Guys and Dolls Playbill 2022

ACT of Connecticut Ridgefield, CT

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Katie Diamond Executive Director

ACT

Daniel C. Levine Artistic Director presents

R. Erin Craig Producing Director

GUYS AND DOLLS

A Musical Fable of Broadway Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon

Music & Lyrics by FRANK LOESSER Book by JO SWERLING and ABE BURROWS

Scenic Designer JACK MEHLER Costume Coordinator CLAUDIA STEFANY

Sound Designer DON HANNA

Wig Designer THE WIG ASSOCIATES

Casting WOJCIK CASTING TEAM Company Manager TYLER PASCUCCI

Music Director NICK WILDERS

Choreography by SARA BRIANS

Lighting Designer CHRIS CHAMBERS

Props Supervisor JOHN BONANNI

Production Stage Managers SUZANNE APICELLA RACHAEL SHEFFER

Music Supervisor BRYAN PERRI

Directed by DANIEL C. LEVINE

GUYS & DOLLS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT ONE

Scene 1: Broadway Times Square

“Runyonland” .......................................................................................................................... The Company

“Fugue For Tinhorns”

Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, Rusty Charlie

“Follow The Fold” ................................................. Sarah Brown, Arvide Abernathy, Agatha, Martha

“The Oldest Established”

“Follow The Fold (Reprise)”

Scene 2: Interior of the Save-A-Soul Mission

Nathan Detroit, Nicely-Nicely, Rusty Charlie, Benny Southstreet, Crapshooters, Tradesmen

Sarah Brown, Arvide Abernathy, Agatha, Martha

“I’ll Know” ...................................................................................................... Sarah Brown, Sky Masterson

Scene 3: A Phone Booth

Scene 4: The Hot Box

“A Bushel and a Peck” ......................................................................... Miss Adelaide, Hot Box Dancers

“Adelaide’s Lament”

Scene 5: A Street off Broadway

Miss Adelaide

“Guys and Dolls” .................................. Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, Rusty Charlie

Scene 6: Exterior of the Save-A-Soul Mission

Scene 7: A Street off Broadway

Scene 8: Havana, Cuba

“Havana” .................................................................................................................................... The Company

Scene 9: The Same, immediately following

“If I Were a Bell” .......................................................................................................................... Sarah Brown

Scene 10: Exterior of the Save-A-Soul Mission, 4 A.M., the following morning

“My Time of Day” ................................................................................................................... Sky Masterson

“I’ve Never Been In Love Before” ........................................................... Sky Masterson, Sarah Brown

“Beetle Race” (The Raid) ........................................................................................................ Crapshooters

ACT TWO

Scene 1: The Hot Box

“Take Back Your Mink” ........................................................................ Miss Adelaide, Hot Box Dancers

“Adelaide’s Second Lament”

Scene 2: A Street off Broadway

“More I Cannot Wish You”

Scene 3: The Sewer

“The Crapshooters Dance”

“Luck Be a Lady”

Scene 4: A Street off Broadway

“Sue Me”

Scene 5: Interior of the Save-A-Soul Mission

“Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat”

Scene 6: Times Square, NYC

“Adelaide Meets Sarah”

“Marry the Man Today”

Scene 7: Times Square, NYC

“The Happy Ending”

Miss Adelaide

Arvide Abernathy

Crapshooters

Sky Masterson, Crapshooters

Miss Adelaide, Nathan Detroit

Nicely-Nicely Johnson, The Company

Miss Adelaide, Sarah Brown

Miss Adelaide, Sarah Brown

The Company

GUYS AND DOLLS will run approximately 2.5 hours in length, including a 15 minute intermission.

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order of appearance)

The Granddaughter, Martha, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble ........................... GEORGIA MONROE Nicely-Nicely Johnson ................................................................................................... IZZY FIGUEROA* Rusty Charlie .......................................................................................................................... LUIS HERRERA Benny Southstreet .................................................................................................... MICHAEL MCGUIRK Newspaper Delivery Guy, Lt. Brannigan

MIKE BOLAND* Tourist, Agatha, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble

JORIE JANEWAY* Bobby Soxer, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble ......................................................... MICHELLE AROTSKY Bobby Soxer, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble ...................................................... JASMINE GOBOURNE Sailor, Crapshooter, Ensemble ...................................................................................... NATHAN FISTER Sailor, Crapshooter, Ensemble ................................................................................................. LES GIBBS Movie Star, Hot Box Dancer, Mimi, Ensemble ................................. MARLENA LÓPEZ HILDERLEY Photographer, Angie the Ox, Ensemble ............................................. MICHAEL SANTOMASSIMO* Rich Lady with Dog, General Matilda B. Cartwright .............................................. VAL MORANTO Hotel Bell Boy, Harry the Horse, Ensemble .......................................................................... NICK CASE Cop, Liver Lips Louie, Emcee, Ensemble ....................................................... RICHARD WESTFAHL* Orthodox Jew, Big Jule, Voice of Joey Biltmore

VICTOR HERNANDEZ* Sarah Brown

KATHERINE RIDDLE* Arvide Abernathy

REBECCA HOODWIN* Nathan Detroit

PHIL SLOVES* Miss Adelaide

DONNA VIVINO* Sky Masterson

Swings

ALEX HARTMAN*, KUPPI JESSOP, CODY RAY* Dance Captain ALEX HARTMAN*

For Sky Masterson:

MATT FAUCHER*

MARLENA LÓPEZ HILDERLEY;

Big Jule: NICK CASE; for Nicely-Nicely

Brannigan: VICTOR HERNANDEZ*

NICK WILDERS

LORI ABBOTT

MELISSA WESTGATE

KEVIN CALLAGHAN

GARY BLU

ERICKA SCHLENKERMANN

MARJORIE CALLAGHAN

JAMES FINEGAN

JENS WENDELBOE

ROGER M POST JR.

