ACT II PLAYHOUSE
COMING THIS HOLIDAY SEASON
Behind the Music:
TUNES December 8 - 27
Song and dance for the season! Includes an entertaining look at the stories behind all your favorite holiday songs. With Sonny Leo and April Woodall.
December 18-27
and the Case of the Gruesome Gumdrops "Nothing short of brilliant family theater" Out With the Kids
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Act II Playhouse Artistic Director Tony Braithwaite
Managing Director Eileen Cella
Ken Ludwig’'s
The Fox on The Fairway Starring Peter Bisgaier Will Dennis* Gerre Garrett Joe GuzmĂĄn* Karen Peakes* Naomi Weiss *
Dirk Durossette, Set Design Jillian Keys, Costume Design James Leitner, Lighting Design John Stovicek, Sound Design Pat Sabato,* Stage Manger Alex Donnelly, Assistant Stage Manager Britt Plunkett, Set Construction Directed by William Roudebush** The Fox on the Fairway is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Restaurant Sponsor
“There May Be Hope For Us Yet” Playwright Ken Ludwig on The Fox on the Fairway “The Fox on the Fairway is a farce, and it was written in homage to the great English farce tradition that began in the 1880s and flowered in the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s.” “Most of my plays are set in the past—often in the ‘30s sometimes in the ‘50s. These were periods that we envision as more trouble-free than our own and therefore more conducive to stories and characters who are happily crazed but less neurotic than characters we associate with modern comedies.”
“I thought it would be fun to take this genre and try to apply it to our own day and age. The tricky part was coming up with a setting and I asked myself: where do we feel most trouble-free in the modern world? It seemed to me that a country club was a fair answer. We go there to get away from our troubles and relax and have a good time. And of course country clubs are riddled with social conventions and hierarchies, which are the backbone of good comedy.” “The author Louis Kronenberger had a wonderful thing to say about comedy: ‘Comedy is not just a happy as opposed to an unhappy ending, but a way of surveying life so that happy endings must prevail.’ I try to create worlds where we can ultimately see some sanity and worth in our existence. I try to push the ball towards a sense of hope and belief in the humanity of our neighbors. In that kind of world there will be a happy endings because, as Kronenberger says, it’s a natural result of that way of looking at life.” “I’ve written this play not only as an homage to the earlier tradition, but also as a reminder of the values that the tradition embodies, things like innocence, humor, good sportsmanship, and honor. My hope is that it is still possible to come together in a darkened theater and embrace these values with a sense of joy. If so, there may be hope for us yet.”
The Fox on the Fairway CAST OF CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)
Justin........................................................Will Dennis* Louise.......................................................Naomi Weiss Bingham..................................................Peter Bisgaier* Pamela.....................................................Karen Peakes* Dickie........................................................Joe Guzmán* Muriel.......................................................Gerre Garrett *
Member, Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.
**The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
SETTING
The Tap Room of the Quail Valley Country Club. This year.
SPECIAL THANKS Merle Holman, Howie Brown
There will be one 15-minute intermission. Please remember to turn off your cell phones when you reenter the theatre after intermission.
* Estate Maintenance * Color Consultants * Wall Coverings * Drywall Installation * Plaster Repair
* Cabinet Refinishing * Carpentry Repairs * Waterproofing * Deck Refinishing * Pressure Washing
THE CREATIVE TEAM
Will Dennis (Justin) was last seen on the Act II stage in Making Spirits Bright and the third installment of Murray the Elf… (part four coming this winter!). Also at Act II: Oh What Fun!, Laughing All the Way, Art. He is also a proud teaching artist for Act II Playhouse. Selected regional credits include Montgomery Theater: A Thousand Clowns, Rumors, Becky Shaw, Everybody Loves Opal, Big Boys (u/s); Walnut Street Theatre: Elf; Delaware Theatre Company: South Pacific. Will also serves as an assistant director at his beloved alma mater, St. Joseph’s Prep, and Manager of Education and Community Programs at Philadelphia Theatre Company. Many thanks to Bill R. and the wonderful Act II leadership and staff. Love to Danielle and family. Naomi Weiss (Louise) is very excited to make her debut at Act II. Recent credits include How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Hedy LaRue, New Candlelight Theatre), The Music Man (Marian, Steel River Playhouse), Into the Woods (Rapunzel, the Eagle Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Audrey, the Eagle Theatre), Hair (Crissy, the Eagle Theatre), I Left My Heart: a Salute to Tony Bennett (Self, the Eagle Theatre), The Last Five Years (Cathy, Heritage Theatre Co.). Naomi is a Philadelphia native and graduated from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Many thanks to Act II Playhouse and a special thanks to her family and Jesse.
