2009-2010 SEASON ,, C ON OTHER STAGES C T3PEOPLE BATHHOUSE CULTURAL CENTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS TH RU-AUG 8 Festival of CHAIR Shanna Nugent Cobbs Independent Theatres LIAISON, CITY OF DALLAS CULTURAL COMMISSION TailimSong CIRCLE THEATRE BOARD MEMBERS JacAlder, Cameron Ballantyne, AUG 6-22 On Golden Pond Carl Cecere, Roland ll[VirginiaDykes, Sally SEPT 3-19 Smokey Joe's Cafe Hansen, David G. Luther, Mircea Negrea, Dana Rigg, Elizabeth Rivera, Eileen Rosenblum, PhD, JanetSpencer Shaw, Rebecca Thomas, Deborah B. DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS Tull, KarenWashington THRU AUG 2 Lega!ly Blonde HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS GaryW. Grubbs, John AUG 18-30 Mamma Mia Strauss ECHO THEATRE CORPORATE ADVISORY COUNCIL SEPT 4-26 Mauritius TNS PARTNERS Jim Chambers ALLIE BETH ALLMAN & ASSOCIATES EISEMANN CENTER FOR THE PERFORM­ Bill & MarsueWilliams ING ARTS GABLES RESIDENTIAL Cindy Davis AUG 7-sEPT 27 Menopause: The Musical HEALTH SEARCH, LLC Dodie Butler QUICKSILVER INTERACTIVE GROUP, I NC. GREATER LEWISVILLE Jeannine Lee COMMUNITY THEATRE THE FAIRMONT HOTELShannah Milstead AUG 21-SEPT 6 Always, Patsy Cline MEADOWS SCHOOL OF MUSIC Nancy Cochran ADMINISTRATION HIP POCKET THEATRE EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JacAlder Expertise& Professionalism AUG 7-AUG 30 The Ugly Brothers Present A Perfectly COMPANY MANAGER Terry Dobson Lovely Play Featuring The Quiver Sisters And Their When It Counts ASSISTANT PRODUCER Cory Norman Pretty Little Ways DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS JoanSleight sE PT 4-6 Cowtown Puppetry IN-HOUSE ACCOUNTANT Wendy Kwan The Image After SEPT 10-20 White Elephant Ken Birdsell, photojournalist DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS /l[COMMUNICATIONS Kimberly Richard www.imageafter.net ICT MAINSTAGE IT MANAGER Nick Rushing THRU-AUG 8 HMS Pinafore 214-364-6992 INTERN SUPERVISOR John Davenport EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT JUBILEE THEATRE AdeleAcrey JULY 31-AUG 23 Sam Shade-ADetective Musical HOUSEKEEPING Kevin Spurrier MESQUITE COMMUNITY THEATER PRODUCTION AUG 7-22 BeUes TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Pucul MUSICAL DIRECTOR Terry Dobson RICHARDSON TH EAT RE CENTER RESIDENT ARTISTS Bruce R. Coleman, Jeffrey AUG 21-sEPT 13 Spider's Web Schmidt, & DavidWalsh YOUR INTERN STAFF Samantha Accettulli, Rebekah Bing, Scottie Corley, SECOND THOUGHT THEATRE John Davenport, David Gibson, Katia Haight, April THRU AUG l Some Girl(s) Philley, and SaraSchultz AD GOES CUSTOMER SERVICE STAGE WEST SEPT 3-4 The Skin of Our Teeth CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER Amy Mills Jackson HERE! TH EATRE ARLINGTON HOUSE MANAGER Nancy Meeks JUNE 19-JULY 19 Harvey DAYTIME BOX OFFICE MANAGER Darius Warren Put your company onstage UPTOWN PLAYERS EVENING BOX OFFICE MANAGER Fred Faust AUG 7-SEPT 6 Altar Boyz in front of Theatre Three's BOX OFFICE AGENTS audiences and advertise in Tony Banda, Sally Cole, Fred Faust, Chris Sanders Theatre Three's playbill. DIRECTOR OF TELEMARKETING Carol Crosby TELEMARKETING AGENTS Don Baab, Deborah Byrd, Trinity Johannsen, Rose To learn more about Quinn, Natha Taylor, RogerWilson DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL MARKETING advertising opportunities, Trinity Johannsen contact This playbill is a publication ofTheatre Three, Inc, 2800 Routh Trinity Johannsen at Street, Suite 1681 Dallas, Texas 75201, 214-871-3300, www.theatre3dallas.com in support of The Royal Family (the first [email protected]. show of the 2009-2010 Theatre Three Season) and Six Danc:e Lessons in Six Weeks (the second show of the 2009-2010 Theatre Too Season), PLAYBILL EDITORS: JacAlder !