Cleveland’s Classic Company at the Hanna Theatre presents September 16 – October 9, 2022
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Bob Taylor Executive Director
Dear Friends,
Our mission, “to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possi ble audience,” guides our mainstage produc tions and our educational programming. We believe theater holds the capacity to illuminate truth and enduring values, celebrate and challenge human nature and actions, and provide our student audiences a glimpse of a broader world and the wellspring of learning made possible through the arts.
As the curtain rises on our 61st season, we offer special thanks to the Kulas Foundation, which has sponsored our musical productions for the last several years as part of the Kulas Musical Theater Series at Great Lakes Theater. As you read your program and look around the theater tonight, you will see the names of many friends, partners, corporations and foundations whose support makes all of this possible. We encourage you to join these donors by becoming a Donor Member of the Great Lakes Theater family with your gift. We extend our sincere gratitude to all of our sponsors and Annual Fund Donor Members, with continued appreciation to our partners of over 40 years at Playhouse Square, and the tireless efforts of our Board of Trustees, dedicated administrative staff, gifted artists and the tremendous generosity of this community.
Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director
We hope to see you in our audience again soon.
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We open this season with the campy, comical, cult-classic, Little Shop of Horrors. Directed by Victoria Bussert, Little Shop of Horrors promises an exhilarating experience for new and returning audiences. As always, Ms. Bussert’s staging will bring audiences directly into the action of this delectable musical comedy, highlighting the intimacy of our Hanna Theatre home. Enjoy this deliciously delightful romp as it kicks off an extraordinary season this fall!
On behalf of our artists, staff and Board of Trustees, welcome to Great Lakes Theater’s 61st season!
ABOUT GREAT LAKES THEATER
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he mission of Great Lakes Theater (GLT), through its mainstage produc tions and its education programs, is to bring the pleasure, power and relevance of classic theater to the widest possible audience.Sincethe company’s inception in 1962, programming has been rooted in Shakespeare, but GLT’s commitment to great plays spans the breadth of all cultures, forms of theater and time periods –– includ ing the 20th century –– and provides for the occasional mounting of new works that com plement the classical repertoire.
The company’s commitment to classic theater is magnified in the educational pro gramming surrounding its productions. Since its inception, GLT has had a strong presence in area schools, bringing students to the theater for matinee performances and sending specially trained actor-teachers to the schools for weeklong residencies devel oped to explore classic drama from a theat rical point of view. GLT is equally dedicated to enhancing the theater experience for adult audiences. To this end, GLT regularly serves as the catalyst for community events and programs in the arts and humanities that illuminate the plays on its stage.
and their own lives.
Great Lakes Theater’s fall 2019 production of The Music Man (Photo by Roger Mastroianni)
Great Lakes Theater is one of only a hand ful of American theaters that have stayed the course as a classic theater. As GLT cele brates more than a decade in its permanent home at the Hanna Theatre, the company reaffirms its belief in the power of partner ship, its determination to make this commu nity a better place in which to live, and its commitment to ensure the legacy of classic theater in Cleveland.
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Classic theater holds the capacity to illu minate truth and enduring values, celebrate and challenge human nature and actions, revel in eloquent language, preserve the traditions of diverse cultures and generate communal spirit. On its mainstage and through its education programs, GLT seeks to create visceral, immediate experiences for participants, asserting theater’s historic role as a vehicle for advancing the common good and helping people make joyful and mean ingful connections between classic plays
SUBSCRIBE & SAVE BIG! 216.453.4458 | GreatLakesTheater.org/Subscribe 2022-23 SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS AVAILABLE NOW. Northeast Ohio’s Favorite Holiday Tradition A CHRISTMAS CAROL November 25 - December 23, 2022 / Mimi Ohio Theatre By Charles Dickens / Adapted and originally directed by Gerald Freedman The Delectable Musical Comedy LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS September 16 - October 9, 2022 / Hanna Theatre Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman / Music by Alan Menken Directed by Victoria Bussert The World’s Most Enduring Love Story ROMEO & JULIET October 21 - November 6, 2022 / Hanna Theatre By William Shakespeare Directed by Sara Bruner A Delightfully Austen-tatious Romantic Comedy February 10 - March 5, 2023 / Hanna Theatre SENSE & SENSIBILITY By Kate Hamill / Based on the novel by Jane Austen Directed by Sara Bruner and Jaclyn Miller An Enchanting Shakespearean Romantic Comedy March 24 - April 8, 2023 / Hanna Theatre AS YOU LIKE IT By William Shakespeare Directed by Charles Fee A Jazzy Musical Celebration of Fats Waller AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ April 28 - May 21, 2023 / Hanna Theatre Conceived by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Murray Horwitz / Created and Originally Directed by Richard Maltby Jr. / Original Choreography and Musical Staging by Arthur Faria / Musical Adaptations, Orchestrations, and Arrangements by Luther Henderson / Vocal and Musical Concepts by Jeffrey Gutcheon / Musical Arrangements by Jeffrey Gutcheon and William Elliott Directed by Gerry McIntyre
Savannah Cooper* Aled Davies* Elijah Dawson*
Lighting Designer Trad A Burns Sound Designer David Gotwald Choreographer Jaclyn Miller Music Director Matthew Webb
Jeff Herrmann Costume Designer Danae Iris McQueen
There will be one fifteen-minute intermission.
