Southern Oregon University Department Of Theatre Arts

Winter 2008 Playbill

Designated the Center for Excellence in the Fine and Performing Arts by the Oregon University System

Adapted by Hilary Tate and James Edmondson

By James ThurberAdapted by Charlotte Chorpenning

Music and Lyrics by Mark Hollmann

Book and Lyrics by Greg Kotis

Center Stage TheatreFeb. 21-March 9, 2008

Center Square TheatreFeb. 15-March 2, 2008

“Creating Space at the Center – Where We Stand”

Welcome to another example of the excellent quality of our work.

We are extremely fortunate to be working with two outstanding guest directors this winter. Our students and faculty are looking forward to sharing the fruits of our collaboration with you.

Randall Stuart, our director for Urinetown: The Musical, has extensive background in both the classics and musical theatre and opera.

Christopher DuVal has been an adjunct faculty and guest fight choreographer and lecturer for the department on several occasions. We are pleased to be able to have another opportunity to work with him as the director of the stage adaptation of James Thurber’s Caldecott Award-winning Many Moons.

SOU Theatre Arts has continued to grow and is currently the largest exclusively undergraduate theatre arts program in the western United States. The quality of the program attracts students from an expanding radius to our campus.

We need more space to deliver the quality of program we are capable of delivering. The additional space will facilitate the department’s ability to supply rehearsal and lab spaces to support the scope and potential growth of our students and faculty. At this point we are at the beginning of a fundraising process that will require the support of our patrons, alumni, and friends to stimulate backing from private and public funding sources.

On the following page, you will find a contribution form. I hope you will consider being a part of our fundraising efforts at the earliest stages. Your support will help us realize our dream for our students and our community. Please contact me if you would like to be involved in exploring the means to raise the funds that will help us to realize our potential as one of the most dynamic and creative undergraduate theatre programs in the country.

We have a vital program, with strong faculty, talented students, and a tremendous spirit. On behalf of Theatre Arts at SOU, I thank you for being a part of our growth and our students’ success. Your continued patronage makes our work possible.

– Chris Sackett 1

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Chris Sackett .........................................................Department ChairJim Giancarlo ..............................................Musical Theatre FacultyDavid Kelly ..............................................................Adjunct FacultyLaurie Kurutz ....................................Costume Construction Faculty Eric Levin ...........................................Director of Theatre Education Dale Luciano ......................................................... Directing Faculty Maggie McClellan ............................. Voice and Movement Faculty Sean O’Skea ...................................................Scenic Design Faculty Deborah Rosenberg ....................................Costume Design Faculty Ezra Severin ..........................................Technical Direction Faculty Dennis Smith ..............................................................Acting Faculty Christi Courian ........................................... Administrative AssistantSu Grossmann ............................................ Administrative AssistantJane Hickinbotham ..................................... Staff Technical Manager

Department of Theatre Arts Faculty and Staff

2007-2008 SeasonCenter Stage Theatre

Arcadia by Tom StoppardNovember 8-18, 2007

Urinetown by Mark Hollmann and Greg KotisFebruary 21-March 9, 2008

Metamorphoses by Mary ZimmermanMay 22-June 1, 2008

Center Square TheatreWomen of War, an adaptation of Iphigenia at Aulis and The Trojan

Women by Euripides – adapted by Hilary Tate and James EdmondsonNovember 1-11, 2007

Many Moons from the book by James Thurber – adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning

February 15-March 2, 2008Hunting Cockroaches

by Janusz Glowacki – translated by Jadwiga KosickaMay 15-25, 2008

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Music and LyricsMark Hollmann

Book and LyricsGreg Kotis

Scene:

A town like any town...in a poor and filthy time.The Present.

Length:

Two hours and fifteen minutes including one fifteen minute intermission.

Urinetown is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre

International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI.

421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019 • Phone: 212-541-4684

Director: Randall StuartChoreographer: Jim GiancarloMusical Director: Jennifer SchlomingScenic Designer: Roger WykesCostume Designer: Deborah RosenbergSound Designer: Amadon Jaeger*Lighting Designer: Chris Sackett