DENNIS J. ARCANO

Assistant

Associate

Wig

Set

DANIEL C. LEVINE

SARA BRIANS•

BRYAN PERRI

NICK WILDERS

JACK MEHLER+

CLAUDIA STEFANY

CHRIS CHAMBERS+

DON HANNA

THE WIG ASSOCIATES

TRACEY BRYGGMAN

JOHN BONANNI

SUZANNE APICELLA*, RACHAEL SHEFFER

RICO FROEHLICH

KATIE GIRARDOT

ALEX HARTMAN*

ALEXANDRIA STOLL ANDRADE, JESSI COHEN, MAGGIE CUMMINS

ALEX BERG

DAN GONKO

JACOB SANNER

KAI FOX

DENNIS J. ARCANO

MICHAEL HOPEWELL

CHARLIE REUTER

MICHAEL PACIFICO, IAN YAN

NICHOLAS CONNORS

CLAUDIA STEFANY

JACK RICHARDS

NICOLE WEAVER

JORDAN MEYER, GRACE RUSCH

NEW ENGLAND SCENIC

BEN BREWSTER, KAI FOX, JOSH FURTH, JAKOB KELSEY, JAMES PEREYRA, ASHLEY RAYMOND, JACOB SANNER, SARA STONE, DOMINICK VENTRELLA, DOMINICK WALCH, CT FIRST TEAM

JACK MEHLER, ASHLEY RAYMOND, SARA STONE

TRACEY BRYGGMAN, SARA STONE

EVAN BRENNER / CHROMA DESIGNS, JOSH FURTH, DOMINICK WALCH

CARRIE PETERS

EVAN RIFFE

SCOTT WOJCIK & HOLLY BUCZEK (CSA)

NICK FERRAO

WILLIAM HALTIWAGNER

JEFF BUTCHEN

DYLAN MILLER

MATT GURREN

BILLY MITCHELL

TYLER PASCUCCI

KENO GRAPHICS

GREG POPLYK

I Dreamed Last Night I Got On The Boat To Heaven!

Welcome to GUYS AND DOLLS - the first show of our fifth season here at ACT of CT! We are so happy that you are with us today and are grateful for your continued support. It brings all of us at ACT of CT immense joy to be able to bring such a high-level of entertain ment to our community, and I could not think of a better show to kick off our fifth season than GUYS AND DOLLS. We have not yet produced and presented a classic musical theater piece in any of our seasons, and I am excited to be able to bring to life this Tony Awardwinning favorite which has been hailed by many as “the perfect musical comedy”.

GUYS AND DOLLS opened on Broadway in 1950, and became one of Broadway’s most successful productions (originally running 1,200 performances with three subsequent Broadway revivals). The 1955 film adaptation starred Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Vivian Blaine. GUYS AND DOLLS is based on the short stories of writer Damon Runyon (specifically Runyon’s “The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown”). Runyon, who was good friends with well-known “gangsters” including Frank Costello, Bugsy Siegel and Al Capone, fictionalized and, in a sense, glamorized the colorful lives and language of “an era that lives on in our imagination: The World of Runyonland.”

GUYS AND DOLLS is, of course, a period piece; a show that is set in a very specific and particular time in history which describes life at that time. During the 1940’s, gender roles were clearly defined and the concept of political correctness was a long way away from entering the public conversation. While the show embraces many antiquated concepts, there is a reason why GUYS AND DOLLS continues to be one of the most produced musicals in theater history; the music, the witty lyrics, and a cast of characters that transports us back to another time where life was just…different. It’s fun for me to think about the fact that my grandparents were in their early twenties during the era in which GUYS AND DOLLS takes place and actually “lived” during this period of time that just seems so far away and foreign to me now. In a surprising way, I have felt a very special connection to them while directing this show, and I am proud to be able to present our production of GUYS AND DOLLS to you!

Thank you again for your support of ACT of CT!

Daniel C. Levine Artistic Director, ACT of CT

WHO’S WHO

MATT FAUCHER* (Sky Masterson) BFA in Acting from The Hartt School and CT Critics Circle Award winner. Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. National Tour: Jersey Boys (Nick Massi), Beautiful…. Off-Broadway: The Threepenny Opera (Ma cheath, Drama Desk nomination), Harvey Milk at Avery Fisher Hall, Chekhov’s Dreams. Regional: The Muny, Goodspeed Musicals, Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Asolo Rep, Northern Stage, The Olney, Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. TV: “FBI: Most Wanted” on CBS. Love to Britt. Follow: @the_fauch, mattfaucheractor.com.

