Now in its 59th season, Milwaukee Repertory Theater is dedicated to providing the highest level of professional theater to Milwaukee and Wisconsin in addition to offering a wide range of educational and community programs. Located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, the Patty and Jay Baker Theater Complex is a cleverly-converted power generation plant that houses Milwaukee Repertory Theater consisting of three theaters: the Quadracci Powerhouse (720 seats), the Steimke Studio (205 seats) and the Stackner Cabaret (118 seats), which is also a full-service restaurant and bar. Together, these spaces offer a variety of staging options from compelling dramas, powerful classics, award-winning contemporary works to full-scale musicals and comedies.
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Milwaukee Repertory Theater is committed to creating plays that are meaningful and relevant to the society we live in – plays that are challenging, visceral and engage the community through the issues they explore. With the start of the 2012/13 Season, The Rep expanded its Artistic Family to 19 Associate Artists. This new creative initiative will build upon the indelible legacy of The Rep’s Acting Company and now will expand to include directors, writers, designers, musicians and actors. This group will help participate and advise in choosing plays The Rep produces as well as other initiatives. They will contribute to the work seen on all Rep stages, read scripts, engage in education projects, along with other duties as well as serve as advocates for The Rep in their home communities across the nation. The Rep has long been committed to a core group of artists and this new ensemble will continue The Rep’s commitment to giving voice to a broad spectrum of cultural, educational and community experiences that serve and reflect the diversity of perspectives found in this region.
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Mark Clements Artistic Director
Patty and Jay Baker Theater Complex Stackner Cabaret
Dawn Helsing Wolters Managing Director
Conceived and Originally Directed by Sheldon Epps Original Vocal Arrangements and Musical Direction by Chapman Roberts Orchestrations and Additional Vocal Arrangements by Sy Johnson
Directed by Megan Nicole O’Brien Musical Direction by Dan Kazemi‡
Scenic Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Choreographer Casting Director New York Casting Director Stage Manager Assistant Director
Production Manager Lighting & Sound Director Assistant Sound Supervisor Technical Director Properties Director Charge Scenic Artist Costume Director Resident Crew Wardrobe
Megan Truscott Holly Payne Craig Gottschalk Barry G. Funderburg Kat Borrelli Sandy Ernst Stephanie Klapper Laura F. Wendt* Maggie Ellsworth Melissa Nyari Vartanian Craig Gottschalk Erin Paige Natalie Bell James Guy Jim Medved Holly Payne Rick Grilli Cassie Head
Blues in the Night is presented by 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 *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ‡Milwaukee Repertory Theater Associate Artist The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited. Blues in the Night – 3
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Lady........................................................................................................................Zonya Love* Woman.................................................................................................................. Lili Thomas* Girl...........................................................................................................................Halle Morse* Man.................................................................................................... Carl Clemons-Hopkins*
Band: Musical Director/Piano/Clarinet.............................................................................. Dan Kazemi‡ Drums/Guitar/Bass.............................................................................................. Patrick Morrow Trumpet/Euphonium/Guitar.......................................................................................Lili Thomas* Percussion......................................................................................................................... Halle Morse* Bass/Harmonica........................................................................................Carl Clemons-Hopkins* *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ‡Milwaukee Repertory Theater Associate Artist
