PREVIOUSLY AT MTG • 1996-1997 Season Say It With Music - A Concert Say It With Music - Bravo! A Christmas Carol - The Musical The Apple Tree 110 In The Shade Colette Collage Applause! Celebrating The Songs of Broadway, A Concert • 1997-1998 Season Baby Here’s Love! Once Upon A Mattress On The Twentieth Century Falsettos • 1998-1999 Season Over Here Carnival Bells Are Ringing I Remember Mama Passion • 1999-2000 Season Nine Passion Louisiana Purchase Take Me Along The Baker’s Wife The Rink • 2000-2001 Season Rags Yes! Yes! Nanette, A Tribute to Nanette Fabray Two By Two Plain And Fancy A Tree Grows In Brooklyn The Robber Bridegroom
• 2001-2002 Season Where’s Charley? Working The Grass Harp Extraordinary! A Tribute to Stephen Schwartz How Now, Dow Jones Floyd Collins • 2002-2003 Season Saturday Night Allegro Grand Hotel Lucky Stiff Jubilee • 2003-2004 Season Parade Dear World Little Mary Sunshine Lady In The Dark I Can Get It For You Wholesale • 2004-2005 Season My Favorite Year Redhead Roberta Sail Away The Wild Party • 2005-2006 Season Do Re Mi No, No, Nanette A Man Of No Importance Li’l Abner The Roar Of The Greasepaint - The Smell Of The Crowd
• 2006-2007 Season Merrily We Roll Along It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman Street Scene A Connecticut Yankee Blood Brothers • 2007-2008 Season The Mystery of Edwin Drood As Thousands Cheer Aspects of Love Out of This World The Fix • 2008-2009 Season Seesaw The Most Happy Fella Finian’s Rainbow Kiss of the Spider Woman Violet • 2009-2010 Season Stop the World - I Want to Get Off Fade Out - Fade In High Spirits Irma La Douce Das Barbecü • 2010-2011 Season 70, Girls, 70 Hello Again One Touch of Venus Little Me Bat Boy: The Musical
• 2011-2012 Season High Fidelity Fanny Little Women A New Brain Shenandoah • 2012-2013 Season Titanic - The Musical Call Me Madam Chess A Catered Affair Girl Crazy • 2013-2014 Season Wonderful Town Death Takes a Holiday Ruthless! The Musical City of Angels • 2014-2015 Season Sweet Smell of Success Triumph of Love The Golden Apple Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Road Show • 2015-2016 Season Bonnie & Clyde Do I Hear A Waltz? A Class Act
Special Thanks to HONORARY SHOW PRODUCERS
Byron Howard & Shephard Summers
* Stay tuned for the announcement of next season’s shows!
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HONORARY SEASON PRODUCERS
ALAN & STEPHANIE WESTON
BYRON HOWARD & SHEPHARD SUMMERS
PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE PAJAMA GAME Music & Lyrics by
Book by
RICHARD ADLER and JERRY ROSS
GEORGE ABBOTT and RICHARD BISSELL
Based on the novel “7 1/2 Cents” by
RICHARD BISSELL
DIRECTOR
LEWIS WILKENFELD MUSICAL DIRECTOR
COREY HIRSCH CHOREOGRAPHER
DANIEL SMITH PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
COSTUME DESIGNER
JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER TODD MARA AGUILAR VERONICA VASQUEZ
JOHN W. CALDER III
A. JEFFREY SCHOENBERG AJS COSTUMES
May 15, 2016 The Pajama Game is presented through special arrangement with the 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
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Notes on
THE PAJAMA GAME By Tom Hatten
The Pajama Game, based on the novel “7 1/2 Cents” by Richard Bissell, has had two major Broadway revivals since opening for business at the St. James Theatre in May of 1954, and it has since been performed in venues large and small hundreds of times for the simplest of reasons: it’s an old-fashioned slam-bang show that wears its 62-year-old history proudly on its still-untattered Pajama sleeve. As you will see and hear this evening. Although the original production, which ran for 1063 performances, boasted as its co-directors two legit musical legends, George Abbott and Jerome Robbins, most of its creators had limited or no Broadway experience and its immediate success with critics and audiences took everybody quite by surprise. Producers Robert E Griffith, Harold Prince, and Frederick Brisson had never before produced a Broadway show; the script was co-librettist Mr. Bissell’s first; the songwriting team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross provided their first ever score for a book show; and Bob Fosse made his choreographic debut with The Pajama Game. And to my mind, some major credit for the show’s success should be accorded to whoever in that group hired the splendid original cast. I confess to never having been lucky enough to see them in 1954, so I base that thought on a great show album: John Raitt, surely the greatest male voice in modern Broadway history as Sid; peppery and always welcome Janis Paige, fresh from seven years at Warner Brothers (where she was never used nearly enough to suit me); a genuine name from out of Broadway’s comedy past, Eddie Foy as Hinesy; the superb Carol Haney, who would win a best featured actress Tony as Gladys; and all down the line. Other Tonys for the show: Best Musical and Bob Fosse for his choreography. And not to be overlooked as a great plus for the show: from its splendid score, “Hey There” became a huge best-selling single for both Rosemary Clooney and Sammy Davis Jr.