DIRECTED BY VICTORIA BUSSERT Charles Fee Producing Artistic Director
Originally produced by the WPA Theatre (Kyle Renick, Producing Director)
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Nicholas Lynch-Voris
Part of the Kulas Musical Theater Series at Great Lakes Theater
Chad Ethan Shohet Alex Syiek* Sydney Alexandra Whittenburg* Company
Imani Sade* Nicki Cathro*
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The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
MUSIC BY ALAN MENKEN
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Assistant Stage Manager Sarah Kelso*
Originally produced at the Orpheum Theatre, New York City by the WPA Theatre, David Geffen, Cameron Mackintosh and the Shubert Organization
ORCHESTRATIONS BY ROBERT MERKIN
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States Great Lakes Theater Youth Savings subscriptions are subsidized by a generous gift from Eaton.
BASED ON THE FILM BY ROGER CORMAN SCREENPLAY BY CHARLES GRIFFITH
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Little Shop of Horrors is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Andrew Faria* Kris Lyons* Sara Masterson*
Scenic Designer
BOOK AND LYRICS BY HOWARD ASHMAN
VOCAL ARRANGEMENTS BY ROBERT BILLIG
Sit back and enjoy the fun!
here have been many theater musicals that began their lives on the silver screen, including Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Producers and, most recently, Legally Blonde. Composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman found their inspiration in the quirky little black comedy film, Little Shop of Horrors.
Little Shop of Horrors gained notoriety as the fastest feature film ever shot. Director Roger Corman explained that he made the movie because he had temporary access to the used sets left standing from another feature. After three days of rehearsal, Corman shot the prin cipal photography in two days and one night, with other material shot over two successive weekends. He used three cameras at once and shot every scene with only one take — and, as a result, some of the scenes run continuously for two or three minutes. The total cost, according to Corman, was $30,000 — what a deal!
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Although the movie didn’t get very much attention when it was origi nally released in 1960, it has since grown to cult classic status, thanks to its famously low budget and original style of humor. One of its fun surprises is the appearance of a young Jack Nicholson in the small role of Wilbur Force, the dentist’s masochistic patient. When Nicholson later became a star, video releases showed him on the cover of the box holding the famous plant, even though he never encounters it in the movie. The character of Wilbur failed to make it into the theatrical adaptation, though you can see Bill Murray reprise the role in the 1986 film based on the stage musical!
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It is interesting to note that Corman rushed the film into production prior to the new film industry rule preventing producers from “buying out” an actor’s performance in perpetuity. After January 1, 1960, all film actors were to be paid residuals for future releases of their work — a rule that changed the future of the B-movie business.
— Victoria Bussert
The tone of the musical remains true to the film, with an especially interesting addition. Ashman and Menken added their own brilliant invention of a “Greek chorus” of female street urchins: Crystal, Chiffon and Ronnette, named after famous 1960 girl groups. This allowed the musical to really rock! The original production holds the prestigious record of third-longest and highest-grossing off-Broadway production in history.
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Seymour Faria* Syiek* Lyons* Sydney Alexandra Whittenburg* Ethan Shohet OF CHARACTERS
Ronnette ............................................................................................Savannah Cooper* Audrey II Voice Elijah Dawson* Audrey II Puppeteer Chad
† Dance Captain — Savannah Cooper* Musicians Nancy Maier ...................................................................................................Conductor Michael Simile ..................................................................................................... Guitar Alfredo Guerrieri Bass Andrew Pongracz.................................................................................................. Drums Dan Maier, Nancy Maier Keyboards *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States CAST
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By William Shakespeare Directed by Sara Bruner
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“Somewhere That’s Green (Reprise)” Audrey “Don’t Feed The Plants” Company
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Audrey II, Seymour, Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon “Now (It’s Just The Gas)” Orin, Seymour “Call Back In The Morning” Seymour, Audrey
“Dentist!” Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon “Mushnik & Son” Mushnik, Seymour
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“The Meek Shall Inherit” Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon, Seymour, Others “Suppertime Reprise” Audrey II, Audrey
“Little Shop of Horrors”
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“Don’t It Go To Show Ya Never Know” ..........Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon, Mushnik, Seymour “Somewhere That’s Green” Audrey “Closed For Renovation” Audrey, Mushnik
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Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon “Skid Row (Downtown)” Company “Da-Doo” Seymour, Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon “Grow For Me” Seymour
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“Suddenly, Seymour” Seymour, Audrey, Crystal, Ronnette, Chiffon “Suppertime” Audrey II, Seymour, Mushnik
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Debut season with Great Lakes Theater
Ronnette and Dance Captain
Andrew is so excited to bring Little Shop of Horrors to the Hanna Theatre here in downtown Cleveland! His favorite credits include The Baker in Into the Woods, Abraham in Altar Boyz, Snoopy in Charlie Brown and Charlie Price in Kinky Boots. Last year, Andrew had the opportunity to sing the national anthem at the home game finale of the Cleveland Browns in front of 60 thou sand people. Andrew recently graduated from Baldwin Wallace University with his bachelor’s of music in musical theater. He would love to thank his family, friends, the entire BWMT faculty, his manager John Bautista, his agent David Krasner, and of course, his dog Jerome. andrewfaria.com
Twenty-two seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Instagram: @savvy_sc
include Olin Britt/Quartet in The Music Man (Great Lakes Theater/Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Cinna the Poet/Cato in Julius Caesar (Great Lakes Theater/Idaho Shakespeare Festival), Bobby in Memphis (Cain Park, Elisha Whitney in Anything Goes (Baldwin Wallace University), John the Baptist/Judas in Godspell (New London Barn Playhouse), Fred in Smokey Joe’s Café (Roper Theatre). Elijah is a proud 2020 graduate of Baldwin Wallace University.
Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Credits include Father Antonio (Much Ado About Nothing), Mr. Fezziwig, Scrooge/Samuels (A Christmas Carol), Prospero (The Tempest), Sir Wilfrid Robarts (QC in Witness for the Prosecution), Seyton the Porter (Macbeth) The Gravedigger (Hamlet), Colonel Pickering (My Fair Lady), The Old Actor (The Fantasticks), King Lear (King Lear), John Falstaff (The Merry Wives of Windsor), Oberon/Theseus (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) Your Chairman (The Mystery of Edwin Drood), Dorn (The Seagull), Deputy Governor Danforth (The Crucible) and Lady Bracknell (The Importance of Being Earnest). A proud and appreciative member of Actors’ Equity since 1984. GO BROWNS!
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Savannah Cooper*
Mr. Mushnik
Audrey II Voice
Elijah is thrilled to be returning to Great Lakes Theater. Previous credits
Andrew Faria* Seymour Debut season with Great Lakes Theater
Elijah Dawson*
Kris Lyons* Chiffon Debut season with Great Lakes Theater
Acting Company
Kris Lyons is excited to make her Great Lakes Theater debut in her home town. Kris hails from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and is a junior in Baldwin Wallace’s Music Theatre program. Previous shows include Baldwin Wallace’s production of Lizzie the Musical (Emma) and Clinton Area Showboat’s productions of Sister Act (Deloris), All Shook Up (Sylvia) and Smokey Joe’s Café (BJ). Kris would like to thank the
Savannah is beyond thank ful to be making her GLT debut! Previous credits include All Shook Up (Lorraine), Smokey Joe’s Café (Brenda/ Dance Captain), Into the Woods (Florinda), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Charlaine and Nell u/s), Lizzie (Bridget u/s and Dance Captain) and Kinky Boots (Factory Worker). Savannah is a senior music theater major and dance minor at Baldwin Wallace University. Many thanks to her family, friends, Vicky & BWMT!
Aled Davies*
THE ARTISTIC COMPANY
Chad Ethan Shohet
Understudies
BWMT faculty, her family and Sailor the liz ard for their continued support. Instagram: @justkrislyons
Victoria Bussert Director
Instagram: @saraemasterson
Audrey II Puppeteer
Previous shows include The Music Man, Julius Caesar, Witness for the Prosecution, Mamma Mia!, Pride and Prejudice, Wait Until Dark, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Alex has a Bachelor of Music from Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music and a Master of Fine Arts from New York University. alexsyiek.com
Sydney is excited to be mak ing her GLT debut. Her most recent credits include The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical (Sally/Playhouse Square), Into The Woods (Lucinda/Cinderella u/s Baldwin Wallace Mainstage), and BW B.A.R.S (Playhouse Square). Sydney attends Baldwin Wallace University (class of ’23) and studies musical theater under the direction of Victoria Bussert. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to perform this fall with GLT, and would like to thank Vicky and Matt for helping her build her skills as a performer, and her parents for always pushing her to strive higher. Instagram: @syddwhitt
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Crystal Debut season with Great Lakes Theater
Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Alex Syiek*
Orin Scrivello
Mike Bindeman, Will Boone, Andie Peterson, Noah Wohlsen
Sydney Whittenburg*Alexandra
Previous GLT shows include The Secret Garden (Martha) and King Lear (Ens/Cordelia u/s). Other credits include Rattlesnake Kate (Katie), The Denver Center; Next to Normal (Natalie), Syracuse Stage; Fun Home (Medium Alison), Portland Center Stage, where she received the BWW Regional Award for Best Supporting Actress; A Christmas Carol (Belle/Catherine Margret), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and A Little Night Music (Anne), The New London Barn Playhouse. Sara is a proud graduate of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music. Endless love and gratitude to her family and to Daniel. www.saramastersonactor.com
Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Seven seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Chad is a professional actor and puppeteer based in Boise, where he’s been seen onstage at Boise Contemporary Theater, HomeGrown Theatre and Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Favorite roles include Lungs (HGT), R+J (Mercutio), As You Like It, (Silvius) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at ISF (Demetrius). Puppet work includes The Tempest, The 39 Steps (ISF/GLT), Clara Umbra, Oppy, Alligator (HGT) and Carnival of Animals (Boise Philharmonic). Chad was a resident company member at the National Puppetry Conference at the O’Neill (20182019), and has served as the artistic direc tor of HomeGrown Theatre’s Horrific Puppet Affair for eight chadshohetshadows.comseasons.