KATHERINE RIDDLE* (Sarah Brown) ACT debut! Regional credits include: Signature Theatre: She Loves Me; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Secret Garden; Glimmerglass Festival: Sweeney Todd, La bohème; Weath ervane Playhouse: Les Misérables, Oklaho ma; UrbanArias: Florida (world premiere). Katherine also appeared in concert at The Kennedy Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center and with the West Virginia Symphony and American Pops Orchestra. She is a win ner of the Lotte Lenya Competition and a proud educator at her alma mater Ameri can University. UPCOMING: Sweeney Todd at Signature Theatre. katherineriddle.com

PHIL SLOVES* (Nathan Detroit) is grateful to be here for his 4th show at ACT! Previous ACT: Into The Woods, Godspell, and Spelling Bee. Broadway: SpongeBob SquarePants. Thank you, Dan, Bryan, Katie, Erin, Sara, and everyone at ACT who makes this place a home away from home! Follow Phil on Tik tok/Instagram @philsloves Love to Jenn <3 DONNA VIVINO* (Miss Adelaide) was most recently seen as Grizabella in the national tour of Cats. She made her Broadway debut at age 8 as the original Young Cosette in Les Misérables. Other Broadway credits include: Wicked (Elphaba), Martin Short - Fame Be comes Me, Hairspray. Fave role: Mary Flynn in Merrily We Roll Along w/ Wayne Brady (LA Ovation Award Nomination). Albums: Beautiful Dreamer, “DNA”. Founder of Broadway-Unlimited.com. Upcoming: “In approppriate Behavior” film. Mom to Hendrix. Follow Instagram: @donnavivino

MIKE BOLAND* (Newspaper Delivery Guy, Lt. Brannigan) Broadway: An Enemy of the People. National Tours: Twelve Angry Men, West Side Story. Off-Broadway: The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Regional: Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Engeman, Fulton, Play house on Park, Coastal Carolina, Westches ter Broadway, Stonc, Bristol Riverside, Ivory ton, MTC, Theatreworks, Thrown Stone. TV: “Blacklist”, “FBI”, “Person of Interest”, “Zero Hour”, “Rubicon”. Film: “Yo Andrea”, “Tommy and the Guru”. Studied with: George DiCen zo, Alan Arkin, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Penny Fuller, Cotter Smith, Bobby Moresco. IZZY FIGUEROA* (Nicely-Nicely Johnson) Broadway: The Lightning Thief (OBC). Tours/ Regional: The Lightning Thief (1st National tour), NJ Premiere of James and the Giant Peach, Peter and the Starcatcher (TGS), Card ed (Feinstein’s/54 Below). Love to the cast, creatives, WCT, and MSA! For my Bern. @izzyyfig

VICTOR HERNANDEZ* (Orthodox Jew, Big Jule, Voice of Joey Biltmore, u/s Arvide & L.t Brannigan) previously appeared at ACT of CT, as Harry Bright, in our inaugural pro duction of Mamma Mia. He created the role of Henry Barrow in Bonnie & Clyde on Broadway. Regional credits include: Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse & Asolo Reper tory), Dan in Next to Normal (Seven Angels Theatre), Lt. Brannigan in Guys and Dolls (Bucks County Playhouse), and The Old Man in A Christmas Story (Fireside Theatre). Check out his bi-yearly posts on Instagram: @thevichernandez

LUIS HERRERA (Rusty Charlie, u/s Nice ly-Nicely Johnson) is thrilled to be return ing to ACT! Regional Credits include: Benny in Rent (ACT of Connecticut), Pedro in Man of La Mancha (Plaza Theatricals), Anthony Hope in Sweeney Todd (Park Playhouse), Sonny in In The Heights (Paramount The ater), Papa Ge in Once on this Island (Porch light Music Theater). Luis has also worked with the NJPAC, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Revolución Latina, Pregones/PRTT. Big thanks to Pantera-Murphy The Agency! Above all, thank you to God, family, and love!

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REBECCA HOODWIN* (Arvide Abernathy) launched her career as 21-year-old ‘mom’ to Harvey Korman in Little Me, continuing this ‘motherly’ tradition in Fiddler on the Roof, with Theodore Bikel and Harvey Fierstein. Stage favorites: Driving Miss Daisy, Cabaret, A Memorable Day as Guenevere opposite Rock Hudson; Coral in the World Premier of Doublewide at Vermont Stages; Ouiser in Stomping Ground’s Steel Magnolias in NYC. Camera favorites: “Nurse Jackie”, “ESPN w/ David Ortiz”, “As the World Turns”, Dudley Moore’s “Arthur”. rebeccahoodwin.com

MICHAEL MCGUIRK (Benny Southstreet, u/s Sky Masterson) lives in Ridgefield. After a long hiatus from theatre, he returned ear lier this year in ACT’s Jesus Christ Superstar (Pilate). Past productions: Oliver, Oklahoma, Jekyll & Hyde. NYC: Play it Cool, Evening at the Carlyle. A veteran of commercials, high lights: Cobra/Puma Golf, face of depression, voice for an anti-gas pill, and an interna tional hand model for Nescafe. Thanks to Amanda and their rescues - Hattie & Lucy. He is a real estate agent with William Pitt/ Sotheby’s. @McGuirk.RealEstate

