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2004.Betty's Summer Vacation.Pdf UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'I AT MANOA MAIN STAGE Kennedy Theatre-' 2003-2004 SEASON · t summer vacation .. · All Betty wanted was a qul.e . B11*111J!II • Chrfstopher Bll Dtrected Burdtcl~ 'FEB. 7 Interpreted into American Sign Language IJfl COLLEGE OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE AND DANCE Please silence all pagers, phones and digital watches. No photography or video recording is permitted. Please refrain from eating, drinking or smoking in the theatre. For large print programs or any other accessibility requests, please contact the House Manager or call the Kennedy Theatre Box Office at 956-7655 (voice/text). For lost and found items, please contact the House Manager or call the Kennedy Theatre Box Office In following with University of Hawai'i policy, smoking is not permitted within 20 feet of the Kennedy Theatre building. Thank-you for your cooperation. Produced by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, INC. 2003-2004 SEASON EVENT~ NOW PLAYING m the Ernst Lab Theatr Late Night Theatre Present The Most Massive Woman W By Madeline George Directed by Jennifer Bolieu FEB 7, 13*, 14@ 11 PM FEB 8@ SPM *Post-show rap COMING SOON to Kennedy Theatre Annual Dance Concert: Music, Art, and Dance Fest! Choreography by UH Faculty Music by UH Music Department Faculty Performances by UH Music & Dance students MARCH 5, 6, 12, 13@ SPM MARCH 14 @ 2PM / 1-\rtfstic Director: Betty Burdick Assistant Director: Ely Wyatt Na Ka Ulu 'Aina Rapoza Scenic Designer: Daniel J. Anteau Costume Designer: Sandra Finney Sound Designer: Kevin Pontsler ..Betty : Megan Patton Trudy: Nicole Brilhante Keith: Pedro Haro Buck: Ely Wyatt Na Ka Ulu 'Aina Rapoza Mrs. Siezmagraff: Stephanie Kong Mr. Vanislaw: Nate Hayashi Voice 1 : Shawn A. Thomsen Voice 2: Marissa Robello Voice 3: Adrian Martin Production Stage Manager:- Kainoa Jarrett Assistant Stage Manager: Wesley Dodd Light Board Operator: Jungah Han Sound Board Operator: Lamont Williams Backstage Crew: Joe Terry, Mary Carlton, Cassandra Jimenez, Sherri Lee Staff Costume Shop Manager Hannah Schauer Galli Dressers: Elizabeth Merida, Arturo Mariano, Kelly Del Rosario, Mary-Jo Bautista, Cynthia Brehm Costume Construction Crew: Jill Bowen, Nora Conaty, Bertha Fernandez, Megan Patton Staff Technical Director: Daniel J. Anteau Staff Facilities Coordinator: Gerry Kawaoka Set Construction Crew: Christa Eleftherakis, Dan Gelbmann, Jungah Han, Angela Price, Daniel Sakimura, John Striffler l-louse Staff Theatre Manager: Marty Myers Staff Box Office Manager: Tim Gonzalez-Wiler Box Office Supervisor: Nicole Tessier Box Office Staff: Carolyn Covalt, Tanisha Franquez, Danielle Williams, Jiejun Yu Publicity Director: Jessica Jacob Publicity Assistant: Chris Doi Graphic Designer: Jeff Sanner House Manager: Allyson Paris Assistant House Managers: Daniel Akiyama, Ashley Log1 Website Assistant: Michael Nomura Department Office Staff: Tana Marin, Lori Ann Chun Department Chair: W. Dennis Carroll Sign Language Interpreters for the February 7th Performance: Scott Wallace, Regina Sopko ~--·Playvvright Christopher Durong is a playwright whose works include: A History of the American Film (Tony nomination, Best Book of a Musical) The Actor's Nightmare Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You (Obie award) Beyond Therapy (on Broadway in 1982 with Dionne Wiest and John Lithgow) Baby with the Bathwater The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obie award) Laughing Wild Durang/Durang Sex and Longing Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie award). Durong is also a performer, and acted with E. Katherine Kerr in the New York premiere of Laughing Wild, and with Jean Smart in the Los Angeles produc­ tion. He shored in on acting ensemble Obie for The Marriage of Bette and Boo; and with John Augustine and Sherry Anderson has performed his crock­ pot cabaret Chris Durang and Dawne at the Criterion Center, Caroline's Comedy Club, Williamstown Summer Cabaret, and the Triad, winning a 1996 Bistro Award. In the early 80s, he and Sigourney Weaver co-wrote and performed in their acclaimed Brecht-Weill parody, Das Lusitania Songspiel, and were both nominated for Dra'ma Desk awards for Best Performer in a Musical. In 1993 he song in the five person off-Broadway Sondheim revue, Putting It Together, with Julie Andrews at the Manhattan Theatre Club. And he played a singing Congressman in the Encores presentation of Call Me Madam with Tyne Daly at City Center. In movies, he has appeared in The Secret of My Success, Mr. North, The Butcher's Wife, Housesitter, and The Cowboy Way, among others. Mr. Durong has a B.A. from Harvard College, and on M.F.A. in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. In 1995 he won the prestigious three-year Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award; as port of his grant, he ron a writing workshop for adult children of alcoholics. In 2000 he won the Sidney Kingsley Playwriting Award. Since 1994 he has been co-choir with Marsha Norman of the Playwriting Program at the Juilliord School in Manhattan and is currently a member of the Dramatists Guild Council. -From the Official Christopher Durong Website: http://www.christopherdurong .com/index. html l~otes When I sow that this script was available in 1999, I eagerly sent away for it. I was disappointed. I thought it too extreme, too cynical. How the world changes! Five years later, I find that the script, while definitely being fantastical, accurately reflects the violence and shallowness of our culture as seen on TY. The ploy also seems much funnier than I remembered from that first reading. Of course, humor is not universal and not all of you will find Durang as hilarious as I do. Durong admits that his sense of humor requires a complicated response. In this ploy he tackles the subjects of personal responsibility, murder, rope and reality TV. He gives us the distance to Iough at serious subjects by taking characters and events to extremes, but he does not let us off the hook. The questions raised in the ploy will still be with us and need to be thought about when we leave the theatre. In the meantime, enjoy this wonderful cost as they toke you on this wild and wacky ride. Davenport .
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