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Phantom: accurate 5/2/05 – 6/5/05
Program Information
Theatreworks/USA
Barbara Pasternack
PLEASE NOTE:
Artistic Director
RICH SILVERSTEIN
replaces Selby Brown in
the role of Gaston as of
4/12/05.
Ken Arthur
Managing Director
Presents
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Music and Lyrics by
Please disregard
previous program
information.
David Spencer
Book by
Rob Barron
Based on the book by
Gaston Leroux
Set Design by
Costume Design by
Charles E. McCarry
Anne-Marie Wright
Music Direction by
Orchestrations by
Stage Manager
Beth Falcone
David Spencer
Daniel Boulos
Choreographed by
Joyce A. Presutti
Directed by
Rob Barron
CAST
(alphabetical by role)
Carlotta .......................................................................................................................................... Kristen Beil
Christine ................................................................................................................................... Krista Severeid
Gaston...................................................................................................................................... Rich Silverstein
Madame Giry............................................................................................................................... Mary Cadden
M. Richard.................................................................................................................................... Peter Roman
Phantom.........................................................................................................................................Scott Napier
The taking of pictures and/or making of visual or sound recording is expressly forbidden.
Please check the houseboard for any program changes.
The activities of Theatreworks/USA are made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts,
the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
The actors and stage manager employed in this production are
members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of
professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
WHO’S WHO
KRISTEN BEIL (Carlotta) Favorite past roles include Sally Bowles
(Cabaret), Roxie Hart (Chicago), Mary Hatch (It’s a Wonderful Life),
Jeanie (Hair). Kristen is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio and a graduate of
Indiana University School of Music (an alumnus of the I.U. Singing
Hoosiers).
KRISTA SEVEREID (Christine) A Seattle area native, Krista received
Music/Theatre degrees from Pacific Lutheran University and moved to
New York last September. New York: Alice (Cook) at the York Theatre –
Developmental Reading Series. Washington favorites: The Sound of
Music (Maria), A Little Night Music (Anne), Annie Get Your Gun (Annie).
Thanks, TheatreworksUSA!
RICH SILVERSTEIN (Gaston) is happy to return to Phantom, having
played M. Richard in the 2004 tour. NYC: Stage Blue at the New
Amsterdam, dir. Richard Maltby. Also shows with Les Freres Corbusier,
Prospect Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theater, and Gorilla Rep.
Favorite roles include Charley in Merrily, Baker in Into the Woods, Finch
in How to Succeed, and Buddy in City of Angels. Yale graduate.
MARY CADDEN (Madame Giry) is thrilled to be making her
TheatreworksUSA debut in The Phantom of the Opera. She received
her BFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Credits include: West Side
Story (Maria), The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Rosa Bud), The Wild Party
(Queenie), and The Fantasticks (Louisa), among others.
PETER ROMAN (M. Richard) is thrilled to be on his second national tour.
Pat credits include: Cat in the Hat (Seussical), Motel (Fiddler), Bud Frunp
(How to Succeed), Antigonus (The Winter’s Tale), Lord Longueville
(Love’s Labours Lost), and Hunk Hoyt (Best Foot Forward).
SCOTT NAPIER (Phantom) is a southern boy from the Virginia
countryside. He has earned a B.A. from the College of William and Mary
and a Master of Music from the Boston Conservatory. He has performed
as a soloist with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall and at Lincoln Center
in NYC. Favorite roles include Jesus in Jesus Christ Superstar and
Sister Mary Amnesia in Nunsense A-Men.
