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THEATRE ARTISTIC STAFF SCENE SYNOPSIS Stephen Schwartz Love Them; Beehive, the Go's Musical; [title DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN/ SETTING: The greatest showin THREE MUSIC & LYRICS of show]; Woody Guthrie's American Song, limbo COSTUME DESIGN A Dog's Life, The LaVidas' Landford, The Bruce R. Coleman ACT I Godspe/1, a musical about a modern-day Boyfriend, and A Grand Night For Singing as CO-MUSICAL DIRECTORS SCENE ONE: THE OPENING Jesus who attracts a group of clown-like "MagictoDo"THE LEADING PLAYER some of his favorites. Bruce has also had TerryDobson & Pamela followers, lifted Steven Schwartz to fame Holcomb-Mclain &THE PLAYERS the great and good fortuneto be associated at age 23. Godspe/1 opened in 1971, ran for CHOR EOG RAP HY Kelly McCain "Corner of the Sky" PIPPIN with Uptown Players, where he directed more than 2,600 performances off and LIGHTING DESIGN Julie Simmons SCENE TWO: HOME Equus, The History Boys, and Bent- all on Broadway, and earned Schwartz two "Welcome Home" CHARLES & PIPPIN CAST Grammy Awards forits music, featuring Column Awards winners; tick, tick... BOOM!, SCENE THREE: WAR CHARLES *Bradley Campbell the pop hit "Day by Day." He wrote lyrics The Who's Tommy, and The Life. And also "Cake Walk" THOMAS, MICHAEL & THEO Ivan Friend with ICT Main Stage, Irving, where he WHITNEY for Leonard Bernstein's 1971 Mass. Then LEWIS AND ENSEMBLE came more Broadway shows: Pippin (1972, helmed The Secret Garden, The Curious "War is a Science" CHARLES, Pl PPIN, Michael Gasparro & THE PLAYERS winning TonyAwards fordirector Bob Savage, Shadow/ands, and Into the Woods BERTHE Lisa Anne Haram Fosse and actor Ben Vereen), The Magic (Rabin Award). In addition to his work on "Glory" THE LEADING PLAYER & CATHERINE *''Lee Jamison THE PLAYERS Show (1974, starring Doug Henning), The our Mainstage, Theatre Too has seen three THE LEADING PLAYER "The Mansion Trio" THE LEADING Baker's Wife (1976), and a musical based on world premieres of his original plays: Night t,N. Wilson King Working, PLAYER, KIA, & ARIANNA the Studs Terkel novel which won and Day (for New Theatre Company, Leon MARZIPAN Madison Pearl Schwartz a Drama Desk Award as director SCENE FOUR: THE FLESH Rabin Award ...Best Director), Look What's FASTRADA *Morgana Shaw "Simple Joys"THE LEADING PLAYER & (1978). In the 1990s, he wrote the stage Happened to Pixie de Costa (Column Award, Pl PPIN *'''Max Swarner THE LADIES musical Children of Eden and collaborated ENSEMBLE "No Time at All"BERTHE & HER BOYS on three animated Disney movies: Pocahon Best New Play), and Tales FromMount Michael Albee (Dance Captain), "With You" PIPPIN &THE PLAYERS tas (1995, winning two Oscars forbest song Olympus. An 11-time Leon Rabin Award Heath Billups, Kia Nicole Boyer, SCENE FIVE: REVOLUTION and best score), The Hunchback of Notre winner, Bruce has also been recognized by 1 Wes Cantrell, '*Michelle Foard, "Spread a Little Sunshine" FASTRADA Dame (1996), and The Prince of Egypt (1998, the Dallas/Ft. Worth Critics Forum Awards, **Sergio Antonio Garcia, Michael "Morning Glow" PIPPIN &THE again winning an Oscar forbest song). He Gasparro, **Carlos Gomez, The Dallas Observer 'Best Of...' issue, and PLAYERS had another Broadway blockbuster with Whitney Hennen, **Arianna the Column Awards for his contribution to Movassagh, **Tricia Ponsford, "Act One Finale" THE LEADING the show Wicked, for which he wrote music local theatre. Many thanks to this lovely PLAYER & THE PLAYERS and lyrics; the show began a multi-year run Thomas Renner, **Darius - cast and everyone at Theatre Three for ACT II on Broadway in 2003. He was Oscar Anthony Robinson, **Alexandra continuing