Urinetown was produced on Broadway in September, 2001 by the Araca Group and Dodger Theatricals in association

with TheaterDreams, Inc., and Lauren Mitchell

URINETOWN

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Officer Lockstock ....................................... Samuel D. Dinkowitz Penelope Pennywise ............................................ Danielle Chaves Bobby Strong ........................................................Tim Homsley Little Sally ..........................................................Libby Barnard Dr. Billeaux ........................................................Derek Mesford Mr. McQueen ....................................................... Jimmy Garcia Senator Fipp .........................................................Ben Sheppard Officer Barrel ....................................................... John R. Lewis Hope Cladwell ................................. Monique Bernadette Barbée Old Man Strong ....................................................Clinton Clark Tiny Tom ............................................................... Gregg Land Soupy Sue ............................................................. Erin Claxton Little Becky Two Shoes ...........................................Tai Sammons Robby The Stockfish ...........................................Chris Carwithen Cladwell B. Cladwell .........................................Jon-Erik HegstadCladwell Secretary ................................... Evan Victoria Jennings Josephine Strong .................................................. Holly Edwards Mrs. Millennium .................................................. Victoria Spero Hot Blades Harry ...................................................Alex Yochim Billy Boy Bill .................................................Alexander DeeneyPoor #1 .................................................Joanna Elizabeth OrtizPoor #2 ......................................................... Brennen JohnsonExec #1 ...............................................................Lowell WellerExec #2 ........................................................... Jonathan DyrudExec #3 ...........................................................Linnea JeffersonExec #4 ............................................................Jackie WilliamsCop #1 .................................................................. Billy Cowell Cop #2 ...................................................................Holly Nunn Cop #3 ................................................................ James LarsonCop #4 ....................................................Alexandra AmaroticoCop #5 ...................................................................Kelli LiverpoolCop #6 .......................................................................Erin Pike

MusiciansTrombone/Euphonium .................................... Michael DeRoestReeds ..........................................Doug MacDonell (2/20, 2/22, 2/23, 2/28) ..........................................Vicki Purslow (2/21, 2/29, 3/1, 3/2, 3/6, 3/7, 3/8, 3/9)

Keyboard .....................................................Jennifer SchlomingBass .............................................................. Drew GiambronePercussion .............................................................Reed Bentley

Cast

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Urinetown Production CrewStage Manager .......................................................................Kristen Mun*Assistant Stage Manager ..........................................................Kryssa BushAssistant Music Director .....................................................Meagan IversonAssistant Dance Choreographer .......................................... Janis RosenthalAssistant Scenic Designer ........................... Ryan Nicolai, Andrew ZehrungDance Captain ...................................................................... Evan JenningsFight Captain ...........................................................................Kristen MunTechnical Director............................................................. James Chandler*Assistant Technical Director ................................................... Karla Badeau Production Assistant ............................................................... Karen KuranMaster Carpenter ......................................................... Christopher T. CookAssistant Master Carpenters ........................ Justin Campanoli, Chris Green, ...............................................................................................Keven SuttonCarpenters ......................... Micaela Batson, Stephanie Krause, Zach Myers, ................................................................ Graham Tordoff, Kira Wightman Scenic Artist .........................................................................Sarah Greene*Prop Master .......................................................................... Robert ChikarProp Artisans ...............................................Justin Cowan, Amber DePerro, .........................................Pam Merten-Hindorff, Blaine Johnston, Jon OlesPaint Charge Artist ................................................................. Ryan NicolaiPaint Crew .................................... Robert M. Hastings, Kaitlin Humphreys, .....................................Maire Murphy, Kelsey Wambold, Mallory WeddingAssistant Costume Designer ..................................................... Chris KelleyCostume Fitters ................................ Karen Rose Anderson, Brittney SpadyWardrobe, Hair & Makeup Crew Supervisor ................... Anna-Lisa ChaconWardrobe, Hair & Makeup Crew Assistant Supervisor ..........Emily Caldwell Wardrobe, Hair & Makeup Crew ...................Elsa Bishop, Amy Mazzaferro, ...............................................................Sereena Ojakian, Chelsea RaymanAssistant Lighting Designer ................................................... Max BowmanFollow Spot Operator ................................................................Josh BowenMaster Electrician ..................................................................Maria BuzardLight Crew .......................Josh Bowen, Hannah Grenfell, Kaylyn Kilkuskie, ...................................................... Maya Fein, Isaac Kosydar, Heidi Stoner, Sound Engineer/Assistant Sound Design ...................................Tim BrownMic Crew ..............................................................................Suzanne RoseRun Crew Head ........................................................................Corey StacyRun Crew ................ Jason Burg, Tiffany DeMoss, Meaghan D. McGlasson, .............Monica Keaton, Aaron Postma, Les Cole Sutera, Lisa Marie Taylor

*These students have undertaken these assignments as the culminating creative projects to satisfy the thesis requirement for their Bachelor of Fine Arts Degrees.

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Director’s NotesIn the torrid summer of 1998, one of the hottest on record for NYC,

I was participating in the Bertolt Brecht Centennial, a festival of ten of the German playwright’s plays. We were partnering with the NYC Fringe Festival, so our offerings were interspersed with other new works, presented in makeshift venues from storefronts to rooftops in the Lower East Side.

