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Posted by:	Richard Connema 04:35 pm EDT 08/17/14

Custom Made Theatre Announces 2014-2015 Season. Season includes a World Premiere, two Bay Area Premieres, one San Francisco Premiere, a revival of a Pulitzer Prize-winner, and a lost gem from Sarah Ruhl. Custom Made Theatre announces its 2014-2015 season. The award-winning company will stage six exciting works, opening with the Bay Area premiere of Eric Simonson’s adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse- Five, or The Children's Crusade and closing the season with Grey Gardens: The Musical. Two of the shows are Bay Area Premieres and one, Plautus’s The Braggart Soldier, or Major Blowhard, adapted and directed by Evren Odcikin, is a World Premiere. In a departure from recent seasons, two of the six shows are part of the “select season”, and will have Saturday night openings, while the other four open on CMTC’s customary Tuesday night. Custom Made Theatre performs at the Gough Street Playhouse, 1620 Gough Street (at Bush) in San Francisco. (415) 798-CMTC, www.custommade.org Custom Made’s 2014-2015 Season Sept 12 - Oct 12: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, adapted by Eric Simonson. Directed by Custom Made Artistic Director, Brian Katz (Next to Normal, The Play About the Baby). Bay Area Premiere! (Opens Tuesday, September 16th.) Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic, adapted by the Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning Eric Simonson, Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who says he has become 'unstuck in time.’ In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut's) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. With this significant event as the climax of this satirical and horrifying anti-war story, Slaughterhouse-Five carries a unique poignancy — and humor. A best-seller when released, the novel brought Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction, and was recently listed as one of Amazon.com’s Top 100 novels. Nov 7- Dec 7: Three Tall Women by Edward Albee. Directed by Katja Rivera (Eurydice). (Opens Tuesday, November 11th.) Winner of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, this will be the fourth Edward Albee play Custom Made has presented, most recently with The Play About the Baby. It is one of Albee's most personal plays; he continues to explore themes of mortality, the elasticity of personality, and the ways we deceive ourselves through the character of a 92-year old woman on the verge of death, engaging with herself as a knowing 56-year old and a contemptuous 26-year old. Three Tall Women challenges audiences, asking us to be as honest, fierce and unblinking as Mr. Albee in looking at how we live, and how we die. Jan 8 - Feb 7, 2015:Late: A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Ariel Craft (Tis Pity She’s a Whore) (Opens Saturday, January 10th, 2015.) Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy (she’s a cowboy, not a cowgirl!) outside the city limits of Pittsburgh who teaches her how to ride a horse. Mary’s husband, Crick, buys a painting with the last of their savings. Mary and Crick have a baby, but they can’t decide on the baby’s name, or the baby’s gender. So begins Sarah Ruhl’s poetic, subtle and fantastical portrait of three souls in collision. Custom Made audiences loved Ruhl’s Eurydice, and Late once again proves she is the poet laureate of the new American theatre. Feb 12 – March 14: How the World Began by Catherine Trieschmann. Directed by Executive Director Leah S. Abrams (The Diary of Anne Frank). Bay Area Premiere! (Opens Saturday, February 14th, 2015.) Religion and science collide in a visceral examination of the way in which we navigate interpersonal relationships involving seemingly irreconcilable beliefs—and just how hard it is to truly listen to one another in an increasingly polarized world. Looking to rebuild her fractured life, high school biology teacher Susan relocates from New York City to a small Kansas town reeling in the aftermath of a devastating tornado. Ready for more than a little culture shock, Susan finds herself unprepared for the firestorm that engulfs the town after she makes an off-hand comment about the origin of the universe. March 27 - April 26: The Braggart Soldier, or Major Blowhard by Plautus, adapted and directed by Evren Odcikin (Mut, 410[Gone]) World Premiere! (Opens Tuesday, March 31st, 2015.) Director