Inside This Issue... of the Theatre, Are Part of What Makes Summer Shows 1-3 Having a Professional Theatre in Our Alumni News 4 Community Such a Good Idea

Issue No. 94 Summer 2014

Message from the Artistic Director The Funniest Backstage Farce! JUN 12–29, 2014 Solvang Festival Theater There are few things in life more enjoyable than Solvang Festival Theater SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT being of service to people JUN 12 13 14 PREVIEW PREVIEW OPENING through our work. To 8pm 8pm 8pm fully invest ourselves in a 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm purpose whose outcome 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 is for the edification, 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 29 enlightenment, or simple enjoyment of 8pm others, is surely an investment which Show Advisory: A comedy appropriate for consistently delivers the most gratifying children 12 and older due to the more returns. What we celebrate during this adult storyline and sexual innuendo. golden anniversary season is more than Generously sponsored by the making of theatre, we celebrate a Dr. Esteban Fuertes & Alan Foster, Dene & Emily Hurlbert, fifty year relationship of service through By Michael Frayn Royce & Ann Foxworthy Lewellen art to the communities of the Central Coast and beyond. We celebrate being The dizziest, funniest, backstage Michael Frayn wrote the comedy in and Broadway. At press time, there your theatre company. The conversations farce ever written, Noises Off careens 1982 after watching – from the wings were no fewer than 36 productions of inspired and relationships supported by us through the roller coaster lives of – a performance of Chinamen, a farce Noises Off playing in the United States coming to the reflective surface of the a hapless troupe of provincial actors that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. this season. theatre is what the making of plays is as they go through the motions of Frayn said that the show was funnier As an unsuccessful film in 1992, really all about. a cringe-worthy comedy known from backstage than in the audience. directed by Peter Bogdanovich and Most of the things that we know – as Nothing On. In a Noises Off began as featuring Carol Burnett, Michael those which extend beyond our own brilliant turnabout of “The most dexterously a one-act called Exits Caine, Julie Hagerty, Marilu Henner, set of experiences – have come from door slamming miscues, realized comedy ever in 1977 and has been Christopher Reeve, John Ritter and storytelling. Those things we’re ignorant misdirections, and about putting on a expanded and rewritten a others, it was only mildly funny. comedy. A spectacularly about are attached to all the stories misunderstandings, number of times. It initially Despite a stellar cast, critics agreed funny, peerless back- in the world we have yet to be told. onstage romantic intrigues stage farce… a festival played to ecstatic reviews that the theatrical nature of Noises And that makes coming to the theatre are foiled by bunglers of delirium.” in London in 1982 and Off did not translate to the screen. so much more than a mere diversion. and burglars, while the –The New York Times premiered on Broadway After proclaiming Noises Off to be the Sure, it’s great to hear a story in which players backstage exhibit in 1983 winning the funniest play every written, critic Frank the known is celebrated, validated, their best follies and worst foibles Tony Award and Drama Desk Award Rich wrote that “the film is one of the spoofed and seasoned. It’s still greater spinning the play toward a hysterical for Best Play. In London it won both worst ever made.” to hear a story that builds in us the climax. The theater world turns with the Laurence Olivier Award and the Frayn is considered Britain’s capacity to discover, to encounter the side-splitting results to reveal mystery Evening Standard Award and played foremost translator of Chekov, he’s unknowns in life, and the occasional and mayhem as the cast and crew over 1000 performances. It continues published three popular novels, The requisite anxieties, within the safe pull out all the stops to keep track of to play world-wide and a Broadway Tin Men, The Russian Interpreter, and confines of an imaginary world. That newspapers and cactuses, former and revival is being planned for 2015 A Very Private Life. Other plays include capacity not only serves us well in the future lovers, missing cast mates, and starring Andrea Martin. It has already Alphabetical Order, Make or Break, understandings gained by encountering the odd sardine. had successful revival runs in London and Copenhagen. He also wrote the that story, it builds in us the capacity screenplays Clockwise starring John to be encounterers. We learn how to Cleese, First and Last starring Tom open the next door of discovery in our Wilkinson, and the TV series Making lives with a sense of safety because Faces. of the emotional flexibility, intellectual acuity, compassionate connectivity (Continued on page 3) that we gained by rehearsing it in the theatre. Our mature abilities at feeling, thinking, responding and relating that are exercised in the storytelling arena Inside this issue... of the theatre, are part of what makes Summer Shows 1-3 having a professional theatre in our Alumni News 4 community such a good idea. It’s been a Guest Artists 5 good idea for fifty years – seeing art that is enjoyable, and so much more. 50th Anniversary Appeal 6-7 Holiday Show/Gala 8 Resident Artists 9 Solvang Festival Theater 10 Mark Booher Stay & Play 11 Artistic Director The Heavenly Musical Hit Written & Originally Directed & Beloved Family Musical World Premiere! A Tale of Intrigue Choreographed by Stuart Ross Musical Continuity Supervision & By José Cruz González By Naomi Iizuka Arrangements by James Raitt Music by Daniel Valdez Originally Produced by Gene Wolsk Generously sponsored by Generously sponsored by The Melsheimer Families Patricia M. Troxel Trust The Forever Plaid Fan Club Generously sponsored by Music by Richard Rodgers For director Michael Jenkinson, he Dr. Michael & Maryellen Simkins Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II hopes audiences find this production to be Meet The Plaids: Based on the play “Green Grow the Lilacs” a fresh, new telling of the story. “It brings Intelligent, intricate and imaginative. The play poses so many questions about Francis (Frankie) is the leader of the by Lynn Riggs challenges of breathing fresh life into it, 36 Views examines the meaning of truth