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EVERYMAN THEATRE
Vincent M. Lancisi, Founder, Artistic Director
presents
AGATHA CHRISTIE'S
MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Adapted by KEN LUDWIG Director VINCENT M. LANCISI
Colonel Arbuthnot & Samuel Ratchett.............................................................DANNY GAVIGAN* Helen Hubbard................................................................................................. DEBORAH HAZLETT* Princess Dragomiroff............................................................................................HELEN HEDMAN* Greta Ohlsson........................................................................................................... BETH HYLTON* Mary Debenham..................................................................................................... HANNAH KELLY Michel (conductor) & Head Waiter................................................................. M. SCOTT MCLEAN* Hector MacQueen...........................................................................................................TONY NAM* Hercule Poirot.................................................................................. BRUCE RANDOLPH NELSON* Countess Andrenyi..................................................................................................... LILIAN OBEN* Monsieur Bouc...........................................................................................JEFFERSON A. RUSSELL* Set Design
DANIEL ETTINGER Sound Design & Original Music
PORNCHANOK KANCHANABANCA
Dialects
GARY LOGAN
Lighting Design
HAROLD F. BURGESS II Projection Design
Wig Design
RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON
Fights/Intimacy/FX
LEWIS SHAW
Costume Design
DAVID BURDICK ANNE NESMITH
Props Master
MICHAEL RASINSKI
Stage Managers
CAT WALLIS*, AMANDA M. HALL*
Setting: The principal action of the play takes place in 1934 aboard the Orient Express as it travels from Istanbul to Western Europe. This production will be performed in two acts with one intermission.
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
LEE & CLAIRE MILLER PRODUCTION SPONSORS SHIRLEY T. HOLLANDER
SEASON SPONSORS
PHYLLIS & JOE JOHNSON FOUNDATION
PLEASE TURN OFF ALL CELL PHONES. NO TEXTING OR EATING IN THE THEATRE.
Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc. Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express adapted by Ken Ludwig was originally staged by McCarter Theater Center, Princeton, NJ. Emily Mann, Artistic Director, Timothy J. Shields, Managing Director. The production subsequently transferred to Hartford Stage, Harford, CT. Darko Tresnjak, Artistic Director, Michael Stotts, Managing Director. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings of this production or distributing recordings on any medium, including the internet, is strictly prohibited, a violation of the author’s rights and actionable under United States copyright law. For more information please visit: https://shop.samuelfrench.com/content/files/pdf/piracy-whitepaper.pdf
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WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER JAN 21 - FEB 16
A NOTE FROM A NOTE FROM VINCENT M. LANCISI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, FOUNDER, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR VINCENT M. LANCISI
H
appy Holidays and welcome to Everyman Theatre. When I first learned that the lauded playwright Ken Ludwig was commissioned by the Agatha Christie estate to write the first stage adaptation of her famous novel, Murder on the Orient Express, I was eager to read it in the hopes of producing it at Everyman. Ken Ludwig’s plays and adaptations are always so smart, so dashing, and audiences just love his gift for writing sharp and clever dialogue. Considering that Agatha Christie is one of the finest mystery writers of all time, I knew the resulting play would be loaded with suspense. We love a good mystery at Everyman, especially at the holidays!
It’s been wildly exciting and challenging to stage Murder on the Orient Express. It requires multiple settings in exotic locales, elegant costumes, lots of props, and a large cast of talented actors. The resources required are immense. The plot is a complex puzzle and suspects lurk around every corner. It’s a veritable whodunit and what’s worse, nearly everybody has read the book or seen one of the movies beforehand. Both Mr. Ludwig and Ms. Christie have great senses of humor, so we have laughed our way through rehearsals. Everyone working on the play has had so much fun putting it all together.
generosity of our donors. The opportunity to present large plays like Murder on the Orient Express is made possible by these loyal contributors who understand that these shows are very expensive to produce. If this were a for profit, commercial theatre, your ticket price would need to be well over $150 per person just to break even. Here at Everyman, we want everybody to be able to afford to see our plays. We do this through our strategic discount programs, pay-what-you-can night, and High School Matinee program in Baltimore City schools. The Matinee Program allows students to see five plays a year and engage with teaching artists in their schools before and after each performance. Because of our donors, this wonderful program is free to the students every year. In order to keep the Matinee Program thriving and the price of tickets affordable to all, we need your help to offset the costs. Please consider making a taxdeductible gift to Everyman Theatre today. There’s a lot to celebrate these days in our fair city. We have world class cultural offerings in many neighborhoods and around every corner in Baltimore. Let’s all keep working hard together to be sure these institutions continue to thrive as they entertain, enlighten, and improve the quality of our lives. Enjoy the show.
As we welcome patrons at Everyman during the holiday season, I am reminded of the MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 3
WHAT WAS THE ORIENT EXPRESS? By Lindsey R. Barr
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n 1883, after a number of false starts, financial troubles and difficulties negotiating with various national railway companies, Nagelmackers's Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (wagons-lits being French for "sleeper cars") established a route from Paris to Istanbul, then called Constantinople. The newspapers dubbed it the "Orient Express"—though Istanbul was as far toward the "Orient" as this train would ever travel—and Nagelmackers embraced the name.
and luxury, carrying sleeper-cars with permanent service and restaurant cars known for the quality of their cuisine. Similar to the First World War, the start of the Second World War in 1939 interrupted the service, which did not resume until 1945. During the war, the German Mitropa company had run some services on the route through the Balkans, but Yugoslav Partisans frequently sabotaged the track, forcing a stop to this service.
