Marquette University-Spelling Bee

Marquette University’s J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication Performing and Media Arts Theatre Arts Program Debra Krajec, Artistic Director presents

Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre September 23 – October 3, 2010 Directed by Todd Denning Music Direction by Chris Wszalek Scenic Design by Stephen Hudson-Mairet Lighting Design by Noah Greenia, THAR ‘11 Costume Design by Connie Petersen Sound Design by Chris Whitman, THAR ‘12 Choreography by Amy Brinkman-Sustache Stage Managed by Andrea Schoening THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 Phone: 212-541-4684 Fax: 212-397-4684 www.MTIShows.com Marquette University 1

CAST LIST The Spellers (in order of appearance) Chip Tolentino/Jesus..................................................................................................... Tim Braun Logainne Schwartzandgrubenniere.......................................................... Jennifer Mitchell Leaf Coneybear/Carl Dad....................................................................................... Joe Picchetti William Barfee.............................................................................................................. Matt Wickey Marcy Park.......................................................................................................Alexandra Bonesho Olive Ostrovsky........................................................................................................ Maria Tsikalas The Adults (in order of appearance) Rona Lisa Perretti/Olive’s Mom...........................................................................Kelsey Lauren Vice Principal Douglas Panch......................................................................Harry Loeffler-Bell Mitch Mahoney/Dan Dad/Olive’s Dad.......................................................... John Gallagher The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

The play runs roughly an hour and half and contains no intermission.

D I R E C TO R ’ S N O T E S It’s hard not to love Spelling Bee. It’s filled with joy, terror, and lots of heart. It allows us to enjoy the competition that has brought these individuals together; feel the pressure, pain, and vulnerability of being exposed and alone in competition; challenges us to redefine winners and losers; and reveals the way that competition can bring out the best, and worst, in all of us. It exposes the mystery of language – that with so many words to choose from, how difficult it is to find one’s own voice and a way to express one’s thoughts, ideas and feelings.

It’s easy to relate to our six final spellers – adolescent individuals discovering who they are, real humans, struggling to connect with their peers, overcoming their insecurities by focusing on special talents that set them apart.

Add to that the unpredictable nature of Spelling Bee. No two performances are ever exactly alike; and with every production, the audience is the final character, bringing a new energy to every performance. But Bee takes this further – enlisting four audience spellers to compete in the bee with each performance. Although terrifying, the outcome of every performance becomes truly unpredictable (a director’s nightmare) and absolutely unique with each performance. Ahh, “life is pandemonium.”

So, we are all a part of the Spelling Bee – thanks for participating - play hard, play fair, and enjoy yourselves.

Todd

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CAST BIOS Alexandra Bonesho (Marcy Park) Allie is a junior theatre arts major. Recent roles include Gerry Hansen in Censored on Final Approach, Cow 2 in Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, Holly/Melissa in Nickel and Dimed, Yvonne in Sunday in the Park with George, and a TRIBE member in the Sunset Playhouse’s Hair. She will portray Alais in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre and Marquette’s The Lion in Winter this spring and participated in the Skylight Opera’s Summer Musical Project. Love and thanks to Todd, Chris, Eleni, Andrea, the cast, crew, family and friends for a wonderful production!

Tim Braun (Chip Tolentino) Tim is a junior double majoring in theatre arts and public relations. He was last seen on the Helfaer mainstage in Sunday in the Park with George and Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type.

Tim would like to thank Todd for his brilliant direction, Chris for his musical talent, and Eleni for always being there. He would also like to thank his family and friends for their neverending support and love.

John Gallagher (Mitch Mahoney) John is a senior broadcasting major. Previous credits include Oberon/Theseus in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Scott in Peter Ritt’s Headshots, and Janitor David in The Untitled Conor Sullivan Life Story Project. He is also a proud member of the Studio 013 Refugees, Marquette’s only improv comedy group. John would like to thank his family and friends for their support, Todd and the cast for making his first musical awesome, and everyone in the theater department and/or Fugees. You inspire him as performers and as people.

