meredith willson - Showtunes Theatre Company

Book, Music & Lyrics by
MEREDITH WILLSON
Based on the 20th Century Fox Picture
Story by Valentine Davies
Screen Play by George Seaton
Directed by
ALLISON NARVER
Music Direction by
SCOTT WARRENDER
ILLSLEY BALL NORDSTROM RECITAL HALL
AT BENAROYA HALL
200 University Street, Seattle, WA 98111
SHOWTUNES Theatre Company creates concert performances
Welcome to Benaroya Hall and our concert presentation of Miracle on
34th Street – The Musical. It’s a very busy time of the year, and we’re so
glad you’ve decided to come and spend a few hours with SHOWTUNES.
We hope it’s a great kick-off for your holiday festivities!
This show marks our 28th musical in concert, and the beginning of our
second season of concerts here at Benaroya Hall. SHOWTUNES has been
creating concert versions of musicals since 2000, and we are thrilled to
have found a home here in the intimate and inviting Illsley Ball Nordstrom
Recital Hall.
It’s no miracle how we continue to produce exceptional shows – it’s our
Falsettos and Singin’ In
The Rain – garnered seven nominations for the 2013 BroadwayWorld Seattle
Awards. It is extremely gratifying to have our productions and our people
recognized for their stellar work.
Today, we’re asking for your generous help in meeting our payroll expenses
budget goes to our artists onstage and behind the scenes. Your gift will go
directly to the theater artists that create our shows. And here’s the exciting
part – you can make your end-of-the-year gift count double!
The SHOWTUNES Board has announced a special year-end gift-matching
challenge. Every dollar donated now through the end of the year – up to
$5000 - will be matched by the Board.
holiday cheer baskets, and the lucky winners will be drawn at random after
intermission. Just think, your generous donation of $100 today will become
$200, AND you might win a gift basket!
Be a Santa to SHOWTUNES! Your help in reaching our $10,000 goal is greatly
appreciated.
Thanks for supporting live theater,
Maggie & Martin
Miracle On 34th Street The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, New York, NY. Tel: 212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684.
www.mtishows.com
Printing: United Reprographics Photo credit: Chris Bennion Graphic Design: Julie Carlos
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of
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Cast
- John Patrick Lowrie*
- Analiese Guettinger
- Joshua Carter*
RH Macy - Allen Galli*
– Dennis Bateman*
– Mark Anders*, Taryn Darr*, John Deveney,
Rachel Fitzgerald, Matt Giles, Beaven Walters
– Noah Barr, Mae Corley, Sophie Walters
ACT I
Overture
Big Ca-lown Balloons
Parade
Arm In Arm
You Don’t Know
Plastic Alligator
Bugles
Here’s Love
My Wish
Pine Cones and Holly Berries
Look Little Girl
Doris’ Look
Expect Things to Happen
The Toy Ballet
ACT II
Prelude
Pine Cones Reprise
She Hadda Go Back
That Man Over There
My State, My Kansas
Nothing In Common
Case Dismissed
Love Come Take Me
BAND
Piano: Scott Warrender
Percussion: Brad McRae
Reeds: William Bryant, Elaine Cho,
Matt Johnston
Trumpet: Randy Burgeson
Director:
Music Director:
Stage Manager: Louise Butler*
Assistant Stage Manager:
Costumer: Ron Leamon
Artistic Director:
Executive Producer: Maggie Stenson Pehrson
* are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the United States.
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MARK ANDERS*
Mark Anders most recently appeared at the Intiman
Summer Festival in Trouble in Mind and as Stu in Stu for
Silverton; previously he played Gould in ACT/5th Avenue’s
production of Grey Gardens. A Seattle native, he has acted
for thirty years throughout the area, in addition to theatres
around the country. He is a founding member of the
Endangered Species Project, a consortium of theatre artists
dedicated to readings of great neglected plays of the past:
endangeredspeciesproject.org
Dennis Bateman will soon be seen as the Puritan town
The Devil Walks in Salem. Favorite musical
roles include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Fairy Stories, Matthew
in Anne of Green Gables, & Biggley in How to Succeed...
Performed with 5th Avenue, Village, SCT, ACT, Alaska Rep,
& Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Guest-star on TNT’s LEVERAGE, and appears in Men of Honor; Northern Exposure; The
Fugitive; and as Edward R. Murrow in Lifetime’s Dear Abby.
NOAH BARR
DENNIS BATEMAN*
Noah Barr, age 12, is excited to make his SHOWTUNES debut.
He has appeared at the 5th Avenue in Elf (Michael Hobbs)
and Joseph... (Children’s Choir), and has performed in many
Redmond Middle School where he plays saxophone in jazz
band and is looking forward to playing Smee in Peter Pan, Jr!
