TOURING SHOW
From the book "Free to Be...You and Me"
conceived by Marlo Thomas and Friends
Adaptation written for the stage by Douglas Love and Regina Safran
Contributions by Judy Blume, Dan Greenberg, Carol Hall, Sheldon Harnick, Bruce Hart, Edward Kleban, Elaine Laron, Stephen Lawrence, Betty Miles, Shelley Miller, Carl Reiner, Mary Rodgers, Shel Silverstein, Peter Stone and Charlotte Zolotow
Orchestrations and Arrangements by Jon Welstead
Originally produced by The National Children's Repertory Theatre, Inc.
SCHEDULED TOURING PERFORMANCES:
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May 12 & 13, 2008 at 10am DeBaun Auditorium - School Shows (closed to the public) May 17, 2008 at 11am & 2pm The Attic Ensemble at the Barrow Mansion, Jersey City, NJ | |
| For information on these performances or booking the tour, please contact Robert Gonzales Jr. at 201.216.8933 or rgonzales@debaun.org | |
TOURING CAST DIRECTORS
BRIDGET B. DUNN (Vickie) Bridget is very excited to be working with some of her favorite people from the theatre! Past shows include: Urinetown, the musical, Seussical, Dames at Sea, On the Town, The Rivals, Rock Horror, LIVE!, Born Yesterday, Pump Boys and Dinettes, and more! Thanks and love to her husband, Mark. "This show is for all my wonderful nieces and nephews, Emily, Jacob, Grace, Austin and Luke. I love you all!"
MARK DUNN (Richard) Mark is very excited to be a part of this fantastic production with this amazing cast and crew. Mark is ecstatic to have worked with his wife Bridget in the last four productions, and can’t believe she’s not sick of him yet. Most recently Mark performed with Alan Cross Productions in Julio I need the Key at The People’s Improv Theatre in NYC. His last two shows with The Theater Company were this past year as a singing monkey in Seussical and as a singing Policeman in Urinetown, the musical. Thanks to Dave, Carl, Billy, Liz, and Shawna for all of their hard work and trust. "This show is dedicated to my amazing parents: Kay and Karen Dunn. Thank you for a great life!"
ROBERT GONZALES JR. (William) This marks Robert's eleventh appearance with The Theater Company. Previous productions: Pippin, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Smokey Joe's Café, Seussical, Urinetown, the musical, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, The Fantasticks, Godspell, The One-Armed Man and Summer Cabaret Series. Off-Broadway: Fools in Love, Tempest Tossed Fools and Kennedy's Children. He most recently appeared in a new play The Ghosts of 14th Street at The Theater for the New City in Manhattan. "Thanks to Billy, Liz, Shawna, Dave, and, of course, my friends that I get to perform with--I wouldn't have it any other way!!"
KELLY NICHOLS (Janet) Kelly Nichols is and actor/singer/stand-up comic in New York City. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Theatre from the University of Minnesota - Duluth, she came to New York to stay. Some of her recent roles have been The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, The Sour Kangaroo in Seussical, Julie in Keepingabreast, and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream. She also performs with Wildlife Theatre at the Central Park Zoo, and makes people laugh in stand-up clubs all over the city. She loves to bake and do yoga and she lives in Hoboken with her awesome husband Letham. www.k-nichols.com
BILLY MITCHELL (Director) recently directed Seusscial and two of the one-acts, one for The Theater Company (TTC) and one for the Attic Ensemble, in this season’s Hudson County One Acts Festival. He is also gearing up to direct Bartholomew Fair, NJ, for TTC this summer, and recenlty directed Jeffrey at the Attic Ensemble (where he is president). He’s looking forward to the upcoming directing project, Free to Be...You and Me, with The Theater Company later this spring. Recent directing credits include Into the Woods, Schoolhouse Rock Live!, Off the Beaten Path (all with The Theater Company); Jeffrey, Design for Murder, the premiere production of Life, Death and Vermont (at the Attic); and in NYC: Love, Punky (Midtown Int’l Theater Festival), In Search of Tulla Berman and Who’s On First? for No Kneecap Prods.; Sunrize Highway’s Live from New York (at Elmo), Khaki at Bat (at HERE); and The Owl and The Pussycat (at Shetler’s Blackbox). Billy is the creator of A Gorey Phantasy, adapted from unpublished writings provided by late author/illustrator Edward Gorey; and the author/lyricist of Mad King Ludwig, a musical of the final days of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. If you actually want to know more, please visit bybilly.com!
LIZ GERBI (Musical Director) This is Liz's fourth production with DeBaun, after MDing Dreamgirls, Schoolhouse Rock Live! and Seussical. Liz is an active MD, coach, arranger, pianist, and conductor for regional theaters around the country, most recently at Merrimack Rep (Lowell, MA), Wagon Wheel Theater (Warsaw, IN), Helen Hayes Theater (Nyack, NY), and Prospect Theater Co (NYC), 75+ productions and counting. Favorites include Starmites (Millennium Edition, with composer Barry Keating), Once Upon A Mattress (DVD for Rodgers and Hammerstein Music Library), and Sondheim's Passion (a production that entirely took place on military parachutes). "Par usual, love to Scotty." For more information, www.BronzeHornStudios.net
This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered by the Hudson County Office of Cultural & Heritage Affairs, Thomas A. DeGise, County Executive, and The Board of Chosen Freeholders.