Karen Peakes (Pamela) was last seen at Act II having a ball in Unnecessary Farce and Hotel Suite. She has worked with many Philadelphia area theaters, including The Arden (A Little Night Music); The Walnut
(Of Mice and Men, Fallen Angels); People’s Light (Born Yesterday, Man From Nebraska); Interact (Gidion’s Knot); Delaware Theatre Company (Lucy); 1812 Productions (The First Day of School); and others. She has worked regionally with The Folger Theatre, in DC (Measure for Measure, Othello, Henry VIII); and with The Peterborough Players (Born Yesterday, Arms and the Man, Wait Until Dark). She also works as a voice-over artist, narrating audio books for Brilliance Audio. Love to her family. Joe Guzmán (Dickie) is happy to return to Act II where he was previously seen in Inventing Van Gogh, Schrodinger’s Girlfriend and Taking Sides. Recent productions include Wilma Theater: Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; Lantern Theater: Arcadia, Julius Caesar; Passage Theatre: True Story (Barrymore Nomination – Supporting Actor in a Play); Bristol Riverside Theatre: Inherit The Wind; Arden Theatre: Cinderella, Women In Jep; Montgomery Theater: Any Wednesday, Half and Half; Theatre Horizon: How I Learned to Drive; Hedgerow Theatre: The Don; Folger Shakespeare Theatre: Othello; Pendragon Theatre: Les Liaisons Dangereuses; People’s Light & Theatre: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Tom Sawyer; Philadelphia Theatre Company: The Light in the Piazza. Joe received a Barrymore Award for Supporting Actor in a Play for Lantern Theater’s Lovers and Executioners. Next up: Sense and Sensibility at People’s Light and 36 Views at the Lantern. Gerre Garrett (Muriel) has been acting, directing and teaching in the Philadelphia area for over two decades. She is a creative dramatics expert specializing in work with at-risk youth. Her voice is heard locally in industrial films and commercials, and nationally on two television series for the Discovery Network. Currently, Gerre teaches acting and comedy writing at Drexel
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University and enjoys performing live sketch comedy with The WaitStaff (www.thewaitstaff. com). Favorite roles include: Claudia in Blown Sideways Through Life, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Duchess in The Real Housewives of South Philly. Gerre lives in Delaware County with her husband, Bruce, and their basset hound, Ike. Thanks to the staff and crew at Act II and to Mike Hagan for reconnecting her to Bill Roudebush. Peter Bisgaier (Bingham) is thrilled to be making his Act II Playhouse debut. Favorite roles include Mr. Orange in the Stage Premiere of Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (Empire Theatre Co.); Ernie in Rumors (Montgomery Theater); Harker in Dracula (Delaware Theatre Co.); Paul, Janice, the Rabbi, and others in Patience (Boomerang Theatre Co.); and Faulkland in The Rivals (Horse Cave Theatre). Peter’s screenplay The Legend of Young Santa Claus has been optioned by August Road Productions. He teaches acting, playwriting, and film making at the West Windsor Arts Center where he is also Production Manager. Peter dedicates this performance to his wife and two little girls for helping make this all possible. Ken Ludwig (Playwright) has had six shows on Broadway and seven in London’s West End, and his plays and musicals have been performed in more than 30 countries in over 20 languages. His first play on Broadway, Lend Me a Tenor, which the Washington Post called “one of the classic comedies of the 20th century,” won two Tony Awards and was nominated for seven. He has also won two Laurence Olivier Awards (England’s highest theater honor), the Charles MacArthur Award, two Helen Hayes Awards, the Edgar Award for Best Mystery from The Mystery Writers of America, the SETC Distinguished Career Award, and the Edwin Forrest Award for Services to the American Theatre. His plays have been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Bristol Old Vic. He has written 22 plays and musicals, including Crazy For You (five years on Broadway and the West End, Tony and Olivier Award Winner for Best Musical),