authenticity, which I think is great for Plaids. He knows what’s coming next and It’s 1840. America’s plans to conquer nominated television series produced by in art and in the heart. It’s the discovery our time.” Brainin said. Generously sponsored by Judy & Hardy Hearn, and I hope audiences walk away with a the west under the call of Manifest Destiny Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel. where everyone needs to be and makes Linda Stafford Burrows, Dr. Dennis Shepard, Santa new connection to the characters, and of an apparently ancient manuscript – a Playwright Iizuka told AsiaSource. sure they know it. He’s a real romantic Ynez Valley Loves Broadway helped provoke the largely unpopular Mr. González was a recipient of priceless Japanese pillow book – and org, “How you discern the truth is very maybe more sympathy for some of these Mexican American war from which a 2004 TCG/Pew National Theatre crooner though suffers from asthma which characters.” He added, “The thing I’m the attempts to validate its authenticity. tricky. I guess I would say that the real When doo-whop was king, big hairdos High-spirited rivalry between farmers there was rampant desertion. One small Residency grant and a 1997 NEA/ acts up when the choreography is a little really excited to explore is organic staging Darius Wheeler, an unscrupulous art thing exists, but it is elusive and hard to were in, and cars had enormous fins, and cowboys sets the stage for Curly group of deserters were to be made TCG Theatre Residency Program for too fast. for the numbers.” dealer in Asian antiquities, specializes pin down. And on some level, I think the harmonizing bands of the 50s were – handsome cowboy - and Laurey – an example. Tracked down and court Playwrights. In 1985 he was a NEA Jinx is shy, forgetful, and gets Rodgers and Hammerstein are credited in acquiring and pricing the exotic the play suggests that you need to all the rage. Tragically, on their way to lovely farm girl - and their bumpy ride to martialed, 30 were found guilty as Director Fellow. He teaches theatre at nosebleeds when he hits the high notes. with initiating “the golden age of musical things of life. Setsuko Hearn an Asian take a leap of faith in discerning the their first big gig at the Airport Hilton romance. It’s filled with such popular tunes traitors and were publically hanged in a California State University at Los Angeles. He’s terrified by most anything and is theatre” with a string of successful shows art historian with an uncanny knack for truth in both art and love.” 36 Views Marina Cocktail Lounge, as “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’”, “The circus-like display. These were the San He is a member of The Dramatists unsure what comes next that earned the pair 34 Tony Awards, 15 sensing a fake, longs for both stability is part cultural identity, creativity, art the Plaids were snuffed “Screamingly funny! Surrey with the Fringe On Top”,” Many a Patricios or Saint Patricks. This group of Guild of America and TYA/USA. He in the set. The only reason Academy Awards, and the Pulitzer Prize. and mystery and is captivated by the history, the relationship between art and out in a head-on crash Entirely enchanting, utterly New Day”, and “Oklahoma!” Irish immigrants – who fled the famine in is an Associate Artist with Cornerstone he got into the Plaids is Their biggest successes were Oklahoma!, sudden appearance of the pillow book. commerce, and making moral choices. with a busload of Catholic entertaining, awesome! Oklahoma!, the first collaboration their homeland and were quickly enlisted Theater Company (CA), and Playwright in because he can sing the Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, Their search for the “original” becomes It is romance, mystery, and con game. schoolgirls who were are … will put a smile on your between Rodgers and Hammerstein II, when they set foot on American soil – Residence with Childsplay (AZ) and South high notes. and The Sound of Music. Other works an exotic game of greed, sensuality, 36 Views takes its title from the their way to see The Beatles face, a hum in your throat reinvented the musical theatre genre. soon discovered they had left one bad Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, CA). Smudge is a worrier. include Cinderella, State Fair, and Flower and shifting perceptions. Interweaving famous woodblock prints of Mt. Fuji first performance on the and a tap to your feet.” It pushed boundaries and created new situation for another. Considered second- Daniel Valdez – Composer He assumes the worst is Drum Song. western and eastern artistic traditions, by nineteenth-century Japanese artist Ed Sullivan Show. Today, –New York Post theatrical devices. The play was the first class citizens suffering hostility, injustice, Daniel is a musician, composer, going to happen or worries While Oscar Hammerstein wrote over this play explores the sometimes tense Hokusai. The series of prints present through some strange to introduce a dream ballet and because brutality, and hunger, they questioned arranger, actor, and producer. He acted he won’t be liked. It’s no 800 songs, many standards among jazz relationship between restored original multiple views of the famous mountain cosmic alignment or divine intervention, of their agreed upon writing structure, why they were fighting against a people and composed for the filmZoot Suit and wonder he suffers a chronic stomach singers and musicians, he had produced and replicated artifact. Multiple layers just as the play asks questions from and because of course harmony lives the lyrics were written before the music, who shared their religious beliefs. With was associate producer and actor in La disorder. Sparky has boundless energy a string of flops before partnering with of deception are slowly uncovered multiple points of view balancing forever, The Plaids will make their way allowing them to cohesively fuse song offers of large land grants, high wages, Bamba. Other film acting credits include and is the clown of the group but has a Richard Rodgers on Oklahoma! Rodgers within 36 scenes with some shocking ancient and modern and east and west. through a celestial portal and finally get with story. Despite some early skepticism and religious freedom, they crossed the …And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him, huge heart. He wears a retainer and has had collaborated with Lorenz Hart since revelations along the way. the chance to play the concert that never during tryouts for the show that was lines and took aim on the American Army Born in East L.A., Which Way is Up?, and a slight speech impediment. 