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Program Information
Theatreworks USA
Barbara Pasternack
Artistic Director
Ken Arthur
Producing Director
Presents
FLY GUY
& OTHER STORIES
Musical Scenes by
Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel
Kevin Del Aguila & Eli Bolin
David Kirshenbaum
Steven Lutvak & Robert L. Freedman
Kevin Del Aguila & Brad Alexander
Mindi Dickstein & Daniel Messé
Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Scenic Design by
Costume Design by
Vaughn Patterson
Anne-Marie Wright & Lora LaVon
Music Direction by
Orchestrations by
Nathan Dame
Greg Pliska
Stage Manager
Joshua Quinn
Choreographed by
Devanand Janki
Directed by
Kevin Del Aguila
CAST
(alphabetical by role)
Female #1 ..................................................................................................................................................................................Sarah Mullis
Female #2 ............................................................................................................................................................................... Molly Rushing
Female #3 .......................................................................................................................................................................... Brooke Weisman
Male #1 ...................................................................................................................................................................... Sean Michael Buckley
Male #2 ....................................................................................................................................................................................Andrew Miller
Male #3 .................................................................................................................................................................................... Khalid Rivera
The taking of pictures and/or making of visual or sound recording is expressly forbidden.
Please check the houseboard for any program changes.
This program from Theatreworks USA is supported, 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 in partnership with the City Council.
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 Director and Choreographer are members of the
STAGE DIRECTORS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS
SOCIETY, a national theatrical labor union.
MUSICAL NUMBERS
“Pick a Book” ............................................................................................................................................ by Mindi Dickstein & Daniel Messé
“Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl” ...................................................................................................................... adapted by Kevin Del Aguila & Eli Bolin
Based on the book Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl. Text and illustration copyright © 2010 by Tedd Arnold. Used by permission of Scholastic Entertainment Inc.
“Lilly’s Big Day” ....................................................................................................................... adapted by Kevin Del Aguila & Brad Alexander
Based on the book Lily’s Big Day. Copyright © 2006 by Kevin Henkes. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“A Prize for Fluffy” ............................................................................................................... adapted by Robert L. Freedman & Steven Lutvak
Based on the book Fluffy’s Silly Summer by Kate McMullan. Used with the permission of Pippin Properties, Inc.
“Kitten’s First Full Moon” ............................................................................................................. adapted by Kate Anderson & Elyssa Samsel
Based on the book Kitten’s First Full Moon. Copyright © 2004 by Kevin Henkes. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores” ................................................................................................ adapted by Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
Based on the book Horace and Morris But Mostly Dolores by James Howes, illustrated by Amy Walrod.
“The Paper Bag Princess” .............................................................................................................................. adapted by David Kirshenbaum
Based on the book by Robert Munsch. Used with the permission of Annick Press
“Diary of a Worm” ........................................................................................................... adapted by Robert Lopez & Kristin Anderson-Lopez
Based on the book by Doreen Cronin and Harry Bliss. Used with the permission of Pippin Properties, Inc.
“Pick a Book (Finale)” ................................................................................................................................ by Mindi Dickstein & Daniel Messé
WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST
(alphabetical by role)
SARAH MULLIS (Female #1) has loved working on Fly Guy!
She was last seen in A.R.T.'s The Donkey Show. When she's
not on stage Sarah partakes in hobbies like time travel,
telepathy, and child whispering. Thank you to the cast and
crew, her family, friends, Rachel, Kelsey, and BoCo 2013.
MOLLY RUSHING (Female #2) is a native of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, and a graduate of Oklahoma City University. She
made her NYC debut at Avery Fisher Hall as Jenny in the
concert Babes in Toyland. She has performed with Disney
Cruise Line, as well as numerous regional theatres throughout
the United States.
BROOKE WEISMAN (Female #3) is so excited to be a part of
the Fly Guy family! She is a recent graduate from
Northwestern University, originally from Davie, Florida.
Favorite
credits
include 25th Annual…Spelling
Bee
(Schwarzy), Moby Dick (Fate) and The Waa Mu Show. Many
love and thanks to her family and friends.
SEAN MICHAEL BUCKLEY (Male #1) is pleased to be joining
TheatreWorks USA for its debut tour of Fly Guy and Other
Stories. Sean is a recent graduate of Western Michigan
University's Musical Theatre Department. Favorite roles
include: Shane Mungitt in Take Me Out, The French Taunter
in Spamalot, Wilbur in Hairspray, and Blake in Glenngarry
Glen Ross. Thanks to my Dad, my brothers and my Gabby
girl.
