Mainstage Playbill Richard Hopkins, Producing Artistic Director written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, original music by Randy Courts, original lyrics by Mark St. Germain Levin Valayil, Joel Blum, D.C. Anderson, Scott Wakefield. Photo by Matthew Holler. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. THE FABULOUS LIPITONES written by John Markus and Mark St. Germain, original music by Randy Courts, original lyrics by Mark St. Germain CAST (in alphabetical order) Howard Dunphy.........................D.C. Anderson* Wally Smith...............................Joel Blum* Baba Mati Singh (Bob)................Levin Valayil* Phil Rizzardi..............................Scott Wakefield* Scenic Designers Costume Designer Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay April Soroko Lighting Designer Sound Designer Musical Staging Christopher Bailey Jason Romney Joel Blum Stage Manager Roy Johns* Musical Director Steven Freeman Director John Markus Season Underwriters Georgia Court, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne Nethercott Please Note: There is a strobe light effect used in this production. Originally produced for Goodspeed Musicals by Michael P. Price, Executive Director Goodspeed Musicals has achieved international acclaim for its dedication to the preservation and advancement of musical theatre. Under the direction of Michael P. Price since 1968, Goodspeech produced three musicals each season at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut and specialized in producing and developing new musicals at the Norma Terris Theatre in Chester, Connecticut. For the Goodspeed stages, 19 musicals have gone to Broadway (including Man of La Mancha, Shenandoah, Annie) and over 75 new musicals have been launched. Also integral to its mission, Goodspeed houses the Scherer Library of Musical Theatre and has established the Max Showalter Center for Education in the Musical Theater to educate and train future generations of theatergoers and theatrical professionals. Goodspeed has received two special Tony Awards, for its outstanding achievements. To learn more visit www.goodspeed.org. Special Note: Sheet music is required for production and is available through the Play Service for $25.00, plus shipping and handling. The Fabulous Lipitones is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES D.C. ANDERSON (Howard received his MFA in Musical Theater from Boston Dunphy) returns to FST Conservatory and his Bachelors in Voice/Piano having been ‘Wilbur’ in Hair- Performance and Music Therapy from Berklee spray last season. Broadway: College of Music. He is a licensed Music Therapist Phantom of the Opera. Na- along with being a performer. tional Tours: Martin Guerre, SCOTT WAKEFIELD (Phil Nicholas Nickleby, Pippin, Rizzardi) Broadway: It Ain’t Phantom. Regional: Guthrie, Goodspeed, Rep Nothin’ But The Blues; Ring Of Theatre of SL, Steppenwolf. Three films in 2016: Fire; Hands On A Hardbody. Oppenheimer Strategies, Miles, Fair Market Value. Off-Broadway: Texas In Paris TV: The Mysteries of Laura, Lady Blue. Over 100 (York Theater); Paint Your songs (many original), 9 CD’s on iTunes. Video: Wagon (City Center); Going YouTube. Website: dcanderson.net Somewhere Definite (Atlantic Theater) and others. JOEL BLUM (Wally Smith) Scott runs a cattle ranch, vacations at Civil War Broadway: Show Boat (Tony battlefield sites, and plays Martin guitars. He has nomination), Steel Pier (Tony recorded two CDs of original music, Older Than nomination), 42nd Street, Dirt and Vegetarian Nightmare, which have each Music Man, Christmas Carol, sold tens of copies. ScottWakefield.com. After the Night and the Mu- JOHN MARKUS (Direc- sic. Off Broadway/On Tour: tor/Playwright) Emmy Golf-The Musical (2004 Drama Desk nomination Award-winning writer John for Best Supporting Actor), World Goes ‘Round, Markus began his career Dr. Doolittle (w/Tommy Tune, Co-Choreographer), in high school, supplying numerous regional theater including Tin Pan Ally jokes about his rural Ohio Rag, (Barrymore award). TV: Law and Order twice, hometown to Broadway Sopranos, Ed, The Tonight Show, Sonny and Cher, columnist Earl Wilson. After graduating from Bob Hope, and Liberace. Stanford University he moved to Los Angeles LEVIN VALAYIL (Baba Mati where he landed a job writing a revival of the Singh (Bob) hails from Sugar animated Mighty Mouse. After an assignment on Land, Texas and is thrilled to Paramount’s Emmy-winning Taxi, Markus joined make his Florida Studio The- the original writing staff of The Cosby Show, mov- atre debut with The Fabulous ing to New York where the show was produced. Lipitones. Levin recently Promoted to Supervising Producer after the first starred in Poster Boy at the six episodes, he returned for the show’s second Williamstown Theater Festival directed by Broad- season as co-executive producer and show run- way director Stafford Arima. Levin also previously ner. He remained headwriter with the acclaimed starred