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Hello and happy summer! We are delighted to have you join us for the final two shows in our 2018/19 Broadway season. Whether you are here to relive the delicious story from your childhood with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or are captivated by the myth around Russia’s Romanov family with Anastasia, you won’t be disappointed.

As you enjoy these two family favorites, I wanted to take a moment to invite you to return with your smallest theatre fans to our presentation of Goodnight Moon. Offered as our third Theatre for Young Audiences production, Goodnight Moon will run from October 4 through February 16. Intended for children ages Pre-K through second grade, we hope to welcome more than 40,000 youth to their very first play — more than half of whom will attend on full or partial scholarship.

We are able to offer this annual Theatre for Young Audiences production through the support of our sponsors, including U.S. Bank Foundation, which provided a generous grant to underwrite scholarships, pre-show activities and production costs. Similarly, we have been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities grant to fund next season’s production of Twelfth Night. The grant will underwrite tickets to the student matinee, production costs, in-school workshops, backstage tours and a post-show talkback with the cast.

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Private support also is essential to the success of our current renovation project. This is the most ambitious capital project in our 40-year history, and we are so grateful to our Board of Trustees for their 100% participation. Recent gifts to fund improvements to the Helen Bonfiils Theatre Complex have been made by Dr. Patty Baca, the Dimond Family, Roger Hutson, The Salah Foundation, Rick and Shelly Sapkin, Bob & Carole Slosky, the Tuchman Family, U.S. Bank and Sylvia Young.

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The mantra of the new touring Broadway musical Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is not, intentionally, “It Must Be Seen to Be Believed.”

It’s rather, “It Must Be Believed to Be Seen,” said Assistant Director Matt Lenz, who calls the Denver-bound stage adaptation a celebration of “pure imagination” – at once a nod to both the beloved song from the original film and the new stage musical’s Act I-ender: “Beyond this door, surprise is in store.

But it must be believed to be seen.”

Roald Dahl’s classically dark 1964 source book and the iconic 1971 Gene Wilder film that followed gleefully terrified a generation of British and American schoolchildren (and secretly delighted their parents) because it was a cautionary tale that dared to show bad things happening to bad children.

What impressionable kid could ever forget seeing gluttonous Augustus Gloop getting sucked up to the Fudge Room? Greedy Violet blowing up into a large blueberry? The TV-obsessed Mike Teavee (get it?) getting shrunk down to just a few inches tall?

“That’s why my parents loved it,” Lenz said. “It was the morality of it. We all know Roald Dahl was an controversial figure but for all of his flaws, he made some powerful points about the ways we teach our kids.”

The first stage adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opened in 2013 in London’s West End, where it played for nearly four years. When it was inevitably marked for Broadway and Director Sam Mendes was unavailable to supervise the transfer, the creative team turned to the legendary Jack O’Brien and Lenz (his longtime assistant) to join London composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, a move that reunited the core creative team from Hairspray.

“That was an opportunity for us to take a fresh look,” Lenz said. What they found out, it turns out, is that turning popular movies into musicals is tricky. “Everybody and their sister has been grappling with how to do that well for decades – to greater and lesser successes,” Lenz said.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was a bit of both.

The London reviews had been mixed, but the show was certainly a long-running commercial success. Some, it seemed, simply wanted the 1971 film transported literally to the stage. Others wanted a more three-dimensional musical-theatrical experience that stood alone. It was impossible to satisfy everyone.

“When a film is universally loved for five decades,” Lenz said, “your overwhelming task is meeting people’s expectations – and expectations can vary widely from person to person. Our question for Broadway was: ‘How do we deliver peoples’ favorite moments from the movie, while also making it our own?’ ” The London production was a visual spectacle that took the audience from spectacular room to spectacular room in the chocolate factory.

But O’Brien thought that violated the spirit of the source story, Lenz said: It left little to the imagination.

“OUR QUESTION FOR BROADWAY WAS: ‘HOW DO WE DELIVER PEOPLES’ FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THE MOVIE, WHILE ALSO MAKING IT OUR OWN?’ ”

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“So the driving conceptual guide for Broadway became ‘pure imagination,’ ” Lenz said. “The set was no longer fully representational of every single room in the factory. We tried to create an environment where the five Golden Ticket winners had to use their own imaginations.”

Lenz said O’Brien approached the show with great joy, humor and kindness.

But the most brilliant creative decision he made for Broadway, he contends, was to have young adult actors play all of the children’s roles – except for sweet Charlie, who proves in the end to be Wonka’s soulmate. (Charlie is played by three rotating 10- to 12-year-olds.)

“Charlie is a truly kind boy whose imagination remains intact. And because he is actually played by a kid, you automatically feel for him more,” Lenz said.

“Conversely, Charlie is a truly kind boy whose imagination remains intact. And because he is actually played by a kid, you automatically feel for him more.”

The score retains the two major fan favorites from the film: “The Candy Man” and “Pure Imagination,” both originally composed by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. But O’Brien asked Shaiman and Wittman to turn “Candy Man” into a more flourishing musical theatre opening number. They also contributed several original songs.

Often once a show closes on Broadway, the production heartland audiences sometimes see are necessarily diminished to accommodate the vagaries of various road houses. But the announcement of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’s first national tour last year presented yet another opportunity for the creative team to revisit what worked (and what didn’t) – and they happily took it, Lenz said.

“We know we didn’t get it totally right on Broadway,” Lenz said. “But with nine months between Broadway and the tour starting, we were able to have some perspective and make some really good changes,” Lenz said. The factory set, with its three walls and a ceiling, was jettisoned in favor of what Lenz calls “complete video surround – which gives you infinitely more possibilities,” he said.

After wrapping and unwrapping this particular candy bar so many times along the way, Lenz said, the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Denver audiences will see has something for everyone. “It’s nostalgia told in a contemporary way,” he said. “You’ll see it coming, but it will still surprise you.

“And as crazy and eccentric as this piece is, I think it throbs with humanity and heart and truth.”

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CAST

(in order of appearance) Willy Wonka ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������NOAH WEISBERG Charlie Bucket (at certain performances)...............................................................HENRY BOSHART, BRENDAN REILLY HARRIS, COLLIN JEFFERY, RUEBY WOOD Mrs. Green ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������CLYDE VOCE Grandpa Joe �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������JAMES YOUNG Mrs. Bucket �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� AMANDA ROSE Grandma Josephine �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������JENNIFER JILL MALENKE Grandma Georgina ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� CLAIRE NEUMANN Grandpa George ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������BENJAMIN HOWES Jerry ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������JOEL NEWSOME Cherry �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� SARAH BOWDEN Mrs. Gloop ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������KATHY FITZGERALD Augustus Gloop ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������MATT WOOD Mr. Salt ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� NATHANIEL HACKMANN Veruca Salt �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������JESSICA COHEN Mr. Beauregarde. ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������DAVID SAMUEL Violet Beauregarde �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������BRYNN WILLIAMS Mrs. Teavee �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������MADELEINE DOHERTY Mike Teavee �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������DANIEL QUADRINO Ensemble.........................................................SARAH BOWDEN, OLIVIA CECE, ALEX DRESCHKE, JESS FRY, DAVID R. GORDON, CHAVON HAMPTON, BENJAMIN HOWES, LILY KAUFMANN, DAVID PAUL KIDDER, JENNIFER JILL MALENKE, JOE MOELLER, TANISHA MOORE, CLAIRE NEUMANN, CAYLIE ROSE NEWCOM, JOEL NEWSOME, CLYDE VOCE, BORRIS ANTHONY YORK SWINGS ELIJAH DILLEHAY, SABRINA HARPER, KAREN HYLAND, KEVIN NIETZEL, KRISTIN PIRO, ARMANDO YEARWOOD JR. UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance.

