CORONADO PLAYHOUSE's 71St SEASON of AWARD WINNERS

CORONADO PLAYHOUSE’S 71st SEASON OF AWARD WINNERS PRESENTS THE 39 STEPS Adapted by PATRICK BARLOW from an original concept by SIMON CORBLE and NOBBY DIMON, and the ﬁ lm by ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Based on the novel by John Buchan

The original London production directed by Maria Aitken designed by Peter McKintosh lighting designed by Ian Scott sound designed by Mic Pool and movement directed by Toby Sedgwick opened at the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn in August 2006 and transferred to the Criterion Theatre in the West End on 14th September 2006. The original production was directed by Fiona Bufﬁ ni. This production is licensed and the ﬁ lms distributed by ITV Global Entertainment Ltd.

The 39 Steps Cast: Michael Lundy ...... Richard Hannay Erica Marie Weisz ...... Annabella Schmidt/Pamela/Margaret Jacob Sampson ...... Clown One Russell Clements ...... Clown Two The Time and Place: 1930s Various settings and locations throughout Europe The 39 Steps runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes and has one 15-minute intermission.

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. Video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited.

“39 Steps, The” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.

Acknowledgements

City of Coronado Young Actors’ Theatre City of Coronado Building Inspector & Fire Marshal Bagpipes on loan from Charles Rosenberger Coronado Recreation and Community Center Staff Dale Goodman OnStage Playhouse Special thanks to spouses, signifi cant others, San Diego Junior Theatre family, and friends whose love and support Old Globe Theatre helped make this production possible.

Mar 24 – Apr 23, 2017 Fri & Sat 8 pm Sun 2 pm

A Season of Firsts! Production Team and Theatre Staff

Director...... Desha Crownover Producer...... Katy Skyrud Production Stage Manager, The 39 Steps...... Megan Barahura Resident Production Manager...... Kathy Parks Dialect Coach...... Vanessa Dinning Scenic Design...... Jacob Sampson Lighting Design...... Julian Sink Lighting Operator...... Kinsey Fortson Lighting Consultant...... Chad Oakley Sound Design & Operator...... Michael Cook Costume Design...... Marcee Drysdale Seamstress...... Kelly Fox Props...... Pamela Everett, Jacob Sampson Set Painting...... Rosemary King Master Builder...... Jacob Sampson Set Construction...... Stan Soth Graphic Design/Program Design...... Barron Henzel Production Photography...... Ken Jacques, Barron Henzel Poster Distribution...... Stacy Mycorn, Patty Fay House Dressing...... Pamela Everett Company House Manager...... Pamela Everett, Susan Skyrud, Stan Soth Box Office...... Amanda Everett, Susan Skyrud Concessions...... Harry A. Granruth Usher Coordinator...... Janis Vanderford Artistic Planning & Marketing...... Vanessa Dinning Managing Theatre Director...... Katy Skyrud

Thanks to our Board of Directors Barron Henzel (President) Thomas Haine (Vice President) Katy Skyrud (Treasurer) Rosemary Harrison (Secretary) Debbie David (Member) Vanessa Dinning (Member) Mike McCullock (Member) Stacy Mycorn (Member) A Note from the Playhouse - Member-Supported Theatre

We are thrilled to continue our 71st season If you like the show today, please tell your with The 39 Steps. Mix a Hitchcock friends and like us on Facebook. If you want masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash to come back and see more, apply your ticket of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, price today towards a ﬂ ex-pass of either 3 or 4 WINNER! 2008 DRAMA DESK AWARD for shows. Come see us at the raffl e table during Unique Theatrical Experience. We welcome intermission or in our box offi ce. You will get Desha Crownover back this year after her the best pricing and the best seats off ered. award-winning show, Seussical, The Musical Lastly, I would like to mention we are no longer at Coronado Playhouse last fall. I think she off ering dinner on opening nights. But, we has just as many characters in this show, but do still partner with Bluewater Boathouse for all performed by 4 actors. It is fast-paced and dinner and show, which makes for a special will keep you on your toes, a riotous blend of evening and a great value. In the spirit of virtuoso performances and wildly inventive keeping opening nights special and showing stagecraft. our appreciation to our supporting members, We hope you will take the opportunity to in 2017, we are inviting members to a pre- experience our concert series this year, Singin’ show mixer at 6:30pm before every opening in the Rain, Rayme Sciaroni (April 28th-30th) night. Meet our board and mingle with other and Violet, Marisa Musgrove (May 12th-14th), members who share the same values of and tell us what you think. And if you missed keeping performing arts alive! our fi rst two one-night cabarets…we are We truly appreciate your support of community fortunate to have last year’s Fringe winner, theatre, local Coronado playwright, Katie Brady for You are in for an exciting evening of non-stop one night May 7th, presenting The Test, A entertainment and laughs! Musical Comedy. We also have a special holiday program in the works, more info on our Katy Skyrud website soon, www.coronadoplayhouse.com. Managing Director

