Meet the Crew (continued)

JK Lighting (Jeffrey Scott Auerbach and Kimberly Crago) is an awardwinning lighting design duo active at LTA, ACCT, DS, TAP and other local theatres. Recent productions at LTA include The Nacirema Society … and Lettice and Lovage. Jeff and Kimberly are delighted to be working on such a fun show with such fun and talented friends. They would like to thank Joanna, the producers, the cast and the crew. Jeff thanks David and Katie Clement for their patience and support. Kimberly thanks Steve for being a real swell guy. Jeffrey and Kimberly both hope you enjoy the show.

Ramah Johnson (Co-Assistant Stage Manager) is an accomplished Stage Manager with four years of experience in Northern Virginia community theater. She has successfully stage managed several notable productions, including the award-winning Newsies! (TAP), Lettice and Lovage (LTA), Ordinary Days (NOVA Nightsky), Bright Star (LTA) and The Drowsy Chaperone (SMP) and also provided valuable assistance on Prelude to a Kiss (LTA). Ramah is grateful for the unwavering support of her husband, David, and daughters, Kendall and Casey. She is proud to share her love of theater with them, and thanks them for their enthusiastic encouragement.

Alex Kluck (Co-Assistant Stage Manager) is working his second show at LTA. He wants to thank his beautiful and talented girlfriend, Lourdes, who helped him get into the community.

Kristin McGregor (Production Assistant) is so happy to be returning to the LTA family after 15 years away. Previous LTA credits include The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Helena), Into the Woods (Lucinda) and The Will Rogers Follies (Ziegfeld’s Favorite – WATCH nomination). She is looking forward to directing Annie at LTA later in the season. Lots of love to Scott, Colton and Liam.

Karen Maline (Co-Assistant Producer) is excited to be producing for the first time! Since 2017, Karen has been on tech crews (set painting, hair and makeup, wardrobe and sound) for shows at LTA and, more recently, at TAP. Among her favorites are The Producers, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Bright Star, Something Rotten! (even with the dancing omelets!) and Singin’ in the Rain. Karen thanks her family for their support, especially her daughter Robin (and other daughter, Lanae), and husband, Rob, whose support makes everything possible. Enjoy the show!

Kathy Murphy (Set Painting Design) has been happily painting sets with Little Theatre of Alexandria for eight years—finally able to use all her art classes! It is a team effort and possible only with the support of our terrific volunteer painters. In this production, we worked with 3D elements and imagery in a creative collaboration with the designer and builders to make the magic of a set. It is always a joy to work at LTA. “Nothing’s better than an adventure with your best bucket of paint!”

Future Auditions At The Little Theatre Of Alexandria

Young Frankenstein

Producers Rachel Alberts and Russell M. Wyland and Director Frank D. Shutts II are pleased to announce auditions for Young Frankenstein

Music Director – Christopher A. Tomasino; Choreographer – Stefan Sittig

Dates: Saturday, August 5 and Sunday, August 6, 2023

Performance dates: October 21 – November 11, 2023

Additional info will be posted on thelittletheatre.com under Auditions. From the book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan; Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks.

Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

Meet the Crew (continued)

Zell Murphy (Co-Assistant Producer) has been actively involved in some capacity with LTA since the fall of 2011, when he ASM’d on Rabbit Hole, another Joanna Henry production. Since then, he has filled all sorts of roles backstage, including running props, lights and sound in addition to ASM duties. This is his second foray into the world of producing, and he extends his “thanks” to both Luana and sheri for their guidance through this Fun and “Freaky” process.

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists, and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials, and dynamic theatrical resources to over 100,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 150 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

Jeff Nesmeyer (Co-Set Construction) is pleased to be working again with Jim Hutzler and the great group of set construction volunteers. Jeff has been involved in set builds at LTA, PCP and DS since 2006. He was nominated for five WATCH Awards and has won LTA Excellence in Set Construction awards for Harvey, Dracula, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Design for Murder. He thanks LTA for its confidence in his carpentry abilities, Jim for his camaraderie, and his wife, Diane, for her support.

Eileen Parks (Dance Captain) See Cast Bio.

Heather Plank (Co-Properties Design) Although more often performing onstage than working backstage, Heather has years of experience with props, set building and painting, stage managing and assistant stage managing since her theatre beginnings in grade school. She worked on props at LTA for Something Rotten! and Mary Stuart. She most recently appeared onstage as Claire in Boston Marriage at Dominion Stage.

Jennifer Rhorer (Co-Stage Manager) is looking forward to working on another musical at LTA. She previously co-stage managed Something Rotten! (LTA) and worked as an assistant stage manager for Sister Act (LTA). Thanks always to Mom and Dad for their love and support.

