HEATHER AYERS Pat ....................................................................................................... BARBARA WALSH DANCE CAPTAIN ADAM KAPLAN ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER CHANDLER JEZ MUSICIANS KEYBOARD/CONDUCTOR GAVIN WHITWORTH; VIOLIN HEATHER YANOVITCH; CELLO CELESTE CUMMING; GUITAR JEFF CARLSON Special Thanks to Dundee Rep. and Scottish Dance Theater LTD; the Scottish Ensemble; Creative Scotland; Camilla Hellman and the American-Scottish Foundation; Carla Almeida and all the artists who have assisted in the development of Hi, My Name is Ben. Hi, My Name is Ben was developed at the Johnny Mercer Writers Colony at Goodspeed in 2017 & 2018. 12 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT ONE Hi, My Name is Ben (Prologue) We All Begin Somewhere A Pair of Old Stories Hi, My Name is Ben (East 74th St ) Learning English My Brother This City is Mine Teach Me How to Love the Night My Brother (Reprise) I Still Hear You Ben’s Descent ACT TWO I Can’t Talk I Still Hear You (Reprise) I’m Glad We’re Talking A Pair of Old Stories (Reprise) I Still Hear You (Instrumental ) I Can’t Talk (Reprise) The Opera My Brother (Helen’s Message) The Walls (Instrumental ) Hi, My Name is Ben (East 74th Street Reprise) Ben’s Accent Hi, My Name Is (Finale) Please turn off your cell phone and any other device that might make a distracting noise during the performance. Please remain seated until the curtain calls are over and the house lights have come up. Photos may be taken before the show and during intermission, when no actor is present. Sharing on social media? Please tag us! @GoodspeedMusicals Audio/video recording and photography are strictly prohibited during the performance. GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON 13 WHO’S WHO HEATHER AYERS* (Joan and Others) ADAM KAPLAN* (Young Ben) is thrilled to be making her Goodspeed Goodspeed debut! Adam recently debut! She appeared on Broadway in starred in the hit Broadway musical Groundhog Day, Mel Brooks’ Young A Bronx Tale opposite Academy Frankenstein, On a Clear Day You Can Award nominee Chazz Palminteri. See Forever, and Trevor Nunn’s A Little Other Broadway/National Tours: Kinky Night Music. Heather has been seen Boots (Charlie Price), Newsies (Jack Off-Broadway and in regional theatres Kelly u/s), Show Boat (NY Philharmonic across the country. Her TV credits include Scandal on and PBS). TV: Deception (ABC). Select regional: Flat ABC; I Love You, America with Sarah Silverman on Hulu; Rock Playhouse and Music Theatre Wichita. Numerous American Vandal on Netflix; Brockmire on IFC; and the concerts and productions internationally and across the forthcoming season of The Affair on Showtime. She is U.S., including a solo performance for the Obamas at the sister of Broadway actor Becca Ayers. Later this the White House. BFA Music Theatre, Elon University. summer, Heather will play Vi in Footloose at The MUNY. In addition to performing, Adam teaches around the www.heatherayers.com country, serving as a mentor for young artists. More at www.AdamKaplanOnline.com and @AdamSKaplan. DAVID BAIDA* (Jorge and Others) is making his Goodspeed debut. KEN LAND* (Older James and Others) Broadway and 1st National Tour of On Broadway: Promises, Promises; How Your Feet. Originated Piragua Guy on The Grinch Stole Christmas; The the 1st National Tour of In the Heights, Scarlet Pimpernel (all three versions); performing with Hamilton creator Lin- Victor/Victoria. Off-Broadway: Curvy Manuel Miranda in Los Angeles and Widow, The Gig, Little Shop of Horrors, Puerto Rico. He reprised this role at and Death of Von Richthofen. National the Paramount Theatre and Milwaukee Rep. He also Tours: Legally Blonde, Sweet Charity, appeared in the Kennedy Center’s 2018 production. The Secret Garden, Evita. Regional Theatre: Old Globe, Other shows include Forever Plaid (Jinx), Joseph George Street, Goodspeed (Romeo and Juliet, The Terris and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (with Andrea Theatre 1999), Portland Center Stage, Matrix Theatre, McArdle), King Tut (with Brian d’Arcy James), and Jesus Pittsburgh CLO, The MUNY, Merrimack Repertory, Indiana Christ Superstar (Herod). 2018 MAC Award winner for Repertory, Passage Theatre. TV: The Deuce (recurring), New York Male Debut, Metro Star 2016 winner. Love to The Good Wife, Boston Legal, Six Feet Under, Law & my family and Ben. www.davidbaida.com Order(s), Malcolm in the Middle, Strong Medicine, Back to Me and You, Judging Amy, The District, Crossing LEE HARRINGTON* (Helen and Jordan, Star Trek: Voyager. Others) is thrilled to be back at Goodspeed after appearing last CARLOS LOPEZ* (Juan and Others) is year in A Connecticut Christmas happy to return to Goodspeed where Carol. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods he appeared in Guys and Dolls. He (Roundabout), original solo play can be heard on the Broadway cast Jellybean (Fringe and United Solo recording of Spongebob Squarepants as Festival, Irondale Ensemble Project). Mr. Krabs. Favorite roles: Nathan Regional: Show Boat, Company, Merrily We Roll Along, Detroit in Guys and Dolls, Gomez Man of La Mancha, Marvelous Wonderettes, Fiddler on Addams in The Addams Family, the Roof, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Carousel. Workshops: Moonface Martin in Anything Goes, Sancho in Man of Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout). TV: NBC’s Gone. La Mancha, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on Film: Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying and Where’d the Way to the Forum, Oscar in The Odd Couple, Billis You Go, Bernadette (coming out this summer!) Big love to in South Pacific. Eight Broadway shows. Much film and the Groton gang ☻ Training: Carnegie Mellon University. television. Thanks for coming. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 14 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2019 SEASON WHO’S WHO CJ PAWLIKOWSKI* (Young James National Tours: Oklahoma!, Nine, Les Misérables. and Others) is stoked to be making Regional: Angels in America (Actors Theatre of Louisville), his Goodspeed debut. He just finished Master Class (Paper Mill Playhouse), Carrie (Studio the run of the new musical Girlfriend, Theatre, Helen Hayes Award). TV/Film: One Life to Live, directed by Rob Ruggeiro, and was Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, The Marvelous previously seen in The Book of Mrs. Maisel, Madam Secretary, Life With Mikey. Mormon. Off-Broadway: A Letter to Harvey Milk, The Underclassman. SCOTT GILMOUR (Book and Lyrics) and Favorite credits include Memphis (Huey), for which he won CLAIRE McKENZIE (Music)