PROUDLY PRESENTS
RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL Music by
MARVIN LAIRD Book and Lyrics by
JOEL PALEY
DIRECTOR
RICK SPARKS MUSICAL DIRECTOR
GREGORY NABOURS CHOREOGRAPHER
JOSEPH CORELLA PRODUCTION COORDINATOR
JILL MARIE BURKE
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
JOHN W. CALDER, III
LIGHTING DESIGN
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
SEAN MCGARRY
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
STACEY CORTEZ KIRSTEN SHOOK
JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER TODD COSTUME DESIGNER
A. JEFFREY SCHOENBERG AJS COSTUMES
April 6, 2014 This concert is presented at the Moss Theater at New Roads School by special arrangement with Samuel French. • 45 W. 25th Street • New York, NY 10010-2751 • www.samuelfrench.com
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Notes on
RUTHLESS! THE MUSICAL By Tom Hatten
Musicals about musicals can be great fun: Kiss Me, Kate instantly comes to mind; 42nd Street and its goofy takeoff Dames At Sea another; Babes In Arms and Gypsy – and dare I add tonight’s MTG offering, another? I dare. A genuine Off-Broadway surprise, Ruthless! The Musical began its 342 performances in 1992 and received 5 Drama Desk nominations, one for outstanding Off-Broadway musical, 2 for its lyricist and one (a win) for its director Joel Paley, and 2 for its lead actresses Laura Bell Bundy (then 8 years old) and Donna English, who played her mother, and both have racked up impressive theatrical credits ever since. Mr. Paley’s composer Marvin Laird is perhaps best known to LA theatregoers for his many collaborations and cabaret appearances with the late Billy Barnes. Both loved spoofing shows and individual performers with special material, and Ruthless!’s libretto certainly does just that. And I like to think that on opening night, March 13, 1992 at the Players Theatre there may have been quite a rustling of programs during the show’s first ten minutes – “Are we in the right theatre?” or “Have we wandered into a revival of The Bad Seed?”. Until, of course, everybody on stage opens her mouth to sing Paley’s marvelous lyrics and the fun begins. Maxwell Anderson’s The Bad Seed from the Broadway season of 1953 (and the movie two years later) was certainly no laughing matter: and when I saw Ruthless! during that New York run I couldn’t help but wonder what Mr. Anderson, who died in 1959, would have thought of it. Was he known for having a sense of humor? After all, The Bad Seed was a big hit and his final production in a long career that included drama ranging from What Price Glory and Winterset to Mary of Scotland, Key Largo and Cry, the Beloved Country. Well, we’ll never know. But I hope he enjoyed limericks. And that he would have enjoyed this one:
Way out on some heavenly internet Maxwell Anderson and Harold Pinter met. Cried Harold, “Agreed! Great fun, your Bad Seed!” But . . . . . Not . . . . . Enough . . . . . Pauses . . . . . in Winterset.
SEAN MCGARRY - Technical Director for the Moss Theater JIM WATSON - Resident Sound Engineer for the Moss Theater CAITLIN LEONG - Resident Stage Manager for the Moss Theater CHE’RAE ADAMS - Operations Manager for the Moss Theater MICHAEL ABELS - Artistic Administrator for the Moss Theater
New Roads School is a diverse and cohesive educational community, reflective of the kaleidoscope of cultures, ethnicities, beliefs, and orientations that make our larger Los Angeles community so vibrant. We believe that a meaningful 21st century education must include a diverse cohort as well as integration with the larger community in order to prepare students for conscientious participatory lives and not merely to ready them for college.
CAST OF CHARACTERS (In order of appearance)
Sylvia St. Croix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Todd Nielsen* Judy Denmark/Ginger Del Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eileen Bowman* Tina Denmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brennley Brown Miss Thorn/Miss Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lindsey Alley* Louise/Eve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shauna Markey* Lita Encore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pamela Hamill* * Denotes Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
MUSICIANS Gregory Nabours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Piano / Music Director Brian Cannady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Drums
The Musicians are members of the American Federation of Musicians, AFL-CIO, Local 47
MANY THANKS TO... Eileen Barnett, Teri Bibb, Lucille Gechtman, History for Hire, Marsha Kramer, Art Brickman, Lila Silvern and 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 over fifteen 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 Friday and Saturday all staging takes place with a complete run through scheduled for Sunday. On Monday 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.