—separately, but singing to themselves, of course, as Mr. Raitt had done when he introduced it on stage singing to his tape recorder. Over the years, The Pajama Game has become widely known as the show that made one of its gypsies (dancers) famous overnight, and though it has surely reached your ears by this time, I would be remiss not to tell it here: in the star-making role of Gladys, Carol Haney was surely headed for greater renown, but alas she was out of the show with an ankle injury for several nights, one of which found one of Paramount’s head honchos, producer Hal Wallis, sixth row center. He very much liked what he saw—understudy Shirley MacLaine.
ELISSA GLICKMAN • CEO, Glendale Arts MARIA SAHAKIAN • Director of Marketing & Events NINA CROWE • Director of Fund Development & Community Partnerships BEN KARASIK • Director of Theatre Operations BOB O’NEILL • Technical Director BRI PATILLO • Master Electrician DARREN MORA • Head Sound Engineer JUDITH BAKER • Box Office Manager ASHLEY VAUGHN • Rentals & Events Coordinator BETTY JEAN MORRIS • Front of House & Volunteer Manager JONATHAN SCHNEIDERMAN • Office Manager JESS CASTILLO • Special Events Coordinator MELISSA SCHWING • Development & Community Partnerships Associate JENNIFER BERRY • Artistic Director, ACT OUT with Alex 2
CAST OF CHARACTERS Sid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Damon Kirsche* Babe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shannon Warne* Hines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jason Graae* Gladys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leslie Stevens* Mabel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tracy Lore* Prez . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John Massey* Mae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kyra Selman* Hasler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doug Carfrae* Pop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Chuck Bergman* Singer Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ryan J. Driscoll Barbara Carlton Heart* Jennifer Shelton* Glenn Rosenblum* Dancer Ensemble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeni Baker Cedric Dodd Melissa Glasgow* Tanner Richins* * Denotes Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States The Musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO, Local 47
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MANY THANKS TO... Teri Bibb, Art Brickman, Cabrillo Music Theatre, Stan Chandler, Lucille Gechtman, History For Hire, Debbie Nunez, Lila Silvern, Les Traub, Alan & Stephanie Weston
A MUSICAL IN 25 HOURS? We are all here in this theatre for the same reason. We love musicals – and a chance for you to see, and for us to perform in a musical that’s hardly ever done – well, that’s a special treat for all of us. The Musical Theatre Guild was founded twenty years ago by a dedicated group of professional musical artists who were interested in exploring and preserving works from the musical theatre repertoire that were either forgotten, neglected or unfairly dismissed. Working under a special Actors’ Equity Concert Staged Reading code, this concert format requires us to focus on the script and the score, eliminate unnecessary production values, and for our busy actor members, streamline the majority of the rehearsal process into one focused long weekend. The cast meets once or twice prior to the weekend for basic musical rehearsal. On Thursday and Friday all staging takes place with a complete run through scheduled for Saturday. On Sunday afternoon we enter the theatre and add the technical elements and orchestra and, voila – it’s opening night! Our actors have compared the experience with being shot out of a cannon. Not that any of us have actually ever done that feat – but you get the idea. This format enables us to take the risk to present works that other theatres would not dream to schedule, and feature some of the finest talent in Southern California on our stage. So sit back and enjoy as we experience this rare musical TOGETHER.