1920. The two crafted over 30 shows Director Risa Brainin said that in this SEP 11–28 was. This is Forever Plaid, the heavenly originally titled Away We Go!, Oklahoma! as a highly skilled armory battalion. The China Syndrome. to their credit including Babes in Arms, day and age when just about anything Severson Theatre, Santa Maria musical featuring the timeless renditions opened on Broadway in 1943 to rave This world premiere gives us a glimpse The Boys from Syracuse, and Pal Joey. As can be manipulated to look real, the of Sixteen Tons, Chain Gang, Three Coins reviews and sold out houses. It ran for into America’s past largely overlooked Severson Theatre JUN 19–29 Rodgers began work on adapting Green play’s core of trust and authenticity rings SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT in the Fountain, Perfidia, Cry, Catch a over five years; a record that would stand by history books. Playwright José Cruz JUL 31–AUG 17 Marian Theatre, Santa Maria Grow the Lilacs his partnership with Hart loud. The play also peels back a layer SEP 11 12 13 Falling Star, Day-O, Gotta Be This or That, until My Fair Lady in 1956. Its innovative González says what resonates for him Marian Theatre, Santa Maria of perception and appearance, what is PREVIEW PREVIEW OPENING choreography was created by Agnes de ended abruptly due to Hart’s disinterest in 7pm 7pm 7pm Matilda, and Heart and Soul. Marian Theatre are these immigrants who’ve come from a real, what is fiction? “We are obsessed 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Mille. the project, along with his depression and Marian Theatre Relive a bygone era when pitch perfect foreign country to a new country to make SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT with social media. But is that a real 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm JUN 19 20 21 Numerous revivals have been alcoholism. The Rodgers and Hammerstein 7pm 7pm harmony and precise choreography was PREVIEW OPENING 1:30pm it their home and suddenly realize this isn’t JUL 31 AUG 1 2 account of our lives? And our obsession 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 7pm 7pm 7pm team would last just until the opening of PREVIEW PREVIEW OPENING the recipe for the next singing sensation staged over the years, most notably their home. “They risk their lives to save 7pm 7pm 7pm with reality shows that are completely 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 the production in 1998 directed by The Sound of Music and Hammerstein’s 7pm 7pm Originally inspired by the close- 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm this other nation, and there’s something 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 staged; what does ‘real’ mean? 28 7pm 7pm Trevor Nunn with choreographer Susan death in 1960. heroic about that. Who knows, maybe 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm harmony ‘guy groups’ of the 50s, Plaid 29 7pm 7pm Maybe Naomi Iizuka is suggesting that creator Stuart Ross wanted to show 1:30pm Stroman who put together an award JUL 16–26 misguided. But there’s a few hundred 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Show Advisory: This powerful play is best enjoyed by 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm everything is a kind of fiction because what would happen if people of that winning production for the National Marian Theatre, Santa Maria folk there that made this big decision 7pm 7pm you can’t ever really know what is real. adults due to its adult language and mature themes. Theatre in London. That production, that could possibly cost them their lives.” 17 era came into a modern day world. In JUL 4–27 Marian Theatre 1:30pm addition to the standards of the 50s made Solvang Festival Theater featuring Hugh Jackman, was filmed SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT González added that the notion of popular from the likes of The Four Aces, and broadcast on PBS and is available JUL 16 17 18 19 cultures colliding or fusing together is also Director Risa Brainin directed Honk! in 2002 for PCPA. She is currently PREVIEW PREVIEW OPENING 1:30pm Solvang Festival Theater on DVD. After winning numerous Olivier 1:30pm 7pm 7pm 7pm AUG 28–SEP 7 The Four Lads, The Chordettes, and The SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT an intriguing theme that continues to arise Chair, Director of Performance and Artistic Director of LAUNCH PAD Award nominations it moved to Broadway 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Solvang Festival Theater at UCSB, Department of Theater and Dance. She has served as Artistic Four Freshmen, Ross created four-part JUL 4 5 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm 1:30pm in this story. PREVIEW OPENING in 2002 and was nominated for seven Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz, was Associate Artistic Director arrangements for famous solo songs 8pm 8pm 7pm 7pm José Cruz González – Author, The San Solvang Festival Theater such as Chain Gang and Sixteen Tons. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Tony Awards including Best Revival of SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT for both Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theatre. 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm a Musical. The production took liberties Patricios AUG 28 29 30 For the Guthrie Theater she has served as Resident Director, Associate He created an entire medley dedicated AUG 1–24 José Cruz González’s plays include PREVIEW PREVIEW OPENING to songs by Perry Como and a complete 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 with the original by extending some of the 8pm 8pm 8pm Company Director and Acting Instructor. She has directed for Indiana 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Solvang Festival Theater The San Patricios, The Long Road Today, 31 SEP 1 2 3 4 5 6 episode of the Ed Sullivan Show in three 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 dances, creating new choreography, and Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Solvang Festival Theater The Sun Serpent, Invierno, Sunsets and 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Festival, American Players Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Repertory minutes and 11 seconds. 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm new orchestrations. 