Sara Masterson*
Thirty-six seasons with Great Lakes Theater Victoria returns for her 36th year at GLT, balancing the professional and academic worlds between her active life as an award-winning, freelance director while holding the position of Director of Music Theatre for Baldwin Wallace University. Her directing work has been seen at theaters
Directors
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Producing Artistic Director Twenty-one seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Directing credits at GLT: Much Ado About Nothing , Sleuth , Witness for the Prosecution, A Christmas Carol, Misery, Macbeth, Hamlet, And Then There Were None, Dial “M” for Murder, Deathtrap, Blithe Spirit, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, All’s Well That Ends Well, Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest, Arms and the Man and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Charles holds a unique position in the American theater as producing artis tic director of three independently oper ated, professional theater companies: Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, Ohio (since 2002); Idaho Shakespeare Festival in Boise, Idaho (since 1991) and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in Incline Village, Nevada (since 2010). His appointments have resulted in a dynamic and ground breaking producing model for the compa nies, in which more than 60 plays have been shared since 2002. In 2009, Charles was honored to receive recognition for his leadership by the Cleveland Arts Prize as a recipient of the Martha Joseph Award. Other awards include The Mayor’s and Governor’s awards for Excellence in the Arts, Idaho. From 1988 to 1992, he held
Charles Fee
Trad A Burns Lighting Designer
nationwide including Manhattan Theatre Club, New World Stages, Goodspeed Opera, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Portland Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Firebrand Theatre and Anchorage Opera. Her international credits include Friar Tuck in Russia, The Who’s Tommy in Brazil, the Danish premiere of Avenue Q, and the European premieres of Lizzie and [title of show]. Many thanks to her “the ater” family here at GLT, especially Matt, Jeff, Nancy and Jackie. She happily shares her life with husband, Dale, and fur chil dren, Ondie and Lizzie. It’s so good to be back LIVE! victoriabussert.com
the position of artistic director at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in California. He has also worked with The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, the Milwaukee and Missouri repertory theaters, Actor’s Theatre of Phoenix and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. In addition to his work with the companies in Ohio, Idaho and Nevada, Charles is active within the community. He has served as a member of the strategic planning committee for the Morrison Center, as producer of the FUNDSY Award Gala (’96, ’98 and 2000), and as producer of the 1996 Idaho Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Charles has served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club. He received his BA from the University of the Pacific and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Along with his wife, Lidia and daughter, Alexa, Charles resides in Boise, Cleveland and Lake Tahoe — a feat that is only possible because of the incredible love and support of his family, and the generous communi ties he serves!
Designers
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Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater Theater designs include Nickel and Dimed (Great Lakes Theater/Cleveland Public Theatre), Doubt and Inherit the Wind (Cleveland Play House), The Legend of Georgia McBride, Broadway Bound, Matilda, American Idiot and Altar Boyz (Beck Center for The Arts), Gloria (Texas State University), and Ragtime and Rock of Ages (Cain Park). Dance designs include You Are Here (Smunin Ballet), Soar (Sacramento Ballet), The Wizard of Oz (Kansas City Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Colorado Ballet), Romeo & Juliet (Richmond Ballet), The Nutcracker (Cincinnati Ballet, Kansas City Ballet, Ballet Hawaii, Tulsa Ballet, Sacramento Ballet), Peter Pan, (Hong Kong Ballet) and Wünderland (Pacific Northwest Ballet). Themed enter tainment designs include Rise of the Resistance (Hollywood Studios, Disneyland) Beauty and the Beast (Hollywood Studios)
and The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Undersea Adventures (Magic Kingdom, Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea). Trad is associate profes sor of practice in lighting design at Texas State University.
