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CAST Wanda L. Bass School of Music Oklahoma City Opera & Music Theater Company David Herendeen, Artistic Director SPRING AWAKENING César Carreño Emmy Daniels Luke Gilmore (Melchior) (Ilse) (Ernst) Book and Lyrics by Steven Sater Music by Duncan Sheik Based on the play by Frank Wedekind Original Broadway Production Produced by IRA PITTLEMAN, TOM HULCE, JEFFREY RICHARDS, JERRY FRANKEL, ATLANTIC THEATRE COMPANY, Jeffrey Sine, Freddy DeMann, Max Cooper, Mort Swinsky/Cindy and Jay Gutterman/Joe McGinnis/ Simón Gómez Villegas Rebecca Hundley Austin Jones Austin Lewis Judith Ann Abrams, ZenDog Productions/CarJac Productions, Aron Bergson Productions/ (Moritz) (Adult Woman) (Ernst) (Adult Man) JenniferManocherian/Ted Snowdon, Harold Thau/Terry Schnuck/ Cold Spring Productions, Amanda Dubois/Elizabeth Eynon Wetherell, Jennifer Maloney/Tamara Tunie/Joe Cilibrasi/StyleFour Productions. Director Music Director Choreographer Karen Coe Miller Matthew Mailman Sheri Hayden Orchestrations Vocal Arrangements String Orchestrations Duncan Sheik AnnMarie Milazzo Simon Hale Adamaris Lopez Kaley McConnaughey Anderson McKiernan Mark Mendez Muñoz (Ilse) (Adult Woman) (Melchior) (Hänschen) Scenic Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design Jason Foreman Erin Wilson Landry Strickland Jacob Henry Technical Director Stage Manger Digital Media Design Properties Supervisor Brian Coleman Rachel Reiners Jason Foreman Carlee Robertson Show Sponsors Marvona Easley Tavlin & Louise Bass Dr. Richard Sias/ Nasir Panjwani Samuel Pottinger Cara Redding Brianna Reed Michael Tavlin The Ad Astra Foundation (Hänschen) (Melchior) (Wendla) (Martha) SPRING AWAKENING Is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com Kirkpatrick Auditorium April 23, 24 @ 8:00pm Co-Produced with the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment Rachel Schoenecker Hunter Semrau Kate Waldron (Wendla) (Moritz) (Martha) CAST OF CHARACTERS MUSICAL NUMBERS Moritz ..................................................................Simón Gómez Villegas ◇ Hunter Semrau † Act I Melchior ...........................................................................Cesar Carreno † Mama Who Bore Me .........................................................................Wendla Samuel Pottinger ◇ Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise) ...............................................................Girls Wendla ..............................................................................Cara Redding † All That's Known .............................................................................Melchior ◇ Rachel Schoenecker The Bitch of Living .................................................................................Boys Hänschen ..............................................................Mark Mendez Muñoz † My Junk ..................................................................................Boys and Girls ◇ Nasir Panjwani Touch Me ...............................................................................Boys and Girls Ernst ..................................................................................Luke Gilmore ◇ The Word of Your Body ................................................Wendla and Melchior Austin Jones † The Dark I Know Well .......................................................Martha, Ilse, Boys Georg .............................................................................Alex Armstrong † And Then There Were None .................................................Moritz and Boys Wesley Hodges ◇ The Mirror-Blue Night ......................................................Melchior and Boys Otto ...............................................................................Adam Morrison ◇ I Believe .................................................................................Boys and Girls Eli Nash † Adult Man ...........................................................................Austin Lewis ◇ ~There will be a brief intermission~ Anderson McKiernan † Martha ...............................................................................Brianna Reed † Act II Kate Waldron ◇ The Guilty Ones .............................Wendla, Melchior, Boys, and Girls Ilse ...................................................................................Emmy Daniels † Don't Do Sadness/Blue Wind .......................................Moritz and Ilse ◇ Adamaris Lopez Left Behind ...................................................Melchior, Boys, and Girls Anna ........................................................................Arissa Claire Brown † Totally Fucked ................................................Melchior and Company Glory Curda* ◇ The Word of Your Body (Reprise) ...............................Hänschen, Ernst, Thea .....................................................................................Kyra Gomes † Boys and Girls Kassidy Weideman ◇ Whispering.............................................................................. Wendla Adult Woman ..............................................................Rebecca Hundley ◇ Those You've Known .............................Moritz, Wendla, and Melchior Kaley McConnaughey † The Song of Purple Summer ..............................Ilse and Full Company ◇ Friday † Saturday * Denotes a member of Actors Equity Association Simón Gómez Villegas (Moritz) is a (super!) senior B.M. Music Theater and Music CAST BIOS Composition double major from Bogotá, Colombia. Recent performance credits Alex Armstrong (Georg) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major. This is his first include Lucia di Lammermoor (Arturo u/s) and Only Human (Ensemble). Other performance opportunity here at OCU. He studies voice with Dr. Autumn West and recent projects include Songs for a New World (director), Fall 2020 Stripped coaches with Prof. Eric Frei. He would like to thank them both for being the kind Performance Study (director), Significant Other (director), and Keep Me In Mind and understanding mentors that they are. He would also like to thank his family for (composer/writer/lyricist). He would like to thank his friends and family for their unwavering support, Professor Miller and Dr. Mailman for believing in him, and the immense support and love they’ve given to get him where he is right now. the entire cast for coming together to tell this story. Enjoy! Arissa Claire Brown (Anna) is a sophomore B.M. Music Theater major from Wichita, KS, who studies voice with the wonderful Prof. Holleman! Previous credits include Wesley Hodges (Georg) is a first year M.M. Music Theater major. A native of Children of Eden (Eve), Significant Other (Vanessa), and June by the Sea (World Memphis, Hodges attended the University of Southern Mississippi where he Premiere). Arissa is so thankful for this opportunity to create amid the world’s earned a B.M. in Vocal Performance and a B.A. in Spanish. Hodges has been craziness, and she would like to extend her thanks to the creative team and crew, as involved in a wide variety of musicals and operas stretching from Phantom of the well as her family, friends, and teachers for all their love and support. All shall know Opera and Kinky Boots to Turandot and The Mikado. Some of his Recent roles the wonder! include Billy Bigelow (Carousel), Curtis Jackson (Sister Act), and Sam Carmichael (Mamma Mia!). He is happy to make his OCU debut with Spring Awakening, and César Carreño (Melchior) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major. He is thrilled to be it has been such a pleasure to work with such a wonderful cast, crew, and creative making his OCU MainStage debut! Previous OCU credits include Dog Sees God team! Wesley Hodges is a student of Dr. Courtney Crouse. (Matt) and Little Women (Rodrigo). Other credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Joseph) at Theatre Tulsa and Titanic: The Musical (Chorus) at Rebecca Hundley (Adult Woman) is a junior B.M. Vocal Performance major from Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He would like to thank his friends and family for the Dallas, Texas. Her other OCU MainStage credits include Cosí fan tutte endless support and the cast and crew of Spring Awakening for such an unforgettable (Dorabella), Lucia di Lammermoor (Alisa), and Die Fledermaus (Chorus). She experience! studies voice with Dr. Catherine McDaniel and coaches with Jan McDaniel, who she thanks whole-heartedly for their boundless, loving support. She is thrilled to Glory Curda (Anna) is a freshman B.M. Music Theater major who is thrilled to be be working on her first musical at OCU, and overwhelmingly grateful for the part of her first OCU production! Onstage experience includes: Love Actually Live opportunity to tell this story with such a talent-packed cast and creative team. She (Joanna, For the Record Live); Disney’s The Jungle Book (Village Girl, World sends her love to her family and friends. Colossians 3:23. Premiere Tour); Ella Minnow Pea/LMNOP (Eugenia, Equity Lab/Staged Reading); The Ernst Real Love (Little Lihn, Pasadena Civic). Blessed to have older siblings, Riley, Piper, Austin Jones ( ) is a junior B.M. Music Theater major from Lost City, and Major, who insured she never knew a day on this planet without singing, and Oklahoma. He is beyond ecstatic to be performing in the OCU MainStage younger sister Saylor, her duet partner for life; there is nothing more inspiring and production of Spring Awakening. Austin is currently studying voice under Prof. motivating than their never-ending craziness and unconditional