Mainstage Playbill Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture. Woman #3Chrissy Albanese Woman 1/Miss ShingleMimi Bessette* Sibella HallwardSarah Ellis* Woman #2Taylor Galvin The D’Ysquith FamilyRichard Henry* Man #3James LaRosa* Monty NavarroJimmy Nicholas* Man #2David Purdy* Man #1Levin Valayil* PhoebeAlexandra Zorn* Man #1Levin Valayil A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder Book and Lyrics by ROBERT L. FREEDMAN with Music and Lyrics by STEVEN LUTVAK Based on a Novel by ROY HORNIMAN CAST (in alphabetical order) Chrissy Albanese .....................................Woman #3 James LaRosa* ............................................. Man #3 Mimi Bessette* ..................Woman #1/Miss Shingle Jimmy Nicholas* ...............................Monty Navarro Sarah Ellis* ..................................... Sibella Hallward David Purdy* ................................................ Man #2 Taylor Galvin ...........................................Woman #2 Levin Valayil* ............................................... Man #1 Richard Henry* ....................... The D’Ysquith Family Alexandra Zorn* ........................... Phoebe D’Ysquith BAND (in alphabetical order) Alexander W. Ravitz ........................................Reeds Amber Svetik ...................................................Violin Darren Server ............................................ Keyboard Directed by: Jason Cannon Music Director Scenic Designer Costume Coordinator Darren Server Isabel & Moriah Curley-Clay Adrienne Webber Lighting Designer Sound Designer Choreographer Thom Beaulieu Thom Korp Savannah Holds Stage Manager: Roy Johns* Assistant Stage Manager: Jynelly Rosario* Choreography for “I’ve Decided to Marry You” by Peggy Hickey. Based on Original Costume Design by Linda Cho Season Underwriters Gerri Aaron, Gaele Barthold, Cookie Boudreaux & Dennis Hassell, Ed & Judy Christian, Georgia Court, Shirley Fein, Sydney & Jerome Goldstein, Wendy & Bob Grady, Gulf Coast Community Foundation, Robert & Bonny Israeloff, Ernie Kretzmer in loving memory of Alisa Kretzmer, Dennis & Graci McGillicuddy, Anne H.S. Nethercott, Muriel O’Neil Fund For The Performing Arts of Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Gail & Skip Sack, Dorothy Waldron, Herald-Tribune Media Group Co-Producers Jane Baisley, Sandy & Jim Goldman, Tom Wilson & Patrick Crimmings, ABC7 A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY TeL: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.mtishows.com Original Broadway Production Produced by Joey Parnes, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, 50 Church Street Productions, Joan Raffe & Jhett Tolentino, Jay Alix & Una Jackman, Catherine & Fred Adler, Rhonda Herrick, Kathleen K. Johnson, Megan Savage, ShadowCatcher Entertainment, Ron Simons, True Love Productions, Jamie deRoy, Four Ladies & One Gent, John Arthur Pinckard, Greg Nobile, Stewart Lane & Bonnie Comley Exeter Capital/Ted Snowdon, Ryan Hugh Mackey, Cricket-CTM Media/Mano-Horn Productions, Dennis Grimaldi/Margot Astrachan, Hello Entertainment/Jamie Bendell Michael T. Cohen/Joe Sirola, Joseph & Carson Gleberman/William Megevick and Green State Productions in association with The Hartford Stage and The Old Globe. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder was developed, in part, at the 2006 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at the Sundance Resort with continuing Post-Lab Support through its initiative with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick Vocal Arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell & Steven Lutvak The video or audio recording of this performance by any means is strictly prohibited. * Denotes member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ARTIST PROFILES CHRISSY ALBANESE (Wom- TAYLOR GALVIN (Wom- an #3) Chrissy was last seen an #2) Taylor is thrilled to at Joe’s Pub in Farmed: A Live be in Sarasota for the first Podcast Album. Favorite roles time to work on this hyster- include Caroline Bingly in ical show! She most recent- Austen’s Pride and Eliza in My ly appeared as Sister Mary Fair Lady. Theaters include Robert in Sister Act, Vera in Maine State Music Theatre, And Then There Were None Ogunquit Playhouse, Fin- and Helena in A Midsummer gerlakes Musical Theatre Festival, Westport Coun- Night’s Dream. National Tour: The Marvelous try Playhouse, and Surflight Theatre. NYU/Tisch Wonderettes. Select Regional: Much Ado About chrissyalbanese.com Nothing (Beatrice), Spamalot (Lady of the Lake), Shrek (Fiona) Parade (Ms. Phagan us), Sweeney MIMI BESSETTE (Woman Todd (Johanna). @tngalvin / taylorgalvin.com #1, Miss Shingle) BROAD- WAY/OFF-BROADWAY: Bon- RICHARD HENRY (The nie & Clyde (Emma), The