Director credits for GLT: The 39 Steps. Choreography/Movement credit for GLT: Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Music Man, Julius Caesar, Mamma Mia!, The Taming of the Shrew, Pride and Prejudice and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Regional credits: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: It’s Christmas, Carol!, Hairspray, Alice in Wonderland, Book of Will, Shakespeare in Love, Twelfth Night, Yeoman of the Guard, Fingersmith (world premiere), The Cocoanuts and My Fair Lady; South Coast Rep: She Loves Me; Arizona Theatre Company: Cabaret and The Music Man; Guthrie Theatre: The Cocoanuts; Baltimore
Nicholas Lynch-Voris Hair, Wig and Makeup Designer
Danae is thrilled to be back at Great Lakes Theater for the first time in 14 years after starting her career as an intern in the cos tume shop in 2008. Currently based in LA, she recently designed the Pasadena Playhouse production of Little Shop of Horrors with a live performance featured on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Selected additional designs include Witch at Geffen Playhouse (LA Drama Critics Circle and LA Stage Ovation Awards), Annie (Hollywood Bowl), The Pride (Wallis Annenberg Center), Jonah Bokaer’s Eclipse (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and the world premieres of Gidion’s Knot and From Prague (Contemporary American Theater Festival). She also builds costumes for television and live events, including Magic Mike Live, Carrie Underwood’s Cry Pretty Tour 360 and FOX’s The Masked Singer. Danae proudly holds an MFA in costume design from the University of California, San Diego, and a BA in theater arts from Baldwin Wallace University. danaeirismcqueen.com
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GLT credits include The Music Man , Mamma Mia!, My Fair Lady, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Fantasticks and The Secret Garden. He has been the sound supervisor and mixer for numerous Broadway productions, including A Chorus Line (1981), Dreamgirls, Sweet Charity, Cabaret, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Crazy For You, Fosse, The Producers, Gypsy and A Gentleman’s Guide. He was a concert sound engineer for Tommy Tune, Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone, as well as for special events at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center, NY City Center Encores and Carnegie Hall. David is a fac ulty adviser in sound design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Selected designs for GLT include Much Ado About Nothing, The Music Man, Mamma Mia!, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Cabaret, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Les Misérables, and My Fair Lady, all joint productions with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Other ISF pro ductions include I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, The Spitfire Grill, and Little Shop of Horrors. Jeff is the Chair of Theatre and Dance and the resident scene designer at Baldwin Wallace University. He holds an MFA in scene and lighting design from Southern Illinois University and is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
Seventeen seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Eight seasons at Great Lakes Theater
Jaclyn Miller Choreographer
say thank you to Esther, Vicky, and Danae for giving me the chance to realize their vision! This hair and makeup supervisor from the Dallas Theater Center was excited to visit these stages again.
Three seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Could not be more excited to make their design debut with ISF/GLT! Just wanted to
David Gotwald Sound Designer
Danae Iris McQueen Costume Designer
Jeff Herrmann Scenic Designer
Five seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Two seasons with Great Lakes Theater
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Seventh Season with Great Lakes Theater Previously the production stage manager for Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, The Tempest, Julius Caesar; the assistant stage manager for Sleuth, The Music Man, Witness for the Prosecution, Misery, Macbeth, Pride and Prejudice; production assistant for Hamlet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theater work: ASM for Every Brilliant Thing at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville. Nicki earned her BFA in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of North Texas and is a proud member of AEA. She is overjoyed to be back in the theater with her husband and friends.
Stage Management
Sixteen seasons with Great Lakes Theater
Adapted and Originally Directed By Gerald Freedman celebrate the season!
Matthew is music director for music theater at Baldwin Wallace University. Credits include Into the Woods, Spring Awakening and Kinky Boots. As music director for Great Lakes Theater: Mamma Mia!, Beehive: the ’60s Musical, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks, Sweeney Todd, Sondheim on Sondheim, Guys & Dolls, Cabaret, Bat Boy: The Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, A Christmas Carol and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Elsewhere: LIZZIE (Playhouse Square), Once (Beck Center) and Hair (Cain Park and Kent State). Previous sound design at Great Lakes: The 39 Steps, Much Ado About
Nothing, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth and Hamlet. Many thanks to Vicky, Charlie and his incredible parents, Carol and Jerry.
Matthew Webb Music Director
Center Stage: Fun Home. Additionally, Jaclyn has worked as an associate director and/or choreographer around the country in theaters that include Arena Stage, Kirk Douglas Theater, Ogunquit Playhouse, Portland Opera, Berkshire Theater Festival and Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma.
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Nicki Cathro* Production Stage Manager
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Production Stage Manager
Previous shows: The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing, A Christmas Carol, Sleuth, Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive: the ’60s Musical and Romeo and Juliet. Eleven sea sons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Sleuth, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), Million Dollar Quartet, Beehive: the ’60s Musical, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Forever Plaid, The Fantasticks and Steel Magnolias. Ten seasons with Boise Contemporary Theater: The Wolves, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, With Love and a Major Organ, Good B*tch Goes Down, Hedwig and the Angry Inch and A Skull in Connemara. Sarah is a graduate of Boise State University’s Department of Theatre Arts.
Imani is so excited to be back at The Hanna for her third season! Previous GLT credits include The Music Man and The 39 Steps. Other credits are LIZZIE (The Beck Center), Into the Woods (Baldwin Wallace University), Jersey Boys Streaming (Playhouse Square), Greenwood: An American Dream Destroyed (Karamu House) and If/Then (Lakeland Civic Theatre). Imani would like to thank her fam ily and friends for their love and support.
Assistant Stage Manager
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Imani Sade*
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“Intermission” Ticket Donors
The Community Foundation of Lorain County Kulas Foundation
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David and Inez Myers Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Federation of Cleveland
Over 800 patrons generously donated the value of their tickets back to support Great Lakes Theater during pandemic-related disruptions during our 2019-20, 2020-21, and 2021-22 seasons. This vital “intermission” support has enabled us to raise our curtain once again. We are truly grate ful! Check out the full list of donors online.
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation
The trustees, staff, and artistic company of Great Lakes Theater express our deepest gratitude to the hundreds of supporters of Cleveland’s Classic Company. The donors listed below and on the following pages made generous gifts to our Annual Fund between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022. “I can no other answer make but thanks.” Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene iii
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Great Lakes Theater’s Legacy Society honors individuals, families, foundations and other generous donors that make gifts to Great Lakes Theater’s Endowment Fund or have made a provision for Great Lakes Theater through their estate plans.
