The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati - Beauty and the Beast
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TCT MAINSTAGE PRODUCTION OF
Music by ALAN MENKEN Lyrics by HOWARD ASHMAN & TIM RICE Book by LINDA WOOLVERTON
Originally Directed by Robert Jess Roth
Originally Produced by Disney Theatrical Productions
Direction/Associate Artistic Director
Maddie Jones Scenic Design Tyler Gabbard
Music Direction
Jamey Strawn
Artistic Director/ Choreographer Roderick Justice
Director of Production
Dani Lobello
Lighting Design Ben Gantose
Technical Direction Maggie Foley, Andrew Nunley
Production Stage Manager/ Assistant Director Jadi Davis
Costume Design Noelle Wedig-Johnston
Wig Design Candace Leyland
President and CEO Kim Kern
Puppets designed and provided by Kevin Frisch and The Frisch Marionette Company
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Disney’s Beauty And The Beast JR. is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Madame De La Grande Bouche/ Ensemble MADELINE STERN
Ensemble KARI KEELER STEWART
Ensemble CYNSERE STEVENS
Ensemble * LISA TAKAHASHI
Silly Girl 2/Ensemble ........ *KEYA VADIVELU
Ensemble * MIA ZINK
For Cogsworth and Lefou: Jude Abella; for Beast and Gaston: Jonathan Hobbs; for Belle: Elli Maddock; for Mrs. Potts: Kate Bauer; for Madame De La Grande Bouche: Kari Keeler Stewart; for Monsieur D’Arquet and Maurice: Cynsere Stevens; for Chip: Lisa Takahashi; for Babette and Silly Girl: Mia Zink; for Lumiere; Austin Mills
* Denotes TCT’s Young Artists Company
D. Carnation
Beauty and the Beast, presented this season by The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati?
Which actors have played the character
4. The story of Beauty and the Beast first published in what year?
A. 1974
B. 1823
C. 1776
D. 1740
5. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated movie nominated in which Academy Award category?
A. Best Editing
B. Best Picture
C. Best Cinematography
D. Best Actor
Beauty and the Beast
How many eggs does Gaston say he eats
D. 60
9. How long have the castle staff been objects?
A. 3 years
B. 5 years
C. 7 years
D. 10 years
10. Belle is forbidden from going to which wing of the castle?
A. North
B. West
C. South
D. East
DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST JR. CAST
JUDE ABELLA
ANDREWS
KATE BAUER
JUNO BROSAS
BRINLEY CULVER
EDRICO EVANS-PRITCHETT
AVERY FOX
GALLOWAY
JONATHAN HOBBS MAX HUNKLER
NOAH JEFFREYS
A. JAMES JONES
EVAN KOONS
ETHAN KUCHTA
CLAIRE LONG
ELLI MADDOCK
CASEY MERREN
AUSTIN MILLS
BOBBY MONTANIZ GABRIEL KANAI NAKATA
PARKER PATTON
KIP RICHARDSON
AVERY SHERMAN
COLTON SLADE
MADELINE STERN KARI KEELER STEWART
CYNSERE STEVENS
LISA TAKAHASHI
KEYA VADIVELU
MIA ZINK
JUDE ABELLA
Ensemble
Jude is so excited to be doing his fourth show with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati and is looking forward to having the best times with the audience and everyone involved. Recent credits involved WFIT’s Beautiful (Drifter/Ensemble) and Jimmy Buffet’s Escape to Margaritaville (Ensemble).
LENA ANDREWS
Mrs. Potts
Lena Andrews is delighted to be with TCT. Favorite roles include Hello, Again (The Actress), Urinetown (Pennywise), Little Women (Marmee), Sunday In the Park With George (Yvonne/Naomi), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona Peretti).
KATE BAUER
Ensemble
This teacher is thrilled to be back on stage after a 9-year hiatus! Thanks to the
creative team, my family, friends, & the best ‘Crusaders!’ AMDG
Brinley is thrilled to return to the MainStage this season! She has most recently appeared in Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Youth Edition (Ensemble). Other favorite roles include Lucky Stiff (Annabel) and Disney’s High School Musical JR. (Sharpay). Brinley has loved training for the past eight years with TCT’s STAR Intensive.
EDRICO EVANS-PRITCHETT
Ensemble
Edrico is blessed with a background in
ministry, theater, and education. He is excited to join TCT in their production of Disney’s Beauty & The Beast JR!
AVERY FOX
Silly Girl 3/Ensemble
Avery is elated to be returning to TCT’s MainStage. Recent Roles: Little Shop Of Horrors (Ronette), Mean Girls High School Edition (Gretchen).
