DIRECTOR’S NOTE “It’s family first, and family last, and family by and by…” Truer words have never been spoken when it comes to describing the Addams family. Based on the “kooky,” and “ooky,” characters from the 1960s television series, Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandma, and Lurch hold one thing above all else: each other. It is their love for one another that binds them together. And perhaps, more importantly, they are quick to offer that love to any guest who walks through their door. No matter how different from his own family their guests may appear to be, the fearless patriarch Gomez goes out of his way to make them feel welcome. If you take away anything more than sheer delight from our production tonight, I hope it is a reminder that we are called to welcome and love anyone who walks through our doors, exactly as Christ did. We might disagree, we might not see eye to eye, we might even have to fight the urge to judge our neighbor; in the end, however, our only job is to love one another, as Christ loves us. Welcome to the Valley Christian Theatre family, where everyone belongs, everyone can find a place, and everyone is loved. Because we are all family here.
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Book by MARSHALL BRICKMAN and RICK ELICE Music and Lyrics by ANDREW LIPPA Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams Directed by MYRA KAELIN Vocal Director LAYNA CHIANAKAS Choreographer CHLOE DIEPENBROCK THE ADDAMS FAMILY School Edition A NEW MUSICAL is presented through special arrangement with and all authorized performance materials are supplied by Theatrical Rights Worldwide I I 80 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 640, New York, NY I 0036. www.theatricalrights.com
A water-based haze and strobe lights will be used during the production. Scenic Design..........................................................................................................Paul “Skip” Sharp III Technical Director.......................................................................................................Justin McPherson Assistant Choreographer........................................................................................Christine Shulman Stage Manager.....................................................................................................................Rebekah Risk Costume Design........................................................................................................................Kathy Risk Lighting Design...................................................................................................................... Jason Kuzia Properties Mistress..................................................................................................................Lisa Kester Hair & Makeup Design............................................................................................................Lisa Kester Assistant Technical Director............................................................................................ Keaton Miller Backstage Manager............................................................................................................... Mateo Ross Assistant Backstage Manager..................................................................................... Audrey Starink Light Board Operator............................................................................................................ Josh Watts Sound Board Operator................................................................................................... Robert Rubino Assistant Sound Board Operator........................................................................................Jeremy Le Assistant Makeup.......................................................................................................... Sharanya Munro Running Crew................................................. Grayson Lundholm, Ryan Worcester, Myana Lim, Alejandro Gervacio, Jack Nguyen, Aiden Tanner, Bailey Coffee Production Assistant/House Manager......................................................................... Cathy McFall Graphic Design......................................................................................................................... Jill Carlson
PROGRAM ACT I When You’re an Addams...............................................Company Wednesday’s Growing Up..................................................Gomez Trapped........................................Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday Pulled............................................................. Wednesday, Pugsley One Normal Night............................................................Company But Love...............................................................Festor, Ancestors Secrets...............................................Morticia, Alice, Ancestors Gomez’s, “What if”............................................................. Gomez Pugsley’s “What if “.........................................Pugsley, Grandma Full Disclosure, Part 1...................................................... Company Waiting.......................................................................................... Alice Full Disclosure, Part 2..................................................... Company INTERMISSION ACT II Just Around the Corner............................. Morticia, Ancestors The Moon and Me.............................................Fester, Ancestors Happy Sad..................................................... Gomez, Wednesday Crazier Than You......................Wednesday, Lucas, Mal, Alice Not Today.................................................................................Gomez Live Before We Die............................................Gomez, Morticia Tango De Amor............................ Gomez, Morticia, Ancestors Move Toward the Darkness.......................................... Company 4
