Music by Richard Rodgers Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Performing at the SARATOGA CIVIC THEATER 13777 Fruitvale Avenue in Saratoga June 25 - July 23, 2011 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE WELCOME to the third and final production of WVLOA’s 46th Season, “The Sound of Music” . We hope that you will enjoy this delightful Rodgers & Hammerstein classic musical, based on the Von Trapp Family singers . YOU ARE INVITED! JOIN US FOR OUR NEW 47th SEASON! Whether you are already one of our 1200+ subscribers or here in the Saratoga Civic Theatre for the first time, we invite you to join us this coming November for WVLO’s th 2011-2012 season. It will open with “How To Succeed…”, currently on Broadway, starring David Radcliffe (Harry Potter); followed by “The Drowsy Chaperone”, 46Season! a musical comedy about the 1920’s Jazz age and will close with an old nostalgic classic, “Bells Are Ringing”, first presented here in 1967!! LOOK AT OUR CENTERFOLD! 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We Minna Rogers as Maria hope that you have a marvelous time at this musical and that you will join us for and Robert Solis as Captain von Trapp our future productions . and Featuring —Edward Hand, President West Valley Light Opera Association Mindy Pedlar, Erica Rogers and Matt Tipton Director: Rebecca White Brownson; Music Director: Joseph Kelly; Vocal Director: Diane Milo; Choreographer: Jennifer Nye Walsh; Producer: Nancy Kwong Gala Opening: Saturday, June 25 . 8:00 PM WEST VALLEY LIGHT OPERA ANNOUNCES Fridays: July 1, 8, 15, 22 . 8:00 PM NEXT SEASON: 2011–2012 Saturdays: July 2, 16, 23 . 8:00 PM We invite you to become a subscriber to WVLO’s New Season Saturday Matinee: July 9 . 2:30 PM Please use the blue insert in this program! Sunday Matinees: June 26, July 3, 10, 17 . 2:30 PM Subscribe NOW to assure good seats and substantial savings! Current subscribers may use this form to renew for next season . “The Sound Of Music” is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by R&H Theatricals, 601 West 26th St . #312, New York, NY 10001 . Visit our web site: www.wvlo.org • E-mail: [email protected] CAST OF CHARACTERS The Mother Abbess . .Mindy Pedlar Sister Margaretta, Mistress of Postulants . Joanne. Barczi A Note from the Director Sister Berthe, Mistress of Novices . Barbara Heninger Sister Sophia . Kama. Belloni The first time I saw “The Sound of Music” was in the movie theater Nuns, Novices and Postulants . Marti Coyne, Dawn Johnson, as a little girl . I absolutely loved the film . A few years later I bought a paperback Leslie Keenan, Elizabeth Claire Lawrence, Melina Lora, copy of the script, took it home, read it through immediately and realized it was Robin Merriam, Lynn Salazar, Laura Stanford, actually a script of the stage version . I was startled by the many differences between Christine Stone, Jennifer Young, Dawn Zamudio the stage version and the film . The characters were the same, and the story line was Maria Rainer, a Postulant at Nonnberg Abbey . Minna Rogers not changed, but many of the songs were different or sung by different characters Captain Georg von Trapp . Robert. Solis in different scenes . In spite of the differences, I desperately wanted to be in this play some day . I hoped to play one of the children, and then later I hoped to play Franz, the Butler . Paul. Hale Maria . But in spite of my many years in theater and the number of shows I’ve Frau Schmidt, the Housekeeper . .Marcia Sternin done, this one has always eluded me . So when the opportunity presented itself to Liesl . Lydia. Merriam-Pigg direct “The Sound of Music” for WVLO, I jumped at the chance . Rolf Gruber . John Eubank I was absolutely thrilled, but now I was faced with the dilemma that all directors Elsa Schraeder . .Erica Rogers of this show face and that is how to resolve the differences between this classic film Max Detweiler . .Matt Tipton and its stage version . I wanted to include two of my favorite songs (‘I Have Con- fidence’, and ‘Something Good’) which were in the film but not in the stage play . Herr Zeller . David Edwards Fortunately the rights to these numbers were available, so they’re in this production . Baron Elberfeld . Jerry. “Godfather” The rest of