SONG LIST ACT ONE “Blue Blues” by Bessie Smith; by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Four Walls (and One Dirty Window) Blues” by Willard Robinson; by permission of The Jewel Music Publishing Co., Inc. “I’ve Got A Date With A Dream” by Mack Gordon and Harry Revel; by permission of SBK/Feist Catalog, Inc. “New Orleans Hop Scop Blues” by George W. Thomas; by permission of Jerry Vogel Music Co., Inc. “Stompin’ at the Savoy” by Benny Goodman, Andy Razaf, Edgar Sampson and Chick Webb; by permission of SBK Robbins Catalogue, Inc. and RYTVOC, Inc. “Taking a Chance on Love” by Vernon Duke, John LaTouche and Ted Fetter; by permission of SBK Miller Catalogue, Inc. “It Makes My Love Come Down” by Bessie Smith; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Lush Life” by Billy Strayhorn; used by permission of Tempo Music, Inc. “I’m Just A Lucky So-and-So” by Duke Ellington and Mack David; used by permission of T.B. Harms Company, a Polygram International Music Publishing Company and Famous Music Publishing Company “Take Me For A Buggy Ride” by Leola and Wesley Wilson; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues” by Ida Cox; used by permission of Northern Music Company 4 – Blues in the Night
S O N G L I S T (c o n t .) “Lover Man” by Jimmy Davis, Jimmy Sherman and Roger “Ram” Ramirez; used by permission of MCA Music Publishing “Willow Weep for Me” by Anne Ronell; used by permission of the Bourne Company “Kitchen Man” by Andy Razaf and Wesley Wilson; used by permission of MCA Music Publishing “When Your Lover Has Gone” by E.A. Swan; used by permission of Warner Bros., Inc. “Take It Right Back” by H. Grey ACT TWO Jam Session (“Wild Women Don’t Have the Blues”) by Ida Cox; by permission of Northern Music Company “Blues in the Night” by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer; by permission of Warner Bros., Inc. “Dirty No-Gooder’s Blues” by Bessie Smith; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “When a Woman Loves a Man/Am I Blue?” by Johnny Mercer, Gordon Jenkins and Bernard Hanighen/by Grand Clarke and Harry Akst; used by permission of Chappell & Co./used by permission of Warner Bros., Inc. “Rough and Ready Man” by Alberta Hunter; used by permission of Alberta Hunter; used by permission of Alberta Hunter Music Co. “Reckless Blues” by Bessie Smith; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Wasted Life Blues” by Bessie Smith; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Baby Doll” by Bessie Smith; used by permission of Frank Music Corp. “Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out” by Jimmy Cox; used by permission of MCA Publishing “I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues” by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler; used by permission of Warner Bros., Inc. “Four Walls” (Reprise); used by permission of Jewel Music Publishing Co., Inc.
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C A S T/C R E AT I V E T E A M B I O G R A P H I E S Carl Clemons-Hopkins, The Man/Bass/Harmonica Carl Clemons-Hopkins is excited to make his Milwaukee Rep debut! Regional credits include: Eclectic Society (world premiere) and My Way (Walnut Street Theatre); Pericles (Georgia Shakespeare); Avenue X, Rent and Little Shop of Horrors (11th Hour Theatre Company); Topdog/ Underdog, Orphans and This Is How It Goes (Philadelphia Fringe Festival); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Christmas Dreams (Theatre Horizon) and Robin Hood (Arden Theatre Company). Directing credits include: Iterations . . . (Roundtable Theatre play festival) and Our Father (Art/Life Theater Company). Next up, 11th Hour Theatre Company’s “Next Step Concert Series” performance of Passing Strange. BFA University of the Arts. For Dad. Zonya Love, The Lady Recently returning from Lyon, France, where she performed as a solo gospel artist for the Absolute Gospel Festival, Ms. Love is extremely excited to make her debut at Milwaukee Rep. Prior productions include Broadway: The Color Purple (Celie); First National Tour: Avenue Q (Gary Coleman understudy); This One Girl’s Story (Dessa); Kiss Me Kate (Hattie); You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Lucy Van Pelt); Intimate Apparel (Mayme); Wit (Susie); Twelfth Night (Maria) and Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Ermina). She received her BFA from North Carolina A&T State University and MFA from The University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Romans 8!!! Halle Morse, The Girl/ Percussion Halle Morse comes directly from the Broadway company of Mamma Mia!, where she performed the role of Lisa for three years! She is thrilled to be making her Milwaukee Rep debut! Regional credits include: Mimi in Rent (Pioneer Theatre Company); Lil Inez in Hairspray (Sacramento Music Circus); Minnie Fay in Hello, Dolly! (North Carolina Theatre); Carmen in Fame (Mercury Summer Stock); Oklahoma! and Hello, Dolly! (St. Louis Muny Theater) and Fransisca in West Side Story (Porthouse Theatre). TV: TeenNick promos with Nick Cannon, and various national commercials/voiceovers. BFA in Musical Theatre from Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Many thanks to The Rep. Take a chance on love!