Kelsey Lauren (Rona Lisa Perretti) Kelsey is T-H-R-I-L-L-E-D to be in Marquette’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She was last seen in Marquette’s main stage performances of Censored on Final Approach as Elizabeth and A Sunday in the Park with George as Nurse/Mrs. She would like to thank Todd, Chris, Andrea, and the rest of the Spelling Bee cast and crew for yet another incredible experience, and her family (you know who you are!) and dear friends for the unconditional love and support.

Please enjoy the show...and a few laughs!

Harry Loeffler-Bell (Douglas Panch) Harry is a theatre major here at Marquette.

He likes this show and hopes you will too.

Jennifer Mitchell (Logainne Schwarzandgrubenierre) Jennifer is thrilled to be a part of Spelling Bee. She is a senior theater major with a minor in advertising. She has been seen on the mainstage in Censored on Final Approach, Sunday in the Park with George, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

She is so grateful for this wonderful opportunity Todd and Chris have given her and would like to thank the cast and crew of Putnam, as well as her friends and family for being so amazing and supportive!

Joe Picchetti (Leaf Coneybear) Joe is a senior theatre major and broadcasting minor who is thrilled to be part of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. This is Joe’s 9th Marquette mainstage production.

He has previously been seen as Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Scoop Rosenbaum in The Heidi Chronicles. He has also been seen in Quasi’s production of Henry V as Gloucester, and he will be playing the role of Phillip in Chamber Theatre and Marquette’s production of The Lion in Winter.

He would like to thank Todd for this amazing opportunity, Chris, Andrea, his fellow cast and crew members, as well as his friends, family, and roommates for their never-ending love and support.

Maria Tsikalas (Olive Ostrovsky) Maria, a sophomore, is thrilled to be performing in her third mainstage production on the Helfaer stage. She was previously seen as Celeste #2/Betty in Sunday in the Park with George and the Hen in Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type. She would like to thank Todd, Chris, and the entire cast and crew for an amazing experience. Love to her eversupportive family and friends.

Matt Wickey (William Barfee) - Matt is a senior theatre arts major and broadcasting minor here at Marquette. Putnam marks Matt’s 10th mainstage appearance. He thanks Todd and Chris for guidance and Andrea and DeLapp for their commitment.

He is honored to work with this amazing cast and crew filled with his closest friends.

Special thanks to the faculty, his family, friends, and those most important to him for their never ending love and support.

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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Amy Brinkman-Sustache (Choreographer) Amy has a diverse background in both dance and theater and has dedicated her last 20 years to all things dance. Amy has train in variety of dance forms in Milwaukee, New York and Chicago and has an extensive background in both teaching and performing.

She is a founding member and the Studio Director for Danceworks, a nonprofit arts organization. She has choreographed numerous musicals, and commercial and industrial projects, and has performed through the Midwest, California and parts of Europe. In addition to serving on Danceworks faculty, Amy currently serves on the dance faculty at both UW-Milwaukee and Marquette University and is the Artistic Director of Danceworks resident tap company, Danceworks on Tap. Kathryn DeLapp (Assistant Stage Manager) Kathryn is excited to be assistant stage managing her first show here at Marquette.

She is a sophomore majoring in secondary education, theatre arts, and English. She is also involved with M.A.R.D.I. G.R.A.S. and other service organizations on campus. She would like to thank all members of cast and crew for being the fabulous people that they are! “I love my boo.”

Todd Denning (Director) Todd is a theatre artist who lives and works in Milwaukee as an actor, director, teacher, fight choreographer, and sound designer. Last year he directed Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type, and was the sound designer and vocal coach for Censored on Final Approach. This year he’ll also serve as the dialect coach for The Beaux’ Stratagem. In October, Todd returns to the stage as Captain Hook in Peter Pan and Wendy, with First Stage Children’s Theater. He is also the Co-Director of the Young Company of the First Stage Theater Academy, and will be directing Julius Caesar (Dec. 3-4) with the Young Company later this year. Todd holds an MFA from the University of California-Irvine.

