Thank You And Goodnight............................................................................................. Ensemble
Time and Place
Springfield High School Gymnasium, USA
Act I: Class of 1958’s Super Senior Prom
Act II: 1968, the Class of 1958’s Ten-Year Reunion
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the cast
(in alphabetical order)
Ann Mantini-Celima (Suzy)
Drayton Entertainment: The Music Man, Big Band Legends, Nunsense, Swing! You’ll Get Used To It...The War Show, Vaudeville!, Hurray For Hollywood and The Mikado, Moments to Remember, Home for the Holidays. Other Theatre: Yesterday Once More: 1973, Church Basement Ladies (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia); You’ve Got A Friend (Starbright Productions); Anything Goes, Peter Pan, Anne of Green Gables, Say It With Music (Rainbow Stage Winnipeg); Suds (Stirling Festival Theatre); Swing!, Fauntleroy, Babies, Anne of Green Gables (The Charlottetown Festival and 1986 Expo Tour); Anne of Green Gables (Tapestry Theatre Toronto). Ann is proud of her work with sisters Barbara and Sandra (The Mantini Sisters: www.mantinisisters.com). Love to my Joe!
Barbara Mantini (Missy)
Drayton Entertainment: The Music Man, Big Band Legends, Swing!, The Mikado, Hurray for Hollywood, Vaudeville! Other Theatre: Around the Piano (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia); Nine (Podium Concerts); You’ve Got A Friend (Starbright Productions); Oliver (Theatre Aquarius); Nunsense (Muskoka Festival); Say It With Music (Rainbow Stage); The Legend of the Dumbells (Tapestry Music); Anne of Green Gables, Swing! (Charlottetown Festival). Recipient of an NMA Music Award for her jazz CD “Maybe Someday”. For over 30 years, Barbara has toured and produced with her sisters Sandra and Ann (The Mantini Sisters). Big thanks to Dave, Robert and Andrew for their constant love and support! www.barbaramantini.com
Sandra Mantini (Betty Jean)
Drayton Entertainment: Vaudeville!, Hurray For Hollywood, Swing!, Big Band Legends, Anne of Green Gables, The Music Man. Other Theatre: Divine Women (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia); You’ve Got A Friend (Starbright Productions); Say It With Music (Rainbow Stage Winnipeg); Singin’ and Dancin’ Tonight!, Ye Gods!, Fauntleroy, Swing!, Anne of Green Gables (The Charlottetown Festival). Film/TV: Singin’ and Dancin’ Tonight! (ACTRA Award Nominee); appears on Canadian cast recording of Anne of Green Gables. For the past three decades, Sandra has toured Canada and the U.S.A. with sisters, Barbara and Ann (The Mantini Sisters). She is the very proud “Nonna” to Liliana and Levi. www.mantinisisters.com
Marianne McCord (Cindy Lou)
Drayton Entertainment: The World Goes Round, Blue Champagne, Hairspray, Rocky: The Musical. Other Theatre (selected): Chicago (Broadway, Las Vegas, US National Tour); Mamma Mia, Crazy For You (Mirvish); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donny Osmond, Sunset Boulevard (Livent); Cats (Toronto); Narnia (Theatre New Brunswick); White Christmas (Arts Club Vancouver); Norm Foster’s The Love List (Stage West Calgary); Evita (Manitoba Theatre Centre); Guys and Dolls (Stratford Festival); Swing (Charlottetown Festival); four seasons at hometown Winnipeg’s Rainbow Stage. Marianne is thrilled to be a “Wonderette”. Love to family and friends. I dedicate this performance to my (late) parents, Doug and Betty Lou!
the creative team
Jordan Laffrenier (Director)
Drayton Entertainment: American Son. Other Theatre: Jordan has held many theatre development roles in New York City, Los Angeles and Toronto, including Amélie on Broadway, Paradise Square, Sousatska, and as co-dramaturg of Cahoot’s Theatre Company’s flagship HotHouse Program. Jordan is an award winning director, dramaturg, producer and educator. Jordan is currently the Associate Artistic Director of Canadian Stage and Prime Mover Theatre Company and the former Artistic Producer of Theatre Sheridan.