For Willy Wonka—BENJAMIN HOWES, CLYDE VOCE; for Grandpa Joe—BENJAMIN HOWES, JOEL NEWSOME; for Mrs. Bucket—SARAH BOWDEN, SABRINA HARPER; for Mrs. Gloop—KAREN HYLAND, CLAIRE NEUMANN; for Augustus Gloop—ELIJAH DILLEHAY, DAVID R. GORDON; for Mr. Salt—JOE MOELLER, KEVIN NIETZEL; for Veruca Salt—JESS FRY, LILY KAUFMANN, CAYLIE ROSE NEWCOM; for Mr. Beauregarde—CLYDE VOCE, BORRIS ANTHONY YORK; for Violet Beauregarde— CHAVON HAMPTON, TANISHA MOORE; for Mrs. Teavee—JENNIFER JILL MALENKE, CLAIRE NEUMANN; for Mike Teavee—ELIJAH DILLEHAY, ALEX DRESCHKE DANCE CAPTAIN KRISTIN PIRO ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN KEVIN NIETZEL

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CAST CAST

NOAH WEISBERG

HENRY BOSHART

BRENDAN REILLY HARRIS

JESSICA COHEN

DAVID SAMUEL

COLLIN JEFFERY

MADELEINE DOHERTY

BRYNN WILLIAMS

RUEBY WOOD

KATHY FITZGERALD

MATT WOOD

JAMES YOUNG

NATHANIEL HACKMANN

SARAH BOWDEN

AMANDA ROSE

DANIEL QUADRINO

OLIVIA CECE

ALEX DRESCHKE

JESS FRY

DAVID R. GORDON

CHAVON HAMPTON

BENJAMIN HOWES

LILY KAUFMANN

DAVID PAUL KIDDER

JENNIFER JILL MALENKE

JOE MOELLER

TANISHA MOORE

CLAIRE NEUMANN

CAYLIE ROSE NEWCOM

JOEL NEWSOME

CLYDE VOCE

BORRIS ANTHONY YORK

ELIJAH DILLEHAY

SABRINA HARPER

KAREN HYLAND

KEVIN NIETZEL

KRISTIN PIRO

ARMANDO YEARWOOD JR.

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MUSICAL NUMBERS ACT 1 “The Candy Man”*....................................................................................................Willy Wonka, Ensemble “Willy Wonka! Willy Wonka!” �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Charlie, Ensemble “The Candy Man”* (reprise) �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Charlie “Charlie, You & I” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Grandpa Joe “A Letter from Charlie Bucket”...................................................Charlie, Mrs. Bucket, Grandparents “More of Him to Love”........................................................... Mrs. Gloop, Augustus Gloop, Ensemble “When Veruca Says” ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mr. Salt, Veruca “Queen of Pop”...........................................................Mr. Beauregarde, Violet, Gum Chompin’ Divas “That Little Man of Mine” ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Mrs. Teavee, Mike Teavee “If Your Father Were Here” ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Mrs. Bucket “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket”*/“Grandpa Joe” �����������������������������������������������������Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Mrs. Bucket, Grandparents “It Must Be Believed to Be Seen” ���������������������������������������������������������������������Willy Wonka, Ensemble ACT II “Strike That, Reverse It”..............................................................Willy Wonka, Golden Ticket Winners “Pure Imagination”*/“Grandpa Joe” (reprise) Willy Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Golden Ticket Winners “The Oompa Loompa Song”* �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Oompa Loompas “Auf Weidersehen Augustus Gloop” ����������������������������������������������Willy Wonka, Oompa Loompas “When Willy Met Oompa”....................................................................Willy Wonka, Oompa Loompas “Veruca’s Nutcracker Sweet” �������������������������������������������������������������������������Veruca, Oompa Loompas “Vidiots”................................................................. Willy Wonka, Mike, Mrs. Teavee, Oompa Loompas “The View from Here” ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Willy Wonka, Charlie *Written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley THERE WILL BE ONE 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION. ORCHESTRA Conductor—CHARLIE ALTERMAN Associate Conductor—JOHN YUN Keyboards—CHARLIE ALTERMAN, JOHN YUN, KELLY THOMAS Drums/Percussion—GREG GERMANN Bass—DAVID WHITE Additional Orchestrations by MICHAEL STAROBIN Music Coordinator—JOHN MILLER Music Copying—JoANN KANE MUSIC SERVICE/RUSSELL BARTMUS, MARK GRAHAM, JOSIE BEARDEN, CHARLIE SAVAGE LOCAL ORCHESTRA Reed 1 (alto sax, flute, piccolo, clarinet)—ART BOUTON Reed 2 (clarinet, soprano sax, tenor sax, bass clarinet)—ERIC ERHARDT Trumpet (trumpet, flugel horn, piccolo trumpet)—SAM OATTS Trombone—ROB OLDS Guitars—DANIEL SCHWINDT Synth Sub—BOKO SUZUKI Violin—BRITT SWENSON Cello—JEFFREY WATSON Contractor—JIM HARVEY

NOAH WEISBERG (Willy Wonka) wowed audiences as a prepubescent Grandpa Joe in a local children’s production at the age of 12. Broadway: South Pacific, Enron, Elf, Legally Blonde.

Other: Diner (pre-Broadway), Shakespeare in the Park. TV: “Modern Family,” “Major Crimes,” “Law & Order,” “JoJo’s Circus,” “K.C. Undercover,” “Wisdom of the Crowd,” “The Good Wife,” “iCarly,” “Franklin & Bash,” “Team Umizoomi,” “Bad Teacher,” “Bones,” “New Normal,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Love Monkey,” “Snowy Day” (Emmy winning), “Five Points,” “Doonce,” “Indoor Boys.” Film: Noah wrote, directed and starred in Thank You Kindly opposite Kimiko Glenn (coming soon), and the award-winning What’s Life Got to Do with It. NYU. noahweisberg.com.

Instagram: @NoahWeisberg.

HENRY BOSHART (Charlie Bucket at certain performances). Fun Home national tour (John), untitled Netflix series recurring role. Many thanks to Dave McKeown and Shirley Grant Management, Monica, Badiene, Trapper, Denise and the entire Charlie creative team for this magical opportunity. “All my love to Charlie, Amelia, Mom and Dad, family, friends and teachers for believing in me and supporting my dreams.”

BRENDAN REILLY HARRIS (Charlie Bucket at certain performances) is thrilled to make his National Tour debut. Regional: Goodspeed Musicals, Hartford Stage, ACTofCT, Seven Angels, Warner Stage and International Playwrights. Selected favorites: Newsies (Les), Mary Poppins (Michael), Tommy (10YO Tommy), Will Rogers Follies (James) and Willy Wonka (Charlie).

Thanks to the Charlie team, Telsey, Laura at Terrific Talent, Leslie at Buchwald, Dan, Christina and Popop! Love to Dad, Mom, and MaddieKay-Kay! COLLIN JEFFERY (Charlie Bucket at certain performances) is over the moon to be part of this production! International tour: Kinky Boots (Young Charlie). Regional: A Christmas Story: The Musical (Randy), Five Points stage reading (Junior). Thanks to the entire Charlie team and to Nancy, Bonnie, Emily and Anne. Much love to Mom and Dad, Chrissy, Micky and Brianna, family and friends, especially DCT, WST, Ms. Deb and IP.

RUEBY WOOD (Charlie Bucket at certain performances) is based in Central New York, and excited to be a part of the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory tour. Recent credits include Mary Poppins (Michael Banks, Syracuse Stage), The Wizard of Oz (Syracuse Stage), Oliver! (Oliver), Narnia (Tumnus). In his spare time, Rueby performs magic tricks, designs short films (Extraordinary, YouTube), reads and cooks.

JAMES YOUNG (Grandpa Joe). 40year career that includes Broadway: Crazy for You, My Fair Lady, Me and My Girl, The Tap Dance Kid, A Chorus Line.

National tour/regional: Once, Oliver!, Annie, Beauty and the Beast, White Christmas, High School Musical, 42nd Street. TV: “Search Party,” “One Life to Live.” Film: Ricki and the Flash, Annie.

The production for which Mr. Young is most proud are his daughters Kristina and Alessandra. Special thanks to Deb. Thanks to TKO and Telsey + Co. AMANDA ROSE (Mrs. Bucket). Broadway/national tours: Holiday Inn (Linda u/s), Wicked (Nessarose), Dr. Dolittle starring Tommy Tune, Oklahoma!

(Laurey). Off-B’way: Dear Jane, a play (Jane). Favorite recent regional: Gypsy (Louise, Pittsburgh CLO), 9 to 5 (Judy, Walnut St.), A Chorus Line (Kristine, Paper Mill Playhouse), Sunset Blvd. (Betty, PCLO/Fulton), Miss Saigon (Ellen, Ogunquit Playhouse), Curtains (Nikk, Paper Mill). Big thanks to DGRW, and Rachel at Telsey. @amandarose_nyc. Amanda-Rose.net.