to bring the magic! Valle SCENE ONE: ENCOURAGEMENT nominated again forhis score to the 2007 "On the Right Track" THE LEADING Disney film Enchanted. MUSICIANS PLAYER & Pl PPI N Terry Dobson co-MUSICAL DIRECTOR» Mr. PIANO/KEYBOARDS SCENE TWO: THE HEARTH Ro er 0. Hirson Dobson has been a multi-talented member Terry Dobson or Pamela Holcomb "There He Was" CATHERINE g Mclain BOOK of Theatre Three's artistic staffsince May "Kind ofWoman" CATHERINE &THE 1980. He currently serves as T3's Musical PERCUSSION Jon Lee PLAYERS Roger Hirson is mainly known forwriting Director and Company Manager. His BASS Peggy Honea, "Extraordina " PIPPIN ry the book forPippin and Walking Happy. In directing credits this season are Flaming David Odegaard "Prayer for a Duck" PIPPIN &THEO 1973, Pippin was nominated forTo ny Award WOODWINDS Ellen Kaner "The Bed" PIPPIN, CATHERINE, Guns of the Purple Sage, Songs from an WIND SYNTH Michael Dill HEATH, &ALEXANDRA. Best Book of a Musical. In 1967, Walking Unmade Bed, and / Love You, You're Perfect, Happy was nominated forTony Award for PRODUCTION STAFF "Love Song" PIPPIN & CATHERINE Now Change. Prior credits include Another Best Musical. He is also the fatherof David AEA STAGE MANAGER "I Guess I'll Miss the Man" Night Before Christmas, Six Dance Lessons in Hirson, the playwright of La Bete, a show ''Ter Vandivort CATHERINE Six Weeks, Murder on the Nile, The Big Bang, ry Theatre Three will produce in its upcoming TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Pucul SCENE THREE: THE FINALE Crimes of the Heart, Only Heaven, and Ele "Finale" THE LEADING PLAYER, 2011-2012 season. MASTER ELECTRICIAN David Gibson gies: A Song Cycle. Terry's stage managing PIPPIN, &THE PLAYERS SCENIC ARTIST David Walsh assignments with us include Tales From PRODUCTION ASSISTANT "Theo's Corner" THEO & THE PLAYERS ARTISTIC STAFF Mount Olympus, Songs of the Redhead, the Karen Foster Music of Danny Kaye, Vieux Carre, and The PRODUCTION CREW Pippin is graciously ••.ar,. TACA Bruce R. Coleman DIRECTOR» Mr. Royal Family. He has performedwith Casa Elizabeth Lowe, ts Katherine Marchant, . supported by: r::1:�:��: Coleman has been associated with Theatre Mariana,Ft. Worth; Dallas Theater Center, Please silence your cell phones and all Ashleigh Alder electronic devices. No photography or Three since his apprenticeship back in 1985. Flower Mound PerformingArts Theatre, videography is allowed without the consent of Among the many, many plays and musicals Lyric Stage, Ft. Worth; and Theatre Arling * indicates members working under Actor's the theater. Equity Association contracts in this production. he has staged forT3 over the years, he lists ton. He is a recipient of a Rabin Award and will be one 15 minute intermission ** indicates a performerenrolled in the AEA There between Acts I & ll. Why Torture is Wrong and the People Who of numerous Column Awards. membership candidate program. C PIPPIN BIOGRAPHIES
Lee Jamison, Max Swarner, Michael Casparro, Thomas Renner, Ivan Friend, and Wes Cantrell, and Morgana Shaw Darius-Anthony Robinson
Pamela Mclain co- COSTUME DESIGN» Mr. Heaven, and the unforget- Hector in The History Boys Worth; and Jekyll and Hyde: at various concerts and MUSICAL DIRECTOR» Ms. Coleman has designed sets table Wild Party. at Uptown Players. He is a The Musical with Greater private events around Dal- McLain is working on and costumes forabout one Dallas native, an alumnus Lewisville Community las. He holds a Bachelor of her tenth production at million shows in the Dallas/ Heath Billups ENSEMBLE» of Texas Tech, and an Theatre. Other favorites music in voice performance Theatre Three. Her most Fort Worth area. His work Mr. Billips also makes his MFA graduate