ANDREW MILLER (Male #2) is a Cleveland native and a
recent graduate of Ithaca College with a degree in Acting.
Recent credits include “Cleaning Out My Room”, “Watching
TV”, and "Ice Cream or Push-ups: A Retrospective." Big
thanks to the cast, creative team and he TWUSA staff. His
grandma says hi!
KHALID RIVERA (Male #3) Excited to be back at
Theatreworks USA! Previously did Seussical the Musical as
one of the Wickersham Brothers. Has been on Broadway,
done numerous tours, co-star and featured roles on numerous
TV shows and has two films coming out next year. Proud
member of Actors Equity.
KATE ANDERSON (Kitten’s First Full Moon) graduated cum
laude with a BA in Music, and a minor in Creative Writing. In
fall of 2010, Kate was accepted into the BMI Lehman Engel
Musical Theatre Workshop. Kate was paired with Elyssa
Samsel for her very first assignment and the two have been
writing partners ever since. .Kate and Elyssa’s work has been
featured in the New York Theater Barn’s D-Lounge Series,
The Platform: London, as well as “4@15” with NYU Steinhardt
and UC Irvine. They have penned three short musical
comedies, Camp Wish-No-More, Llamaze 101, and My Little
Brony. Kate and Elyssa are currently working on some
exciting new projects including two adaptations and an original
work.
ELYSSA SAMSEL (Kitten’s First Full Moon) was born in New
York City. Currently a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel
Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, Elyssa is working on
projects inside and outside of the workshop with fellow
member, Kate Anderson. The two of them are currently writing
an original Musical Comedy called Camp Wish-No-More.
Camp Wish-No-More was recently produced by New York
Theatre Barn as part of their monthly series at the D-Lounge
in Union Square and had its first debut as part of the 4@15
UC-Irvine Satellite Program. Elyssa is also the co-author (with
Jade Bartlett) of a new musical based on a short story by
Edgar Allan Poe entitled Ligeia. More info and music at
www.elyssasamsel.com
KEVIN DEL AGUILA (Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl & Lilly’s Big
Day) is bookwriter of the off-Broadway hit Altar Boyz (Outer
Critics Award, Lortel and Drama Desk noms.) and lyricist of
Click, Clack, Moo (Lortel and Drama Desk noms.). Other
works as a writer/lyricist include Nickelodeon’s Storytime Live,
and musical versions of the children’s books Lilly’s Big Day, I
Have to Go, and Duck for President. Up next: stage
adaptation of the film Madagascar for DreamWorks.
www.delaguila.info
BRAD ALEXANDER (Lilly’s Big Day) is a New York-based
BMI
songwriter
and
the
composer
of
See Rock City & Other Destinations, recipient of the 2011
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical, six
Drama Desk nominations, the Richard Rodgers Award, and
The BMI Foundation Jerry Bock Award. Additional theatre
credits include the music and orchestrations for Theatreworks
USA’s Click, Clack, Moo (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel
Award nominee), the music for Just So Stories and Martha
Speaks and songs for Duck For President, If You Give A Pig A
Pancake, and We The People: America Rocks! (Lortel Award
nominee).
ELI BOLIN (Fly Guy Meets Fly Girl) is the music
director/composer and a founding member of the Story
Pirates, a nationally-recognized arts education organization
that performs songs and sketches adapted from the creative
writing of children all over the country. With lyricist Sam
Forman, he has scored the musicals I Sing!, Schmoozy
Togetherness (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Roller Boogie
(ART, Cambridge), Volleygirls, The Big Show and the opening
number of Theatreworks USA's We the People. He recently
joined “Sesame Street” as a composer for its 42nd season.
His music has been featured on MSNBC and Comedy Central
Presents: Kristen Schaal.
MINDI DICKSTEIN (“Pick A Book”) wrote the lyrics for the
Broadway musical Little Women, which received Tony and
Drama Desk nominations. Her songs have been performed
widely, most notably as part of Lincoln Center's American
Songbook ("Hear and Now: Contemporary Lyricists”) and in
concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Mindi has
written book and lyrics for a number of shows with music by
long-time collaborator Daniel Messé, including the original
musicals Trip, Beasts and Saints and The Magic Cookie, as
well as several musicals commissioned and produced by the
nationally acclaimed Theatreworks USA, including Nate the
Great and The Mystery of King Tut.
