O C T OUT OF THE BOX O B E R THEATRICS 2 6 - N presents O V E M B E R 9 , 2 0 1 8 MUSIC & LYRICS BY STEPHEN SONDHEIM BOOK BY JAMES LAPINE PRESENTED IN THREE LOCATIONS JEFFERSON MARKET LIBRARY P R E V I E W S : O C T O B E R 2 6 - 2 7 O P E N I N G N I G H T : O C T O B E R 2 8 RIZZOLI BOOKSTORE O C T O B E R 3 0 - N O V E M B E R 1 NANCY MANOCHERIAN’S THE CELL THEATRE N O V E M B E R 2 - N O V E M B E R 9 @ootbtheatrics CAST Amara J. Brady Gabriella Garcia Alie B. Gorrie* Alicia Krakauer* Alaina Mills* Celena Vera Morgan Sydney Ronis Brian Charles Katherine Yacko* Rooney* * Actors' Equity Association MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I Prologue: "Into the Woods" "Hello, Little Girl" "I Guess This is Goodbye" "Maybe They're Magic" "I Know Things Now" "A Very Nice Prince" "Giants in the Sky" "Agony" "It Takes Two" "Stay With Me" "On the Steps of the Palace" "Ever After" ACT II Prologue: "So Happy" "Agony" "Lament" "Any Moment' "Moments in the Woods" "Your Fault" "Last Midnight" "No More" "No One is Alone" Finale: "Children Will Listen" MUSICIANS Piano.....................................................................................................Anessa Marie Into the Woods will be performed with an intermission. Run Time: 2 hours 40 minutes Opening Night: October 28, 2018 nancy manocherian’s Jefferson Market Library RIzzoli Bookstore the cell theatre 425 Avenue of the Americas 1133 Broadway 338 W. 23rd St. Elizabeth Flemming Ethan Paulini Producing Artistic Director Associate Artistic Director present Out of the Box Theatrics' production of Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by James Lapine with Amara J. Brady Gabriella Garcia Alie B. Gorrie* Alicia Krakauer* Alaina Mills* Celena Vera Morgan Sydney Ronis Brian Charles Rooney* Katherine Yacko* Production Design Production Stage Management Rien Schlecht Egypt Dixon* Music Director Choreographer Anessa Marie Marisa Kirby Directed by ETHAN PAULINI+ OOTB is proud to hire members of * Actors' Equity + Stage Directors and Association Choreographers Society DIRECTOR'S NOTE Ethan Paulini For many of you this will not be your first trip Another major tenet of OOTB’s mission is Into the Woods, but I hope this will be a immersive productions which dictates both memorable and unique journey. As a director, venue and programming choices. The literary my responsibility is to the text. We have quality of both our venues and this piece worked hard to stay true to that and honor made it important to me that you, the these beautiful words. As Out of the Box audience, have an experience that is rooted Theatrics’ Associate Artistic Director, my in your imagination. That you see these responsibility is to the concept and how it fits people, places and things as you imagine into our mission. “To challenge the audience’s them, rather than how the production tells expectations” is a portion of OOTB's mission you to see them. Immersive theatre is a that is at the forefront of the production you challenge for the creative team and artists. are here to see. There are a lot of themes we That challenge is magnified with a piece as explored as a collection of artists that I hope complex as Into the Woods. We invite you, as will make you see these characters, their an important player in our process, to also be decisions, actions and their relationships to open to the challenge. The result, I hope will each other in a whole new way. As classic be a satisfying and undeniably singular fairy tale characters, these individuals are not production of a beloved piece. new to most of us, but their circumstances are extremely dynamic - therein lies the visceral, continually relevant quality of this musical. SPECIAL THANKS OOTB gives special acknowledgment to the following for making Into the Woods possible: R.C. Staab Weathervane Theatre Bloom Jefferson Market Library Frank Collerius Christopher Sidoli Rizzoli Bookstore nancy manocherian's the cell theatre Photo by Michael Bonasio WHO'S WHO AMARA J. BRADY (Ensemble) is a playwright, ALICIA KRAKAUER (Ensemble) is beyond actor, and producer from Chicago. The crux of thrilled to be part of this production! She has her artistry is uplifting Women of Color, played a variety of roles including Bunny in especially Black women and connecting Babes and Arms, Lenny in Crimes of the underserved communities with stories about Heart, and most recently was in The them that subvert genre. "Resist, check your Producers with the Barnstormers Theatre. privilege, and then give some space to She holds a BFA from Syracuse, and an MA Women of Color & Trans Folx. All love to the from Mountview Academy in London, both in family I chose and the ones