William Finn (Composer/Lyricist) Mr. Finn is the writer and composer of Falsettos, for which he received two Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical (with James Lapine) and Best Original Score. He has also written and composed In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical, two Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Awards, two Drama Desk Awards, the Lucille Lortel Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship in Musical Compo4 Marquette University

sition). Mr. Finn wrote the lyrics to Graciela Daniele’s Tango Apasionado (music by the great Astor Piazzolla) and, with Michael Starobin, the music to Lapine’s version of The Winter’s Tale. His musical, Romance in Hard Times, was presented at the Public Theater.

Recently, he wrote Painting You for Love’s Fire, a piece commissioned and performed by the Acting Company, based on Shakepeare’s sonnets. For television, Mr. Finn provided the music and lyrics for the Ace Award-winning HBO cartoon “Ira Sleeps Over,” “Tom Thumb and Thumbelina,” “Pokey Little Puppy’s First Christmas,” and, with Ellen Fitzhugh, two “Brave little Toaster” cartoons. Mr. Finn has written for Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New Yorker. A graduate of Williams College where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship for Musical Composition, Finn now teaches a weekly master class at the NYU Tisch Graduate Program in Musical Theatre Writing. His most recent projects include Elegies, A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee which ran on Broadway and has been produced nationally and internationally, as well.

Lex Gernon (Assistant Scenic Designer) Lex is a sophomore in the theatre department here at Marquette. He is an aspiring designer and proud to be working on this show. He has always wanted to participate in a spelling bee, but he failed miserably in the second grade misspelling R-E-C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N in Mrs. Collier’s class at St. Patrick School.

Noah Greenia (Lighting Designer) Noah is a senior and a technical theatre major.

He has done design and production work on a number of Marquette University productions, most recently the lighting designs for the 2010 Senior Capstones 4.48 Psychosis and Attempts on Her Life. Other credits at Marquette include the sound design for Sunday in the Park With George and The Spitfire Grill, the lighting design for Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type, and as master electrician for nearly a dozen main stage productions. He is also a co-technical director of MUPS for his third consecutive year. Noah would like to thank Dan, Nancy, Andy, Chelsea and everyone else who has supported him on the journey thus far.

Stephen Hudson-Mairet (Chair/Scenic Designer) 2010-11 marks Stephen’s eleventh season at Marquette. Stephen thanks the Department’s Season Subscribers and loyal patrons for their continued support and for watching our talented students grow in

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t .) their time with us. Stephen has completed numerous scenic or lighting designs on the Helfaer stage. This season Stephen will be completing the scenic design for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Lion in Winter. Stephen would like to thank our wonderful faculty and students – it is a pleasure to work with such talent on a daily basis. Stephen lives quite happily in a very old house in Wauwatosa with his wife Heidi, and daughters Emma and Grace.

Debra Krajec (Artistic Director) Welcome to the 2010-11 Marquette Theatre Season! As the new Artistic Director, Deb would like to thank you for supporting the development of our talented students by your attendance at our productions. Deb has served as a Costume Designer as well as a Director on MU’s mainstage for the past twenty-six years. She received her MFA from Texas Christian University, and has worked professionally as a costume designer, a director, and an actress. In Milwaukee, Deb has designed costumes for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre and Retro Productions Off-Off Broadway, and directed for In Tandem Produc-

tions and Playwrights’ Studio of Milwaukee.

She is very active in the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, where she is a Fellow of the Institute. She is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Chester Loeffler-Bell (Technical Director) Chester has served as lighting designer, technical director, and scene shop supervisor since joining the department in the fall of 2001. Professor Loeffler-Bell manages the scene shop, supervises and advises student lighting designers. Chester has been an active professional lighting designer for the past 20 years, having designed for In Tandem Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Theatre X, Cape Fear Shakespeare Festival, and Carroll College.

His recent artistic work includes the lighting design for A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Marquette University, Girl in the Frame for In Tandem Theatre, Poor Tom for Marquette University in collaboration with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland, and McGuire at Hofstra University. Chester lives in Mukwonago with his wife Susan, sons Harry, Sam, and Joe, and dog, Sophie.

Join the Marquette University Theatre Friends for our first “First Fridays - Dinner and a Show” event!

On Friday, November 12th, the opening weekend of THE BEAUX’ STRATAGEM, there will be a pre-show event on campus at the Lunda Room in the Alumni Memorial Union. Social Time will begin at 5:30pm with a wine and beer cash bar.

