RIDER UNIVERSITY
School of Fine and Performing Arts
Pet (H)e Pa A New Muicas
Westminster College of the Arts
Petff (He) Pa A New Musicaff Book by Melvin Tunstall, III Music & Lyrics by Douglas Lyons Music Supervisor/Additional Music: Ted Arthur Music Producer/Additional Orchestrations: Ben Liebert Deidre Goodwin, Director/Choreographer Peter de Mets, Music Director Incubated by New York Theatre Barn — Joe Barros, Artistic Director
PERFORMANCES Friday, December 10, 2021 | 7:30 p.m. Saturday, December 11, 2021 | 2 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. Sunday, December 12, 2021 | 2 p.m. Theater in the Bart Luedeke Center Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ For details and information go to rider.edu/arts.
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Director’s Note When I was first approached to direct this production of PETE (Her) PAN at Rider, I was immediately drawn to the fresh take on the classic story… through the eyes of Jane, Wendy’s daughter. Watching Jane’s sense of play, imagination and willingness to say YES to a new adventure reminds the kid in all of us that we too can go on new adventures even though there may be obstacles and our own Hooks and Tick Tocks along the way. To me, it also is a reminder to take the time to listen and celebrate the stories we hear from our parents and family and how important that family, both born and found, are in order to make it through this world. So with that in mind and “a little bit of Pixie Dust,” join us as we fly off to Neverland. — Deidre Goodwin
Scenes Jane’s Bedroom and various locations in Neverland Musical Numbers 1. Tell Me A Story
Jane and Company
2. My Peter 3. Family
Jane, Wendy and Company Peter, Twin No. 1, Tootles, John Darling, Michael Darling, Wendy, Jane and The Lost Boys
4. Mummy 5. In The Lagoon 6. Without Wings 7. Without Wings - Reprise 1 8. AYO! 9. Neverbird Dance 10. Darling 11. My Peter - Reprise 12. Goodbye 13. Family - Reprise 14. AYO - Reprise 15. Without Wings - Reprise 2 16. AYO - Reprise
Hook, Smee and The Pirates Jane, Tinkerbell, Wendy, Mermaids and Ensemble Peter and Company Wendy Tiger Lily and The Lost Boys The Pirates Wendy Wendy and Peter Tinkerbell The Pirates Company Peter and Jane Full Company
This show will be performed without an intermission. Warning: This show includes strobe lighting effects and fog/haze.
Cast Jane Wendy
Courtney Lynn Povero Madeline Kerry Leonard
Tink
Quinn Skarnulis
Tiger Lily
Samantha Ringo
Hook
Theresa Hall
Smee
Drake Wolf
Peter Pan Michael Darling John Darling Tootles Twin No. 1 Lost Boys/Pirates/ Mermaids/Ensemble Swings Dance Captains Fight Captain
John Viggiano Timothy Bradford Chase McFadden Jenni Profera Nico Nazal Ricky Cardenas, Samantha Cassidy, Jack Gimpel, Spencer Petro, Caitlyn Klenner, Anna Spendley Christina Brown & Juliette Maner, Andrew Smith Chase McFadden & John Viggiano Spencer Petro
Westminster College of the Arts gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Herbert B. Mayo Performance Endowment.