DANIEL MESSÉ (“Pick A Book”) In 2009, the Public Theater
tapped Hem to score Twelfth Night for their Shakespeare in
the Park Festival (starring Anne Hathaway and Audra
Mcdonald, dir. by Daniel Sullivan) for which they earned a
Drama Desk nomination. Messé was the 2001 recipient of the
Jonathan Larson Grant from the American Theatre Wing,
along with longtime collaborator Mindi Dickstein, with whom
he has written the musicals Beasts and Saints, Nate the
Great, and The Mystery of King Tut. He also contributed
compositions to the musical revues Reading Rainbow through
Theatreworks USA and last season’s Stars of David. Messé is
currently working as composer with bookwriter Craig Lucas
and lyricist Nathan Tyson on the musical adaptation of the
wildly successful French film, Amelié.
DAVID KIRSHENBAUM (The Paper Bag Princess) David
penned the mu sic and lyrics for the off-Broadway
musical Summer of ’42 (book by Hunter Foster). David’s work
has been produced at many other theatres nationwide, among
them Goodspeed Musicals, Round House Theatre, The York
Theatre Company, Casa Manana, Seacoast Rep, and
Dayton’s Victoria Theatre. He has received grants from the
National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Producer-Writer
Initiative and the Jonathan Larson Performing Arts
Foundation. David is also a contributing songwriter to the
childrens’ TV series Johnny and the Sprites. A native of New
York City, David has a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from
the University of Michigan
BOBBY LOPEZ (Diary of a Worm) is the Academy Award,
Tony®, Grammy®, and Emmy® winning co-creator of the
smash hit musicals Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon. With
wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez, he co-wrote songs for Winnie
the Pooh and Finding Nemo: The Musical (playing at Walt
Disney World since 2006). They are also the team behind the
songs of the hit Disney animated feature Frozen, starring Idina
Menzel and Kristen Bell, and a forthcoming original stage
musical called Up Here. He shared two Emmy Awards® for
his music for The Wonder Pets and an Emmy® nomination for
the Scrubs musical episode. His work has been seen on
South Park, The Simpsons, and Phineas and Ferb. Member
BMI Workshop, Dramatists Guild Council, WGA, AEA, Yale
grad, native NY’er. Thanks Buzzetti, Mom, Dad, Billy, Katie,
Annie and especially Kristen for all the love and support.
KRISTEN ANDERSON-LOPEZ (Diary of a Worm), along with
her husband Robert Lopez, wrote the music for the 2011
Disney film Winnie the Pooh. Additionally, she wrote songs for
a Walt Disney World production of Finding Nemo – The
Musical. She and her husband wrote the songs for Disney's
Frozen including "Let It Go", for which they won an Oscar. Her
work for young audiences includes numerous short and fulllength musical adaptations for Theatreworks USA (Diary of a
Worm, Fancy Nancy, and Condensed Classics). AndersonLopez is the co-creator of the Drama Desk Award winning,
musical In Transit and received Drama Desk, Drama League,
and Lucille Lortel recognition. Anderson-Lopez is currently
working on the new stage musical Up Here with her husband.
The couple are also working on another musical, Disney's Bob
the Musical.
ROBERT L. FREEDMAN (A Prize for Fluffy) Robert L.
Freedman received the Fred Ebb and Kleban awards for the
musicals A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and
Campaign of the Century with Steven Lutvak, and was
nominated for Emmy and Writers Guild awards for the
television miniseries Life With Judy Garland: Me and My
Shadows. Other teleplays include
Rodgers
and
Hammerstein’s Cinderella (WGA nomination), HBO’s A
Deadly Secret (WGA winner), What Makes A Family (GLAAD
Award, Humanitas finalist), Murder In The Hamptons, The
Pastor’s Wife, Honor Thy Mother, What Love Sees, Bitter
Blood, and Broadway Sings The Music of Jule Styne (PBS).
Stage works include The Beast of Broadway: The Life and
Times of David Merrick, written with Faye Greenberg, and the
musical Grand Duchy, with composer John Bayless.