of Rutgers include Sugar with ICT from Baylor University and recent assignments were has appeared at Theatre debut with Theatre Three University. MainStage, Irving, Sunday currently works as a voice playing for/ Love You, Three, Theatre Too!, ICT but has done several shows in the Park with George at instructor and music direc- You're Perfect, Now Change Mainstage, Irving; Uptown in the Dallas area as well Wes Cantrell ENSEMBLE» Onstage in Bedford, and tor forCoppell High School, and last season's [title of Players, Kitchen Dog as films and modeling. He Mr. Cantrell is making his High School Musical with Faith Christian School, show], for which she won Theatre, The Junior Players attended the KD Studio theatre Three debut. Recent Casa Mariana, Ft. Worth. the Texas Creative Arts a Column Award. Previ- and The Pocket Sandwich Conservatory in Dallas. shows include Closer to Academy, and Dallas Sum- ous credits include The Theatre in Dallas; in Fort Heaven at Uptown Players Sergio Antonio Garcia mer Musicals Academy. Goodbye Girl, Midlife:the Worth, Shakespeare in the Kia Nicole Boyer ENSEMBLE and / Love You, You're ENSEMBLE» Mr.Garcia Michael also serves as the Crisis Musical, The Big Bang, Park and Stage West; Plano »Ms. Boyer, making her Perfect, Now Change at returns to Theatre Three, Minister of Music forthe The Light in the Piazza, and Repertory Theatre, and firstappearance on our The University ofTexas at his most recent role being Catholic Campus Ministry Woody Guthrie's American Garland Civic Theatre. stage, has been travel- Dallas. one of the Pastry Chefs at Southern Methodist Song. Pam has also music ing around the country in our production of The University. directed and played for Julie N. Moroney LIGHT- since she can remember, Ivan Friend THEO» Ivan is Drowsy Chaperone. How- shows at Garland Civic ING DESIGN» This is Ms. performing at various involved in a musical the- ever, Sergio's firstappear- Carlos Gomez ENSEMBLE Theatre, ICT Mainstage, Moroney's firstlighting theatres and studying the atre class and private voice ance on our stage was in »Mr.Gomez is making his Irving; Theatre Britain, design assignment at The- world of musical theatre. lessons and looks forward 2001, this is his 11th show debut at Theatre Three. He Theatre Coppell, Dallas atre Three.Julie designs for Kia is a student at KD to beginnning dance in the and he will be remembered has previously appeared in Children's Theater, KD several theatre companies Studio Conservatory in Dal- fall. This is Ivan's debut for his roles in The LaVidas' The Dallas Opera's Romeo · Studios and Dallas Summer in the area including Lyric las in the musical theatre at Theatre Three, but he Landlord and Mack alMabel etJuliet, Uptown Players' Musicals Academy. Stage, Uptown Players and program. has been featured in plays in our 2008 Season. His Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Flower Mound Performing at CATS Theatre. His two Metroplex credits include Breathe, Garland Summer Kelly McCain CHORE· Arts Theatre. Her next Bradley Campbell CHARLES favoritesa re The Seussifica- performancesat notable Musicals' 42nd Street, OGRAPHY »Ms. McCain, project will be Oliver for »Mr.Campbell recently tion of Romeo and Juliet and theatres such as Lyric Stage's Carousel and recently seen in The Drowsy Lyric Stage. She is currently completed his third season 100 Dresses. Besides acting, Uptown Players and Funny Girl, and WaterTower Chaperone as a member of the Technical Director of as Man #2 in Theatre Ivan's other interests are WaterTower Theatre in Dal- Theater's Oklahoma. the ensemble and dance the Murchison Performing Three's long-running spending time with family las, ICT Mainstage, Irving; captain, returns