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By Special Arrangement with Music Theatre International AUTHOR Neil Simon The Goodbye Girl COMPOSER Marvin Hamlisch, LYRICIST David Zippel MAIN ARTISTIC STAFF SCENE SYNOPSIS STACE DIRECTOR Bruce R. Coleman a{ MUSICAL NUMBERS MUSICAL DIRECTOR Terry Dobson PLACE ANDTIME SET DESIGNJacAlder New York, Present Day LIGHTING DESIGN SamNance ACT I ACT II COSTUME DESIGN SCENE 1 SCENEl II[ Mark C. Guerra Bruce R. Coleman Paula's Apartment Paula's Apartment ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR "This Is as Good as It Gets" "How Can I Win?" (reprise) PamelaHolcomb-McClain PAULA 11[LUCY PAULA CHOREOGRAPHER Andi Allen "NoMore" SCENE2 PAULA CAST Paula's Apartment SCENE2 MARK Bruce R. Coleman "Good News, Bad News" (reprise) A Dance Studio ELLIOT ME LAN IE Claire Fowler "A Beat Behind" PAULA MCFADDEN SCENE3 PAULA, BILLY AND ENSEMBLE ''Lisa-GabrielleGreene The Ricky Simpson Show CYNTH IA **Lindsay Kay SCENE3 "Too Good to Be Bad" MRS. CROSBYNatalie King In Front of Paula's Building PAULA, DONNA AND JENNA "This Is as Good as It Gets" (reprise) ELLIOT GARFIELD ''Gregory Lush SCENE4 LUCY, MELANIE AND CYNTHIA BILLY 11[ RICKY SIMPSON Paula's Apartment Darius-Anthony Robinson SCENE 4 "2 Good 2 B Bad" DON NA LuciaWelch Paula's Apartment MRS. CROSBY LUCY MCFADDEN RubyWestfall "My Rules" SCENES ENSEMBLE ELLIOT a[_PAULA Paula's Apartment **John Biggan,'"'Josh Blann, "GoodNews, BadNews" Tandi Brame,Tracie Foster, *''Carlos ELLIOT, PAULA AND LUCY "WhoWould've Thought?" PAULA, ELLIOT, LUCY, MELANIE Gomez,**Teresa Valenza (dance SCENES AND CYNTHIA captain) Paula's Apartment SCENE6 MUSICIANS "Good News, Bad News" (reprise) The Rooftop of Paula's Building MRS. CROSBY CONDUCTOR/KEYBOARDS "Paula (An Improvised Love Song)" Terry Dobson or Pamela Holcomb­ SCENE6 ELLIOT 11[PAULA An off.Off.Broadway Theatre McClain SCENE7 DRUMS/PERCUSSION Mike McNicolas SCENE 7 Paula's Apartment BASS Peggy Honea or David Odegaard Central Park SCENE8 WOODWINDS "Footsteps" A Schoolyard Ellen Kaner II[Michael Dill PAULA 11[LUCY "WhoWould've Thought?" (reprise) LUCY, MELANIE AND CYNTHIA PRODUCTION STAFF SCENE8 Paula's Apartment AEA STAGE MANAGER DougMiller SCENE9 "How Can IWin?" AEA ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER The Lake in Central Park PAULA JacAlder "I Can PlayThis Part" TECHNICAL DIRECTOR DavidWalsh SCENE9 ELLIOT An Off-Off.BroadwayTheatre PRODUCTION ASSISTANT SCENE10 Maryam Baig "Richard Interred" A TV Studio ELLIOT, PAULA, LUCY, MARK, MASTER CARPENTER Jeffrey Schmidt "Jump f rJoy" MRS. CROSBY, DONNA AND ENSEMBLE o PRODUCTION CREW PAULA a[_ENSEMBLE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Paul Arnold, Maryam Baig, Gregory Lush ELLIOT CARFIELD; SCENE 11 Stacie Cleland,Mark C.Guerra Brue• R. Col•man MARK; John Biggan Paula's Apartment ENSEMBLE; Claire Fowler MELANIE; / "What aGuy" Tracie FosterENSEMBLE; Teresa PAULA Valenza ENSEMBLE and Tandi Brame SCENE12 ENSEMBLE In Front of Paula's Building Finale * indicates members working under Actor's PAULA, ELLIOT AND LUCY Equity Association contracts in this production. ** indicates a performerenrolled in the AEA There will be one fifteenminute intermission membership candidate program. between Acts I and 11 C THE GOODBYE CilRL BIOGRAPHIES LEFT TO RIGHT: Josh Blann ENSEMBLE and Neil Simon Lucia Welch DONNA AUTHOR Marvin Neil Simon was born in the Bronx on July 4, 1927, and grew up in Washington Heights at the northern tip of Manhattan. He attended New York University briefly (1944-45) and the University of Denver (1945-46) before joining the United States Musical