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Damn Yankees Program.Pdf GOODSPEED MUSICALS 2014 SEASON Damn Yankees The Musical | 13 Cast of Characters | 14 Musical Numbers | 15 Who’s Who | 16 Program Notes | 24 About Goodspeed Musicals | 26 History of Goodspeed Opera House | 27 The Goodspeed Opera House Foundation | 28 Corporate Support | 29 Foundation & Government Support | 30 February; President’s Day weekend: Enough is Looking to the Future— Leaving a Legacy | 31 enough! Jon and Ida Kadish are defecting. Life in Goodspeed Musicals Staff | 40 the United States is different. No nuclear explosions For Your Information | 49 or widespread epidemics have occurred, but the America we grew up in, the land that we loved Audio and video recording and is gone. Personal freedoms have been trampled. photography are prohibited in the theatre. Israeli/US relations are severed after they bomb Iran: Please turn off your cell phone, beeper, watch alarm or anything else that might • Retirement age is seventy-five. make a distracting noise during the performance. Unwrap any candies, cough • Healthcare is rationed. drops, or mints before the performance begins to avoid disturbing your fellow • The NSA, FBI and the IRS monitor everyone. audience members or the actors on stage. • More than marijuana is legal. We appreciate your cooperation. • Exit Permits are needed to leave the country. Editor Lori A. Cartwright • There is no escape. Jon and Ida embark on a tension filled drive to the Canadian border, but it’s not as easy as they had ADVERTISING hoped. Shapiro once more writes of a journey… OnStage Publications of mysterious people they meet, of bureaucratic 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: obstacles, new opportunities, & intrigue that envelop [email protected] them from startling places, in just the next few days… www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with OnStage Publications, 1612 Prosser Theatre Goers: 20% Discount! Go to: Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program www.createspace.com/4568857 may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the Enter Discount Code: 2DSSK6GW publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of OnStage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2014. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Kindle is @ Amazon 2 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON For more information,GOODSPEED MUSICALS contact: | 2014 SEASON 3 [email protected] Damn Yankees The Musical | 13 Cast of Characters | 14 Musical Numbers | 15 Who’s Who | 16 Program Notes | 24 About Goodspeed Musicals | 26 History of Goodspeed Opera House | 27 The Goodspeed Opera House Foundation | 28 Corporate Support | 29 Foundation & Government Support | 30 February; President’s Day weekend: Enough is Looking to the Future— Leaving a Legacy | 31 enough! Jon and Ida Kadish are defecting. Life in Goodspeed Musicals Staff | 40 the United States is different. No nuclear explosions For Your Information | 49 or widespread epidemics have occurred, but the America we grew up in, the land that we loved Audio and video recording and is gone. Personal freedoms have been trampled. photography are prohibited in the theatre. Israeli/US relations are severed after they bomb Iran: Please turn off your cell phone, beeper, watch alarm or anything else that might • Retirement age is seventy-five. make a distracting noise during the performance. Unwrap any candies, cough • Healthcare is rationed. drops, or mints before the performance begins to avoid disturbing your fellow • The NSA, FBI and the IRS monitor everyone. audience members or the actors on stage. • More than marijuana is legal. We appreciate your cooperation. • Exit Permits are needed to leave the country. Editor Lori A. Cartwright • There is no escape. Jon and Ida embark on a tension filled drive to the Canadian border, but it’s not as easy as they had ADVERTISING hoped. Shapiro once more writes of a journey… OnStage Publications of mysterious people they meet, of bureaucratic 937-424-0529 | 866-503-1966 e-mail: obstacles, new opportunities, & intrigue that envelop [email protected] them from startling places, in just the next few days… www.onstagepublications.com This program is published in association with OnStage Publications, 1612 Prosser Theatre Goers: 20% Discount! Go to: Avenue, Kettering, OH 45409. This program www.createspace.com/4568857 may not be reproduced in whole or in part without written permission from the Enter Discount Code: 2DSSK6GW publisher. JBI Publishing is a division of OnStage Publications, Inc. Contents © 2014. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Kindle is @ Amazon 2 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON For more information,GOODSPEED MUSICALS contact: | 2014 SEASON 3 [email protected] 4 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 5 4 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 5 6 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 7 6 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 7 8 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 9 8 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 9 10 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 11 10 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 11 presents Words and Music by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and DOUGLASS WALLOP Based on the novel by Douglass Wallop “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant” Book Adaptation for the Red Sox Version by JOE DiPIETRO with ANN ARVIA DAVID BEACH ALLYCE BEASLEY COLIN SCOTT CAHILL JOVEN CALLOWAY JOE CASTIGLIONE RYAN CAVANAUGH VANESSA DUNLEAVY SEAN EWING LORA LEE GAYER STEVE GEARY TIMOTHY HUGHES JAMES JUDY DANNY LINDGREN STEPHEN MARK LUKAS MICHAEL MENDEZ ALFIE PARKER, JR. ANGEL REDA VICTOR J. WISEHART RON WISNISKI KRISTINE ZBORNIK Scenic Design by Costume Design by Lighting Design by ADRIAN W. JONES DAVID C. WOOLARD BRIAN TOVAR Sound Design by Wig & Hair Design by JAY HILTON MARK ADAM RAMPMEYER Orchestrations by Assistant Music Director DAN DeLANGE WILLIAM J. THOMAS Production Manager Production Stage Manager Casting by R. GLEN GRUSMARK BRADLEY G. SPACHMAN STUART HOWARD & PAUL HARDT Associate Producer Line Producer BOB ALWINE DONNA LYNN COOPER HILTON Music Direction by MICHAEL O’FLAHERTY Choreographed by KELLI BARCLAY Directed by DANIEL GOLDSTEIN Produced for Goodspeed Musicals by MICHAEL P. PRICE First Performance: April 11, 2014 at the Goodspeed Opera House Marquee Producing Partner MR. and MRS. GERALD LAZAR Sponsored by: DR. and MRS. DAVID F. FRANKEL Official Airline of Goodspeed Musicals 12 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 13 presents Words and Music by RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS Book by GEORGE ABBOTT and DOUGLASS WALLOP Based on the novel by Douglass Wallop “The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant” Book Adaptation for the Red Sox Version by JOE DiPIETRO with ANN ARVIA DAVID BEACH ALLYCE BEASLEY COLIN SCOTT CAHILL JOVEN CALLOWAY JOE CASTIGLIONE RYAN CAVANAUGH VANESSA DUNLEAVY SEAN EWING LORA LEE GAYER STEVE GEARY TIMOTHY HUGHES JAMES JUDY DANNY LINDGREN STEPHEN MARK LUKAS MICHAEL MENDEZ ALFIE PARKER, JR. ANGEL REDA VICTOR J. WISEHART RON WISNISKI KRISTINE ZBORNIK Scenic Design by Costume Design by Lighting Design by ADRIAN W. JONES DAVID C. WOOLARD BRIAN TOVAR Sound Design by Wig & Hair Design by JAY HILTON MARK ADAM RAMPMEYER Orchestrations by Assistant Music Director DAN DeLANGE WILLIAM J. THOMAS Production Manager Production Stage Manager Casting by R. GLEN GRUSMARK BRADLEY G. SPACHMAN STUART HOWARD & PAUL HARDT Associate Producer Line Producer BOB ALWINE DONNA LYNN COOPER HILTON Music Direction by MICHAEL O’FLAHERTY Choreographed by KELLI BARCLAY Directed by DANIEL GOLDSTEIN Produced for Goodspeed Musicals by MICHAEL P. PRICE First Performance: April 11, 2014 at the Goodspeed Opera House Marquee Producing Partner MR. and MRS. GERALD LAZAR Sponsored by: DR. and MRS. DAVID F. FRANKEL Official Airline of Goodspeed Musicals 12 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2014 SEASON 13 CAST OF CHARACTERS SYNOPSIS OF SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS (in order of appearance) Boston, 1952 Announcer JOE CASTIGLIONE Act One Joe Boyd JAMES JUDY Prologue, Fenway Park Meg Boyd ANN ARVIA Overture ........................................................................................................................................The Team Applegate DAVID BEACH Scene 1, The Boyd House Sister KRISTINE ZBORNIK Six Months Out of Every Year .............................................................................Meg, Joe Boyd & the Team Doris ALLYCE BEASLEY Goodbye, Old Girl ...................................................................................................... Joe Boyd & Joe Hardy Joe Hardy STEPHEN MARK LUKAS Scene 2, On the Field and Into the Locker Room Coach Van Buren RON WISNISKI Heart ................................................................................. Van Buren, Smokey, Rocky, Sohovik & the Team Rocky MICHAEL MENDEZ Scene 3, The Dugout Smokey DANNY LINDGREN Sohovik VICTOR J. WISEHART Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO .....................................................................................Gloria & the Team Hernandez SEAN EWING Scene 4, Around Boston Gloria Thorpe LORA LEE GAYER Scene 5, The Locker Room Lola ANGEL REDA Scene 6, Applegate’s Office A Little Brains, A Little Talent .................................................................................................................Lola ENSEMBLE Scene 7, The Boyd House JOVEN CALLOWAY A Man Doesn’t Know ........................................................................................................Joe
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