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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I
Overture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . Orchestra The Pajama Game–Opening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hines Racing With the Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factory Workers A New Town Is a Blue Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid Racing With the Clock (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factory Girls I’m Not At All in Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babe and Factory Girls I’ll Never Be Jealous Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mabel and Hines Hey There . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid Her Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prez and Gladys Sleep-Tite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Once a Year Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid, Babe, and Company Her Is (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prez and Mae Small Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid and Babe There Once Was a Man . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid and Babe Slow Down . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Factory Workers Hey There (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sid
ACT II
Entr’acte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orchestra Steam Heat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gladys and the Box Boys Hey There (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babe Think of the Time I Save . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hines and Factory Girls Hernando’s Hideaway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gladys and Company 7-1/2 Cents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prez, Babe, and Factory Workers There Once Was a Man (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Babe and Sid The Pajama Game–Finale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Full Company 7-1/2 Cents (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Full Company
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THE CAST
JENI BAKER Guest Artist
CHUCK BERGMAN MTG Member
DOUG CARFRAE MTG Member
CEDRIC DODD Guest Artist
RYAN J. DRISCOLL Guest Artist
JASON GRAAE MTG Member
MELISSA GLASGOW Guest Artist
BARBARA CARLTON HEART MTG Member
DAMON KIRSCHE MTG Member
TRACY LORE MTG Member
JOHN MASSEY MTG Member
TANNER RICHINS Guest Artist
GLENN ROSENBLUM MTG Member
KYRA SELMAN Guest Artist
JENNIFER SHELTON MTG Member 5
LESLIE STEVENS MTG Member
SHANNON WARNE MTG Member
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST TRACY LORE (Mabel) MTG: City of Angels, Catered Affair, Blood Brothers, Stop the World…, Superman, Violet. Regional: The Little Mermaid, Noises Off, Boeing, Boeing, Young Frankenstein, 42nd Street, Hairspray, The Producers, All Shook Up, The Full Monty, The Drowsy Chaperone, Once Upon A Mattress, Carousel, A Little Night Music, Cinderella, Company, Into the Woods.
MTG Members CHUCK BERGMAN (Pop) Chuck began performing as a member of the famed UCLA Opera Workshop. He then moved into musical theatre with the Los Angeles/ San Francisco Civic Light Opera, the Mark Taper Forum, and PCPA as well as productions of Annie and Evita at the Shubert Theatre and national tours. He is married to screenwriter Linda Bergman and they have two adult children, Sarah Zenoff and Adam Bergman.
JOHN MASSEY (Prez) MTG: A Class Act (Lehman Engel), Irma La Douce; National Tour: Happy Days (Howard Cunningham); Regional: The Full Monty (Dave), Guys & Dolls (Nicely), Gunmetal Blues (The Piano Player), Fiddler on the Roof (Tevye); Cruise Ships: Disney’s Believe (Genie - Original Cast), Villains Tonight (Hades), Legally Blonde (Callahan). Proud member of Actors’ Equity. www.johnmasseyonline.com.
DOUG CARFRAE (Hassler) For MTG, 17 shows including Do I Hear a Waltz, Titanic, Parade, and Floyd Collins. Phantom of the Opera for six years in Vegas; Broadway and/or National Tours of Ragtime, City of Angels, The Fantasticks, She Loves Me, The Pajama Game and Music Is. Recipient of Drama-Logue Awards for Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd, a Robby Award for Shenandoah and a Back Stage Award for Putting It Together. Currently serving as Western Regional Vice President of Actors’ Equity Association.