With opulent fabrics, The route and rolling polished wood stock of the Orient THE ORIENT EXPRESS WAS A furniture, and goldExpress changed TRAIN KNOWN FOR TRANSPORTING gilded finishes, each PASSENGERS ON THE LONG many times, with ticket on the legendary JOURNEY FROM ISTANBUL TO several routes train cost 35 Euros CALAIS VIA PARIS. using the Orient which, accounting for Express name. In its inflation and currency heyday, The Orient conversion, is about $3,400 today, without Express was a train known for transporting factoring for any meals onboard the passengers on the long journey from train. This ensured exclusivity for wealthy Istanbul to Calais via Paris. Though its patrons. The train service successfully maiden voyage was in 1883, it wasn’t until spanned the entirety of Europe and could the 1930s when the Orient Express was transport passengers across the continent most popular, with three parallel services in a week. The original train and railway running: the Orient Express, the Simplon closed operations in 1977, however, the Orient Express, and also the Arlberg Orient train was later beautifully restored and Express. During this time, the Orient put back into service and now runs from Express acquired its reputation for comfort London to Paris and beyond.
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E LEFT: Simplon Orient Express map, c. 1932. A. The first rendering of the Orient Express in 1883. B. Cleaners at work in the luxurious first-class carriage on the 'Minerva' in 1938. C. Bedroom on the interior of a Pullman style car. D. Passengers listen to a radio gramophone on a Pullman style train carriage in 1930. E. One of the first advertising posters of the Orient Express, 1888.
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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES AGATHA CHRISTIE (Author) Agatha Christie was born Agatha May Clarissa Miller on 13 September 1890 in Torquay, Devon, England to Alvan Miller and Clarissa Margaret. Though she was raised by both parents, her father passed away when she was 11 years old. Agatha married an aviator named Archibald Christie and had a daughter named Rosalind in 1919. During the First World War, Christie volunteered to work for the Red Cross. After the war, Agatha turned to writing, and her first novel The Mysterious Affair was published in 1920. Though many novels featured the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, this was the first novel that introduced one of Christie’s most famous protagonists. Agatha was a prolific author, writing many books including Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Death on the Nile (1937) and And Then There Were None (1939). During the Second World War, Agatha Christie worked as a pharmacist, which may have directly influenced her knowledge of poisons and chemicals that would later appear in her novels. Agatha Christie died on January 12, 1976 and is buried in a churchyard in Cholsey, Oxfordshire. KEN LUDWIG (Playwright) Ken Ludwig is a two-time Olivier Award-winning playwright who has written 28 plays and musicals, including six shows on Broadway and seven in London's West End. Lend Me A Tenor won two Tony Awards and was called "one of the classic comedies of the 20th century” by The Washington Post. Many of his works have become a standard part of the American repertoire, including Crazy For You (five years on Broadway, Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Musical), Moon Over Buffalo (starring Carol Burnett), Twentieth Century (starring Alec Baldwin), Baskerville, Shakespeare in Hollywood (Helen Hayes Award), The Game’s
Afoot (Edgar Award for Best Mystery of the Year), A Fox on the Fairway and Leading Ladies. His stage version of Murder on the Orient Express was written at the request of the Agatha Christie Estate and his newest play, Dear Jack, Dear Louise is currently running at Arena Stage. His book How To Teach Your Children Shakespeare won the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare Book of the Year. His work has been performed in over 30 countries in more than 20 languages, and is produced somewhere in the United States every night of the year. www.kenludwig.com
CAST BIOGRAPHIES (All Bios in Alphabetical Order)
DANNY GAVIGAN (Colonel Arbuthnot & Samuel Ratchett) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Dinner with Friends, The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Book of Joseph, Long Day's Journey into Night, Noises Off, A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman, Ghosts, Deathtrap, The Understudy, Crimes of the Heart, The Beaux' Stratagem. Off-Broadway: 59 E 59: The Book of Joseph. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse: Peer Gynt; Ford's Theatre: Death of a Salesman, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Helen Hayes Award for Best Ensemble); Baltimore Center Stage: The Rivals, Snow Falling on Cedars; Woolly Mammoth: Describe the Night, Detroit; Signature Theatre: Really Really (World Premiere); Palm Beach Dramaworks: A Streetcar Named Desire; Round House: Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley (World Premiere), NSFW, How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Pride & Prejudice; Studio Theatre: Mojo, All That I Will Ever Be; Theatre J: The Admission. FILM/TV: Unarmed Man (HBO Best Feature Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival), Dakota (w/ Phoebe Ryan), Currency (Best Drama Pilot SeriesFest, Best Dramatic Series iTVFest), Rumination (Best Supporting Actor Special Jury Prize LA Independent Shorts, NoVA Film Fest).