PLEASE SILENCE ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES BEFORE THE SHOW
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited
MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT I
Prologue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orchestra Tina’s Mother . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy Born to Entertain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Talent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sylvia To Play This Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Teaching Third Grade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Thorn Where Tina Gets It From . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy and Sylvia The Pippi Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Louise To Play This Part (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Teaching Third Grade (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Miss Thorn I Hate Musicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lita Angel Mom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy and Tina
ACT II
Entr’acte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Orchestra A Note to Frederick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Judy All About Ginger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Eve It Can Never Be That Way Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ginger I Want the Girl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sylvia Parents and Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ginger and Tina Ruthless! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ginger, Sylvia and Tina Talent (Reprise #1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sylvia Talent (Reprise #2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tina Ruthless! (Reprise) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST MTG MEMBERS PAMELA HAMILL (Lita Encore) For MTG: Death Takes a Holiday, Wonderful Town, Titanic, Little Me, One Touch of Venus, 70, Girls,70, Das Barbecü, Finian’s Rainbow, Most Happy Fella, and Aspects of Love, and she co-produced Fade Out–Fade In and Seesaw. Broadway/National Tours: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Mrs. Meers), Beauty and the Beast (Mrs. Potts & The Wardrobe), and La Cage Aux Folles (Mme. Dindon). Lots of regional theatre and many commercials. • MTG Member
SHAUNA MARKEY (Louise/Eve) B’way/Tours: Wizard of Oz (w/ Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt & Joanne Worley), Peter Pan (w/ Cathy Rigby), Chorus Line (European & Canadian Tours). Shauna’s booked over 40 National commercials, including currently running Adobe, Comedy Central, Cars.com, and soon to be released Crestor spots. She’s a working TV/Film & voice-over artist and has been seen on hit shows, Parks and Recreation and Desperate Housewives. She’s the founder/owner/operator of The BizKidz (performing arts coaching for kids & teens) and is super proud of her client, Brennley Faith Brown, for booking the role of Tina! Shauna’s a co-coordinator for MTG’s Educational Outreach Programs and chairperson of the MTG Membership Committee. www.shaunamarkey.com. • MTG Member TODD NIELSEN (Sylvia St. Croix) MTG: Death Takes a Holiday. Director/ Choreographer: Our Broadway Scrapbook, A New Brain, Little Me, Merrily We Roll Along, Seesaw, Out of This World, The Roar of the Greasepaint… The Smell of the Crowd, Where’s Charley?, Plain and Fancy, and Rags. MTW: Carnival, Annie, 1776 and The Wizard of Oz. SBCLO: She Loves Me. Norris: Leading Ladies. Colony: Side Show, City Of Angels, Putting It Together. XOJA • MTG Member
GUEST ARTISTS LINDSEY ALLEY (Miss Thorn/Miss Block) Broadway: Hollywood Arms. Off-Broadway: Look Ma…No Ears. Regional: Let’s Misbehave, Legally Blonde, Having It All (LA Ovation Nomination), Shear Madness, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Proof, How to Succeed…, Paper Moon and many more. Film/TV: How I Met Your Mother, I Didn’t Do It, Bedtime Stories, Compay Retreat, The Mickey Mouse Club and her hit web series, On the Patio. Lindsey tours the world, performing her acclaimed club act, Blood, Sweat and Mousketears.
EILEEN BOWMAN (Judy Denmark/Ginger Del Marco) Eileen is thrilled to be a part of Ruthless! She is the new kid in town here in LA. She was recently seen in How The Grinch stole Christmas (Grandma Who–Old Globe Theater), Company (Amy–Cygnet Theater), and Guys and Dolls (Adelaide–Lambs Players Theater–Craig Noel Critics Award). Other credits include Pete and Keely (Keely Stevens–Craig Noel Award nom.), My Fair Lady (Eliza) and Singing In The Rain (Lina) just to name a few, and many national commercials. Little known fact: Eileen opened the 61st Academy Awards singing and dancing opposite Rob Lowe. She hopes this will be the first of many stages she gets to play on in LA! Thank you Rick and MTG for this opportunity. BRENNLEY BROWN (Tina Denmark) Brennley is a joyful energetic 6th grader. She can be heard singing on Disney Jr’s Sofia the First and she recently became an Ovation Award winner. Recent credits: 3-D Theatricals’ Shrek (Teen Fiona) and Parade (Essie); Performance Riverside’s Secret Garden (Mary Lennox); LEGOLAND’s Let It Snow (Emily); Candlelight Pavilion’s Sound of Music (Brigitta). Brennley had the honor of performing as a guest soloist at the 2012 and 2013 US Open Tennis championships in NYC to a sold out crowd of 26,000. She would like to thank the team at MTG for allowing her this opportunity. Brennley is grateful to her friends, family and teachers.Above all she would like to thank her Heavenly Father for the gifts he has given her. Psalm 86:12.