who got me. Ashé musical theatre, and is the proud co-creator to my ancestors.” www.amarajanaebrady.com of the NEXT concert series featuring new writers in both the U.S. and U.K. GABRIELLA GARCIA (Ensemble) is a West Coast native and has been in NYC for two She thanks her family and her fiancé Liam for years now! Gabriella is a college graduate always believing in her, and Ethan, Liz, Frank, from AMDA: College and Conservatory of and the whole OOTB team for this Performing Arts where she received a BFA in opportunity. www.aliciakrakauer.com Musical Theater. Out of the Box Theatrics is near and dear to her heart. She is so excited ALAINA MILLS (Ensemble) is so happy to about the work they do and is she proud to be make her OOTB debut. Credits include: 1st able to share in telling this beautiful story. Nat’l Tour - Beautiful -The Carole King www.gabriellagarcia.me @gabymariegarcia Musical; Peg O’My Heart (York Theatre); Mame and Anything Goes (Northshore Music ALIE B. GORRIE (Ensemble) is thrilled to be Theatre); Chicago, Always...Patsy Cline, Our back on the OOTB stage. Most recently, she Town (Weathervane Rep); Hairspray (FST); On played the title role in Alice in Alice’s with The Town (MGR Playhouse); Elf (TUTS); The OOTB. Other New York credits include: Original Grease (ATC). So much love to this Bastard Jones (Molly/Harriet), Question 1 team, DGRW, and my sweet family. “No one is (Small Freddy/Inner Child), Dragons Love alone, truly.” Tacos… (Cowgirl Kate/Dragon). National tour: Seussical (Gertrude McFuzz). Other favorites CELENA VERA MORGAN (Ensemble) is include Sam’s Room (Sallie), Hairspray thrilled to be making her off-Broadway debut (Penny) and Broadway Under the Stars in a musical she holds near and dear to her concerts with Transcendence Theatre heart!! NYC Credits: Breaking Ground (NYMF). Company. Alie B. is the co-producer of ABLE: Celena Vera shares her heart and home with a series, a new media project that aims to her two free range bunnies and senior dog, break down disability stereotypes in order to Tina. BFA Ithaca College. Love to Mom, Mia, make the entertainment industry more Nana-banana and Tyler. inclusive. For more, visit celenaveramorgan.com www.aliebgorrie.com. Big thanks to OOTB! WHO'S WHO SYDNEY RONIS (Ensemble) (Pronouns: that is, forgive me, Out-of-the-Box for her! He/They) is a TGNB actor originally from Long Other NYC projects include The Tempest, A Island. He's been in a number of projects Midsummer Night’s Dream, and As HE Likes It since moving to NYC including the Trans (all with Sour Grapes Productions). Some of Voices Cabaret, Trans Theatre Festival, and her favorite regional projects include Annie Laundryfest. Sydney would like to thank Out Get Your Gun (Annie), Peter & The of the Box for the chance to work on such a Starcatcher (Molly), Hairspray (Penny), and stellar production. 25th...Spelling Bee (Logainne). She cannot thank Ethan, Liz, & the rest of the beautiful BRIAN CHARLES ROONEY (Ensemble) In a OOTB team enough for taking a chance on her critically acclaimed performance that for this innovative project & being shining Entertainment Weekly said "ignited the examples that “Someone is on your side, No stage," Brian Charles Rooney made his one is alone.” kyacko.com. Broadway debut as Lucy Brown in The ETHAN PAULINI (Director) is a director, Threepenny Opera for The Roundabout choreographer, actor, writer, and educator. He Theatre Co., and won The Kurt Weill has directed and choreographed at regional Foundation's Lys Symonette Award for theatres throughout the country as well as Dramatic Excellence. He was recently lauded here in NYC including OOTB’s inaugural by The New York Times for his performance production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie as Dionne Salon in the hit Off-Broadway Brown!, and last season’s ‘"MASTER musical, Bedbugs!!!. He won the CT Critics HAROLD"... and the boys. As a performer, he Circle Award for Best Actor in a Musical as has extensive New York, national tour, Candy Darling in POP! for Yale Repertory, and regional, TV/film, and commercial credits. has won three NYMF Outstanding Ethan is the co-creator of Mama and Her Boys, Performance Awards (Bedbugs!!!, Bayonets of an original musical song cycle that has been Angst, and last season’s Miss Blanche Tells it performed hundreds of times all over the East All). He appeared with Kristin Chenoweth in I Coast including an extended Off-Broadway Am Harvey Milk at Lincoln Center; and with run. He is currently OOTB’s Associate Artistic Nathan Lane & Megan Mullally in Guys & Dolls Director and Artistic Director of the at Carnegie Hall. He has appeared in sold out Weathervane Theatre in Whitefield, NH.