DEBORAH HAZLETT (Helen Hubbard) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Everything is Wonderful, Sweat, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, The Roommate, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, An Inspector Calls, Ghosts, Deathtrap, Tribes, The Dresser, The Glass Menagerie, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, Shooting Star, All My Sons, Two Rooms, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Much Ado About Nothing, Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Candida (Best Actress 2006, City Paper), Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Uncle Vanya, Hedda Gabler, Proof (Best Actress 2004, City Paper), Sideman, The Pavilion, A Delicate Balance, Watch on the Rhine, The Crucible, The Road to Mecca, Voir Dire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Regional: Arena Stage: A Time to Kill; Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre: Frozen; Syracuse Stage: BUG; Florida Stage: The Count, Mezzulah 1946; Signature Theater: CRAVE, Blue Room; Woolly Mammoth Theater Company: Appropriate, BUG (U.S. Premiere); Folger Theatre: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Shakespeare Theatre Company: eight productions including Henry IV Parts I and II, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night; Theater J: Something You Did; Roundhouse Theatre: NSFW, Crown of Shadows; Olney Theatre Center: Rabbit Hole (Helen Hayes Outstanding Ensemble Nomination), Over the Tavern, Death of a Salesman; Totem Pole Playhouse: Sylvia, Crimes of the Heart, Proof; Rep Stage: Arcadia. TV/Film: Law and Order, Homicide, Young Americans. Education: M.F.A. Acting, University of South Carolina. HELEN HEDMAN (Princess Dragomiroff) Everyman Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Book of Joseph, Outside Mullingar, Blithe Spirit, Pygmalion, School for Scandal, Cripple of Inishmaan. Regional: Arena Stage: Watch on the Rhine, A Delicate Balance, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Women, The Caucasian Chalk Circle; Shakespeare Theatre Company: EVERYMAN THEATRE | 8
Lady Windermere’s Fan, A Woman of No Importance, The Country Wife and Camino Real; Round House Theatre: I’ll Get You Back Again, Rapture, Blister, Burn, The Chemistry of Change, The Rehearsal; Studio Theatre: Escaped Alone, The Year of Magical Thinking; Signature Theatre: Crazy for You, Beaches, Show Boat, My Fair Lady, The Sex Habits of American Women; Olney Theatre: Piaf (Helen Hayes nomination), Triumph of Love, Omnium Gatherum; Rep Stage: The Seagull, Mrs. Farnsworth, Kimberly Akimbo; Ford’s Theatre: Sabrina Fair, A Christmas Carol; Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma: The Glass Menagerie, An Inspector Calls; International Shaw Conference: Press Cuttings; St. Louis Repertory: Canterbury Tales. Film/TV: Homicide, Silent Fall w/ Richard Dreyfuss and Beast (Winner 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival Jury Award). BETH HYLTON (Greta Ohlsson) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Dinner with Friends (Karen), The Book of Joseph (Klara/Felicja), The Revolutionists (Marie Antoinette), Intimate Apparel (Mrs. Van Buren), Noises Off (Belinda Blair) The Roomate (Robyn), A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche), Death of a Salesman (Jenny/Letta), Outside Mullingar (Rosemary), Blithe Spirit (Elvira), Deathtrap (Myra Bruhl), The Understudy (Roxanne), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Gloria), Crimes of the Heart (Lenny), August: Osage County (Ivy Weston), Time Stands Still (Sarah), All My Sons (Ann), Filthy Rich (Anne Scott), And A Nightingale Sang (Helen). New York: Off Broadway: Handbagged (Liz). Regional: Round House Theatre: Rapture, Blister, Burn, Small Mouth Sounds (Joan); Woolly Mammoth: Collective Rage (Betty 1), Appropriate (Rachael), Martha Josie and the Chinese Elvis (Josie); Center Stage: Clybourne Park (Bev/Kathy), Beneatha’s Place (Harriet); Maltz Jupiter: The 39 Steps (The Woman); Delaware Theatre Company: Blithe Spirit (Elvira); Weston Playhouse: Death of a Salesman (Miss Forsythe); Public Theatre of Maine: The Cocktail Hour (Nina), On Golden Pond
(Chelsea); Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre: House and Garden (JoAnna), Private Lives (Amanda), An Ideal Husband (Lady Chiltern); Gulfshore Playhouse: A Doll’s House (Nora), Life (x) 3 (Sonia), Blithe Spirit (Ruth); Olney Theatre Center: Hay Fever (Myra), The Savannah Disputation (Melissa), The Heiress (Marian); PlayMakers Rep: Hay Fever (Sorel), The School For Wives (Georgette), Look Homeward, Angel (Laura); The Hipp: Suddenly Last Summer (Catherine), Up (Helen); Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy: Skylight (Kyra); Ford’s: The Heavens Are Hung In Black (Mrs Winston), Member of the Wedding (Janice); Kennedy Center: Mister Roberts (Lieutenant Girard); TV/Film: House of Cards, One Life To Live, As The World Turns. Education: MFA Acting, Professional Actor Training Program/UNC-Chapel Hill. www.bethhylton.com HANNAH KELLY (Mary Debenham) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Everything is Wonderful, The Book of Joseph. Regional: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company: Dracula, The Diary of Anne Frank. Charm City Fringe Festival: Proxy. Education: B.F.A. Acting, University of Maryland Baltimore County. M. SCOTT MCLEAN (Michel (Conductor & Head Waiter) Everyman Theatre: Dinner with Friends. Off-Broadway: New York Classical Theatre: Macbeth (Macduff), As You Like It (Angelo), The Rover (Willmore); Regional: Olney Theatre Center: Labour of Love (National Premiere, David Lyons); TheaterWorks, Hartford: Constellations(Roland), Midsummer A Play with Songs (Bob); Denver Center Theatre: As You Like It (La Beau/Amiens), A Christmas Carol (Fred/ Young Scrooge 2009-2015), Animal Crackers (John/Jamison), Death of a Salesman (Happy), Grace or the Art of Climbing (World Premiere, Mick/Ernesto), A Prayer for Owen Meany (Larry Lish/ Ensemble); Merry-Go- Round Playhouse, NY: Legally Blonde (Emmett); Art Center of Coastal Carolina: The Unexpected Guest (Julian); Theatre Works, Palo Alto: Sense and