Odcikin’s fast and furious mash-up of Plautus, translated by Deena Berg, proves (as if we didn’t know it) that Roman comedies never get old, they just get funnier! If you’ve seen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, you already know that Plautus was a major influence for every possible style of comedy through the ages, as there’s still nothing more hysterical than the pompous and mighty taking it on chin. The Braggart Soldier features the hijinks you’d expect and, in true Custom Made fashion, without a safety net! May 14 - Jun 14: Grey Gardens, the Musical. Book by Doug Wright, Music by Scott Frankel, and Lyrics by Michael Korie. Directed by Stuart Bousel.(The Crucible) Musical Direction by David Brown. (Opens Tuesday, May 26th, 2015.) San Francisco Premiere! Based on the cult documentary, Grey Gardens, the Musical is a musical exploration of the American dream gone wrong and what it means to become a social pariah. It's also an exploration of women, the relationship between mothers and daughters, how love can turn into dependency and how in a society where women’s roles and options are limited, particularly in the aristocratic class, the very things that make one exceptional could ultimately be what damns them to a life of decay and shadows. Featuring an intimate, musical score that borrows as much from Stephen Sondheim as the eras in which it is, Grey Gardens is the perfect chamber musical that will use the intimacy of Gough Street Playhouse to haunt and delight. ###################################### BERKELEY REP OPENS 47TH SEASON WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF AN AUDIENCE WITH MEOW MEOWInternational sensation teams up with Kneehigh’s Emma Rice for a thrilling musical play – Berkeley Rep opens its 47th season this September with An Audience with Meow Meow, a musical play of gargantuan proportions starring international superstar Meow Meow. This fall the singing sensation and über-award-winning comedienne — who’s wowed audiences from Paris to the Antipodes — brings her breathtaking vocals and ingenuity to the Bay Area. The captivating and glamourous Meow Meow has rendezvoused with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Pina Bausch, and David Bowie. Now she joins forces with the endlessly inventive Emma Rice (The Wild Bride, Tristan & Yseult, Broadway’s Brief Encounter), who adapts and directs this one-of-a-kind musical production featuring sizzling songs, sequins and satire, blow-torch wit, and divine mayhem! Expect beauty, expect hilarity, expect heart. And possibly the splits. Penned by Meow Meow herself, with music supervision by Lance Horne and choreography by Tiger Martina, the world premiere of An Audience with Meow Meow begins previews Friday, September 5, opens on Friday, September 12, and runs through Sunday, October 19. Press night for An Audience with Meow Meow will be held on Friday, September 12, 2014. Individual tickets start at $29 and can be purchased by phone at (510) 647-2949 or online at berkeleyrep.org. “We’re thrilled to kick off the season with the deliciously outrageous Meow Meow,” says Tony Taccone, Berkeley Rep’s Michael Leibert Artistic Director. “Meow is a cross between Liza Minnelli and Lucille Ball — she’s funny, smart, and has the voice of a ferocious angel. She teams up with Emma Rice, the esteemed director of The Wild Bride and co-artistic director of Kneehigh Theatre, to bring us a larger-than-life musical production. Prepare for anything, as Ms. Meow is not one to take any prisoners.” “Meow Meow knocks my socks off! She is everything — sexy, surprising, talented, and funny,” remarks Rice. “The moment I met her I was intoxicated, and it has been a thrill and a privilege to work with her on this piece. She is a force of nature. An Audience with Meow Meow promises to be a night at the theatre that won’t be forgotten easily. Fasten your seat belts!” “I’m elated to work with the supremely talented Emma Rice to bring my story to the Bay Area,” adds Meow Meow. “Emma is all heart and joy. With her there’s such an affinity of our souls. We’ve assembled a wonderful show about lost souls and lost hearts and people who slipped between the cracks. There will be hilarity, mayhem, fabulous costume changes, dancing boys, sequins, and glorious love songs. I’m thrilled to share this new piece with Berkeley Rep’s audience.” Of Meow Meow’s critically lauded performances, Time Out London raves, “Meow Meow’s voice is a rare pleasure, rich in