JESSICA COHEN (Veruca Salt). Broadway: CATS first national tour, An American in Paris. Sarasota Ballet, Northern Ballet. “Love and gratitude to Rachel, The Mine, the entire CatCF team, my family and Josh.” @itsjessicacohen.

MADELEINE DOHERTY (Mrs. Teavee).

Six Broadway shows: Les Misérables, A Christmas Carol (original cast), The Producers (Hold-Me-Touch-Me, original cast), Sister Act (Sister Mary Theresa, original cast), Gigi (original cast), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Grandma Georgina, original cast). Five national tours, more than 50 regional productions. One son, one grandson, four step children, one step grand daughter and two step grandsons. Three unions.

KATHY FITZGERALD (Mrs. Gloop) originated the role of Mrs. Gloop on Broadway. Other Broadway credits: Wicked (Madame Morrible), 9 to 5 (Roz, Outer Critics nom.), The Producers (Shirley Markowitz), Swinging on a Star (Drama Desk nom.). Off-B’way: Damn Yankees (Doris, Encores!), Donnybrook (Irish Rep.). Regional: Pirates!

(Ruth, Muny), Emmet Otter (Ma, Goodspeed), A Christmas Carol (Fezziwig, McCarter). National tour: Wicked (Morrible, BroadwayWorld Award). TV/film: “Smash,” “Mercy,” “One Life to Live,” “The Next Three Days,” Our Idiot Brother, The Producers.

NATHANIEL HACKMANN (Mr. Salt) just returned from London as Gabey in On the Town with the London Symphony at the BBC Proms. Broadway/ New York/national tour: Les Misérables (Valjean/Javert u/s), Jerry Springer (Chucky/Adam), Beauty and the Beast (Gaston), Paint Your Wagon (Steve).

Regional: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Quasimodo), Jekyll & Hyde (Jekyll/Hyde), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Adam), Oliver! (Bill Sykes), Sweeney Todd (Anthony), A Funny Thing…Forum (Miles), Into the Woods (Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf), Camelot (Lancelot). Love and thanks: God, family, and you! Proud member AEA. Twitter: @n8hackmann. Instagram: @n8hackmann.

DANIEL QUADRINO (Mike Teavee) is thrilled to be part of such an amazing company. Broadway: Wicked (Ensemble/Boq u/s), Newsies (Albert, Crutchie/Davey u/s), Bye Bye Birdie (Ensemble/Hugo u/s). TV: NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!” (Lost Boy Bunting). Huge thanks to Rachel at Telsey as well as Jed, Ashley and the entire KMR team!

Love to Mom, Dad, Mike and Jackson.

Instagram: @dannyquadrino.

DAVID SAMUEL (Mr. Beauregarde).

Credits: Brother Toad (KC Rep); As You Like It with Ellen Burstyn, Twelfth Night with Fiasco Theater (Classic Stage); As You Like It (Bay Street); Ain’t Misbehavin’ dir. by André De Shields (Crossroads Theatre); The Taming of the Shrew (Chautauqua); Blues from Mr. Charlie, To Kill a Mockingbird (Trinity Rep); Ruined (Arena Stage). M.F.A. in acting, Brown University/Trinity Rep. kingofaxum.com.

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BRYNN WILLIAMS (Violet Beauregarde).

Broadway: SpongeBob SquarePants (Sandy u/s, Swing), Bye Bye Birdie (Ursula), 13 (Cassie), How the Grinch Stole Christmas, In My Life, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (featured soloist). Off-Broadway: David Bowie’s Lazarus, Freedom Riders (Diane Nash).

Regional: Bruce Hornsby’s SCKBSTD. Television/film: “The Naked Brothers Band,” “Between the Lions,” “Finky’s Kitchen.” Thanks to God, family (too many to name), Suzanne DePasse, Suzanne Coston and everyone at Abrams!

MATT WOOD (Augustus Gloop) was most recently seen making his Broadway debut in SpongeBob SquarePants covering the roles of Patrick and Mr. Krabs. Regional credits include Roger in Grease (Paper Mill) and Billis in South Pacific (Engeman). TV: “Law & Order: SVU,” “Difficult People,” “Instinct.” B.F.A. from NYU/Tisch. Gratitude to BRS/Gage, Telsey + Co. and so much love to Mom, Dad and family! IG: @mattwoodgrams.

SARAH BOWDEN (Ensemble, Cherry, u/s Mrs. Bucket). Originally from Australia, Sarah played Cassie in A Chorus Line at The Hollywood Bowl opposite Mario Lopez. Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (Muny). Germany: Cabaret, West Side Story, 9 to 5, Flashdance, Esmeralda in Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame. “Thanks to Miss Baayork Lee, my Mum and The Cooper Company.” sarahbowden.de.

Instagram: sarahbowden.de.

OLIVIA CECE (Ensemble) is a proud graduate of Pace University, BFA, Commercial Dance. Television: SYTYCD, SNL. Theater: MAMMA MIA!, (ACT) American Dance Spectacular (Tour).

She is beyond excited to be making her debut in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! She would like to thank her family, Dee, Bette Ann, and Bloc NYC, for making this dream come true!

ALEX DRESCHKE (Ensemble, u/s Mike Teavee). Broadway: A Bronx Tale. National tour: Kinky Boots (Dance Captain). Regional: Beauty and the Beast (MT West), A Wonderful Life (Goodspeed). Proud graduate of UC Irvine.

Endless thanks to Bloc, all teachers, friends and family. Instagram: @dreschcode.

JESS FRY (Ensemble, u/s Veruca Salt).

Broadway: M. Butterfly (Kurogo). Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway

(The Muny), MAMMA MIA! (Pioneer Theatre), The Wild Party (Stanford University). Television: “The Americans” (FX). “Much love and thanks to my family, friends and mentors.” jessfry.com. @jessicafry_.

DAVID R. GORDON (Ensemble, u/s Augustus Gloop) loves chocolate. Fitting, right? National tours: Jimmy (Flashdance), Roger (Grease). Regional: Huey (Memphis), Abraham (Altar Boyz). David writes/performs original music. Find his album on all popular music platforms. “Love to my family, DGRW and Oompa fiancée Kristin.” @DRGeffects. Music: @imDavidRoss.

CHAVON HAMPTON (Ensemble, Gum Chompin’ Diva, u/s Violet Beauregarde). Regional: The Wiz (Muny), Hairspray (Little Inez), MAMMA MIA! (Lisa), Saturday Night Fever (Shirley and Female Swing), Memphis (Engeman). Tours: Dreamgirls (Korea), iLuminate (domestic and Saudi Arabia). She danced on the 2018 Nickelodeon Halo Awards. She’s excited to be joining the Wonka tour! She thanks God, her family and the agents at BLOC for their support. IG: chavonhampton.

BENJAMIN HOWES (Ensemble, Grandpa George, u/s Willy Wonka, u/s Grandpa Joe). Originally from Australia, Benjamin has performed on Broadway ([title of show], Mary Poppins, Scandalous), Off-Broadway (The View Upstairs) and in numerous regional companies. TV/film: “The Deuce,” “Flight of the Conchords,” Miles and others. Full scoop at benjaminhowes.com. Follow @benjthestar.

LILY KAUFMANN (Ensemble, Gum Chompin’ Diva, u/s Veruca Salt) is overjoyed to fulfill her lifelong Oompa Loompa dreams on the road! Kansas City native, FSU alum. Credits include Pittsburgh CLO, MTWichita, KC Starlight and Broadway Dreams Foundation. This one’s for JoniMom and Dad, whose support has never wavered. @lilykaufmann.

DAVID PAUL KIDDER (Ensemble). NYC: American Dance Machine (The Joyce), Kristin Sudeikis Dance (BAM). Regional: Pittsburgh CLO, Fulton, Riverside, Flat Rock, New Theatre, Alhambra, Walt Disney World. TV: “Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” B.F.A. from UCF. Huge thanks to creatives, CESD and family! @davidpaulkidder.

JENNIFER JILL MALENKE (Ensemble, Grandma Josephine, u/s Mrs. Teavee).

Broadway: Into the Woods (revival).