7 27 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT Margaritas, The Heart’s Desire, Tomás and Forever Plaid first performed off- Playwright Thomas Hischak noted, 8pm Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Portland Stage Company, Actors’ Theatre of Kan- 8pm AUG 1 2 the Library Lady, Lily Plants A Garden, sas, and others. Broadway in 1990. It was made into a “Not only is Oklahoma! the most PREVIEW OPENING Show Advisory: Best appreciated by children 12 and older Show Advisory: While appropriate for all ages, this important of the Rodgers and 8pm 8pm and September Shoes. Mr. González due to the show’s war violence and coarse language. movie in 2009 and has a holiday themed show will be best appreciated by children 10 and older. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 has written for PAZ, an Emmy Award sequel, Plaid Tidings. Hammerstein musicals, it is also the single 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm most influential work in the American 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Noises Off (Continued from page 1) musical theatre. It is the first fully Director Mark Booher has directed 18 productions for PCPA including Director Erik Stein (Songs for a New World, Art, Wodney Wat) has 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Director, Paul Barnes was the PCPA Conservatory Director/Associate 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm Clybourne Park, The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, been with PCPA since 2002. In addition to his extensive stage credits: integrated musical play and its blending Artistic Director from 1987-1997 in which time he directed Fiddler on the of song, character, plot, and even dance 24 Invierno, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Ragtime, Godspell, and The Fiddler on the Roof, Spamalot, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Wizard of Oz, The 8pm Importance of Being Earnest. He’s acted in Hamlet, All My Sons, Macbeth, A Roof, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, 1776, Love’s Labour’s Lost, West Side Rival, Three Sisters…and many more. He is PCPA’s Casting Director and would serve as the model for Broadway Story, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter Pan, The Diviners, Cat on a Hot Tin shows for decades.” Show Advisory: Appropriate for all ages – Midsummer Night’s Dream, Light Up the Sky, and The Winter’s Tale. For other teaches audition Techniques and the Business of Being an Actor in the a great show to see as a family. theatres Mark has directed at Geva, California Shakespeare Festival, and Roof, Death of a Salesman, Stand Up Tragedy, and more. Paul has worked Conservatory. American Conservatory Theater MFA program. As an actor he’s appeared at Denver Center, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, American “For me, it’s all about harmony. Sometimes I am happy that I don’t know Director Michael Jenkinson (Mary Poppins, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, at ACT, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Stage Company, and Players Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, a lot about music theory, because the mystery of music fascinates me. A Music Man, West Side Story) made his directorial debut with PCPA in Sacramento Theatre. He’s also been fight director for over 40 productions. Pioneer Theatre Company, Geva Theatre, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, beautifully executed four part chord creates overtones, which I’m sure has a scientific 2009 with The Music Man followed by a stunning production of West Side Sklylight Opera Theatre and many others. Recent credits include Twelfth Night, Macbeth, explanation, but to me it is magic.” Stein said that Forever Plaid is about the discovery Story, and most recently the immensely popular Mary Poppins. In addition Fire on Babylon, The Mousetrap, Our Town, and Tribes. He has directed and taught BFA among these four guys who met in the audiovisual club in 1956 and discovered they to directing, Michael has choreographed for over 40 PCPA productions For tickets, call Box Office and MFA actor training programs at the Guthrie Theatre/University of Minnesota, the shared a real affection for music. Now they’ve been given this miraculous do-over - and including My Fairytale, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast and Urinetown. University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre, Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre realize that together they can achieve the unimaginable, even the unexplainable. Now is As an actor, he was recently seen as Horatio in Hamlet, as well as Fiddler (805) 922-8313 • Order Online: www.pcpa.org Arts, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, the University of Delaware/PTTP, and the precisely the right time for the Plaids to make their return. Stein said, “With much of the on the Roof, Spamalot, Clybourne Park and Macbeth. He graduated from the University of Utah/PATP. Paul is the co-founder and former Production Director/Artistic world in discord, 24 hour news, mean reality shows, politics, and non-stop social media, Conservatory in 1999 and currently teaches Movement, Musical Theatre Dance Styles, and For more details on summer shows Director of Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, Minnesota, and is one of the I’m thrilled to help four nice guys bring a little harmony into the world.” Musical Theatre Ensemble. visit: www.pcpa.org original Producing Directors of the Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Ashland, Oegon. 2 encore/summer 2014 www.pcpa.org 3 Jillian Van Niel (class of 2011), Wendy, Playhouse, Santa Rosa; and Mrs. Fezziwig Billy Breed - Ensemble, to Normal, I Love You, You’re Perfect Now Peter Pan) is still on the National Tour of The PCPA Alumni News in Scrooge the Musical at Spreckels Oklahoma! Billy has been a See Who’s Coming to PCPA This Summer Change, and The Full Monty at Midtown Arts Addams Family. This March, Daniel J. Self Performing Arts Center. summer regular with PCPA A FEW OF OUR FEATURED GUEST ACTORS & DESIGNERS Center. At Oregon Cabaret he appeared in (class of 2010, West Side Story) wrapped Angela Wolcott (Haag) (class of 1992) was since 2007 in such roles The Daly News and Life Could Be a Dream, up the National Tour of Cats. Jamey Hood Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and guest as Montfeury in Cyrano de and with Angel Wings NYC he originated The Importance of Being Earnest; Bernard, 911! (Comedy Central). Since then, Jully (2000 Master Class) is on the National as Rizzo in Grease. She is currently the Bergerac; Lazar Wolf