MUSICAL NUMBERS TECHNICAL CREW Act One Stage Manager .................................................. Marc Benson THEATRE SHERIDAN PRESENTS OVERTURE Assistant Stage Managers .................................. Katie McPhee & Leigh Rawlins Frank Loesser’s Musical Audio Crew ........................................................ Brian Kenny, Eric Wellman OOH! MY FEET! ................................................. Cleo Carpentry Crew .................................................. Ian Barber, Nicholas Cholack, SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE .................................. Rosabella Joshua Chudziak, Matthew Cochrane, THE MOST HAPPY FELLA .................................... Tony and Townspeople Cedric Daros, Jonathan Grosz, THE MOST STANDING ON THE CORNER .............................. Herman, Jake, Clem and Al Nicholas Matthews, Erikka Rombough, JOEY, JOEY, JOEY ................................................ Joe Eric Ruberto ROSEABELLA ...................................................... Tony Head Electrician ................................................. Matthew Field Lighting Crew .................................................... Russell Benoit, David Corbacio, HAPPY FELLA ABBONDANZA ................................................... Giuseppe, Ciccio, Pasquale Andrew Deardon, Luke Dobson, SPOSALIZIO ....................................................... Townspeople Lawrence Glover, Michelle Inksetter, April 12 – 23, 2011 BENVENUTA ...................................................... Giuseppe, Ciccio, Pasquale Carrie McMunn, Luka Trifunovic Based on Sidney Howard’s “They Knew What They Wanted” DON’T CRY ........................................................ Joe and Rosabella Properties Crew.................................................. Breanna Baker, Leona Czaplinska, Monika Dembowy, Caroline Hunt, Book, Music and Lyrics by FRANK LOESSER Act Two Jasmyne Leisemer, Adrianna Marchi, Director Matthew Pannell, Chelsea Reinders, PRELUDE Darcy Evans Ellen Roach Musical Director FRESNO BEAUTIES ............................................. Vineyard Workers and Rosabella Scenic Paint Crew ............................................... Cristin Barr, Alice Ferreyra, Alana Freistadt, Jeffrey Huard HAPPY TO MAKE YOUR ACQUAINTANCE ............ Rosabella, Tony and Cleo Andrea Harrington, Jacon Gow, BIG D ................................................................. Cleo, Herman and Ensemble Nancy Kapodistrias, Sashin Naidu, Choreographer Jenna Purnell, Katrina Sorg, Stephanie Tucker Stephen Roberts HOW BEAUTIFUL THE DAYS ................................ Tony, Rosabella, Marie and Joe Wardrobe Crew .................................................. Alice Barnett, Esther Brown, Hannah Gordon, YOUNG PEOPLE ................................................. Marie and Tony Set and Costume Designer Shakira Kissoon, Matthew Leckie, Katie Miller, Patrick Du Wors WARM ALL OVER ............................................... Rosabella Jessica Richard, Bernadette Gall Sperandeo Lighting Designer I LIKE EV’RYBODY .............................................. Cleo Production Assistants ......................................... Andrew McGowan, Jayda Woods Bonnie Beecher MY HEART IS SO FULL OF YOU ........................... Tony and Rosabella Technical Assistants ............................................ Michael Coulter, John Page MAMMA, MAMMA ............................................ Tony Sound Designer Todd Charlton ABBONDANZA REPRISE ..................................... Giuseppe, Ciccio, Pasquale RUNNING CREW PLEASE LET ME TELL YOU ................................... Rosabella Pianists Crew Chief ....................... Erikka Rombough Deck Audio ...................... Matthew Cochrane, Jeffrey Huard and Jeannie Wyse Live Mix ........................... Brian Kenny Caroline Hunt FINALE Lighting Board Operator ... Michelle Inksetter Follow Spots .................... Luke Dobson, Luka Trifunovic MY HEART IS SO FULL OF YOU REPRISE .............. Tony and Rosabella Stage Hands ..................... Jonathan Grosz, Sashin Naidu Dressers ........................... Esther Brown, Shakira Kissoon DIRECTOR’S NOTES CAST OF CHARACTERS Frank Loesser was basking in the success of Guys Opera House and transferred to Broadway in The Cashier ...............................Brett Schaller Clem ...........................................Andrew Morrisey The Doctor ................................Ryan Brown and Dolls when he came upon Sidney Howard’s January 1992 where it ran for 229 performances. Cleo ............................................Malia Becker Jake ............................................Brent York The Priest ..................................Alex Dvorak *** 1924 Pulitzer Prize winning play They Knew Rosabella ...................................Julianne Hobby Al ................................................Simon Gordon Tessie .........................................Jennifer Rooney This two piano version has allowed us to What They Wanted. This play would become The Postman .............................Colin Noel-Baldwin Joe ..............................................Keenan Viau Gussie ........................................Joseph Murray re-imagine The Most Happy Fella with a modern the basis for The Most Happy Fella. Loesser Farnsworth ................................Jennifer Rooney Giuseppe ...................................Joel Gomez Ensemble: Sam DiGuiseppe, Jamie Meltz, Colin Noel-Baldwin, musical theatre sensibility. In our discussions worked on the show for fi ve years and the result Tony ............................................Jordan Till Pasquale ....................................Brett Schaller Michael Cox, Alex Dvorak, Mathieu Bellemare, Josh Blackstone, about the design, set designer, Patrick du Wors ** was a musical of operatic proportions. Almost Marie .........................................Kyle McMahon Ciccio .........................................Ian Cheverie Leanne Miller, Jaclyn Serre, Jennifer Rooney, Katie Bromley , and I were committed to keeping the story at three quarters of the play is set to music. When Max ............................................Sam DiGuiseppe The Country Girl .......................Kyla Musselman Margaret Thompson, Julia MacLennan, Alessia Lupiano, the forefront of our production. Furniture and *** it opened on Broadway on May 3, 1956 at the Herman ......................................Kevin Morris* The City Boy ..............................Aaron Hastelow Natalia Gracious , Tess Barao, Kelly McNamee scenery have been kept to a minimum. In the * ** *** Imperial Theatre it ran just under three hours. Assistant Director Dance Captain Vocal Coaches staging, scenes overlap and transitions have The original Playbill did not list individual songs, been orchestrated with a cinematic quality because it was so diffi cult to separate one in mind. This approach and the expertise of CAST musical number from another. Don Walker, the Broadway veteran Musical Director, Jeffrey play’s orchestrator pointed out, “We pass into Huard, has enabled us to trim some of the scene dialogue only for those developments that are change music and reprises, which were written not emotional in content, such as exposition.” to accommodate massive set changes and to Loesser wrote arias, recitatives, duets, trios, choral facilitate getting a 56 person cast on and off numbers, and purely orchestral sections, to create the stage. what he called “a musical – with lots of music.” The Most Happy Fella’s story of an older man When the original Broadway production and his mail order bride draws an interesting opened there were twenty speaking roles, a contemporary parallel to the dating world of the TESS MALIA MATHIEU KATIE RYAN IAN MICHAEL SAM twenty-four member chorus, twelve dancers internet, where posting an overly fl attering photo BARAO BECKER BELLEMARE BROMLEY BROWN CHEVERIE COX DI GIUSEPPE and a thirty-six piece orchestra. In fact, the online might land you a mate. Perhaps, that is orchestra pit at the Imperial Theatre had to be part of the reason why this young cast has been enlarged to accommodate the extra musicians so passionate and fearless in their approach to as a normal sized orchestra at the time had telling this story almost a half a century later. twenty-six musicians. Their immense talent, professionalism and For this production at Theatre Sheridan we dedication are truly inspiring. I hope you enjoy are using a Frank Loesser approved, two watching their performances as much as I have piano arrangement of the score. This version enjoyed working with them. was originally presented at The Goodspeed ~ Darcy Evans SIMON NATALIA JULIANNE ALESSIA KELLY KYLIE LEANNE KEVIN GORDON GRACIOUS HOBBY LUPIANO McNAMEE MCMAHON MILLER MORRIS e services of Darcy Evans, Stephen Roberts and Julianne Hobby by special permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association. THE MOST HAPPY FELLA is presented through special arrangement with Music eatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 www.MTIShows.com Still photos, videotaping or other video recording of this production is strictly prohibited. ANDREW KYLA COLIN JENNIFER BRETT JORDAN KEENAN BRENT MORRISEY MUSSELMAN NOEL-BALDWIN ROONEY SCHALLER TILL VIAU YORKE.