VAL MORANTO (General Cartwright, Rich Lady with Dog) is thrilled to be back at ACT of CT following Smokey Joe’s Café and Jesus Christ Superstar. National Tour and Region al Highlights: Josh Groban’s 2022 Harmony Tour, Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd, The Who’s Tommy, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Fiddler on the Roof, and Les Misérables. She thanks Dan, Bryan, Katie, and Erin for this oppor tunity, the wonderful cast, crew, and cre atives, and her husband TJ for his love and support. valmoranto.com

MICHELLE AROTSKY (Bobby Soxer, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble) is thrilled to be part of Guys and Dolls at ACT of CT and to work alongside this incredible cast and team! Her past credits include: Rock of Ages (ACCC), Matilda (John Engeman Theatre), Newsies (The Lexington Theatre Company), West Side Story (The Glimmerglass Festival), and Elf: The Musical (Syracuse Stage). B.F.A Syracuse University. Much love to my fami ly and friends!

NICK CASE (Hotel Bell Boy, Harry the Horse, Ensemble, u/s Nathan Detroit & Big Jule) is

thrilled to make his ACT of CT debut with one of his favorite shows! Regional: Man of La Mancha (Fulton Theatre), West Side Story, All Shook Up (New London Barn Playhouse), My Fair Lady, Pride and Prejudice (Wagon Wheel Theatre), Hamlet (APEX Theatre Stu dio). Penn State Musical Theatre ’19. Much thanks to Dan and the ACT team, Scott Wo jcik, and his family for all of their love and support. @nicktomcase

NATHAN FISTER (Sailor, Crapshooter, En semble) is thrilled to be making his ACT of Connecticut debut! Selected credits include Goodspeed Musicals: Cabaret; Ra dio City Christmas Spectacular; IHI Stage Around Tokyo; The Lexington Theatre Com pany: Chicago (Associate Choreo), A Chorus Line (Larry), Legally Blonde, & 42nd Street; Drury Lane: Joseph....; Flat Rock Playhouse, & Nashville Ballet 2. Endless thanks to the G&Ds team & cast, the teachers/mentors who have filled his toolbox, and to his fam ily/friends for their love and support! Rep: The SquarePeg Group, Inc. @nathanfister

LES GIBBS (Sailor, Crapshooter, Ensemble) ACT of Connecticut debut! Some of Les’s fa vorite credits include The Cher Show, Kinky Boots, and West Side Story. He would like to thank his amazing family and support sys tem in NYC. @lesgibbs

JASMINE GOBOURNE (Bobby Soxer, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble) is a NY native. She performed in Aida (John W. Engeman The ater) and recently in Cabaret (Hangar The atre). Jasmine attended Marymount Man hattan College as a BFA Dance Major and later, studied and graduated from The Ailey School. She has danced with companies such as nathantrice/RITUALS dance the ater, Forces of Nature Dance Theater, and Caterina Rago Dance Company to name a few. She’s so excited to join the cast of Guys and Dolls!

MARLENA LÓPEZ HILDERLEY (Movie Star, Hot Box Dancer, Mimi, Ensemble, u/s Sar ah Brown) is beyond excited to share the stage with this lovely cast and crew. This is her third show with ACT of CT and she is thrilled to be back (previous shows: Evita and Jesus Christ Superstar). She was most recently in Pennsylvania Shakespeare Fes

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tival’s production of A Chorus Line playing Tricia and covering Maggie, Diana, Val, and Connie. Love and thanks to her family, Aus tin, Cora, and all ACT patrons for support ing live theatre! @marlenalopezhilderley

JORIE JANEWAY* (Tourist, Agatha, Hot Box Girl, Ensemble, u/s Miss Adelaide) a proud auntie and Hufflepuff hailing from Nor walk Connecticut, is grateful to be hitting the ACT stage in her all-time favorite show! National Tour: Hairspray (Female Authority Figure) Regional: The Drowsy Chaperone (Chaperone), 42nd Street (Maggie Jones), Sister Act (Ensemble), and Shrek (Fairy God mother). Love to the fam and my main little man, Rooster! www.joriejaneway.com

GEORGIA MONROE (Martha, The Grand daughter, Hot Box Dancer, Ensemble) is thrilled to be performing at ACT this fall! Her favorite credits include: Cabaret (Good speed Opera House), Escape to Margarita ville (Wanda, U/S Rachel - National Tour), Rock of Ages (PCLO), The Little Dancer (Marie - Theater 71). Pace University Commercial Dance. Massive thanks to my wonderful, supportive family and friends! @georgiae monroe

MICHAEL SANTOMASSIMO* (Photogra pher, Angie the Ox, Ensemble) is a native New Yorker. He trained at LaGuardia High School and then Pace University, graduat ing with a BFA in Commercial Dance. Mi chael is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and signed with The Luedtke Agency. Stage: Guys and Dolls and Joseph… at the Muny. Michael is thrilled to be work ing on this production again at ACT of Con necticut! Thanks to Mom, Dad, Jimmy, Jess, and Adrianna. @mikesanto

RICHARD WESTFAHL* (Cop, Liver Lips Louie, Hot Box Emcee, Ensemble) is from Stamford, CT and is thrilled to be making his ACT of CT debut. He has worked at Tu acahn Amphitheatre (Beauty and the Beast), Riverside Theater (My Fair Lady), The Cape Playhouse (A Chorus Line), and Pennsylva nia Shakespeare Festival (Crazy for You). Richard is a proud graduate of Syracuse University’s Department of Drama.