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Lili Thomas, The Woman/ Trumpet/Euphonium/ Guitar Lili Thomas is thrilled to be returning to Milwaukee Rep after appearing in Cabaret! Regional favorites include: Rent (Mimi); Pippin (Fastrada); 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Marcy Park); Miss Saigon (Gigi) and The King and I (Tuptim). New York City: Reefer Madness (Placard Girl/Dance Captain); Sounds of Plaid (Connie); Radiant Baby (Radio Singer); Metropolis and the world premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’ Garden of Light (Disney Millennium Symphonies) at Avery Fischer Hall with the New York Philharmonic (Young Soprano). BFA from CAP 21, NYU. “Thank you to Mark, Dan and Megan for the amazing opportunity! This one is for Ryan and AB, for keepin’ my blues away.” Patrick Morrow, Drums/Guitar/Bass Patrick is glad to be back at the Stackner Cabaret where he was last seen in the pivotal role of Bob Bob in Always . . . Patsy Cline. He also played percussion at The Rep for Assassins, Next to Normal and Cabaret. In addition to The Rep, Patrick has provided percussive accompaniment for many local theaters including The Fireside Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theater and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. He spent a great deal of 2009/10 touring the U.S. and Canada with Little House on the Prairie: The Musical starring TV’s Melissa Gilbert. When not doing “legit” gigs, Patrick can be found playing with local power pop sensation, Trolley, and jaunting the globe with Eddie Clendening & the Blue Ribbon Boys. Sheldon Epps, playwright Sheldon Epps has been Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse since 1997. He has directed at many of the country’s major theaters including the Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Old Globe, the Guthrie, Arena Stage and the Goodman Theatre. He conceived and directed the Tony-nominated musicals Play On! and Blues in the Night and directed Blues in the Night in London (Olivier nomination, Best Musical). He co-directed Baby It’s You! on Broadway. Off-Broadway he directed the world premiere of Blue, and at his own theater, the record-breaking production of Fences, starring Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett. As a television director, he helmed episodes of shows such as Frasier, Friends and Girlfriends. Under his leadership, The Playhouse has earned distinction for productions of artistic excellence, critical and box office success and highly praised theatrical diversity.
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C R E AT I V E T E A M B I O G R A P H I E S Megan Nicole O’Brien, Director Megan returns to The Rep after directing The Bomb-itty of Errors in the 2010/11 Season. Other credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (11th Hour Theatre Company/Theatre Horizon); Reefer Madness and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (11th Hour/Montgomery Theater, Barrymore Nomination); Rooms, Avenue X (Barrymore Nomination), The Bomb-itty of Errors (Barrymore Nomination) and Tick, Tick . . . Boom! (11th Hour Theatre Company); John & Jen (Act II Playhouse); High Fidelity and Adding Machine: A Musical (University of the Arts) and The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way (Walnut Street Theatre). Megan would like to thank Mark Clements for this amazing opportunity, her incredible cast and staff, and everyone at Milwaukee Rep for making this such a wonderful experience. Love to Justin! Dan Kazemi, Musical Director/Piano/Clarinet Dan Kazemi, a Rep Associate Artist, is a composer, actor, music director and educator, and was Musical Director for The Rep’s recent productions of Assassins, Always . . . Patsy Cline, Next to Normal and Cabaret. He graduated from Haverford College with a BA in Music Composition and a Theater minor. In Philadelphia, Dan most recently orchestrated and musically directed the world premiere musical, Tulipomania, at the Arden Theatre Company. Dan musically directed Tick, Tick . . . Boom!, Austentations, The PhillyRocks! concerts, The World Goes Round (Barrymore nomination), Reefer Madness, Little Shop of Horrors, Rooms and The Great American Trailer Park Musical for 11th Hour Theatre Company. He also garnered a Helen Hayes Nomination for his work on the D.C. premiere of The Musical of Musicals: The Musical, a Barrymore Nomination for The Flea and the Professor (Arden Theatre Company), and received a Barrymore Award for 11th Hour’s Avenue X. At Walnut Street Theatre, Dan musically directed, arranged and performed in The Irish . . . and How They Got That Way (Two Barrymore Nominations). Dan’s music has been performed at the Cirque de Demain in Paris, at the A.W.A.R.D. Show Philadelphia and in 213 Productions collaborations, Untitled Project #213 AND Your Attention Please! Dan is also the composer of a new musical, The Tapioca Miracle (thetapiocamiracle.com). Megan Truscott, Scenic Designer Megan Truscott is a Chicago-based scenic designer. She is a graduate from The Theatre School at DePaul University where recent credits include The Death of Gaia Divine (director John Jenkins) and Medea (director Damon Kiely). She also assisted on the shows