GLENN ROSENBLUM (Ensemble) Regionally: Cabaret (Emcee), Guys and Dolls (Nathan), Man of La Mancha with Ken Howard/Marilyn McCoo (Barber), Little Shop of Horrors (Seymour). Off-Broadway includes: Lucky Lucy with Blythe Danner, Rise of David Levinsky. Recently globe traveling as a guest lecturer about Broadway musicals on Crystal Cruises. BA Theatre UCLA.
JASON GRAAE (Hines) (Broadway) A Grand Night For Singing, Falsettos, Stardust, Snoopy!, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? (Off-Broadway) Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (Drama Desk Nomination), Forever Plaid, Olympus On My Mind, etc. Won LADCC Award for his contributions in musical theatre, so smell him. In LA, Houdini in Ragtime, Forbidden Hollywood/ Broadway (Ovation Award) many shows at Reprise. (TV and film) Yes. And 5 yrs. voiced Lucky the Leprechaun for Lucky Charms cereal. Come see his new show, Graaetest Hits, June 8th at Catalina Bar in Hollywood. www. jasongraae.com and @jasongraae on the Twittersphere.
JENNIFER SHELTON (Ensemble) Jennifer toured with the1st National Co. of Ragtime. Favorite MTG credits: Fanny (Fanny), One Touch of Venus (Venus), Kiss of the Spider Woman (Spider Woman), It’s a Bird … Superman! (Lois Lane), As Thousands Cheer, and Do Re Mi (Tilda). TV/Film credits include: The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Girlfriends, Prom, and 10 Things I Hate about Life. www.Jennifer-Shelton. com. LESLIE STEVENS (Gladys) Recent LA Theatre: Into the Woods and Parade with 3-D Theatricals, Rita Steel Pier with MTW’s Reiner Reading Series, Empress - Cinnamon Girl with Playwright’s Arena, Trevor with Circle X & Colony Collapse with Boston Court. Broadway, originated Anne - La Cage Aux Folles and cavorted in Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews. www. lesliestevens.net.
BARBARA CARLTON HEART (Ensemble) Barbara began her career as a singing nun in a production of The Sound of Music directed by Michael Kidd and starring Florence Henderson. Most recently Sondheim on Sondheim for International City Theatre. She’s also appeared in Chicago (Roxie), Annie (Lily St. Regis), A Chorus Line (Sheila), 42nd Street (Annie, Dorothy, Maggie), Dames At Sea (Mona), Company (Amy), Sweet Charity (Helene), and more…
SHANNON WARNE (Babe) Shannon is thrilled to be returning to the MTG stage! A proud member, she was previously seen as “Princess Leonide” in Triumph of Love, “Florence” in Chess, and “Violet” in Violet. Recent credits include: “Mrs Banks” in Mary Poppins (Sacramento Music Circus and La Mirada), “Cindy Lou” in Winter Wonderettes (La Mirada), “Maria” in The Sound of Music (Cabrillo), Lead Actress Ovation nomination for “Amy” in Having It All, “Guenevere” in David Lee’s Camelot (Pasadena Playhouse). All my love to my Little Man and BBR! Visit www.ShannonWarne.com!
DAMON KIRSCHE (Sid) Damon is a veteran of stage, screen, concert and cabaret. He has appeared in over 30 staged concert readings with: City Center Encores, 92nd St. Y, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Casa Mañana, LA’s Reprise, Musical Theatre West’s Reiner Reading Series, and with our own Musical Theatre Guild since 2002. DamonKirsche.com.
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MELISSA GLASGOW (Ensemble) Melissa is so excited to be part of her first MTG production! Favorite credits: The Little Mermaid (TUTS and McCoy Rigby), Catch Me If You Can and All Shook Up (Moonlight), Cats (PVPA). BFA Musical Theatre, UC Irvine. Thanks to everyone at MTG and love to Mom, Dad, and Shannon.