foranother Arts Center as a part of hit. / Love You, You're and friends, involvement in and Lyric Stage, Ft. Worth. Lisa Anne Haram BERTHE fantasticproduction UNT's College of Music. Perfect, Now Change. Other church, putting on puppet Sergio has also done opera » Ms. Haram is a Theatre with us. Other favorite She thanks Bruce forthis Theatre Three appearances shows, art, piano, reading in New York and Italy. Three alumnae, having productions include amazing opportunity. include The Light in the and volunteering at Misson made her firstappearance Broadway Our Way, Closer Piazza; The Odd Couple; Arlington's foodpantry. Michael Gasparro LEWIS&. with us in 2000, and since to Heaven, Breathe, and CAST and Infidelities. Bradley ENSEMBLE» Mr.Gasparro has appeared in House and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels for has performedat many MichelleFoard ENSEMBLE is debuting with us but has Garden, and Look What's Uptown Players; Carousel, Michael Albee ENSEMBLE/ area theatres including »Ms.Foard is debuting credits in several Metroplex Happened to Pixie De Costa. Hello Dolly, The King and DANCE CAPTAIN» Mr. Albee Lyric Stage, Casa Mariana, with us in this production. theaters. Recent roles are She is reprising her role /, and Fiorello for Lyric makes his debut on our and Stage West in Ft. A graduate ofTruman Danny in Baby at PFAMily as Berthe, stating that she Stage, Irving; The Best Little stage with this production Worth; Shakespeare Dallas, State University, Kirksville, Arts (Plano, Frisco, Allen & apparently looked 66 over Whorehouse in Texas for but has previously worked Uptown Players, Contem- MO, she holds a Bachelor McKinney); Edward in The 30 years ago! Most recently ,, Contemporary Theatre of with both Bruce Coleman porary Theatre of Dallas, of Music in vocal perfor- Great White Way at Out of she directed Pajama Dallas; and Oklahoma, 42nd and Kelly McCain. However, and WaterTower Theatre in mance. Most recently, in the Loop Fringe Festival, Tops at Pocket Sandwich Street, Guys alDolls, Crazy Michael's theatrical credits Dallas and; Flower Mound the Metroplex, she has WaterTower Theatre, and as Theatre, where she was for You, Hello Dolly, Will & highlights in the Dallas Performing Arts Theatre. been seen in The Fantas- one ofVernon'sVoices in also seen as Mrs. Meekly Rogers Follies, and Mame for Metroplex include Kiss of He is a Rabin Award winner ticks at Onstage in Bedford, They're Playing our Song at in Unnecessary Farce. She Garland Summer Musicals. the Spider Woman, The Life, and won the 2009 Column Bedford; Kiss ofthe Spider Theater Coppell. Michael has performedat many Aida, Cabaret, Santa Claus Award for Best Actor in Woman with Artes de la also enjoys performingas a theatres in the Metroplex Bruce R. Coleman SET & Vs. The Martians, Closer to a Play forhis portrayal of Rosa's Teatro de la Rosa, Ft. concert artist and performs and the Algonquin Theatre C PIPPIN BIOCiRAPHIES
Michelle Foard, Alexandra Michael Albee, Arianna Valle, Kia Nicole Boyer, N. Movassagh, Sergio Wilson King, Tricia Ponsford, Antonio Carcia, Madison Whitney Hennen, Carlos Pearl, Lisa Anne Haram, Comez,and Heath Billups _,,,,. and Bradley Campbell in NYC, and was Iowa include The True Story Kingdom in Orlando, FL. Suzanne in Don't Dress Dallas Summer Musicals, at Garland Civic Theatre; Housewife in the first of the Three Little Pigs for Dinner, and Pearl in and Theatre Britain, all in and Lola - Damn Yankees at National tour of Menopause, (regional premiere) for Arianna Movassagh House and Garden. A UNT Dallas; LifeStage Theatre Garland Summer Musicals. the Musical. Favorite roles Dallas Children's Theater, ENSEMBLE» Ms. Movas- alum, Tricia has performed