Sensibility (Willoughby); The National Theatre Conservatory: Tartuffe (Tartuffe); Education: A.D., The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York, NY; M.A., The National Theatre Conservatory, Denver, CO. TONY NAM (Hector MacQueen) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Everything is Wonderful, Aubergine. Regional: Arena Stage: Akeelah and the Bee (World Premiere); The Folger Theatre: Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure; Ford’s Theatre: Our Town; Kennedy Center TYA: Where Words Once Were, A Cricket in Time Square, Unleashed; Olney Theatre Center: Our Town; Mosaic Theatre Company of DC: Sooner/ Later, Theory; Round House Theatre: Treasure Island; Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Red Badge of Courage; Shakespeare Theatre Company: Othello, Pericles; TheatreWorks: Pacific Overtures; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company: Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis. Education: St. Mary’s College of MD - BA, University of Washington - MFA. BRUCE RANDOLPH NELSON (Hercule Poirot) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Proof, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Book of Joseph, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Great Expectations, Wait Until Dark, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, Ruined, Deathtrap, The Dresser, Red (Mark Rothko, Baltimore Magazine’s Best Actor), The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take it With You, Private Lives, Shipwrecked! (Louis/Best Actor City Paper), I Am My Own Wife, The Pavilion (Narrator/Best Actor City Paper), Irma Vep. Regional: Center Stage: Amadeus (Antonio Salieri), Animal Crackers (Groucho), The Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allen Poe (Poe), Vanya, Sonya, Masha and Spike (Vanya); Rep Stage: The Goat (Martin), Hysteria (Dali), The Violet Hour (Gidger/Helen Hayes Award), The Dazzle (Langley/Helen Hayes Award), Irma Vep (Enid/Helen Hayes Nomination), Faith Healer (Teddy/Helen Hayes Nomination); Folger MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 9
Theatre: The Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Ephesus), She Stoops to Conquer (Tony); Olney Theatre Center: Farragut North (Paul), The Underpants (Cohen); Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Company Member): Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Dwight/Originated Role), Fuddy Meers (Limping Man/Helen Hayes Nomination); The Shakespeare Theatre: The Taming of the Shrew (Tranio); Signature Theatre: Never the Sinner (White); Tour: National Players; Education: Towson University. LILIAN OBEN (Countess Andrenyi) Everyman Theatre Salon Series: Top Girls; Regional: Taffety Punk Theatre Company: Antigonick; Olney Theatre: The Crucible; Constellation Theatre Company: Melancholy Play - A Contemporary Farce (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Production 2019; Helen Hayes Nomination, Outstanding Ensemble 2019), The Skin of Our Teeth, The Arabian Nights, Journey to the West; Folger Theatre: The Second Shepherds’ Play; Sense & Sensibility (Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Production 2017—u/s performed); Imagination Stage: The Jungle Book Remount; Forum Theatre: Love and Information; Prince George’s County Shakespeare in the Parks: Twelfth Night; Iron Crow Theatre / Cohesion Theatre Company: Twelfth Night; Colonial Players of Annapolis: Communicating Doors. Television: Investigation Discovery: House of Horrors: Kidnapped. Teaching Artist: Young Playwrights Theatre, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. Education / Training: The Barrow Group Theatre School, NYC; Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory Three-Year Program, Washington, DC; Middlesex University, London, U.K. - BA; Boston University - MS. Website: www.lilianoben.com. JEFFERSON A. RUSSELL (Monsieur Bouc) Everyman Theatre (Resident Company Member): Aubergine, The Soul Collector, Gem of the Ocean, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Hedda Gabler,
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Blues for an Alabama Sky, Heathen Valley. Regional: American Players Theatre: The Recruiting Officer, Our Country's Good; Olney Theatre: Aubergine; Milwaukee Rep: Two Trains Running; Baltimore Center Stage/ Cincinnati Playhouse: Shakespeare in Love; Ford’s Theatre: Fences, Ragtime; Pioneer Theatre Co: Fences; Cincinnati Playhouse: Two Trains Running, Jitney; Marin Theatre Co: Fetch Clay Make Man, The Convert; Dallas Theatre/Goodman Theatre: Trinity River Plays; Hangar Theatre: The Piano Lesson; Round House: Father Comes Home From The Wars, Two Trains Running, Ironbound, Fahrenheit 451, Amadeus; Woolly Mammoth: Clybourne Park; Rep Stage: Sunset Baby; Folger: The Tempest; Gulfshore Playhouse: Race; Kennedy Center National tours: Harlem, Color Me Dark; Education: Hampton University, BA, (Sociology/Criminal Justice), GWU: MFA, Academy of Classical Acting. He is a former Baltimore police officer and a founding member of GALVANIZE, a network for artists of color.
DIRECTOR AND DESIGNER BIOGRAPHIES LINDSEY R. BARR (Dramaturgy) Everyman Theatre: August Wilson's Radio Golf, Proof, Dinner with Friends, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, Dancing at Lughnasa; Single Carrot Theatre: A Beginner’s Guide to Deicide; Fell’s Point Corner Theatre: Stop, Kiss; Capital Fringe Festival: Sweet Painted Lady; WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Laboratory: Caleb’s Moon, Tall Skinny Cruel, Cruel Boys. Towson University: MacBeth, Kaspar, What Once We Felt, The Misanthrope. Education Program Content Writer: Regional: Everyman Theatre: Grounded, Deathtrap, Ruined, Ghosts, An Inspector Calls, Fences, Outside Mullingar, Under the Skin; Directing: Regional: Baltimore Center Stage Play Lab (AD): Handle It, To the Flame; Goethe Institute (AD): The Privacy Project;
Interrobang Theatre Company (staged reading): Her Devices; Script Evaluator: Studio Theatre. Education: BS Towson University, MS University of Baltimore, PhD (in progress) University of Maryland, College Park. DAVID BURDICK (Costume Design) Everyman Theatre (Resident Costume Designer): August Wilson's Radio Golf, Proof, Dinner with Friends, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Book of Joseph, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Revolutionists, Intimate Apparel, Los Otros, Great Expectations, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, August Wilson’s Fences, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, Ruined, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Red, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Private Lives, All My Sons, The Mystery of Irma Vep. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: A Wonder in My Soul, Looking Glass Alice, Jazz, Amadeus, Next to Normal, Animal Crackers, The Final Strange Tale of Edgar Allen Poe, An Enemy of the People, The Rivals, Caroline or Change, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Private Lives, Les Blancs, The Piano Lesson, Picnic and others; Olney Theatre Center: The Diary of Anne Frank. Opera: Boston Lyric Opera: I Puritani; Cincinnati Opera: Don Giovanni; Tulsa Opera: Tosca, Carmen, The Barber of Seville, Fidelio. Eastman School of Music: The Rape of Lucretia. Dayton Contemporary Dance: Lyric Fire. Other: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Holiday Spectacular. HAROLD F. BURGESS II (Lighting Design) Everyman Theatre (Resident Lighting Designer): August Wilson's Radio Golf, Dinner With Friends, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, Aubergine, Dot, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ghosts, Grounded, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, The Dresser, Heroes, The Brothers Size, The School for Scandal. Regional: Studio Theatre: Breath Boom, My Children! My Africa!; Round House Theatre: A Doll’s House, Pt. 2, A Year With Frog and Toad (co-design); Adventure Theatre: Big River; Olney Theatre Center: Aubergine, Thurgood, Grounded,