Guest Artists JENI BAKER (Ensemble) Jeni Baker is excited to be making her MTG debut in one of her favorite shows! She is an AMDA alumnus and was recently seen in West Side Story at MTW! Favorite credits include: Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun (SDMT) and Ermengarde in Hello, Dolly! (Welk). Jeni would like to thank all her friends for their never ending love and support.
TANNER RICHINS (Ensemble) This is Tanner’s first production with MTG! His most recent credit comes from Peter Pan in Anchorage, Alaska with Plan B Entertainment. Other past shows include 7 Brides for 7 Brothers (La Mirada), A Snow White Christmas (Lythgoe Family Productions), Once Upon A Mattress (Cabrillo), and Mack & Mabel (MTW). Much love to his family and friends for all of their support! Proud member of AEA.
CEDRIC DODD (Ensemble) Cedric received his BFA in Dance Theatre from AMDA, LA. He was nominated for an Ovation Award for his work in Cabrillo Music Theatre (CMT) production of Memphis. Other credits include: Theatrical - Peter Pan (Plan B Ent.), Oklahoma! (CMT), Mary Poppins (CMT); Television - Steady Mobbin, Marry Me, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Cedric is represented by Go 2 Talent Agency.
KYRA SELMAN (Mae) Kyra’s done some cool stuff on TV (national commercials for Big Lots, Apple, SoFi), film (award-winning short Monique’s, currently on the festival circuit) and in theatres across the country. Her solo show, Fierce. Vixen. Bitch. recently made its LA debut at Rockwell Table & Stage. Twitter/IG @KyraSelman.
RYAN J. DRISCOLL (Ensemble) Recent roles include: Cain in Children of Eden, Joseph in Joseph, Marius in Les Miserables, Finch in How to Succeed, Lt. Cable in South Pacific, and Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Following this production, Ryan will be relocating to New York. www.ryanjdriscoll.com.
PRODUCTION STAFF LEWIS WILKENFELD (Director) Lewis is proud to return for his tenth MTG production. Previous shows include Girl Crazy, Wonderful Town, Allegro, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Roberta, Do Re Mi, It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman, A Connecticut Yankee, and Fade Out–Fade In. Lewis’ “day job” is serving as Artistic Director for Cabrillo Music Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Under Lewis’ leadership since 2006, Cabrillo Music Theatre has produced 42 musicals, and has received 50 Ovation Award nominations and 8 wins. Lewis also serves on L.A. Stage Alliance’s Ovation Rules Committee, and will serve as a judge on the upcoming Jerry Herman Awards for the second straight year. Lewis’ favorite “productions” are the two he shares with his wife, Serena: daughter Melody and son Jesse.
West and The Full Monty and The Addams Family for 3-D Theatricals. His greatest opus, however is his family of two magnificent children, Kaydence and Camden, and his beautiful wife, Kimberly. DANIEL SMITH (Choreographer) Credits include: Sister Act for Musical Theatre West, Steel Pier, Pal Joey, Kismet, Call Me Madam, Babes In Arms, Where’s Charley?, Fiorello!, The Most Happy Fella, 110 In The Shade and The Goodbye Girl (Reiner Reading Series - MTW), Ragtime: In Concert and Sweeney Todd: In Concert (Norris Center for the Performing Arts), Teddy & Harry for the Nine O’Clock Players, and Sondheim On Sondheim (West Coast Premiere) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Lewis Family Playhouse). Upcoming projects include Donnybrook! and Li’l Abner for the Reiner Reading Series at Musical Theatre West this summer. Proud SDC member. www.officialdanielsmith.com.