Alyssa Martin (Choreographer)
Drayton Entertainment: Debut. Other Theatre: Desperate Drama of Red, Sugar Water (The National Ballet of Canada); Sex Dalmatian, DINO, Kid Sister, hollow mountain, fantasylover (Rock Bottom Movement); Cymbeline, Les Belles Soeures, Little Women, I Am William (Stratford Festival); PUS (Susie Burpee and Linnea Swan); Bin Chicken (Toronto Dance Theatre); Girls Like That (Tarragon Theatre). @itsalyssamartin www.rockbottommovement.com
Jim Hodgkinson (Music Director)
Drayton Entertainment: We’ll Meet Again, The Crooner, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Kings and Queens of Country, You’ll Get Used To It! … The War Show. Other Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford Festival), Saturday Night Fever (Troika, US Tour), Miss Saigon, Suds, Dames At Sea (Arts Club). Film/TV: Super Dave’s All Stars. Highlights: soloist at Canada’s Embassy to the United States, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York (with vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker). Composer/Lyricist: Little Women (Chemainus Theatre). Pianist/Conductor: Vera Lynn, Variety Club Telethon. Occasionally, Jim anchors a tip jar on cruise ships and performs a comedy show with the brilliant Seana-Lee Wood.
Brian Dudkiewicz (Set Designer)*
Drayton Entertainment: Kinky Boots, The Sound of Music, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Disney’s Newsies, Rocky: The Musical. Other credits: Brian is an award-winning designer whose work has been seen across Canada, the United States, and in Asia. Billy Elliot, The Last Five Years (Neptune); Never Not Once (Theatre Aquarius); Controlled Damage, Titanic (The Grand); Jukebox Hero (Mirvish/Jubilee Theatre); Dixon Road (Musical Stage Company); Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Theatre Calgary); The Jungle Book (ATP); April Fools, Prayer for the French Republic, Indecent, Million Dollar Quartet (Segal Center); Dear Jack, Dear Louise, The Great Divide, Bad Jews (Harold Green); Jersey Boys (1000 Island Playhouse); Orphans (Coal Mine); many shows Off-Broadway in NYC. Brian holds an M.F.A. in Set Design from Yale University, and a Bachelor in Architecture from McGill. @briandud1
Jessica Pembleton (Costume Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Footloose, Bittergirl The Musical, Legally Blonde: The Musical, We’ll Meet Again, It Runs in the Family, ‘ART’, Man of La Mancha, Canada 151: Better Late than Sorry, Kings & Queens of Country, Footloose, Canadian Legends, The Odd Couple, The Crazy Time, The Last Resort, Boeing Boeing, Twist and Shout: The British Invasion, Lend Me A Tenor, Legends of Harmony, The Love List, Oliver!, Harvey, Murder at the Best Western, The Melville Boys, Separate Beds, The Odd Couple, On Golden Pond. Other Theatre: All Shook Up (Head of Wardrobe, Stage West Mississauga). Jessica would like to thank her amazing family and husband for all of their unconditional love and support.
*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.
Lyle Franklin (Lighting Designer)
Drayton Entertainment: Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Buying The Farm, Kings & Queens of Country, Out of Order, Office Hours, Hilda’s Yard, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, The Affections of May, Lend Me A Tenor, Too Many Cooks, The Love List, Perfect Wedding, Twelve Angry Men, Separate Beds, The Odd Couple, Funny Money, Boeing Boeing. Other Theatre: The Last Enchanted Forest (Petrolia); Walking on Water (Fanshawe College); The Anger of Ernest and Ernestine (Lost & Found Theatre); A Funny Thing Happened … (Ryerson University). He is a graduate of Ryerson University. Lyle is pleased to be working on another lighting design with Drayton Entertainment.
Charles Russell (Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment: Bittergirl The Musical, Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, Fiddler on the Loose, A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline, Grease, The Miracle Worker, Jack and the Beanstalk: The Panto, Hairspray, Kings & Queens of Country, Million Dollar Quartet, The 39 Steps, All Shook Up, Red Rock Diner, Anything Goes, Sexy Laundry, The Music Man, The Crazy Time, The Wizard of Oz, Look No Hans!, Godspell (U.S. National Tour), Oliver!, The Love List, Blue Suede Shoes, Harvey. Other Theatre: The Wizard of Oz (Charlottetown Festival); Extraordinary, Canada In Love, Dr. Magnificent’s Travelling Medicine Show (Young At Heart Musical Theatre for Seniors).