TV: “The Power of Music” (with Josh Groban), “High School Musical: GITP” (ABC), many NYC/regional productions.

Proud member of Broadway Inspirational Voices. Co-founder of Broadway Babysitters, broadwaybabysitters.com. jennifermalenke.com. Thanks to Todd Eskin at ATB! JOE MOELLER (Ensemble, u/s Mr. Salt).

Tours: Mary Poppins, Joseph…. Vegas: MAMMA MIA! B.F.A. CCM. “All the love to my family, teachers, Aaron, DGRW and The Dads! Dedicated to parents like mine, who never stop believing in their kids. Love you Bob and Sandy.” @joe07moe.

TANISHA MOORE (Ensemble, Gum Chompin’ Diva, u/s Violet Beauregarde). Tour: Flashdance (U.S and New Zealand). Regional: Freaky Friday (world premiere and cast album), Hairspray, Gypsy (June), The Wiz (Dorothy), Smokey Joe’s Cafe. “Love you Mommy, Dad and Grandma. God is great and Go Noles!” Follow at @taneeeeshh or tanishamoore.com.

CLAIRE NEUMANN (Ensemble, Grandma Georgina, u/s Mrs. Gloop, u/s Mrs. Teavee). Off-Broadway: Money Talks; Baghdaddy, Triassic Parq, Spidey Project (original cast recordings). Regional: …Edwin Drood (Riverside); How to Succeed… (Stages St. Louis); Annie Get your Gun, Floyd Collins, (Weathervane). TV/film: “Law & Order: SVU,” “David Letterman,” “The Ellen Show,” Door on the Left (IFC Comedy Selects).

ClaireNeumann.com.

CAYLIE ROSE NEWCOM (Ensemble, u/s Veruca Salt). Favorite credits: Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC), Fame The Musical (national tour: u/s Serena). Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, North Carolina Theatre, Weathervane Playhouse, Palace Theatre. “Love to my golden tickets: Dave, Daniel Hoff Agency, A&J, family, my heart—Connor.” caylienewcom.com.

JOEL NEWSOME (Ensemble, Jerry, u/s Grandpa Joe). Broadway: 42nd Street (Bert Barry/Andy Lee cover), The Producers (Leo Bloom cover). Off Broadway: Cagney! (Jack Warner/Bob Hope cover). National tours: Something Rotten! (Lord Clapham), Billy Elliot (George cover), The Producers (Leo Bloom).

Thanks to Mom and Dad.

BORRIS ANTHONY YORK (Ensemble, u/s Mr. Beauregarde). Broadway: Holiday Inn (OBC). Tours: Pippin (first national). TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “Smash” (NBC). “Special thanks to my manager Thomas Green and Telsey Casting for this opportunity. Love you, mom!” Instagram: @borrisanthonyyork.

ELIJAH DILLEHAY (Swing, u/s Mike Teavee, u/s Augustus Gloop). National tour debut! The Boston Conservatory, B.F.A. dance. Endless thanks to the Charlie team and Telsey + Co. for the opportunity. Thanks to GBM for the support. “Couldn’t do this without my family and friends. I love you all.” @eadillehay.

SABRINA HARPER (Swing, u/s Mrs. Bucket). Broadway: Pippin (Swing).

National tour: Pippin (Fastrada). Regional: A Chorus Line (Cassie), The Producers (Ulla). European credits: 9 to 5 (Judy Bernly), Chicago (Roxie), 42nd Street (Anytime Annie), Marilyn The Musical (Marilyn Monroe).

Thankful for the support of her family. sabrinaharper.com.

KAREN HYLAND (Swing, u/s Mrs. Gloop).

Broadway/NYC: Cagney (Standby/Dance Captain), Scandalous (Swing/Dance Captain), Ghost (Swing), Anyone Can Whistle (Ensemble). Tour: Billy Elliot (Swing/Asst.

Dance Captain), Elf, White Christmas (Rhoda), Radio City… (Mrs. Claus).

Love to hubby Gregg, puppy Oscar! IG: @karenyogahy.

KEVIN NIETZEL (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain, u/s Mr. Salt). Tour debut! Regional: MTWichita, Drury Lane, MSMT, Ordway, Wagon Wheel. TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” B.F.A., Florida State. Thanks to Susie, Al and Sam for all of the support throughout the years.

Wouldn’t be here without them.

KRISTIN PIRO (Swing, Dance Captain) is excited to continue the sweetness!

Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Catch Me If You Can, Rocky,

An American in Paris. Tours: Memphis, Flashdance, Saturday Night Fever.

“Love as always to my family, CGF and my favorite Oompa, DRG.” ARMANDO YEARWOOD JR. (Swing) is grateful to be a part of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Theater works include In the Heights tour, West Side Story international tour, Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye tour and Frozen: Live at the Hyperion. Instagram @Mando_Jr. ROALD DAHL (Writer) (1916–1990) is one of the world’s favorite storytellers with more than 250 million books sold worldwide in 61 languages. He is loved for such favorites as James and the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now going into its third year, Roald Dahl’s Imaginormous Challenge continues to partner with the stage production by awarding recipients the prize of a lifetime of turning their idea into a theatrical creation. Visit imaginormouschallenge.com for more details.

DAVID GREIG (Bookwriter) is a playwright. His plays include The Events, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Monster in the Hall, Midsummer, Dunsinane, Yellow Moon, Damascus, Outlying Islands, The American Pilot, San Diego, Pyrenees, The Cosmonaut’s Last Message, Dr Korczak’s Example, The Architect and Europe. David’s adaptations include The Suppliant Women, The Father, The Lorax, Lanark, Creditors and Caligula. In 1990, he co-founded Suspect Culture Theatre Co., for whom he wrote Timeless, Mainstream and 8000M. Since 2016, David has been the Artistic Director of The Royal Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.

MARC SHAIMAN (Music & Lyrics) composed the score and co-wrote (with Mr. Wittman) the songs for the film Mary Poppins Returns, arriving this Christmas. He has been awarded a Tony, Grammy and an Emmy, but despite five nominations, no Oscar. Selected highlights: Hairspray, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Catch Me If You Can, Sleepless in Seattle, The First Wives Club, Patch Adams, The American President, South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, When Harry Met Sally, Beaches, Misery, City Slickers, The Addams Family, A Few Good Men, Sister Act, The Bucket List, “SNL,” “Smash,” Billy’s Oscar medleys, Bette, Barbra, Patti, Christine, Harry Jr., Mariah. Prop 8: The Musical. For further credits, call him.

SCOTT WITTMAN (Lyrics) co-wrote (with Marc Shaiman) the lyrics for Hairspray, for which they received Tony and Grammy awards. Scott and Marc teamed up again on Broadway for Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, which he also directed, and Catch Me If You Can. For their original songs for the NBC series “Smash,” they were nominated for two Emmy Awards, a Grammy and a Golden Globe. Scott has created, written and/or directed shows for Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole, Justin Vivian Bond, Bette Midler and Bridget Everett.

He co-wrote the lyrics for Disney’s film musical Mary Poppins Returns starring Emily Blunt and Lin Manuel Miranda.

JACK O’BRIEN (Director) has won three Tony Awards for his direction of Hairspray, Henry IV and The Coast of Utopia. His other Broadway recent credits include Carousel, The Front Page, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, It’s Only a Play, Macbeth, The Nance, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can, Impressionism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nomination), Imaginary Friends, The Invention of Love (Tony nomination and Drama Desk winner), The Full Monty (Tony nomination), More to Love, Getting Away with Murder, The Little Foxes, Damn Yankees, Two Shakespearean Actors (Tony nomination) and Porgy and Bess (Tony nomination). Off-Broadway credits include Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem, Pride’s Crossing and Hapgood (Lucille Lortel Award). Other productions include Il Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera, Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall, Much Ado About Nothing for The Public’s Shakespeare in the Park and Love Never Dies and Hairspray (Olivier nomination) in London.

Mr. O’Brien was the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre from 1981 until 2007. He has directed six programs for PBS’s “American Playhouse.” His book, Jack Be Nimble, is published by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.

JOSHUA BERGASSE (Choreographer).

Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, On the Town (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC noms.; Astaire Award) and Gigi. Off-B’way: Sweet Charity (The New Group), Cagney (Drama Desk, OCC, Astaire noms.; Callaway finalist), Bomb-itty of Errors and Captain Louie.