PRODUCTION STAFF RICK SPARKS (Director) Rick is the recipient of 19 Los Angeles Theatre Awards. His adaptation and direction of I Love Lucy Live On Stage is currently enjoying a successful National Tour. Rick helmed the world premieres of They Shoot Horses Don’t They?, Divorce The Musical, Clutter, Dead Bride Running, Tallulah, Inconceivable, Highballs Ahoy!, There’s No Place Like Hollywood, That Perfect Moment, A Charlie Brown Commercial Christmas, and Down South (NY and L.A. productions). Other critically lauded credits include A Clockwork Orange, Psycho Beach Party (L.A. Premiere), Down South (NY and L.A. productions), and the West Coast Premieres of John Patrick Shanley’s Where’s My Money?, Daddy, Don’t Talk to the Actors, Schoolhouse Rock Live Too, and Sheila Sands Live At The Roxy produced by Lily Tomlin. Rick is currently in development with Broadway playwright Matthew Lombardo for both the LA production of his play High, and the world premiere of Secret Square. GREGORY NABOURS (Musical Director) Gregory lives and works in LA as a music director and a composer/lyricist. Musical direction credits include The Color Purple, Justin Love, Falsettos, Having It All, The Women of Brewster Place, The Wild Party, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, and The Full Monty. His work on The Color Purple earned him the 2012 Ovation Award, the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the NAACP Award for Best Musical Direction. Gregory’s song cycle, The Trouble With Words, was awarded the 2011 Ovation Award for “Best Music and Lyrics for an Original Musical,” as well as “Best Musical” in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gregory’s music has been performed in venues all across the nation, and he has worked with many of Broadway’s brightest. Gregory is a founding member and the resident composer of the Coeurage Theatre Company. JOSEPH CORELLA (Choreographer) Joseph’s choreography has been seen from the stage to the screen with such credits as: 2012 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV Dance Marathon, Lifetime’s reality TV show Dance Moms, 98 Degrees’ music video “Microphone”, Little House on the Prairie-Oke, and Julie Brown’s hit musical Homecoming Queen’s Got a Musical! Most recently Joseph choreographed the season finale for the CW’s TV show Hart of Dixie set to air later this year. As a performer some of Joseph’s credits include: Broadway’s All Shook Up, National Tour of Grease (Dance Captain), West Side Story, Surf, the Musical (Las Vegas), Wizards of Waverly Place, and Disney’s television movie Geppetto. As well, Joseph is the owner of Broadway Bodies LA where he teaches group cardio fitness dance classes that are held in West Hollywood & North Hollywood. For more information about Joseph visit his YouTube page (www.YouTube.com/ user/JoeRC2007) and the Broadway Bodies website (www.BroadwayBodies.com). JEFFREY CHRISTOPHER TODD (Assistant to the Director) Jeffrey just came off the First National Tour of I Love Lucy: Live on Stage, and is thrilled to be working along side Rick Sparks once again. MTG credits: Ralph in A Catered Affair, Kenneth in Call Me Madam, Harold Bride in Titanic, Oscar in The Wild Party and Bat Boy in Bat Boy (SceneStageLA award). TV/Film: Outside the Box (BroadwayWorld.com), Switched at Birth (ABC Family), Free Agents (NBC), Wizards of Waverly Place (Disney Channel), Not Another High School Show (Comedy Central), Polar Opposites (Here TV), Tunnel Rats (Universal) and Silent Venom (Fox). Northwestern graduate. • MTG Member JILL MARIE BURKE (Production Coordinator) Jill is excited to once again be the Production Coordinator for MTG. Past MTG shows: Chess, Call Me Madam, A New Brain, and Violet. Theater credits: Lovelace: A Rock Opera - L.A. Weekly Award for Best Ensemble, The Third from the Left - NYC and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Songs for a New World - nominated for a L.A. Ovation Award. She stars in the cabaret revue Hollywood Revisited, tours with the a cappella band VYBRATION, and belts our National Anthem for the Anaheim Angels and Anaheim Ducks. And...she runs marathons. www.jillmarieburke.com. • MTG Member JOHN W. CALDER, III (Production Stage Manager) Equity since 1981. MTG: Kiss of the Spider Woman, Most Happy Fella, Out of This World. Nationally: White Christmas, Les Miserables, A Chorus Line (Donna McKechnie), Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holliday), Harold Prince’s Show Boat, Anything Goes (Chita Rivera), Hello, Dolly! (Madeline Kahn). LA: When You Wish, Forbidden Broadway, Light In The Piazza, She Loves Me. Worked with: President Bill and Hillary Clinton, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Muhammad Ali, Gwen Verdon, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Cook and Julie Andrews. He owns over 10,000 Musical Theatre recordings. JWCalder3LACA@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 Company, where he has also designed The Seagull, King Lear, and Cousin Bette. For the Colony Theater 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 Theater, Nighthawks at the Kirk Douglas Theater, 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.