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Sweeney Todd and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (designer Kevin Depinet). Megan would like to thank her parents for their unending support. www.megantruscott.com. Holly Payne, Costume Designer Currently the Costume Director at The Rep, Holly graduated with an MFA in costume design and technology from the University of Arkansas. Holly has also designed at Skylight Music Theatre, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Shakespeare, University of Tulsa, American Players Theatre, Florentine Opera, Delaware Theatre Company, First Stage Children’s Theater, 11th Hour Theatre Company in Philadelphia and Theatre Squared in Fayetteville, AK. Some of her favorite designs at The Rep have been Lombardi in the Quadracci Powerhouse, The Bomb-itty of Errors in the Stackner Cabaret and Speaking in Tongues in the Stiemke Studio. Thanks to The Rep’s fantastic costume shop for all their great work and much love to ACB for being a fantastic husband. Craig Gottschalk, Lighting Designer Craig is happy to be designing another production in the Stackner Cabaret. Previous Milwaukee Rep designs include Always . . . Patsy Cline, The Bomb-itty of Errors, Nobody Lonesome for Me and Route 66. Other lighting credits include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Ivey award-winning Kiss of the Spiderwoman; ‘Best in Twin Cities’ award-winning Jerry Springer – The Opera for Minneapolis Musical Theatre; King Lear for Minnesota Shakespeare Project; Into the Woods and Wizard of Oz for Minnetonka Center for the Arts and 1940s Radio Hour and 3-Way for 8-Ball Theatre. Craig holds an MFA in Lighting and Sound Design from the University of Minnesota. Barry G. Funderburg, Sound Designer Mr. Funderburg is excited to return to The Rep for his 60th production. Memorable Rep productions include Othello, In the Next Room, The 39 Steps, The Cherry Orchard, Pride and Prejudice, Armadale, Mary Stuart, Work Song and Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. Off-Broadway, Barry designed the critically acclaimed New York premiere of Wittenberg at The Pearl Theatre Company. Other regional theater credits include Fake, Carter’s Way and Mother Courage and Her Children at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and productions at Utah Shakespeare Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, City Theatre (Pittsburgh), CenterStage (Baltimore), Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Peninsula Players, American Players Theatre,
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C R E AT I V E T E A M B I O G R A P H I E S LA Theatre Works and Indiana Repertory Theatre. Chicago credits include Writers’ Theatre, Next Theatre, Theatre at the Center and Lookingglass Theatre Company. Barry has received four Chicago Equity Jeff Award nominations, the 1996 and 2008 Jeff Awards for Sound Design and an MFA in Sound Design from Purdue University. Kat Borrelli, Choreographer Kat is thrilled for her first show with The Rep! She is a recent graduate of the University of the Arts with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Favorite credits include: The Marvelous Wonderettes (Betty Jean) with 11th Hour Theatre Company; The Adding Machine (Mrs. Zero); The Realm of the Unreal – World Premiere (Choreographer); next up, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson with 11th Hour Theatre Company. Big thanks to Megan and Mark for this amazing opportunity and journey! Love to Chris! Stephanie Klapper, New York Casting Director This season Ms. Klapper has cast Assassins, Blues in the Night and The Mountaintop for The Rep. Previous Rep credits include: Cabaret, Next to Normal, The Bomb-itty of Errors, From My Hometown, Fire on the Bayou, Grafton City Blues and The Night is a Child. Selected Broadway credits include A Christmas Story, the Musical!, Dividing the Estate and Bells are Ringing. Select Off-Broadway credits include Eve Ensler’s Emotional Creature (upcoming), Harrison, Texas, RX, (Primary Stages//Resident Casting Director), Cactus Flower (Westside Arts Theatre) and Karen O’s STOP THE VIRGENS (St. Anne’s Warehouse). Regional credits include Adirondack Theatre Festival, The Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Commonwealth Theatre Company, Delaware Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The New Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, Roundhouse and Westport Country Playhouse. Select film and television credits include Alice Jacobs is Dead, Feast of the Goat, Roberta and Lazytown. Ms. Klapper is a member of The Casting Society of America and The League of Professional Theatre Women.
Laura F. Wendt, Stage Manager Laura is excited to spend her seventh season here at Milwaukee Repertory Theater. She is a Wisconsin native and graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Other regional theater credits include: Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival, American Players Theatre and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. Special thanks to Matt, Briana and Holly for all they do. Marissa Robinson, Stage Management Intern Marissa is thrilled to be joining the Milwaukee Rep this season. She is originally from Connecticut and is a recent graduate of Emerson College in Boston. Previously, she has worked for Anne Bogart’s SITI Company, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the New London Barn Playhouse. She also recently spent a semester in London where she had the fabulous opportunity to work and study at Shakespeare’s Globe, Duchess Theatre and the Playhouse Theatre on the West End. Special thanks to friends and family for their endless support and encouragement. Maggie Ellsworth, Assistant Director Maggie Ellsworth is proud to be a Directing Intern for the 2012/13 Season. She is excited for this unique opportunity to AD in the Stackner Cabaret again. So far this season she has assisted Laura Gordon on Gutenberg! The Musical! and May Adrales on The Mountaintop. Maggie holds an MFA in Theatre-Directing from Western Illinois University and a BA from Carthage College where she studied Musical Theatre and Political Science. Many thanks to Sandy and Mark for this rewarding experience and her husband, Brett, for his unwavering support. Understudies The Man, Trequon Tate; The Lady, Toni Linn Martin; The Girl, Jessi Noel; The Woman, Bri Sudia Additional Staff Lauren O’Connell, Tyler Albright
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