We were all sweatin’ it, living our Art. Our particular production of Drums in the Night was, mercifully, in an air-conditioned theatre...but the streets and subways vibrated in liquid heat. Would we survive? (Well, in the larger context, the Mayor was censoring a museum installation and NEA funding was mostly in the toilet.) The following summer, the many dynamic theatrical contributions of another hot and taxing summer at the Fringe included a show entitled Urinetown. One of my students was in it, so I sloshed over to their sweltering venue to check it out...and wept with laughter at this pitch-perfect satire of our leaking society.

With the fervor of finding a loo when the bladder is all that matters? - I tracked the show’s progress to Broadway. I’m not a believer in the award system for the Arts - the forced competition is disheartening - but seeing the show garner several Tony’s delighted, for it illustrated that any of us with a theatrical dream can dare to share our work, and if the timing is right and it’s a perfect simmer, our Art might just float! With an epic “wink” our authors have managed to create an alchemical brew of spot-on musical comedy send-ups and a studied reverence to the era of Brecht & Weill’s stage work as well.

And what I have found as a guest at SOU is a training program with bounteous talent. The process and rehearsals have been a pleasure; as an ensemble we’ve investigated the roots of ancient comedy and discussed (dare we say it?) the impulse of “dry” wit. Observing the entire program has me convinced that these SOU graduates will undoubtedly find great futures on the American stage…perhaps do a scrappy workshop production of something new, and next thing we know we’ll see them on the Tony’s. There’s a precedent, of course…and we’re watching it.

On behalf of the artistic team, I am delighted to offer you this glass of comedy tonight...drink deeply, for we are in a dark time of fire...and like the people of the play who are made poor by false taxation, it may only be our own emotional oceans thundering like a tsunami which will ultimately satisfy our thirst, shift our ways – and help us to officially craft a better world.

– Randall Stuart

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About the PlaywrightsUrinetown: The Musical premiered at the New York International Fringe

Festival and was later produced Off-Broadway at the American Theatre for Actors. The musical eventually moved to Broadway, opening at the Henry Miller’s Theatre on September 20, 2001. Urinetown became one of Broadway’s most popular musicals, becoming a huge financial success and garnering ten Tony Award nominations and winning three.

The musical won three Tony Awards in 2002 for Best Director (John Rando), Best Original Score (Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis), and Best Book of a Musical (Greg Kotis). Urinetown ran on Broadway until 2004, but it also had a national tour starting in San Francisco in 2003 and an open-run in the Mercury Theatre in Chicago starting in 2006.

Greg Kotis remarked that he was inspired to create Urinetown after a trip to Paris in 1995 where, due to traveling on a budget, he had to limit his trips to the toilets because they were “pay-per-use.” Kotis’ theatrical work is part of a more non-traditional, non-conventional theatrical style. Kotis is an alumni member of the Neo-Futurist group, a theatrical group famous for creating interactive, absurdist theatre.

Kotis was also a member of Chicago’s Cardiff Giant Theater Company, where he performed in improvisations and co-authored six plays including LBJFKKK, Love Me and AFTERTASTE (THE MUSICAL). Kotis’s new play, Pig Farm, opened at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City and at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in 2006.

Mark Hollmann graduated from the University of Chicago with an A.B. in music and he won the Louis J. Sudler prize in the creative and performing arts. As a founding ensemble member of the Cardiff Giant Theatre Company in Chicago, he co-wrote and co-produced three full length plays and two musicals.

Hollmann played trombone for the Chicago art-rock band Maestro Subgum and the Whole, played piano for the Second City national touring company and NYC’s Chicago City Limits, and taught composition at Columbia College in Chicago. As a composer and lyricist, he attended the New Tuners Theatre in Chicago and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop in New York. Hollmann is also a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and The American Society of Composers, Authors and Lyricists (ASCAP). He currently is writing music and lyrics for the Broadway musicals based on the films Soapdish and My Man Godfrey.

Kotis and Hollmann are also developing two new musicals: Yeast Nation and The Man in the White Suit.

– Alice Reid, Dramaturg

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Urinetown Guest BiosRandall Stuart trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in the 1970s studying and participating in the stage works of William Ball, Allen Fletcher, Ed Hastings and others of the era.

His professional debut was directing Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening, and he has spent 25 years working in the worlds of Brecht, Shakespeare, the Greeks and the commedia dell’arte form. He teaches and directs at the graduate level, having returned to his alma mater A.C.T. to direct the MFA students in various classical genres. As an actor his work has been seen on the stages of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Portland Rep, Artists Rep, among others.

Based in Portland, he directed Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses at Artists Repertory Theatre as well as the recent premiere of the new work A Lovely Day (adapted from Ghelderode’s Pantagleize). Stuart is the Artistic Director of the theatre troupe Upon These Boards which was awarded the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for the large-scale (cast of 100) production and adaptation of Lysistrata Project (03/03/03) which played at Berkeley Rep. More information can be found at www.UponTheseBoards.org.