Moon Over Buffalo (Broadway and West End), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Broadway), Treasure Island (West End), Twentieth Century (Broadway), Leading Ladies, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Game’s Afoot, The Fox on the Fairway, The Three Musketeers and The Beaux’ Stratagem. His most recent plays include Baskerville, A Comedy of Tenors, and Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (2015 Helen Hayes Award nominee for Outstanding Play). His newest book, How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare, (winner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of 2014) is published by Random House. His work is published by the Yale Review, and he is a Sallie B. Goodman Fellow of the McCarter Theatre, Princeton. He holds degrees from Harvard, where he studied music with Leonard Bernstein, Haverford College, and Cambridge University. For more information, please visit www.kenludwig.com. William Roudebush (Director) has been directing for over 30 years at such theatres as Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, Syracuse Stage Company, Theatre Virginia, GeVa Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Fulton Theatre, Miami and Palm Beach Opera Guilds, and many others. In New York, he was Artistic Director for the Ten More By Noonan series at the John Houseman Theatre, as well as directing for Ensemble Studio Theatre, American Folk Theatre, Mint Theatre Company, Actors Outlet, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, and Village Gate, where he researched his new musical, Village Gate Follies. Bill is based in New York City, where he works as a freelance director/writer with his wife, actress Terri Garber. His 2002 revival of Equus was nominated for eight Barrymore awards and won five, including Best Overall Production of a Play, Best Ensemble, and Best Director. He adapted and directed a new musical based on the works of singer/songwriter Harry Chapin called Remember When the Music, which played at the Barter Theatre after its world premiere at Act II Playhouse. Bill is also an educator, having taught at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, University of Memphis, University of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, along with being Theatre School Director for the Walnut Street Theatre. His book Acting By Mistake is available online and through select bookstores. Dirk Durossette (Set Designer) has been designing scenery, teaching design, and drawing
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and rendering for the theater for the past 15 years in and around the Philadelphia region. Off-Broadway: The Outgoing Tide and Any Given Monday. He has designed for Amaryllis Theater Company, Azuka Theater (Barrymore Nomination, Skin and Bone), Act II Playhouse (Any Given Monday, world premiere), Enchantment Theater Company (National Tour, Harold and the Purple Crayon), Theater Exile, 1812 Productions (First Day of School), Delaware Theatre Company, EgoPo, Freedom Theater, Flashpoint Theater, InterAct Theater Company, Lantern Theater (Barrymore Nomination, Skylight), Luna Theater, Painted Bird Productions (A Few Small Repairs, World Premiere), Theater Horizon, Portland Opera, The Wilma Theater (Leaving, Associate Designer, American Premiere), Temple Theaters, Temple Opera Theater, University of the Arts, Drexel University, Lawrence University (Wisconsin), Peabody Institute (Baltimore), West Chester University, Villanova University, The University of Memphis. He teaches design at The University of the Arts, and Villanova University. M.F.A Temple University.
Jillian Keys (Costume Designer) is excited to return to Act II after previously designing Hotel Suite and Rounding Third! After graduating with a BFA in Costume Design at the University of the Arts, she completed the costume apprenticeship at The Walnut Street Theater and began freelancing in Philadelphia. Jillian has worked with Pig Iron Theater Company, The Arden, The Lantern, Theatre Horizon, The Berserker Residents, Theatre Exile, EgoPo, Drexel University, and Simpatico Theater Project among others. For other fun facts, please visit: https://jilliankeys. carbonmade.com
James Leitner (Lighting Design) has worked for many years in Philadelphia with the Arden Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater, Act II Playhouse, Theatre Exile, Delaware Theatre Company, Montgomery Theater, Curtis Opera, Pennsylvania Ballet, and various colleges and universities. Further afield, he has worked extensively for Tri-Cities Opera, Sarasota Opera, Milwaukee Ballet, Indianapolis Ballet, Miami City Ballet, and the Vail International Dance Festival. John Stovicek (Sound Designer) is glad to return to the Act II Playhouse having previously designed Mark Twain Unplugged, The Twelve Dates of Christmas, Lend Me a Tenor and The Tempest. This fall marks his third season as resident sound designer for Villanova University’s graduate theatre program where he has 21 design and composition credits. Other regional work includes multiple credits for Del REP, Delaware Theatre Company, and Amaryllis Theatre Company. Pat Sabato (Stage Manager) has been stage managing in Greater Philadelphia area theatres for 17 years. She is elated to be working at Act II with the creative people who built and who sustain The Fox on the Fairway. Her love to her family and friends who provide joy in the world every day, especially Edmund.
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SPOTLIGHT SERIES An Evening with Rich DeSimone as
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