Magic Tree House: A Ghost Tale for Mr. Dickens

A Ghost Tale for Mr. Dickens runs approximately 55 minutes with no intermission.

The videotaping or other video and audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

A Ghost Tale for Mr. Dickens is presented through special arrangement with 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

SETTING Victorian England: circa 1843

THE CAST

Austin Ryan Hunt Jack

Kimmi Johnson Annie

James Putnam Dickens

Sarah Summerwell Morgan

Topher Embrey Merlin

Kathryn Miller Black Ghost

Jacob Valleroy Green Ghost

Corynne Wagener White Ghost

Aidan Corrie┼ Tiny Tim

Jackson Holloway┼ Tiny Tim

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Role is double cast.

CREATIVE & PRODUCTION TEAM Director/Choreographer…………………………………………………......…..………...…………...Rob Winn Anderson Musical Director………………………………………………..…………………………...............……………Christopher Leavy Set Designer…………………………………………………..………………………………….................………………..Kim Gromoll Costume Designer……………………………………………………………………………...................…………………Mel Barger Lighting Designer……………………………………………………………………………..............................Colleen Doherty Sound Designer…………………………………………………………………………………....................…..........Britt Sandusky ASL Coordinator………………………………………………………………………….........................................Mandy Longo Dialect Coach…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..Kate Ingram Stage Manager.....................................................…………………………………………….....................….…….....Lisa Hardt Production Assistants…………………………………………......................……....……Mike Griggs, Jenna Sargent Light Board Operator…………………………………………..................…….............................…………Kayla Rae Waller Sound Board Operator………………..................…….................………………..................……..............Delonte Smith Wardrobe………………………………………….........................………………….. Shayna McLaughlin, Anneke Ciup Automation…………………………….....................…………..........……………………......................………...Andrew Nunley

UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed players unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

Jack – Michael Thibodeau; Annie – Rebecca Galarza; Dickens – Daniel Annone; Morgan – Sara Jones; Merlin – Ricardo Lastrapes; Black Ghost – Savannah Simerly; Green Ghost – Jordan Herrold; White Ghost – Abigail Cline

SPECIAL THANKS Shakespeare’s Swingin’ Sewin’ Society and Costume Shop Volunteers Matthew Michael’s Salon and Spa

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Randy Courts (Lyrics & Music) has collaborated with playwright/lyricist Mark St. Germain on the musicals The Gifts of the Magi; Johnny Pye and the Foolkiller; Joseph and Mary; Jack’s Holiday; The Gingerbread House; The Book of the Dun Cow; and Doctor Dolittle. With novelist/librettist Walter Wangerin Jr., Randy wrote the Christmas oratorio Angels and All Children. Randy is thrilled to be collaborating with his wife, playwright Jenny Laird, on a series of musicals based on the Magic Tree House books for Music Theatre International’s Broadway Kids Collection.

Jenny Laird (Book) was a long-time Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, where her first play Ballad Hunter earned a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for Outstanding New Work and won Chicago’s Cunningham Prize for Playwriting. Other plays: Sky Girls, Only the Sound. During her decade in Chicago, Jenny had a strong presence in the theater outreach and educational community. Jenny currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband, Randy Courts, and their wondrous eight-year old son, Quinn, and when she has time, blogs about her adventures raising a child with epilepsy and autism.

Will Osborne (Book & Lyrics) is an internationally produced and published playwright, book author, director, teacher, and actor, whose professional theater career spans four decades. Writing for plays and musicals include Smoke & Mirrors, Magic Tree House; The Musical, Saddle Jazz, The Wonderful O, and A Night in New Orleans: A Louis Armstrong Musical. Will has authored more than a dozen books for children and young adults, many co-written with his wife Mary Pope Osborne.

Mary Pope Osborne (Author) is an American writer of children’s books. She is best known for the award-winning and bestselling Magic Tree House series, which has been translated into more than 30 languages and has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide.

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting schools as well as amateur and professional theatres from around the world the rights to perform the largest selection of great musicals from Broadway and beyond. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists, and book writers of these shows to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 60,000 theatrical organizations in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

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Playwright - $9,999 to $5,000 Gordon and Susan Arkin Anonymous Marilyn S. Goldman Stephen Goldman and Melanie Love Jack Lord and Adam Hunter Andrea Massey-Farrell Francille MacFarland, M.D. in Memory of Hilda Wolf Dr. Mary Palmer Alexis C. Pugh Anonymous Tom and Penny Yochum For an entire list of Orlando Shakespeare Theater donors, please visit our website honor roll.