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Please consider becoming a member of the growing list of generous Great Lakes Theater Legacy Society supporters and help ensure that classic theater endures for future generations in northeast Ohio by designating Great Lakes Theater a beneficiary in your will, trust or other estate plans.
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Gifts to the Great Lakes Theater Endowment Fund were received from the following donors between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022.
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Lance Whitson & Terry Juhn
Formed in 1961, the committee is Great Lakes Theater’s longest standing volunteer support group. Members act as hosts for our actors, provide support in our administrative office and at events, and cheer us on throughout the season. If you would like to become a member, call Joanne Hulec at (216) 2528717 for more information.
Thank you to our donors! Every effort is made to ensure that our donor records are current and correct. Please contact the Great Lakes Theater Development Office at (216) 453-4457 to share an update or request a revision.
Gifts were received in memory of: Charles “Chuck” Dickson by: Georgianna T. Roberts
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STRATEGICTRUSTEES ALLIANCE
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In 2002, Great Lakes Theater (Cleveland, Ohio) and Idaho Shakespeare Festival (Boise, Idaho) conceived a unique, strategic producing alliance designed to maximize return on organizational investments, increase production efficiencies, create long term work opportu nities for artists and share best practices. In 2010, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (Incline Village, Nevada) joined the collaborative — further contributing to the momentum of the revolutionary producing prototype’s success. The long term results have been remarkable. The alliance’s three independent, 501c3 regional theaters have shared over 60 jointly-created productions — each featuring long term, multi-city employment opportunities for artistic company members. This revolutionary producing model has realized its vision and exceeded expectations while simultaneously resulting in notable audience growth for each company.
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Great Lakes Theater is a member of the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and operates under agree ments with LORT, Actors’ Equity Association, American Federation of Musicians, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, and the United Scenic Artists, which are unions representing professional actors, stage managers, musicians, stagehands, direc tors, choreographers, and designers, respectively, in the United States. originally Directed by Howard Ashman with Musical Staging by Edie Cowan
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Iran Micheal Leon Master Electrician Taylor Audio Supervisor Brinkman Production Assistant Michael Montanus Run Crew Ralph Melari, Gary Zsigrai Hanna Theatre Crew Thomas Boddy, Shaun Milligan, Lester Parker Jr., Nathan Tulenson Health and Safety Team Jaclyn Miller, Amy Essick, Lindsay Mandela, Lauren Tidmore
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The four murals on the walls of the KeyBank State Theatre lobby were painted by American Modernist James Daugherty
PLAYHOUSE SQUARE HISTORY
At 2 a.m. the phone rang. It was fellow comedian Jack Benny calling from Omaha. Immediately recognizing Jack’s voice, George cut him off saying, “Send up two orders of ham and eggs,” then hung up.
The Playhouse Square logo we use today – a tilted burgundy square with a capital P in its center – was introduced in 2008 to capture the enduring spirit of entertainment and excitement. Each of the logo’s graphic ele ments has meaning: the exclamation point with a star in the “P” symbolizes excitement and innovation; the swirl in the “P” rep resents creativity and forward motion; the tilted square symbolizes Playhouse Square as a destination; and the burgundy color gives nod to the color scheme of our historic
Ten minutes later the phone rang. It was Benny again. This time George interrupted his friend with, “You forgot the ketchup!” and hung up on Benny a second time. Half an hour later came a knock at the door. It was a waiter with two orders of ham and eggs. Trying to keep a straight face the waiter announced, “Compliments of Mr. Jack Benny from Omaha!”
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As you walk through the theaters, you may notice various patterns within the plaster decoration. Common are dentil, lamb
Keeping Up the KeyBank State Theatre
As George liked to tell it, the newlyweds ate their Benny breakfast at 2:30 a.m., and, when they were done, Gracie said, “George, this was the high point of the night!”
First restored more than 30 years ago, the KeyBank State Theatre was repainted from the street to the proscenium in 2015. The new, cohesive color palette showcases the beauty and craftsmanship of the nearly 100-year-old theater. It took 25 painters 12,500 hours and 595 gallons of paint in 15 different colors to complete the project, which also included 6000 sheets of new metal leafing in the auditorium dome and the application of a historically accurate wall-covering design. While the theater was dark, its lighting fixtures and restrooms received major upgrades.
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Legendary comedy duo George Burns and Gracie Allen were married in Cleveland January 7, 1926 during their Playhouse Square booking. A brief, early-morning cere mony was performed by a Justice of the Peace, after which the newlyweds checked into the Statler Hotel. George’s older brother and his family (who lived in Akron) came up to Cleveland that afternoon to celebrate with the couple before George and Gracie returned to their room to honeymoon.
The KeyBank State Theatre Murals
color most often associated with theaters, Playhouse Square is making efforts to go “green.” You will find recepta cles for recycling paper, plastic and cans, along with those designated specifically for the program you’re currently reading, throughout the complex. Lighting fixtures are being switched to LED for increased energy efficiency. And the Playhouse Square administrative office is making strides towards going paperless.
Patterns in Plaster
What’s in a Logo?
