March 25—April 13, 2014 Written by Musical Arrangements by PETER QUILTER CHRIS EGAN Featuring TARI KELLY* with ZACHARY CLARK*, JONAS COHEN* and JOSH ROBINSON* Directed by ROD A. LANSBERRY Musical Director Musical Staging Scenic Design DAVID NEHLS ALAN BENNETT BRIAN MALLGRAVE Lighting Design Sound Design Costume Design SHANNON MCKINNEY DAVID THOMAS CLARE HENKEL Wig and Makeup Design Production Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager DIANA BEN-KIKI LISA COOK* LISA A. KURTZ* Artistic Producer ROD A. LANSBERRY Casting by wojcik | seay casting, llc T The Designers at this Theatre S CENIC A S A IA D R T are Represented by E I E T S I I T N S • U L • United Scenic Artists• Local USA 829 O 9 C 82 AL USA of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes The video and/or audio recording of this performance by any means whatsoever is strictly prohibited. CAST OF CHARACTERS Judy Garland ....................................................................................................Tari Kelly * Mickey Deans ...........................................................................................Zachary Clark * Anthony ....................................................................................................... Jonas Cohen * BBC Radio Interviewer/Porter/Assistant Stage Manager ............................. Josh Robinson * UNDERSTUDIES (Understudies never appear in place of principal actors unless an announcement has been made.) Judy Garland: Lacey Connell; Mickey Deans: Josh Robinson*; BBC Radio Interviewer/Porter/Assistant Stage Manager: Rodney Lizcano*. * Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ORCHESTRA MUSICAL NUMBERS Music Director, Conductor, Keyboards: David Nehls “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love” Assistant to the Music Director, Percussion: Keith Ewer “Just in Time” Bass: Jon Cullison; Woodwinds: Andrew Stonerock; “For Me and My Gal” Trumpet: Brad Goode; Trombone: Wade Sander. “You Made Me Love You” “The Trolley Song” TIME & PLACE “The Man That Got Away” “When You’re Smiling” Christmas 1968. “Come Rain or Come Shine” A Suite at the Ritz Hotel in central London. “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” — There will be an intermission — “By Myself” Who’s Who In The Cast Tari Kelly (Judy Garland) Zachary Clark (Mickey Jonas Cohen (Anthony) is making her Arvada Deans) is making his is making his Arvada Center debut. Broadway: Arvada Center debut. Center debut. Off- Anything Goes, How the New York credits include: Broadway: Love Jerry and Grinch Stole Christmas, Macbeth (Classic Stage Maccabeat! (New York The Boy From Oz, and Company); Twelfth Night Musical Theatre Festival); Show Boat. National (Secret Theatre); The Master Class (Gallery Tours: Little Shop of Corsair (Three Legged Players). Regional: Pal Joey Horrors, Cabaret, Show Dog Arts and Technology (Arkansas Repertory); Boat, and Beauty and the Beast. New York Center); Joan: Voices in the Fire (Riverside Souvenir (Weston Playhouse and Theatre Theater:Carousel (New York Philharmonic). Theater); and Iphigenia in Aulis (Miller Raleigh); The Mystery of Edwin Drood and Selected regional: Because of Winn Dixie Theater). Regional credits include: Spring Twelfth Night (Idaho Shakespeare and (Arkansas Repertory); Oklahoma! (Lyric Awakening (Artistic Home); Measure for Great Lakes Theater Festivals);Glorious! Opera Chicago); Thoroughly Modern Millie Measure (City Lit Theater Company);R.U.R. (Fulton Theatre and American Heartland (The Muny, Municipal Theatre Association of (Strawdog Theatre Company); andFor Kyle Theatre); Tuesdays with Morrie (Ivoryton St. Louis); and Man of La Mancha (Pittsburgh (Butler Theatre). Television: Boardwalk Playhouse); Tin Pan Alley (Stamford Theatre Public Theater). Cast recordings:How the Empire. Master of Fine Arts Graduate Works); Old Wicked Songs (Fulton Theatre Grinch Stole Christmas, Anything Goes, and of Columbia University’s Class of 2013. and Barrington Stage); Fiddler on the Roof The Boy From Oz. She is a two-time Jeff (Gateway Playhouse); among others. TV: Award nominee and a Carbonell Award All My Children. Jonas has worked as a winner for her portrayal of Reno Sweeney pianist at New York City’s Don’t Tell Mama in Anything Goes (Maltz Jupiter Theatre). and for New Jersey’s Surflight Theatre. Training: Master of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Esper Studio. Josh Robinson (BBC Concerts: Elaine Paige, Dame Shirley Bassey, and Shannon McKinney (Lighting Designer) most Interviewer, Porter, Assistant Lionel Richie. Egan has written arrangements and recently designed Man of La Mancha and Dirty Rotten Stage Manager, u/s Mickey performed with many artists including Lionel Richie, Scoundrels for the Arvada Center. She is a company Deans) previously appeared Annie Lennox, Lady Gaga, Olivia Newton-John, Carl member at Curious Theatre where her designs have at the Arvada Center in The Davis, Ronan Keating, Robin Gibb and Leslie