and Runway Theatre, Thanks to Ryan Matthieu include: Jenny in Company, Closer to Heaven (US sagh returns to our stage, on stages across the Grapevine; Garland Civic Smith for help with public- Queen Aggravain in Once premiere) and Equus for and was most recently I Metroplex. Favorite roles Theatre; and ICT MainStage, ity shoot make-up design. Upon a Mattress, and Uptown Players, Blue Moon seen as Kitty in The include Carol in 0/eanna, Irving. New York credits Helena LaMancha in Look Dancing (premiere produc- Drowsy Chaperone and as Rose in Secret Garden, include: Malverone Players Max Swarner PIPPIN» What's Happened to Pixie tion) for Contemporary Gloria in Blankety -Blank. Alice in Closer, and Sooze Theater (off-offBroadway), Mr. Swarner is back on DeCosta. Having retired Theatre of Dallas, Bye Bye Arianna has also enjoyed in Suburbia. In her next the Lincoln Center for our stage, having just from corporate life in 2003, Birdie and 1927 Showboat performingwith Boot- project she will be playing the Performing Arts, The performedthe role of Long Lisa is now the Education at Lyric Stage, and Rudolph straps Comedy Theatre, Bride in her own wedding! Duplex Cabaret Theatre in The Roads to Home, and Coordinator at S.T.A.G.E. the Red-Nosed Reindeer WaterTower Theatre, Dallas and the Westside Theatre. earlier this season, a pup- and works for a CPA. (premiere production) at Theater Center TCT, Dallas Thomas Renner ENSEMBLE He thanks his familyand peteer in Tales From Mount Casa Mariana, Fort Worth. Children's Theater, and »Mr.Renner makes his friends fortheir support. Olympus. A native of Dallas, Whitney Hennen Uptown Players in Dallas; debut with us, having he has been singing/acting ENSEMBLE» Ms. Hennen N. Wilson King THE and Casa Marianaand received his Bachelor of Morgana Shaw FASTRADA since age four and his received her BA in dance LEADING PLAYER» Ms. King Lyric Stage in Fort Worth. Fine Arts from The Boston »Ms. Shaw, returns for acting credits include these from UNT and is making is making her 14th appear- Favorite roles include Adele Conservatory. Theatrical her ninth appearance venues: Uptown Players, her debut on our stage in a ance on our stage and was in A Man of No Importance, credits include Flora, The on our stage and will WaterTower Theatre, deja vue experience - eight last seen in Beehive, The Rosa Bud in The Mystery Red Menace and My Fair be remembered for her Garland Civic Theatre, years ago this summer, Go's Musical, and glad to be of Edwin Drood, Anita in Lady for Lyric Stage, Irving; roles asJulie Cavandish Dallas Summer Musicals, Pippin was the firstmusical back on the stage after a Westside Story, Liz in The Zanna Don't!, Dirty Rotten in The Royal Family, Chick and Repertory Company in which she performed. It long year of teaching high Book of Liz, the Baker's Wife Scoundrels, and The Who's Boyles in Crimes of the Theatre, to name a few. has been an amazing ride school theater. Beside in Into the Woods (2002 Tommy forUptown Players, Heart, Veronica Craye Favorite roles include Alan since then. Some of her having had her first job in Dallas Theatre League Dallas; The Rocky Horror in The Hollow, various Strang in Uptown Players' favorite credits include the professional theater here, Award and Column Award "Puppet" Show, Collin characters in Batboy, the mega-hit Equus, Che in ensemble in Dirty Rotten some of her favorite roles recipient) and June in The County Community Col- Musical, Laura Warwick Evita, Joseph injoseph and Scoundrels forUptown were also performed here, Musical of Musicals, the lege; and West Side Story, in The Unexpected Guest, the Technicolored Dream Players, Dallas; ensemble including The Goodbye Musical (2006 Dallas/ Boston