Coronado Playhouse is Around town at other ACT theatres... Lamplighters: the Community’s Theatre THE DRESSER ...... MAR 17-APR 16 By Ronald Harwood. Directed by Steve Murdock. Coronado Playhouse is committed to giving back to the local community, beyond off ering OnStage Playhouse: quality entertainment, by using its public HEATHERS, THE MUSICAL ...... APR 21-MAY 27 platform to help those in need. During The Book, Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe & Kevin Murphy. 39 Steps, we are proud to partner with the Based on the ﬁ lm written by Daniel Waters. Coronado Library. Directed by Manny & Tony Bejarano. Patio Playhouse: THE THIRD WAVE ...... MAR 31-APR 16 By Joseph Robinette and Ron Jones. Directed by Geoffrey A. Cox. Pickwick Players: JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH ...... JUNE 9–JULY 2 Bring along your gently-used Book by Timothy Allen McDonald. Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek & books to CPH when you come Justin Paul. Based on the book, “James and the Giant Peach” by Roald to the show. We have shelves in Dahl. Director Teri Ang the theatre where you can leave PowPAC: them. All books will be donated to OVER THE TAVERN ...... MAR 24-APR 23 the Friends of Coronado Library By Tom Dudzick. Directed by Annette Alliano. who work year-round to raise funds for the library’s outreach and Vanguard: community-enriching programs. WHO AM I THIS TIME? ...... MAR 24-APR 9 By Aaron Posner adapted from short stories of Kurt Vonnegut. Directed by David Pearson. Director’s Notes

Pop Quiz: What are the 39 Steps? A. A 1935 black-and-white thriller directed by one of the most notable film directors of the 20th century. B. A hit comedy smash in both the US and London. C. A nefarious mystery so secret that only a handful of conspirators know of its existence. If you answered ‘All of the Above’, congratulations! You could also be a dashing-everyman-turned-superspy like our hero, Richard Hannay. The 39 Steps has gone through many incarnations starting with the 1915 novel by John Buchnan. Alfred Hitchcock turned the book into a romantic thriller for the screen in 1935 which then led to a radio adaptation, two film remakes, and an award-winning comedy for the stage. In our production of The 39 Steps, the actors, much like the Desha Crownover story, take on many roles. They switch with a gesture or change Director of hat and utilize the tools that are already lying about onstage: two ladders become a bridge, a footstool shifts into a machine gun, a ghostlight doubles as a lamppost. We hope you like the artists’ creativity as they transform the ordinary into something extraordinary, or as Hitchcock says, “Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.” Enjoy!

Cast Bios (In alphabetical order)