Jim Giancarlo came to Ashland to perform as dancer, choreographer and actor with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (six seasons) and stayed on to co-found Oregon Cabaret Theatre where he has directed and/or choreographed about 75 productions and written 10 original musicals over 23 seasons.

Giancarlo has been teaching as Adjunct Faculty with SOU’s Department of Theatre Arts for 17 years, creating and teaching classes in dance, musical theatre history, musical theatre workshop and auditioning for musical theatre, as well as choreographing productions such as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Cabaret. He has thoroughly enjoyed collaborating on Urinetown with his long-time friend, the brilliant Randall Stuart, and all of these amazingly talented students, designers and musicians. He feels that this show is a testament to why there should be a Musical Theatre program at SOU.

Jennifer Schloming, glad to have overcome the initial impulse to turn tail and run from a show called Urinetown, has truly treasured the trip to the toilets in this earthy mirror of our current moment. Her degree from Stanford University in Human Biology, which focuses on the gross impacts we’ve had on our natural world, made Urinetown feel alarmingly familiar.

In the past five years, Schloming has inhabited less wickedly vulgar terrain, serving as musical director for shows at Rogue Music Theater, Camelot Theater, Ashland High School, and SOU, as well as accompanying for Rogue Opera and countless solo and choral performances. She gives thanks to the young men and women of this cast, who not only come with great talent, but with great commitment to a beautifully crafted piece that matters more than we wish it would.

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Urinetown Student BiosMonique Barbée (Hope Cladwell) is a sophomore from Grants Pass, Ore., and is pursuing a BFA. She was recently seen on the SOU stage as Andromache in Women of War and Leper 2 in The White Plague.

Libby Barnard (Little Sally) is a senior from Reno, Nev., who is pursuing her BA. She was previously seen on the SOU stage as Ellen in Two Rooms, Fanny Locke in Entertaining Strangers, Second Actor in Savage/Love, and Roxanne in Cyrano. Other credits include Bielke in Fiddler on the Roof and Mickey in The Odd Couple for the Royal Lancer Players.

Max Bowman (Assistant Lighting Design) is a junior from Montana State University. Max, originally from Tumwater, Wash., is pursuing his BFA. Credits at SOU include Woman of War (Assistant Lighting Design), Romeo and Juliet and Hotel Paradiso (Electrician).

James Chandler* (Technical Director) is a senior from Hillsboro, Ore. Previous Technical Direction credits at SOU include work on Arcadia and The Phantom Tollbooth. James was also the Assistant Technical Director for The Philadelphia Story, Ghost, The Jungle Book, Who’s Happy Now, and Twelfth Night.

Danielle Chaves (Penny Pennywise) is a freshman from Lake Oswego Ore., who is pursuing her BFA. Previous SOU credits include Edmee in Finding the Sun. Other outside credits include Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly.

Rob Chikar (Props Master) is a freshman from Ventura, Calif. Previous SOU credits include Angels in America (Stage Manager). Other credits include Beverly Corlton in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and Antipholus of Ephesus in Comedy of Errors. He stage managed at the Kern Shakespeare Festival.

Holly Edwards (Josephine Strong) is a sophomore from Curtin, Ore., who is pursuing her BA. Previous credits include Maggie Cutler in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Belle in Marley and Scrooge, and Lynne in Stepping Out for the Cottage Theatre.

Sarah Greene* (Scenic Artist) is a senior from Portland, Ore., who transferred from Portland State University to pursue her BFA. Previous SOU credits include Paint Charge for Woman of War, Jungle Book, Toad of Toad Hall, and The Jungle Book.

Jon-Erik Hegstad (Caldwell B. Cladwell) is a senior from Longview, Wash., who is pursuing his BS. He was previously seen on the SOU stage as Hero

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Urinetown Student Bios (Continued)in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dr. Kakofonas in The Phantom Tollbooth, and Love Talker in The Love Talker. Other previous credits include Scapino in A Company of Wayward Saints, El Gallo in The Fantasticks, and Hugo in Bye Bye Birdie.

Tim Homsley (Bobby Strong) is a freshman from Beaverton, Ore. Previous credits include Enjolras in Les Miserables, The Mason in Working, The Beast in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Genie in Aladdin, and J. Pierrepont Finch in How to Succeed in Business Without Trying.

Amadon Jaeger* (Sound Designer) is a senior from Kona, Hawaii, who is pursuing a BFA. Previous SOU credits include Arcadia (Sound Designer), Romeo & Juliet (Asst. Sound Designer), Entertaining Strangers (Asst. Sound Designer), and Big Love (Sound Engineer). Amadon was an OSF FAIR Intern for Sound in the spring of 2007.

