CENTER REPERTORY COMPANY Michael Butler, Artistic Director Scott Denison, Managing Director Devised by David M. Lutken with nick corley and darcie deaville, helen j. russell & andy tEIrstein Scenic Designer lighting Designer LUKE CANTARELLA SETH REISER costume Designer stage manager JEFFREY MEEK KATHLEEN J. PARSONS* Cast darcie deaville david finch* megan loomis* david m. lutken* Directed by nick corley MUSIC DIRECTOR david m. lutken Originally produced as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2007, by the Melting Pot Theatre and Paul Lucas Productions, by special arrangement with Mary and Pierre Cossette. First American production at the Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma City, 2009. West End premiere, The Arts Theatre, Leicester Square, London, January 13, 2001, by Mary Cossette Productions. The use of photographic or recording devices is strictly prohibited. For the enjoyment of all patrons, please silence all cell phones, pagers and electronic devices. Margaret Lesher Theatre May 17 - June 23, 2019 Lesher Center for the Arts Season Season Partner Foundation Sponsor Sponsor *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Scenic and Lighting Designers are members of United Scenic Artists Union The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Center REP is a member of Theatre Bay Area and Theatre Communications Group (TCG), The National Organization for the American Theatre CAST (in alphabetical order) Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS in NYC from Standing Festival in 2012 and 2015 and most recently 2004–2006. He is the co-creator of Careless Love: as part of the 2018 Rochester Fringe Festival. Megan Darcie Deaville A Down Home Musical. Please visit dhfinch.com is a proud graduate of the Eastman School of Music. and buy his CD "The Fiddle Made Me Do It " after www.megloomis.com @megsthelooms David Finch* the show – thanks! Megan Loomis* DAVID M. LUTKEN* (Music Director, David M. Lutken* MEGAN LOOMIS* (Cast) has Deviser, Original Cast) BROADWAY: performed with Woody Sez at the Inherit the Wind; Ring of Fire; The TIME AND PLACE Edinburgh Fringe, Vienna’s English Civil War; The Will Rogers Follies. Theatre, in Oklahoma, Texas, all over OFF-BROADWAY: Woody Sez (Outer America, 1912 - 1967 Poland and Off-Broadway at the Irish Critics’ Circle, Off-Broadway Alliance Repertory Theatre. She toured the US & Drama League Best Musical Woody Sez will be performed with one 15-minute in the Tony award winning production nominations), Southern Comfort; Stars in Your intermission of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, and Eyes; Winter Man; The Portable Pioneer and has toured North America and Asia in War Horse Prairie Show. N.Y. CITY OPERA: Paul Bunyan. PROFILES (Paulette), Cabaret (Helga) and Sweeney Todd LONDON: Woody Sez (Evening Standard Best (Standby Mrs. Lovett). Off-Bway credits include Musical nomination); Dark of the Moon; Bonnie DARCIE DEAVILLE (Co-Deviser, The Other Josh Cohen at the Westside Theatre, The and Clyde; A Month in the Country. REGIONAL: Original Cast) Born to a journalist/ Dead, 1904 at Irish Repertory Theatre, and Beaulah USA: Man of La Mancha; Big River; Elmer Gantry; pilot mother and a bush helicopter in John Doyle’s critically acclaimed production of Finian’s Rainbow; Back Home Again; Fire on the pilot father, Darcie Deaville spent Allegro at Classic Stage Company. Regional favorites Mountain; Lost Highway; Buddy; Pump Boys and her formative years moving every include The Other Josh Cohen at Geva Theatre, Dinettes; Woody Guthrie’s American Song; Stand few months, from the Yukon to the Ring of Fire at Vienna’s English Theatre, Flat Rock, By Your Man; The Love List; The Man Who Came Yucatan, learning how vastly different Merry-Go-Round and Ivoryton Playhouse and the to Dinner; On Golden Pond,and others. Originally people, cultures, and weather can be. She struck world premiere of The Road to Where, written by from Dallas, Texas, David graduated from Duke out on her own at 16, playing guitar & singing on and starring Cass Morgan at GeVa Theatre. She University with a Bachelor of Arts in Classics. the streets of Toronto. Since then she's played performed her one-woman show, The Girl In The He completed his Acting Degree at the Webber in remote villages and large cities throughout Band, at the Emerging Artists Theatre’s One Woman Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Canada, the US, the UK, Europe, Central America, China, and the Middle East. Darcie's fiery fiddling SONG LIST became a fixture in Austin TX, where she put down roots for 25 years. One of just a few women ACT I to be a side person and session player, she’s on This Train is Bound for Glory ..................................................................................................COMPANY