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Gomez Addams............................................................ Miles Bayer Morticia Addams.................................................. Sophia Haddad Uncle Fester................................................................ Emily Luders Wednesday Addams..... Machelle Ahmed/Maya Bangalore Pugsley Addams................................. Vedanth Ramachandran Grandma Addams........................................ Gwenyth Lungaard Lurch....................................................................................... Grey Hill Lucas Beineke...............................................................Aaron Trigg Alice Beineke..............................................................Sarah Dorsey Mal Beineke.................................................................Nate Hobden Ancestors.................................Lonni Adams, Maya Bangalore, Jack Bauer, Daniella Brady, Ava Delke, Alison Erisman, Hannah Gil, Anjali Khiani, Heena Kim, Katie Lopes, Jonathan Morgan, Aarna Nair, Keya Shah, Valerie Tsai
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BIOGRAPHIES A founding member of Valley Christian Theatre, Myra holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and Dance from Santa Clara University, and is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in Theatre Education at University of Northern Colorado. Aside from directing, she was last seen in 2019 as M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias, and has worked extensively with her local theatre community both on and off the stage, Myra Kaelin, Producer and Director including serving as President of the Board of Directors for South Valley Civic Theatre. Directing credits include The Crucible, Mary Poppins, Hello, Dolly!, You Can’t Take It With You, Guys & Dolls, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Producers, City of Angels, God’s Favorite, Harvey, and The Fantasticks, among others. During the 2020-2021 school year, she spearheaded two fully produced and filmed online productions for VCS: Godspell, and Check Please. She would not be here today without the unflinching support of her husband, Michael, and her three beautiful children, Lucia, Oliver, and Ginger. Glory to God in all things! In a career that has spanned over three decades, Stage Director, Mezzo-Soprano, and Voice Teacher, Layna Chianakas has portrayed over 50 leading opera roles across the United States, including over 80 performances of Carmen. Most recently she performed with Livermore Valley Opera as Emilia in Verdi’s Otello. As an award-winning opera Stage Director, her most recent win was the 2021 American Prize for Opera Production for Livermore Valley Layna Chianakas Music Director Opera’s double-bill of Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy and Pucinni’s Gianni Schicchi and the National Opera Association third prize for Postcard from Morocco for the San José State Opera Theater. For Opera San José, she directed La Voix humaine, Hansel & Gretel, Carmen and Il barbiere di Siviglia. Other directing credits include, Le nozze di Figaro, Cavalli’s L’Ormindo, Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges, Die Fledermaus, Orpheus in the Underworld, as well as a fully-staged version of Mendelssohn’s Elijah. Opera Santa Barbara presented her Summer Youth Opera production of Ben Moore’s Odyssey, Jake Heggie’s At the Statue of Venus for Soprano Young Artist, Brooklyn Snow, and she returned again this past October to stage their double-bill of Falla’s El amor brujo (with choreographer, Cecily MacDougall) and Puccini’s Il Tabarro. Most recently she directed Verdi’s Otello for Livermore Valley Opera. She returns to Santa Barbara to direct Speed Dating, Tonight! for the Chrisman Studio Artists in April 2022 and Tosca in October 2022. She will be the Stage Director for Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose’s Vocal Boot Camp this coming summer. In addition to a thriving private voice studio, Ms. Chianakas is currently the vocal director for Valley Christian’s theater department, where her credits include, Hello, Dolly!, Mary Poppins, Godspell, Found: A Musical Revue, Guys and Dolls, Jr. and The Addams Family. 6
BIOGRAPHIES Chloe currently serves as a Theatre Teacher & Choreographer for Valley Christian Theatre. She has previously held numerous artistic and production team roles, including Director of HEART Academy Youth Theatre (Fiddler on the Roof, The Music Man) and Director, Production Manager, Stage Manager, Assistant Director and Choreographer for the VCHS and VCE Theatre and Chloe Diepenbrock Dance Departments. Her latest projects with VCT include Choreographer creating, directing & choreographing FOUND: A New Musical Revue (VCHS Fall 2021), directing A Charlie Brown Christmas (VCHS Winter 2019), Disney’s High School Musical, Jr. (Summer 2019), Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Some Enchanted Evening (High School, Fall 2018), and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Jr. (Summer 2018). Chloe is a graduate of Corban University (M.A. in Christian Leadership and Nonprofit Leadership), Biola University (B.A. in Theatre Arts) and the Foothill College Theatre Conservatory (A.A. in Theatre). She is looking forward to directing Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella this summer. You can also catch Chloe performing this spring in South Bay Musical Theatre’s On the Town (southbaymt.com).
Christine Capsuto-Shulman is thrilled to assist choreographing The Addams Family at Valley Christian! A few of her regional credits include: Mamma Mia! (Tanya), Jekyll & Hyde (Emma), Bridges of Madison County (Chiara), Hot Rhythm Nights (Gloria Estefan), Chicago (Velma), A Little Night Music (Miss Nordstrom), Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular! Disneyland (Jasmine), The Light in The Christine Capsuto-Shulma Piazza (Franca), Le nozze di Figaro (Contessa), Carmen Assistant Choreographer (Frasquita/Micaëla cover), Rigoletto (Gilda), La bohéme (Musetta), and Die Zauberflöte (Königin der Nacht). Mrs. Shulman earned her degrees from AMDA (LA/NY) and SJSU (Cum Laude). Offstage, she loves teaching, everything artistic and creative, spoiling her dog, husband and baby girl, cooking, and laughing with family and friends.