in the role of Freddie Deluna in The Awakening Boeing Boeing. Lead-multiple roles: The has performed in over 100 improv shows Tour of Hello, Dolly! as Ernestina and is the Artistic Director of Of Note Productions in Fiddler on the Roof; Elle’s of Angel Deluna. understudy for Sally Struthers. Corey Jones Thousand Oaks connecting the community Complete Works of William Shakespeare; and has received critical acclaim for her Father in Legally Blonde; Galloway Stevens - Jud, (2010 Macbeth, Othello), joined the first with acclaimed Broadway and cabaret Fred, A Christmas Carol; Benedick, Much performances in more than 25 productions Old Knight in Little Women; Grandpa Oklahoma! Galloway National Tour of The Book of Mormon this artists for a series of concerts, elegant Gelman in Caroline or Change; Spritzer in Ado About Nothing; Feste/Antonio, Twelfth onstage. Some of her credits include Joy past spring playing the General. Previously is happy to be making receptions, and master classes. Jack & Hairspray; Doc in West Side Story; Oscar Night. Jim can also be seen hosting the Luck Club (‘13 National Tour),Sun Sisters, Corey was at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Sarah Greenman (1989-2004 & 1998- Web series, Zombie Go Boom, and has Fabric (CoA), Sweet Karma (GTC), Chinese his debut with the PCPA Utah Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater in Curtains; The Mikado in Hot Mikado; J.P. company by tackling the Jamey Hood, 2004), are working this summer at the Morgan in Ragtime, Cladwell in Urinetown, appeared on television in The Walking Dead Massacre (Annotated) (Circle X Theatre), Center, Celebration Theater, and Dallas Sally Struthers, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Into the Woods, and Body of Evidence. Grace Kim and the Spiders From Mars, complicated and mysterious Theater Center. Hello, Dolly! and Aid to Katherine in Kiss Me Kate. character of Jud Fry. He has Sense and Sensibility, Measure for Measure, Regionally he’s appeared at The Great Anne Guynn - Ensemble, Trojan Women (Lodestone). TV/Film – Gang Sam Zeller Jayne Hamill recently completed traveling (2009, Jean Valjean, Les Third from right: Morgan Mackay, 1776 and Henry IV, Part One. American Melodrama and Vaudeville, Oklahoma! Anne graduated Related (Fox), Prank My Mom (Lifetime), Misérables) was Hook on the International Angela Wolcott (1971, Cabaret, Fiddler, Electra) was this past year and a half with Phoenix Theatre at the Center Chicago, American PCPA’s Conservatory in Return to Zero, Girlfriends. In addition to her Tour of Peter Pan with Cathy Rigby. Recently a recent Emmy winner for Outstanding Entertainment’s National/International tour 2011 and was an acting pursuits as an actor and a performer, Jully he’s been seen at Lamb’s Players in San Writing in Animation for WordGirl on PBS. Eagle Productions, Circa 21 Playhouse, of Broadway’s The Addams Family. A native intern in 2012. Her roles has directed several short plays and staged Diego playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof Gene Freedman (summer ‘81 Billy Budd, Actor’s Guild of Lexington, Alaskan Cabin of western North Carolina, and familiar included Sue, All My Sons; readings with Company of Angels and East (twice) and will be reviving his role as Green Grow the Lilacs) had a recurring role Nite Dinner Theatre, Lexington Shakespeare face among many regional theaters across Annette, God of Carnage; West Players and served as an adjunct Jean Valjean in Les Misérable this summer. in the NBC series Grimm and guest-starred Festival and more. the east coast, Galloway is excited for Mrs. Gardiner, Pride & professor teaching musical theatre and Also, Edna in Hairspray at the Glendale on Leverage. Gene also works on regional Jack Delaney - Will Parker, Oklahoma! to be his first stage appearance Prejudice; Apothocary, Romeo & Juliet; acting at Bethesda University of California. Center and Adam in Seven Brides for commercials and voice-overs. Oklahoma! National on the west coast. Some of his previous Nana, Peter Pan; u/s Hermonia & Paulina, Jeff Parker - Frankie, Seven Brothers at the Candelight Pavilion Daniel (Danny) Frishman (1975-1976), Tours include The Addams credits include 9 to 5: The Musical (Franklin Gene Freedman Invierno; u/s White Witch, The Lion The Forever Plaid. For PCPA in Claremont. During the Oscar awards Dan Wilson Cousin Lymon in Ballad of the Sad Café, Family, ‘S Wonderful: The Hart), The 25th Annual Putnam County Witch, and The Wardrobe. Other credits Jeff most recently played Sam was seen in his National commercial and Cigar in Gypsy). Daniel went on to New Gershwin Musical, Spelling Bee (Vice Principal Panch), The include Theatre Group at SBCC, Rubicon Mr. Fag in The Rivals after debut as The King in the new Pepsi mini a career in regional theatre, including and Fiddler on the Roof. Drowsy Chaperone (Aldolpho), and King ad. Morgan Mackay first performed at Theatre, Circle Bar B, Out of the Box making his PCPA debut Pippa Winslow, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, as well Other credits include Billy Mongut in The King & I. PCPA in 1970 in Carousel (with Harry Just a Housewife as extensive work in film and television. Bigelow, Carousel; Chad, Theatre, and Elements Theatre Collective. as Leaf Coneybear in The Groener, Jim Corti, and Jack and Carolyn Jackie Vanderbeck*- Laurey, Recently retired, he and his wife live on a All Shook Up; Tulsa, Gypsy; Laurie, Little Jully Lee - Setsuko Hearn, 25th Annual Putnam County Shouse) directed by Donovan Marley. In Oklahoma! rural island in western Washington. Donna 36 Views. A Los Angeles Spelling Bee. Other theatre 1971, he played Motel the Tailor in Fiddler Women, and Al & Greg, A Chorus Line. Previously for PCPA, Jackie Diana Grog, Noelle Ibale (class of 2012) performed Jack has his BFA in Music Theatre from The based actor, Jully was credits include: Marvin, Falsettos; Guido, on the Roof directed by James Moll, and Scrooge the Musical played Marian Paroo in and choreographed Dance on the Edge at recently named Artistic Nine; Jonathan, tick, tick…boom!; George, performed in Cabaret directed by Laird Hartt School. The Music Man summer Zombie Joes Underground Theatre in North Director of Cold Tofu Sunday in the Park with George; Stine, City Williamson. Since then, Morgan has Jim Goza - Samuel, The 2009. Other theatre credits Daniel Frishman Hollywood. The show made the top ten Improv, the Nation’s of Angel; Robert, The Drowsy Chaperone. worked with South Coast Repertory for Pat Sibley San Patricios. This award- include