Encores!: The Golden Apple, Little Me and It’s A Bird…It’s A Plane…It’s Superman! Carnegie Hall: Candide, Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music. As Dir./ Choreo.: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Stage 42 NYC), Hazel (Drury Lane), West

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CLYDE VOCE (Ensemble, Mrs. Green, u/s Mr. Beauregarde, u/s Willy Wonka).

Nat’l tours: The Color Purple (u/s Mister), Sister Act, Rock of Ages (Vegas company, Ja’Keith), Elf (Manager). TV/ film: “When We Grow Up,” “Short Engagement.” “Love and thanks to my family, Rich and Mike at Whole Artist Management and Rachel at Telsey + Co.” @clyde.voce.

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Side Story (NCT). As Co-Dir./Choreo.: Bombshell on Broadway (Minskoff Theatre). Television: “Smash” (NBC) (Emmy Award), “So You Think You Can Dance” (FOX) and “Sinatra: A Voice for a Century” (PBS).

MARK THOMPSON (Scenic and Costume Design). Mark’s work in the theater has been recognized with two Critics’ Circle, five Olivier awards and nominated for five Tony Awards, including most recently the Olivier for Best Costume Design for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory West End production. Recent international theater includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (London); The Taming of the Shrew (Public, N.Y.); MAMMA MIA! (worldwide); A Raisin in the Sun (N.Y.); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (worldwide); God of Carnage (London/N.Y.); Tina The Musical (Aldwych, West End); Bombay Dreams (London/N.Y.); Art (worldwide); La Bete (London/N.Y.); One Man, Two Guvnors (London/N.Y.); Young Marx (Bridge Theatre, London); The Blue Room (London/N.Y.); Arcadia (NT/Lincoln Center). Opera includes The Queen of Spades (The Met, N.Y.), The Mikado (Lyric, Chicago), Montag aus Licht (La Scala, Milan), Hansel and Gretel (Sydney Opera House), Carmen (Opera Comique Paris) and Macbeth (Met, NYC).

JAPHY WEIDEMAN (Lighting Design).

Broadway: The Visit, The Nance, Of Mice and Men, Airline Highway and Dear Evan Hansen were all Tony-nominated for Best Lighting Design. Other Broadway: Lobby Hero, Significant Other, Sylvia, Old Times, The Heidi Chronicles, Macbeth (Drama Desk nom.), Cyrano de Bergerac and The Snow Geese.

Off-Broadway: Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout, The Public Theater, NYTW, Second Stage, Playwrights Horizons, MTC, MCC and Labyrinth. West End: A Nice Fish (Harold Pinter Theatre), Blackbird (Albery Theatre).

ANDREW KEISTER (Sound Design).

Broadway: Godspell, Company, Taller Than a Dwarf. Other notable designs at The Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and Trinity Rep. As a partner in SCK Sound Design, his Broadway credits include On Your Feet, Dr. Zhivago as well as the Radio City Christmas Spectacular and The Rockette’s New York Spectacular. Associate Sound Design credits include Catch Me If You Can, Jersey Boys,

Hairspray and Mary Poppins.

JEFF SUGG (Video and Projection Design). Select theater credits include Broadway: Sweat, Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater), Bring It On, 33 Variations, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Off-Broadway: The Layover, Fortress of Solitude, An Octoroon, Tribes, Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island. West End: Tina: The Musical. Regional credits include work at Steppenwolf, The Old Globe, Mark Taper Forum, Oregon Shakespeare and Arena Stage. Music: Anthracite Fields (Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize–winning composition), Prince’s final appearance on “Saturday Night Live.” Awards: Lucille Lortel Award, Obie Award, Bessie Award and two Henry Hewes Design Awards.

BASIL TWIST (Puppetry Design). Drama Desk Award for Charlie Oompa Puppet Design on Broadway. Other Broadway: The Addams Family (Drama Desk), The Pee-Wee Herman Show, Oh Hello! Original creations include Symphonie Fantastique, Dogugaeshi, La Bella Dormente Nel Bosco, Dogugaeshi, Hansel and Gretel, Behind the Lid, Arias with a Twist, Seafoam Sleepwalk, The Rite of Spring and Sisters Follies.

Awards: Obie, US Artists, Drama Desk, Doris Duke Artists Award, New York Innovative Theatre, Henry Hewes, UNIMA, Bessies, Guggenheim, MacArthur Fellow. He is currently in Rome for a year as a recipient of The Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome.

DOUG BESTERMAN (Orchestrations).

Three-time Tony Award-winner. Broadway: Anastasia, A Bronx Tale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, It Shoulda Been You, Bullets Over Broadway (Tony nomination), Rocky, On a Clear Day…, Sister Act, How to Succeed…

(Tony nomination), Elf, Young Frankenstein (Drama Desk nomination), Tarzan, Dracula, Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002 Tony/Drama Desk Awards), The Producers (2001 Tony/Drama Desk Awards), Seussical, Music Man (Drama Desk/Tony nominations), Fosse (1999 Tony), Big (Drama Desk nomination), Damn Yankees (Drama Desk nomination). International: Me and My Girl. OffBroadway: Carrie, Weird Romance. Regional: The Honeymooners, The Sting.

Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Chicago, Mulan.

NICHOLAS SKILBECK (Music Supervisor). As Music Supervisor/Director, West End credits include Gypsy, Kate Bush: Before the Dawn, Charlie and the

Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Sister Act, Hairspray, Billy Elliot, MAMMA MIA!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, CATS (New London). As composer, credits include Quand La Guerre Sera Finie, Asylum, Affairs of the Heart, Hell Bent, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night.

Producer of the Gypsy London cast recording (2015). Associate Producer on the Sweeney Todd London cast recording (2012). Co-Author of the book The Singing and Acting Handbook—Games and Exercises for the Performer (Published by Taylor and Francis).

CHARLIE ALTERMAN (Music Director). Broadway: Music Director for the Tony Award-winning revival of Pippin and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal, as well as Godspell and Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Other Broadway credits include Legally Blonde (Associate Conductor). Regional includes The Muny, The Old Globe, A.R.T., Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Williamstown and Paper Mill Playhouse.

PHIJ ADAMS (Music Technology).

Groundhog Day; Harry Potter and the Cursed Child; Funny Girl; Matilda; Bend it Like Beckham; A Chorus Line; Sweeney Todd; Ghost; Singin’ in the Rain; Sweet Charity; Sister Act; The Lord of the Rings; Tina, the Tina Turner Musical; Guys and Dolls. Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes, Edward Scissorhands, The Car Man and Dorian Gray.

CAMPBELL YOUNG ASSOCIATES (Hair & Makeup Design). Broadway: Hello, Dolly!; Groundhog Day; The Front Page; The Crucible; Misery; Sylvia; A Delicate Balance; The Last Ship; It’s Only a Play; Betrayal; Les Misérables; One Man, Two Guvnors; Spider-Man. West End/Broadway: Les Liaisons Dangereueses, American Psycho, The Cripple of Inishmaan, Matilda, Ghost, Mary Stuart, Billy Elliot, Private Lives. West End: Funny Girl, The Master Builder, The Lorax, Gypsy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Bodyguard. Film/TV: “The Americans,” “House of Cards,” “Orange Is the New Black.”

BUIST BICKLEY (Production Properties Supervisor). Select Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2, SpongeBob SquarePants, Disney’s Frozen (co-supervisor), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dear Evan Hansen (and national tour), It’s Only a Play, Act One, The Nance, Other Desert Cities.

Other credits: Moulin Rouge (Boston), Fun Home (national tour).

JOHN MILLER (Music Coordinator).

Broadway: over 130 shows, including Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Summer, Beautiful, Waitress, Jersey Boys, Once on This Island, A Bronx Tale, Miss Saigon, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, …the Great Comet of 1812, Something Rotten!, Smokey Joe’s Cafe. Studio Musician (bass): Leonard Cohen, Madonna, Eric Clapton, Carly Simon, BB King, Portishead, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan. johnmillerbass.com.

MATT LENZ (Associate Director).

