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Into the Woods CCM Season Presenting Sponsor & 2011–2012 Musical Theatre Program Sponsor MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES Mainstage Season Production Sponsor INTO THE WOODS Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine February 23 – March 4, 2012 Patricia Corbett Theater CCM DIVISION OF OPERA, MUSICAL THEATRE, let every star shine DRAMA, ARTS ADMINISTRATION AND Through your support, Macy’s Gives contributes to initiatives important to you and your community – women’s health and wellness, arts, THEATRE DESIGN & PRODUCTION education, the environment, and HIV/AIDS research and awareness. PRESENTS Together, we give everyone the chance to shine. INTO THE WOODS Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine Musical Director Choreographer Stephen Goers Patti James Costume Designer Scenic Designers Dean Mogle *Ryan Howell & Brian J. Ruggaber Lighting Designer Wig & Make-Up Designers *Tim Schmall Kelly Yurko & *Kaitlyn Adams Sound Designer Stage Manager *Hunter Spoede *Sarah Cowing Director * CCM Student Aubrey Berg Patricia Corbett Theater February 23 - March 4, 2012 Season Production Sponsor Musical Theatre Program Sponsor Macy’s The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation Into the Woods is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. CCM is an accredited institution of the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Association of Schools of Theatre and a member of the University/ Resident Theatre Association. The CCM Musical Theatre program is a member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. CCM 2 the establishment of the Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of DEDICATION Musical Theatre, the first academic chair of its kind in the country. The late J. Ralph Corbett was honored as a Great Living Cincinnatian PATRICIA A. CORBETT by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber in 1970. Patricia Corbett PATRICIA A. CORBETT was a was named a Great Living Cincinnatian in 1994. She died on January Renaissance woman. Her life- 28, 2008, and was honored with a special memorial concert at Music long interest in the performing Hall performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the CCM arts, education, medicine and Musical Theatre program. architecture, combined with her philanthropy, touched countless lives in immeasurable ways. Mrs. Corbett grew up in Long Island, N.Y., where she devel- ABOUT oped a love for music, dance and theater at an early age. THE PATRICIA A. CORBETT She graduated from Columbia University with a master’s de- DISTINGUISHED CHAIR IN gree in science. In 1934, she and her husband, J. Ralph Corbett, MUSICAL THEATRE moved to Cincinnati, where he The Patricia A. Corbett Distinguished Chair of Musical Theatre pro- founded NuTone Inc., maker of the world’s first low-cost door chimes vides invaluable support for the Musical Theatre Program at CCM. and other home items. At the time of its inception twenty years ago, it was the only academic The Corbetts started their foundation in 1955. In the years since its chair of its kind in the United States, the American equivalent of the inception, they contributed tens of millions of dollars toward many Chair in Musical Theatre endowed by Cameron Macintosh in honor arts and education-related organizations, productions and scholar- of Stephen Sondheim at Oxford one year later. ships. The list is long: the restoration and preservation of Cincinnati’s historic Music Hall, the University of Cincinnati’s College Conserva- Mrs. Corbett’s generosity has helped scores of students with scholar- tory of Music and College of Medicine, School for the Creative and ship aid, enabled the program to invite master teachers to campus, Performing Arts, Northern Kentucky University, Cincinnati Symphony established New York and Chicago showcases for graduating seniors Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati May Festi- and underwritten admission-free Studio productions, our gift to the val, among others. Cincinnati theatre-going community. Mrs. Corbett, chairwoman of the foundation, was known as a person In 1991, the Musical Theatre Chair was inaugurated with a production of great vision, yet detail-oriented and with a hands-on involvement of Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, directed by Aubrey Berg, in the particulars and practicalities of projects. “Giving away money with sets by Paul Shortt, costumes by Dean Mogle and lighting by Jim wisely is very hard work,” she said. “You have to study up and figure Gage. To mark the 20th anniversary of the Chair, the Musical Theatre out what will do the most good for the most people.” From the begin- program again stages this popular work, featuring current Corbett ning, the Corbetts believed that more is accomplished when money is scholarship winners in the cast. given in massive, concentrated doses than in “dribs and drabs.” In March the celebration will continue with the 20th edition of the The University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music has Musical Theatre “Not Famous Yet” Showcase, a tradition that began been a major beneficiaryof Mrs. Corbett’s giving. Among her gifts was with the establishment of the Corbett Chair. CCM 3 CCM 4 ABOUT COMPANY STEPHEN SONDHEIM THE COMPANY Narrator/ Mysterious Man ................................................................... GRAYDON LONG STEPHEN SONDHEIM is perhaps the best-known and greatest Baker ........................................................................................................................CHRIS BLEM Broadway composer and lyricist of all time. Born March 22, 1930, in Baker’s Wife .....................................................................................MICHELLE ROMBOLA New York City, his brilliance in matching words and music to dramatic Witch ............................................................................................................. VICTORIA COOK situations broke new ground for the American musical theatre. Rapunzel ....................................................................................................LAUREN ROESNER Cinderella.........................................................................................KATIE JOHANNIGMAN In the early 1950s, Sondheim wrote scripts in Hollywood for the television series Topper. After returning to New York City, he wrote incidental Cinderella’s Mother .................................................................................KATE MCMILLAN music for the play The Girls of Summer and then made his mark on Cinderella’s Father .....................................................................................LEE SLOBOTKIN Broadway as the lyricist for Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story and Jule Cinderella’s Stepmother ......................................................................CHRISTINE SMITH Styne’s Gypsy. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, based Florinda ....................................................................................................... AUBREY IRELAND on comedies by the Roman playwright Plautus, opened on Broadway in Lucinda ........................................................................................................CATHERINE HELM 1962, with music and lyrics by Sondheim. It ran for 964 performances and Cinderella’s Prince .......................................................................................... JOHN RIDDLE won the Tony Award for best musical. Rapunzel’s Prince .................................................................................... MATTHEW AMIRA The ground-breaking Company, a meditation on contemporary marriage Steward ....................................................................................................................GREG KAMP and bachelorhood brought him a Tony Award for best score, as did Jack ...................................................................................................................... JOSH S. SMITH Follies, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd. All were either produced Jack’s Mother ..................................................................................................CASSIE LEVINE or directed by Harold Prince, as were Pacific Overtures, in which Milky White ..........................................................................................................JOEY DIPPEL Sondheim utilized techniques from Kabuki theatre, and Merrily We Roll Little Red Ridinghood .............................................................................LAWSON YOUNG Along. Wolf ....................................................................................................................BLAINE KRAUSS Granny ....................................................................................... MADELEINE L. SPACAPAN Sondheim next collaborated with playwright-director James Lapine to create Sunday in the Park with George, a musical inspired by a painting Sleeping Beauty ....................................................................................KAELA O’CONNOR by pointillist artist Georges Seurat. They paired again for Into the Woods, Snow White ..................................................................................................... KATIE WESLER which deconstructs and interweaves the plots of familiar fairy tales, and The Giant ......................................................................................................KATE
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