Cabaret Playbill Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. UNCHAINED MELODIES By Richard Hopkins and Rebecca Hopkins with Arrangements by Jim Prosser. CAST NICK ANASTASIA NATHANIEL P. CLARIDAD JAMES LAROSA DAVID MARMANILLO with SCOTT MICHAELSEN on piano Music Director Costume Designer SCOTT MICHAELSEN SUSAN ANGERMANN Lighting Designer Sound Designer THOM BEAULIEU THOMAS KORP Sound and Light Board Operator ELIZABETH ADAMS Directed by CATHERINE RANDAZZO Season Underwriters Gaele Barthold, Joan & Larry Castellani, The Exchange of Sarasota, Ty & Liza Gardner, Bob & Wendy Grady, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Patrick & Mary Mulva, Anne H.S. Nethercott Original choreography by Savannah Holds and original music direction by Darren Server. Unchained Melodies will be The taking of photographs and performed in two acts with one the use of recording devices during the 15-minute intermission. show is strictly prohibited. Florida Studio Theatre is a Constituent of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American Theatre. ARTIST PROFILES NICK ANASTASIA is thrilled Bloom in The Producers (American Stage), Stewpot to be returning for round in South Pacific(Triad Stage), Gus in Saturday Night three of Unchained Melodies. Fever (NSMT), Mark Cohen in RENT (BRT), Malone in FST: That’s Amoré!, Unchained Mr. Confidential(Signature Center), and his award- Melodies, Burt & Me, and winning portrayal of Abraham in Altar Boyz (Zach Laughing Matters (vol. 5). Scott). TV: NBC’s Saturday Night Live, ABC’s WWYD?, Other professional credits: A&E’s Fugitive Chronicles. VO: Rockstar Games, MTV, Hair (Claude, International Nickelodeon, TRW. A member of SAG/AFTRA/AEA Tour), Voca People (Tenoro, Off-Broadway*/National/ and graduate of NYU Tisch and the High School for International Tours, *Lucille Lortel Award), Monster Performing Arts. TheJamesLaRosa.com Jam (Host/Announcer, Fox Sports 1), The Love DAVID MARMANILLO Note (Adam, Original Off-Broadway Cast), In The FST: Unchained Melodies. Heights (Sonny, Regional Premiere), Scab (featuring Off-Broadway/NYC Credits: Alice Ripley), Disney Cruise Line (Disney Fantasy), Three Amigos (Jefé, Lincoln bare (Jason, Licensed Premiere). Instagram: Center), SLAM: A Hip Hop @nottherussianprincess Musical (Geo, New York Theatre NATHANIEL P. CLARIDAD Barn), Through Andrew’s Eyes FST: Unchained Melodies. (Andrew, INTAR Theatre), Cole Off-Broadway/NYC creditsPorter’s Mexican Hayride (Lombo, Musicals Tonight). include Here Lies Love (The Regional: Murder Among Friends w/Loretta Swit Public Theater), Taylor Mac’s (Larry, Alhambra Dinner Theatre), Lincoln In Love 24-Decade History of Popular (Shields, Goodspeed Opera House), Man of La Mancha Music (St. Ann’s Warehouse), (José, Pioneer Theatre Company), A Cappella Humana The Awesome 80’s Prom, (Original Cast. Bass, Delaware Theatre Company), NYShakespeare Exchange, NYMF, PS122, N.A.A.P.; RENT (Benny, Forestburgh Playhouse). Instagram: International: Laser Beak Man (Dead Puppet Society, @davemarm Brisbane Festival, Melbourne Arts Center, Sydney SCOTT MICHAELSEN (Music Director/Pianist) Opera House), Taylor Mac’s…(The Forum, Melbourne Hailing from Bend, Oregon, this is Scott’s first Festival); National Tour: Alice (The Kennedy Center); appearance at FST. Recent credits as Music Director Regional: The Kennedy Center, PlayMakers Repertory include Sister Act and A Year with Frog and Toad Company, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre at Post Playhouse, Grease and Camelot at Sierra Company, Cape Fear Regional, Imagination Stage, Repertory Theatre. He will serve as a pianist and Rhinoleap, Hangar Theatre, Barrington Stage. keyboardist for Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre Directing credits include Southern Rep., The One in Summer 2020. Scott has also frequented as a choir Minute Play Festival, ShakesBEER, The Drama League, accompanist, Classical pianist, middle school band and upcoming - Buyer and Cellar at Weathervane instructor, and children’s theater Music Director. Theatre. MFA: UNC-CH. CATHERINE RANDAZZO (Director/Associate Artist) JAMES LAROSA FST: is thrilled to work again with the talented team of Unchained Melodies, A Unchained Melodies. This season she directed Light Gentleman’s Guide to Love My Fire, Outlaws and Angels, and That’s Amoré! She and Murder (Man #3), Next directed last season’s Cabarets The Wonder Years, to Normal (Henry) and Altar Guitar Girls, and Unchained Melodies. She also Boyz (Abraham). Select directed FST’s Winter Cabarets Blue Suede Shoes; theatre: Frank Jr. in Saturday Mack the Knife: The Bobby Darin Songbook; Piano Night Fever (Engeman), Leo Men; Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves; and Yesterday. ARTIST PROFILES In addition to directing FST Cabarets, Catherine