JOSH GALLOWAY
Lefou
Josh is so excited to be making his return to The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. Previous TCT roles include (SpongeBob SquarePants) from The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition and (Bruce) from Disney’s Finding Nemo JR He would like to thank his family for their never-ending support throughout the years.
JONATHAN HOBBS
Ensemble
Born/raised in Washington DC. He attends
CCM at The University of Cincinnati
Credits:Once on this Island (Ensemble/Agwe u/s)at CCM. @wsg_.jonjon
MAX HUNKLER
Monsieur D’arque/Ensemble
Max Hunkler is recent graduate from Lipscomb University and is delighted to make his TCT debut! Enjoy the show!
NOAH JEFFREYS
Ensemble
Noah Jeffreys is beyond thrilled to be a part of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast JR.! He was last seen with TCT in R&H’s Cinderella Youth Edition. He hopes you enjoy the show!
A. JAMES JONES
Lumiere
This is James’ 22nd production with TCT. James is a drama instructor at SCPA. He’d like to thank his lovely wife Maddie and darling daughter Sayler.
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DISNEY’S
EVAN KOONS
Gaston
Evan has been a part of TCT productions Sleeping Beauty (Charming) and Superman™ (Superman). Other shows include Kiss Me Kate (Fred) and OKLAHOMA! (Curly).
ETHAN KUCHTA
Beast/Prince
Ethan Kuchta is currently pursuing a BSIT in Software and Game Design at UC. Previous credits include Footloose (Chuck) with Cincinnati Landmark Productions, Guys and Dolls (Lt. Brannigan) with The Carnegie, and Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. (Nigel) with TCT.
CLAIRE LONG
Ensemble
Claire is so thrilled to be in her first MainStage show! Some credits: Lucky Stiff (Dominique) Into the Woods (Cinderella) and Grease (Patty Simcox).
ELLI MADDOCK
Silly Girl 1/Ensemble
Elli is beyond ecstatic to return to the Taft stage for her 7th show with TCT! Most recently she was seen in Narnia The Musical (Susan), Finding Nemo JR. (Pearl), and The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition (Ensemble). Elli is continuously grateful for all of the wonderful people she has met through TCT!
CASEY MERREN
Babette/Ensemble
TCT debut! WSU Alum. Recently: A Doll’s House (Mrs. Linde), Little Women (Amy), and Big Fish (Mermaid.) Much love and gratitude to her fam & friends.
AUSTIN MILLS
Ensemble
This is his second production with TCT. He’s thankful to be performing with his friends and hopes to do so with TCT again. Enjoy the show!
BOBBY MONTANIZ
Maurice
Bobby is insanely excited to return to TCT as another father figure. He most recently portrayed Mr. Krabs in last season’s The SpongeBob Musical: Youth Edition. Much love to the TCT team, his family and his husband Michael. @bobbymontaniz
GABRIEL KANAI NAKATA
Cogsworth
(They/Them) Kanai is excited to return to The Children’s Theatre! They are an alumni of Northern Kentucky University. @kweenkanai
PARKER PATTON
Chip Parker, 12, shined with TCT in Disney Finding Nemo JR. (Breeze) & Disney’s Moana JR. (Villager) She is thrilled to continue her acting journey!
KIP RICHARDSON
Ensemble
Kip is thrilled to be back for his ninth TCT MainStage show! His favorite past roles include Disney’s The Little Mermaid (Flounder) and Seussical (Jojo).
AVERY SHERMAN
Ensemble
Avery is thrilled to be performing again with TCT! A huge thanks to all her loved ones, and TCT!
COLTON SLADE
Ensemble
Colton is thrilled to be joining TCT’s production of Disney’s Beauty and The Beast JR. Colton is active in Cincinnati regional theater.
MADELINE STERN
Madame De La Grande Bouche/Ensemble
Madeline is thrilled to be back at the Taft
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with TCT! This is her third production of Disney’s Beauty And The Beast, having played Madame de la Grande Bouche at 14 years old, and Mrs. Potts at 8! Thanks to her amazing husband and family for their unwavering love and support!
KARI KEELER STEWART
Ensemble
Kari is overjoyed to return to the Taft stage for her 9th season at TCT after a 10-year hiatus starting her family. Kari’s favorite TCT credits include The Wizard Of Oz (Dorothy), Disney’s Peter Pan JR. (Wendy), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Olive Ostrovsky), and Disney’sHigh School Music (Ensemble). Kari can’t wait for her sons, Miles and Francis, to see her perform for the first time!
CYNSERE STEVENS
Ensemble
Cynsere was born in the Pittsburgh area and attended CCM. Recently seen in Sunday In
The Park With George. Thank you to TFCA, and his family for their support!