Sacramento Theatre plays of 2013 list by LA Weekly. premier Asian-American Jeff is also the Assistant Professor of Theatre several years, performed Off-Broadway (class of 1980) is on tour with Memphis winning actor has most Company: The Belle of improv troupe and is also at Metropolitan State University of Denver. and in regional theaters, studied with paying Mama. Other tours include Aunt recently been involved Amherst, It’s A Wonderful Life, Dial ‘M’ an actor/director with Company of Angels Kyle Smith - Sparky in Yale School of Drama in their Oxford, Eller in Oklahoma!, Mrs. Pugh in Annie, as a company member For Murder, A Christmas Carol, Cyrano de (CoA), the longest running repertory theater Forever Plaid. Kyle was an England program, and now lives in the The Wicked Witch of the West in The with The Great American Bergerac; New Helvetia Theatre: Passion; San Francisco Bay Area with his wife in Los Angeles. After performing in her first Acting Intern at PCPA in Wizard of Oz, and Frau Blücher in Young Melodrama, and credits Hot Summer Nights: You’re a Good Man and three grown children (a 20 year- theatrical production Telemongol in 2006, a 2009; he has been seen Frankenstein. at other theatres include: Charlie Brown, Hello Dolly, A Chorus Line; old daughter, and 18 year-old twins – a Pat Sibley comedy sketch show collaboration between most recently in The Mark Toby Tropper (class of 2013) recently John Livingstone, Death at Devil’s Cave; Shawnee Playhouse: Guys and Dolls; The boy and a girl). Still acting he recently Paula Dinkel Cold Tofu, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, of Morro at the Great played Tim in the Rubicon Theatre Iago, Othello; Bobby Strong, Urinetown; Tokyo Philharmonic: Beauty and the Beast in performed in the American Conservatory OPM and Lodestone Theatre Ensemble, American Melodrama. Bill & Mary Carroll (costumes 1973- Cities at the Old Vic to be followed by production of Noises Off, which also Freddy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Algernon, Concert, The Music of Alan Menken. Theater’s production of 1776 directed 1983), after years of producing theatre a tour of her one woman show, Just a Jully was offered a co-star role on Reno Other credits include Next by Frank Galati, (pictured third from the featured PCPA alumna Robynn Rodirguez in Sacramento they are now enjoying the Housewife. David Hyslop (stage manager (1983 Twelfth Night) as Poppy. Vincent right). “PCPA provided a terrific training Chicago, San Francisco, Miami, Austin, costume designer for productions of Cabaret, Pamela Shaw - Costume Designer, role of arts supporters in New Mexico. Showboat 1975) has been stage manager Rodriguez III (class of 2003, Crazy For Adam Flemming - Projection Designer - 36 The San ground for me, and I cherish the wonderful Dan Wilson (1992-1994) is now serving on over 20 Broadway shows since 1982 Views. Adam shared two summers and a Edinburgh, and Guadalajara. He holds School for Scandal and The Merry Widow. Patricios. Pamela’s credits with The Theatre memories I have of friends and productions You) finished a year of touring this past as the Associate Artistic Director for the and is currently PSM for Chicago on full year internship with PCPA (’02-‘03’, an MFA in design from CalArts and was Dave Nofsinger - Scenic Designer - Forever Group at SBCC include Bus Stop, The 25th during those years,” said Mackay. November as Luke in Roundabout Theater Los Altos Stage Company where he has Broadway. He also directed the National Company’s first National tour ofAnything and ’04-‘05) and is thrilled to be joining awarded L.A. Weekly Best Projection Design Plaid & The San Patricios. Dave is a former Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Becky’s Paula Dinkel (Half a Sixpence, dancer; Billy directed Harold and Maude and is playing Tours of Chicago and Priscilla, Queen of Goes. This past February he taught master the design team as an alumni! Past PCPA of the Year in 2013 for Death of a Salesgirl. PCPA Resident Artist and is currently New Car, Present Laughter, A Midsummer Budd, stage manager 1968-1969) also Oz in The Wizard of Oz this summer in a the Desert. Diana Grog (class of 1989) classes at PCPA before he booked Here Lies designs include Copenhagen and the Alycia Matz - Costume Designer - Forever Professor of Scenic Design at the University Night’s Dream, August: Osage County; painted scenery with Bob Blackman - King first ever co-production with Los Altos Youth performed in The Imaginary Invalid for Love at the Public Theater Off-Broadway outreach program’s Yankee Cuidadano. He is Plaid. After graduating from Indiana of Idaho. Over the past six summers Dave Avenue Q, Through the Fire. For Ensemble and I and Stop the World, and played flute Theatre. Pippa Winslow (1988-1989) is Raven Players in Heldsburg, also Dora in New York City as a swing and double a Los Angeles based scenic and projections University in May of 2013 she has been an has been a guest designer at PCPA creating Theatre Company: Ghosts, Lion in Winter, in the orchestra for Stop the World. Paula acting in London currently in Other Desert Bailey in Singin’ in the Rain for 6th Street principal cover. It’s being directed by Alex designer and has collaborated regionally Intern in the PCPA Costume Shop where she sets for Cyrano de Bergerac, The Two Crime & Punishment, The Liar; Ghost Road is currently a principal lighting designer for Timbers (Rocky, Peter and the Starcatcher). with the Hollywood Bowl/LA Philharmonic, was design assistant for Mary Poppins and Gentlemen of Verona, Sylvia, The Spitfire Grill Ensemble at Inside the Ford: Home Siege Walt Disney Imagineering living in China. Visit www.pcpa.org for a growing list of Alumni News! South Coast Repertory, The Long Beach Noises Off. She designed costumes for Arnie and The Importance of Being Earnest. Other Home. Also, The Rubicon Theatre: Doubt, Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, East West the Doughnut at Indiana Festival Theatre and designs for PCPA include Company, Hello, Lonesome Traveler, Steel Magnolias. Pamela Players, Noise Within, Falcon Theater, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? for Ivy Tech Dolly, Hamlet, Sweeney Todd, Wonderful was Assistant Costume Designer for the The Theatre @ Boston Court amongst others John Waldron Arts Center. She was assistant Town, Crazy for You, Bullshot Crummond, The Academy Award winning filmThe Artist and and has had productions in New York City, Winter’s Tale, and Fiddler on the Roof. is the author of Shopping LA: The Insiders.