Monster, Having Our Say; Theatre J: Trayf, Broken Glass, Another Way Home, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Hampton Years; Mosaic Theatre Company: Unexplored Interior. Additional design credits include Rep Stage, Imagination Stage, Northern Stage (VT), American University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the University of Maryland. Teaching: Director, College Park Scholars Arts program, University of Maryland College Park. Education: MFA, University of Maryland. DANIEL ETTINGER (Set Design) Everyman Theatre (Resident Set Designer): highlights include Everything is Wonderful, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, The Book of Joseph, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Revolutionists, Noises Off, Los Otros, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Outside Mullingar, Blithe Spirit, Ghosts, The Understudy, By The Way, Meet Vera Stark, Red, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, Time Stands Still, You Can’t Take It With You, The Brothers Size, Private Lives, Pygmalion, All My Sons, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself), I Am My Own Wife, Filthy Rich, Gem of the Ocean, School for Scandal, Proof, Nude With Violin, A Number. Off-Broadway: The Blue Angel Theatre: Pageant; Roundabout Theatre Company: A Man For All Seasons, Room Service; The York Theatre Company: Talley’s Folly, Luv. Regional: Woolly Mammoth: You for Me for You, Eclipsed, Vigils, Recent Tragic Events, Kiki and Herb, Starving, The Mineola Twins; Olney Theatre Company: Annie, Mary Poppins, The Piano Lesson, Bakersfield Mist; Rep Stage: All She Must Posses, Dorian's Closet, H2O, Venus in Fur, Mrs. Warren’s Profession; Barter Theatre: Thoroughly Modern Millie, She Loves Me, and over 100 other productions. Teaching: Towson University Design Program. AMANDA M. HALL (Stage Manager) Everyman Theatre: over 75 productions, including August Wilson's Radio Golf, Queens Girl in Africa, Dinner with Friends, Sweat, The Book of Joseph, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Intimate Apparel, Los Otros, Dot, Wait Until
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Dark, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Outside Mullingar, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, The Understudy, Tribes, The Dresser, Red, August: Osage County, Time Stands Still, You Can’t Take It With You, The Brothers Size, A Raisin in the Sun, All My Sons, Our Town, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Art, Sight Unseen, Betrayal, Opus, IRNE The Last Five Years, Uncle Vanya, The Pavilion, Fences, Glass Menagerie; Regional: MD Stage Company, The Guthrie Theatre, Rep Stage. RASEAN DAVONTE JOHNSON (Projection Design) is delighted to be working with Everyman Theatre. A Chicago-based video artist and theatrical designer, he has had the opportunity to work regionally with institutions such as Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Olney Theatre Center, Steppenwolf Theatre Company,Yale Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Berkshire Theatre Group, McCarter Theatre Center, Alliance Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, Court Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Kitchen Theatre, Writers Theatre, Manual Cinema, and internationally with the The Edinburgh Fridge Festival (Scotland), Ningbo Song and Dance Theatre (China) and B-Floor Theatre (Thailand). Additionally his video and installation work has been seen at the Yale Art Gallery, The Bridgeport Film Festival, and the Logan Center for the Arts. MFA: Yale School of Drama. raseandavontejohnson.com PORNCHANOK KANCHANABANCA (Sound Designer and Original Music Composer) Everyman Theatre: Everything is Wonderful. Regional: Baltimore Center Stage: Animal Farm*; Milwaukee Rep: Miss Bennet’s Christmas at Pemberley; Steppenwolf Theatre: The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime**; Montana Shakespeare in the Park: Othello**, Love’s Labours Lost; Playwrights Horizons: For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday*; The Kitchen Theatre: Matt&Ben; Signature Theatre: Nature Room; Rattlestick: The Enclave**; TFANA: Servant of Two Masters*; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park: Be Here Now**; Geva Theatre: Heartland; TheatreSquared: The Human; Columbia
University: Richard III**, Waiting**, King David, White Pearl; Julliard: Father Comes Home From the Wars; Vancouver Fringe Festival: Just Not That Woman; Grace Farm: Practicing Silence**; Brown/Trinity: Mud, Map of Virtue; UCONN: Eurydice**; The Bushwick Starr: The Bushwick, Princeton University: Mad Forest; ART-New York Theatre: Alligator; The Bushwick Starr: Frontieres sans Fronteries; Lincoln Center: I Want a Country; Fringe NYC: Canada Geese, Ain’t She Brave; 13 shows at Yale University (School of Drama, Cabaret, Rep); ANT Fest: Ain’t Gonna Make It; UndergroundzeroFestival: Oxygen**; Invisible Dog Art Center: Taste of Curry**. International: 38 shows in Thailand; 5 shows, BankokTheatre Festival; Tokyo Metropolitan (Japan). Education: MFA, Design with Concentration in Sound Design, Yale School of Drama; ATCL Piano Recital Diploma, Trinity College London; BA, Performing Arts, Chulalongkorn University. *Associate Sound Designer **Original Composition