LISA TAKAHASHI
Ensemble
Lisa was last seen in Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. (Squirt, Ensemble). She has been tap and jazz dancing since she was five years old. She sings in the All-State Kentucky Choir.
KEYA VADIVELU
Silly Girl 2/Ensemble
Keya (@keyavadivelu) is a 10th grader at LSS Academy who loves dance! Her most recent show with TCT includes Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. (Kai, ensemble).
MIA ZINK
Ensemble
Previously at TCT, Mia has appeared in Narnia the Musical (Ensemble) and Disney’s Finding Nemo JR. (Scuba Mask Dancer, Swing). Enjoy the show!
Last season, TCT gave over $900,000 in ticket subsidies to schools, providing what is for most students their first experience with live theatre. TCT’s cost per student to attend a MainStage performance is $30. No school ever pays
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST PRODUCTION TEAM
KIM KERN
President & CEO
Kim is a native Cincinnatian and graduate of the Cincinnati Country Day School (’87) and Vanderbilt University (’91). Kim joined (TCT) in 2013 and has 29 years of experience in non-profit executive leadership. Under Kim’s leadership, TCT’s staff and budget have doubled and TCT completed renovation of their facility on Red Bank Road with eight, state-of-the-art studio spaces for their academy in addition to offices, a costume shop, MainStage rehearsal space, and a small theater. Kim now leads the $51M project to “reimagine” the Emery Theater as TCT’s new MainStage home. In 2015 Kim received a “Women of Influence” award, was a finalist in the “C-Suite Awards” in 2021, and was inducted into the Cincinnati Country Day School Arts Hall of Fame in 2023.
RODERICK JUSTICE
Artistic Director/Choreographer
This season Roderick celebrates 19 incredible years with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT)! A Tony-recognized Arts Educator, and award-winning director, choreographer, costume designer, playwright, actor, and Broadway producer (How to Dance in Ohio), he is a mentor to hundreds of young performers. As a member of The Stage Directors & Choreographers Society, he has been producing theatre-for-youth for nearly two decades. In 2020, Roderick was recognized as one of Cincinnati’s 40 Under Forty. In 2021, he was named BroadwayWorld.com’s Arts Educator of the Decade. In 2024, he was an Honorable Mention for the Excellence in Theatre Education Award, presented by Carnegie Mellon at the Tony Awards. Since assuming the role of Artistic Director in 2015, he has launched over 25 world-premiere original works and adaptations of theatre for young audiences (TYA). Roderick also serves as guest artist with many local and national arts organizations, is involved with several community initiatives and non-profit boards, and is proudly one of Cincinnati’s “Men Wear Pink Campaign” members, where for the past 6 years, he has helped to raise over a million dollars for the American Cancer Society. www.roderickjustice.com
MADDIE JONES
Director/Associate Artistic Director
After earning her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Northern Kentucky University, Maddie earned her Master’s in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky. She has been performing, directing, and choreographing for TCT’s MainStage for nearly 20 years. Maddie is the director of TCT’s STAR Intensive and is the Director of Musical Theatre at the School for Creative and Performing Arts. She has performed across the globe and her choreography has been seen on stages across the US. In 2020, Maddie was recognized by Broadway World Cincinnati as Dancer of the Decade. She has received many national and regional awards for her choreography in hip hop, contemporary, musical theatre dance and tap dancing. Maddie and her husband, James
Jones, have been performing together for many years, and they just welcomed their daughter and future star, Sayler James.
TYLER GABBARD
Scenic Design
Tyler is the Producing Director of Theatre at The Carnegie, dubbed “Favorite Local Theatre” by the BroadwayWorld Cincinnati Awards. Tyler has worked as a designer for theatres in New York City and Los Angeles and over a dozen venues in Kentucky and Ohio, including 20 shows at The Carnegie. He was selected to participate in the Emerging Leadership Institute of the Association of Performing Arts Professionals and in 2023 he won the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce’s Next Generation Leader Award in Arts, Entertainment, and Hospitality. Recently, Tyler was featured in Movers & Makers’ Notables in Performing Arts and Queer Kentucky’s 25 Faces of Fairness. He has a BFA in Drama from NYU/Tisch and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from NKU. Tyler lives in Bellevue with his husband Jack and their dog Popsicle.
