35MM: A Musical Exhibition | New Helvetia Theatre

35mm a musical exhibition

Music & Lyrics By

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER

Based On Photos By MATTHEW MURPHY

DIRECTED BY CONNOR MICKIEWICZ MUSIC DIRECTION BY GRAHAM SOBELMAN

AT THE EAGLE THEATRE SACRAMENTO NOV 1 - 8PM | NOV 2 - 9PM | NOV 3 - 3PM | NOV 3 - 8PM 1

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35mm

a musical exhibition Music & Lyrics By RYAN SCOTT OLIVER Based On Photos By MATTHEW MURPHY DIRECTED BY CONNOR MICKIEWICZ MUSIC DIRECTION BY GRAHAM SOBELMAN

AT THE EAGLE THEATRE SACRAMENTO

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35mm a musical exhibition

Music & Lyrics By

RYAN SCOTT OLIVER

Based On Photos By MATTHEW MURPHY 35MM: A MUSICAL EXHIBITION Music and Lyrics by Ryan Scott Oliver Based on Photography by Matthew Murphy Vocal Arrangements and Orchestrations by Ryan Scott Oliver Additional Percussion arrangements by Jeremy Yaddaw Additional Guitar arrangements by Matt Hinkley

35mm is produced by special arrangement with THE GERSH AGENCY. 41 Madison Avenue, 33rd Floor, New York, NY 10010 Please visit http://www.35mmthemusical.com.

35mm was originally produced by John Johnson and Very Intense Productions, Galapagos Arts Space, 2012.

Original Cast Album now available on iTunes.

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THE COMPANY Melissa Brausch Sam C. Jones* Hannah Jane Kile Sidney Raey-Gonzales William Schmidt Omari Tau* Mike Yee Conducto/Keyboard - Graham Sobelman Cello - Alison Leigh Violin/Viola - Giorgi Khokhobashvili Drums - Robbie Wanamaker Bass - Verna Brock Guitar - Sam C. Jones and Hannah Jane Kile Musical Director Graham Sobelman Director Connor Mickiewicz Sound Designer Dave Hushbeck Projection Design Jessa Ciel Production Manager Jack Wegener Marketing & Design David Blue Garrison *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

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TITLES

“Stop Time” Company “Crazytown”

Sam C. Jones & Company

“On Monday” Melissa Brausch “Caralee” Mike Yee “The Party Goes With You”

Sidney Raey-Gonzales

“Good Lady” William Schmidt & Company “Make Me Happy” Sam C. Jones & Hannah Jane Kile “The Seraph” Omari Tau with William Schmidt “Immaculate Deception” Melissa Brausch, Sidney Raey-Gonzales, William Schmidt, & Mike Yee “Leave Luanne“ Hannah Jane Kile & Company “Mama, Let Me In” Melissa Brausch, Sidney Raey-Gonzales,William Schmidt, & Mike Yee “Why Must We Tell Them Why?” Omari Tau & Company “Twisted Teeth” Sidney Raey-Gonzales & William Schmidt “Hemming and Hawing” Sam C. Jones & Hannah Jane Kile “Cut You a Piece” Mike Yee with Sidney Raey-Gonzales & William Schmidt “The Ballad of Sara Berry” Melissa Brausch & Company “Finale” Company

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WHO’S WHO MELISSA BRAUSCH is a Sacramento native who is over the moon excited to be a part of her first production with New Helvetia Theatre. Most recently she was seen spending her summer nights on the island of Nantucket as Sandy in Grease! Some of her favorite credits include: Disaster! (Marianne) with Sacramento Theatre Company as well as Annie (Grace), The Producers (Ulla), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania) and Reefer Madness (Mary Lane). Follow her shenanigans on Instagram @melisaurusrx SAM C JONES* is grateful, grateful, grateful. Thank you for coming to see live theatre! SAC-AREA THEATRE: Sacramento Theatre Company: The Tempest, Disaster!, A Christmas Carol, Man of La Mancha, Cinderella, and Pump Boys & Dinettes this coming January; Davis Shakespeare Festival: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Bike City Theatre Company: The Internationalist. REGIONAL THEATRE: Hippodrome State Theatre, Phoenix Theatre Indianapolis, Sierra Repertory Theatre, SLO Rep, Broadway by the Bay. TRAINING: BA in Theatre & Dance from Christopher Newport University, The Manhattan Film Institute. Sam is a singer-songwriter and is heading to Nashville next year to record a his first full-length record. www.thesamcjones.com. Thanks to New Helvetia Theatre, his family and friends.

HANNAH JANE KILE is an actor, singer, multiinstrumentalist, & composer who often draws comparisons to her heroes, Bonnie Raitt, Norah Jones, & Sara Bareilles.

She is a favorite opener among national acts some of which include Grammy winning Patty Griffin, Ingrid Michelson, blues legend Carolyn Wonderland, & jazz heroes Sammy Miller & The Congregation.

SIDNEY RAEY-GONZALES is thrilled to be a part of New Helvetia Theatre’s production of 35mm. Sidney graduated from Sacramento State in the winter of 2017 with a B.A. in Theatre and a minor in English. Past roles include the Witch in Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Nina in Sutter Street Theatre’s In the Heights, Sarah Brown in Sacramento State’s production of Guys and Dolls, and she was just featured as Audrey in a professional run of Little Shop of Horrors with Cinnabar Theatre Company.