VINCENT M. LANCISI (Founder, Artistic Director) founded Everyman Theatre in October of 1990 and has directed over 35 productions including Dinner With Friends, Sweat, Aubergine, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Dot, Death of A Salesman, Under the Skin, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, Tribes, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Stick Fly, All My Sons, Two Rooms, Rabbit Hole, The Cherry Orchard, Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, The Cone Sister, And a Nightingale Sang, The School for Scandal, A Number, Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Buried Child, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, A Delicate Balance, Hedda Gabler, Proof, Uncle Vanya and The Last Five Years. As a freelance director, last season he directed True West for Rep Stage in Columbia, MD. In addition to his work at Everyman, he has taught acting and directing at Towson University, University of Maryland, Catholic University, Howard Community College, and at Everyman Theatre. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Vincent sits on the boards for the Bromo Tower Arts & Entertainment District and the Market Center Merchants
Association. Vincent holds his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Boston College and his master’s degree in Directing from The Catholic University of America. GARY LOGAN (Dialects) Everyman Theatre: (Resident Dialect Coach): The Importance of Being Earnest, Dancing at Lughnasa,The Book of Joseph, Intimate Apparel, Noises Off, Great Expectations, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Outside Mullingar, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Ruined, Tribes, The Dresser, The Beaux’’ Stratagem, August: Osage County, Private Lives, Pygmalion, The Soul Collector, Our Town, Doubt, Much Ado About Nothing, And a Nightingale Sang. Regional: Kennedy Center: Master Class (with Tyne Daly); Signature Theatre: Westside Story, I Am My Own Wife; Arena Stage: A Raisin in the Sun; Studio Theatre: Moment, Belleville, Tribes, The Real Thing, Venus in Fur, Frozen; Ford’s Theatre: Shenandoah (with Scott Bakula), State of the Union; Folger: Henry V, Othello, Henry VIII, Much Ado About Nothing; Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Tempest, The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It, Design for Living, The Way of the World, An Enemy of the People, Julius Caesar; Chautauqua Theater Company: Henry V, Clybourne Park, The Winter’s Tale; Denver Center Theatre Company: Romeo and Juliet, Misalliance, Wit, Valley Song, The Tempest (over 50 others); International: The Royal Shakespeare Company and the Stratford Festival of Canada. He is the Associate Professor of Speech & Dialects, Carnegie Mellon University and author, The Eloquent Shakespeare (University of Chicago Press) ANNE NESMITH (Wig Design) Everyman Theatre: Dancing at Lughnasa, The Book of Joseph, M. Butterfly, Outside Mullinger, Fences, An Inspector Calls, Blithe Spirit, Deathtrap, The Dresser, Crimes of the Heart, The Glass Menagerie, The Beaux' Strategem, August: Osage County, You Can't Take it With You, All My Sons, Our Town, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Cherry Orchard, Gem of the Ocean. International: Saito Kinen Festival, Matsumoto, Japan, Hyogo Performing Arts Center, Nishinomiya, Japan. Regional: Arena
Stage, Ford's Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre, Opera Boston, Annapolis Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Castleton Music Festival, Wolftrap Opera, Washintong Ballet, Baltimore Opera Company Resident Wig and Makeup Designer. Wig Construction: Scooby Doo! Live Tour, Asian tour of 42nd Street. Other: Ice Cold Killers on Investigation Discovery, The Military Channels Great Planes; The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's Cultures in Motion Programs; United States Army—Spirit of America. LEWIS SHAW (Fights/Intimacy/FX) Everyman Theatre (Resident Fight Choreographer): Proof, Dinner With Friends, Everything is Wonderful, The Importance of Being Earnest, Sweat, The Revolutionists, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Wait Until Dark, Death of A Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit, Ruined, Deathtrap, The Dresser, The Beaux’ Stratagem, Topdog/Underdog, God of Carnage, August: Osage County, You Can’t Take It With You, Fifty Words, Private Lives, A Raisin in the Sun, Stick Fly, All My Sons, Blackbird, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Cherry Orchard, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Red Herring, The Lion in Winter, Much Ado About Nothing. Regional: Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, Baltimore Opera, Rep Stage, Studio Theatre; Performed at The Shakespeare Project, The Baltimore Shakespeare Festival. Broadway: Weapons Creator for Addams Family, Shrek, A Life In The Theatre, Aida, Into the Woods, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Pirate Queen. International: The Globe Theatre, London. TV/Film: America’s Most Wanted. Other: Vulcan’s Forge Fine Dueling Supplies (Owner). CAT WALLIS (Stage Manager) Everyman Theatre (Resident Stage Manager): Radio Golf, Proof, Queens Girl in the World, The Importance of Being Earnest, Everything is Wonderful, Dancing at Lughnasa, Aubergine, The Revolutionists, M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Great Expectations, The Roommate, Grounded. Regional: Olney Theatre Center: A Comedy of Tenors, Aubergine; Northern Stage: Grounded; Delaware REP: Wit, Faust, The Mousetrap, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS | 13
Hamlet, The Threepenny Opera, Anything to Declare, The Weir, Night of the Iguana, Our Country's Good, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Cripple of Inishmaan; The Contemporary American Theatre Festival: Uncanny Valley, Heartless, A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisble World, Gidion's Knot, From Prague, Inana (ASM); Snowy Range Summer Theatre: The Last Five Years, The Underpants, I am My Own Wife, Kosher Lutherans, Headset (a view from the lightbooth); Seattle Childrens Theatre: The Borrowers, Lyle the Crocodile; Missouri Theatre: Babes in Arms; Nebraska Rep: The Little Prince, Dinner with Friends, Jakes Women; Tour: Wizard of Oz. Teaching: KCACTF stage management workshops. Education: BFA University of Nebraska; MFA - University of Delaware PTTP.
Actors’ Equity Association was founded in 1913 to protect Actors from severe mistreatment that permeated the industry at the time. The 40,000 member association consists of distinguished stars and other professional actors and stage managers who work nationwide, from New York’s Broadway to Los Angeles, from Minneapolis to Miami Beach, in regional, stock and dinner theatre, and in theatre for young audiences which build audiences for tomorrow. The actors and stage managers are committed to working in the theatre as a profession, not an avocation, and bring to you the finest professional training and experience. By presenting Equity productions, this theatre offers to you, our audience, the best entertainment presented by the finest quality actors and stage managers that your admission dollars can buy.