Broadway: Charlie, Hairspray, Catch Me If You Can, Velocity of Autumn, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Associate Director). Off-Broadway: Pageant, The Irish Curse, Idaho!, Great Daisy Theory. National tours: A Christmas Story, Cheers, Hairspray, Catch Me…. Regional: Paper Mill, Muny, George Street, Maltz Jupiter, Ogunquit, Casa Mañana, Cape Playhouse. mattlenzdirector.com.

ALISON SOLOMON (Associate Choreographer). Broadway: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Gigi, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. N.Y./regional: Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Sweet Charity, Bandstand, The Honeymooners, Bull Durham. TV: Acer Electronics, NFL Super Bowl “Dirty Dancing,” Lord & Taylor, “The View,” “Dora’s Explorer Girls.”

Performance credits: Finding Neverland, Billy Elliot, In the Heights, Swing!, “Boardwalk Empire,” Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and more! alisolomon.com.

ANDREW BACIGALUPO (Production Stage Manager). NYC: Elf The Musical.

West End: The Merchants of Bollywood.

Milan, Italy: Priscilla Queen of the Desert (Italian premiere). National/international tours: The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Ghost The Musical, Walking with Dinosaurs, Drumline Live, Cirque Dreams. Kentucky native. Proud member of Equity. For Mom and Dad. ALAN D. KNIGHT (Stage Manager). National tour credits include Les Misérables,

The Sound of Music directed by Jack O’Brien, MAMMA MIA!, The Book of Mormon (first and second national tours) and Sister Act The Musical. Lots of love to his family back in Michigan!

CATE AGIS (Assistant Stage Manager).

National tour debut! Broadway: Miss Saigon, …the Great Comet of 1812. OffBroadway/N.Y.: Sleep No More, Ragtime on Ellis Island, The Strange Undoing of Prudenica Hart. Regional: A.R.T., CATF, ArtsEmerson, Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Education: B.F.A. Emerson College. “Infinite love to my family and my #1 duckling.”

JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS (Production Manager) is Hillary Blanken, Joseph DeLuise, Guy Kwan, Ana Rose Greene, Ross Leonard, Victoria Bullard, Christopher Batstone and Sadie Alisa. Over the last 20 years, JSP has helped create over 60 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, over 20 national tours and numerous Las Vegas productions. Currently on Broadway and touring: King Kong, The Prom, The Band’s Visit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Once on This Island, Dear Evan Hansen, Come from Away, Waitress, Beautiful and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

FORESIGHT THEATRICAL (General Management) is comprised of partners Allan Williams, Aaron Lustbader and Mark Shacket, who oversee and supervise The Phantom of the Opera, Kinky Boots, The Band’s Visit, The Lifespan of a Fact, King Kong and The Prom on Broadway, and the worldwide management of Kinky Boots and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

ALLIED TOURING (Tour Marketing & Press) is a full-service engagement management agency representing Broadway tours and other live touring events across North America. Current: The Book of Mormon; Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella; Hello, Dolly!; Kinky Boots; The Lightning Thief; The Play That Goes Wrong; RENT; Rock of Ages; School of Rock; Something Rotten!; Irving Berlin’s White Christmas.

Upcoming: Ain’t Too Proud, Bandstand, Clue—Live on Stage, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, Mean Girls, The SpongeBob Musical.

MARK KAUFMAN (Producer). As Executive Vice President, Warner Bros.

Theatre Ventures, Kaufman produced

the West End and Broadway runs of the Olivier Award-winning musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Broadway stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery starring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, as well as the Tony Award-winning The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Recent and upcoming projects include Dave (Arena Stage) and Beetlejuice (National Theater/Broadway). Before joining WBThV, Kaufman oversaw the Broadway productions of Hairspray, The Wedding Singer and Elf for New Line Cinema. Kaufman executive produced New Line films Secondhand Lions, Hairspray, Four Christmases, 17 Again and My Sister’s Keeper and coproduced Valentine’s Day. Kaufman wrote “Toothless” for ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney and “Just a Walk in the Park” for ABC Family. Love to Stacey, Ethan, Spencer and Victoria.

WARNER BROS. THEATRE VENTURES (Producer) develops and produces first-class musicals and stage productions from the company’s expansive catalogue. WBThV is currently represented on Broadway with the musical adaptation of Beetlejuice, based on the beloved Tim Burton film. The division was previously represented on the West End and on Broadway by the Olivier Award-winning musical Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, now playing in Australia. Other previous Broadway productions include the stage adaptation of Stephen King’s Misery starring Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf, the Tony Award for Best Play winner The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime, the Tony Award-winning musical The Bridges of Madison County and the holiday hit Elf. The division is currently developing productions of the hit films Dave (Arena Stage), 17 Again (NAMT), Dog Day Afternoon and A Star is Born.

WBThV also licenses third-party stage rights, including such productions as The Bodyguard, Singin’ in the Rain, Hairspray, The Wizard of Oz, The Color Purple and 42nd Street.

LANGLEY PARK PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Kevin McCormick currently serves as Executive Vice President Production and Senior Advisor, Warner Bros. Pictures (he previously served as President of Production, leaving the studio in 2010 and starting his Warner-based production company Langley Park Pictures). Kevin is currently overseeing the films Dr. Sleep, In the Heights, The Goldfinch, Mother-

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TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway: Beetlejuice, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus, Oklahoma!, Be More Chill, Network, The Cher Show, The Prom, Pretty Woman, My Fair Lady, Mean Girls, Frozen, Anastasia, Come From Away, Waitress, Hamilton, Kinky Boots, Wicked, Film: Mary Poppins Returns, Ben Is Back, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, Rachel Getting Married. TV: “RENT,” “Murphy Brown,” “This Is Us,” “House of Cards.” telseyandco.com.

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less Brooklyn, Clint Eastwood’s latest theatrical release The Mule, as well as Baz Luhrmann’s newest musical project Elvis. Kevin continues to oversee numerous features in development, while serving as a Producer on Beetlejuice and an advisor to Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures.

NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS (Producer) produces film, television and theater. Formed in 2003 by Sam Mendes, Pippa Harris and Caro Newling, with Nicolas Brown joining as fourth director in the company’s 10th year.

In 2015, Neal Street moved under the umbrella of parent company All3Media. Previously Sam Mendes and Caro Newling established and ran the Donmar Warehouse 1992–2002, producing over 70 productions; since then Newling has produced the theater slate for Neal Street Productions. Recent: The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth, Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre/Gielgud Theatre, The Moderate Soprano by David Hare, This House by James Graham. Previous: The Bridge Project, a three-year transatlantic venture with the Old Vic and Brooklyn Academy of Music presenting five classic plays for worldwide stages across 15 international cities, directed by Sam Mendes. Premieres: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, David Greig with Warner Brothers Theatre Ventures; Shrek The Musical by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire with DreamWorks Animation. Also, Three Days of Rain, The Vertical Hour, The House of Special Purpose, All About My Mother, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Days of Wine and Roses, Anna in the Tropics, Fuddy Meers. West End/ Broadway transfers: South Downs/ The Browning Version, Enron, Hamlet, Mary Stuart, Red, Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park…, The Painkiller. Film and television: Heidi Thomas’ series “Call the Midwife,” John Logan’s series “Penny Dreadful,” Stuart: A Life Backwards, Starter for Ten, Things We Lost in the Fire, Jarhead, Revolutionary Road, Away We Go, Blood, “The Hollow Crown” for BBC2 featuring “Richard II” (dir. Rupert Goold), “Henry IV” Part 1 and Part 2 (dir. Richard Eyre), “Henry V” (dir. Thea Sharrock), “Henry VI” Parts 1 and 2 and “Richard III” (dir. Dominic Cooke), “Britannia” written by Jez Butterworth and forthcoming TV series “Informer” by Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani.