COREY HIRSCH (Musical Director) A graduate of the Juilliard School (B.M. Composition) and the University of Southern California (Adv. Cert. Scoring for Film and TV), Corey is a commissioned composer/arranger, Assistant Conductor for the Pagaent of the Masters in Laguna Beach, Music Director and Vocal Coach for Disney, Adjunct Professor of Voice for Musical Theatre at CSUF, and a musical director and pianist for several production companies in Southern California. Corey’s recent theatre credits include: A Man of No Importance (LADCC, Best Musical Director, LA Weekly Award Nomination), Marry Me a Little, The Fantasticks, and Closer Than Ever with Good People Theater Company which he founded with Janet Miller in 2013. Corey also musical directed Young Frankenstein and The Music Man at Musical Theatre
JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER TODD (Production Coordinator) Next up: Disney’s The Little Mermaid (McCoy Rigby). Recent theatre credits include: I Love Lucy: Live on Stage, Romeo + Juliet: Love is a Battlefield (Rockwell), Les Miserables (Musical Theatre West), Legally Blonde (Performance Riverside), For the Record: Baz (Rockwell). TV: Tobias Gray on The Young and The Restless, Switched at Birth, Wizards of Waverly Place, Free Agents, and the Comedy Central pilot, Not Another High School Show. www.jeffreychristophertodd.com. Twitter/ Instagram: @thejeffreytodd • MTG Member
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JOHN W. CALDER III (Production Stage Manager) Equity since 1981. MTG: Out Of This World, Most Happy Fella, Kiss Of The Spider Woman and Ruthless. Credits: Damn Yankees, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line (w/Donna McKechnie), Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holliday), Hello, Dolly! (Madeline Kahn), Harold Prince’s Show Boat. Events: President and Secretary Hillary Clinton, Gwen Verdon, Madonna, Meryl Streep, Angela Lansbury, Michael Jackson, Barbara Cook, Julie Andrews. Owns over 10,000 Musical Theater recordings. JWCalder3@ aol.com.
A. JEFFREY SCHOENBERG (Costume Designer) Jeffrey is pleased to be working with MTG for which he has designed A New Brain, Little Women, Fanny, and several other shows. Last year he received the Ovation Award for his design for The Malcontent at Anteaus Theatre Company, where he has also designed The Seagull, King Lear, and Cousin Bette. For the Colony Theatre he has designed over 30 productions, including Free Man of Color, Side Show (Ovation and Garland Awards), The Laramie Project, and The Immigrant among many others. Other shows include Moon Over Buffalo, Travesties, The Devils (Ovation Award winner) and Threepenny Opera for the Open Fist Theater; Children of the Night for the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Bach at Leipzig for the Odyssey Theatre, Nighthawks at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, the NoHo Arts Center’s Elizabeth Rex (Ovation Award winner), Red, Hot and Blue for By George Productions, and Assassins at West Coast Ensemble. Jeffrey is the owner and designer for AJS Costumes and M. Alan Jeffries Fine Gentlemen’s Apparel.
ART BRICKMAN (Production Manager) Production Stage Manager for MTG for eleven seasons. Other recent credits include the 2015 Actors’ Fund Sparkle Benefit, White Christmas for SDMT, My Fair Lady for Plan B Entertainment, South Pacific and Les Miserables for MTW. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
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MTG SUPPORTING CAST: 2012-2015 • $10,000 and above David Lee Alan & Stephanie Weston Weston Family Foundation • $1000 to $9999 Linda and Chuck Bergman Walter Coblenz Stuart Fine Joseph Hooker Byron Howard & Shephard Summers Patsy and Will Mackenzie PACCAR Foundation Mark Pigott Les Traub Don Weston Hank & Deppie Wieseneck Mark Pigott • $500 to $999 Kathy Arntzen-Roat Eileen Barnett Michael Betts John Bowab Doug Carfrae Ali Olmo Michael Oppenheim Patty Paul Martin Wiviott Susan Watson Wright • $250 to $499 George Coulter Peter Finie
