March/April 2024 Playbill

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Jonathon Lynch’s “The Baroque Cycle” TheaterWorksUSA’s “Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical” The Let’s Go Science Show HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis starring Jonathan Mangum and Asad Mecci

2023-2024 SEASON PERFORMANCES

Jonathon Lynch's “The Baroque Cycle”

HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis starring Jonathan Mangum from “Let’s Make a Deal” and Asad Mecci “World Renowned Hypnotist”

Chicago Sinfonietta ECHO - Celebrating Women’s History Month

DuPage Symphony Orchestra “Springtime Celebrations”

Chicago Harmony Sweepstakes A Cappella Festival

TheaterWorksUSA's “Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical”

Jazz Combo & Big Band Spring Concert

Concert Winds Spring Concert

“this is not the reunion”

Spring Choral “Finale!” Concert

“this is not the reunion”

North Central College Opera Workshop Showcase

North Central College Symphony Orchestra

March 8, 20248 p.m.

March 23, 20247:30 p.m.

April 6, 202410 a.m. & 1 p.m.

April 9, 20247:30 p.m.

April 10, 20247 p.m.

10, 11, 13, 20247:30 p.m.

April 12, 20247 p.m.

13, 14, 20242 p.m.

April 18, 20247 p.m.

April 19, 20247:30 p.m.

The Let's Go Science Show Saturday, April 20, 202410 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Naperville Chorus “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff

Chicago Sinfonietta REVERB

DuPage Symphony Orchestra “Modern & Melodious”

April 27, 20247:30 p.m.

May 18, 20247:30 p.m.

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March 3, 20246 p.m.
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March 15, 20247:30 p.m.
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March 17, 20243 p.m.
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May 10, 20247:30 p.m.
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Jonathon Lynch’s “The Baroque Cycle”

Sunday, March 3 at 6 p.m.

Madden Theatre

BIOGRAPHY

“The Baroque Cycle” (Best Singer winner & Best Score nominee, New York Winterfest 2022) is an innovative one-woman musical theatre piece that combines the beauty of classical music with the wild abandon of musical comedy. It’s the story of a young, classically trained soprano who moves to New York to become a Broadway star. Unfortunately, things don’t go so well for her. Everything from terrible auditions to harrowing subway rides to even tidying her apartment becomes a nightmare. How does she cope? By retreating to a Baroque music recital in her mind where she can freely sing about the dumpster fire of her life! Come, join her for a breakdown Bach would be proud of.

Jonathon Lynch, currently living in New York City, is thrilled to be back home in Naperville and North Central College!

He is the creator, music supervisor, and host of the award-winning podcast, “Bite-Sized Broadway: a mini-musical podcast,” currently in its second season. Recently, he was the music director for NPR’s “Micro-Face: The Musical!” Other credits include assistant music director and copyist for “Finding Neverland” (pre-Broadway workshop) and music director for “The Giant Hoax,” “The City Club,” and “Powerline Road” (off-Broadway). He is the songwriter of “The Carousel of Inevitability and Certain Foreboding” (with Freeman & Varod), which was the inaugural winner of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts’ Musical Theatre Writing Fellowship; the awardwinning “The Baroque Cycle” (Winterfest ‘22); and “Peter & the Pied Piper” (Lincoln Center ‘22 with Galvan). He also wrote the music for the video game “Elimination,” the album “Canta, Songs for Learning Spanish,” and the award-winning webseries, “NewB.”

Before moving to New York, Lynch made his mark on the Chicago theatre scene as assistant music director of “Dennis Deyoung’s Hunchback of Notre Dame” (Bailiwick Rep) and “Altarboyz” (Noble Fool Theatricals), as well as by music directing many musicals and theatre camps at North Central College. His musical “Lunacy” (music by Lynch, book and lyrics by Boresi) played at North Central College before becoming the inaugural musical in the Overtures New Works Series at Gallery Players in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Lynch is currently a faculty music director at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy & the 92nd St. Y, a writer in the Theatre Now New York’s Musical Theatre Writers Lab, a composer in the Advanced BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop, and an alum of Northwestern University. To find out more, visit jonathonlynchmusic.com. Love to Maria & Elixabete.

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HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis

STARRING JONATHAN MANGUM AND ASAD MECCI

Friday, March 8 at 8 p.m.

Wentz Concert Hall

BIOGRAPHY

HYPROV: IMPROV UNDER HYPNOSIS

Hypnosis and Improv — two art forms that have mystified and entertained fans, skeptics and everyone in between for decades worldwide — come together as two masters of their crafts unite for a totally unique comedy experience, HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis. Twenty random volunteers from the audience will be put under hypnosis by hypnotist extraordinaire Asad Mecci, their inhibitions evaporated and their minds no longer their own. The contestants are methodically and hysterically whittled down until the five best are left on stage when one of the world’s leading improvisers enters! With the top five still under hypnosis … this show turns into a hysterical improv-comedy extravaganza!