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4 encore/summer 2014 www.pcpa.org 5 50TH ANNIVERSARY APPEAL Thank you PCPA! “What have I experienced through my years of In 1964, PCPA began with a vision... look how far it’s come! collaboration with the most dedicated, talented and generous colleagues and students in shops, warehouses, A Man For All Seasons studios, backstage and onstage? Everything! Clint Scruggs Once Upon a Mattress 1998 Directed by Donovan Marley PCPA has filled my life with color, brilliance, Jonathan Gillard Daly, Eric Bishop wonder and gratitude.” Directed by Brad Carroll 1964 Abby Hogan FPCPA Resident Scenic Artist 1776 Mark Harelik, Michael Norris, Michael Winters Directed by Jack Shouse “Since the summer of 1991 my wife, Julie, and I have been 1983 blessed to be a part of both Donovan Marley Mark Booher the PCPA performing family 1975 and its admiring audience. It continues to be one of the F great joys of our lives. Theatre is inherently visionary, It is home.” present and future oriented rather Michael Tremblay Guest Artist than retrospective. And while we take pause during this fiftieth anniversary year to celebrate the Twelfth Night 1964-2014 tremendous history of PCPA and the Robynn Rodriguez, Michael X. Martin Facts achievements of the thousands of Directed by Laird Williamson gifted artists and craftspeople who for the 50th 2007 •Over 6,000 students enrolled have contributed to its success, we •Over 600 plays produced do so with our feet firmly planted in Mary Poppins •Over 75,000 students auditioned the now and our eyes looking on the Karin Hendricks, George Walker •4,000,000 audience members served Directed by Michael Jenkinson next artistic horizon. •32,000 costumes created •70,000 lights focused This remarkable milestone enables •47,000 props created us to simultaneously reminisce and The achievements of the live in the present and recognize 2013 could only “I am proud of every moment that the accomplishments of the past past 50 years I have spent on PCPA’s behalf - five decades were achieved only which really was on my behalf.” because of the backing of the whole have happened because of the Bob Jurgensen community. support of people like you. Help PCPA Foundation, What is yet to be can only happen Founding Board President with that same spirit of support make the next 50 years as and as Founder and current Artistic F Director, we thank you for the past The Man Who Came To Dinner remarkable by making a generous fifty years and for all you will inspire Heidi Ewart, David Studwell “All my life, I have sought a Directed by Roger DeLaurier gift today! place where my talent could in the future. be honed into skill, where my passion and joy could find an outlet, where the purest DONOVAN MARLEY expression of my intricate inner Founding Artistic Director, 1964-1983 life could take shape. I cannot possibly express how thankful I Exemplary Training... Brilliant Theatre. am to have been a part of the 50th Anniversary MARK BOOHER Class. Thank you PCPA for setting me free!” Artistic Director, 2006-Present For more information, please call PCPA Foundation at (805) 349-9135 or [email protected]. Benjamin McNamara F PCPA Conservatory Student, Class of 2014 6 encore/summer 2014 www.pcpa.org 7 Kitty Balay* returns to the role of Dotty Clybourne Park, A Christmas Carol, Pride A NEW CHRISTMAS MUSICAL Being a PCPA Subscriber means in this summer’s remount of Noises Off Resident Actors Summer 2014 and Prejudice and The Spitfire Grill. His and will play Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!. ~ choreography has been seen in over 40 IS READY FOR ITS WORLD PREMIERE! big savings & Earlier in the season she played a trio of A full plate of roles for PCPA Resident Artists this summer! productions, including Mary Poppins, characters in Mary Poppins, Mrs. Lark, Legally Blonde, West Side Story, My Brad Carroll is returning to PCPA and improvising scenes after being given just Mrs. Corey, and Miss Andrew. During Fairytale, and Peter Pan. bringing with him a work that has been the suggestion of a scenario. That exercise special her career at PCPA, Kitty has appeared in development for over three years. provided much of the raw material that Andrew Philpot* reprises the role of Collaborating with former PCPAer, Jeremy went into that first script. benefits. in over 65 productions. She has played Lloyd – the director of Nothing On – the Mann (Lyricist), along with Director Roger “Since then, we fleshed out the story Patsy Cline three times (most recently play within the play – in Noises Off, and DeLaurier, Christmas Is Here Again will get with new information to make it more last summer), as well as Mrs. Malaprop plays Darius Wheeler in 36 Views. Andy its premiere when PCPA kicks off the 51st grown up, and to make it more musical in The Rivals, Kate Keller in All My Sons, recently played several characters under season. worthy - and not seem like children’s Carmen Bernstein in Curtains, Dolly Levi the heading “Authority Figure” in Spring This musical fairytale adventure opens theatre.” Carroll said one of the challenges twice, once in Hello, Dolly! and once in Awakening and the regimented head of in an orphanage at a time when none of has been to give the story enough The Matchmaker. Kitty has also appeared the house in Mary Poppins, Mr. Banks. m e a Sub scri b er! the children have ever heard of Christmas substance so it’s just not about gags but m e a Sub scri b er! at South Coast Rep, Utah Shakespearean Last season he created and directed the because it was stolen 30 years ago. Once then to not get trapped into overloading it Festival, and Sacramento Theatre Conservatory Repertory production of a little girl with extraneous Company and has directed for The Great And When Love Speaks. His roles at PCPA Call the Box Office for more American Melodrama. Andrew Philpot*, have included Karl/Steve in Clybourne finds out what information. Mary Poppins