RUSSELL CLEMENTS country. In San Diego, he recently appeared is ecstatic to be making in two plays at Diversionary Theatre, and in a his debut at Coronado well-received production of The Normal Heart Playhouse! He is a at Ion Theatre. Favorite regional credits include recent graduate of Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened On The Point Loma Nazarene Way To The Forum, Bob Cratchit in A Christmas University with a degree Carol and Paul Bratter in Barefoot In The Park. He in Theatre and a minor has appeared in several independent films and in History. Past roles commercials, and he recently shot two episodes include Panch (Spelling for a web series called Pipe Dreams. Fun “survival Bee), Cogsworth (Beauty jobs” have included being a tour guide at Universal and the Beast), Tevye Studios, Hollywood and talking about Hyundai (Fiddler on the Roof) vehicles around the country at the auto show. (YAT), Derrick (Know More!), Pappy (And Then Originally from Pennsylvania, Michael is thankful They Came for Me), Faustus (Tragical History to everyone involved with The 39 Steps, friends of Dr. Faustus), Bishop (See How They Run), and family for love and support, and Morty. Enjoy Russell (Shakespeare Abridged), Mushnik (Little the show! Shop of Horrors) and Tartuffe (Tartuffe) (Salomon Theater, PLNU). Russell JACOB SAMPSON would like to thank his is happy to return to family for their constant Coronado Playhouse support! Phil 4:4 after last season’s Seussical. He was raised MICHAEL LUNDY is in San Diego and then delighted to be part of moved away to do some The 39 Steps here at theater in NYC where Coronado Playhouse! there is snow; so he Michael has performed moved back. Jacob Off-Broadway and in currently works building theatres around the furniture and props for plays. Thank you for supporting the arts. Enjoy (Louise), Little Women (Jo), Hello Dolly (Irene), the show. 25th Annual….Spelling Bee (Marcy and Olive), Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman), Breaking Up Is ERICA MARIE Hard To Do (Lois), and Grease (Rizzo). When she WEISZ, a San Diego is not performing, Erica Marie enjoys cooking and native, has retained baking for her family and friends, and is an avid roles in theaters dachshund and bird enthusiast. “Thank you to my including Huntington incredible family and friends for all the love and Beach Playhouse, constant support!” Old Town Temecula Theatre, Performance Get social with us! Riverside, Moonlight Amphitheatre, The Welk Resort Theatre, and is ecstatic to be making her Coronado Playhouse debut! Credits include Addams Family Coronado @CoroPlayhouse coronado (Morticia), Guys and Dolls (Adelaide), Gypsy Playhouse playhouse

Creative Team Bios

DESHA CROWNOVER (Director) is an award- and dialect, working at The Royal National Theatre, winning stage director with over 75 shows to her The Belgrade Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe in name, ranging from intimate black-box style plays London, drama schools and touring. Moving to to fully-staged musicals for audiences of over 800. San Diego in 2007, she became Artistic Director She has had the opportunity to direct, teach, and of SDSS, producing and directing performances perform across the country for the past twenty- and outreach programs. She has worked with five years where her work has been commended North Coast Rep, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Write by such theatre notables as Edward Albee, Out Loud, Cygnet, Moonlight Stage Productions, Ming Cho Lee, and Timothy Near. She holds a Welk Resorts Theatre, Vanguard and San Diego Master’s degree in Theatre from SDSU and a B.A. Symphony as an actor, director, singer, and voice in Theatre with an emphasis in Performing from & dialect coach. Vanessa sings with Folklore Guild UCSD. She has served on the teaching faculty of and SACRA/PROFANA and maintains a private SDSU, Cuyamaca College, and Santa Fe Christian voice teaching studio. She serves on the board Schools teaching music, acting, theatre history, of Coronado Playhouse and is their Director of public speaking, and speech and debate. Her Artistic Planning & Marketing. work as a playwright has been produced at UCSD, SDSU, and Santa Fe Christian Schools, as well. JACOB SAMPSON (Set Design, Master Carpenter, Props) (see cast bios) KATY SKYRUD (Producer) is delighted to be working once again with Desha after collaborating JULIAN SINK (Lighting Design) comes to The 39 on last year’s production of Seussical. Katy has Steps after assisting Chad Oakley in light design co-produced with fellow board member Barron for A Chorus Line and Altar Boyz at Coronado Henzel on many award-winning productions at Playhouse. You can catch his work next doing CPH such as The IT Girl, The Drowsy Chaperone, sound designing for Heathers: The Musical and Cinderella, Sherlock Holmes, TBLWIT, and Sugar. Spring Awakening both at Onstage Playhouse. Other Producer credits at CPH include Sleeping Some of his previous works are sound tech Beauty, Mistletoe, Music & Mayhem and A Year for Always...Patsy Cline and Buddy at Onstage With Frog and Toad. She would like to thank her Playhouse, and Sordid Lives and Suessical at family for always being such good sports. Coronado Playhouse. KATHY PARKS (Resident Production MICHAEL COOK (Sound Design & Operation) Manager) has worked backstage on many shows was introduced to sound and lighting design with Coronado Playhouse, Pickwick Players and through his church, where he continues to live mix Trinity Theatre Company. She is delighted to services every week. CPH tech credits include be working with such a talented and funny cast Seussical: The Musical, A Chorus Line, A Holiday and crew. Much gratitude to Megan Barahura for Cabaret, Altar Boyz, Showbiz with the Miz, and making her job on this show so easy! Rayme’s Song Mashups. He is grateful to Desha VANESSA DINNING (Dialect Coach) and Coronado Playhouse for giving him a chance Professionally trained in acting, voice and music in to keep spending time behind the board doing London, Vanessa pursued a successful stage, TV what he loves. Thanks to family, friends, and Sarah and radio career in acting, direction, cabaret, voice for their constant love and support MARCEE DRYSDALE (Costume Design) is the Rain, High School Musical, Zombie Prom and the Head Costumer at Young Actors’ Theatre. Xanadu. She handles all costume rentals at YAT Her costume credits include Sugar, Thoroughly and can be reached at Costumes by Marcene@ Modern Millie and Seussical at Coronado gmail.com. Playhouse. Fiddler on the Roof, Spring PAMELA EVERETT (Props, House Dressing) Awakening, Addams Family, Les Miserables, is thrilled to be continuing to work with CPH for West Side Story, Aladdin, Legally Blonde, Wizard her 10th season. It so wonderful to be able to of Oz, Annie, Oliver, Guys & Dolls, Footloose, work with our great crews, casts and staff on Hairspray and Ragtime, in Concert at Young the quality productions that are performed here. Actors’ Theatre. She also costumes shows at San Thank you for allowing me to indulge my inner Diego area high schools and those credits include child. Gratitude and love to Dennis and Amanda Alice in Wonderland, Anything Goes, Singing in for all their love and assistance.

