Theater Latté Da Presents IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, LONDON Ritz Theater November 27 - December 29, 2019 December 15 – 18, 2016 ● Pantages Theatre 1 PEOPLE CITED Dick Barron, 2nd London Mounted Brigade Private Frank Bass, THE COMPANY 9th Battalion Norfolk Regiment Robert Burns, 7th Queens Own Cameron Highlanders Winston Churchill, DIRECTOR First Lord of the Admiralty Peter Rothstein** Private W. T. Colyer, Artists’ Rifles Lance Corporal Coulson, MUSIC DIRECTOR London Rifle Brigade Cyril Drummond, Erick Lichte Royal Field Artillery Corporal John Fergusen, CAST Seaforth Highlanders General Sir John French, Sasha Andreev* British Expeditionary Force Paul R. Coate* Count Gleichen, Brigadeir General, 15th Brigade Benjamin Dutcher* Captain Sir Edward Hulse, Andrew Hey* Scots Guards Ben Johnson Hugo Klemm, 133rd Saxon Regiment Riley McNutt Maurice Laurentin, Rodolfo Nieto* Commandant 6e Compagnie Francis Edward Ledwidge, James Ramlet Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Andrew Wilkowske Geoffrey Lillywhite, Royal Engineers Evan Tyler Wilson* George Littlefair, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, 1914 Durham Light Infantry PRODUCTION STAFF Private Tom Macdonald, 9th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment Trevor Bowen***, Costume Designer Patrick MacGill, Marcus Dillard***, Lighting Designer London Irish Regiment Nicholas Tranby, Sound Designer & Engineer Lt. General C.F.N. Macready, British Army Abbee Warmboe, Properties Master Private Peter McGregor, D. Marie Long*, Stage Manager 14th Battalion Argyle and BY PETER ROTHSTEIN Sutherland Highlanders Kyla Moloney, Assistant Stage Manager Albert Moren, Keely Wolter, Dialect Coach 2nd Queen’s Regiment I studied World War I in high school of this remarkable event? The propaganda The music ranges from trench songs to Elissa Adams, Dramaturg Sgt. G. H. Morgan, and college, but I don’t remember reading machine of war is powerful, and news of patriotic and sentimental tunes, as well as Royal Warwickshire Regiment about the Christmas Truce in any of my soldiers fraternizing across enemy lines would Christmas carols from the participating Allen Weeks, Production Director Oberstleutnant Johannes Niemann, Sam Wend, Production & Artistic Administrator 133rd Royal Saxon Regiment textbooks. If I had, I certainly would have put a human face on the Germans and readily countries. Wilfred Owen, remembered. This extraordinary event took undermine public support for the war. The One of the reasons I love working in the Bethany Reinfeld, Technical Director Manchester Regiment place in 1914, the first year of the war, heroes of this story are the lowest of the ranks theater, versus film or television, is because Micayla Thebault-Spieker, Master Electrician Second Lieutenant Arthur Pelham-Burn, and was never repeated. Thousands of men — the young, the hungry, the cold, and the the theater is a two-way street. It asks the 6 Gordon Highlanders Eric Charlton, Master Carpenter Private W.R.M. Percy, put down their guns and left their trenches optimistic — those who acted with great audience to engage their imagination in Samantha Johns, Scenic Charge London Rifle Brigade to meet their enemies in No Man’s Land. courage to put down their guns, overcoming order to complete the story. So here are the Pope Benedict XV They exchanged gifts of tobacco, rum and a fear that placed a gun in their hands in the words and the songs of these remarkable Mary Farrell, Costume Design Assistant Jack Rogers, chocolates; even photographs of loved ones. first place. Their story puts a human face on men. Completing the story, putting a Dakota Blankenship, Laundry Crew Sherwood Foresters They sang songs, played a game of soccer, war, and that’s the story I hope to tell. human face on war — well, that’s up to Siegfried Sassoon, Lisa M Smith*, Sub Stage Manager Royal Welch Fusiliers and buried each other’s dead. Upon orders The text is taken from a wide range you. To the thousands of men who changed Becky Raines, Sub Light Board Op Private Frank Sumpter, from above, they eventually returned to their of sources including letters, journals, history, thank you. May we do your story Whitley Cobb, Ty Waters, Matt Boerst, Carpenters London Rifle Brigade Private Jack Sweeney, trenches and re-instigated a war that would official war documents, poetry, gravestone justice. Nick Fetting, Emmet Kowler, Megan Winter, Trevor Zapiecki, last four more years. So why did I not learn inscriptions — even an old radio broadcast. 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment Alexi Carlson, Ray Steveson, Electricians G. T. Forrestier-Walker, Brigadier General *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage H.G.R. Williams, Managers in the United States. London Rifle Brigade **Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union. Henry Williamson, Mr. Rothstein would like to extend his gratitude to these generous individuals and impressive institutions for their research assistance: ***Member of United Scenic Artists, a national union that represents designers and scenic Bibliothèque-Musée de l’Opéra National de Paris; Imperial War Museum, London; In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium; Dominiek Dendooven, painters for the American Theater. London Rifle Brigade Frank and Maurice Wray, Knowledge Center, Musée de l’Armée, Paris; Over the Top Tours, Ypres, Belgium; Royal Museum of the Armed Forces; and Military History, Brussels. ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914 was developed and produced by London Rifle Brigade Cantus Vocal Ensemble and Theater Latté Da in Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 2007. 2 All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 Nov. 27 - Dec. 29 ● Ritz Theater 3 Prologue Die Wacht Am Rhein Karl Wilhelm Christmas Day in the Cookhouse English Traditional Will Ye Go to Flanders? Scottish Traditional O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) German Traditional The Optimistic Departure The Truce Come on and Join (Alexander’s Ragtime Band) Music: Irving Berlin, Words: Anonymous Stille Nacht (Silent Night) Franz Gruber God Save the King English Traditional Angels We Have Heard on High French Traditional Good-Bye-Ee R.P. Weston and Bert Lee Er is een Kindeke geboren Flemish Traditional Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabella French Traditional The Grim Reality The First Noel English Traditional It’s a Long to Tipperary Jack Judge and Harry Williams Ihr Kinderlein, kommet Music: Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Les Godillots Paul Briollet and Eugene Rimbault, based on French Traditional Words: Christoph von Schmid Pack up your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag George Henry and Felix Powell Wassail Erick Lichte, based on Traditional English Texts The Old Barbed Wire English Traditional Minuit Chrétiens Adolph Adam I Want to Go Home Lieut. Gitz Rice Will Ye Go to Flanders? (Reprise) Scottish Traditional When this Bloody War is Over Music: Charles Crozat Converse, Words: Anonymous Es ist ein Ros entsprungen German Traditional (What a Friend We Have in Jesus) Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern Philip Nicolai Raining, Raining, Raining (Holy, Holy, Holy) Music: John B. Dykes, Words: Anonymous Good King Wenceslas Piae Cantiones Deutschlandlied Franz Joseph Haydn Keep the Home-Fires Burning Ivor Novello The Return to Battle O Come, O Come Emmanuel 12th Century Chant Auld Lang Syne Scottish Traditional We’re Here Because We’re Here Music: Scottish Traditional, Words: Anonymous Christmas (Aulde Lang Syne) Christmas in the Camp Harrington and Scott We Wish You a Merry Christmas English Traditional Epilogue The Last Post English Bugle Call Silent Night (Reprise) Franz Gruber PHOTOGRAPHS AND CARDS FROM THE COLLECTION OF PETER ROTHSTEIN. THE COMPANY THE COMPANY CAST CREATORS SASHA ANDREEV proudly with Mill City Summer Opera, and Fogg, Night Music, Mother’s Younger Brother ANDREW WILKOWSKE is returns to All is Calm for his Ensemble, and Anthony U/S in Sweeney in Ragtime, and Doug in Six Degrees of thrilled to return to Theater ERICK LICHTE (Arranger/Music Director) has been hailed by third year in the trenches. Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Separation. Riley has played Gordon Schwinn Lattè Da’s production Washington Post for the “audacity” of his programming and noted by the Other Theater Latté Da Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL. in A New Brain, Marius in Les Misérables, of All is Calm. Recent Chicago Tribune for the “meticulous preparation” of his choirs. Fanfare credits include Ragtime Ben has also worked with companies such Phillippe in Phantom, and Lloyd Dallas performances include the Magazine declared that he created and helmed “the premier men’s vocal (Ivey Award), Steerage Song as Trademark Theater and Skylark Opera, in Noises Off at Artistry. Riley was in the world premiere of The Fix ensemble in the United States.” As a founding member, singer and Artistic (Fitzgerald Theater, Lab and has been in multiple world premiere chorus of Silent Night (Pulitzer Prize winning with Minnesota Opera; The Director of the male vocal ensemble Cantus, Lichte created and sustained Theater, Regional Tour), and theNEXT productions with Minnesota Opera – most opera), La Traviata, and Le Cenorentola, with Marriage of Figaro with Cincinnati Opera; one of only two full-time vocal ensembles in the United States. His work Festival. Recently seen in Jimmy & Lorraine notably playing Bobby Lembeck in the Minnesota Opera. Other productions include Guns N’ Rosenkavalier at Honey Minneapolis; with Cantus garnered the 2009 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, the highest at Pillsbury House Theatre, he’s performed premiere of The Manchurian Candidate. Beauty and the Beast at the Ordway, How I Diva Cage Match with Opera Out of the Box; honour from the professional choral organization Chorus America. In January 2013, he at Asolo Repertory Theater, Guthrie Became a Pirate at the Old Log Theater, and Silent Night with Minnesota Opera, Austin began his tenure as Artistic Director of Vancouver BC’s Chor Leoni Men’s Choir, one of the Theater, Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre ANDREW HEY is excited to Heaven with Flying Foot Forum. Please join Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Opera Philadelphia, most active and popular amateur choirs in North America. His first recording with Chor of Louisville, Frank Theatre, Mixed Blood return to Theater Latté Da us for this amazing story.