Say Goodnight, Gracie
tongue, rope and rosettes. Other patterns you may see have been associated with cer tain meanings since they were first used hundreds or even thousands of years ago, such as the acanthus leaf (immortality), egg and dart (life and death), and the palm leaf, first used in ancient Egypt as a reference to the Nile River. In the KeyBank State Theatre, if you look closely and carefully, you can find ox skulls, which were believed to offer pro tection from natural elements. And through out the theaters, you will find griffins, myth ical creatures thought of as guardians.
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John Wilkes Booth. Booth performed locally at the old Academy of Music, which was one of the first drama schools in the country and was located at 1371 W. 6th Street.
The 1870s ushered in the golden age for Euclid Avenue as the street became a stretch of grand mansions, with grounds often extending as far as Lake Erie, and stately elm trees arching over the avenue. Called Millionaire’s Row, it was the address where all the best families lived.
But by Cleveland’s Centennial in 1896, Euclid Avenue residents were likely mutter ing, Well, there goes the neighborhood! as the dirt street was paved with sandstone,
Repeat three times: Performer packs pickle for perfect pipes. Singer Anita Baker sur prised backstage workers during her sold out shows by keeping an ample supply of pickle juice in her dressing room — using it to gargle! (No report as to whether Anita acquired the pickle practice during her two pregnancies.) Likewise, another unusual gargling agent was the preference of singer Millie Jackson who required a certain imported beer as her gargle-of-choice.
There Goes the Neighborhood!
One of many fascinating items to be found in the book Playhouse Square: An Entertaining History deals with the infamous
It was at that Cleveland Academy where he would play his last role prior to perform ing at Washington D.C.’s Ford Theatre where he would assassinate President Lincoln. (Might history have been changed if the Academy had held over Booth’s play for an extended run?)
During her 1996 run of Kiss of the Spider Woman, legendary Broadway star Chita Rivera was given a guided tour of Playhouse Square. As she followed her tour guide into the State auditorium, an excited Chita pointed to the mezzanine railing and proudly exclaimed, I helped paint that! Indeed, she had. In 1984, Chita had last played Playhouse Square when much restoration remained, and during her free time willingly added her brush strokes to the history of the State.Likewise, Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary fame also performed at the KeyBank State Theatre several times during its early restoration. She became so enthusiastic over the restoration process that she would climb the scaffolding and help paint the ceiling. Like Chita, on a return visit, Mary pointed out the ceiling area that she had helped paint (just-above-and-to-the-left of the Men’s Room doorway on the mezzanine).
Before the days of clothes dryers, touring performers were often forced to pull stilldamp clothes off the drying line when it was time to pack and leave. During the vaude ville era, the Connor Palace (known then as the Palace) became known as one of the most performer-friendly venues in the coun try because of its many backstage amenities, one of which included a drying room. In this large room, wet clothes could be hung and hot air was continuously blown into the area to hasten the drying time.
A Change in History?
Singers’ Secrets
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(1890-1974), whose work hangs in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Smithsonian. One of the murals, The Spirit of Cinema, was featured on the cover of Life magazine on February 20, 1970. It was that national attention that became the convincing argument to save the venue from the wrecking ball. Destruction of the State would also have meant the loss of the original historic Daugherty murals, since they are painted directly on the walls. Today they are the only Daugherty works which remain at the original site where they were Performerspainted.
Help Restore Playhouse Square
The GE OfficiallyChandeliertheworld’s largest outdoor chande lier, the 20-foot tall GE Chandelier is adorned with 4200 crystals. To find out how it was made, visit the Playhouse Square YouTube channel.
Streetcar lines on the once totally residen tial stretch hastened the creation of a com mercial district, forcing wealthy families to move even farther east on Euclid Avenue. In another 30 years, the district would see the birth of the five main theaters that would eventually become Playhouse Square.
Connor Palace: A Three Stooges Favorite
KeyBank State Theatre Trivia
The stage of the KeyBank State Theatre is so large that a typical high school gymnasium (complete with basketball court and bleach ers) could easily fit on stage. As another point of comparison, three of the Mimi Ohio Theatre stages could fit onto the State’s Hannastage.
Michel Legrand starring Yul Brynner. Another first occurred in 1937, when Gilbert and Sullivan’s first Cleveland-staged opera was performed at the Hanna by the D’Oyly Carte Company from London.
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and businessmen began to buy up and tear down the mansions and towering elms to make way for commercial ventures.
Since its opening in 1921, the Hanna Theatre has been the site of two world pre mieres: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Me and Juliette in 1953 and, in 1974, Odyssey by
In his biography, Moe Howard & The Three Stooges, Moe Howard wrote about the plight of dressing rooms on the road. Although dressing rooms were usually spartan at best and a hovel at worst, Howard had nothing but praise for the Connor Palace (known then as the Palace Theatre): “This theater was built without missing a thought for the actors’ comfort. The Palace was beautiful not only outside and in the auditorium, but also backstage. Most impressive was the second floor, which sported a regulation-size pool table, chess tables, comfortable chairs, an ice machine and soft drinks, playing cards, cigars — it had all the facilities of a private club. In the basement was a laundry room. There was even a nursery for youngsters.