BENJAMIN GANTOSE
Lighting Design
Benjamin is an Ohio native. He grew up in Berea, Ohio, and attended the CollegeConservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, where he studied theatrical design and production with an emphasis on lighting design. Benjamin has been involved in both scenic and lighting design for works spanning ballet and modern dance, scripted and devised theatre, musical theatre, opera, and theme parks. He is Resident Lighting Designer at Cleveland Public Theatre and an Associate Designer at the Cincinnati Ballet and Kansas City Ballet. Benjamin’s work has been seen recently at Cleveland Playhouse, Ballet Hawaii,
Beck Center For The Arts, Cleveland Musical Theater, Verb Ballets, and Inlet Dance Theatre. As an Associate Designer, Benjamin’s work includes lighting and scenic designs at Louisville Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Cain Park, and Lakeland Civic Theatre. This is Benjamin’s 11th season with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati.
NOELLE WEDIG-JOHNSTON
Costume Design
Noelle’s background is in textiles and fabric art & design (B.F.A. Fibers, College of Mount St. Joseph), (M.F.A. Textile Design, Savannah College of Art & Design). She has been creating costumes for the Cincinnati Ballet as the Wardrobe Supervisor for the last several seasons. She has also designed for The Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, ArtWorks, Madcap Puppets, Cedar Fair’s Kings Island, LF Creative Group, and The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Noelle is a member of The Cincinnati Wardrobe Union (Local 864).
JAMEY STRAWN
Music Director
Jamey is a professor in the NKU Theatre and Dance program, where he serves as the Coordinator of Musical Theatre. Aside from teaching musical theatre courses, he enjoys teaching with CCSA in the study abroad program in London. Jamey has composed music for several published works for the stage, including Sleeping Beauty-Rise And Shine, A. Lincoln: A Pioneer Tale, Snow White And The Dancing Dwarfs, The Day Before Christmas, Church Girls, and Burgertown. When he is not writing, Jamey is directing, musical directing, performing, and teaching.
Gabbi
Poirer
KEVIN FRISCH
Puppet Designer
Kevin has been creating puppets for The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati since 2006, masks and costumes for The Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, The Puppetworks Inc. of New York, and Colonial Williamsburg. His puppets have been seen in People magazine, Showtimes’s Twisted Puppet Theater, the PBS documentary Stories of the American Puppet, and on stage with Cincinnati Opera as well as in the New York store windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, and Hermes New York, and in the family film Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium.
DON MOORE
Audio Engineer
Don Moore has worked on production projects for Pepsi, PlayStation, and the Cincinnati Bengals. More recently, Don Moore was featured on Bootsy Collins 2011 song, “Hip Hop @ Funk U,” alongside rap legends Ice Cube and Chuck D. He was also featured on Bootsy Collins’ “Z Classified” alongside Buckethead.
JADI DAVIS
Production Stage Manager/Assistant Director
Jadi is excited for his fourth season with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. He has previous Stage Management experience for the Henry Mancini Academy, the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Busch Gardens Entertainment, Kings Island Entertainment, and the Hamilton City School District. He was also a Theatrical Project Manager for Vincent Lighting Systems, and a Lighting Director for Riverfront Live, the Madison Theater, the Fitton Center for the Creative Arts, and the Greater Hamilton Civic Theatre.
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THE CHILDREN’S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI STAFF
President & CEO..........................................................Kim Kern
Artistic Director ................................................Roderick Justice
TCT Academy Director...............................Miranda Bohannon
Starting Our Adventure Right (SOAR) program, CCHMC/ Cincinnati Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) program, Autism Society of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati Occupational Therapy Institute, Down Syndrome Association of Greater Cincinnati, The Point Arc of Northern Kentucky, Best Point Education & Behavioral Health, Jenn Jordan of Q102
Graphic Design ................Cal Harris and Cincinnati Magazine Photographer .....................................................Mikki Schaffner Program Editor/Contributor ......................................Cal Harris
FROM THE PUBLISHERS OF
THE CHILDREN’S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Allison H. Kropp (Chair)
Andrew Simon (Secretary)
Charles O. Schiff (Vice Chair)
Melinda Davis (Vice Chair)
David Crowley (Treasurer)
Gregory L. Adams, Jeanette Altenau, Nick Binkley, Justin Brookhart, Peter Brown, Sarah Anne Campbell, Grant Cooper, Maris Croswell, Jennifer Dakers, Darcie D’Ascenzo, Daniel M. Driehaus, Libby Galvin-Brock, Molly Garber, Paul Griscom, Sarah Haines, Peter Horton, Katherine O. Jarnigo, Ken Jones, Dr. Rajan R. Kamath, Ph.D., Leanne Langdon, Kick Lee, Rana Schiff, Meghan Sullivan Nelson, Bethany R. Smith, Jeremy Smith, Jennifer Spieser, Scott T. Stubbins, Marcus Thompson, Diana Victoriano, Owen J. Wrassman Emeritus Board
Edyth B. Lindner, Fran Carlisle, Chris Stubbins Honorary Board ...............................Vicki Herche, Carol Hilsinger, Skip Merten
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