musicality, always present and expressive, turning on a dime from stomping razzle-dazzle to heartbreaking vulnerability. The dexterity at slipping between registers that Meow Meow brings to her singing is also key to her humour, which is now bawdy, now self-deprecating, now sly as a stiletto between the ribs.” Adds the London Evening Standard, “Devilish funny bones and heavenly vocal chords!” The New York Times writes, “The term ‘kamikaze cabaret’ has been applied to the charming, shape-shifting diva Meow Meow...Her act celebrated a far-reaching cosmopolitanism that erases boundaries between cultures and languages... If you think of her changeability as a series of surprise attacks, the term kamikaze may apply after all.” Meow Meow’s unique brand of performance art exotica has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences globally. The spectacular crowd-surfing queen of song has entranced sold-out audiences with her trail-blazing performances from New York’s Lincoln Center and Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft, to London’s Apollo Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and the Sydney Opera House. Named One of the Top Performers of the Year by the New Yorker, “The Queen of Chanson” by the Berliner Zeitung, and “a phenomenon” by the Australian press, multi-award-winning Meow’s solo works have been curated by David Bowie, Pina Bausch, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others. She has created original works for numerous international arts festivals and venues from Shanghai to Wroclaw, as well as performed everything from Schubert and Schumann with orchestra and toured with punk outfit Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls. Meow starred on London’s West End in Kneehigh Theatre and Michel Legrand’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. She had a sensational extended run of the Malthouse Theatre/Sydney Festival-commissioned Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre) and performed Cocteau’s piece for Piaf, Le Bel Indifférent, for the U.S. Greenwich Music Festival. She has won numerous Green Room Awards, Helpmann Theatre Awards, Sydney Theatre Critics Awards, the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, and the New York Franklin Furnace Performance Art Award, among others. She is also a regular guest in the Olivier Award-winning La Clique and La Soirée on the West End and off Broadway, as well as with the Weimar collective in New York City. She opened La Soirée’s award-winning season in New York at the Union Square Theatre. In 2013 Meow made her London Philharmonic debut under Maestro Jurowski as Jenny in Brecht/Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper in Paris’ Théatre des Champs-Élysées and London’s Royal Festival Hall. Meow Meow joined the London Philharmonic again for more UK performances. She most recently sold out her Lincoln Center American Song Book Series concert and toured the concert halls of Australia with Barry Humphries and the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a program of lost and re-found works from Weimar Germany of the 1920s. With collaborator Pink Martini’s Thomas M Lauderdale she appeared with the Oregon Symphony and has written and recorded the album Here Kitty Kitty …The lost sessions, due for release in 2014. Meow’s albums Vamp and Songs from a Little Match Girl, co-written with longtime collaborator and composer Iain Grandage, are available on iTunes, along with recordings for intrepid composer and music director Lance Horne on his First Things Last album. She appears on Pink Martini’s latest album Get Happy (released September 2013) and opens Amanda Palmer’s album Theatre is Evil with the Grand Theft Orchestra. Meow’s 2014 performances include the LA Philharmonic in Andriessen’s De Materie under the baton of Reinbert de Leeuw and Pina Bausch Company’s Fest für Pina 40 season in Germany. She had an extended solo season of the award-winning Feline Intimate in London at the Southbank Centre Wonderground and is thrilled to launch Berkeley Rep’s 2014 season with her new theatre work An Audience with Meow Meow. She returns to London’s Southbank Centre in December with Apocalypse Meow: Crisis is Born. ########################################## “BERRY GORDY DAY IN THE EAST BAY” Monday, August 18 MOTOWN THE MUSICAL CAST TO PERFORM LIVE – Alameda County Supervisor Keith Carson will host a ceremony to present Motown legend Berry Gordy a County Proclamation declaring “Berry Gordy Day in the East Bay” on Monday, August 18, 2014, at 11:30 am, at City Hall Plaza. Gordy will be in attendance to accept this honor. Other East Bay elected officials will join Carson with similar presentations, including Congresswoman Barbara Lee and City of Oakland Mayor Jean Quan and Deputy Mayor Sandré Swanson. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL cast members will then perform select numbers from the show right on the Plaza. The event is free and open to the public. Gordy is coming to the Bay Area for the opening night performance of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL and to use the opportunity to personally connect with the people of Oakland and the entire East Bay, where the Motown sound has always had a home. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL opens Friday, August 15 and runs through Sunday, September 28, 2014 at the SHN Orpheum Theatre. MOTOWN THE MUSICAL is the true American dream story of Motown founder Berry Gordy’s journey from featherweight boxer to the heavyweight music mogul who launched the careers of Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson and many more. Motown shattered barriers, shaped our lives and made us all move to the same beat. In connection with the opening of the musical, Gordy will officially launch the “Motown Legends” exhibit, a collection of mixed media pieces by Motown artist Chris Clark, taken from Gordy’s private collection, including images of The Temptations, Diana Ross, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. And, for the first time in history, Gordy will allow some of these extraordinary pieces to be sold. The exhibit will be curated by Oakland gallery owner Joyce Gordon, and pieces will be on display not only at Gordon’s gallery on 14th Street but also at Dorothy King’s popular landmark restaurant Everett & Jones on Broadway. Clark’s pieces will be exhibited at both venues for six months. ############################## BAY AREA CABARET PRESENTS OPENING NIGHT GALA TRIBUTE TO SONGWRITER STEPHEN SCHWARTZ SEPT. 27 2014 Guest performers include SNL’S Ana Gasteyer, Broadway’s Liz Callaway, Michael McCorry Rose --- Bay Area Cabaret, devoted to presenting audiences with top performers who expand the definition of cabaret, launches its 11th season this fall at the Fairmont San Francisco’s historic Venetian Room with an Opening Night Gala celebrating the work of songwriter/composer Stephen Schwartz (Wicked, Pippin, Godspell, Pocahontas, Enchanted, Prince of Egypt). The evening will feature two on-stage interviews with Mr. Schwartz by ASCAP’s Director of Musical Theatre Michael Kerker, and performances by Saturday Night Live’s Ana Gasteyer, who performed the role of ‘Elphaba’ in Wicked on Broadway, and by two masterful interpreters of Schwartz’ work, Liz Callaway and Michael McCorry Rose. Bay Area Cabaret’s Opening Night Gala Tribute to Stephen Swartz will take place 8 pm, Saturday, September 27, 2014 at the Venetian Room of the Fairmont San Francisco, 950 Mason Street, atop Nob Hill, San Francisco. Tickets ($75 general/$60 subscribers) can be purchased by calling (415) 392-4400 or online at www.bayareacabaret.org. ############################# THE MARSH ANNOUNCES DON REED’S “SEMI-FAMOUS: HOLLYWOOD HELL TALES FROM THE MIDDLE”EXTENDS – MOVES TO SAN FRANCISCO – The Marsh announces Don Reed’s new show, SEMI-FAMOUS: HOLLYWOOD HELL TALES FROM THE MIDDLE will transfer to The Marsh San Francisco where it will run September 13 through October 19 (press opening: September 20). A collection of delightful tales and anecdotes, from panic attacks auditioning for Spike Lee, to almost being shot by the Secret Service at The Tonight Show, these tales of heartbreak and triumph are all true and all wrong, as described by Reed, the author and performer of several hit shows and former Tonight Show opening act. SEMI-FAMOUS: HOLLYWOOD HELL TALES FROM THE MIDDLE will finish its scheduled run at the Marsh Berkeley (through September 7 with performances on Saturdays at 5:00 pm and Sundays at 7:00 pm) and then will run at The Marsh San Francisco (1062 Valencia St.) September 13 through October 19 with performances Saturdays at 8:30pm and Sundays at 7:00pm. For tickets ($20-$35 regular, $60-$100 reserved), the public may visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-282-3055 between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm, Monday through Friday. ################################# Custom