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What Would It Cost to Build Them Today?
Even though the Connor Palace is not the largest of the Playhouse Square venues, it was the most costly to build ($3.5 million) by the time it premiered on Nov. 6, 1922. The largest theater, the State, (opened Feb. 5, 1921) was built at a cost of $2 million; the Ohio (Feb. 14, 1921) also cost $2 mil lion, and the Allen’s costs totaled $1.9 mil lion when it opened April 1, 1921. (Exact building costs for the Hanna Theatre — which opened March 28, 1921 — have yet to be uncovered.)
Although the creator of this mural is unknown, it is suspected to be Italian artist Sampitrotti, who had painted three murals for the original Mimi Ohio Theatre lobby. (Those murals were later destroyed in the Ohio’s 1964 lobby fire.)
The bar in Kennedy’s (the lower level cabaret space accessed by way of the Mimi Ohio Theatre lobby), might be familiar to Cleveland oldtimers. The former home of the bar was the Elegant Hog Saloon when the tavern was located on Buckeye Road.
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The recovered mural was badly torn, hav ing originally been painted on burlap then glued to the wall. The challenge of restoring the artwork fell to the Theater District’s Bonfoey Company. Artisans sanded the glue from the burlap and attached the cleaned mural to canvas via beeswax.
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A Phoenix from the Ashes
In 1964, the Mimi Ohio Theatre lobby and auditorium were destroyed by fire. When the fledgling Playhouse Square organization restored the spaces in 1982, funding and time constraints made it possible only for the auditorium to be fully restored. Thanks to a gift from the George Gund Foundation, the lobby was re-created in its original splen dor in 2016. You can watch a documentary about the project, “Restoring the Legacy,” on Playhouse Square’s YouTube channel.
Re-Creating History
We call the completed Mimi Ohio Theatre George Gund Foundation Lobby project a “re-creation” rather than a restoration. Why? There was nothing left to restore after a 1964 fire destroyed the space. To reproduce the lobby’s original 1921 splendor, archi tects, restoration specialists and Playhouse Square staff conducted exhaustive research
Best of all were the dressing rooms, heav ily carpeted with mirrored walls and make-up tables. They had everything in them, right down to padded coat hangers.”
Since it was important that the proposed theater marquees be located on Euclid Avenue, an architectural plan was devised. Even though the KeyBank State Theatre would be completed and open 21 months before the Connor Palace, it was decided to build the State behind the Connor Palace. This led to the construction of the State’s 320-foot-long lobby, reported to be the lon gest theater lobby in the world. The Mimi Ohio Theatre would then be built on the other side of the State, giving all three theaters the desired Euclid Avenue marquee frontage.
Above the fireplace at the rear of the KeyBank State Theatre auditorium, an origi nal mural hangs despite its near-tragic loss. Removed from the wall in the early 1970s prior to the scheduled demolition of the venue, the mural eventually turned up in the basement of a piano store and was repur chased by Playhouse Square for $200.
In 1920 as the Loew’s chain anticipated building in the area that would come to be known as Playhouse Square, it was discov ered there wasn’t sufficient room to build two theaters side by side in the available space.
The next step was to clean and restore the work where needed. A stretcher for the can vas had to be custom-made. To eliminate tears and wrinkles, the stretcher was designed to expand and contract with the theater’s climactic changes and held together with springs (no nails or screws). It took Bonfoey employees 18 months to restore the painting at a cost of $8,500.
World’s Longest Lobby Explained
Young STARS Shine At Playhouse Square
Broadway to Buildings
Best known as the masterminds behind the annual Jump Back Ball benefit, Playhouse Square’s young professionals group –Partners – was formed in 1991. Since then, hundreds of young professionals engage with Playhouse Square each year to build leader ship skills, raise funds and volunteer in support of our not-for-profit mission, enjoy shows together, network and have fun!
of the original drawings by architect Thomas Lamb, photo archives and a few remaining bits of ornamental plaster detail to gain a thorough understanding of the space and inform the plans for re-creating the lobby.
YPs Take the Lead
You might see volunteer RedCoats from time to time who look like they’re not old enough to vote — and they aren’t. These youths are part of the successful STARS (Students Take A Role at the Square) program, where older students volunteer to usher at Broadway Series shows, concerts and other special events at the theaters. While the STARS program can be interesting and fun for all students, it becomes a particularly invalu able opportunity to gain experience and behind-the-scenes knowledge for those stu dents who are planning future careers in the performing arts.
Where do the arts and real estate go handin-hand? At Playhouse Square, of course! As
the theaters began to be restored in the early 1980s, it was thought that developers would step in to build and open businesses around them. When that didn’t happen, Playhouse Square began to steward development of the surrounding neighborhood. In 1999, Playhouse Square became the first perform ing arts center with a real estate services division, which manages the one million square feet of property owned by the organi zation and another 1.5 million square feet outside the theater district. Other perform ing arts centers have since looked to our expertise as a model.
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Thank PlayhouseYou Square gratefully acknowledges the people of Cuyahoga County for their historical support to theater restoration, upkeep and programming, as well as through their ongoing contributions through Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.
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