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The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes at Village Theatre Encore SEPTEMBER 2018 September 2018 Volume 18, No. 1 RECEIVINGBR STANDING OVATIONS AVO! & RAVE REVIEWS FROM PATIENTS · Sports Medicine · Foot & Ankle · Spine Surgery · Joint Replacement · Hand & Wrist · Surgery Center Paul Heppner President Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeons Mike Hathaway Vice President (425) 339-2433 Kajsa Puckett www.ebjproliancesurgeons.com Vice President, Marketing & Business Development Genay Genereux EAP 1_6 H template.indd 1 9/30/16 11:56 AM Accounting & Office Manager Production Susan Peterson Design & Production Director Jennifer Sugden Assistant Production Manager Ana Alvira, Stevie VanBronkhorst Production Artists and Graphic Designers Sales Amelia Heppner, Marilyn Kallins, Terri Reed San Francisco/Bay Area Account Executives Joey Chapman, Brieanna Hansen, Ann Manning, Wendy Pedersen Seattle Area Account Executives Carol Yip Sales Coordinator Marketing Shaun Swick Senior Designer & Digital Lead Ciara Caya Marketing Coordinator Encore Media Group Corporate Office 425 North 85th Street Seattle, WA 98103 p 800.308.2898 | 206.443.0445 f 206.443.1246 [email protected] www.encoremediagroup.com APPARITIONS Encore Arts Programs and Encore Stages are published monthly by Encore Media Group to serve musical and theatrical events & in the Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay Areas. All rights reserved. ©2018 Encore Media Group. Reproduction without SPELLBOUND written permission is prohibited. September 18 through November 18, 2018 Opening Reception September 21, 2018 6pm – 8pm, FREE Image: Marlene Seven Bremner. The Transfiguration of Thoth. Oil on canvas. 620 Market Street Kirkland, WA 98033 kirklandartscenter.org 2 VILLAGE THEATRE ROBB HUNT Executive Producer JERRY DIXON Artistic Director Book and Lyrics by Christopher Dimond Music by Michael Kooman Francis J. Gaudette Theatre Everett Performing Arts Center September 13 – October 21, 2018 October 26 – November 18, 2018 Director BRANDON IVIE Choreographer Music Director Scenic Designer AL BLACKSTONE R.J. TANCIOCO CHRISTOPHER MUMAW Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Orchestrations ROSE PEDERSON AARON COPP BRENT WARWICK MIKE PETTRY Stage Managers Assistant Stage Managers Properties Manager Wig Master PAMELA CAMPI SPEE* TERESA MICHELETTI RACHEL BENNICK DOUGLAS DECKER CATHERINE COSTANZO* LAUREL NICHOLS BRENDA K. WALKER* Master Scenic Artist Technical Director Costume Shop Manager Production Manager JULIA B. FRANZ BRADLEY C. BIXLER ESTHER GARCIA JAY MARKHAM The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes was developed during a residency at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference in 2013. Preston Whiteway, Executive Director. Paulette Haupt, Artistic Director. Developed as part of the “Village Originals” Series of New Musicals. Village Theatre, Issaquah, Washington. Robb Hunt, Executive Producer. Steve Tomkins, Artistic Director. Developed in part at Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes was presented at National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals in 2014. The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes was developed by Goodspeed Musicals in 2015. SHOW SPONSOR SHOW MEDIA SPONSORS SEASON SPONSORS SEASON MEDIA SPONSOR PRODUCING SPONSORS DIRECTING SPONSOR IN-KIND SUPPORT Made possible in part by assistance from the Snohomish County hotel-motel tax fund. VILLAGE THEATRE’S 2018–2019 SEASON THE NOTEWORTHY LIFE MATILDA I DO! I DO! THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE MILLION DOLLAR OF HOWARD BARNES November 8, 2018 – January 17 – DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME QUARTET September 13 – November 18, 2018 February 3, 2019 March 24, 2019 March 14 – May 19, 2019 May 9 – July 28, 2019 Author's Note Cast Michael and I first started kicking Howard Barnes ................................................................................................................... Joshua Carter* around ideas for what would become Maggie .......................................................................................................................................Taryn Darr* The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes in Von Schwartzenheim ..............................................................................................................Jeff Steitzer* 2010. The comedic potential for a fish-out- Grace ................................................................................................................................Jasmine Jean Sim of-water story about a man who wakes up Ensemble ........................................................................................................... Greg McCormick Allen* to the horrific realization that his life has Ensemble .............................................................................................................................. Kate E. Cook* become a musical struck us immediately. Ensemble .................................................................................................................................Alex Crozier Ensemble .............................................................................................................................Nick DeSantis* What took a little more time and thought Ensemble .............................................................................................................................Paul Flanagan* was the far more important task of Ensemble .......................................................................................................................... Danielle Kelsey* discovering and digging into the heart of Ensemble ................................................................................................................................Mallory King the story itself. What exactly did music Ensemble ........................................................................................................................ Richard Peacock* mean in this world? What was missing Ensemble .............................................................................................................................. Sarah Russell* from Howard’s life that only the absurdist Ensemble ....................................................................................................................Hannah Schuerman intervention of musical theatre could Ensemble ........................................................................................................................John David Scott* provide? Ensemble ..........................................................................................................................Brenna Wagner* As we honed in on that idea, we found Dance Captain ................................................................................................................. Danielle Kelsey* ourselves thinking a lot about all of the things that we love about musicals. UNDERSTUDIES Beneath the silliness and the satire, we Howard Barnes ..............................................................................................................John David Scott* wanted this show to be a celebration of Maggie ...............................................................................................................................Brenna Wagner* musical theatre in all of its joyous, heart- Von Schwartzenheim .........................................................................................................Nick DeSantis* warming, magnificent, ludicrous glory. Grace ..................................................................................................................................... Kate E. Cook* Experimentals ....................................................................................................Greg McCormick Allen* We’re hoping that much of what we love Ensemble ....................................................................................................................... Coulson Bingham about this crazy art form comes across Ensemble ................................................................................................................................Sasha Conley in the show itself, but there’s one aspect Ensemble ...................................................................................................................Mackenzie Malhotra of musical theatre that can be clearly Ensemble ..............................................................................................................................Kayden Oliver demonstrated right here in the program. Take a look at all of the names listed here. Spoiler alert: there are a lot of them. Orchestra No musical is born solely in the minds of its creators. It’s an unbelievably Keyboard 1/Conductor ......................................................................................................... R.J. Tancioco collaborative art form. It takes, if you’ll Keyboard 2 ....................................................................................................................... Michael Nutting pardon the pun, a village. Violin ........................................................................................................................................Valerie Tung And that is possibly the thing we love the Trumpet ...................................................................................................... Charles Butler or Greg Lyons most. Trombone ................................................................................................ Keith Winkle or Nathan Vetter Reed 1 ..................................................................................................................................Dane
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