Stefan Sittig (Choreographer/Fight Choreographer/Intimacy Choreographer)

100+ productions Off-Broadway, internationally in Canada, Brazil and Uruguay, in DC at The Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, 1st Stage, NextStop Theatre Company, Workhouse Arts Center, ATLAS, The Washington Savoyards, Open Circle Theatre, The American Century Theatre and regional theatres, colleges/universities. For LTA: Something Rotten!, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Producers, The Nance, Legally Blonde, Anything Goes (also Director), West Side Story, In the Heights, The Rocky Horror Show and Into the Woods. He received a Broadway World Award for Best Director and three nominations for Best Choreography, and two WATCH awards and 11 nominations. www.stefansittig.com sheri ratick stroud (Co-Producer) is thrilled to be co-producing her second show at LTA. After a 40-year hiatus, she is BACK! When not at LTA, sheri has a film company, WONDER PICTURES, that creates award-winning shorts for festivals. Recently, WONDER PICTURES won a Telly Award for a documentary they did. sheri thanks Luana for this opportunity, Zell and Karen for their support, and the whole cast and crew for a great experience, once again, at LTA.

Meet the Crew (continued)

Myke Taister (Set Design), also known by the mononym “MYKE,” is a retired forensic artist who fell into set design and decoration as a hobby some 30 years ago. He served as LTA’s president in the late ’90s and currently serves as its building governor. MYKE has won several awards for his theatrical endeavors. When not designing or decorating a set, he can be found procuring items in area antique stores for his Victorian home on Main Street in Midland, Michigan. As always, he dedicates this show to his mentors and friends Anne Lash and Jean Stuhl. Love to Frank.

Christopher A. Tomasino (Music Director) returns to LTA with Freaky Friday, having been music director for last summer’s show Something Rotten!. He is very excited to be working once again with Joanna and Stefan, our fantastic producers and stage managers, as well as a highly talented cast, orchestra and crew. Freaky Friday is the 36th production Chris has music directed at LTA since starting in the fall of 1988 with Chicago. Chris has been honored to receive the WATCH Music Direction award for LTA productions of In the Heights, Hairspray, Cabaret, Das Barbecü and Tommy. He has also been the recipient of the LTA Demaine Award for Music Direction, as well as the Alliance of Community Theaters (ACT) music direction awards for numerous productions. In addition to LTA, Chris has been the music director for Bishop Ireton High School’s Theater Arts program for over 35 years. In real life, Chris is a vice president with Burke & Herbert Bank in Alexandria.

Natalie Turkevich (Hair and Makeup Design) is a recent West Virginia University (WVU) grad with a B.A. in Theater. Some of her favorite shows she has worked on include Airness (WVU), Assassins (WVU) and The Magic Flute (West Virginia Opera). She hopes you sit back, relax and enjoy the show!

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Judy Whelihan (Co-Costume Designer) has been dressing people for the stage for nearly 30 years. Favorite shows include Amore, Blood Brothers, Greater Tuna, W;t and Doubt with ESP and 1776, Les Misérables, The Full Monty, Cabaret and many others with RCP. She received 13 WATCH nominations and two awards.

Jamie Wolfe (Co-Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to join the crew in her first LTA production! She has performed onstage in numerous shows in her hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. Jamie, now an Alexandria resident, is eager to assist backstage for this LTA musical!

Robin Worthington (Wardrobe Coordinator /Co-Costume Design ) is delighted to organize the crew to dress the cast of Freaky Friday. Co-Chair of LTA’s Wardrobe Committee, Robin has been a wardrobe mistress, assisting challenging quick changes behind the scenes for LTA plays, and has worked with local costumers to dress actors in many theaters and schools since 2015, most recently LTA’s Mary Stuart. A Ph.D. in Biology, she is retired from implementing FDA international food safety initiatives, teaching in universities and high schools, assisting personal injury legal cases and organizing international scientific conferences.

Alan Wray (Sound Design) is excited to be working with Joanna on this production of Freaky Friday as well as the fabulous production team, cast and crew. He most recently designed sound for Doubt at VTC. Working with Joanna, Alan has designed sound for productions of The Desperate Hours, Rabbit Hole and 33 Variations (LTA Award). Additionally for LTA, he has designed sound for The Producers (WATCH Award), Picnic (WATCH nomination) and the chilling Widdershins (LTA Award).

Russell M. Wyland (Rigging) has been an LTA member and volunteer for more than 30 years. During that time, he has worked in numerous capacities, including seven years as President and eight years as Governor for Production. However, his first love is rigging, the art of masking the stage with drapes, and making things fly from above and travel across the stage.