ALEX HARTMAN* (Swing, Dance Captain) is honored to be returning to ACT of CT!

Regional: ACT of CT’s Jesus Christ Superstar (Ensemble, Dance Captain), Transcendence Theatre’s A Chorus Line (Swing, Associate Choreographer), Arrow Rock Lyceum’s Mary Poppins, Crazy for You, Mamma Mia!, Oklahoma!, Funny Girl, and Footloose. NYC: Popstar! (Ensemble, Assistant Choreogra pher), The Magician (featuring Dan White). Huge thanks to Sara, Dan & the ACT team, CESD, my family, friends, and incredibly supportive fiancé, Kayley. @alexjhartman KUPPI JESSOP (Swing) is very excited to be making their ACT of CT debut! A native of Bangkok, Thailand, Kuppi is a recent grad uate of the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Department. Favorite credits in clude Footloose (Ren), Godspell (Judas), and The Wizard of OZ (Scarecrow). Kuppi is very thankful to their family and friends for their constant love and support. They would like to thank ACT of CT for giving them this op portunity! Insta: @kuppikruppom

CODY RAY* (Swing) is thrilled to make his Connecticut debut at ACT of Connecticut in Guys and Dolls. Cody graduated from Ball State University where he received a Bach elor of Fine Arts in Dance Performance. His favorite credits include Joseph.... and Holiday Inn at the Fireside Theatre, per forming in Japan at the Tokyu Theatre Orb, and playing Elmer in Newsies. Cody would like to thank his friends and family for their endless support.

DANIEL C. LEVINE (Director, ACT of CT Artistic Director), is a 2022 Grammy Nomi nee, and is thrilled to serve as Artistic Direc tor of ACT of CT. Before co-founding ACT of CT in 2018 (along with Katie Diamond and Bryan Perri), Daniel appeared on Broad way and in the Broadway National Tours of: Mamma Mia!, Little Shop of Horrors, The Rocky Horror Show, Jesus Christ Superstar (Tony nomination for Best Revival), Chicago, Les Miserables, and Tommy. Daniel was nominated for Best Actor in a Musical by The League of American Theaters and Producers, for his role as Cousin Kevin in Tommy. He also originated the role of Mary Sunshine in the Broadway National tour of Chicago. Daniel has worked extensively across the country and has been seen in:

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Oklahoma! (5th Avenue, Seattle), Next to Normal (Seven Angels Theater), Guys and Dolls (The Ordway Theater, Minneapolis), Company (5th Avenue, Seattle), Man of La Mancha (Cleveland Playhouse), Sweet Charity (West Virginia Public), Jesus Christ Superstar (North Carolina Theater / Kansas City Starlight), Joseph.... (North Shore Mu sic Theater, Boston), and Evita (Music The ater of CT). Daniel is the creator/producer/ director of Broadway Backstage!, Dancin’ Broadway, and American Dance Spectacu lar! – all of which have toured throughout the U.S. He is the creator/director of Born to Dance, a multi-media production per formed throughout the fleet of ships on Princess Cruise Lines, in collaboration with Stephen Schwartz. At The Ridgefield Play house, Daniel directed Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph...., An Evening with Joel Grey, and also moderates and hosts An Evening with The Celebrity Housewives at The Playhouse. At ACT of CT, Daniel has directed Mamma Mia, Evita (winner of the 2018 Broadway World CT Best Director of a Musical), Working (which he re-conceived with Stephen Schwartz), Godspell, Snapshots, Into The Woods (In Concert), Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent, and Guys and Dolls. Daniel returned to his performing roots and played “The Dentist” in ACT’s production of Little Shop of Horrors, and was also thrilled to star alongside Katie Dia mond and Bryan Perri in The Last Five Years. Daniel was nominated for a Grammy Award for the cast album recording of ACT of CT’s Snapshots (this production is now available on-demand on BroadwayHD). Daniel’s re conceived version of Working was recent ly licensed by Music Theater International and theaters around the country are now able to produce and present ACT’s version of the musical. Daniel graduated Brandeis University and attended Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.

SARA BRIANS• (Choreographer) is a NYCbased director, choreographer, and educa tor. Her Broadway credits include Matilda, Billy Elliot, White Christmas, The Terms of My Surrender, After the Night and the Music, and 42nd Street. Sara most recently directed and

choreographed Rock of Ages. She is thrilled to return to ACT of CT after having choreo graphed Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell and Snapshots. Other selected choreography credits include Cabaret, Spring Awakening, and Follies* (*NYIT Award Outstanding Choreography) as well as new musicals, Newton’s Cradle and The Trouble With Doug. Sara’s work has taken her from Broadway to England, Scotland, Wales, Denmark and across the world. She is also a dance edu cator at several of the U.S.’s top schools for theatre and dance training, including Pace University and Juilliard. IG: @brianssarak

NICK WILDERS (Music Director, Conductor, Keyboard) Broadway: Company, Wicked. Off-Broadway/National Tour: Jersey Boys, Emojiland, Notes from Now, Crave. Regional: McCarter Theatre Center, Gateway Play house, Barrington Stage, Summer The atre of New Canaan, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, Northern Stage. His orchestra tions and arrangements have been heard around the world, from performances at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal to The Lincoln Center. He is a frequent collabora tor and volunteer with Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS. www.nickwilders.com.