Conservatory. and most especially for her Coat, and Songs for a New in Sugar for ICT MainStage, Girl, The World Goes Round Fort Worth Theatre Critic's role as the legendary Bette World. Max is a Column Irving; and June in Chicago (Web Critics Award - Best Forum Award recipient). Darius-Anthony Robinson Davis in the Broadway- Award winner and is a and Val in A Chorus Line, Supporting Actress), Rise ENSEMBLE» Mr. Robinson bound one woman smash multiple nominee forthe both in Denton, TX. Whit- and Shine, A Grand Night Madison Pearl MARZIPAN returns for his 5thTheatre hit production ofAll About Leon Rabin and Column ney will be performingthe for Singing (Critics Choice »Ms. Pearl is wagging Three production, and was Bette: An Evening with Bette Awards. role of Norma Cassidy in Award - Best Ensemble) with excitement as she last seen in The Drowsy Davis by Camilla Carr, a T3 Victor/Victoria forUptown and Once On This Island. makes her on-stage theatre Chaperone as Trix, the alumnae. Recent favorite Alexandra ValleENSEMBLE Players later this summer. Other Metroplex venues debut with this fabulous Aviatrix. Favorite roles stage roles include: Jane »Ms.Valle returns for her include Uptown Players' - cast. Previously she's been '! include: Mitch Mahoney - This at Stage West, Ft. third performanceat T3, lee Jamison CATHERINE The Lifeand A New Brain backstage at Theatre Too, - The 25th Annual Putnam Worth; Billie Trix- Closer to having created roles in The »Ms.Jamison, a Theatre (Rabin Award nominee), Dallas Children's Theater ! County Spelling Bee at both Heaven at Uptown Players 25th Annual Putnam County Three alumnae, is an actor, The Dallas Theater Center and Pocket Sandwich Theatre Three and Theatre (Column Award Winner Spelling Bee, and The singer, voiceover actor, and -A Christmas Carol, The Theatre after a brief model- Arlington; Benny - Rent for and Best Lead Actress in an Drowsy Chaperone. Addi- dialect coach with a BFA Best Little Whorehouse ing career. She lost her eye Brookhaven Theatre, Tootie Equity Musical); Jadis, the tional Metroplex credits in drama performance in Texas, A - My Name in a bar fight. They call the - Facts of Life: The Lost White Witch - The Lion, The include Closer to Heaven ,,. fromthe University of is Alice, Gift of the Magi; other dog Tripod now. Episode forUptown Players; Witch and the Wardrobe at forUptown Players, and Oklahoma. Her most Blues, Ballads, Broadway Ii[_ and Ren McCormack - Dallas Children's Theatre How I Became a Pirate for recent appearances were in Blessings; Rockin' Christmas, Tricia Ponsford ENSEMBLE Footloose at Garland Civic (Column Award Winner Dallas Children's Theater. Why Torture is Wrong and Abbyssinia, Broadway Our » Ms. Ponsfordreturns Theatre. Other regional forBest Lead Actress She holds a BFA in musical The People Who Love Them, Way, Godspell, and Hair. forher fifthappearance credits include: Uptown in an Equity Play); Ziller theatre from TCU. Tales from Mount Olympus, Natalie also performedas on our stage and will be Players, Family Music Sparkfield- Well Travelled (both regional premieres) Quintara the Storyteller at remembered for her roles Theater, Cedar Valley Col- But Not Well Known at One and Lost in the Stars. Lee's Walt Disney World's Animal as Gwendolyn in Travesties, lege; WaterTower Theatre, Thirty Productions, Dallas; Dallas Metroplex credits Kingdom and the Magic Heidi in [title of show], Dallas Children's Theater, Mrs. Lovett - Sweeney Todd C THE ANNUAL FUND