He also enjoys baseball, guitar and reading. Noah thanks his
voice teacher Kim Maguire. Enjoy the show!
Josh is thrilled to return to SHOWTUNES after playing Marvin
in Falsettos. Josh has performed all around Seattle: at the
5th Avenue, Village Theatre, ACT Theatre, SCT, Intiman, and
JOSHUA CARTER*
roles in the First National Tour of the Broadway show ONCE.
Josh is also pursuing a degree in Biology and Medicine.
Coming up next he will be in the 5th Avenue’s production of
Spamalot and then Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors!
MAE CORLEY
Mae Corley is thrilled to be part of SHOWTUNES’ holiday show
and to be working with this talented cast and production
team. She is happily reuniting with many friends from previous productions, including Merman’s Apprentice (Village
Theatre, Originals Festival), Grey Gardens (ACT/The 5th
Avenue), The Art of Racing in the Rain (Book-It), and Oliver!
to her sisters, Nell and Bea, and Mom and Dad.
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Previous SHOWTUNES adventures: 110 In The Shade (Snookie),
and Out of This World (Night). Taryn most recently starred
as Roxie Hart in Chicago at Village Theatre (2013 Gregory
Award Nomination). Other Village favorites:
(Nellie Forbush), Grease (Sandy). 5th Avenue Theatre: Catch
Me If You Can, Elf, A Chorus Line (Val), White Christmas (Judy
Haynes), and many others. Regional: Boston’s North Shore
in Legally Blonde (Brooke), La Jolla Playhouse, Sacramento
Music Circus, NYMF, and more. Proud UW/AEA. Thank you,
Maggie!
JOHN DEVENEY
John X. Deveney is thrilled to be working with such a
great group on this holiday show. John last worked with
SHOWTUNES in On The 20th Century. He was last seen at the
Village Theatre as Vinnie in The Odd Couple. Other Village
credits include: Iron Curtain, The Full Monty, and Stunt Girl.
John’s favorite role is that of husband to his beautiful wife
Celeste and father to their wonderful son, Ian. Happy
Holidays.
TARYN DARR*
RACHEL FITZGERALD Rachel is happy to be back at SHOWTUNES where she was
last seen as half of the Ringmaster duo in Barnum. Other
Seattle credits include Dottie in She’s Come Undone (Book-it
Repertory Theater), Helen in Fat Pig (Artattack!), and readings
for Balagan, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, and Mirror Stage.
Favorite roles include the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet
(Harlequin/Lake Tahoe Shakespeare) and Lucy in You’re a
Good Man, Charlie Brown (Como Lakeside). Thank you for
attending live theatre.
Allen’s previous SHOWTUNES credits include Singin’ in the
Rain and A Man of No Importance. Most recently he played
Dottore in Servant of Two Masters at Seattle Rep. He is a 33
year veteran of Seattle stages, appearing at SCT, Intiman,
ACT, the 5th Avenue Theatre, the Village Theatre, Seattle
Shakespeare Theatre, and Book It. Regional credits include
Arizona Theatre Company, Sacramento Theatre Company,
and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
MATT GILES
ALLEN GALLI*
Matt Giles could not be more thrilled to be a part of his
second SHOWTUNES production, having been a part of last
spring’s Singin’ in the Rain. Matt is an actor, director, musical
director, and theatre teacher in the Seattle area. His next
directing project is Seattle Musical Theatre’s production of
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which you can
see in February 2014. Matt works full-time in production at
Seattle Repertory Theatre.
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LAURA GRIFFITH*
Broadway:
of Success, and Oklahoma! 5th Avenue Theatre: The Music
Man (Marian), Candide (Cunegonde), 7 Brides for 7 Brothers
(Milly), A Little Night Music (Anne), Rocky Horror Show (Janet).
European Tour: West Side Story. 1st National Tour: The Light in
the Piazza (Helen Hayes Award nom) at the Kennedy Center
and Ahmanson Theatre. Regional credits: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Signature Theatre, Utah
Shakespeare Festival, California Music Theatre.
ANALIESE GUETTINGER
Analiese Emerson Guettinger is delighted to join this
stupendous cast! Credits include: Grey Gardens (5th Avenue),
Fiddler on the Roof, Annie Get Your Gun, Anne of Green
Gables, Meet Me in St. Louis, Showboat (Village Theatre),
Annie Get Your Gun, Fiddler on the Roof (Seattle Musical
Theatre), A Christmas Carol (ACT), as well as the Village
Theatre’s Festival of New Musicals. Love to the family and to
my favorite Tolkien fan JPL.