Beco Park, Prospero in The Tempest, Hickory/Tin Christmas was, “What I find Beco information: (805) 922-8313 Leo Cortez takes a break from his she decides fascinating is that Education and Outreach Director duties Peter S. Hadres*, Woodman in The Wizard of Oz, Professor she’s going to things that are and returns to the stage this summer Hamlet Bhaer in Little Women and Vershinin in bring it back. even no longer in to create the role of Santa Anna in the Three Sisters. Andy has performed at the “She goes the text are still world premiere of The San Patricios. On Denver Center, Pasadena Playhouse, and on this sort resonating - there the main stage Leo has appeared in Mark Taper Forum. of Ozian are still overtones The Wizard of Oz, Invierno, The Heart’s Kitty Balay*, Mark Booher, Erik Stein* will create the role of hero’s journey of those things - Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Inventing Van Hamlet Ringmaster in the world premiere of The to rescue you don’t have Gogh, A Flea in Her Ear, and Anything San Patricios. Erik recently played the Christmas,” to say it now, Goes. He has directed for Utah Festival larger than life ragdoll Valentine in Mary Carroll said. it’s implicit in Opera, Santa Maria Civic Theatre, and Poppins, Lancelot in Spamalot, Ragueneau “It’s basically a the material.” The Western Stage and has appeared in in Cyrano de Bergerac, Tevye in Fiddler story of good Carroll made Other People’s Money, Picasso at the Lapin on the Roof, Cowardly Lion in The Wizard versus evil the observation Agile, Assassins, Falsettoland, Little Shop of of Oz, Sir Anthony in The Rivals, Javert and a little girl that in fairytales Horrors, and Sweeney Todd. in Les Misérables, and Shadow in My caught between and mythical Peter Hadres* is returning to the roles Fairytale. Erik appeared on Broadway the two.” adventures you of the bungling burglar and the elderly in A Christmas Carol and Off-Broadway Christmas take certain alcoholic Selsdon in Noises Off this in Captains Courageous and Johnny Is Here Again things for summer. In addition, he’s playing Johnson. Regional theatre work includes is based on granted. The Andrew Carnes in Oklahoma! and Owen Leo Cortez, Goodspeed Opera, Utah Shakespeare a children’s ruby slippers The Wizard of Oz Festival, Geva Theatre, and Sierra animated video are magical. Matthiassen in 36 Views. This past winter/ Erik Stein*, Repertory. He is a founding member of of the same You don’t need spring, Peter appeared in Hamlet as Mary Poppins The Alaska Shakespeare Festival and The name that to know why or Polonius and Gravedigger and a number of roles in Mary Poppins: Admiral Boom, California Cabaret Theatre. was released how, they just Karin Hendricks*, Elizabeth Stuart*, in 2007. The are. You have Park Keeper, and Bank Chairman. Other Mary Poppins Spring Awakening Elizabeth Stuart* is reprising the roles of screenwriter to make those PCPA productions include Fiddler on the the sensible actress Belinda and Flavia conceived of the piece from the tales leaps, he said, because once you explain Roof, Cyrano de Bergerac, Clybourne Park, in Noises Off. Elizabeth will also be his father made up and told as bedtime one thing, you have to explain everything. The Wizard of Oz, Three Sisters, All My creating the roles of Caitlin/Dona Escutia stories. Then a co-owner at the company Christmas Is Here Again has grown Sons, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, and later this summer in The San Patricios. that produced the animated story – into a richly orchestrated holiday musical Sylvia. At California Shakespeare Theater Elizabeth was the Female Authority Figure who has worked with both Carroll and fantasy sure to delight the entire family. he appeared in Taming of the Shrew and in Spring Awakening and Winifred Banks DeLaurier – pitched the idea of turning it Follow our brave orphan girl, Sofiana, Richard III, and he was in Rumors at San in Mary Poppins this past winter/spring. into a stage musical and Carroll agreed to who is determined to bring light to her Jose Rep and Love’s Labours Lost at Idaho Other PCPA credits include Yente/Fruma- take it on. He said that the theatre world bleak life and to bring Christmas back Shakespeare Festival. Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, Lise/Sister needs more Christmas stories. to the world. As she seeks out Santa’s Karin Hendricks revisits Brooke Ashton, the Marguerite in Cyrano de Bergerac, Bev/ “The animated piece is really geared enchanted toy sack, Sofiana befriends an not so “present” actor constantly losing her Kathy in Clybourne Park, Goddess of for little kids, and the one thing we all elf (formerly Santa’s head helper), a young contact lenses and the onstage character Marriage in The Tempest, Miss Gultch/ agreed on was that we need to make it reindeer (who doesn’t yet know she can of Vicki in Noises Off. Karin will also take Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard for audiences of all ages. There’s been fly), and a shifty fox and his accomplice a on the roles of Ado Annie in Oklahoma! of Oz, Marmee in Little Women, Paulette in some tugging and pulling, trying to mature polar bear. Sofiana’s compass is a magic and Elizabeth Newman-Orr in 36 Views. Legally Blonde and Olga in Three Sisters. it,” Carroll explained. It took nearly a star that keeps her on her course so that Karin recently played the practically George Walker revisits the characters year to develop a new outline before the Christmas can return once again. perfect nanny in Mary Poppins, also Tzeitel Gary and Roger in Noises Off and plays first workshop at PCPA in September of in Fiddler on the Roof, Lady of the Lake in Curly in Oklahoma!, George recently 2011. DeLaurier had the participating Generously sponsored by Ng & Ng Dental & Spamalot; Betsey/Lindsey in Clybourne Michael Jenkinson*, appeared as Laertes in Hamlet and Bert Hamlet conservatory students on their feet Eye Care Park, Arial in The Tempest and Glinda, the in Mary Poppins. He has played Perchik Good Witch of the North in The Wizard George Walker, in Fiddler on the Roof, Sir Galahad in of Oz. Karin recently directed Community Mary Poppins Spamalot, Valvert in Cyrano de Bergerac, Speaks: The Other Side of Broadway, *Member, Actors’ Equity Association Caliban in The Tempest, Corny Collins in a community based theatre program Hairspray, Bernardo in West Side Story, modeled after Cornerstone Theater in and Yonkers in Gypsy. He’s appeared in Los Angeles. CONTACT PCPA • 800 S. College Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93454 numerous Great American Melodrama Michael Jenkinson*, who in addition to Internet...... www.pcpa.org Encore! is published biannually by PCPA as a service to subscribers productions including Pirates of Penzance, directing and choreographing Oklahoma! E-mail...... [email protected] and supporters of the theatre. Lend Me A Tenor, Mikado Y’all, The Nerd, this summer, reprises the roles of the Administration Phone...... (805) 928-7731 and I Hate Hamlet. George has also Administration Fax...... 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SUMMER 2014 PERFORMANCE TIMES Marian & Severson Theatres: Matinees 1:30pm/Evenings 7pm Allan Hancock College campus • GPS: 1100 S. Bradley Road, Santa Maria Solvang Festival Theater: Evenings 8pm 420 2nd. Street, Solvang • Box Office open: June 4 (Note: This is an outdoor venue, please dress in layers, evenings can be cool.) Photography: Luis Escobar/Reflections, Craig Shafer