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
• 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
• 2009-2010 Season Stop the World - I Want to Get Off Fade Out - Fade In High Spirits Irma La Douce Das Barbecü
MTG SUPPORTING CAST: 2012-2014 • $10,000 and above David Lee Alan Weston Weston Family Foundation • $1000 to $9999 Chuck Bergman Walter Coblenz Stuart Fine Patsy and Will Mackenzie Mark Pigott Les Traub Don Weston Hank & Deppie Wieseneck • $500 to $999 Kathy Arntzen-Roat John Bowab Doug Carfrae Joseph Hooker Ali Olmo Patty Paul Susan Watson Wright • $250 to $499 George Coulter Peter Finie Joseph Hooker Norman Koplof & Leslie Falick Pauline Ledeen Trust John Moschitta Michael Oppenheim • $100 to $249 Brad Bennett Paul and Andrea Bergman
Penny and Ian Collins Carol Doehring Judith Doerflinger Burt and Virginia Friedricks David Holmes Heather Hoppus-Werner Webster Jones Carol Kline John LaLonde Fred Manaster Don Rothenberg Roger Nelson Lila Silvern Roberta Smith Jeffrey Christopher Todd Judy Weber Dolores Wilkenfeld Norma Wischhusen • $5 to $99 Eileen Barnett Michele Caylor Grace Clarke Scott Dreier Jane Gordon Edward Gray Andrea Hein Caryn M. Karpel David Konell Mary Kroening Myron Meisel Ronald & Karen Millman Ronald Strathan Henry Wieserneck
• In Kind Donations Caryn Karpel Carol Kline Marsha Kramer Jesus Montes Patty Paul Maybin Sherman Adryan Russ Glenn Shiroma Weston Capital Management • Special Recognition and Thanks Actors’ Equity Foundation The Alliance for the Arts, Our Sponsor in Thousand Oaks The ASCAP Foundation The Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Development Fund The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department The Friends of the Musical Theatre Guild Volunteers Los Angeles County Arts Commission Los Angeles Valley College Theatre Department - Cathy Pyles, Chair Net Pay, Inc./Alan Gregory, Pres. Performing Arts Center of LA Target Corporation
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MUSICAL THEATRE GUILD General Membership Eydie Alyson Stuart Ambrose Eileen Barnett Roger Befeler Dina Bennett Chuck Bergman Teri Bibb Daniel Bolero Jill Marie Burke Melissa Lyons Caldretti Dan Callaway Christopher Callen Doug Carfrae Christopher Carothers Stan Chandler Will Collyer Misty Cotton Robin DeLano Scott Dreier Trey Ellett Melissa Fahn Cynthia Ferrer Joshua Finkel Zachary Ford
Helen Geller Chris Warren Gilbert Gordon Goodman Jennifer Gordon Jason Graae Steven Hack Pamela Hamill Scott Harlan Joe Hart Michael G. Hawkins Kristi Holden 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 Jane Lanier Roy Leake, Jr.
Ashley Fox Linton Tracy Lore Jennifer Malenke Beth Malone Shauna Markey William Martinez Erik McEwen Kevin McMahon Todd Nielsen Louis Pardo Jeffrey Scott Parsons Brandon Michael Perkins Lisa Picotte Jeffrey Polk Heather Provost Larry Raben Mark C. Reis Darrell Sandeen † Nick Santa Maria Jennifer Shelton Michael A. Shepperd Glenn Shiroma Alyssa M. Simmons Kathryn Skatula †
Jeff Skowron John Sloman Kevin Symons Lowe Taylor Jeffrey Christopher Todd Rudy Tronto Mary VanArsdel Bett y Vaughan † Stephanie Renee Wall Shannon Warne Susan Watson Lenny Wolpe Sam Zeller
* founding members in italics † in memoriam
Board of Directors Eileen Barnett, Chuck Bergman (Vice President), Doug Carfrae, Michele Caylor, Walter Coblenz, Marsha Kramer, Kevin McMahon (President), Lank, Sanders, Richard Schraier, Les Traub (Chairman), Alan Weston (Chairman Emeritus) Advisors: Thomas E. Backer, PhD, John Bowab, Brad Ellis, Stuart Fine, Tom Hatten, Earl Holliman, Randy Kravis, Will Mackenzie, Patty Paul, Duane Poole, Lila Silvern, Vernon Willet, Martin Wiviott
Executive Committee Eileen Barnett, Heather Hoppus-Werner, Kim Huber, William Martinez, Erik McEwen
MTG Behind the Scenes Accountant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Caryn Karpel Publicist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kevin McMahon Patron Services Associate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michelle Higgs Development Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farrah Parker Season Artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Damon Kirsche, Pixotic Arts Program Cover Design, Ad Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Damon Kirsche Program Layout, Ad Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Glenn Shiroma
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