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Broadway's rock musical with oflove at fiftyand beyond. Two actors play intense and deeply affecting. . " - The New music and lyrics by Michael eight roles in this four part, fast-paced York Times. Winner of the Drama Desk This Broadway musical shows the fun-filledlaugh-fest . and Outer Critics Circle Award. touching but monumentally impractical Friedman, book by Alex Timbers sacrificeof parents to provide their This colorful, multi-prize-winning, tongue IT'S ONLY LIFE beloved daughter a beautiful wedding. in-cheek and very cheeky rock musical November II - December II All its powerful emotions are elevated exuberantly shows the seventh president by composer John Bucchino's gorgeous of the United States of America as virile, Songs ofcelebrated cabaret score and evocative lyrics. bold, complex, and even corrupt, as he and Broadway composer, John recklessly wrestles political power away Bucchino. from the elite and back to his ga-ga public. LAB£TE Bucchino is having a "mini festival" this All this while he fightsthe Indians, British, December 8 - January 14 season with both this revue in Theatre Spanish and French for westward land A London and New York Too and his musical on The Norma and fightsduels just for sport. prizewinning comedy by David Young Arena Stage. The revue provides Hirson, inspired by Moliere. a catalogue of romance approached with high expections, high anxiety, and open When a pig-headed patron in 17th century hearts. France imposes a vulgar street performer on the court's most prestigious comedy I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW company, there are fireworksof indigna tion and protestations. The exhilarating CHANGE debate of the play pitches the crass comic January 20 - February 19 against the intellectually swift and socially The hit revue for all romantics significant Moliere-like satirist who runs by Jimmy Roberts B[JoeDiPietro. the company The annual bring-back of the longest run ning show in Dallas history, the perennial THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION hit musical comedy review of courtship February 16 - March 17 and marriage returns just in time for The mile-a-minute Broadway Valentine's Day. drama by Aaron Sorkin, 20II Oscar-winning writer of Social Network and TV's The West Wing. It's 1929. Two ambitious visionaries race against each other to invent a device called "television". Who will unlock the key to the powerful innovation of the 20th century: the ruthless media mogul, or the self-taught Idaho farm boy? 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Those of us who have been dawned on me that I could things changed practically working in the theatre and SHOULD dedicate over night! It has become or attending plays and my art, life, and career to a cultural signpost for a musicals forlarge chunks this artformthat had so generation of theatre-loving of our lives, assign certain inspired me. So I did! playgoers! So enjoy the theatrical experiences as Indeed, Pippin changed show. And take a couple of cultural signposts along a lot of things fora lot of moments afterwards to ask the way. Pippin has been people. It's original New yourself...Whatare YQUR one of those signposts York production with Bob cultural signposts? forme. It was the first Fosse at the helm of Roger "professional" show I ever Hirson's book and Stephen saw live (at Casa Mariana, Schwartz's score broke circa 1977?) and, hoarey new ground in story telling. cliche's aside, it totally The integration of book, changed my life. Until that score, and choreography; time, I had liked being in how the chorus could be shows at school, but after used; even how shows can seeing this production, it be marketed, all of these
C SING ALONG WITH PIPPIN Oh, it's time to start livin'!
Time to take a little from the world we're given!
Time to take time, for spring will turn to fall!
In just no time at all!