Classic Stage Company JOHN DOYLE, Artistic Director TONI MARIE DAVIS, Chief Operating Officer/GM presents CARMEN JONES BY OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II BASED ON MEILHAC AND HALÉVY’S ADAPTATION OF PROSPER MÉRIMÉE’S “CARMEN” MUSIC BY GEORGES BIZET with DAVID ARON DAMANE, ERICA DORFLER, CLIFTON DUNCAN, ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA, JUSTIN KEYES, LINDSAY ROBERTS, ANIKA NONI ROSE, SOARA-JOYE ROSS, LAWRENCE E. STREET, TRAMELL TILLMAN Set Design Costume Design Lighting Design Sound Design SCOTT PASK ANN HOULD-WARD ADAM HONORÉ DAN MOSES SCHREIER Hair and Wig Design Music Supervisor/Orchestrator Music Director MIA NEAL JOSEPH JOUBERT SHELTON BECTON Casting Press Representative Production Stage Manager TELSEY + COMPANY THE PUBLICITY OFFICE BERNITA ROBINSON REBECCA SCHOLL, CSA CHOREOGRAPHED BY BILL T. JONES DIRECTED BY JOHN DOYLE CARMEN JONES is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rnh.com. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowments for the Arts. CARMEN JONES is presented in association with Alan D. and Barbara Marks, Eric Falkenstein, and Covent Garden Productions. Cast in alphabetical order Husky Miller.................................................................................DAVID ARON DAMANE Myrt...........................................................................................................ERICA DORFLER Joe.........................................................................................................CLIFTON DUNCAN Sally..........................................................................................ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA Rum................................................................................................................JUSTIN KEYES Cindy Lou............................................................................................LINDSAY ROBERTS Carmen Jones...................................................................................ANIKA NONI ROSE Frankie...............................................................................................SOARA-JOYE ROSS Dink.................................................................................................LAWRENCE E. STREET Sergeant Brown................................................................................TRAMELL TILLMAN All other roles played by members of the company. Assistant Stage Manager...................................................................ANGELA PEREZ Dance Captain......................................................................................ERICA DORFLER Fight Captain.................................................................................BERNITA ROBINSON ORCHESTRA Music Supervisor/Orchestrator: Joseph Joubert Music Director: Shelton Becton Piano - Shelton Becton; Violin - Tomoko Akaboshi; Cello - Aaron Stokes; Bass - Levi Jones; French Horn - Kyra Sims; Woodwinds - Chris Reza Music Coordinator: Michael Aarons Music Preparation: Isaac Alter All performers in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off all electronic devices such as cellular phones, beepers, and watches. The use of cell phones in the theater is prohibited by New York City law. Who's Who DAVID ARON DAMANE College-Conservatory of Music; MM, (Husky Miller). CSC debut. University of Kentucky. Broadway: The Book Of Mormon, Don’t Dress For Dinner, Big JUSTIN KEYES (Rum). River, Riverdance, The Life. Tours: The Book CSC debut. Broadway: How To Of Mormon, The Color Purple, Big River, Succeed In Business Without Riverdance, Tommy. Off-Broadway: Dinah Really Trying, The Apple Tree, Mary Was, Living In The Wind. Selected Regional: Poppins. Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer: The Porgy & Bess (New York City Opera), Macbeth Opera. Tour: The 25th Annual Putnam County (Stratford Theatre Festival), A Christmas Spelling Bee. Television: “Get Christie Love,” Carol (Madison Square Garden), Titus “Power,” “I Love You, But I Lied,” “Gossip Girl.” Andronicus, To Kill A Mockingbird (Ford’s Training: BFA, University of Michigan. Theatre). Television: “Chicago Fire,” “Chicago www.justinarthurkeyes.com PD,” “Instinct,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Law & LINDSAY ROBERTS Order,” others. www.davidarondamane.com (Cindy Lou). CSC debut. Broadway ERICA DORFLER (Myrt). National Tours: Clara u/s in The CSC debut. Broadway: Natasha, Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Felicia Pierre and the Great Comet u/s in Memphis, Creole Love Call in After of 1812; The Book of Mormon; Midnight (NCL). Off-Broadway: Hey, Look Me Memphis; Baby It’s You!; Scandalous. Off- Over!; Brigadoon; New Yorkers; Gentlemen Broadway: Avenue Q, Forbidden Broadway, Prefer Blondes; Lost in the Stars (Encores!); Silk