About the Cast TIMOTHY BRADFORD (Michael Darling) a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include Hair (Tribe Member) Girls Like That (Guy) and Pippin (Ensemble). @timm.y RICKY CARDENAS (Pirate/Ensemble) is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Previous Rider credits include Christian in Elegies: A Song Cycle. SAM CASSIDY (Lost Boy/Ensemble) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider Credits: Everybody, When You Have No Class (Broncway), Songwriter’s Cabaret. Professional Credits: If/Then (Kelsey Theatre). JACK GIMPEL (Pirate/Ensemble) is a senior Musical Theatre major from outside of Philadelphia. Rider credits include: Pippin, Steel Pier, A Grand Night for Singing, and Assassins. THERESA HALL (Captain Hook): is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing, Steel Pier. Professional Credits: Titanic the Musical (The Lamp Theatre). CAITLYN KLENNER (Pirate/Ensemble) is a senior Musical Theatre major making her Rider University main stage debut. Recent credits include The Witching Hour Cabaret with the Broncway and The Tempest at The Gallery Players. MADELEINE KERRY LEONARD (Wendy) is a junior Musical Theatre and Political Science major. This is her second Rider main stage production after Girls Like That. CHASE MCFADDEN (John Darling, Dance Captain) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include Assassins (Male Swing) and Pippin (Ensemble/ Charlemagne US). Chase spent his summer training in ballet and modern dance with the Martin Center for Dance Company in New Jersey. NICO NAZAL (Twin No. 1) is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include Pippin (Swing). SPENCER PETRO (Lost Boy/Ensemble, Fight Captain) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits include Pippin, Hair and Monstersongs. Professional credits include Mamma Mia, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Clear Space Theatre, DE) Grease, Ragtime, Camelot and Oklahoma! (Mac-Haydn Theatre, NY). COURTNEY LYNN POVERO (Jane) is a senior BA Musical Theatre and Art and Entertainment Industries Management double major. Rider credits: Bright Star, Mad About You cabaret. Professional credits: Sweeney Todd, Jekyll and Hyde and Side Show (Casa Manaña, TX). JENNI PROFERA (Tootles) is a sophomore BFA Acting major. Rider credits: MonsterSongs (ASM), Everybody (SM), Hänsel und Gretel (Costumes) and Dance Day (SM). Professional credits: Noises Off (Studio Theatre, NY). SAMANTHA RINGOR (Tiger Lily) is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Rider credits: Pride and Prejudice (Mary Bennet/Charlotte Lucas), Monstersongs (Child/ Dragon), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (ensemble).
ANDREW SMITH (Swing) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Previous Rider credits include Pippin. QUINN SKARNULIS (Tink) is a senior BFA Musical Theatre major. Rider credits: Girls Like That and Working. ANNA SPENDLEY (Pirate/Ensemble) is a sophomore Musical Theatre major. Rider credits: Everybody, Rider New Works 2020 and ISM. JOHN VIGGIANO (Peter Pan, Dance Captain) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits: Hair, Elegies, Mad About You, Summer of 69: A Woodstock Cabaret. Professional Credits include: A Girl and a Boy Dance. DRAKE WOLF (Smee) is a senior Musical Theatre major. Rider credits: Mad About You cabaret (Soloist).
Artistic Staff and Crew Director/Choreographer Music Director Production Stage Manager Stage Manager
Deidre Goodwin Peter de Mets Ragan Hoffman Rylee Berger
Assistant Stage Manager
Juliette Maner
Assistant Stage Manager
Christina Claire
Assistant Stage Manager
Helena Barsotti
Light Designer
Todd Loyd
Scenic Designer
Yoshi Tanokura
Costume Designer
Iris Courchaine
Technical Director
Buck Linton
Costume Designer Mentor
Robin Shane
Fight Choreographer Light Board Operator Stage Carp/Lead Fly Op Wardrobe Supervisor
Ian Rose Tiffany Beckford Joe Love Michaela Hamaid
Wardrobe Runner 1
Alyxandria Batty
Wardrobe Runner 2
Trevor Shingler
Wardrobe Runner 3
Bella Frost
Asst. Hair/Make-Up
Alexa Goyden
HM Runner 1
Aileen Pujols
Follow Spot 1
Juliette Eddings
Follow Spot 2
Shae Duggan
Sound Op
Abigail Dorwart
Sound 1
Jamison Hart
Sound 2
Sophie Friedman
Projection Op
Jaiden Patterson
Props Supervisor
Emma Brennan
Props Runner 1
Nick Bryant
Props Runner 2
Benjamin Simonetty
Lead Stagehand
John Ververis
Stagehand 1
Emily Siegel
Stagehand 2
Mai Caslowitz
Stagehand 3
Madz Yu-Phelps
Stagehand 4
Riley McGeary
Stagehand 5
Grace Radeke
Orchestra Manager
Riley Bocchicchio
