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Gaudette Theatre Everett Performing Arts Center March 12 – April 19, 2020 April 24 – May 17, 2020 Director JERRY DIXON Choreographer Music Director Orchestrations JIMMY SHIELDS MICHAEL NUTTING WILL ARONSON Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer CAREY WONG KAREN ANN LEDGER AARON COPP BRENT WARWICK Projection Designer Stage Manager Assistant Stage Managers Properties Manager TRISTAN ROBERSON PAMELA CAMPI SPEE* MIRANDA C. PRATT*, KATERINA GAWLAK RACHEL BENNICK COLLEEN NIELSEN, CORY SOUTHWELL Wig Master Costume Shop Manager Master Scenic Artist Technical Director Production Manager DOUGLAS DECKER ESTHER GARCIA JULIA B. FRANZ BRADLEY C. BIXLER JAY MARKHAM Developed as part of The 2018 Village Originals Festival of New Musicals Developmental readings of Hansel & Gretl & Heidi & Günter at Village Theatre, Issaquah, Washington The 2018 Village Originals Festival of New Musicals and in Robb Hunt, Executive Producer, Jerry Dixon, Artistic Director New York City directed by Victoria Clark. SHOW SPONSORS INDIVIDUAL SHOW SHOW MEDIA SPONSORS SEASON MEDIA SPONSOR STARRING SPONSOR SPONSOR Twyla & Tom Lucas SEASON SPONSORS PRODUCING SPONSORS TRAVEL SPONSOR VILLAGE THEATRE’S 2019–2020 SEASON THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM GUYS & DOLLS SHE LOVES ME HANSEL & GRETL & THE WEDDING SINGER COUNTY SPELLING BEE November 7, 2019 – January 16 – March 22, 2020 HEIDI & GÜNTER May 7 – July 26, 2020 September 12 – November 17, 2019 February 2, 2020 March 12 – May 17, 2020 IN-KIND SPONSORS Director’s Note Cast Gretl...........................................................................................................................................Kate Jaeger* There are many reasons, and reasons Heidi ......................................................................................................Isabella Corsaro, Beatrice Corley inside of reasons, that I was taken Günter .................................................................................................... Jonas Winburn, Thomas Gomes when I heard the premise of Hansel Hansel .............................................................................................................................Kevin Vortmann* Kevin ............................................................................................................................................Tyler Vold & Gretl & Heidi & Günter. Reason Forest Hermit, Jenny & Julie’s Pop, & others ......................................................................Jon Lutyens* 1: it made me fall off my chair, Brian, Klaus, & others ........................................................................................................... Teigun Pesce laughing. Reason 5: the songs made Jenny, Olga, & others.....................................................................................................Elizabeth Howlett me tingle, giggle, and cry. Reason Julie, Brigitta, & others .............................................................................................................. Elsa Miller 33: as I dug into the research, I Brian’s Mom, Jar Head, & others ...................................................................................Brenna Wagner* discovered the rich, and sometimes Kevin’s Dad, Jar Head, & others ................................................................................... Ethan Carpenter* troubling, history of fairy tales. Jenny & Julie’s Dad, Jar Head, & others .......................................................................... Lamar Legend* Most of us have heard the Dance Captain .................................................................................................................Brenna Wagner* expression, “everything old is Fight Captain...................................................................................................................... Lamar Legend* new again.” In the case of fairy tales, this adage might well apply. *The Actors and Stage Manager are members of the Actors’ Equity Assocation, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Except there’s a piece missing: the original Brothers Grimm tales were dark, deadly, sinister, morbid, and Understudies never meant for children! In time, Gretl...................................................................................................................................Brenna Wagner* revisionist thinking pushed these Hansel ............................................................................................................................. Ethan Carpenter* stories toward the light. Soon, we had Kevin, Brian, Klaus, & others ...............................................................................................Braden Cook storybooks that were fit for all ages. Jenny, Julie, Olga, Brigitta, & others ........................................................................................Eliana Coe Fairy tales were told at bedtime, Forest Hermit, Kevin’s Dad, Jenny & Julie’s Dad, Jar Head, & others ...............................Brian Lange in classrooms, on the radio, and in Brian’s Mom, Jar Head, & others ..................................................................................... Callie Williams other media all over the world. We couldn’t get enough of those Orchestra seven little fellows, whistling, Conductor/Keyboard ...................................................................................................... Michael Nutting while they worked. Or a bluebird, Violin ........................................................................................................................................Valerie Tung gently landing on a delicate wrist. Cello ......................................................................................................................................... Grant Olson It delighted us to hear tell of a Bass ...........................................................................................................Chris Jones or Olivia Hamilton horse-drawn carriage, fashioned Trumpet ...................................................................................................... Charles Butler or Greg Lyons out of a pumpkin. But something Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax ...................................................................................................... Dewey Marler happened as these stories moved Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Bari Sax ...........................................................................Jay Easton Percussion ............................................................................................................................ Jesse Whitford toward the light. Darkness returned, with a vengeance, and adults found themselves drawn back into their Crew childhood stories with titles like Master Stage Carpenter (Issaquah) ...............................................................................Whitman Paylor Maleficent, Snow White and the Master Stage Carpenter (Everett) ..................................................................................Chris Mikolaizik Huntsman, and Red Riding Hood, Lead Stagehand ......................................................................................................................Emily Kettler who wasn’t so little anymore. Lead Stagehand – Props .............................................................................................................Peter King Master Sound Engineer (Issaquah) ..................................................................................Brent Warwick It might be the complex times Master Sound Engineer (Everett) ........................................................................................Kurt Conway we’re living in