JONATHAN MANGUM

Jonathan Mangum has had a successful career in television, appearing on shows such as “The Wayne Brady Show,” “The Drew Carey Show,” and “Drew Carey’s Improv-A-Ganza.”

Following his time on “The Drew Carey Show,” Mangum was invited to join the “Drew Carey Improv All-Stars” and went on a tour that included more than 60 venues, including the prestigious Carnegie Hall. He has also toured internationally with Wayne Brady, showcasing his improv skills since 2000.

In addition to his television and live performance work, Mangum has appeared in feature films such as “The Bucket List,” where he shared the screen with Hollywood legend Jack Nicholson, and “Imagine That,” starring alongside Eddie Murphy. He has also starred in children’s movies like “Monkey Up” and “Pup Star.”

He has also made guest appearances on popular shows like “Reno 911!,” “Pushing Daisies,” “NCIS,” and “The Sarah Silverman Program.”

Currently, he is the announcer for the game show “Let’s Make a Deal” and can be seen on “Celebrity Name Game” and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?.”

ASAD MECCI

Asad Mecci’s jaw-dropping performances have captivated audiences worldwide. He has performed in front of over 1.5 million people live and millions more through mass media. You might have seen Mecci on “Entertainment Tonight,” MTV, HGTV, BBC or read about him in The New York Times, Huffington Post and Maxim magazine. Away from the television cameras and radio waves, Mecci has amazed crowds at The Second City, GE Theater and The Just for Laughs comedy festivals. Recently, Mecci co-created and launched HYPROV (Improv Under Hypnosis) with iconic comedy legend Colin Mochrie from “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” performing in Toronto, Montreal and London (Just for Laughs Festivals) as well as two Augusts in a row at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

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THEATERWORKSUSA’S “Cat Kid Comic Club:

The Musical”

Saturday, April 6 at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Pfeiffer Hall

BIOGRAPHY

Cat Kid and Molly Pollywog have started an epic club to teach 21 rambunctious baby frogs how to make their own comics! Their fishy father Flippy is overjoyed that his kids will learn to unleash their creativity, but when the frogs’ constant bickering and outrageous imaginations send their comics comically off the rails, Flippy flips out! Will the club survive? Will the frogs ever get along? And will creativity finally save the day? All will be answered in this madcap musical based on Dav Pilkey’s irreverently hilarious book series.

This hilarious musical adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man spin-off series, “Cat Kid Comic Club,” is written by Kevin Del Aguila and Brad Alexander - the team that brought you “Dog Man: The Musical!”

ORIGINAL CREDITS:

Book and Lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila

Music by Brad Alexander

Adapted from the “Cat Kid Comic Club” series of books by Dav Pilkey

Directed and Choreographed by Marlo Hunter

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The Let’s Go Science Show

Saturday, April 20 at 10 a.m. & 1 p.m.

Wentz Concert Hall

BIOGRAPHY

Since 1982, Todd Victor and Lizette Guy have been together entertaining families, first as jugglers and physical comedians performing throughout the world. They have now combined their theater skills with their love of science and teaching to create this fun-filled science show.

Lizette Guy (Dr. Knowitall) started her performing career at the age of six in a Hollywood movie, “So This Is Paris.” She has been performing as a juggler doing comedy shows for children and their families with the Jest In Time Circus of Fools for over 20 years. Her French Canadian background has been influential in creating her strong zany character. She has a bachelor of arts in psychology, a minor in expressive arts and a masters degree in counseling from the University of San Francisco. Along with Guy’s creativity in theater, she is an avid expressive arts painter, photographer and writer.

Professor Smart is performed by Todd Victor: physical comedian and juggler with Jest In Time Circus of Fools. He has performed in 10 different countries and continues to perform at schools, fairs and festivals throughout the United States. His fascination with how things work and his love of comedy helps get kids excited about the sciences. He has carefully studied many scientific concepts with the help of many teachers and scientists. He and his partner Lizette Guy have written and developed this fun science show.

Victor grew up in a family of 10 on a farm in Connecticut. He left to study fine arts in New York City. He has been studying and performing mime, juggling, and physical comedy since 1980. He graduated with a bachelor of fun arts from Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Clown College. Victor is a chosen member of Marin’s Youth ‘n Arts, Performing Arts Roster. He has been an artist/ teacher for the William James Prison Arts Project. Victor loves performing, teaching, computers, inventing, juggling, tennis, table tennis, creating one of a kind props for fun-filled shows, and he loves his wife, Lizette.

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