JACK MEHLER+ (Scenic Designer) is a proud founding board member of ACT of CT, where he designed scenery and light ing for Mamma Mia!, Evita, Working, Smokey Joes Cafe; scenery for Spelling Bee, Jesus Christ Superstar; and lighting for Little Shop and Godspell. He received the 2012 Korean Musical Theatre Award (Korean Tony) for Elisabeth and the 2013 award for Rebec ca. He lit Daniel C. Levine’s Born to Dance for Princess Cruises/Stephen Schwartz. Other theatre includes North Shore Music Theater, Riverside Theatre, Paper Mill Play house, Seattle Rep, Walnut Street Theatre. Dance work includes Alvin Ailey, Ballet Memphis, Ballet Met, Ballet West, Donald Byrd/Spectrum, Houston Ballet, Joffrey Bal let, Lar Lubovitch, San Francisco Ballet. He also consults for organizations, designing and renovating performance spaces. www.jackmehlerdesign.com

CLAUDIA STEFANY (Costume Coordinator, Wardrobe Supervisor) is a freelance Cos

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tume Designer and Wardrobe Supervisor in the greater NY/NJ/CT area. She previously served as the Associate Artistic Director at the SHAPE Performing Arts Centre outside of Brussels, Belgium and as Wardrobe Su pervisor for the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, New York.

CHRIS CHAMBERS+ (Lighting Designer) Dance: Ailey II, American Repertory Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Boca Tuya, Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Lustig Dance Theatre, Parsons Dance, Paul Taylor Dance Compa ny, Yin Yue Dance Company, Manchester Ballet. Theatre: ACT of Connecticut, Houses on the Moon, Cape Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, York Theatre, Curtain Call Inc, Montclair State University, Mount Washing ton Valley Theatre Company, Resort Play ers, Weston Playhouse. He currently lives in New York with his wife Barbara, daugh ter Olive and his best friend, Alice the dog. www.csclighting.com

DON HANNA (Sound Designer) is happy to be joining the team at ACT for Guys and Dolls. Don is a Freelance Sound Designer and an Engineer at Sound Associates Inc, whose work can be seen (well, heard) in national tours, regional theaters, and con cert productions alike. Touring highlights: An American In Paris (Big League Produc tions), The Wizard of Oz National/Interna tional Tour (Sound Design, Apex Touring). Regional highlights: Almost Heaven (The Rev Theatre), Rock of Ages (Gateway Play house), the world premier of Heartbreak Hotel (Ogunquit Playhouse), Peter Pan (North Shore Music Theatre, In The Heights (John W Engeman Theatre), among many more. A special thank you to my friends, family and Bethany for their continual love and support.

THE WIG ASSOCIATES (Wig Designer) Hair, Wig, and Makeup Designers, Will Vicari and Krystal Balleza, two New Jersey-based wig and makeup artists who met at WebCo. Their work has recently been seen in At The Wedding (Lincoln Center Theatre), Ain’t Mis behavin (Barrington Stage Company), Mrs. Warrens Profession (Gingold Group), and ¡Americano! (New World Stages).

www.wigassociates.com

JOHN BONNANI (Props Supervisor) spent a management career in the theatre on Broadway, at Radio City Music Hall, and on tour. He holds an MFA in Creative and Pro fessional Writing from Western Connecticut State University. His articles have appeared in Adelaide Magazine, Poor Yorick Journal, the San Antonio Review, and the Raven’s Perch. His backstage memoir, “Just Off, Stage Right”, was released last year.

RACHAEL SHEFFER (Production Stage Manager) recently returned from 6 months at sea on the Norwegian Jewel as Produc tion/Stage Manager of: Rock You Tonight, Velvet, and Le Cirque Bijou. Other recent Stage Management credits include I Do! I Do! and Sammy Davis Jr: Live at the Palace (Interlakes Summer Theatre), Ella Es Tango, Tía Julia y El Escribidor, FAME en Español, Pi casso (GALA - DC), and Henry V (Faction of Fools-DC).

RICO FROEHLICH (Assistant Stage Manag er) is a recent graduate from Ithaca College, who was born and raised in Ridgefield. This is Rico’s second season with ACT and is ex cited to be back! Over the summer, Rico is the Resident Production Manager for French Woods Festival, one of the leading performing arts summer camps. Some of his favorite credits include Head Over Heels (PSM), Seussical (SM), Side by Side with NY POPS (PSM), and Groundhog Day (SM).

