Asbury Summer Theatre Director’s Note presents I have always been a big fan of Judy Garland. Ever since I was a boy (a very long time ago) and first saw “The Wizard of Oz”, I have been “Quiet Please, There’s a Lady On Stage” captivated by Dorothy Gale, the young girl from Kansas who reminded A Tribute to Judy Garland us all that “there is no place like home”. After first seeing Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” I started watching producer director many of her films. I enjoyed them all, especially the musicals, where Lu Gmoser Mauro Contrastano she introduced memorable songs such as “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”, “The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe”, “The Boy music director choreographer Next Door” and “The Man That Got Away”. Many of the songs that Donna Cribari Mary Ann Penzero she introduced in her films became part of her repertoire during her concert years. Numerous critics regard her as one of the greatest concert starring performers of her time, while the American Film Institute placed her Ruth Chiamulera Mary Pile eighth among the greatest female stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Jason Fogarty Michael Quigley The title of this show comes from a song written by singer/dancer/ Jeannine Padula Goche Carmela Sirico songwriter Peter Allen in memory of his late mother-in-law, Judy Garland Anthony Maltese Gary Skidmore (Allen was married to Liza Minnelli from 1967-1974). This song was featured in the autobiographical show about Allen’s life and career, “The Boy from Program Oz”, paying tribute to Garland and the support she gave him. What is especially unique about Judy Garland is that, unlike many of —act 1— her contemporaries who have long since been forgotten, she lives on in American popular culture. As long as “The Wizard of Oz” is shown each year “Zing Went the Strings of My Heart” Company on television, Judy Garland is introduced to a new generation of Americans. For both the young and the young-at-heart, she is forever the young girl “Dear Mr. Gable, You Made Me Love You” Jeannine from Kansas trying to find her way home—she is forever Dorothy. “I Cried for You” Ruth —MAURO CONTRASTANO “Our Love Affair” Jason & Mary “It’s a Great Day for the Irish” Michael “I’m Always Chasing Rainbows” Carmela “Every Little Movement” Ruth & Jeannine “Broadway Rhythm” Anthony & Jason “Meet Me in St. Louis” Mary & Carmela “The Trolley Song” Jason Mary Pile is thrilled to be returning to the AST stage after a long hiatus. “The Boy Next Door” Mary When she first began performing she found herself on the AST stage “On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe” Company performing in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” It was “A Couple of Swells” during that production that she first met Mauro Contrastano. She returned Gary & Ruth to AST as a cast member of “Chess” and then again for “Songs from the “Be a Clown” Michael & Carmela Homefront”, the first time she was directed by Mauro. In addition to “I Wish I Were in Love Again” Company the AST productions Mary took part in, she also performed throughout Westchester County in both musicals and straight shows. Today Mary is a “If I Only Had a Brain” Gary stay-at-home Mom raising her two teenagers and loving every minute of it! “If I Only Had a Heart” Anthony Michael Quigley: “I am delighted to back and doing a show at Asbury, “If I Only Had the Nerve” Michael especially since some of my fondest memories are of the characters I have “We’re Off to See the Wizard” Company played here with AST.: Performed in “1776”, “Kiss Me, Kate”, “Working”, “Oliver!”, “Guys & Dolls”, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”, —act 2— “The Boys from Syracuse”, “Can-Can”, “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”. “Brigadoon”, “Damn Yankees”, “Cyrano”, “The Will Rogers Follies”, “The Big “Swanee” Company Broadcast of 1939”, “Songs from the Home Front”, “And the Winner Isn’t ...”, “The Man That Got Away” Jeannine “With a Song in My Heart” and “Our Time”. “Blues in the Night” Anthony Carmela Sirico: “What an exciting time to back at AST with so many people I have performed with on the Asbury stage!” Performed in “Side by Side by “Stormy Weather” Ruth Sondheim”, “Working”, “The Sound of Music”, “On the Twentieth Century”, “Just in Time” Gary “Damn Yankees”, “The Big Broadcast of 1939”, “Songs from the Home Front” and “Our Time”. “This Can’t Be Love” Anthony & Jeannine Gary Skidmore: “I am pleased and proud to be a part of this show; being a “Singing in the Rain” Jason member of the Asbury ‘family’ has provided me with some of my fondest “San Francisco” Mary theatre memories.” Performed in “Chess”, “Brigadoon”, “My Fair Lady”, “The Secret Garden”, “The Most Happy Fella”, “The Big Broadcast of 1939” “Smile” Carmela (at Lake Isle), “And the Winner Isn’t ...” (at Lake Isle), and “Our Time”. Stage “That’s Entertainment” Michael & Gary manager for “Jerry’s Girls” and house manager for “She Loves Me” and “On the Twentieth Century”. “Over the Rainbow” Carmela, Jeannine, Mary & Ruth “Quiet Please, There’s a Lady on Stage” Michael, Gary, Anthony & Jason “Quiet Please” Refrain Company.