Director and arranger Goodbye Girl (music by Marvin Better with a Band has been Army where he began his writing career working for plays The Odd Couple (1968), The Sunshine Boys (1975) and of Barbra Streisand's 1994 Hamlisch, book by Neil Simon) presented Off-Broadway, at the the Army camp newspaper. forwhich he received an Outer California Suite (1978). He concert tour of the US and Eng­ Don mar Warehouse in London, After being discharged from the army, Simon has also been the recipient of land as well as of the television Critics Circle nomination. With and at the Prince Music returned to New York and took a job as a mailroom the Antoinette Perry Award, special, "Barbra Streisand: The eight-time Oscar winning com­ Theater in Philadelphia. clerk forWarner Brothers' east coast office. He the Writers Guild Award, the Concert" (for which he received poser Alan Menken, he wrote In early 2003, Williamson and his brother Danny began writing comedy revues Evening Standard Award, the two of his Emmys). He served the songs forDisney's feature Music began representingZip­ and eventually found their way into radio, then New York Drama Critics Circle in the same capacities for filmHercules. Michael Bolton pel's music publishing interests television, where they toiled alongside the likes of Award, the Shubert Award, the her Millennium concerts. recorded "Go the Distance" and the administration of his Hamlisch is a graduate of both from that score, which was a catalogue, In Your Ear Music. Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and Larry Gelbart, writing Outer Circle Award, and a 1978 Golden Globe Award forhis Juilliard and Queens College #1 record and nominated for In the same year, he completed for The Phil Silvers Show and Sid Caesar's Your Show an Academy Award and Golden Princesses, his own adaptation screenplay, The Goodbye Girl. (where he earned a Bachelor ofShows. Simon received several Emmy Award of Arts degree). He believes Globe. With Matthew Wilder, of the classic children's novel nominations for his television writing, then moved on Marvin Hamlisch in the power of music to bring he wrote the songs forDisney's A Little Princess (music by to the stage where he quickly established himself as people together. "Music can animated feature Mu/an, Matthew Wilder, book by COMPOSER America's most successful be his finestplay to that date. Marvin Hamlisch's life in make a difference. There is a which earned him his second Cheri Steinkellner and Bill Academy Award nomination. Steinkellner). He additionally commercial playwright by His fourth musical, They're music is notable for its great global nature to music, which "Reflection," from Mu/an, has worked on Buzz!, a musical creating an unparalleled string Playing Our Song, proved fairly versatility as well as substance. has the potential to bring all of Broadway hits beginning successful in 1979, but his next As composer, Hamlisch has people together. Music is truly was recorded by Christina extravaganza about the life with Come Blow Your Horn. three plays (/ Ought to Be in won virtually every major an international language, Aguilera and is featured on of Busby Berkeley (music by her multi-platinum debut Alan Menken, book by Larry During the 1966-67 season, Pictures, Fools, and a revised award that exists: three Oscars, and I hope to contribute by album. Christina and David Gelbart); Pamela's First Musical, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd version of Little Me) all proved fourGrammys, four Emmys, a widening communication as Couple, Sweet Charity and unsuccessful at the box office.