Stockings (York Theatre.) Regional/NYC: Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Regional: The Way of the World (Folger Theatre, dir. Sarah in Ragtime (Ogunquit Playhouse), Theresa Rebeck,) THIS (Barrington Stage,) Queenie in Showboat (IRNE Award nom., Best Here’s Hoover (Abrons Arts, dir. Alex Timbers,) Featured Actress in a Musical). Training: MS, West Side Story with the L.A. Philharmonic Drexel University; BM, University of Maryland. (Hollywood Bowl,) Natasha, Pierre and the www.lindsayroberts.com Great Comet of 1812 (ART). Television: “The ANIKA NONI ROSE Family.” www.ericadorfler.com (Carmen Jones). Broadway: CLIFTON DUNCAN (Joe). Caroline, or Change (Tony, Theatre CSC debut. Broadway: The Play World and Lucille Lortel Award that Goes Wrong. Off-Broadway winner, Clarence Derwent Award, Drama highlights include Yang Sun Desk nominations); A Raisin in the Sun (Tony in The Good Person of Szechwan (Public Award, Outer Critics Circle nominations); Theatre/La Mama), James Coburn in Kung- Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Additional stage: Fu (Signature Theatre), The Balladeer in Footloose, Eli’s Coming (Obie Award). TV: Assassins (City Center Encores!). Regional “The Quad,” “Roots” (NAACP Image Award highlights include New York Stage & Film, nomination), “Power,” “The Good Wife,” “The Yale Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare No. 1 Detective Agency.” Film: Assassination Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Old Nation; Everything, Everything; For Colored Globe, and Williamstown. Television: “Flesh Girls; Dreamgirls (NAACP Image Award and Bone.” Training: New York University nomination). Anika is the youngest inductee Graduate Acting Program. honored as a Disney Legend for her role in Princess and the Frog. Thank you to Eugene ANDREA JONES-SOJOLA (Sally). Gwozdz & Vocal coach Eddie Sayegh. born in Kentucky. CSC debut. Broadway: Porgy and Bess. NYC: SOARA-JOYE ROSS (Frankie). Brigadoon, Cabin in the Sky, was born in New York. CSC debut. Annie Get Your Gun, Most Happy Fella (New Broadway: Les Misérables, Dance York City Center), Candide (Carnegie Hall), of the Vampires. National Tours: Parade, Sweeney Todd (Lincoln Center), The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, Smokey Newton’s Cradle (Outstanding Performance Joe’s Café. Off-Broadway: Disenchanted in a Leading Role, New York Musical Festival). (Westside), Dessa Rose (Lincoln Center), Film: For Colored Girls. TV: “The Blacklist,” Single Black Female (Playwrights Horizons “Mozart in the Jungle,” “The Sound of Music & The Duke, dir. Colman Domingo). Jerry Live!” Training: AD, University of Cincinnati Springer the Opera (Carnegie Hall), The Who's Who First Noel (The Apollo), Cross That River of four regional theaters. U.K. includes: The (Outstanding Individual Performance - NYMF Gondoliers, Mack and Mabel (West End); Award). Film: Garden State. TV: “Crashing” A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s (HBO). Training: The American Musical and Park); Oklahoma! (Chichester); Amadeus Dramatic Academy. www.soara-joye.com (Wilton’s Musical Hall). Opera includes: Madama Butterfly (Grange Park), Lucia di LAWRENCE E. STREET (Dink). Lammermoor (Houston/La Fenice/Sydney CSC debut. Broadway: Urinetown Opera House), Peter Grimes (Metropolitan (dir. John Rando). National Tours: Opera), The Rise and Fall of the City of Flashdance (dir. Sergio Trujillo), Mahogany (LA Opera). Film: “Main Street.” The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. Off- John Doyle is Artistic Director of CSC. Broadway: Archbishop Supreme Tartuffe Cleante (Classical Theatre of Harlem). BILL T. JONES (Choreographer). Regional: Booker T. Washington in Ragtime has received the Human Rights Campaign’s (Barrington Stage Company), Harry in 2016 Visibility Award, 2013 National Medal Company (Barrington Stage Company), of Arts, 1994 MacArthur “Genius” Award, Satchmo at the Waldorf (Seacoast 2010 Kennedy Center Honors, and 2014 Repertory). Other/U.K.: Mingo in Porgy and Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. He was Bess (Royal Festival Hall) Training: M.Mus, The recognized as Officier de l’Ordre des Arts University of Akron; BFA, Carnegie Mellon et des Lettres by the French government in University. 2010, inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2009, and named TRAMELL TILLMAN (Sgt. Brown). “An Irreplaceable Dance Treasure” by the CSC debut. Off-Broadway: Tis Dance Heritage Coalition in 2000. Theatre Pity… (Red Bull Theatre, dir. Jesse work includes Fela!, which he co-conceived, Berger). Regional: All the Roads co-wrote, directed, and choreographed Home (Cincinnati Playhouse, dir. Lee Sunday (2010 Tony for Best Choreography); Evans), Hamlet (Oregon Shakes, dir. Lisa Spring Awakening (2007 Tony for Best Peterson), Sweat (OSF/Arena Stage,