Made Theatre Opens 16th Season with Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five Sept. 12-Oct. 12 Vonnegut's absurdist classic, "Slaughterhouse Five (or The Children's Crusade)", is adapted for the stage by Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning Eric Simonson. Custom Made Theatre’s Artistic Director Brian Katz directs. A satirical and horrifying anti-war story, Slaughterhouse Five, carries a unique poignancy — and humor. A best seller when released, the novel brought Vonnegut to prominence as a major voice in American fiction. It has been adapted for the stage by Tony-nominated and Oscar-winning Eric Simonson and is directed by Custom Made Theatre’s Artistic Director Brian Katz. With eleven actors playing dozens of characters, dynamic multimedia, and creative staging, Custom Made’s "Slaughterhouse" is sure to an unforgettable theatrical event. Slaughterhouse Five plays September 12 through October 12 at the Gough Street Playhouse, 1620 Gough Street in San Francisco. Slaughterhouse Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes 'unstuck in time.’ Billy says this happened after being abducted by aliens at his daughter’s wedding. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who, like Vonnegut, witnesses the Allies' firebombing of Dresden. Cast Ryan Hayes ......................................................................................... Billy Pilgrim Brian Martin.............................................................................. Young Billy Pilgrim Dave Sikula..................................................................................................... Man Alun Anderman /Myles Cence............. Billy Boy (alternating performances) Stephanie Ann Foster ............................................... Valencia/Derby/Ensemble Sal Mattos............................................................... Weary/Rosewater/Ensemble Chris Morrell...................................................... Chetwynde/Campbell/Ensemble Jessica Jade Rudholm ........................... Barbara/Tralafamadorian/Ensemble Carina Lastimos Salazar............................ Montana Wildhack/Dotty/Ensemble Paul Stout......................................................... Kilgore Trout/Reggie/Ensemble Sam Tillis................................................................ Lazzaro/Rumfoord/Ensemble ##################################### 42ND STREET MOON PRESENTS “SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS”* AT THE EUREKA THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO November 26 – December 14, 2014 WHAT: 42nd Street Moon presents a 20th Anniversary revisit to one of its earliest hits – the hilarious farce SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS. In this rollicking musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, three unlikely cousins (including one who picks up radio waves with her teeth) inherit a San Antonio Ranch and turn it into a boarding house for soldier’s wives. Romantic and military complications quickly arise. When SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS opened in 1943, The New York Times raved, “This is the musical comedy for which Broadway has been waiting a long, long time.” The top drawer Porter songs include The Leader of a Big-Time Band, Something for the Boys, Could It Be You?, Hey, Good Lookin', By the Mississinewah, and He's a Right Guy. SOMETHING FOR THE BOYS will be directed by Daniel Witzke, with music direction by Dave Dobrusky and choreography by Staci Arriaga. WHEN: November 26 – December 14, 2014 (Press opening: Saturday, November 29, 2014) SHOWS: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7 pm (No show Nov. 27) Fridays at 8 pm (Added show 2pm, Nov. 28) Saturdays at 6 Sundays at 3 pm WHERE: The Eureka Theatre, 215 Jackson Street, San Francisco, CA 94111 TICKETS: $25 - $75 INFO: For information or to order tickets call (415) 255-8207 or visit 42ndStMoon.org ## ############################# BERKELEY PLAYHOUSE MAINSTAGE ANNOUNCES The 2014-2015 SEASON WILL OPEN WITH THE BAY AREA PREMIERE OF MARY POPPINS October 30–December 7, 2014Original Music and Lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman ∙ Book by Julian Fellowes New Songs and Additional Music and Lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe Co-Created by Cameron Mackintosh – Berkeley Playhouse will open their seventh season with the much beloved and whimsical, MARY POPPINS, directed