The Director is represented by Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. The lighting designer is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
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A HISTORY OF EVERYMAN
E
veryman Theatre was founded by Vincent Lancisi in 1990. From the beginning, Everyman strove to provide top-notch theatre that is affordable and accessible to everyone. With a Resident Company of local, professional artists, Everyman has staged critically-acclaimed productions ranging from classics to contemporary works to world premieres over the past 29 years.
Everyman’s first production—The Runner Stumbles—was produced in the winter of 1990 at Saint John’s Church. For the next four years, Everyman could only afford to produce one production per year at various locations in Baltimore, including Vagabond’s Theatre, the Theatre Project and even a classroom at MICA.
subscriptions numbers grew and a string of popular and acclaimed productions, including Amadeus, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lion in Winter, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, and the wildly successful Proof, proved that Everyman was a mainstay in the Baltimore theatre scene. Through a generous donation from Bank of America and the Harold A. Dawson Trust, Everyman was given its new home on Fayette Street. Over the span of six years, Everyman completed a successful $18 million capital campaign co-chaired by Gina and Dan Hirschhorn. In January 2013, Everyman celebrated the Grand Opening of its new permanent home on Fayette Street with the record-breaking production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, August: Osage County.
The 1994/95 Season marked a series for firsts for Everyman. It was the first year at Everyman celebrated its 25th anniversary 1727 North Charles Street, which would during the 2015/16 Season by producing be Everyman's home for 18 years. It also "The Great American Rep," a feat featuring marked the first multi-production line-up— American classics Death of a Salesman and A starting with Sam Shepard's Buried Child— Streetcar Named Desire performed with the and also offered subscriptions to patrons for same cast in rotating repertory. the first time. Now in its 29th Season, Everyman invites you Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, to be a part of its next chapter.
FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS These extraordinary board members were seminal in the founding and nurturing of Everyman Theatre in its formative years.
Gordon Becker Nathan Chernoff+ Patricia Egan James R. Eyler Susan Sachs Fleishman + Deceased
Maurice Furchgott Niki Harris Gina B. Hirschhorn Bridget M. Horner Jeannie Howe
Vincent M. Lancisi Jonathan Melnick R. Rex Rehfeld E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Zelig Robinson
Vic Romita Frank Rosenberg Leonard Sachs+ Elspeth Udvarhelyi+ Martha Weiman
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ANNUAL FUND DONORS Thank you to all our generous annual fund donors. Your support is essential and allows us to present the very best in live professional theatre. Gifts listed here were received from donors between July 1, 2018 and October 30, 2019.
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WHAT IS THE BROMO DISTRICT? Imagine an arts district that connects the Stadiums and Downtown with a major corridor of Theatres, Galleries, and other public displays of art. Heading north, up the main arteries of Eutaw and Howard Streets, encounter Theatres, a public marketplace, and incubators spawning pop up galleries and emerging artists to be discovered. Continue on to find arts organizations celebrating the history and heritage of Baltimore and cultural institutions leading visitors up to the northern reaches of the district at Read and Howard Streets. In the next decade the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District will become a premiere district for performances and arts exhibitions sought out by citizens of Baltimore and visitors alike. The district will offer opportunities for artists of all disciplines to live, work, and create here. The district encourages the collaboration among its stakeholders and will attract new ones offering resources towards the creation and display of the arts.
IT'S HAPPENING IN THE BROMO VISIT BROMODISTRICT.ORG
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Vic Romita, President Mark Paul Lehman, Vice President Dr. Stanley Miller, Vice President W. Bryan Rakes, Vice President Marci I. Gordon, Secretary Eileen M. O’Rourke, Treasurer
Allyson Black Jean Waller Brune Chris DiPietro Susan W. Flanigan Kaylie Kassap George W. Robert Hair Gina Hirschhorn Lisa Harris Jones
Mark P. Keener Martha M. Kirkland Sandy Laken Vincent M. Lancisi Colleen Martin-Lauer John McLean Neil Meltzer Susan Nehra
CONTACT INFORMATION Box Office 410.752.2208 Administration 443.615.7055 Email boxoffice@everymantheatre.org Address 315 W. Fayette St. Baltimore, MD 21201 EVERYMAN THEATRE | 22
E. Lee Robbins, M.D. Frank Rosenberg Nina Rosenzwog James Ryan Dawn Ursula Meadow Lark Washington Angela G. Wilson Lawrence J. Yumkas Everyman Theatre is a member of the Theatre Communications Group. Everyman Theatre is a member of the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District.