Meet the Crew (continued)

Brian Yorkey (Librettist/Lyricist) received the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the 2009 Tony Award for Best Score, for Next to Normal. Brian is currently the Executive Producer and Showrunner of 13 Reasons Why for Netflix, Paramount Television and Anonymous Content. Brian was also nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical for Next to Normal, and his work on the show earned him the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Score. He partnered again with the Next to Normal team on If/Then (Tony Award Nominee for Best Score) starring Idina Menzel. Brian co-wrote the libretto for The Last Ship (Outer Critic’s Nomination, with John Logan), with a score by Sting. His musical adaptation of Freaky Friday for Disney Theatricals enjoyed a National Tour before being adapted into a Disney Channel Original Movie. Current theatrical projects in development include the original musical Jesus in My Bedroom, with composer Tim Symons, as well as stage musical adaptation of Magic Mike. Additional theatre credits include Making Tracks, which has played off-Broadway and regionally, the musical adaptation of Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet and the play, Book of Jobs with Alex Glover. Brian has directed off-Broadway and regionally and for seven years was associate artistic director at Village Theatre in Washington state, one of the nation’s leading producers of new musicals. He’s a graduate of Columbia University, where he was artistic director of the Varsity Show, an alum of the BMI/Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the WGA.

Future Auditions At The Little Theatre Of Alexandria

Annie

Producers Mariana Bagneris, Jaclyn Robertson and Monika Stumpo and Director Kristin McGregor are pleased to announce auditions for Annie.

Dates: Saturday, November 4 and Sunday, November 5, 2023

Performance dates: February 10 – March 2, 2024

Additional info will be posted on thelittletheatre.com under Auditions

Book by Thomas Meehan, Music by Charles Strouse, Lyrics by Martin Charnin. Presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

Thank You!

LTA wishes to recognize and thank all of the volunteers who have given their time and talents by helping with house managing, ushering, or working in the box office for our previous production of Nacirema Society Requests the Honor of Your Presence at a Celebration of Their First One Hundred Years

Box Office Volunteers

Lloyd Bittinger

Sara Deshong

Sharon Dove

Ira Forstater

Gary Gladstone

Michele Greene

Bobbie Herbst

Marian Holmes

Brittany Huffman

Phil Krzywicki

Front of House Volunteers

Dee Brown

Sarah Bueter

Angela Cannon

Veronica Cartier

Shannon Doyle

Florence Ferraro

Patty Fitzgibbons

Ira Forstater

Jean Frane

Rebecca Harrison

Barbara Hayes

Latonya Henry

Gayle Hightower

Diane Janik

Meredith Ludwig

Dorothy Marshall

Iolaire McFadden

Susan McFadden

Caterina Lillis

Meredith Ludwig

Melissa Nielson

Steve Percy sheri ratick stroud

Alison Tregea

Eve Young

Kirt Miller

Madelaine Morgan

Christina Nahi

Tuknekah Noble

Lola Raphael

Edna Rogers

Steven Rosenthal

Ann Rowan

Eleanor Schmutz

Lorie Sebestyen

Ed Settle

Anne Shively

Patricia Skinner

Howard Soroos

Sharon Steeg

Tescia Yonkers

Richard Young

For your own safety, look for your nearest EXIT. In case of emergency, WALK, DO NOT run, to the exit.

In case of an emergency, LTA has three AEDs (automated external defibrillators) They are located as follows:

1. in the lobby, near the Council Green Room

2. in the cast entrance hallway, near backstage door

3. in the Alexandria Academy, on the first floor

Founding Fathers

Anonymous x 4

Thomas Dabney in Memory of Grace Machanic

Shannon Doyle

Megan Evans

Christopher Feldmann and Laura Beauchamp

Julie Fischer and Mark Lacy Family

Marian Holmes

Kevin Kuntz

Micheal J. O’Connor

Mrs. Lydia Odle

Karen Shotts

Linda Windsor

Continental Congress

Kacie Carlyle

Catherine & David Clagett

Barbara and John Cohoon

Dr. Patricia Cosler

Chas Harris

Mary Hunstad-O’Konski

James and Catherine Kelley

Jim and Mary Hutzler

Catherine E. Jenkins

Ms. Melissa Neilson and

Mr. Edward Yawn

Donna and Mark Samblanet

Howard and Marg Soroos

Ed and Maria Ward

Megan Waterhouse and Andrew Terrell

Patriots

Anonymous x 12

Luana Bossolo

Joe and Elizabeth Carden

Brian and Sandra Darville

Robert Doerschner

Dr. David Doll

Jack and Kelly Fannon

Anne Fesmire

Lo & Paul Hartnett

Barbara Hayes

Lowell and Celia Jacoby

Elizabeth Jay

Judy Kee

Mary McGowan and Steve Cohen

Michael Maibach

James McAtamney

Col. And Mrs. Jules McNeff

Thomas and Delores

Mulkerin

Zell Murphy

Jeff and Diane Nesmeyer

Northwest Financial Advisors

Woodrow Paik

Carole and David Preston

Daniel Romasko

Mary Beth Smith-Toomey

Adrian Steel

Jason Stevens

Susan Swain

Chris Tomasino

Harrison and Toni Wadsworth