Coronado Playhouse Government & Foundation Support

Coronado Playhouse thanks our members for their continued support! Visit CoronadoPlayhouse.com/ membership to see our great member benefits.

CROWN SPONSOR - Lee & Pat Freeman Norm & Darlene Daley David Woodward & $5,000 and above Tom Fitzpatrick & Ari, Debbie & Jake Family Michael Glass Barron Henzel David Jacquelyn McCoy & Robert & Dorothy INDIVIDUAL - SPONSOR - Jim Lare Draper $50 and above $2,500 and above Bill Speer and Marsi Jean Duncan Mary Anderson Leonard Hirsch Steirer The Fox Family Vince Asaro Todd & Sarah Sutton Skip & Kim Thaeler Alyssa Guttendorf Maureen Bennett David & Susan Mike Brindell CROWN DONOR - PATRON - Hagstrom Ken Callaway $1000 and above $125 and above Arleen Hitchcock Loris and Tani Cohen Harry Granruth III & Cecile Abel Ralph Johnson John Drehner Katy Skyrud David & Emma Ah Sing Ursula Kantor Lorraine Eden- Tom & Pat Haine Barbara Barnes Carol Kearney Hermann Chuck & Jo-Ann Howe & Alfred Eleanor Kipperman Pam & Dennis Everett Russell and Mary Schattschneider Pat & Dan McDonough Marian Ferguson Johnson Kevin & Susan Bray Tricia & Michael Locke Karen Fiorello Jackie Suitt En-Shen Kuan & The Nibbe Family Edward & Joy Floyd Donald Butts Eric Olson Luann Gallant DONOR - $500 and above Bill Grove & Dianne Christina Paine-Ross Conrad Gisiger Jerry & Jill Hall Gray Carole & Donald Rosemary Harrison Foundation Paula Gumm Roback Ron Hoyt Nance & Mark Hunter Raymond & Patricia Joyleen Rottenstein Steve Jensen Stephen and DJ Lynch M. Jane Russell Kasey & David Kay McLaughlin Dr. & Mrs. Schwartz Marilyn and Tom Kevin & Rachel The Jim & Midge Janis Vanderford Sander Kemmerer Peltier Charitable Robert & Yukiko Paul and Kathleen Kathleen McCabe Fund Wennerholt Schaeffer Patricia Mendoza James & Sondra Martin & Claire White Cecil & Paulette Stacy Mycorn Seeright Shuffler Andrew OTool Robert & Carol Spane FAMILY - Kathleen Smith Kathy Parks Nancy Stone $100 and above Jeannette Spafford Francis Selka Elsa Aguilar Arbues Marilyn Stenvall Susan Skyrud BENEFACTOR - Bruno Bosardi Nancy Taylor Mary Ann Thomas $250 and above Frances Brown Mary Ann Van Sickle Matt & Kathryn Trainor Gladys Beit-Ishoo Lyn Campbell Dick & Brenda Stephen Walton Patty Fay Diane Carpinelli Warneka Karen Willcox

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