41st Season • 397th Production JULIANNE ARGYROS STAGE / MARCH 6 - 27, 2005 David Emmes Martin Benson PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR presents the world premiere of PRINCESS MARJORIE BY Noah Haidle SCENIC DESIGN COSTUME DESIGN LIGHTING DESIGN Darcy Scanlin Angela Balogh Calin Peter Maradudin ASSISTANT DIRECTOR DRAMATURG PRODUCTION MANAGER STAGE MANAGER Kara-Lynn Vaeni Jerry Patch Jeff Gifford *Randall K. Lum DIRECTED BY David Chambers HONORARY PRODUCERS Jim and Pam Muzzy Princess Marjorie was commissioned and developed by South Coast Repertory Princess Marjorie • SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P1 CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance) Harper ..................................................................................... Michael Gladis* Charlie ..................................................................................... Nathan Baesel* Steven/Sam/P.J. .......................................................................... John Vickery* Marjorie .................................................................................. Khrystyne Haje* SETTING A two bedroom set. LENGTH Approximately one hour and 40 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission. PRODUCTION STAFF Casting .............................................................................. Joanne DeNaut Assistant to the Set Designer ................................................ Dave Offner Assistant to the Lighting Designer ............................. Catherine Hegdale Production Assistant .......................................................... Tara de Graaf Stage Management Intern ................................................. Heidi Westrom Directing Intern ......................................................... Suzanne Karpinski ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thanks to Bartco Lighting Co. of Huntington Beach for their assistance with the fluorescent fixtures and to Hall Associates Flying Effects, a division of Nunnally Enterprises, Inc. for the performer flying effects equipment. Please refrain from unwrapping candy or making other noises that may disturb surrounding patrons. The use of cameras and recorders in the theatre is prohibited. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the theatre. Cellular phones, beepers and watch alarms should be turned off or set to non-audible mode during the performance. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers. Official Airline P2 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • Princess Marjorie Helen and Her Suitors elen of Sparta, who became Helen younger swain, Paris, who kept her in of Troy, carries the myth of having Troy for a decade while all the suitors Hbeen the world’s most beautiful who swore to defend her honor pursued woman. Dubbed “the face who a war to free her. Many died doing so. launched a thousand ships,” she was Even the elders of Troy couldn’t the daughter of Zeus (disguised as a blame the Spartans, saying in The Iliad, swan for the coupling) and the Spartan “Who on earth could blame the Trojans queen, Leda. for suffering so long for a such a Word of her beauty spread, even woman’s sake? She is the very image of when she was a young teen. Returned an immortal goddess.” to her family after having been kid- – Jerry Patch napped by Theseus, king of Athens (and perhaps giving birth), she was pursued by the wealthiest, the most SUITORS OF HELEN are those who competed for the hand of heroic, and the best born in Greece. the Spartan princess Helen, center. Bottom from left to right, her early abductor, Theseus; her husband Menelaus; Married off for advantage to Paris; the Achean Leader Diomedes 2 who was bound by The Menelaus, she Oath of Tyndareus; and was taken Ajax 1, also away bound by the again by Oath and a prominent the Achaean much Leader. To the Virgins: Make Much of Time – Robert Herrick I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When I Was One-and-Twenty When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at When I was one-and-twenty them; I heard a wise man say, Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than “Give crowns and pounds and guineas one: But not your heart away; The shapes a brighter container can contain! Give pearls away and rubies Of her choice virtues only gods should speak, But keep your fancy free.” Or English poets who grew up on Greek But I was one-and-twenty, (I’d have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.) No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty Love likes a gander, and adores a goose: I heard him say again, Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize; “The heart out of the bosom She played it quick, she played it light and loose; Was never given in vain; My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees; ‘Tis paid with sighs a-plenty Her several parts could keep a pure repose, And sold for endless rue.” Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose And I am two-and-twenty, (She moved in circles, and those circles moved.) And oh, ‘tis true, ‘tis true. – from “I Knew a Woman,” by Theodore Roethke – A. E. Housman Continued Princess Marjorie •SOUTH COAST REPERTORY P3 She’s got everything she needs, I'll make you happy, baby, just wait and see. She’s an artist, she don’t look back. For every kiss you give me, I'll give you three. She can take the dark out of the nighttime Oh, since the day I saw you And paint the daytime black. I have been waiting for you You know I will adore you 'til eternity. You will start out standing Proud to steal her anything she sees. So won't you, please, (be my, be my baby) But you will wind up peeking through her Be my little baby, (my one and only baby) keyhole Say you'll be my darlin', (be my, be my baby) Down upon your knees. Be my baby now, (my one and only baby) Wha-oh-oh-oh. She never stumbles, – from “Be My Baby,” by Jeff Barry, She’s got no place to fall. Ellie Greenich, Phil Spector She’s nobody’s child, The Law can’t touch her at all. Bow down to her on Sunday, Salute her when her birthday comes. For Halloween give her a trumpet And for Christmas, buy her a drum. – from “She Belongs to Me,” by Bob Dylan CXXX My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips’ red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, Blue Girls But no such roses see I in her cheeks; Twirling your blue skirts, traveling the sward And in some perfumes is there more delight Under the towers of your seminary, Than in the breath that from my mistress Go listen to your teachers old and contrary reeks. Without believing a word. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: Tie the white fillets then about your hair I grant I never saw a goddess go,-- And think no more of what will come to pass And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare Than bluebirds that go walking on the grass As any she belied with false compare. And chattering on the air. – Wm. Shakespeare Practice your beauty, blue girls, before it fail; And I will cry with my loud lips and publish Beauty which all our power shall never estab- lish, It is so frail. For I could tell you a story which is true; I know a woman with a terrible tongue, Blear eyes fallen from blue, All her perfections tarnished-yet it is not long Teen angel, can you hear me Since she was lovelier than any of you. Teen angel, can you see me – John Crow Ransom Are you somewhere up above And am I still your own true love – from “Teen Angel,” by Mark Dinning P4 SOUTH COAST REPERTORY • Princess Marjorie NATHAN BAESEL MICHAEL GLADIS KHRYSTYNE HAJE Charlie Harper Marjorie Artist Biographies *NATHAN BAESEL (Charlie) ap- Fifth of July with the Signature TV movies and her role as Si- peared at SCR most recently in Theatre Company, Baal and No mone on ABC’s five year hit On the Mountain and previously Mother to Guide Her at the Flea “Head of the Class.” Amongst in The Last Night of Ballyhoo. He Theatre, a national tour of her film credits, she was privi- appeared in The Countess Cotlu- Romeo & Juliet and Much Ado leged to be cast in Man of the by at Poland’s Gombrowicz Festi- About Nothing with New Paltz Year, John Ritter’s final film. She val. He recently wrapped his Summer Shakespeare. Film and was awarded the Civilian Medal first film, the upcoming Through television credits include K-19: of Honor from the U.S. Depart- the Mask, and has guest starred The Widowmaker, Press Gang, ment of Defense, for entertaining on “The District” and “Cold Disgruntled, “Third Watch” and U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf Case” on CBS. A graduate of “Hack.” with Bob Hope during the first The Juilliard School, he has his Gulf War. Ms. Haje’s personal BA in Theatre from UCLA and *KHRYSTYNE HAJE (Marjorie) is life is spent in New York, Los began his college career at making her SCR debut. Theatre Angeles, and the northern Cali- Fullerton College. He is a proud credits include Profit at the fornia Redwoods, where she husband, father and member of Eclectic Company Theatre, Sub- maintains a preserve. As a Group 31. urban Motel: Featuring Loretta at founding member of ECO, the Gary Marshall’s Falcon Theatre Earth Communications Office, *MICHAEL GLADIS (Harper) is and Moon Over Buffalo at the she works hard to protect our making his SCR debut. Theatre Pasadena Playhouse. A native delicate ecosystems. credits include Dog Sees God at Californian, Ms. Haje started her the Soho Playhouse, The Passion Emmy award winning career at *JOHN VICKERY (Steven/Sam/ of George W. Bush at the Michael age 14 as a fashion model. She P.J.) appeared at SCR in the Pa- Schimmel Center, St.