Kristen Mun* (Stage Manager) is a junior from Mililani, Hawaii, who is pursuing her BFA. Previous SOU credits include Woman of War (Props Master), Romeo and Juliet (Assistant Fight Choreographer/Fight Captain) and The Phantom Tollbooth (Stage Manager). Other outside credits include stage managing Oliver! and Fiddler on the Roof.

Ben Sheppard (Senator Fipp) is a sophomore from Hood River, Ore., who is pursuing a BA. Ben appeared as Sebastian in Raised in Captivity. Previous credits include Don John in Much Ado About Nothing, Motel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance.

Corey Stacey (Run Crew Head) is a sophomore from Portland, Ore., who is pursuing a BA. Previous SOU credits include The White Plague (Sound Run), The Phantom Tollbooth (Run Crew), Romeo & Juliet (Light Crew), and Women of War (Light Crew).

Roger Wykes (Scenic Designer) is a senior from Bend, Ore., who is pursuing his BFA. Previous SOU credits include Swimming in the Shallows (Scenic and Costume Designer) and Ghosts (Scenic and Costume Designer). Roger will be interning in the spring with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Roger says, “Thanks Dad and Mom for the journey,” and quotes Arthur Ashe, saying “Success is a journey, not a destination.”

*These students have undertaken these assignments as the culminating creative projects to satisfy the thesis requirement for their Bachelor of Fine Arts Degrees.

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Production Crew - Both ShowsFaculty Production Manager ....................................................Sean O’Skea

Faculty Technical Director .......................................................Ezra Severin

House Managers ................................ Mike Fallon, Jordan Leigh Wakefield

Assistant House Managers ................Samuel S. Ashdown, Mitchell Harvick

Box Office .......................Justin Campanoli, Samuel Dinkowitz, Ryan Holt,

........................................... James Larson, Jorge Paniagua, Danielle Pecoff,

.......................................... Brandon Simpliciano, Savel Sabol, Alex Yochim

Ushers .....................Caitlin Baird, Amy Baldwin, Tyler Below, Anna Chase,

........................................... Lea S. Gillette, Heather Harlan, Bobbi Kupfner,

.............................................................. Nathan Schaller, Juliana Slemenda

Concessions ................... Andrea Adams, Daynie Chong, Lauryn Hochberg,

.........................................................................Danielle Pecoff, Savel Sabol

Publicity Assistants ........................................ Danielle Pecoff, Alex Yochim

Lobby Display ..............................Ana Byers, Pen Corbin, Katherine Lewis,

..........Meryn MacDougall, Kristine Purcell, Jenny Rader, Mayson Sheppard

Costume Truers ............................................Nicole Fenton, Michelle Coon

Assistant Costume Shop Supervisors ........... Teresa LaScala, Bradly Sosinski

Stitchers ..................Andrea Adams, Sara Averbeck, Telsa O’Connell-Barger,

............... Adrienne Browning, Zachary Centers, Noah Jacobs, Lauren Lind,

..Kayla Loisel, Amy Rogers, Morgana Spake, Kiova Staley, Irene Vipperman

Costume Crafts Supervisor .....................................................Hannah Wold

Costume Crafts Crew ......................Gretchen Hutterli, Roxanne Miftabittin,

........................................................................................... Danielle Pecoff

Hair Cutter .................................................................................Jake Feller

Archivist ............................................................................Katherine Lewis

Photographic Documentation ...........................................Alyssa Rosenthal

Poster Design ............................................................. Samuel D. Dinkowitz

Playbill Dramaturg ...................................................................... Alice Reid

Special Projects .........................................Carlyn K. Blount, Felicia Falasco

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Director: Christopher DuValScenic Designer: Erin DickinsonCostume Designer: Savel SabolLighting Designer: Laura WileySound Designer: Stephen Abts

Scene: The castle of the King and Princess Lenore

Length:One hour with no intermission

by James Thurber

Adapted by Charlotte Chorpenning

Produced by special arrangement with the Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois

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Jester ...................................................................Nick Ferrucci

Princess ................................................................ Tara Watkins

King ................................................................. Jorge Paniagua

Mathematician .......................................................... Ryan West

Wizard ........................................................... James O’Hanlon

Chamberlain ............................................................. Jake Feller

Cynicia ......................................................... Ryan Celeste Holt

Paretta ............................................................... Jenna Johnson

Nurse ..............................................................Chelsie Thomas

Goldsmith’s Daughter ......................................... Jennifer Brown

Percussion (Bongos) ................................................Nick Ferrucci

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Many Moons Production CrewStage Manager .................................................................... Bridget Carlson