{Kimberly Richard PROOFREADER: Adele Acrey ILLUSTRATION: Joe Howard PHOTOGRAPHY: Ken Birdsell/The Image After DESIGN� LAYOUT: David w. Radabaugh/D Magazine C EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JAC ALDER PRESENTS ... The Royal Family PLAYWRIGHTS George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber Productdby Special Armngw,ontwith Samuel French, Inc. ARTISTIC STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF George S. Kaufman THEATRE PLAYWRIGHT THREE DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN AEA STAGE MANAGER JacAlder Kerry Cole George Simon Kaufman was a playwright, _ COSTUME DESIGN ASSISTANT AEA STAGE MANAGER director, producer, and drama critic most Edna Ferber Michael Robinson PLAYWRIGHT *Terry Dobson noted for his many collaborations with LIGHTING DESIGN TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Daniel Pucul Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the other writers. He wrote only one play David Gibson MASTER CARPENTER JeffreySchmidt celebrated novelist wrote forthe stage, alone, The Butter and Egg Man, in 1925. SOUND DESIGN SCENIC ARTIST David Walsh although most of her better plays All his other plays were written in col­ Richard Frohlich MASTER ELECTRICIAN Rebekah Bing were collaborations. In 1915, working laboration with other writers: withMarc PRODUCTION ASSISTANT & with George V. Hobart, she gave Ethel CAST Connelly he wrote Merton of the Movies PROP MISTRESS Barrymore one of the actress favorite M 155 PEAKE, GOVERNESS Sara Schultz and Beggar on Horseback; with Ring ' Samantha Accettulli roles as Our Mrs. Chesney. Following PRODUCTION CREW Lardner he wrote June Moon; with Edna an unsuccessful solo effort, The Eldest, JO, THE HOUSEMAN SamanthaAccettulli, Rebekah Bing, Ferber he wrote The Royal Family, Dinner Scottie Corley,John Davenport, and a collaboration with Newman Levy, J.R. Bradford at Eight, and Stage Door; with John P. David Gibson, Katia Haight, April $1200 a Year (both in 1920), Ferber joined GWEN, FANNY'S GRANDDAUGHTER Marquand he wrote a stage adaptation Philley, and Sara Schultz with George S. Kaufman to write the **Hilary Couch ofMarquand's novel The Late George plays for which she is best remembered: Apley; and with Howard Teichmann he HERBERT DEAN, FANNY'S BROTHER SCENE SYNOPSIS Minick (1924), The Royal Family (1927), PLACE wrote The Solid Gold Cadillac. Possibly Jerry Crow Dinner at Eight (1932), and Stage Door The action of the play takes place his most successful collaboration in the TONY CAVENDISH, FANNY'S SON (1936). Less well received were two other in the duplex apartment of the non-musical theatre was with Moss Hart *Jack Foltyn Cavendish family in the East collaborations with Kaufman: The Land with whom he wrote several popular Fifties, New York. Is Bright (1941) and Bravo! (1948). Two OSCAR WOLFE, THE MANAGER plays, including Once in a Lifetime, You *Robert Grossman ACT I of her novels were made into musicals Can't Take It With You, which won the SCENE l Show Boat (1927) and Saratoga (1959),' KID MCDERMOTT, THE TRAINER A Friday in November. Early Pulitzer Prize in 1936, and The Man Who the latter from Saratoga Trunk. *''Cameron Leighton Kirkpatrick afternoon, 1927. Came to Dinner, whose lead character PERRY STEWART, GWEN'S BOYFRIEND SCENE 2 was based on critic and wit Alexander ARTISTIC STAFF **Thiago Martins The following day, Saturday at 6 Woollcott. Kaufman