TYLER PASCUCCI (ACT of CT Company Manager) Company management: Region al: Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar, Nickel Mines (ACT of CT), In The Works Festival 2021 & 2022 w/Matt Lenz, revival of Babes in Arms w/Douglas Carter Beane and Andy Ein horn (Forestburgh Playhouse), Kinky Boots, Annie w/Sally Struthers (Ogunquit Play house). Stage management: Gordon Gets Down! (Forestburgh Playhouse), Chicken Dance (ArtsPower National Tour), Billy Elliot, West Side Story, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Where’s Waldo, Rocky Horror, Annie (Sea coast Repertory Theatre). @tylerpascucci

DENNIS J. ARCANO (Music Contractor, Synthesizer Programmer) has been in volved as the music contractor, synth and drum programmer, and house drummer

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for every production at ACT of CT from Mamma Mia! to Guys and Dolls, including the Grammy Nominated World Premiere recording of SNAPSHOTS. Broadway/ Off-Broadway: Follies (2001 Revival), Tick, Tick...Boom!, Altar Boyz, Spelling Bee, Jagged Little Pill, Mr. Saturday Night. National Tour: Tick, Tick...Boom! (Assistant Musical Direc tor). Regional: Candlewood Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company, Goodspeed’s Norma Terris Theater. Over 25 years of per formances with the Ridgefield Playhouse, Chorale, and the Symphony Orchestra.

SCOTT WOJCIK, HOLLY BUCZEK (CSA), WOJCIK CASTING TEAM (Casting) Broad way: The Little Prince. Tours: Jesus Christ Superstar, An Officer and A Gentleman, Something Rotten!, Rent, Kinky Boots, Rock of Ages, Motown, Dreamgirls and Jekyll & Hyde-S Korea, West Side Story-Tokyo, Nice Work….,Flashdance, Joseph… Dreamcoat, and A Chorus Line. Norwegian Cruise Line’s Kinky Boots and Summer: The Donna Sum mer Musical. Off-Broadway: Othello: The Remix, Church & State, Tennessee Williams’ The Two Character Play, Handle With Care, Triassic Parq, and more. In Development: SuperYou and His Story. Regional: Multiple seasons/shows for Riverside Theatre, FL; Arvada Center, CO; Tuacahn Performing Arts Center, UT; Stages St. Louis, MO, The atre Raleigh, NC; The Engeman Theatre, NY; Theatre Aspen, Summer Theatre of New Ca naan. www.wojcasting.com @Wojcasting FRANK LOESSER (Music and Lyrics) One of America’s great composer/lyricists, Frank Loesser began his songwriting career during the Depression as a lyricist, contrib uting songs to Broadway revues and night club acts. His work with composer Irving Actman in the 1936 revue The Illustrator’s Show led to a songwriting contract in Hol lywood, where he spent the next eleven years working with such composers as Bur ton Lane, Jule Styne, Arthur Schwartz and Hoagy Carmichael. Some of his film songs from that period include TWO SLEEPY PEO PLE, JINGLE JANGLE JINGLE, and I DON’T WANT TO WALK WITHOUT YOU. The first song for which Loesser wrote both words and music was PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS

THE AMMUNITION, written during his World War II service. His Hollywood work after the war included the hit songs SPRING WILL BE A LITTLE LATE THIS YEAR, A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA, and the 1949 Oscar-winning song BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE. In 1948 Loesser was approached by fledgling Broadway producers Cy Feuer and Ernest Martin to write music and lyrics to George Abbott’s libretto for an adaptation of the classic Brandon Thomas play Charley’s Aunt. The new musical, which starred Ray Bolger, was called Where’s Charlie? and was a hit. This led to Loesser’s next show, the hugely influ ential and successful Guys and Dolls in 1950, also produced by Feuer and Martin, with a script by Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling. In 1956 Loesser wrote the libretto, music and lyrics for his next show, The Most Happy Fella, adapted from Sidney Howard’s play, They Knew What They Wanted. This impres sive score contains over 30 musical num bers and makes extensive use of operatic techniques and forms, including recitative, arias, duets, trios and choral numbers. In 1960 he provided the score and was co-li brettist for Greenwillow. In 1961, Loesser wrote the score for the Pulitzer Prize-win ning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. His last show, Pleasures and Palaces, closed in 1965 during out-of-town try-outs.

JO SWERLING (Book) Born in Russia in 1897, Jo Swerling was a playwright, screen writer and vaudeville sketch writer. Mr. Swerling’s long career began as a reporter and feature writer in New York and Chicago.

ABE BURROWS (Book) After studying to be a doctor and an accountant, Abe Burrows had a career in sales before becoming a successful radio script writer and writer/ performer of musical parody numbers. His first Broadway libretto was Guys and Dolls, co-written with Jo Swerling, with a score by Frank Loesser. Among the musicals for which he provided librettos are Make A Wish, Can-Can and Silk Stockings (both with scores by Cole Porter), Say, Darling, and How to Succeed in Business Without Real ly Trying (which he also directed; score by Frank Loesser). His non-musical plays in

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clude Cactus Flower (wrote and directed) and Forty Carats (directed).