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WILLIAM SCHMIDT is a recent graduate of Sacramento State with his degree in Theatre. A native to Sacramento, William grew up singing with multiple church groups but found his love for all aspects of theatre four short years ago and has not slowed down since! CSUS credits include Piragua Guy (In The Heights), Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls) and Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) for which he earned a nomination for the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Finalist: top 16 over 240 teams) and winning Best Musical Theatre Scene as well as scholarships and offers from prestigious musical theatre programs at schools of acting including Stella Adler School of Acting in NYC and the National Theatre Institute at the O’Neill theatre in Connecticut. This past spring he was once again nominated to attend the festival for his performance in his senior production The Present. He also enjoyed being in the ensembles for The Producers, Annie, and Peter and The Starcatcher. Sutter Street Theatre: Audrey II (Little Shop of Horrors) and Leaf Coneybear (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee); Fair Oaks Theatre Festival: Jack/Jesus (Reefer Madness).

Follow his journey on Instagram @williamschmidtofficial!

OMARI TAU is a Sacramento native and the Co-Founding

Artistic Director of Rogue Music Project and Professor of Vocal Music at Cosumnes River College. His degrees are from Michigan State University and the Moores School of Music-University of Houston. At home in operatic and musical theatre worlds, as well as in jazz and pop genres, Tau has proven a versatile performing artist, educator, and director. Tau served as the Director of Opera Theatre at Sacramento State University for six years and directed the Houston Grand Opera’s Education and Outreach touring opera program for youth, Opera To Go! which prepared young professionals and college-level artists for the stage performing in an opera troupe dedicated to young audiences. As a performing artist, Mr. Tau toured with Disney’s The Lion King for nearly nine years, performing the role of Banzai with both the Cheetah and Gazelle companies, which traveled internationally. Other credits include roles at Tony Award-winning theaters Alley Theatre and Theatreworks Palo Alto, Sacramento’s Broadway at Music Circus, Theater Under The Stars, The MUNY, and many more. Tau appears on Albany Records in Roger Nelson’s operatic adaptation of A Room with a View and Disney’s A Lion King Christmas recordings. As a composer, Tau’s operas A Night At the Algonquin, Lucky Hans and The Pre-Show Opera Lecture were both commissioned and premiered by Lone Star Lyric where they enjoyed successful runs. He has also composed for Houston Grand Opera’s HGOco, Sacramento’s MôD Artists, as well as his own initiatives including Lions in the Library. His work with MôD Artists garnered the 2017-18 Sacramento Region Community Grant Foundation’s Creative Economy Grant. wwwomaritau.com, www.roguemusicproject.com, www.modartists.net.

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MIKE YEE is ecstatic to be back with his favorite theatre company! NHT: Next to Normal (Dr. Fine/Dr. Madden); It’s Only Life (w/ composer John Bucchino); They’re Playing Our Song; Merrily We Roll Along; Passion. Other: Into the Woods (The Baker); A New Brain (The Minister); GrahamA-Rama; Cabaret Series at Sacramento Theatre Company.

GRAHAM SOBELMAN (Music Direction/Pianist) is delighted to return to NHT where he has music directed Passion, Little Fish, It’s Only Life, tick, tick…BOOM!, They’re Playing Our Song, Celebration, & [title of show]. Other MD credits: Forbidden Broadway & I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Broadway Sacramento); An Octoroon, The Behavior of Broadus (Capital Stage); Tell Me On A Sunday (Ensemble Theatre Company); Flora The Red Menace, Pippin, The Who’s Tommy, & Mr. Burns (UC Davis); Hair (Folsom Lake College); The Next Big Thing (Edinburgh Fringe). As a composer: Love Is Eternal (song cycle - David Kent, lyricist), Lily (short film score), Jane Kenyon Sessions (song cycle - Jane Kenyon, poet).

Recordings: Another Shade of Blue, Jane Kenyon Sessions, Vols. 1-3, Reach (EP), A Sunday Polaroid.

CONNOR MICKIEWICZ (Director) is the Founding Artistic Director of New Helvetia Theatre. He is also the acting producer but would like to change that. Soon. For the last three summers, he has worked under director Glenn Casale at Broadway at Music Circus. In 2016, he helped filmmaker Greta Gerwig stage the audition sequence for Immaculate Heart and Xavier’s co-production of Merrily We Roll Along in the Golden Globe Award winning film Lady Bird. Select NHT directing credits: Little Fish, They’re Playing Our Song, Tell Me on a Sunday, Merrily We Roll Along, Passion, and Marry Me A Little. NHT producing highlights include: It’s Only Life with composer John Bucchino, the Northern California premiere of [title of show], and Next to Normal. He has taught at both Christian Brothers and Cristo Rey High Schools. Local acting credits: Capital Stage (The Burglars of Hamm’s The Behavior of Broadus) and B Street Theatre (Junie B. Jones, A Christmas Story) and has performed in many a Graham-a-Rama cabaret. NHT acting credits: Warren in Ordinary Days, Jeff in [title of show], and Man in Songs from an Unmade Bed. He holds a B.F.A from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts where he studied musical theatre at CAP21.

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SPECIAL THANKS Kiera and Bradford Anderson Valerie Burrows California State Parks: Capitol District Lyn & Jim Crouch Capital Stage David Blue Garrison Councilmember Steve Hansen Eileen & Dave Hushbeck Francesca Martella Tim Mickiewicz Michael Moore Erin O’Neil

Joan & Kate O’Neil Jyoti Pandit Greg Parker Delta Pick Mello Matthew Schneider Debbie and Steve Soto Patrick Stelmach Robbie Wanamaker To all our patrons, board members, volunteers, and artists past and present: thank you.

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