DAVID SPENCER’s (Music, Lyrics, and orchestration) latest, and current,
project is creating music and lyrics for The Fabulist, an epic fable of
Aesop (book by Stephen Witkin, based on the novel by John Vornholt),
recipient of a 2002 Richard Rodgers Development Award, which
allocates $35,000 toward a series of staged readings in NYC as a first
step in a show’s onstage life. Readings of three successive versions were
hosted by the York Theatre (artistic director James Morgan) and directed
by Sheryl Kaller, over the course of Fall 2002 through Fall 2003. The
composer-lyricist was also awarded a 2002 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla
Theatre Foundation Commendation Grant—his second—for his work on
the score. The GGF Foundation also contributed significantly to the
further development of the show, enhancing the last reading and funding
the revised demo currently in progress. A winner of the 2000 Kleban
Award for excellence in theatre lyrics, Spencer is also lyricist/librettist for
the upcoming all-new musical version of Mordcai Richler’s novel The
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (music: Alan Menken). He was again
lyricist to composer Alan Menken, and co-librettist with Alan Brennert, for
the SF musical Weird Romance (Original Cast Album on Columbia
Records, published version by Samuel French). which debuted at the
WPA Theatre; and was so successfully revived in April 2004 for the
Musicals in Mufti series of concert staged readings at the York Theatre
that plans for a full scale revival (featuring new and revised material) are
under way. Other credits: the English Adaptation and New Lyrics for La
Bohéme at the Public Theatre; the music and lyrics for Pulp, a one act
musical (book: Bruce Peyton); music, lyrics and orchestrations for the
Theatreworks/USA Young Audience versions of Phantom of the Opera
and Les Misérables (book and direction for both by Rob Barron), which
“pushed the sophistication envelope” for YA theatre and have toured the
country to audience acclaim and rave reviews. A Cast Album of Phantom
was the inaugural release on the on Playbill label, and the composerlyricist was, in 1996, awarded his first Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Theatre
Foundation Commendation Grant for his work on the score. He has also
drawn upon his theatrical background to write two books: Passing Fancy,
an original novel based on the TV series “Alien Nation,” which was
published by Pocket Books in November, 1994; and The Musical Theatre
Writers Survival Guide, which will be released by Heinemann in Spring of
2005. Spencer is on the teaching faculty of the Lehman Engel-BMI
Musical Theatre Workshop, a member of the Dramatists Guild and has a
biographical entry in Contemporary Authors. Finally, he has also been
an arts journalist for over two decades, writing drama criticism for various
newspapers and occasional features for national arts periodicals. He is
currently webmaster and principal New York drama critic, for Aisle Say:
The Internet Magazine of Stage Reviews and Opinion:
http://www.aislesay.com
ROB BARRON (Book, Director) has directed in New York, regionally,
and in England. He has directed premieres at the Yale Rep, the
Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, and the Actors Studio,
where he is a member as an actor and a director. He directed the
premieres of Come Up and See Me Sometime - A Night with Mae West,
and Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen at the White River
Theatre Festival in Vermont, and the premiere of Thomas G. Waites'
Dark Laughter at the Marin Theatre in California and the Iowa
Playwrights' Festival. He is also a frequent director at
Theatreworks/Colorado and the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C.,
where his productions have been nominated for several Helen Hayes
Awards. He is also the co-author, with Rusty Magee, of 1919: A Baseball
Opera, which was presented at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. For
Theatreworks/USA, he has directed Mike Mulligan and His Steam
Shovel, Ramona Quimby, Charlotte's Web, Little Women, Treasure
Island, and Around the World in 80 Days. He is the co-author of the
musicals Ferdinand the Bull (with Jeff Marx and Robert Lopez) and Les
Miserables. He also wrote and directed new versions of Great
Expectations and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
for the Mountain Playhouse in Pennsylvania, as well as 5/31/89: The
Flood, which premiered in September of 2004. Mr. Barron is a graduate
of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Brown University, and the Yale School of
Drama.
JOYCE A. PRESUTTI (Choreographer) has a long association with
TheatreworksUSA as both an actor and choreographer, starting in 1995.
For TWUSA she has re-staged the choreography for Phantom as well as
creating the choreography for their production of Les Miserables. Other
credits include choreography for the national tour of Grease and the
anniversary tour of The Fantasticks. She has directed and/or
choreographed over 25 productions for Just Off Broadway, Inc. including
award-winning productions of Me & My Girl and The Sound of Music.
For Job, Inc, she recently directed and choreographed Pond Beyond the
Meadow, a new musical. At Maine State Music Theatre, Joyce has
directed and choreographed Young Tom Edison, Goldilocks and the
Three Bears, The Phantom of the Opera, and Little Red Riding Hood.
She has also served as the Intern Director for the past 4 years. At the
Mountain Playhouse, Joyce has the pleasure of choreographing a
production of Godspell directed by Rob Barron. Joyce is a proud
member of SSDC and Actors’ Equity.
DANIEL BOULOS (Stage Manager) Phantom of the Opera marks Dan’s
first show with TheatreworksUSA, however he is no stranger to the road.
Most recently he stage managed two shows for ArtsPower National
Touring Theatre and prior to that toured as a stage manager for American
Family Theatre. As a performer, Dan spent sixteen months in the North
American tour of The Magic School Bus Live. Regional stage
management credits include Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre and
Philadelphia Theatre Company.
ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION, founded in 1913, represents more
than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the U.S. Equity negotiates
wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits,
including health and pension plans. Equity seeks to foster the art of live
theatre as an essential component of our society. www.actorsequity.org.