and choreographed by Kimberly Dooley. Previews begin October 30, 2014, and the show runs from November 1 to December 7, 2014 at the Julia Morgan Theater, 2640 College Ave. in Berkeley. Season Passes are now available through the Ticket Office, call (510) 845-8542 x351 or visit berkeleyplayhouse.org. Single tickets will go on sale Sept. 1, 2014. Dooley’s creative team will include Music Director Olivia Gomez and Lighting Designer Mark Hueske (both returning from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee); Scenic Designer Martin Flynn (A Little Princess, Annie), debuting Costume Designer Liz Martin, and props design by Megan Lush (Shrek, The Music Man).THE CAST: The cast will feature Taylor Jones, who just completed the National Tour of American Idiot, as Mary Poppins; Alex Rodriguez as Bert (Miss Saigon, Nat. Tour; Triassic Parq, Ray of Light Theatre); Tom Reardon as Mr. Banks (Guys and Dolls, White Christmas, Feinstein’s at the Hotel Nikko), Sarah Mitchell (The Music Man, Guys & Dolls) as Mrs. Banks, Mary Gibboney as Mrs. Brill and Billy Raphael (Twelfth Night, Shotgun Players; The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Berkeley Playhouse) as Robertson Ay. The youth rolls will be double-cast and feature Julia Kaufman Sommers and Dakota Dry as Jane, and Chiara Abondolo-Mayo and Luka Henrie-Naffaa as Michael. Previews: Thursday, October 30 at 7pm and Saturday, November 1 at 1pm Opens: Saturday, November 1 at 6pm Press: Saturday, November 1 at 6pm; Sunday, November 2 at 12pm and 5pm Closes: Sunday, December 7 at 5pm All performances: Fridays at 7pm; Saturdays at 1pm and 6pm; Sundays at 12pm and 5pm. Special performances on Friday (11/28) at 1pm and Thursday (12/4) at 7pm at Berkeley Playhouse @ The Julia Morgan Theater. 2640 College Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704TICKETS: For tickets ($17 for previews and $25–$60 for regular performances) or more information, the public may call (510) 845-8542 x351 or visit berkeleyplayhouse.org. Group rates available for 10 or more people. ################################ SHOTGUN PLAYERS PRESENTS The New Electric Ballroom By Enda Walsh Directed by Barbara Damashek Berkeley— Sisters Breda, Clara, and Ada are trapped within their memories of the New Electric Ballroom. It was the time of their lives... or was it? Irish Playwright Enda Walsh is among the best working in contemporary theater, and his depiction of nostalgia and small town oppression creates a world that is brash, humorous, and disturbing by turns. Everyone’s reality is delicate, but when do rotten hopes actually become hallucinogenic? Performances for The New Electric Ballroom begin September 3rd, Opens on September 6th and runs through October 5th at The Ashby Stage.Breda and Clara have matured into their 60s, but they cultivate a hopeless repetition of their younger days. Younger sister Ada also lives at home with her spinster sisters. She’s prey to their incessant litanies, and part time director to the endless recitations. The sisters run over their lives through old stories in a terrible carnival of words, only to be relieved by Patsy, a gnarly fishmonger who stops in to keep tabs. Director Barbara Damashek takes on this rich poetic nightmare, saying “This play is really a passion play, a desecration ritual, an anti-mass. The characters speak to avoid the living. Silence is terrifying to them.” Sequestered inside their worn out family home, daydreams and reminiscences collide, then detonate in a dark and iconic fantasy. There is truly no escape from the delusion of the New Electric Ballroom, and all the beauty it promised. If nothing else, Walsh’s work is a love letter to the ongoing power of storytelling and myth. Author of the Tony-Award winning musical Once, Enda Walsh says of playwriting: “I love the risk factor that a good production demands. It always looks like none of it should work. It's artificial. It could collapse at any minute and then it becomes this suddenly real thing, where themes are flying about in the air and language is splitting apart, and it's just electric. Really, there's nothing better.” The New Electric Ballroom features Kevin Clarke, Anne Darragh, Trish Mulholland & Beth Wilmurt. Set Design by Erik Flatmo, Costume Design by Valera Coble, Light Design by Jim French, Properties Design by Kirsten Royston. * A member of Actor’s Equity Association. ###############################

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