About the Artistic Staff and Crew HELENA BARSOTTI (Assistant Stage Manager) is a freshman Musical Theatre major with a minor in Gender and Sexuality studies. This is her first experience with a Rider mainstage production. RYLEE BERGER (Stage Manager) is a sophomore Theatre Design and Production and Arts and Entertainment Industries Management double major. Recent Rider University stage management credits include Pride and Prejudice, Working, and Monstersongs. CHRISTINA CLAIRE (Assistant Stage Manager) is a freshman BFA Musical Theatre major. This is her first mainstage production at Rider. IRIS COURCHAINE (Costume Designer) is a senior Technical Theatre, Acting and Dance major. Previous Rider credits include Rider New Works (Costume/Set Designer), Rider Dances 2020: Moving in Our Community (Assistant Costume Designer), Bright Star (Assistant Costume Designer), Rider Dances 2019: The Dance and Sustainability Project (Assistant Costume Designer), Hair (Wardrobe Supervisor), The Will Rogers Follies (Dresser). Professional credits: Wardrobe Supervisor for Mr. Fullerton (Great Barrington Public Theatre). PETER DE METS (Music Director) is proud to be music directing his first Rider Mainstage production. Recent MD credits include Next to Normal (Bristol Riverside), West Side Story (Penn Players), Fun Home (Pierrot Productions), Sunday in the Park with George (PinnWorth Productions), The 25th Annual … Spelling Bee (MpOnstage), and the Off-Broadway production of Avenue X. He serves as the director of music at Ascension Lutheran Church in Newtown Pa, and is an adjunct faculty member at Rider University and Mercer County Community College. www.peterdemetsmusic.com DEIDRE GOODWIN (Director/Choreographer) is an actor, director, choreographer and educator. Select credits include: Broadway: A Chorus Line (Shelia) and Chicago (Velma). Film: Chicago, Every Little Step and Ocean’s 8. TV: Chicago Med, Pose and 30 Rock. She is also a voice over artist. As a director/choreographer, recent work includes Smokey Joe’s Cafe and And the World Goes ‘Round. She is delighted to travel to Neverland with this talented cast! RAGAN HOFFMAN (Production Stage Manager) is a sophomore Technical Theatre major and Arts Administration minor. Rider credits include: These Seven Sicknesses (Assistant Stage Manager), Assassins (ASM) and Bright Star (Stage Manager), The Wolves (Production Stage Manager) and Elegies (Production Stage Manager). Outside credits include Mamma Mia (Stage Manager), Beauty and the Beast* (Production Stage Manager/Co-Light Designer), Little Shop of Horrors (Production Stage Manager) and A Christmas Carol (Light Designer) all with the Off Broad Street Players in NJ and Bright Star (Production Stage manager) with Triple Threat Workshop, NJ. *Perry Award for Outstanding Lighting Design and Perry Award for Best Production. BUCK LINTON (Technical Director) Between earning his MFA in Scenography and Technical Design (Virginia Tech) and joining Rider as its Technical Director in 2012,
Buck Linton professionally produced nearly 200 productions with such venues as The Kennedy Center, Paper Mill Playhouse, Manhattan Theatre Club, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and McCarter Theatre. Selected works include Travesties, Sleeping Beauty Wakes, Take Flight, Herringbone, Lookingglass Alice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Falstaff, Die Zauberflöte, Pelléas et Mélisande, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Clemenza di Tito, Oreste, Sunjata Kamalenya, The Odyssey Experience, Die Fledermaus, Rigoletto, Turandot, Chicago, EDDA (Ping Chong & Sequentia Ensemble, international tour). Since then, he has produced over 100 productions for Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts in theater, dance, and opera. TODD LOYD (Lighting Designer) is the lighting director for Rider University’s Department of Theatre and Dance. He supervises the lighting for every performance that the department produces in addition to mentoring several students who assist in designing, hanging, focusing, and programming the lighting for each show. At Rider he has designed more than 30 productions, including plays, musicals, dance recitals, cabarets, and operas. Some highlights include Rider Dances: Moving in Our Community, Bright Star, Hair, Heathers The Musical, The Theory of Relativity, Once On This Island, White Christmas, She Kills Monsters, Catch Me If You Can, The Penelopiad, All Shook Up, Our Town, A Chorus Line and Metamorphoses. Other select professional projects