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Marshall Brickman, born in Brazil of American parents, attended New York public schools and the University of Wisconsin, where he received a double baccalaureate in both science and music. He entered show business first as a member of the folk group The Tarriers and then, along with John and Michelle Phillips, as one of The New Journeymen, a precursor of The Mamas and the Papas, whose flamboyant life-style and eccentric harmonies defined the post-folk era of tuning up, turning on and cashing in. Trading in his Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo for an IBM SelecMarshall Brickman Author tric, he secured a position as writer/director on Candid Camera, America’s original reality show, a wildly successful early experiment in monetizing public humiliation, for which he hereby apologizes. Fleeing Candid Camera, Brickman found solace as head writer for Johnny Carson, whose late-night show on NBC emanated from ironically named Radio City in midtown Manhattan, a stroke of luck that allowed him to stay as far from Los Angles as possible while still retaining U.S. citizenship. In 1970 he left NBC to become producer/ head writer of Dick Cavett’s late-night show on ABC. Among the many ground-breaking events that Cavett introduced into the late-night formula was the night presidential hopeful George McGovern was interviewed by last-minute guest host Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics. The result was fascinating, not unlike watching a python ingesting a small cow. In the meantime he had started a collaboration with Woody Allen, a young comic who opened for the Tarriers at Fred Weintraub’s Bitter End, the legendary Bleeker Street coffee house that provided exposure to upcoming talent in music and comedy. They worked at odd hours on screenplays and material for Allen’s early TV appearances, an experience like no other. Brickman watched Mr. Allen negotiate both the creative and practical issues confronting an artist working in a commercial environment; he learned things that can’t be taught and never laughed as hard as the time spent roaming the city with a certified genius discussing art, politics, women, the state of the business, and why Durwood Kirby was considered funny, even by people with college degrees. Mr. Brickman’s film work as author (or co-author with Woody Allen) includes Sleeper, Annie Hall (Academy Award), Manhattan, (AA nomination) and Manhattan Murder Mystery. As film writer/director): Simon, Lovesick, The Manhattan Project, Sister Mary Explains it All. In television: The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (head writer, 1967’70); The Dick Cavett Show (head writer/co-producer, 1970-’72). Brickman’s recording (with ex-Tarrier Eric Weissberg) of the soundtrack of Deliverance, released in 1970, contained the surprise hit “Dueling Banjos,” achieved platinum status, and remains a healthy seller over 40 years later. His first foray into musical theater resulted in Jersey Boys, which won the Tony, Olivier, Helpmann, Grammy and many other awards worldwide, is in its twelfth year on Broadway, has been seen by twentymillion people worldwide and is currently the 10th-longest running show in the history of Broadway. The film version of the show was directed by Clint Eastwood. Mr. Brickman’s other theatrical efforts include “Turn of the Century,” which played to capacity houses in Chicago, and “The Addams Family,” starring Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth, which ran for two years on Broadway and to date has had over four thousand first and second tier productions internationally. In addition to his work in film and theater, Mr. Brickman has published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy and other periodicals. He is the 2006 recipient of the Writers’ Guild of America Ian McClellan Hunter Award for Lifetime Achievement. His current project is a stage musical celebrating the life of western star Roy Rogers, scheduled to premiere late in 2017. After over 40 years in the business, trying to balance talent with opportunity and watching the careers of colleagues, both successful and less so, he can reduce what he’s learned into one succinct bit of wisdom: above all, it’s important to be lucky. 8
RICK ELICE (Book) co-wrote Jersey Boys (winner 2006 Tony Award, 2007 Grammy Award and 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical) with Marshall Brickman. His play, Peter and the Starcatcher, received nine 2012 Tony Award nominations (including two for Rick) and won five, more than any play of the season. It’s currently playing in New York and on tour across North America. Also on Broadway, Elice wrote The Addams Family (with Marshall Brickman, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa), currently touring North America, with productions in Europe and South America. In 2014, Rick Elise the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego presented the world premiere Author of his new musical, Dog and Pony (music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker). Rick is currently writing a musical for Disney Theatricals with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, based on the film Make Believe, and Super Fly (co-written with Seth Zvi Rosenfeld), directed and choreographed by modern dance legend, Bill T. Jones. Heartfelt thanks to those whose work in the theatre makes him grateful for the day he was born: Sondheim, Stoppard, Bennett, Prince, Fosse, Robbins, Nichols, Tune, Nunn, Laurents, Stone, Kushner, Taymor, Papp, Schumacher, Schneider, Coyne, Brickman, Timbers and Rees. Rick thinks about them a lot. He never thought about Jersey much. He does now.
_________________________________________________________ Special Thanks from all of us goes out to, Nancy Kwong and Judy Pincus, from West Valley Light Opera. Ben Brotzman, from Saratoga High School. Amy-Cole Farrell, of Kehillah Jewish School. And Scott Ludwig, from Palo Alto Players for loaning special props and costumes to our production.
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AFFIRMING THE ARTS Spring 2022 Feb 10-12........... JH Musical Performances - JH Theatre Mar 17-19............ The Addams Family - HS Theatre Mar 24-26 Mar 31................. Spring Choir Concert - JH & HS Choir April 7................. Spring Strings Concert - JH/HS Strings April 7-9............. Emotions: Student Choreographed Dance Show - HS Dance April 28-30........ Experiments in Comedy & Tragedy - HS Theatre May 6-7............... Elementary Musical - EL Theatre May 12................ Theatre and Dance Senior Showcase - HS Theatre & Dance May 13-15............ Elementary Art Show - EL Art May 17................. Jazz Spectacular - JH & HS Jazz May 19-21........... Dancescapes Dance Concert - EL & JH Dance May 20............... End of the Year Concert - JH & HS Music Spring 2022....... JH & HS Art Show - JH & High School Art Spring 2022....... Festival of the Arts - K-12 Conservatory
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