JOHN PATRICK
LOWRIE*
John has been a professional musician, actor, composer,
director, conductor and author over his lifetime. John was
last seen at ACT as Ashley in Sugar Daddies written and
directed by Sir Alan Ayckbourn. He has worked at every
major theater in the NW and theatres across the country and
Dancing With Eternity, was published
He has voiced characters many computer games including
the voice of the Sniper in Team Fortress 2.
SHOWTUNES debut! Beaven is delighted to share the stage
once again with daughter, Sophie, having previously
performed as both Maria and Gretl in The Sound of Music
with Kitsap Forest Theater. Other favorite roles include
Cinderella in Into the Woods (KFT) and Martha Jefferson in
1776 (SMT). Up next, she will be performing in A Little Night
Music with Second Story Rep this spring. Thanks to her family,
friends, and husband, Mark for all the love and support.
SOPHIE WALTERS
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BEAVEN WALTERS
Sophie is a fourth grader and very excited to be performing with SHOWTUNES
Kate in Annie with Lyric Light Opera and Gretl in The Sound of
Music with Kitsap Forest Theater. She would like to thank her
family, friends, and most of all, her Mom for her musical help.
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(Director) Nationally, Allison’s work has been seen at The Public
Theater, The Kirk Theater, The Cherry Lane Theater, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The
New Victory Theater and The Women’s Project, The Yale Repertory Theater, Studio
Theatre, Pittsburgh City Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Boise Contemporary
Theatre, Redcat Theater, Portland Center Stage, and The Oregon Shakespeare
Festival. In Seattle, The 5th Avenue Theatre, A Contemporary Theater, Seattle
Repertory Theater, Seattle Children’s Theater, Intiman, Annex Theater, New
Century Theater and The Empty Space.
Scott Warrender (Music Director) Scott’s original musical, Das Barbecu!,
premiered Off-Broadway in 1994. His musical direction/compositional credits
include: ACT, Village Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Asolo Theater, Dallas
Theater Center, Cleveland Opera, Seattle Opera, Center Stage in Baltimore, and
Goodspeed Opera House. The song he co-wrote with Joss Whedon, My Lullaby,
was featured in Disney’s The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride. His shows include The Texas
Chainsaw Manicurist, Book of James, The Plexiglass Slipper, Busload of Blonds,
Lights, The January Book, and Blankity-Blank.
(Production Stage Manager) Louise is pleased to be celebrating
this holiday season with Miracle on 34th Street. Louise has been a part of stage
management teams at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Village Theatre, Book-It
Repertory Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Theater Schmeater, the Northwest Folklife
Festival, and 14/48. She also served as the Production Manager for Balagan
Theatre’s Gregory Award nominated 2009-2010 season. You can catch her next
at the Moore Theatre, backstage for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Hannah Feigin (Assistant Stage Manager) is a recent graduate of Eckerd
College, FL with a focus in stage management. Her stage management credits
include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, No Exit, Legally Blonde: The Musical,
and Call of the Wild. She is
excited to be working with such a talented company on this production.
Maggie Stenson Pehrson (Executive Producer) is extremely proud of the now
28 musicals in concert (and many special events) she’s had a hand in bringing to
life for SHOWTUNES. In addition to countless hours devoted offstage, she’s proud
to have appeared onstage for the company as well. A working actor (and proud
years. Thanks to YOU for supporting SHOWTUNES, and special thanks to the rest of
the SHOWTUNES board for their major contributions of time, talent and treasure.
Love to Clint, Josh and Gabriel. Carpe diem!
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Up next for SHOWTUNES
March 29 & 30, 2014
Music and Lyrics by COLE PORTER
Wealthy socialite Tracy Lord is planning a lavish
summer wedding when her ex-husband turns
up to disrupt the proceedings in an attempt
to try and win her back. A further twist arrives
in the form of a reporter who falls instantly for
Tracy. Bubbling with a host of beautiful Porter
tunes including “True Love,” “It Was Just One
Of Those Things” and “Let’s Misbehave,” this
sparkling show proves Porter’s classic musical
You won’t want to miss our swell party!
Based on the play “The Philadelphia Story” by Philip Barry
Tickets on sale now!
SHOWTUNES Theatre Company Board
Julie Carlos, Martin Charnin, Stacey Engle, David Hunter Koch, Drew Murphy,
Maggie Stenson Pehrson, Liz Rudolph, Anne Watanabe, Aimee Windmiller-Wood
Special Thanks
Troy Skubitz, Stephanie Hippen, Matt Laughlin and the rest of the staff at Benaroya Hall
2013-14 Season Donors
2013-14 Season Subscribers
2013-14 Season Sponsors
Beth Moursund
N. Donn Talenti - In memory of Julian Patrick
for his love of the Broadway Musical and Opera