Dinner will take place at 6:00pm, with a dessert talk by the show’s director, Maureen Kilmurry, and other members of the production team. It will conclude in time for attendees to walk to the Helfaer Theatre for the 7:30pm performance.

Choice of entrée includes: Chicken Breast Provençal - a Chicken Breast with Fresh Tomato Garlic Cream Sauce or Stuffed Portabella Mushroom – a Vegetable And Cheese Stuffed Portabella Mushroom With An Herb Glaze.

The price for this Dinner and a Show package is $50.00 per person.

Join us for a fun social event and meet other Friends of the Theatre Program at Marquette.

For more information and to make a reservation, please contact Kevin Wleklinski, Theatre Box Office Coordinator at 414-288-7505.

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P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F ( c o n t .)

Connie L. Petersen (Costume Designer / Costume Shop Manager) Connie is honored to have the opportunity to work with Todd Denning after working with him last year with Click, Clack, Moo. She received her B.S. degree in theatre from Northwest Missouri State University and M.F.A. degree in Costume and Scenic Design from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL. She has worked professionally for Central City Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Playmakers Repertory Company at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Her recent designs at Marquette include Nickel and Dimed, Heidi Chronicles, Tartuffe, J.B., Bye, Bye Birdie and Fifth of July. Connie is happy to be back for her 9th Season with the support of her husband, Heath and oh-so-fast growing Emma.

Eleni Sauvageau (Assistant Director) Eleni is a senior theatre arts major. She’s excited and grateful to be assisting Todd and to be working with this wonderful cast and crew.

This has been her first experience assistant directing a Marquette mainstage show. Other recent directing credits at Marquette include On Sundays and DMV Tyrant, as well as others.

She expects to direct a MUPS show later this year. Thanks to her family, friends, the faculty, cast, Todd, Andrea, and crew. I-O-U. Andrea Schoening (Stage Manager) Andrea is a junior theatre arts major with an emphasis on management, direction, and design. She enjoys long walks on the beach and yodeling to the oldies. She is the current President of the Marquette University Player’s Society (you can be jealous if you want). She despises Twitter and the Twilight series, but enjoyed working on this show immensely. Thanks to Todd, Eleni, Kathryn, cast, and crew for being awesome. Anyway, enjoy the show!

Rachel Sheinkin (Librettist) Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Tony, Drama Desk awards); Off Broadway: Striking 12 (Lucille Lortel nomination), Off-Off: Serenade. Regional: Guthrie, Little House on the Prairie; Center Theater Group, Sleeping Beauty Wakes(Los Angeles Ovation Award); London: Blood Drive. Residencies, fellowships, commissions include: Eugene O’Neill National Theater Center, Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Manhattan Theatre Club, Deaf West, McCarter Theatre, Playwrights Horizons. Rachel is a volunteer mentor for TDF’s Open Doors program, a visiting instructor at Yale School of Drama, and adjunct faculty member of NYU’s Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program.

Chris Whitman (Sound Designer) Chris is junior in the College of Communication. Chris is working to become a theatre consultant. Chris has worked in a variety of positions in past productions at MU including the sound design for The Heidi Chronicles and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Chris just returned from studying abroad in Italy, focusing on Roman history. In the past Chris has worked for ETC in project management and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts as well as various technical roles within the University.

Chris Wszalek (Music Director) Chris is glad to return for his third show as music director for Marquette theatre. He has previously worked on The Spitfire Grill and Click, Clack, Moo. He wants to thank his wife, Jen, for graciously agreeing to be a “show widow” for the last month. Chris does not want to discuss being eliminated from his second grade spelling bee on the word, “neighboouhood.”

Based upon C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E, an original play by The Farm The Barrington Stage Company workshop of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee was originally co-directed by Michael Barakiva and Rebecca Feldman.