Assistant Stage Manager ...................................................Jonathan Stinson

Assistant Scenic Designer .......................................................Keven Sutton

Technical Director...............................................................Dorian Robison

Production Assistant ..........................................................Kim Freimoeller

Master Carpenter ..................................................................Stephen Purdy

Asst. Master Carpenter ..................................................... Winston Bischof

Carpenters ........................................................................ Nikolas Horaites

Prop Master .....................................................................Madeline Nutting

Prop Artisans ...............................................Kanaan Amoncio, Kristy Doty,

.................................................................... Kendal Lenton, Jamie Thomas

Paint Charge Artist .................................................................Carly Palmer

Paint Crew ...................................................... Garrett Alden, Ariel Jackson

............................................................. Catherine Ridenour, Freya Willams

Assistant Costume Designer .....................................................Riley Arthur

Drapers ............................................... Caitlin Bedford, Katherine Nowacki

Fitters ...........................................................Karen Hopkins, Rachael Jones

Wardrobe Supervisor ...........................................................Russel Rivinius

Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor ......................................... Ashley Reverman

Wardrobe Crew ........................... Talyssa Viela-Crandall, Lauryn Hochberg

Assistant Lighting Designer ...................................................... Kristin Lake

Master Electrician .....................................................................Don Skaggs

Light Crew ................................................ Krystal Brewer, Robert Erickson

........................................................... Ian King, Nick Walker, Joanna Tyler

Sound Designer ......................................................................Stephen Abts

Sound Engineer .................................................................. Patrick Buxton

Sound Run ........................................................................ Robert Erickson

Run Crew Head ........................................................................Olivia Todd

Run Crew ............................................................................. Riyo Iwaksaki

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Director’s NotesMany Moons, originally a short story by James Thurber, with its colorful

characters and fairy tale-like plot, is a delight for children and adults. We

laugh and identify with the Court Jester as he and the Princess work out

their simple miracle while the King’s Wise Men are forced to eat humble pie.

The adults in the play are prisoners of their own rigid thinking and

habitual patterns of behavior – the mathematician can only find solutions

through theorems, the Wizard through third-rate magic “tricks,” and the

Chamberlain only through bureaucratic machinations. Innovative ways

of thinking could not develop with these “wise men” who have learned so

much useless knowledge. Among the lessons the play teaches us is that the

unique perspectives of children are pure and free from clutter – and that from

this mindset, new and innovative ideas can take root and grow.

It’s my goal that our audiences, young and mature alike, will not only be

captivated and charmed by this story but also deeply moved by the powerful

message of simplicity it presents of innocent and uncluttered thought.

Many Moons was my first professional production as an actor produced

by South Coast Repertory’s children series. I was 17. Now at the age of

37, and the father of a little girl, I see the play, of course, in a different

light and with new appreciation. To my mind, there is nothing quite as

noble or important as producing art for children. As pure entertainment,

our production of Many Moons will be a delight – but our goals are farther

reaching and the resonance of Many Moons is deeper than perhaps seen at

first glance.

For me, this production is inspired by and dedicated to my four-year-old

daughter, Megan. Her favorite things in life are running, being tickled, telling

silly nonsensical jokes, hide and seek, and making new friends. Her capacity

for “play” is enormous and her desire and downright insistence to live fully

in the present is the driving force that lives strongly and often willfully within

her. Like the Princess, I hope Megan never fully grows out of her passion for

play and unfettered thought.

“Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up

with himself in a great rear end collision.” – James Thurber

– Christopher DuVal

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Many Moons - About the PlaywrightThe play Many Moons is based on the illustrated children’s book by the

same name written by James Thurber and illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. The book won the Caldecott Medal in 1944 for Slobodkin’s illustrations.

James Thurber was a well-known writer and cartoonist during his lifetime. He started his writing career as a journalist, living in both America and Paris, writing for several newspapers including the Chicago Tribune. He moved to New York City in 1926 and eventually became a writer for The New Yorker. His short stories and cartoons featured in The New Yorker were some of his most remembered works.

Thurber’s style of writing was noted for being humorous and cynical. A childhood accident which caused Thurber to be partially blind also inspired an idiosyncratic, surrealistic fantasy to some of his stories, including his famous short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, a short story about a man day-dreaming while running errands with his wife.

His fantasy was also very prevalent in writing children’s stories, including Many Moons. James Thurber published two collections of fables during his lifetime, Fables for Our Time in 1940 and Further Fables for Our Time in 1956, both of which were anthologies of old fairy tales and fables that Thurber retold with a more contemporary, humorous irony. James Thruber died in 1961.

Thurber’s story, Many Moons, was adapted into a children’s play by Charlotte Chorpenning in 1946.