Molly Mück (Apprentice Stage Manager)
Drayton Entertainment: Footloose, Peter Pan: The Panto, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Prom, The Crooner, Mamma Mia!. Other Theatre: Three Sisters & Co., The Corsican Complaint (GBTS). Molly is a recent graduate of the George Brown Theatre School and is excited to be a part of Drayton Entertainment this season. Thanks to her friends and family for the support.
the BAND
Jim Hodgkinson (Music Director/Piano)
Drayton Entertainment: We’ll Meet Again, The Crooner, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Kings and Queens of Country, You’ll Get Used To It! … The War Show. Other Theatre: Jesus Christ Superstar (Stratford Festival), Saturday Night Fever (Troika, US Tour), Miss Saigon, Suds, Dames At Sea (Arts Club). Film/TV: Super Dave’s All Stars. Highlights: soloist at Canada’s Embassy to the United States, Carnegie Recital Hall, New York (with vibraphonist Ted Piltzecker). Composer/Lyricist: Little Women (Chemainus Theatre). Pianist/Conductor: Vera Lynn, Variety Club Telethon. Occasionally, Jim anchors a tip jar on cruise ships and performs a comedy show with the brilliant Seana-Lee Wood.
Erik Larson (Bass)
Drayton Entertainment: Fiddler on the Roof, Fiddler On The Loose, Good Ol’ Country Gospel, The Music Man, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Other Theatre: Million Dollar Quartet (Grand Theatre); UnCovered: Fleetwood Mac & The Eagles, Kelly v. Kelly (Musical Stage Company); Forever Plaid (Starvox Entertainment); Mary Poppins (Young People’s Theatre); Kitchen Party Leftovers, The Roaring Twenties, Hogan’s Hoedown, Rocky Mountain High (Victoria Playhouse Petrolia). Recently, Erik was a sub for Mirvish Productions’ smash hit musical Come From Away, and worked alongside Canadian Music Hall of Famer Steven Page on the workshop of his new musical Here’s What It Takes at the Stratford Festival. @ErikSonOfLars
Craig Snowden (Drums)
Drayton Entertainment: Sh-Boom! Life Could Be a Dream, Billy Bishop
Drayton Entertainment: Peter Pan: The Panto, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin: The Panto. Other Theatre: Brigadoon, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, Sweet Charity, Peter and the Starcatcher, Cabaret, Guys and Dolls, My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees, Ragtime, A Grand Night for Singing (Shaw Festival); Mary Poppins, A Christmas Carol, Beauty and the Beast (Theatre Aquarius); Nine (St. Lawrence College); Urinetown (Sheridan College). Craig performs regularly with orchestras in Niagara, Hamilton and Windsor, as well as choirs, new music and chamber ensembles throughout Ontario. He is also the percussion coach/mentor for the Niagara Youth Orchestra.
*Indicated designers on this production are represented by the Associated Designers of Canada, IATSE Local ADC659.
OUR MARVELOUS MUSIC
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Roger Bean created the long-running Off-Broadway smash hit The Marvelous Wonderettes (Westside Theatre), along with the sequels Wonderettes: Caps & Gowns, Winter Wonderetles, and Wonderetles: Dream On. Original cast albums for all Wonderettes shows are available from iTunes and Amazon. The Marvelous Wonderelles received the 2007 LA Ovation Award for Best Musical for its recordbreaking Los Angeles run and continues to be an audience favorite in regional and amateur theatre companies throughout the country. Mr. Bean’s doo-wop hit Life Could Be A Dream had a record-breaking 12-month run in Los Angeles, receiving the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Theatre Award, and the Backstage Garland Award for Outstanding Musical.
Mr. Bean wrote and created the popular jukebox musicals Summer of Love, The Andrews Brothers, Route 66, Honky Tonk Laundry, and Why Do Fools Fall In Love?, all currently available through Broadway Licensing. Additional musicals created by Mr. Bean include Don’t Touch That Dial!, That’s Amore, and Beach Blanket Bash