The Farm was founded in 2000 by Rebecca Feldman, Artistic Director. It is collective of writers and performers, including Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg. The Farm’s interest is in the role of improvisation in creating new work for theatre. The Farm initially designates a two-week intensive period in which to discover, develop, and rehearse a play from the impulses borne mainly out of the pressure of a deadline. Previous projects include Super (an Atlantic Theatre Studios), Why I Hate Florida (workshop at White Wave in DUMBO) and C-R-E-P-U-S-C-U-L-E (at the Present Company Theatorium in October 2002), on which The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is based. The character and original dialogue of “Beth Marguiles,”“Vice President Douglass Panch,”“Mr. Barfee,” and Logan Schwarzengrubenierre” were created by Rebecca Feldman, Jay Reiss, Dan Fogler, and Sarah Saltzberg, respectively

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SCENIC DESIGN CONCEPT

P R O D U C T I O N S TA F F Technical Director..............................................................................................Chester Loeffler-Bell Stage Manager....................................................................................................... Andrea Schoening Assistant Stage Manager.........................................................................................Kathryn DeLapp Assistant Director.......................................................................................................Eleni Sauvageau Lighting Designer...........................................................................................................Noah Greenia Light Board Operator............................................................................................................Ben Braun Scenic Designer.......................................................................................... Stephen Hudson-Mairet Assistant Scenic Designer................................................................................................ Lex Gernon Scene Shop Assistants..................................................................John Gallagher, Raquel Garces, Lex Gernon, Noah Greenia, Harry Loeffler-Bell, Joe Picchetti, Carissa Saia, Andrea Schoening, Dominic Trapani, Chris Whitman, Matt Wickey Scene Shop Build Crew........................................................ Andrew Abraham, Tyrone Bowden Jr., Benjamin Braun, Ryan Burk, Ian Burr, Katherine Callahan, Mary Callen, Yesenia Cuevas, Tyler Frost, Alexis Hamburg, Patrick Hasselbeck, Rory Higgins, John Howard, Abigail Roucka, Erin Ruckoldt, Kristane Thrower, Shannon Twohy Deck Crew......................................................................... Ian Burr, Mary Callen, Kristane Thrower Props Masters..................................................................................................................... Joe Picchetti Costume Designer.....................................................................................................Connie Petersen Costume Shop Manager..........................................................................................Connie Petersen Costume Shop Assistants............................................. Kirsten Benjamin, Alexandra Bonesho, Tim Braun, Ian Burr, John Cahill, Carly Kroll, Jennifer Mitchell, Joseph Packhem, Bridget Rzymski, Adriana Saia, Eleni Sauvageau Costume Build Crew.......................................................................... Carolina Correa, Emily Daley, Katie Doyle, Meaghan Moran, Grace O’Brien, Doug Soder Wardrobe Crew.........................................................................Yesinia Cuervas, Kristane Thrower Sound Designer.............................................................................................................Chris Whitman Sound Board Operator.............................................................................................Dominic Trapani Followspot...................................................................................................Jack Howard, Abi Roucka Assistant to the Chair.....................................................................................................Kelsey Lauren Box Office Assistant......................................................................Kaitlyn Barrett, Elizabeth Spratt House Manager................................................................................................................Bridget Norris Ushers......................................................................................Theatre Appreciation class students Marquette University 9

M E S S AG E F R O M T H E A R T I S T I C D I R E C TO R Hello from the New Artistic Director!

Welcome to the first show of our 2010-11 season! In keeping with our season selection goals, we have planned a year of engaging and entertaining theatre for you. We know how exciting it can be to watch the growth of our young performers as they stretch themselves in new and diverse ways on our stage each year, and we’re glad you’re here to witness it.

In choosing our season, we are guided by the following goals: 1. To present works of quality that showcase our students’ talents in a production season that serves as their training laboratory.

2. To give our students the opportunity to experience working with a wide range of theatrical genres in their four years.

3. To present our audience with both productions that entertain and productions that challenge.

4. To select seasons that are balanced in regards to gender, cast size, design requirements, comedy/drama, budgetary expenditures, etc.

5. To select a season of plays that will be financially responsible, pedagogically valuable to our students, and artistically fulfilling.

6. To frequently produce shows that permit a campus relationship – i.e. subject matter that serves an academic discipline and/or maintains a commitment to social justice and the Jesuit Mission.

