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AUG 10-SEP 2, 2018 An outrageous comedy about the price of fame and the oddest jobs.

By Johnathan Tolins Directed by Philip Nolen

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By Jonathan Tolins August 10-September 2, 2018 THE ZEHNGEBOT-STONEROCK THEATRE - FEATURING Louie Gravance*

Scenic Design Cliff Price

Properties Master Lisa Buck

Stage Manager Scott Jenks

Costume Design Alison Reid

Lighting Design Amy hadley

Sound Design Gabriella Petro

Director Philip Nolen

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is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.”

Original Off-Broadway Production produced by Darren Bagert, Dan Shaheen and Ted Snowdon World premiere produced by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater (David Van Asselt, Artistic Director; Brian Long, Managing Director) ​ at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre on October 30, 2012

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Buyer & Cellar Cast Alex More..............................................................................Louie Gravance

There is no intermission for this production of Buyer & Cellar.

PLACE AND TIME Present day Barbra Striesand’s basement PRODUCTION TEAM Technical Director................................................................ Waylon Lemasters Scenic Charge ................................................................................ Lisa Buck Lighting/Electrics Crew..........................................................Jessica Kaschube

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 49,000 *actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster

the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans.

AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org

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Photo by: Joey Stocks

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Jonathan Tolins

Jonathan Tolins (Playwright) is a man of mystery with (gasp!) nary a single page bearing his name in Wikipedia.

Jon was born in Brooklyn, he moved to Long Island when he was three. Jon was bitten by the theater bug at a young age and also became an opera fanatic because he started going to the opera with his dad as a kid. After graduation from Harvard, Jon moved to LA, where he’d been offered a summer job supplying questions for a game show.

He remained there longer when The Climate, a five-character play he wrote and in which he played all the male characters, enjoyed a seven-month run at Theater Theater, and brought him movie and TV work.

Buyer and Cellar is an intriguing, sly fantasy inspired by Jon’s two meets with Barbra Streisand. The first, in the flesh, occurred at a performance of one his early plays where Barbra offered him a hunk of her Kit Kat bar and almost bought the movie rights. Their second more-hands-off encounter arose via

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Jon’s acquisition of the diva’s coffee table tome, My Passion for Design, which depicts Barbra’s nail-by-nail, brick-by-brick, plank-by-plank millionby-million creation of her own personal home: a Malibu meld of Nantucket, Vermont and Versailles with a basement transformed into a street of country shops, inspired by those in the DuPont Winterthur Museum.

There’s a doll shop; an antique shop; an antique clothes shop; a gift shop, a sweet shop with a frozen yogurt dispenser, sprinkles and popcorn machine. The shops display everything Barbra wanted to retain but for which she found no room in her mill-cummansion closets. The street of shops is where most of Buyer and Cellar takes place.

The five-character play’s leading lady? Need you ask? ... Its leading man, Alex More, is a gay actor who worked at Disneyland until he got fired.

A feeling-guilty-about-firing-Alex, Disney Human Relations manager remembered Alex had retail experience at Banana Republic and suggested Alex for the post of manning the shops in Babra’s basement. Acting skills were also required. Alex had to pretend the lady of the house was an ordinary yenta nobody and bargain with her about the price of her own possessions.

All five characters, including Alex’s Jewish boyfriend Barry, are performed by a single actor, Louis Gravance. He doesn’t do an impression or imitate Barbra. He becomes Barbara. www.huffingtonpost.com

Buyer & Cellar LISA BUCK (Properties Master) Set designs include The Road to Mecca, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, and Painting Churches (Mad Cow Theatre), Don Pasquale, Abduction from the Seraglio, and Carmina Burana (Orlando Opera), Madama Butterfly, II Barbieredi Siviglia, Tosca, and The Magic Flute (Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra).

Lisa studied painting at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and Cobalt Studios.

She has won numerous awards for her painting and has written how-to-paint articles for North Light Publications.

creative team for Bad Jews, Silent Sky, The Big Meal, 1776, Pygmalion, and Fences. When she is not working as a lighting designer, she serves as technical director for the Orlando Fringe.

Scott Jenks (Stage Manager) is excited to be part his first production at Mad Cow Theatre. Scott has stage managed for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, First Lady Suite at La Crosse Community Theatre, the Grand River Singers and Big Love, These Shining Lives, Footloose and Farnsworth Invention at University of Wisconsin – La Crosse.

LOUIE GRAVANCE (Alex More) Like the character he’s portraying, Louie Gravance spent many years as Louie Gravance a theme park “mayor.” Over the last 20 years he has appeared locally in productions of Murder’s a Drag, The Eight, Irma Vep and An Evening With Groucho. Gravance is grateful to be making his first appearance with Mad Cow, for being directed by Philip Nolen and for being married to John Graham.

He works as a humorous keynote speaker on customer service.

PHILIP NOLEN (Director) makes his directorial debut with Buyer and Cellar after having performed as an actor and singer for more than 25 years at Walt Disney World, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the New York International Fringe Festival, Mary Moody Northen Theater in Austin, Texas, the Orlando Fringe, Orlando Theatre Project, and Orlando Shakes. Mad Cow audiences saw him in Amadeus, Twelve Angry Men, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor, among others.

GABRIELLA “ELLIE” PETRO (Sound is a recent graduate of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, where she studied technical theatre and design.

Buyer and Cellar is Ellie’s first professional sound design. In college, Ellie designed more than 20 productions, one of which received a Merit Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She has worked on a show at the Edinburgh Fringe and with Designer)

AMY HADLEY (Lighting Designer) is an independent lighting designer who works with many theatres throughout Central Florida and is staff lighting designer for Beth Marshall Presents. She is excited to be returning for her sixth production with Mad Cow, where she was part of the

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Buyer & Cellar Pittsburgh community theaters and is looking forward to continuing her career in Orlando.

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CLIFF PRICE (Scenic Designer) has been resident scenic/production designer for Encore! Cast Performing Arts since 2002.

He received a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture/environmental design from the University of Georgia.

Recent credits include Finding Wonderland, Aida, Ragtime, Godspell and Hairspray and the set design for Mad Cow’s Bad Jews. He received the 2017 Broadway World Regional (Orlando) Best Scenic Design Award for Hairspray.

Cliff thanks Mike Beahm and Clay Price for all their love and support.

ALISON REID (Costume Designer) has created costumes for Orlando Shakes, Sarasota Opera, Florida Studio Theatre, Zach Theatre and other regional companies in Florida and Texas. Last year she earned a master of fine arts in costume technology from the University of Texas at Austin. When she’s not creating costumes, Alison is working on her passion project, designing and fabricating puppets. This is Alison’s second production with Mad Cow Theatre. (alisonjoreid.com)

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Music & Lyrics by Neil Bartram Book by Brian Hill

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Book & Lyrics Brian Hargrove

THE STORY OF MY LIFE is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.MTIShows.com

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Music & Concept Barbara Anselmi

Translated by Christopher Hampton

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