include Rock of Ages and Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (Forestburgh Playhouse), Journey to Oz (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Experiential Theater Company), and The Gun Show (Passage Theatre). JULIETTE MANER (Assistant Stage Manager) is a freshman Musical Theatre major. Tech credits: Radium Girls (Assistant Stage Manager), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Master Carpenter), Crazy for You (Deck Chief). IAN ROSE (Fight Director) has arranged fights for commercials, film and stage, and has been working in the New York and Philadelphia areas for over 25 years. He is a Fight Master with Fight Directors Canada and The Society of American Fight Directors. He has worked on Broadway (Les Liaisons Dangereuses, with Liev Schrieber and Janet McTeer at the Booth Theatre), the Bridewell Theatre in London, MTM Studios in Rome, Riverside Shakespeare and Interborough Repertory Theatre in New York City, the Whole Theatre in New Jersey, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Company (Adrift in Macao, Chritopher Durang premiere), Equivocation and Streetcar Named Desire at the Arden Theatre, as well as Hamlet and An Octaroon at the Wilma Theatre. His fights were featured in Philadelphia: The Great Experiment – Disorder. He was a technical advisor on the film A Winter’s Tale. Most recently he did the fights in and created the roles of La Böessiere and Picard in Curio Theatre Company’s A Symphony for St. George. DARREN R. SUSSMAN (Sound Design) is the owner of Reid Sound, Inc. and an adjunct member of the Rider University faculty. He has been involved with hundreds of productions in New Jersey high schools, colleges, and professional theaters. Recent productions for Rider University include Once on This Island, Bonnie & Clyde, She Kills Monsters, Spring Awakening, A Little Night Music, Catch Me If You Can, All
Shook Up, A Chorus Line, Reasons to be Pretty, and Merrily We Roll Along. Other highlights include Ain’t Misbehavin’, Waiting for Godot (Two River Theater Company), Kidnap Road (LaMama), The R&J Project (Mason Gross School of the Arts), and numerous productions for the George Street Playhouse education department. In 2010, he created the Reid Sound Scholarship for Theatrical Technicians, rewarding those students who choose to pursue a career in theater behind the scenes. YOSHI TANOKURA (Scenic Designer) originally from Tokyo, is currently teaching scenic design at Rider University. For the past decade, he taught at East Stroudsburg University. He holds a master’s degree in Scenography from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London and an M.F.A. in Set Design from the University of Connecticut. As a freelance designer, his design credits include Moon Over Buffalo (People’s Light & Theatre), Clever Little Lies by Joe DiPietro (Westside Theatre, NYC), Exonerated (Delaware Theatre Company), and Peter and the Starcatcher (Adrienne Arsht Center) for which he received the Carbonell Award for the Best Scenic Design in 2015. He has assisted John Lee Beatty on a number of Broadway productions, such as Venus in Fur, Doubt, and The Color Purple. He is a member of the United Scenic Artists, Local 829.
SPECIAL THANKS Rider University School of Fine and Performing Arts Faculty and Staff Rider University Maintenance Department
RIDER UNIVERSITY’S COVID-19 POLICY FOR PUBLIC PERFORMANCES Rider University’s Westminster College of the Arts is pleased to return to presenting live performances. The health and well-being of the Rider community remain our top priority, and we have instituted the following policies for live performances in the fall 2021 semester. Audience Guests at all events who are not current Rider students, faculty or staff will be asked to accept a required assumption of risk agreement when purchasing tickets. Based on current university policy, masks are required indoors at all times and must be worn for the entirety of the performance. Performers All students, faculty, and staff involved with a staged production or an ensemble performance are required to test the week before and the week of the dress rehearsal and performance(s). Vaccinated individuals with negative Covid-19 tests are permitted to remove their masks for approved dress rehearsals and performances. If they prefer, they also have the option to wear a mask for the performance. We look forward to welcoming audiences back to performances on campus and in the community.
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