Charlotte Chorpenning was one of the founders of modern children’s theatre. She first studied playwriting at the Radcliffe College, and from 1915 to 1919, Chorpenning was a playwright in residence for several Winona, Minn., organizations, helping them write issue-based plays. In 1931, Chorpenning was hired by the Goodman Children’s Theatre of the Art Institute of Chicago as the Children’s Theatre Director.

From 1932 to 1951, Chorpenning wrote and directed most of the plays for the Children’s Theatre, many of which were based on popular fairy tales such as The Emperor’s New Clothes (1932), Jack and the Beanstalk (1937), and Cinderella. (1940).

During her lifetime, Chorpenning wrote at least 55 plays for children, a considerable feat when few playwrights wrote plays for children at that time. Charlotte Chorpenning died in 1955. Today, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education gives an award in honor of Chorpenning’s work, known as the Charlotte Chorpenning Cup, to an outstanding children’s theatre writer every year.

– Alice Reid, Dramaturg

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Many Moons Student BiosStephen Abts (Sound Design) is a junior from Danville, Calif., who is

pursuing his BA. Previous SOU credits include Arcadia (Assistant Stage

Manager) and Romeo & Juliet (Production Assistant).

Bridget Carlson (Stage Manager) is a sophomore from the Portland, Ore.,

area and is pursuing her BS. Previous SOU credits includes Women of War

(Assistant Stage Manger) and the Master Electrician for both Romeo and

Juliet and The Phantom Tollbooth. Other credits include work with Zboards

Productions, Stumptown Stages, and The New Century Players.

Erin Dickinson (Scenic Designer) is a senior from Oregon and is pursuing

her BS. Previous SOU credits include Romeo and Juliet (Paint Charge), The

Phantom Tollbooth (Charge Artist), and The Philadelphia Story (Scenic Artist).

Nick Ferrucci (Jester) is a junior from Puyallup, Wash., and is pursuing his

BFA. Previously seen on the SOU stage as Nick in Swimming in the Shallows,

Whether Man in The Phantom Tollbooth, Uncle Willie in The Philadelphia

Story, Protean in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Chorus

in Big Love.

Ryan Celeste Holt (Cynicia) is a senior from Tualatin, Ore., and is pursuing

her BA. Previously seen on the SOU stage as Ensemble in Romeo and Juliet,

Cordelia in Finding the Sun, and Chloe in Lips Together Teeth Apart. Outside

roles include Katherina in Taming of the Shrew, and Third Witch in Macbeth.

James O’Hanlon (Wizard) is a junior from Portland, Ore., and is pursuing

a BA. He has been seen on the SOU stage as Bobby Gould in Speed the Plow,

Many Moons Guest BioChristopher DuVal is currently an actor in his tenth season at the Oregon

Shakespeare Festival. As a director he recently worked with the Oregon

Shakespeare Festival’s School Tour Program. Chris has also guest taught

acting, movement, stage combat, and voice at a variety of high schools,

colleges, conservatories, and theatres throughout the West. As a fight

director, he has staged the fights for over 50 productions and is recognized

as a Full Instructor of Stage Combat with Dueling Arts International. He

received his MFA in Acting from the University of California Irvine.

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Henden in Finding the Sun, and an Attendant in Romeo and Juliet.

Jorge Claudio Paniagua (King) is a sophomore from Idaho and is pursuing

his BFA. He was previously seen on the SOU stage as an attendant in Romeo

and Juliet and Jack in Vinegar Tom. Other credits include Duke Senior in As

You Like It, Gate Keeper in Once on this Island and the Grinch in Seussical the

Musical.

Dorian Robison (Technical Director) is a junior from Medford, Ore., and

is pursuing his BFA. Previous SOU credits include Entertaining Strangers

(Carpenter), Philadelphia Story (Asst. Master Carpenter), Swimming in the

Shallows (Asst. Technical Director), and Arcadia (Asst. Technical Director).

Savel Sabol (Costume Designer) is a junior transfer from Western

Washington University and previously from Oakland, Calif. She is pursuing

her BFA. Previous SOU credits include The White Plague (Assistant Costume

Designer), Swimming in the Shallows (Wardrobe Supervisor), and Vinegar

Tom (Stage Manager). Also, she was a teaching assistant for SOU’s Ashland

Center for Theatre Studies Theatre Teacher Training program.

Tara Watkins (Princess Lenore) is a sophomore from the Rogue Valley

who is pursuing her BA. She has worked in the SOU costume shop and has

performed in Directing Projects. Other credits include Man of La Mancha

(Assistant Stage Manager), Shakespeare in Hollywood (Puck), Grapes of Wrath

(Rose of Sharon) and Meet Me in St. Louis (Lucille) at the Camelot Theatre

Company.