Bricusse. included The Whipping Man, The Brother’s Size, Red Mousetrap, Twelfth Night, The (Henry Award for Outstanding Lighting Design), Rod A. Lansberry (Director) is the Artistic Producer Lion in Winter, The Second Becky Shaw, Homebody/Kabul, Eurydice, and Bug. Tosca, The House of Blue Leaves, for the Arvada Center Performing Arts division. In Other recent projects include Metamorphoses and addition to producing all of the Arvada Center’s and The Man Who Came Painted Bread at Aurora Fox, and Colorado Shakespeare theater productions, Rod has directed many of to Dinner. Locally, he has Festival’s Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. the Arvada Center’s award-winning productions performed with Denver Center Her regional credits include projects in Chicago at including Camelot, Man of La Mancha, Ragtime, Theatre Company, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Steppenwolf, Goodman, Court, Northlight Theatre, Hairspray, The Women, Miss Saigon, and Les Misérables. Theatreworks, and Curious Theatre Company, of Drury Lane Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre, Indiana which he is a member. Josh is a graduate of Oberlin David Nehls (Music Director) End of the Rainbow Repertory Theatre, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. College and Yale School of Drama, and a recipient marks David’s 38th production at the Arvada Center. David Thomas A Christmas of the Denver Post Award for Best Year by an Actor. (Sound Designer) designed As Musical Director, David has worked across the Carol, The Musical(2013), Camelot, Curtains, Man country at a variety of theaters including: Riverside Lacey Connell (u/s Judy of La Mancha (Marlowe Award winner), Miracle on Theatre, Vero Beach, FL; American Music Theatre, San Garland) is making her Arvada 34th Street, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels at the Arvada Jose, CA; Theatreworks Hartford; plus many theatres Center debut. A graduate from Center. On Broadway, he was an associate/assistant here in the Denver metro area. In New York, David is Manhattan School of Music, sound designer for Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony® known as a Composer/Lyricist, having supplied music Lacey studied voice with Ashley nominated design), The Performers, Magic/Bird, Venus and lyrics for The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Putnam and Maitland Peters, in Fur, Hair, and The Motherf**ker with the Hat. The Watercooler, Breach, and It’s a Wonderful Life, plus and received her Bachelor of Regional designs include Yale Repertory Theatre, the opening numbers for the fundraiser Broadway Music in vocal performance. Capital Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Bares, 19 and 20. His new musical, The Great American Her recent stage credits include Festival, Bucks County Playhouse, and Theatre Aspen. Trailer Park Christmas Musical, premiered late last year Peter Pan in Peter Pan (Starkey Mr. Thomas has also designed extensively in New York at Stages Repertory Theater in Houston. He has also Productions); Dorothy in City. Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Drama. acted as Composer/Lyricist/Arranger/Musical Director Wizard of Oz (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); Bernice for Carols for a Cure, Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Clare Henkel in Bingo (Starkey Productions); Trixie in Knuffle Bunny (Costume Designer) designed costumes Christmas fundraising CD’s from 1998-2005. David is a Nine Miss Saigon Cabaret (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); Elsa Schrader in for (2011 Ovation Award), , , member of Historic Elitch Gardens Theatre Foundation Sunset Boulevard Ragtime Twelfth Night Chess The Sound of Music (Town Hall Arts Center); and Louise/ , , , , to restore Elitch Theatre at 38th and Tennyson. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Dividing the Estate, Gypsy in Gypsy (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center). , and Camelot. Also Denver Center Theatre Company, Alan Bennett (Musical Staging) worked with Tracie Rodney Lizcano (u/s BBC Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Old Globe Theatre, Bennett’s understudy for the Broadway production of Radio Interview, Porter, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego and San Jose Repertory End of the Rainbow. For the Arvada Center he performed Assistant Stage Manager) A Theatres, Aurora Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, as Ensemble and u/s Migaldi in Evita, and as Ensemble native of Texas with roots Dallas Theatre Center, Geva Theatre, Indianapolis and u/s Charlemagne in Pippin. Alan was the Dance in New York and Colorado, Symphony’s Pops Consortium (including Carnegie Captain and u/s Carmen Ghia on the first National Rodney returns to the Arvada Hall), Sacramento Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe, Tour of The Producers (original cast). Other tours Center after