In the training of our theatre students, we think it is important to give them experiences working with a variety of artists. We are very fortunate to have several fine theatre professionals working as guest artists with our students on this season’s productions. This year we are pleased to have the ever-creative Todd Denning, a company member of First Stage Milwaukee, as the guest director for The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. For our November production of The Beaux’ Stratagem we will welcome two talented designers from outside the state to collaborate: Ron Naverson, scenic designer from Southern Illinois University, and Michael McNamara, lighting designer from Purdue University. We are also pleased to welcome back our alum Erin SlatteryBlack who will be the guest costume designer for A Year with Frog and Toad this January. We are proud to say that Erin is the recipient of two daytime Emmy awards for her costume designs for the Muppets of Sesame Street. In February, the scenic designer for The Laramie Project will be David Krajec of Mainstage Theatrical here in Milwaukee. David will also be working with our students on The Beaux’ Stratagem as the stage combat choreographer.

Our most ambitious collaboration this year, however, is our work with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre on the last offering of the season, The Lion in Winter. MCT’S Artistic Director, C. Michael Wright will direct three of our students along with four Equity actors in this fabulous play. Three of our faculty will design: Stephen Hudson-Mairet (scenery), Chester Loeffler-Bell (lights), and yours truly (costumes). We will have five student understudies, several student assistant designers and an assistant director on this production, working with the professionals at Chamber Theatre. This performance will be presented on the Cabot Stage of the Broadway Theatre Center, and will truly be a unique experience for the Theatre Arts students as well as our audience members.

If you enjoy the performance, won’t you please tell your friends? We’d like to share the fine work our students do with everyone.

Debra Krajec

M ARQUETTE UNIVERSIT Y College of Communication Lori Bergen, Dean Joyce Wolburg, Associate Dean Erik Ugland, Associate Dean Of Graduate Studies & Research Chioma Ugochukwu, Assistant Dean For Student Services

Theatre Arts Program Debra Krajec, Artistic Director

Performing and Media Arts Stephen Hudson-Mairet, Chairperson

Part - Time Faculty Amy Brinkman-Sustache Deborah Staples Cecsarini Andrea Johnson

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Full - Time Faculty Chester Loeffler-Bell Connie Petersen Phylis Ravel

Roxanne Kess Maureen Kilmurry John Schneider Mark Weinberg Box Office Coordinator Kevin Wleklinski

DONORS The Department of Performing Arts wishes to thank the following Donors for their 2010 – 2011 contributions: Theatre Contribution Fund Thomas and Kathryn Anderson Richard and Eileen Bussler Terry and Diane Duffey Margaret Callahan James and Joan Hagner Ralph and Caroline Kobb Chester Loeffler-Bell Dustyn R. Martincich John and Suzanne McArdle

John and Dolores Melzer Mitchell Consulting Group Inc. JoAnn Murphy Joseph and Mary Anna Novotny John and Mary Ricci Ronald D. Santilli Jackie Schoening David and Sandra Shrock Kathleen M. Smith Peter Toumanoff Mary C. Utschig

Mr. and Mrs. Richard P. White Theatre and Social Justice Fund Helen Boomsma John and Lindsay Pauly Endowed Drama Fund The Hudson-Mairet Family

CENTENNIAL OF JOURNALISM AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

IT’S A DEVELOPING STORY One hundred years ago, John Copus, a former journalist turned Jesuit priest, decided that Marquette University’s urban campus in Milwaukee would be the perfect place to start the first journalism program at any Catholic university in the world.

During the 2010-2011 academic year, the J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication proudly celebrates this centennial of journalism education at Marquette.

We invite everyone–especially our alumni, faculty and staff–to join us as we remember our beginnings and look to our future. DIGITAL. DISTINCTIVE. DIVERSE. We are Marquette!

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An award-winning new musical, based on the short stories of Hamlin Garland, about romances and reveries in early rural Wisconsin.

Directed by Molly Rhode; Musical Direction by Alissa Rhode Featuring Clare Arena Haden, Scott Haden, Chase Stoeger and Marquette University alum Jennifer L. Shine Co-sponsored by Briggs & Stratton Corporation Foundation, Inc. and George & Julie Mosher

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