collaborated on p.m. THE BUILDING'S HALLBOY several musicals as well, including The Jae Alder SkyyMoore Cocoanuts, written with Irving Berlin DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN» Mr. Alder serves ACT II forthe Marx Brothers; Animal Crackers, DELLA, THE HOUSEKEEPER Theatre Three as Executive Producer­ SCENE l also written forthe Marx Brothers with Jenay Puckett The same, immediately after Director. He is a co-founder (in 1961) of Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar, and Harry JULIE , FANNY'S DAUGHTER SCENE 2 Theatre Three, followingthe leadership Ruby; and OfThee I Sing (Pulitzer Prize, *Morgana Shaw A year later, November 1928 of his late wife, Norma Young. Jae most 1931) and Let 'Em Eat Cake with Rys kind recently designed and directed last KITTY DEAN, HERBERT'S WIFE and George Gershwin. **LeslieTurner season's finalTheatre Three show, Lost in the Stars. His other duties include head­ GILBERT MARSHALL, THE OLD FLAME Kaufman was also a noted director who ing the administrative and financial team **John Venable staged the original productions of The of the theatre, selecting repertoire, and Front Page by Charles MacArthur and FANNY CAVENDISH, THE MATRIARCH working in the community and inTe xas Carol Wickwire Ben Hecht, Of Mice and Men by John yn forthe promotion of the Arts. In this Steinbeck, and the Frank Loesser musical latter capacity, he serves on the board Guys and Dolls. Kaufman produced of Texas Non-ProfitTheatres and is a many of his own plays as well as those foundingand continuing member of the of other writers, and his drama criticism Advisory Board of the ArtsMagnet High / was known forits wit. Of one comedy he School, is on the KERA Advisory Board, wrote, "There was laughter at the back and, through the Dallas Area Cultural of the theatre, leading to the belief that Advocacy Coalition, is a member of the someone was telling jokes back there." There will be one fifteen minute intermission Advisory Committee for Dallas Arts between Acts I and II. Advocacy Day - August 20, 2009. He * indicates members working under Actor's Please silence your cell phones and all He was a member of the celebrated quit Association contracts in this production. electronic devices. No photography or is supported in the mission ofTheatre � . � Algonquin RoundTa ble, a circle of witty * indicates a performer enrolled in the AEA videography is allowed without the consent of Three by many artists, a hard-working membership candidate program. the theater, writers and show business people. C THE ROYAL FAMILY BIOGRAPHIES LEFT TO RIGHT: Jerry Crow, J.R. Bradford, SlyyMoore, Jenay Pucbtt,and JacliFoltyn and dedicated staff, las, Brookhaven College, stage managed Seussical, Fiction Audio Production) CAST Labor's Lost and as three and the energies of the and Richland College. His The Musical. In May and a 2006 Column characters in Macbeth for theatre's generous and awards include "Best 2004 he was given an Award forhis sound J.R. Bradford Jo» Mr. Shakespeare Dallas, and inventive Board of Direc- Costume Shop" (Dallas International Thespian design of The Full Monty. Bradfordreceived his as Regina in Ghosts for tors. His thanks to all, Observer 2000), "Best Honor Award. For the Richard lives in Arlington associate degree in Wingspan Theatre Co. and to all Theatre Three's Costumes" for Old Settler last fouryears, he has with his wife Shannan and Applied Arts from KD playgoers, he extends his (Dallas/Fort Worth Critics worked as a professional his children Dillon, Emily Studio Actors Conserva- Jerry Crow DEAN» Mr.