KATIE DIAMOND (ACT of CT Executive Di rector) is honored to be a founding member and to serve as Executive Director of ACT of CT. As a singer, actor, writer, and producer, Katie has written, produced, and/or per formed in numerous musical theatre and cabaret shows over the past twenty-five years. Broadway and tour performing cred its include: Lorraine in Jersey Boys, The Pirate Queen (understudy for Stephanie J. Block), White Christmas, and The Wedding Banquet. As a producer/performer, Katie has had the pleasure of working with Daniel C. Levine on The Who’s Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Joseph..., all presented at the Ridgefield Playhouse, as well as Mamma Mia!, Evita, Working, Austen’s Pride, Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, Godspell, and The Last Five Years (Cathy), which were all presented at ACT of CT. She has also written, produced, and performed in three cabaret shows in NYC; Secondary Characters, All Knocked Up, and Typed Out. Katie has released two solo albums, ORIGINAL PASSION and DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE, and can be heard on THE PI RATE QUEEN original cast recording. A cer tified Music Together teacher, and lifelong advocate of arts education, Katie is thrilled that ACT of CT is able to offer such wonder ful classes for the youth of our community. After graduating with a bachelor of music in vocal performance from New England Con servatory of Music, Katie lived and worked in Seattle before moving to NYC in 2005. In 2014, she relocated to Ridgefield, CT with her husband Bill Diamond and their three children. She has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for 20 years.

R. ERIN CRAIG (ACT of CT Producing Director) has spent her career to date de veloping, mentoring and producing new artists and works through her work as Producer, General Manager, Executive Pro ducer, Production Manager and Consultant for theatre, film, music and special events over the past 28 years. Current commercial projects include: Austen’s Pride (ACT of CT 2019), Mr. Rickey Calls A Meeting, Academy, Into the Wild, Beatsville. Select past projects:

In the Heights, High Fidelity, The Velocity of Autumn, The Evolution of Mann, Right Before I Go, Himself and Nora, Stalking the Bogeyman, The Jazz Age, Irena’s Vow, Merrilee Mannerly, How We Got Away With It, Easter Mysteries. Member of the Broad way League, Off-Broadway League, Theatre Resources Unlimited (TRU). Educator and Mentor. Houses on the Moon Theater Com pany, Board Member. Founder & owner of La Vie Productions. lavieproductions.com

BRYAN PERRI (ACT of CT Resident Music Supervisor) was most recently music di rector and conductor of Jagged Little Pill on Broadway. He was also recently nominated for a Grammy Award for the world pre miere cast recording Stephen Schwartz’s SNAPSHOTS. He is music supervisor for Broadway’s Almost Famous, which recently had its world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe theater and garnered him a Craig Noel award for best music direction. Other Broadway credits as music director include five years at Wicked and the new musical Chaplin for which he also provided dance and vocal arrangements. Bryan was also music director for the first national tour of Next to Normal (starring Tony winner Alice Ripley). Off Broadway credits include Super hero, Dogfight, and Vanities all at 2nd Stage Theater. He was also music supervisor for Disney’s Freaky Friday premiering at the Signature Theater in D.C. as well as Lime light at the La Jolla Playhouse. Bryan is also music director and arranger for Aaron Tveit as well as Lindsay Mendez and performs with them in venues across the countryincluding the American Songbook series at Lincoln Center and Webster Hall. He has also worked on numerous shows with his husband Daniel C. Levine (artistic director of ACT of CT) including Born to Dance-cre ated in association with Stephen Schwartzand which is currently running on 4 ships in the Princess Cruiseline fleet. Bryan is proud to be a founding member of ACT of CT and is honored to serve as ACT of CT’s resident music supervisor. At ACT of CT he has su pervised Mamma Mia!, Evita, Working, Spell ing Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, and Godspell and has musically directed concerts of

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Tommy, Joseph..., and Jesus Christ Superstar. He also holds a BM from NYU in Vocal Per formance as well as an MM from CCM in or chestral conducting and very much enjoys teaching music in all its forms to all ages, and especially through ACT of CT’s Conser vatory Program. Bryan firmly believes that theater matters and the arts are essential!

ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, founded in 1913, is the U.S. labor union that rep resents more than 51,000 actors and stage managers. Equity fosters the art of live the atre as an essential component of society and advances the careers of its members by negotiating wages, improving working conditions and providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. Actors’ Equity is a member of the AFL-CIO and is affiliated with FIA, an inter national organization of performing arts unions. actorsequity.org #EquityWorks

MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical li censing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broad way and beyond. Founded in 1952 by com poser Frank Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the com posers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI is particular ly dedicated to educational theatre, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for perfor mance by high school students. www.mtishows.com

ACT (A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE) OF CONNECTICUT is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) pro fessional theatre located in Ridgefield, CT. Founded in 2018 by Katie Diamond, Daniel

C. Levine and Bryan Perri, and along with the more recent addition of R. Erin Craig, ACT of CT presents limited engagement runs of well-known musicals, as well as world-premiere productions by the next generation of writers and composers. In addition to fully produced mainstage pro ductions, ACT of CT’s programing also in cludes a New Works Series, a Broadway Un plugged Series, and an extensive theater education program. With its 182 seats and turntable stage, the theater offers an inti mate, unique, and immersive theatrical ex perience for its patrons. Given the proximi ty to New York City, ACT of CT has access to top theatre talent and professionals. In just four seasons, ACT of CT has become one of the most well-known and highly respected regional theatres in the area and received a Grammy nomination for Best Musical The ater Album for the cast album of their 2021 production of Stephen Schwartz’s Snap shots. ACT of CT is dedicated to inspiring, creating and nurturing a culturally diverse and equitable environment for its staff, cre ative teams, cast, musicians, crew members and audiences, and is committed to achiev ing a diverse workforce and to maintain an inclusive, discrimination-free environment.

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