Best D’Ysquith Family) Off Broad- Little Whorehouse in Texas way: Fiorello (Encores), Two (Dawn), Little Shop of Hor- Gentlemen of Verona the Mu- rors (Audrey) and Smoke on sical (Public, NY) Regional: the Mountain (Denise). FIRST Assassins (Yale Rep), Disney’s NATIONAL TOURS: Soul Doctor, Hunchback of Notre Dame Parade, Keep On The Sunny Side, Big River, and The (La Jolla, Papermill), A Mid- Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. REGIONAL: Woody summer Night’s Dream (Fol- Sez, Duck Commander, Church Basement Ladies, ger Shakespeare), The Music Man (Guthrie), Two Cowgirls, Always…Patsy Cline, Hank Williams: Lost Gentlemen of Verona (Old Globe), Twelfth Night (Pig Highway, Blood Brothers, Nunsense, Pump Boys and Iron), Guys and Dolls (Milwaukee Rep), 1776 (Con- Dinettes, Guitar Girls, and Woody Guthrie’s American necticut Rep), Oliver (Goodspeed Opera House), Song. FILM/TV: Annie (opposite Jamie Foxx) and National Tours: Man of La Mancha, Jesus Christ Su- Difficult People (opposite Andrea Martin). Her al- perstar, Urinetown, and Sweet Charity. Television: bums Lullabies of Broadway and Lullabies of Broad- Search Party, season two. richardhenrynyc.com way Act II just got picked up by Broadway Records. JAMES LAROSA (Man #3) SARAH ELLIS (Sibella FST: Next to Normal (Henry) Hallward) 1st Nat’l: A and Altar Boyz (Abraham). Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Select theatre: Leo Bloom Murder. Highlights: Oklahoma in The Producers (American (Stages St. Louis), Million Dollar Stage), Stewpot in South Quartet (Riverside/Geva) and Pacific (Triad Stage), Gus in Ghost: The Musical (Fingerlakes Saturday Night Fever (NSMT), MT Fest). Additional Mark Cohen in RENT (BRT), credits: Ogunquit, Pittsburgh Malone in Mr. Confidential(Signature Center), and CLO, Northshore, KC Starlight, Westchester Broadway his award-winning portrayal of Abraham in Altar Theatre, & WV Public. NYC: Road to Ruin, Dear Jane, Boyz (Zach Scott). TV: NBC’s Saturday Night Live, & Stardust Road: The Hoagy Carmichael Musical. Co- ABC’s WWYD?, A&E’s Fugitive Chronicles. VO: Rock- Creator/Producer of MT Shorts, a platform where new star Games, MTV, Nickelodeon, TRW. AEA proud musical theatre and short film meet (mtshorts.com). and graduate of NYU Tisch and the High School Dubuque Symphony Guest Artist. BFA Penn State for Performing Arts. TheJamesLaRosa.com meetsarahellis.com INSTA: @sarahruthliss & @mt_shorts ARTIST PROFILES JIMMY NICHOLAS (Mon- Highlights: Roman Holiday (The Guthrie), Oklahoma! ty Navarro) Recent credits (The 5th Avenue), Les Misérables, West Side Story, - Broadway: The Book of Mor- Guys and Dolls. Numerous NY workshops. TV/Film: mon (Elder Price standby). NBC’s The Blacklist, Oxygen’s Abuse of Power. Ms. Off-Broadway- Original Cast: Zorn is a proud member of Actors Equity Association. Kragtar: An American Monster ALEXANDER W. RAVITZ (Reeds) is a clarinetist, Musical (Speaker of the House, bass clarinetist, conductor, and educator in Tampa, Jebediah), Gertrude Stein FL. Alexander currently holds a Bachelor of Music Saints (Co-Writer, Winner of degree in Clarinet Performance from the University Overall Excellence at FringeNYC). TV: The Good Wife, of Louisville, a Master of Music degree in Clarinet The Break with Michelle Wolf, Instinct, Madam Secre- Performance and Instrumental Conducting from tary, The Chair. Film: Fathers and Daughters, Gorenos, the University of South Florida. As a soloist, Alex Not Cool. Upcoming TV: Next Great Hire. Instagram: @ has been a guest recitalist at festivals in Tampa and Jimmynicks. Podcast: Everything but the Kitchen Sink. Jacksonville FL as well as Louisville, KY. As a con- DAVID PURDY (Man #2) NYC: temporary collaborator, he has worked on many A Christmas Story (Madison projects with visual artists, and dance companies. Square Garden); It’s a bird... DARREN SERVER (Music Director, Keyboard) is It’s a plane... It’s Superman proud to be back at FST for his fourth season. This (Encores!), Brigadoon (NY season’s credits include Music Director for Un- City Center Gala presenta- chained Melodies. Last season, he was the Musical tion), On Your Toes (Encores!), Director for Once, Mack the Knife, Blue Suede Shoes Zorba (Encores!) Regional: and Shakespeare’s Greatest Hits. Also last season, Anything Goes, Little Mermaid at the Asolo Acting Conservatory, he was the Mu- (North Shore Music Theater), Seven Brides for Sev- sical Director for Oedipus. Darren is also the res- en Brothers, The Foreigner (Beef and Boards Dinner ident MD at Totem Pole Playhouse in Fayettville, Theater) National Tour: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love PA. Interesting fact: Darren’s grandfather is “Curly” and Murder; The Producers. TV: The Marvelous Mrs.