over 200 recordings and performed in a wide Talkin' New York City, 1940 .......................................................................................................... DAVID range of musical styles with acts including Tom Why Do You Stand There in the Rain ........................................................................................... DAVID Paxton, Ani di Franco, John McEuen, Killer Pussy, Nickel, Nickel ............................................................................................................ MEGAN & DARCIE and the Austin Lounge Lizards. As a singer and This Land is Your Land ................................................................................................................. DAVID songwriter, Darcie has recorded five CDs of her The Ballad of Tom Joad .............................................................................................................. DARCIE own. Theatre credits include: originating role Gypsy Davey ................................................................................................. MEGAN, DAVID & DARCIE in Woody Sez, Woody Guthrie's American Song, The Ballad of Tom Joad (#2) ...................................................................................................... DARCIE Oil City Symphony Cottonpatch Gospel Always, Jackhammer John ..........................................................................................FINCH, MEGAN & DARCIE , , I Ride an Ol' Paint ..........................................................................................................FINCH & DAVID Patsy Cline, and her original one woman musical Curly Headed Baby ....................................................................................... MEGAN, DARCIE & DAVID Tornado in Slo Mo. www.DarcieDeaville.com Mule Skinner Blues ......................................................................................... DAVID, FINCH & MEGAN The Ballad of Tom Joad (#3) ...................................................................................................... DARCIE DAVID FINCH* (Cast), an actor and Oklahoma Hills ......................................................................................................................COMPANY multi-instrumentalist, Mr. Finch has So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh ....................................................................................COMPANY played beside artists as diverse as Alan Talkin' Dust Bowl ......................................................................................................................... FINCH Cumming, Serj Tankian, Tony Bennett, Dust Storm Disaster ..................................................................................................................... DAVID Amanda Palmer, Kylie Minogue and This Train is Bound for Glory (REPRISE) .................................................................................COMPANY Dee Snider in venues ranging from The Ballad of Tom Joad (#4) ...................................................................................................... DARCIE Lincoln Center to San Francisco’s (If You Ain't Got The) Do Re Mi ..............................................................................................COMPANY Castro Theatre. As a member of the cast of the Jolly Banker ..................................................................................................................DAVID & DARCIE Tony award-winning revival of Sam Mendes’ The Internationale ................................................................................................MEGAN & COMPANY and Rob Marshall’s Cabaret, he performed on I've Got to Know/Why Do You Stand Broadway and toured the U.S., Canada and There in the Rain (REPRISE) .................................................................................... DAVID & COMPANY Japan. His West End debut was with Evening ACT II Standard Best Musical nominee Woody Sez and I Ain't Got No Home ..................................................................................................................... DAVID in 2015 returned to London to play the chromatic The Ballad of Tom Joad (#5) ...................................................................................................... DARCIE harmonica and the part of the Mock Turtle at the I Ride an Ol' Paint (REPRISE) ..........................................................................MEGAN, DARCIE & FINCH Barbican Concert Hall with the BBC Symphony Columbus Stockade Blues ......................................................................................... MEGAN & DARCIE Orchestra in Unsuk Chin and David Henry Hwang’s Going Down that Road