2008-2009�ASON . CON OTHERSTACES C T3 PEOPLE Come See CIRCLE THEATRE ICT MAINSTAGE TRINITY SHAKESPEARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS MAY 14- JUNE 13 Hail Mary! MAY 29-JUN E 13 All My Sons FESTIVAL CHAIRShanna NugentCobbs JUNE 5-28 Howl JUNE 11-28 Tw elfth Night JUNE 12-28 Romeo B[juliet LIAISON, CITY OF DALLAS CULTURAL COMMISSION CONTEMPORARY THEATRE TailimSong ECH@ OF DALLAS JUBILEE THEATRE BOARD MEMBERS JacAlder, Carl Cecere, Cameron THRU MAY 17 UPTOWN PLAYERS THEATRE The Cemetery Club MAY 22-1 u NE 21 The Gospel Queen Ballantyne, Roland 13[Virginia Dykes, Sally Hansen, Ju NE 5-28 Mammie Queerest David G. Luther,Mircea Negrea, Dana Rigg, in Theatre Too in Ma ! DALLAS SUMMER KITCHEN DOG THEATER Elizabeth Rivera, Eileen Rosenblum, PhD, Janet y MUSICALS MAY 29-JUNE 27 New Works Festival WATERTOWER THEATRE SpencerShaw, AnnStuart, PhD, Rebecca Thomas, Theatre Three is hosting Echo MAY 19-24 Fiddler on the Roof MAY 21-JUNE 7 Indoor/Outdoor Deborah B. Tull, Karen Washington Theatre's bring-back production MAY 26-J u NE 7 Happy Days: A New SECOND THOUGHT JUNE 4-21 The Receptionist HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS GaryW. Grubbs, John Musical THEAT RE Strauss of The Nibroc Trilogy, an award­ JUNE 9-21 The Wizard ofOz MAY 15 & 16 Little Light CORPORATE ADVISORY COUNCIL winning three play cycle that TNS PARTNERS JimChambers follows a young couple from their DALLAS THEATER CENTER STAGE WEST ALLIE BETH ALLMAN & ASSOCIATES first meeting in the 194o's through TH RU MAY 24 Sarah, Plain and Tall MAY 21-JUNE 14 Dead Man's Cell Bill &Marsue Williams the Second World War and into the Phone GABLES RESIDENTIALCindy Davis ECHO THEATRE HEALTH SEARCH, LLC Dodie Butler Eisenhower era. TH RU MAY 31 The Nibroc Trilogy TITAS QUICKSILVER INTERACTIVE GROUP, INC. MAY 19 Wonderland MAY 21 India.Arie Jeannine Lee Playl: Last Train to Nibroc THE FAIRMONT HOTELShannah Milstead May 7-ro, May 14-16 HIP POCKET THEATRE THEATRE ARLINGTON MEADOWS SCHOOL OF MUSIC Nancy Cochran MAY 23 A Pocket Full ofBluegrass THRU MAY 24 The House ofBlue Play 2: See Rock City Leaves ADMINISTRATION May 21-24 EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JaeAlder Play 3: Gu/JView Drive COMPANY MANAGER Terry Dobson ASSISTANT PRODUCERCory Norman May 28-30 DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS AFFAIRS JoanSleight Festival Day: IN-HOUSE ACCOUNTANTWendy Kwan See all three shows on May 31! DIRECTOR OF PUBLICATIONS G(COMMUNICATIONS Kimberly Richard Tix & Info:214-871-3300 or IT MANAGER Nick Rushing INTERN SUPERVISORMarkC Guerra www.theatre3dallas.com EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASS ISTANT Adele Acrey HOUSEKEEPING Kevin Spurrier PRODUCTION TECHNICAL DIRECTOR DavidWalsh MUSICAL DIRECTOR Terry Dobson RESIDENT ARTIST Bruce R. Coleman You talk... she listens. MASTER CARPENTER JeffreySchmidt INTERN STAFF Donny Avery, Linsey Betts, John Davenport CUSTOMER SERVICE DANA RIGG CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER AmyMills Jackson • PRESERVATION DALLAS HISTORIC HOUSE SPECIALIST HOUSE MANAGER Nancy Meeks DAYTIME BOX OFFICE MANAGER 972.733.5219 Darius Warren EVENING BOX OFFICE MANAGER 214.796.5509 Fred Faust BOX OFFICE AGENTS Tony Banda, SallyCole, Fred Faust, Shanara Hollins, Chris Sanders DIRECTOR OF TELEMARKETING CarolCrosby lr, TELEMARKETING AGENTS DAVE PERRY-MILLER &AsSOCIATES Don Baab, Deborah Byrd, Trinity Johannsen, Rose Quinn, Natha Taylor, Roger Wilson MarketingPtvperti.eJ of QwzliiyanJ Character DI RECTOR OF SPECIAL MARKETING Trinity Johannsen Expertise & Professionalism Enjoy your drama at When It Counts This playbill is a publication ofTheatre Three, Inc , 2800 Routh the theatre, not in Street, Suite 168, Dallas, Texas 75201, 214-871-3300, www.theatre3dallas.com in support of Lost irt the Stars by Kurt The Image After buying or selling a Weill & Maxwell Anderson (the seventh show of the 2008-2009 Theatre Three Season), Ken Birdsell, photojournalist home. PLAYBILL EDITORS: Jae Alder a[Kimberly Richard www.imageafter.net PROOFREADER: Adele Acrey ILLUSTRATION: Brett Matthew Coleman 214-354-6992 PHOTOGRAPHY: Ken Birdsell/The Image After DESIGN a[LAYOUT: David w. Radabaugh/D Magazine C EXECUTIVE PRODUCER-DIRECTOR JACALDER PRESENTS ... Lost in the Star BOOK & LYRICS MAXWELL ANDERSON, Music KURT WEILL Based on the novel by Alan Paton, Cry. ti,� Bc/0111:dCounlQ• By Special Arrangement with The Rodgers eZ.Hammerstein Organization KurtWeill ARTISTIC STAFF PRODUCTION STAFF THEATRE A NOTE FROM JAC ALDER ABOUT THE COMPOSER THREE DIRECTOR/SET DESIGN AEA STAGE MANAGER Jae Alder *Bruce R. Coleman This production of Lost in the Stars sang with longing that would melt stone. MUSICAL DIRECTORS/PIANISTS ASSISTANT AEA STAGE MANAGER followsfour previous productions All this and Kurt Weill, too! *Amy Mills Terry Dobson &Vonda Bowling at Theatre Three with scores by this TECHNICAL DIRECTOR David Walsh LIGHTING DESIGN MASTER CARPENTERJeffi-ey Schmidt important composer. In 1998, we did Personal friendsof Kurt Weill have Josh Blann DIALECT COACH LeeJamison Wadley his most famouspiece, The Three Penny testified in countless interviews and COSTUME DESIGN PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Opera. It was a fine production with journals that he was, despite all the Michael Robinson John Davenport Sally Soldo, Greg Dulcie, Amy Mills, and sturm and drang of his writing, a most SOUND DESIGN PRODUCTION CREW Doug Jackson (among other talented delightful even cheerful co-worker. His Mark C. Guerra Donny Avery, Linse Betts, John Davenport',Mark C. Guerra players). We were all a bit astounded at escape from the Nazi oppression and LIGHTING CONSULTANT the production being such a hit, though their slaughter of the Jews is hair-raising. Amanda West SCENE SYNOPSIS & perhaps we shouldn't have been: it's one His struggle to achieve was intense. CAST MUSICAL NUMBERS of theatre's most famoustitles. His marriage(s) to Lotte Lenya could at PLACE AND TIME JOHN KUMALOA.SolomonAbahJr. least be termed "complex". Yet in his The action of the show takes In 1978, we had done Happy End, another American works, notably Knickerbocker JOHANNES PARFURI Bennie Adkins place in a varietyoflocations in SUTTY **Ozioma Akagha 1 dotshenj, a smal.lvillage in South of Weill's collaborations with Bertolt Holiday, Lost in the Stars , One Touch STEPHEN KUMALO Africa,and Jol)annesburg. Brecht. A major personal memory from of Venus, Down in the Valley, and Street that production was fillingin on the Scene, his composing contains strands of *Akin Babatunde !949· ARTHUR JARVIS Blake Blair accordion part (at the last minute) and his celebrated personal cheer as he inter­ EDWARD JARVIS Andrew Bonatti how, after years of not playing the accor­ polates American melodic and harmonic ACT I dion, I practiced continuously fortwelve optimism - something in political terms Bu RTO N Chad Daniel "The Hills oflxopo" MARK ELAND Jonathon