RESIDENT COMPANY MEMBERS
Megan Anderson
Eric Berryman
Danny Gavigan
Deborah Hazlett
Paige Hernandez
Beth Hylton
Hannah Kelly
Katie Kleiger
Wil Love
Tony Nam
Bruce Randolph Nelson
Kyle Prue
Jefferson A. Russell
Carl Schurr
Dawn Ursula
Stan Weiman
RESIDENT ARTISTS
Yaegel T. Welch
Daniel Ettinger, Scenic Designer David Burdick, Costume Designer Harold F. Burgess II, Lighting Designer Gary Logan, Dialects Lewis Shaw, Fights & Intimacy Cat Wallis, Stage Manager
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STAFF
Vincent M. Lancisi, Founder, Artistic Director
ADMINISTRATION
Kyle Prue, Producing Director Deirdra McBride, Director of Finance & Operations Mike Watson, Operations Manager Alex Tolle, Special Asst. to Artistic Director Shammah Moore, Porter Pat Brent, Bookkeeper
ARTISTIC
Noah Himmelstein, Associate Artistic Director Megan Anderson, Resident Company Liaison Bruce Randolph Nelson, Resident Company Liaison
DEVELOPMENT
Stephanie Moore, Director of Development Elliott Kashner, Institutional Giving Manager Katie Garber, Individual Giving Manager Alex Tolle, Development Coordinator
EDUCATION & COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Brianna McCoy, Director of Education & Community Engagement Genna Styles-Lyas, Education & Engagement Program Manager Hugh Raup, Education & Engagement Associate Sean Laraway, Education Apprentice Laurie Ascoli, Sandra Atkinson, Wychkam Avery, Jennie Bissell, Abigail Cady, Zach Campion, Tara Cariaso, Reenie Codelka, Liz Daingerfield, Karim Darwish, Amanda Forstrom, Liz Galuardi, Danny Gavigan, Briana Gibson-Reeves, Kelsey Hall, Deborah Hazlett, Emma Hebert, Tyler Herman, Donald Hicken, Beth Hylton, Rachel Hynes, Lauren Erica Jackson, Rob Jansen, Caleen Jennings, Katie Keddell, Anna Kurtz, Jenny Male, Joe Mallon, Brandon McCoy, Jesse Miller, Mary Naden, Bruce Randolph Nelson, Jack Novak, Matthew Pauli, Steve Polites, Fatima Quander, Dawn Thomas Reidy, Melodia Rinaldi, Joseph W. Ritsch, KenYatta Rogers, Steven Satta, Stephanie Shade, Lewis Shaw, Jake Sheffer, Quae Simpson, Andy Stoffel, Teaching Artists
MARKETING/FRONT OF HOUSE
Amy Lebo, Director of Marketing & Strategic Communications Corey Frier, Director of Patron Experience Chris Giese, Digital Content Manager Mel Prather, Graphic Designer Kyla Tacopina, Ticket and Subscriptions Manager Candice Christmas, Sharea Harris, Veronese Harris, Juliannah Harrison, Jonathan Jacobs, Ally Kocerhan, Elizabeth Malvo, Ben Michaels,
Emily Padden, Faith Savill, Matthew Schleigh, Bartenders Will Brewington, James Fulwiler, Emily Hall, Veronese Harris, Kendall Harnsberger, Katie Hileman, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Thom Purdy, Matthew Schleigh, Rachel Miranda Swan, Box Office Associates Kate Appiah-Kubi, Kamesha Brinson, Candice Christmas, Kendall Harnsberger, Juliannah Harrison, Jonathan Jacobs, Jamil Johnson, Ben Michaels, Derrell Owens, Emily Padden, Nickole Scroggins, House Managers Kate Appiah-Kubi Volunteer Coordinator
PRODUCTION
Amanda M. Hall, Director of Production Bill Jamieson, Technical Director Rick Gerriets, Asst. Technical Director SCENERY Trevor Wilhelms, Scene Shop Foreman Joseph Martin, Master Carpenter Sierra Ho, Michael Rasinski, House Carpenters Amy Kellett, Scenic Charge Christa Landy, Scenic Artist Sarah Blocher, Josh Cookson, Julia Junghans, James LaDow, Rhianne Lowe, Caelan Levine Northrup, Christopher Rutherford, J.R. Schroyer, Charles Whittington, Carpenters LIGHTING Juan Juarez, Master Electrician Josh Cookson, Jesse Herche, Brandon Ingle, Kirsten Jolly, Ben Levine, Jeremy McCord, Ryan Whiteman, Electricians COSTUMES John Polles, Assistant Costume Designer Ginny McKeever, Draper Ed Dawson, Tailor Ellouise Davis, First Hand Wil Crowther, Crafts Matthew Smith, Stitcher AUDIO & VIDEO Andrew Gaylin, Audio & Video Engineer David Crandall, Projection Programmer SHOW STAFF Theo Adelberg, Kayla Whisman, Production Assistants Julia Junghans, Deck Chief Matthew Smith, Costume Supervisor Linda Cavel, Wig Master Macaley Fields, Wardrobe & Wigs Crew Juan Juarez, Jeremy McCord, Light Board Operators Dante Fields, Sound Board Operator Kelsey Schneider, Captioning Operator Audio Description provided by VIA Services
SPECIAL THANKS TO Joseph Ritsch, Rob & Tammy Oppel, Temperance Oppel, Willa Prue, Jim Bunzli, Merriweather Post Pavilion, & the UMBC Theatre Department.
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HANDEL MESSIAH SAT, DEC 7, 3 PM • SUN, DEC 8, 3 PM • TICKETS FROM $25* EDWARD POLOCHICK, CONDUCTOR & HARPSICHORD Edward Polochick leads the Orchestra and the BSO Symphonic Chorale in this holiday favorite.
VIENNA BOYS CHOIR THU, DEC 12, 7:30 PM • TICKETS FROM $25* MANUEL HUBER, CONDUCTOR The Vienna Boys Choir will fill the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with angelic charm and pure sounds in a program featuring Austrian folk songs, classical masterpieces, popular songs and, of course, holiday favorites. The BSO is not performing on this program. ARTISTS
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Troupe Vertigo’s acrobats, jugglers and high-flying aerialists join the BSO for this spectacular twist on Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic.
GOSPEL CHRISTMAS WITH CECE WINANS THU, DEC 19, 8 PM • FRI, DEC 20, 8 PM • TICKETS FROM $45 Twelve-time Grammy® Award-winner CeCe Winans joins the BSO and the Morgan State University Choir for a rousing program of gospel and holiday favorites.
HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR SAT, DEC 21, 3 PM & 8 PM • TICKETS FROM $35* Broadway musical director Andy Einhorn leads the BSO and the Baltimore Choral Arts Society in an exciting new holiday program highlighted by the ever-popular tap-dancing Santas and an audience sing-along. The Meyerhoff Symphony Hall lobby becomes a winter wonderland with pre-concert performances, a family photo spot and cookies and ornaments for sale.
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