Joseph Hooker Norman Koplof & Leslie Falick Pauline Ledeen Trust Kevin McMahon John Moschitta Michael Oppenheim Duane Poole • $100 to $249 Brad Bennett Paul and Andrea Bergman Penny & Ian Collins Carol Doehring Judith Doerflinger Burt & Virginia Friedricks David Holmes Heather Hoppus-Werner Webster Jones Marsha Jordan Marsha Keller Carol Kline John LaLonde Lorna Lembeck Fred Manaster Glenn Rosenblum Don Rothenberg Roger Nelson Lila Silvern Roberta Smith Jeffrey Christopher Todd Richard Turner Judy Weber Dolores Wilkenfeld Nancy Wischhusen
• $5 to $99 Denise Boockvor Molly Braverman Sharon Boyajian Michele Caylor Lauren Cunningham Stephen DeAngelis Grace Clarke Jane Daly Scott Dreier Zach Froisland Joan Goodstein Jane Gordon Edward Gray Andrea Hein Gerald Horn Marcia Jones Webster Jones Caryn M. Karpel David Konell Mary Kroening Robert McManus Myron Meisel Ronald & Karen Millman Richard Schraier Ronald Strathan Linda Talluto Sara Trivedi Henry Wieserneck • In Kind Donations Caryn Karpel Carol Kline Marsha Kramer Debbie Nunez
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Maybin Sherman Adryan Russ Weston Capital Management • Special Recognition and Thanks Actors’ Equity Foundation The ASCAP Foundation The Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Development Fund The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department David & Adriene Prosser - Student Outreach Los Angeles County Arts Commission Performing Arts Center of LA Target Corporation
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MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD General Membership Lindsey Alley
Eydie Alyson Stuart Ambrose Eileen Barnett Roger Befeler Chuck Bergman Teri Bibb Eileen Bowman Jill Marie Burke Melissa Lyons Caldretti Christopher Callen Doug Carfrae Christopher Carothers Stan Chandler Nicci Claspell Will Collyer Misty Cotton Evan D’Angeles Robin DeLano Melissa Fahn Cynthia Ferrer Joshua Finkel
Zachary Ford Julie Garnye Helen Geller Chris Warren Gilbert Gordon Goodman Jennifer Gordon Jason Graae Pamela Hamill Scott Harlan Joe Hart Michael G. Hawkins Barbara Carlton Heart David Holmes Heather Hoppus-Werner Kim Huber Linda Igarashi Ron Christopher Jones Paul Keith Damon Kirsche Carol Kline Maura M. Knowles Michael Kostroff
Marsha Kramer Roy Leake, Jr. Ashley Fox Linton Tracy Lore Shauna Markey William Martinez John Massey Craig McEldowney Erik McEwen Kevin McMahon Todd Nielsen Jeffrey Scott Parsons Brandon Michael Perkins Jeffrey Polk Larry Raben Mark C. Reis Glenn Rosenblum Jennifer Shelton Michael A. Shepperd Glenn Shiroma Alyssa M. Simmons John Sloman
Leslie Stevens Kevin Symons Jeffrey Christopher Todd Rudy Tronto Mary VanArsdel Jill Van Velzer Stephanie Renee Wall Shannon Warne Susan Watson Sam Zeller • In Memoriam • Dina Bennett S. Marc Jordan Darrell Sandeen Kathryn Skatula Betty Vaughan
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Board of Directors Eileen Barnett, Chuck Bergman, Michele Caylor (Secretary), Walter Coblenz, Kim Huber, Marsha Kramer, Tom Mitze, Richard Schraier, Les Traub (Chairman), Alan Weston (Treasurer) Board Executive Committee: Les Traub, Alan Weston, Chuck Bergman Advisors: Thomas E. Backer, PhD, John Bowab, Doug Carfrae, Stuart Fine, Tom Hatten, Earl Holliman, Randy Kravis, Will Mackenzie, Kevin McMahon, Patty Paul, Lila Silvern, Vernon Willet, Martin Wiviott
Executive Committee Jill Marie Burke, Will Collyer, Ashley Fox Linton, Todd Nielsen, Jeffrey Scott Parsons
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