Horne LEADER &COMPANY hours, then played the opening. The next we, today, know as hope. Lost in the day I could not move any of the muscles Stars was his great final work· he began ALEX Raliegh "Tre" Jones "Thousands ofMiles" FOREMAN STEPHEN &ABSALOM required to pump out the notes! In fact, writing it with Maxwell Anderson in 1949, Kyle Zachary Lee Kelesoma "Train to Johannesburg" I couldn't even lift a forkto my mouth. the year beforehis death. It honors us PAULUS/HLABENI Jiles R. King, II COMPANY Thus ended my accordion substitute to work on this great legacy, and I'm so JUDGE Gale McCray "The Search" career. But I loved the show which Larry pleased to be doing it in the company of LEADER/LINDA *Liz Mikel STE PHEN & COMPANY O'Dwyer directed with malicious glee. so many gifted artists· new and old with JARED Kamelle Mills "The Little Gray House" us - who are devoting themselves to this STEPHEN &COMPANY ROSE Rashida Moore On May 19, 1999, we produced a gala composer's intentions. GOVERNESS "Who'll Buy" performanceof Kurt Weill and Ira Gersh­ Delynda Johnson Moravec LIN DA &JU KE JOI NT SI NG ERS win's Lady in the Dark, featuring Connie ABSOLOM KU MALO *Cedric Neal "Trouble Man" Coit. During the 1990/1991 season, I IRINA GRACE KUMALO (with Terry Dobson's assistance) put Rachel Elizabeth Perkins "Murder in Parkwood" together a retrospective of Weill's theatre COMPANY MS. MKIZE Crystal Ramon music (with a six member femalecast), MATTHEW "Fear!" punningly called Weill Women. The show COMPANY Darius-Anthony Robinson covered his work from the difficultbut NITA Miracle Sheppard "Lost in the Stars" intensely creative pre-World War II period COMPANY IRINA HKristen Smith and his post-immigration to America BAN KER'S WI FE Rachel Starkey ACT II career, which lasted to his death April 3, "The Wild Justice" 1950. JAMES JARVIS 1'TerryVandivort ABSALOM &COMPANY MERCHANT'S WIFE "O Tixo, Tixo Help Me!" **Lee Jamison Wadley STE PH EN Weill Women remains one of the shows I'm most proud to have done, in no WILLIAM Gary Williams "Stay Well" JUDGE'S WIFE Jane Willingham IRINA small measure because the women in that show were so talented and versatile. "Cry, the Beloved Country" ,, . LEADER &COMPANY The late Sharon Bunn memorably spat out the rage in spectacular songs "Big Mole" ALEX with retranslated Brecht lyrics; Denise LeBrun's singing nailed amorality and "A Bird of Passage" GRACE & COMPANY world-weariness alternating with the * indicates members working under Actor's "Finale" bravado of the strongest of Earth Moth­ Equity Association contracts in this production� COMPANY ers. Both Connie Coit and Connie Nelson ** indicates a performer enrolled in the AEA membership candidate program. There will be one fifteenminute intermission sang like Jason's Sirens: dangerous between Acts I and II. seductresses. At other moments, they LEFT TO RIGHT: Darius-Anthony Robinson, Kristen Smith, Rachel Elizabeth Perkins, Blake Blair, Andrew Bonatti,Terry Vandivort, Jiles R. King, • II, Gary Williams, Crystal Ram6n, Jane Willingham, and 1 Rachel Starkey.--�� M�well theater history - Theatre and Forever Plaid forthe (Dallas/Fort Worth Critics FW directorial debut with in musical theatre. Anderson Three's production of I Flower Mound Perform­ Forum Awards 2003), Mesquite Community LYRICIST/BOOK Love You, You're Perfect, ing Arts Theater; Seussi­ and the Rabin Award for Theater's Don't Dress Ozioma Akagha SUTTY His plays, many of which Now Change.