STAFF FOR CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY GENERAL MANAGEMENT FORESIGHT THEATRICAL Mark Shacket Jalaina Ross Aaron Lustbader Allan Williams COMPANY MANAGER Michael Camp Assistant Company Manager.......................... Jessica Morrow TOUR MARKETING AND PRESS ALLIED TOURING Marya K. Peters Andrew Damer Scott Praefke Jessica Cary Jennifer Gallagher Anne Dailey Meyer Jacqueline Smith Anne Waisanen Janie Dickerson Hayden Anderson EXCLUSIVE TOUR DIRECTION THE ROAD COMPANY Stephen Lindsay Brett Sirota trc.nyc CASTING TELSEY + COMPANY Bernard Telsey CSA, William Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA, Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA, Tiffany Little Canfield CSA, Rachel Hoffman CSA, Patrick Goodwin CSA, Karyn Casl CSA, Kristina Bramhall, Adam Caldwell CSA, Josh Einsohn CSA, Rachel Nadler, Rachel Minow, Rikki Gimelstob, Rachel Dill CSA, Ryan Bernard Tymensky CSA, Rebecca Scholl CSA, Scott Galina, Madison Sylvester, Lauren Harris, Laura Wade, Ally Kiley, Rose Bochner, Kristian Charbonier, Destiny Lilly, Leigh Ann Smith, Lily Schneider, Meghan Ryan, Yoonji Jang, Samantha Marzec PRODUCTION MANAGER JUNIPER STREET PRODUCTIONS Hillary Blanken Joseph DeLuise Guy Kwan Ana Rose Greene Ross Leonard Victoria Bullard Christopher Batsone Sadie Alisa PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER.....ANDREW BACIGALUPO Stage Manager....................................................... Alan D. Knight Assistant Stage Manager.............................................Cate Agis Associate General Manager...................................Jalaina Ross Dialect Coach.............................................................. Kate Wilson Vocal Coach................................................. Marishka Wierzbicki UK Associate Scenic Designer................................Luke Smith Associate Scenic Designer..................................... Nancy Thun Associate Costume Designer...............................Rory Powers Assistant Costume Designer..........................Rachel Attridge Asst. to the Costume Designer.................. Rachel Townsend Associate Lighting Designer................... Craig Stelzenmuller Assistant Lighting Designer.......................................Ken Elliott Associate Sound Designer.......................................Brian Hsieh Assistant Sound Designer........................................ Emma Wilk Associate Projection Designer.........................Simon Harding Animators................................................................. Yana Birÿkova, Katie Kirschner, Ian McClain Puppetry Associate.............................................Brandon Hardy Puppetry Assistants............................. Ali Goss, Toria Sterling Production Carpenter...........................................Erik E. Hansen Head Carpenter................................................ Jen Day-Gottlieb Automation Carpenter ....................................... Mike Troncone Fly Rail Carpenter................................................... George Munz Assistant Carpenter........................................Travis Lamprecht Production Electricians......................................Randall Zaibek, James Fedigan, Patrick Johnston Lighting Programmer........................................... Marc Polimeni Head Electrician.........................................................Adam Grant Lead Follow Spot Operator.............................. Sean Hamilton Assistant LX-Deck/Video....................................Abbey Dutton Production Sound.............................................. Walter Trarbach Sound Board Programmer.......................................Brian Hsieh Head Sound..............................................................Matt McShane Assistant Sound..................................................... Adam Fitchett Production Props......................................................Buist Bickley Asst. Production Props.................. Christine Goldman Bagwell, Alison Mantilla Head Props.........................................................Paige J Zaloudek Assistant Props..................................................Shawn Riley-Rau Production Video...................Asher Robinson, Kim Caldwell Video Programmer..................................................... Matt Young Production Music Director................................Keith Levenson Associate Music Supervisor....................................Nate Patten Music Co-Producer.................................................. Scott Riesett Music Technology........................................................Phij Adams Synth Tech....................................Randy Cohen, Sam Starobin Assistant to John Miller .................................. Nichole Jennino Wardrobe Supervisor........................................Erick Sundquist Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor.............................Julia Poiesz Hair Supervisor............................................................ Rae Phillips Assistant Hair Supervisor.................................... Marcus Lopez Tutoring....................................................On Location Education Tutor/Child Guardian......................................Rachel Winograd General Management Office.................................. Lane Marsh, Nick Ginsberg, Lisa Guzman, Michelle Heller, Andrew Joy, Jennifer O’Connor, Frank Gambino Jr., Brooklyn McLain, Beatriz Westby Production Assistants....................................... Patricia Garvey, Nicholas Ibarguen Technical Production Assistant.......................Susan Stimson Digital Marketing........................................Situation Interactive Creative Services...................... Allied Integrated Marketing / Debbie Allamong, Eric Stormoen Accounting........Marks-Paneth / Christopher Cacace, Jana Jevnikar, Steven Bloom Banking.................................................... JP Morgan Chase Bank Payroll............................................Checks and Balances Payroll Merchandising................................................... The Araca Group

Merchandise Manager.......................................... Ryan Hestand Travel/Housing............................................................. Road Rebel Altour/Jo Geltman Immigration Attorney...........................Shannon K. Such, Esq. Physical Therapy.... Neuro Tour Physical Therapy/ Carolyn M. Lawson Production Photography........................................ Joan Marcus FOR WARNER BROS. Chairman, Warner Bros. Pictures Group..........Toby Emmerich EVP & Chief Financial Officer, Warner Bros. Entertainment................................. Kim Williams President & Chief Content Officer, New Line Cinema..........................................Carolyn Blackwood­­­ EVP, Finance & Administration, Warner Bros. Television Group................................Laura Valan SVP, Finance, Warner Bros. Television Group....... Mark Coker VP, Business & Strategic Planning, Warner Bros. Television Group ....................Matthew Zarider VP, Publicity & Communications, New Line Cinema...........................................................Cathy Nam VP, Financial Reporting, Warner Bros. Television Group........................ Maria Gonzalez Director, Content, Strategy & Operations, New Line Cinema......................................................... Ricky Tydus Manager, Accounting & Reporting, Warner Bros. Television Group.................. Lavinia Hardyanto VP, Corp Legal Special Projects, Warner Bros. Entertainment.................Susan de Christofaro VP, Special Projects, Warner Bros. Entertainment...............................Elena Cahalan Staff..............................................Michelle Butler, Jenni Hernandez FOR WARNER BROS. THEATRE VENTURES EVP, Theatre Ventures......................................... Mark Kaufman SVP, Business & Legal Affairs....................... Jess Wittenberg Associate, Creative Development.............Kathryn Pellegrini Coordinator, Business & Legal Affairs.........Felisha Norman FOR LANGLEY PARK PRODUCTIONS Producer............................................................. Kevin McCormick Creative Executive to Kevin McCormick................................................. Brennan Foti FOR NEAL STREET PRODUCTIONS Directors........................................Nicolas Brown, Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes, Caro Newling Head of Production......................................................Milly Leigh Executive Coordinator................................. Caroline Reynolds Head of Development............................................... Julie Pastor Head of Finance.......................................................Robert Smith Assistants to Sam Mendes..................................Melanie Davis, Gabriella Rauchwerger Development Executive........................................... Lola Oliyide General Assistant................................................... Haydn Palmer CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Scenic Items fabricated by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a division of Production Resource Group, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Show Control and Scenic Motion Control featuring Stage Command Systems® by PRG-Scenic Technologies, a Division of Production Resource Group, L.L.C., New Windsor, NY. Additional Scenic Elements and Props fabricated by Proof Productions, Inc. Lighting Equipment provided by Christie Lites. Sound Equipment provided by Masque Sound. Video and Projection system provided by WorldStage. Puppetry built by Basil Twist’s Tandem Otter Productions/Barbara Busackino, Executive Director. Puppet Builders for Tandem Otter Productions: Brandon Hardy, Eric Novak, Monkey Boys Productions, Justin Perkins, Toria Sterling and Lily Rosen.

Oompa Loompas built in association with JIM HENSON’S CREATURE SHOP: Jason Weber, Melissa Creighton, Rollie Krewson, Connie Peterson, Joey Roddy and Gabriella DeGenarro. Fabricators for Jim Henson’s Creature Shop: Erin Black, Mary Brehmer, Jamie Bressler, Ben Durocher, Victoria Ellis, Jim Kroupa, Anney Ozar, Sierra Schoening, Polly Smith and James Wojtal. Additional Special Effects fabricated and provided by J&M Special Effects. Props Fabrication and Finishes by Prop & Paint Creative Studio, Prop and Spoon, Enhance-a-Color, R. Ramos Upholstery, Sam Hill Studio, Brenbri Props, Hat Rabbit Studio LLC, Joseph Cairo, Christopher Kavanah, Curtis Eller, Jessica Bass, Amanda Bertie Michaels and Tanya Seeman.

