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Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. 4 5TH AVENUE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY / Act– a CONTEMPORARY THEATRE EH 012209 urban 1_6h.pdf From the Artistic Directors David Armstrong Kurt Beattie Executive Producer and Artistic Director Artistic Director The 5th Avenue Theatre ACT–A Contemporary Theatre Teaming Up for a Second Date The new musical that you are about to see is the result This coming season alone ACT will feature three world of a unique collaboration between two of Seattle’s premiere productions! leading not-for-profit theater companies: ACT–A Contemporary Theatre and The 5th Avenue Theatre. The 5th Avenue Theatre is acclaimed as one of the As was the case with last year’s co-production of the nation’s most significant producers and developers of musical Vanities, First Date is being jointly produced new musicals. During the past decade, The 5th has and presented as part of both theaters’ subscription produced 14 new musicals, five of which have moved seasons. on to Broadway, and two of which have received the Tony Award for Best Musical including the current This collaboration provides each organization with Broadway hit Memphis. Memphis will soon play its the opportunity to fulfill artistic goals that would be 1,000th performance in New York and was recently difficult for us to accomplish outside of this creative televised on PBS’s Great Performances. partnership. It allows The 5th Avenue the chance to bring to our audience some of the many wonderful, None of this would be possible without enthusiastic smaller-scale musicals that would not be a good fit for audiences and generous donors who love and support our home theater, and it allows ACT the opportunity new work, and who are eager to explore new theatrical to include musical theater in its programming on a territory and experience the thrill of creation. We regular basis. are extremely fortunate to be making theater here in Seattle—one of America’s great theater centers—and Perhaps most importantly, the collaboration provides we are very excited for you to see what the amazingly both theaters the chance to facilitate and guide the talented artists behind this new musical have created. world premiere of a new musical—and new works have long been at the center of our theaters’ artistic missions. Since its founding in 1965, ACT has been an incubator for the creation of new plays with many notable successes over the years, including Lonely Planet, First Class, Mitzi’s Abortion, and Becky’s New Car, which has gone on to more than 20 productions. Kurt Beattie and David Armstrong encoreartsprograms.com 5 Enjoy First Date? Go STEADY with ACT Subscriptions available now for the 2012 Mainstage Season A transforming, true story of friendship, April 20 – May 20 aspiration, and the power of art from the acclaimed writer of Billy Elliot. June 8 – July 8 Sept 7 – Oct 7 July 20 – Aug 26 Oct 12 - Nov 11 acttheatre.org | 206.292.7676 | 700 Union Street, Seattle See all this and more with an ACTPass! 6 5TH AVENUE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY / Act– a CONTEMPORARY THEATRE The 5th Avenue Theatre David Armstrong,The Executive 5th Avenue Producer Theatre and Artistic Director Bernadine C. Griffin, ManagingDavid Director Armstrong, Executive Producer & Artistic Director Bill Berry, Producing Director Bernadine C. Griffin, Managing Director and Bill Berry, Producing Director ACT – A Contemporaryand Theatre ACT—A Contemporary Theatre Kurt Beattie,Kurt Beattie,Artistic Artistic Director Director CCarloarlo Scandiuzzi, Scandiuzzi, Executive Executive Director Director present Present Book by Music and Lyrics by AUSTIN ALAN ZACHARY & WINSBERG MICHAEL WEINER Starring GREG McCORMICK ALLEN ERIC ANKRIM DANIELLE BARNUM JARED MICHAEL BROWN RICHARD GRAY BENJAMIN HARRIS KELLY KARBACZ VICKI NOON BRANDON O’NEILL BILLIE WILDRICK Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design MATTHEW SMUCKER FRANCES KENNY ALEX BERRY KAI HARADA Orchestrations Associate Music Director Stage Manager Associate Sound Design AUGUST ERIKSMOEN RJ TANCIOCO MICHAEL B. PAUL BRENDAN PATRICK HOGAN Music Supervision and Arrangements by DOMINICK AMENDUM Musical Staging by JOSH PRINCE Directed by BILL BERRY ACT SEASONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY: A Contemporary Theatre Foundation Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Artists Fund The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation THE JOHN GRAHAM FOUNDATION MARLEEN AND KENNY ALHADEFF, 5TH AVENUE PRODUCING PARTNER Restaurants Unlimited is a preferred restaurant Safeco Insurance and US Bank are co-sponsors The Olympic and Inn at the WAC are the preferred hotels of The 5th Avenue Theatre. of The 5th Avenue’s 2011-2012 season. of The 5th Avenue Theatre. 5th Avenue Theatre Season Support provided by ArtsFund encoreartsprograms.com 7 Cast (in alphabetical order) Aaron ...................................................ERIC ANKRIM Man #3 (Waiter et al.) ....................RICHARD GRAY (March 10-April 13) GREG McCORMICK ALLEN (April 14-May 20) Man #2 (Reggie et al.) ..................................BENJAMIN HARRIS Casey .................................................KELLY KARBACZ Woman #2 (Allison et al.) ....................................VICKI NOON Man #1 (Gabe et al.) ..................................BRANDON O’NEILL Woman #1 (Lauren et al.) ................................BILLIE WILDRICK UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. For Casey: VICKI NOON Female Understudy: DANIELLE BARNUM Male Understudy: JARED MICHAEL BROWN Dance Captain: DANIELLE BARNUM STAGE MANAGEMENT Stage Manager: MICHAEL B. PAUL Assistant State Manager: WHITNEY BREITE VT 020812 shoulda 1_6v.pdf ADDITIONAL STAFF Assistant Director: BILLIE WILDRICK Production Assistant: JESSI WASSON Stage Management Intern: EMILY BUTZI Assistant Lighting Designer: TESS MALONE ORCHESTRA Conductor/Keyboard I: RJ Tancioco Keyboard II: Dwight Beckmeyer Reeds: Dave Long Guitars: Greg Fulton Drums & Percussion: Chris Monroe ADDITIONAL MUSIC STAFF Keyboard Programming: Bryan Crook Music Assistant: Michael John Lauckner Music Apprentices: Chris Ranney and Amelia Pipher Anytime the mood strikes. The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actor’s Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The use of any recording device, either Please turn off your cell phones and audio or video, and the taking of pagers prior to the beginning of the photographs, either with or without flash, performance. is strictly prohibited. 8 5TH AVENUE MUSICAL THEATRE COMPANY / Act– a CONTEMPORARY THEATRE SGF 021012 mood 1_6v.pdf Memphis Sept 18 – Oct 7, 2012 The Addams Family Oct 24 – Nov 11, 2012 Elf Nov 30 – Dec 31, 2012 The Music Man Feb 7 – Mar 10, 2013 Grey Gardens Mar 16 – May 26, 2013 Jersey Boys April 4 – May 11, 2013 The Pirates of Penzance July 11 – Aug 4, 2013 2012-2013 SEASON SPONSORS: WWW.5THAVENUE.ORG (206) 625-1900 GROUPS OF 10 OR MORE: 1-888-625-1418 Recently, Albert Evans, The 5th Avenue Theatre’s Artistic and How do you envision this happening? Music Associate, sat down with Ian Eisendrath. One of our major goals is to build a program that is fluid ALBERT: Ian, you’ve been the music supervisor at The and flexible, able to respond to the specific needs of each 5th Avenue for several years, but now you have a new piece. For example, we’re working with a three-person writing position added to your job title: The 5th Avenue Theatre team from LA.