the script has been kept intact, including the two songs that were not in Admiral von Schreiber . Bill Ereneta the film, for Max, the Baroness, and the Captain (“How Can Love Survive?” and Priest . Hank Lawson “No Way To Stop It”), but which enhance the character of the Baroness . New Postulant . Elizabeth Claire Lawrence Although on stage we cannot really give you beautiful mountain views, we Nazis . Jim Gray and Hank Lawson have done our best to show some of the beauty of Austria . One thing I love about the stage version is its playfulness . I hope you will feel the genuine affection that Neighbors of the von Trapp family . Jim. Gray, Dawn Johnson, Leslie Keenan, has grown between our players . It has been delightful to work with this cast, and Hank Lawson, Elizabeth Claire Lawrence, Melina Lora, there have been many evenings as I drove home from rehearsal thinking “What Michael MacKenzie, Earl Masuda, Laura Stanford, a playful play this is!” I am so grateful to finally have a chance to bring this very Christine Stone, Jennifer Young, Dawn Zamudio special family show to this stage . Festival Contestants . Marti Coyne, Robyn Merriam, Lynn Salazar, Dan Zulevic —Rebecca White Brownson Maria Rainer Understudy . .Elizabeth Claire Lawrence THE VON TRAPP CHILDREN SCHNITZEL CAST STRUDEL CAST Performing: 6/25, 7/1, 7/3, 7/9, 6/26, 7/2, 7/8/, 7/15, 7/17 & 7/22 7/10, 7/16 & 7/23 Friedrich . Peter. Heinz . Jeremy. Harari Louisa . Marissa Parkhurst . Rebecca. Wright Kurt . Nicholas. Duchez . Ali Arian Molaei Brigitta . Camden. Boyd . Maddie Edwards Marta . Elayna. Parkhurst . Paige Decena Gretl . Bailey. Blom . Jennifer Tashjian 2 3 SYNOPSIS OF SCENES AND MUSICAL NUMBERS Scene 4: A Cloister Overlooking the Chapel Reprise: Maria . The. Nuns ACT I Confitemini Domino . .The Nuns Scene 1: The Nonnberg Abbey Scene 5: The Living Room, one month later Preludium . The. Nuns of the Nonnberg Abbey Reprise: Sixteen Going On Seventeen . Maria and Liesl Scene 2: A Mountainside Near the Abbey Scene 6: The Concert Hall Stage, three days later The Sound of Music . .Maria Reprise: Do-Re-Mi . Maria, Capt . von Trapp and the Children Scene 3: The Office of the Mother Abbess, the next morning Edelweiss . Capt . von Trapp, Maria and the Children Maria . Sisters Berthe, Sophia, Margaretta and Mother Abbess Reprise: So Long, Farewell . Maria, the Children and Capt . von Trapp My Favorite Things . .Maria and Mother Abbess Scene 7: The Garden of the Abbey, that night Scene 4: A Corridor in the Abbey Finale Ultimo . .The Company Reprise: My Favorite Things . .Maria Scene 5: The von Trapp Garden ORCHESTRA I Have Confidence . .Maria Conductor . .Joseph Kelly Scene 6: The Living Room of the Trapp Villa, that afternoon Do-Re-Mi . Maria. and the von Trapp Children Flutes . Doreen. Wilson, Ben Wilkinson, Ana Hartwick Scene 7: Outside the Villa, that evening Clarinet . Kevin G . Chen, Ande Jacobson, Katie Coyle Sixteen Going On Seventeen . Rolf and Liesl Oboe . Marty McHan Scene 8: Maria’s Bedroom, later that evening Bassoon . Richard Kishnan The Lonely Goatherd . Maria and the Children Trumpets . Andy Scott, Paul Olivo Scene 9: A Hallway in the Villa Trombones . Erik Dabel, Ken Rydeen, Don Brownson Reprise: The Lonely Goatherd . Gretl Tuba . .Mike Gomez, Shawn Converse Scene 10: The Terrace of the Villa, six weeks later Percussion . Dori Shimer, Rachel Harris How Can Love Survive? . .Max, Elsa and Capt . von Trapp Violins . Miho Nishi, Faye Yang Reprise: The Sound of Music . The Children and Capt . von Trapp Viola . Carolyn Donnell Scene 11: A Hallway in the Villa, one week later Bass . Andrew Amistoso Scene 12: The Living Room, the same evening So Long, Farewell . The. Children Scene 13: A Corridor in the Abbey Morning Hymn . .The Nuns Scene 14: The Office of the Mother Abbess, three days later Climb Ev’ry Mountain . Mother. Abbess and the Nuns —INTERMISSION— ACT II Scene 1: The Terrace, the same day Reprise: My Favorite Things . The Children and Maria No Way To Stop It . Elsa, Max and Capt . von Trapp Something Good . Maria and Capt . von Trapp Scene 2: A Corridor in the Abbey, two weeks later Scene 3: The Office of the Mother Abbess, immediately following Gadeamus Domino . The. Nuns 4 5 PRODUCTION STAFF WHO’S WHO IN OUR CAST Producer .