Ryan West (Mathematician) is a senior from Gresham, Ore., who is

pursuing his BA. He was previously seen on the SOU stage as Ezra Chater

in Arcadia, Sampson/Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, Maxime in Hotel

Paradiso, and Edward Fudge/George Moule in Entertaining Strangers.

Laura Wiley (Lighting Designer) is a junior from Milwaukie, Ore., and is

pursuing her BFA. Previous SOU credits include The White Plague (Master

Electrician), Hotel Paradiso (Master Electrician), Swimming in the Shallows

(Assistant Projection Designer), and Arcadia (Assistant Lighting Designer).

Other credits include Cinderella (Assistant Lighting Designer) for the Blue

Monkey Theatre Company.

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Thank You! The faculty, staff and students of the Department of Theatre Arts acknowledge the generosity of the following individuals, who have made donations to the Theatre Arts Building Fund, Scholarship and Operating

funds since 2004.

AnonymousEd and Maureen BattistellaJan CraigieAnne F. DeckerJohn and Diane EngelhardtRichard L. HayBettie HenryDr. Charles Holloway

and Dr. Barbara GabertCraig Hudson and Jorge SilvaJed and Celia Meese FoundationAlberta LeeRichard Moeschl

Platinum Judith BartellAnne F. DeckerRichard L. HayVictoria HexterJennifer and Paul HohenloheCharles and Betty HoweJewish Communal Fund

(Recommended by Robert and Gerry Hodes Family)

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Lefkowitz, Jr.Oregon Shakespeare FestivalHerb and Frances PetschekShirley PollockJoan T. SpearMr. and Mrs. Cecil StaverRobert and Janice StaverWestern Medical Consultants

GoldAshland Lions ClubJim and Lucille BurkeDr. Charles Holloway

and Dr. Barbara GabertFrank and Eleanor MarzoccoJames McConvilleRobert H. Miller and Doris SegnerKathleen OylerMr. and Mrs. Michael QuirkKathryn Cleland-Sipfle

and William SipfleTreasa SpragueSilver Dr. John I. AlexanderAlan Armstrong

and Victoria SturtevantLou Ann and Carmon AubleFran AversaDr. and Mrs. John Burns

Herb and Frances PetschekJames PlummerDon and Phyllis ReynoldsChris Sackett

and Brooke FriendlyPeter and Janice SchmitzJoan T. SpearTreasa SpragueRobert and Janice StaverCarl and Jean StrandSteve and Penelope ThorpeAllan Weisbard

Building Fund Donors

Theatre Department Donors

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Theatre Department Donors, cont.Bronze, continuedCindy FaubionMargery GoodmanMichael and Helen HaldermanThe HamazonsJames and Jane HibbertMarjorie and Robert HoeftMary E. HollandCarole and Alan HorobinIBM Matching Grants ProgramCarol IngelsonAlbert and Leatrice IsaacsonHal and Marjorie JamisonBob and Mary Ann JonesSally Jones and Ben BenjaminMiriam and Frederick KolmVivian KornM.J. and Howard LevineTonette LongDoris MannionBarbara and Tom MathiesonMr. and Mrs. David MedeirosNan and Ron MillerEdith MontgomeryDick and Marty MooreDr. and Mrs. Frank MooreSharon L. NelsonDorothy OrmesMack PurcellBarbara and Harvey RothMary SanteeRobert SchepplerSallie ShippenJenifer SkilesLloyd and Joanne SorensenDouglas and Diana SpenceJoan SteeleGerald and Ann SteinJames and Gwynn SullivanElizabeth TachellaSue ThomasLiz Vesecky and Herschel KingJane WetzelShirley and Barry Vitcov

Silver, continued Diane Cowan Jan CraigieJim and Helen DeanJudith FaulknerEllen HeimanJack and Marlene HenselmanRobert HilliardEd and Sheila HungerfordSaundra and Edward KicePhilip Lang and Ruth MillerBill and Shirley PattonRobert PollockMarie and Bill RadkeJim and Sandi RisserPeggy RubinSusan RustMr. and Mrs. Steve SniderWillis and Daghner StanfillRobert and Joyce StevensRandall StothersGeorgia F. StraussMr. and Mrs. Eugene ThomasRudolf VestRonald and J. Brantley WaittJillian and Kevin WardPatty and Vince WixonBetty and Arthur WolvertonBronzeRhoda B. and S.C. AbrahamsDona AffolterWilliam and Janet AndersonLinda BarnettRaina and Roger BradshawRobert and Patricia ButlerKeith CampbellNancy CarterKen and Lyn ClarkeChristi CourianPam CurlClark and Carol CustodioJudith DraisJean EisenbergLue Douthit and Dee Anne Everson

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