Trucking provided by Clark Transfer Inc, Anthony Augliera Inc, and JP Carrier Inc. Costumes by By Barak LLC, Donna Langman Costumes LLC, Eric Winterling, Inc., Euro Co Costumes, Inc, Krostyne Studio, Shana Albery, Tricorne, Inc. Millinery by Rodney Gordon, Inc., Elizabeth Flauto, Albertus Swanepoel. Custom Knitwear by Stoll America, Elisabeth Lincoln, Betty Gillispie. Crafts: Jeff Fender Studio and Julianne Kroboth Special Costume Effects by Artem Ltd and Hat Rabbit Studio LLC Custom shoes by: T.O. Dey Shoe Company, Jitterbug Boy. “Candy Man,” “I’ve Got a Golden Ticket,” “Pure Imagination” and “The Oompa Loompa Song” courtesy of Taradam Music, Inc. (BMI).

Additional Illusions by Jamie Harrison Original Broadway cast recording available on Masterworks Broadway Charlie and the Chocolate Factory rehearsed at The New 42nd Street Studios and Ripley Grier Studios Makeup provided by M·A·C charlieonbroadway.com

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If you didn’t know any better, you might be hard-pressed to believe that the same songwriting team wrote the vastly different musicals Lucky Stiff, Ragtime, Once On This Island, Seussical and, now, Anastasia. That span covers madcap farce, historical drama, Caribbean-flavored deities, children’s theater and an adapted animated fantasy adventure.

And that’s just a small sample from the catalog of Theatre Hall of Famers Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, whose newest work, Anastasia, takes on the enduring myth of the Russian Duchess long hoped to have survived the massacre of the Imperial Romanov family.

“Lynn and I don’t like to repeat ourselves. We really try to go in different directions,” Flaherty said of these 26-year collaborators. If you want to know what they might take on next, just imagine the furthest thing possible from the thing they’ve just finished.

“Every time we get done with a show, we ask ourselves, ‘What haven’t we done?’ What country have we not visited?

What historical period have we not yet traveled?’ ” Ahrens said.

And perhaps above all: What musical style have they not yet explored?

“My own personal playlist is insanely eclectic,” Flaherty said. “When I was growing up, I studied classical music, but I was really into R&B. I spent time in Nashville. When Lynn and I had the opportunity to work on Ragtime, I had already played in a ragtime band as a way of putting myself through college. The music for Seussical was based on a lot of the

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music I loved growing up as a kid, from R&B to Spike Jones.”

What most appealed to Ahrens and Flaherty about Anastasia was its irresistible story. “It’s not a true story; we all know that,” said Ahrens. “We know what happened to Anastasia. We know where her ashes are. But the myth that she may have somehow survived has persisted for all these years, even in Russia, where they absolutely love this story.

They want our musical to come there so badly because there is something passionate at its heart, and it is filled with love.”

Anastasia, with a book by longtime collaborator Terrence McNally, is set years after the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It opens as a young amnesiac shows up in Russia with only a few hazy memories and a keepsake that suggests she might be Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna.

As “Anya” sets out to discover the mystery of her past, two con men make plans to pass her off as the real thing to the Dowager Empress in Paris, hoping to get money from the woman who would be Anastasia’s grandmother. The sadistic Rasputin has been replaced here by Gleb, a Bolshevik general who has orders to hunt down and kill the girl.

The stage musical, best known for the song “Journey to the Past,” is an adaptation of the classic animated 1997 film with an original score by Ahrens and Flaherty. “Ever since, we wished someone would make it into a stage musical one day – and take us along for the ride,” Ahrens said.

Nearly 20 years later, they got their wish. And their own journey to the past. “The original film took us on this

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amazing experience to the Oscars and beyond,” said Ahrens. “But the film was skewed to a much younger audience. And all these years later, here was this chance to revisit the same source material but make it deeper and richer.”

In keeping with their mantra of not repeating themselves, the songwriters dug in to create something completely new. They kept just six songs from the film score and wrote 16 new ones. Ahrens and Flaherty are emphatically not precious with their work.

“We throw things out and rewrite things and try new things like you can’t believe,” said Ahrens. “We wanted to write songs for the Dowager Empress, and give Dimitri more of a voice. And we wanted to create the character of Gleb.”

Then there was the McNally Factor. The master playwright was just honored for Lifetime Achievement at the recent Tony Awards after having opened his 25th Broadway play. Ahrens and Flaherty had previously collaborated with McNally on Ragtime and A Man of No Importance.

“Terrence really wanted to bring his own imprimatur of great writing to the project. We had already made ours,” Ahrens said. No one, Flaherty added, was interested in simply putting the film on the stage.

MISS SAIGON

by Laurence Connor, Director

Miss Saigon (Sep 10 – 22) is one of those musicals that affects you the moment you hear the first chords of music. I was a student when Miss Saigon opened originally on the West End [in 1989], but I can still remember the amazing buzz the show created.

Fourteen years ago, [Producer Cameron Mackintosh] offered me the opportunity to direct a new touring version of the show.

I never imagined that the piece would leave such an imprint on me, nor that it would receive the kind of attention it did, but Miss Saigon proved to me that great writing is at the heart of all powerful drama. Taking on such an iconic musical is never without its challenges, but Miss Saigon became a labour of love, and discovering the journeys and complex relationships between the characters has contributed to some of my happiest rehearsals to date. Because this powerful love story is set against the traumatic backdrop of the Vietnamese conflict, we’ve been able to focus the story in a very truthful way. The number of relationships, families and soldiers whose lives have been affected by this war had a strong impact on how I wanted to tell the story.

“…this is a more grown-up version of the Anastasia tale.

This is more romantic and more adventurous. We have real relationships and real family connections.”

“We really wanted to reconceive the story, re-examine the myth and, frankly, be more historically accurate,” Flaherty said. “We were literally going from a twodimensional medium into a three-dimensional medium, so we felt the characters needed to have more depth and drama in their lives.”

What they came up with, Ahrens believes, is a story that is just as transporting as the source film, but in a more grown-up way. “Obviously, kids can come and have a great time. But this is a more grown-up version of the Anastasia tale,” Ahrens said. “This is more romantic and more adventurous. We have real relationships and real family connections.”

Just before the developing new musical opened in its pre-Broadway debut in Hartford, Ahrens had a moment of dread when she saw a group of grown women enter the lobby dressed as characters from the movie. “They had tiaras and ballgowns and wigs, and I thought, ‘Oh, my God. They’re expecting to see the movie,’ ” Ahrens said.

“After the performance, I went up to one of these young women and I said, ‘What did you think?’ She told me, ‘Well, I got nervous at first because I looked at the Playbill and there were different songs and different characters. And my favorite song ‘Journey to the Past’ wasn’t in the same place as it was in the movie, so I was afraid I wouldn’t like it. But then I saw the show, and I realized that I grew up on the movie – and the musical grew up for me.’ ” To any Anastasia film fans coming to see the musical for themselves, Ahrens says, in a nutshell: “Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for something that’s the same – only different.”

To read more of John Moore’s interview with Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, visit denvercenter.org/news-center.

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The 2019/20 Theatre Company season kicks off with the Tony Awardnominated play Indecent. Experience the dancing, music and history that transports audiences through time in this season opener (Aug 30 – Oct 6).

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More than 70 guests were selected to participate in the annual Macy’s Parade of Hats. Awards were given to: Betty Kuhl, Vintage Beauty Jeff & Cindy Kelly and Stephinity Salazar, I Made It Myself Victoria Long, Fabulous Fascinator Michelle Colvis, High Society Dariya Bryant, Wildly Whimsical Melissa Oster, Exquisitely Elegant Victoria Long, Best Derby Hat Fiona Baldwin, Best In Show

1. To bring the traditional folk dancing to the Theatre Company stage, choreographer Dominque Kelley will return to choreograph Indecent. Kelley performed in the Oscar-winning movie La La Land and choreographed last season’s production of Oklahoma!

2. Indecent contains a play within the play and tells the story of the history around the production The God of Vengeance from 1907, which ultimately opened on Broadway in 1923.

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3. Indecent had its world premiere in October 2015 at Yale Repertory Theatre and later had a run on Broadway in 2017 at the Cort Theatre.

4. The Broadway run was nominated for three Tony Awards including Best Play, and won two for Best Direction and Lighting Design in a Play.

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