in Bollywood and Vine as Bhuvan, a new series until 1991. During his tenure, he wrote or musical off Broadway in New York City. Levin has co-wrote 67 episodes, earning an Emmy, ARTIST PROFILES a Peabody, back-to-back Humanitas prizes, The Kansas City Barbecue Society awarded him and a People’s Choice award for “The Greatest a PhB-an honorary status bestowed upon only a Sitcom of All Time.” He next co-created the handful of proven pitmasters. Cosby spin-off A Different World, which ran for STEVEN FREEMAN (Musical Director) is cur- six seasons on NBC. Markus next co-created the rently part of the musical team of Matilda, the critically-acclaimed Lateline with Al Franken Musical on Broadway. A veteran of The Fabulous for Paramount Network Television and NBC. He Lipitones, he is pleased to return to Howard’s was consulting producer on The Larry Sanders basement for this production at FST. Other New Show, co-writing the Emmy-nominated Ellen York credits include Billy Elliot, Irving Berlin’s Degeneres episode, Ellen: Is She Or Isn’t She? A White Christmas, Damn Yankees, Chicago, and play, The Sons of Liberty, his first collaboration Grease (with Rosie O’Donnell). He has musically with Mark St. Germain, was staged as a proto- supervised international companies of Chicago type for an NBC television series at the American in Buenos Aires, Moscow, Montreal, Seoul and Place Theater and directed by Jerry Zaks. He Tokyo. He conducted the New York premiere of became theater-struck. The Fabulous Lipitones, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night. After joining the story of a barbershop quartet that loses its the original company of Forever Plaid Off-Broad- lead singer to a strenuously high B-flat, debuted way, he traveled to the west coast to open the at Goodspeed in Connecticut. This play with show in LA where he received the LA Drama Crit- music, co-authored with Mark St. Germain, has ics Award for Best Musical Direction.In 1993, he had several productions, including George Street supervised the West End premiere of Plaid at the Playhouse in New Jersey and Taproot Theatre Apollo Theatre in London. He made his Carnegie Company in Seattle, with Markus directing the Hall debut as a guest vocalist for A Celebration show at The Julie Harris Theater in Wellfleet, The of MGM Musicals. Regional theaters include the Colony in Burbank and Virginia Rep. Markus just George Street Playhouse, the Berkshire Theater finished The Kings of BBQ Barbecue Kuwait, an Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, award-winning documentary film chronicling Old Globe Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, North the mission of cooking authentic-style BBQ for Shore Music Theater and the Cape Playhouse. our troops stationed in The Mideast. He created the Destination America television series, BBQ ROY JOHNS (Stage Manager) is pleased to be Pitmasters, which takes the first in-depth look back for another season at FST. He has had an at the world of competition barbecue. Back in exciting and varied career both on stage and ‘99, Markus was served some bad ribs grilled behind the scenes from Tokyo Disneyland to the by now-Senator Al Franken, which set him on a White House. Past credits at FST include Alabama quest: what is true low-and-slow Southern-style Story; Outside Mullingar; One Man, Two Guvnors; BBQ, and how does one make it? In the course of The Hound of the Baskervilles; Chapatti; Hairspray; his culinary journey, he apprenticed under world and Taking Shakespeare. champion pitmasters Paul Kirk of Kansas City, ISABEL & MORIAH CURLEY-CLAY (Scenic aka The Baron of Barbecue, and Chris Lilly of Big Designers) are award winning scenic designers Bob Gibson in Decatur, Alabama. Just last year, who’s theatrical work can be seen on regional ARTIST PROFILES industrial design work with groups including The Opera Festival, Irish Repertory Theatre, Westport World of Coke, Orange, and West Quoddy Head Country Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Jacob’s National Park Visitors Center. They were recently Pillow, and more. featured in American Theater Magazine’s Roll JASON ROMNEY (Sound Designer) has designed Call, 7 theatrical people to watch. Past designs sound for Alliance Theatre, Children’s Theatre of at FST include Alabama Story, Butler, Taking Charlotte, Piedmont Opera, No Rules Theatre, Shakespeare, Chapatti, Inspired Lunacy, Dancing Imagination Stage, Weston Playhouse, Utah Lessons, Hairspray and One Man, Two Guvnors. Festival Opera, Elon University, Ravinia Festival, Isabel and Moriah are resident scenic designers at and others. He is an Associate Professor of Sound Horizon Theatre in Atlanta, GA, Artistic Associates Design at the University of North Carolina School at Theatrical Outfit and members of United Scenic of the Arts. His book: Digital Sound and Music: Artists Local 829. Concepts, Application, and Science will be available APRIL SOROKO (Costume Designer) FST Credits: this year from Franklin Beedle Inc.