has Cabaret, That’s Life Again, British Invasion, Too Darn been on the development teams for Guitar Girls, Hot, and Older Than Dirt. He has served as Composer/ Mack The Knife, and Piano Men. Catherine also leads Music Director for FST’s Education department, the artistic oversight for FST’s Summer Cabaret writing numerous scores for children’s shows such as Sidekick Series. For the 18-19 Stage III season, she Deck the Halls, Androcles and the Lion, RAP-Punzel, The directed Buyer & Cellar. Catherine has been a part Velveteen Rabbit, and WRITE A PLAY Elementary Tours. of the Sarasota artistic community since 1990, and Jim is also a Music Director for FST Improv, for which has appeared in plays, musicals, cabarets, new play he has played many shows including the improvised readings, voice overs, commercials, fundraisers, and musical, When X Meets Y. toured in national and international productions. SUSAN ANGERMANN (Costume Designer) began She is the recipient and nominee of various awards designing for Florida Studio Theatre in 1993 for for education, national arts awards, and local the WRITE A PLAY production of The Emperor’s New performance awards including “Best Actress in a Clothes. She has designed for FST’s Mainstage, Stage Musical” for her performance as Fanny Brice in Funny III, Cabaret, and WRITE A PLAY productions. Recent Girl. Other favorite performances include Forbidden productions include Light My Fire, Outlaws and Broadway, Cats, The Rocky Horror Show, and The Full Angels, That’s Amoré!, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Monty, to name a few. Most recently, she appeared Wednesday’s Child, Hand to God, Straight White Men, as Eve in FST’s Mainstage production of Rich Girl. She The Wonder Years: The Music of the Baby Boomers, was named one of “Sarasota’s Funniest People” for Guitar Girls, Unchained Melodies, Other People’s her comedic styles seen in Sarasota’s original political Money, Murder for Two, Always...Patsy Cline, Honor comedy group, License to Bash, which was a part of Killing, Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits, Robin Hood, Once, FST’s Cabaret Fringe Festival in 1996. As Associate The Exonerated, Stalking the Bogeyman, Yesterday, Artist, Catherine serves as Literary Manager, In- Older Than Dirt, Piano Men, and Chapatti. Residence Director, Teaching Artist, and professional THOM BEAULIEU (Lighting Designer) is an award- actor. Catherine is a graduate of Otterbein University winning lighting and sound designer. His work in Ohio with a BFA in performance, and she is a proud has been experienced throughout the eastern US member of Actors’ Equity Association. including American Son, Handle With Care, The ELIZABETH ADAMS (Sound and Light Board Cottage, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Wednesday’s Operator) is a Stage Manager originally from Plano, Child, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Texas. She graduated in May 2019 from Missouri A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Unchained Western State University with an emphasis in Theatre Melodies, Always...Patsy Cline, Honor Killing, Once, Production. After graduation she worked as a Stage Blue Suede Shoes, Mack the Knife: The Bobby Darin Management Intern with Wicked on Broadway and is Songbook, Native Gardens, and Burt & Me (Florida currently working at Florida Studio Theatre as a Stage Studio Theatre); The Waltz, The Man Who Shot Liberty Management Intern. She most recently worked on Valence, Carrie: the Musical, and The Lord of the Flies Handle With Care as the Assistant Stage Manager. (The Winnipesaukee Playhouse); A Chorus Line, Floyd JIM PROSSER (Arrangements) This season marks Collins, Sweet Charity, and Singin’ in the Rain (Aurora Jim’s 26th season as FST’s resident pianist, where he Theatre). He holds a BFA in Drama from Carnegie most recently appeared in That’s Amoré! and Light Mellon University’s School of Drama, and a MS in My Fire as well as the Summer Mainstage show Ethel Physics. Waters: His Eye is on the Sparrow. He has arranged and THOMAS KORP (Sound Designer) As FST’s Sound co-developed many shows including: Light My Fire, Supervisor, Thom does more than wrangle rogue Outlaws and Angels, That’s Amoré!, The Wonder Years, microphones. Sound design credits include: Light Guitar Girls, Unchained Melodies, Mack the Knife, Blue My Fire, American Son, The Nether, Handle With Care, Suede Shoes, Dancing In The Street, By Gershwin, European Outlaws and Angels, Bright Star, Pinocchio, That’s ARTIST PROFILES Amoré!, Who Loves You, The Swingaroos: Hollywood Serenade, The Cottage, Ethel Waters: His Eye is on We encourage you to take the Sparrow, Come Together: When the 60s Met the photos of the set before and 70s, The Marvelous Wonderettes, Wednesday’s Child, after the show, and