STEVEN LUTVAK (A Prize for Fluffy) wrote the title track to
Paramount’s hit film, Mad Hot Ballroom. He won the Kleban
and Fred Ebb Awards, both with Robert L. Freedman, for A
Gentleman's Guide To Love and Murder and Campaign of the
Century. Other musicals include Almost September,
Esmeralda, The Wayside Inn and other awards include two
Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grants, the
Johnny Mercer Emerging American Songwriting Award, and
an NEA New American Work Grant. He was profiled in Time
Magazine’s People To Watch. Steven has performed his
songs at Carnegie Hall and around the country, and his CD’s
are "The Time It Takes" and "Ahead of my Heart."
StevenLutvak.com.
BENJ PASEK& JUSTIN PAUL (Horace & Morris But Mostly
Dolores) are the Tony-nominated songwriters of the
Broadway musical A Christmas Story which opened in
November 2012 and enjoyed a critically-acclaimed, recordbreaking run at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. In addition to the
Best Score nomination, A Christmas Story also received Tony
nominations for Best Musical and Best Book, as well as,
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for
Outstanding New Broadway Musical. Benj and Justin’s score
for the show also received a Drama Desk nomination for
Outstanding Music. Benj & Justin are also the composers
behind the Off-Broadway musical Dogfight, a Best New
Musical nominee for the Drama League, Lucille Lortel and
Outer Critics Circle awards. Benj and Justin also received an
Outer Critics Circle Best Score nomination for their work on
the show. As television songwriters, their original songs were
featured on Season 2 of NBC’s Smash, and have risen to the
Top 25 on the iTunes Pop Charts.
KEVIN DEL AGUILA (Director) is an actor, writer and director
living in New York City. He has been the director of Lincoln
Center Theater’s annual Celebration of Student Songs since
2008, and helmed world premiere productions of See Rock
City and Other Destinations and Kirsten Childs' Funked Up
Fairy Tales for William Finn's musical theater lab at Barrington
Stage in Massachusetts. He has staged several productions
of his own plays, including A Touch of Rigor Mortis, Number
One: A Pollock Painting, and his celebrated comedy 6 Story
Building (which took top award at the 2002 NY Fringe
Festival). He has been the director of several national tours for
Theatreworks USA including A Christmas Carol, Duck for
President, If You Give a Pig a Pancake and the Off-Broadway
productions of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Lucille Lortel
Theater) and his own adaptation of The Velveteen Rabbit
(DR2 Theater).
DEVANAND JANKI (Choreographer) Off-B'way: Zanna,
Don’t! (Winner Lortel, Callaway and GLAAD Awards), Yellow
Brick Road (Callaway Award nom.), Junie B. Jones (Lortel
nom.), Henry and Mudge (Lortel nom.), Cupid and Psyche and
Romantic Poetry. Broadway concerts for the Actors Fund:
Hair, Funny Girl, Dreamgirls (Assoc.) and Seth Rudestky's
Broadway 101. Lincoln Center: Amahl and the Night Visitors,
Babes in Toyland and Anything Goes in concert (Choreo.
Assist.); Artistic Assoc. for BC/EFA's Broadway Bares.
Regional: Rent, Aladdin, Barrio Grrrl!, Asphalt Beach, Full
Monty, Scarlet Pimpernel, Man of La Mancha. TYA tours: Nate
the Great, If You Give a Pig Pancake, Jack Sprat Low Fat
World Tour, Berenstain Bears. www.devanandjanki.com
JEN DONOHOO (Assistant Choreographer) is excited to be
working on her first production with TheatreworksUSA. She
most recently assistant directed NYMF’s Deployed (dir. Mindy
Cooper) at Signature Theatre and currently serves as a
rehearsal director for Royal Caribbean’s Ocean Aria. Regional
Dance Captain/Assistant: Follies, Timon of Athens, A
Christmas Carol, A Chorus Line, Lions Club International
Opening Ceremonies in Germany. Other Credits: Brigadoon,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Welcome Yule!, Dance For
Life. Regional Theatres: Chicago Shakespeare Theatre,
Paramount Theatre, Theatre at the Center among others.
Past/Guest Faculty: Joffrey Ballet, Lou Conte Dance Studio,
Ruth Page Dance Centre, and Ball State University. AEA and
AGMA member.
NATHAN DAME (Music Director) is originally from Ogden,
Utah and makes his home in Brooklyn, New York. Some
recent credits: Music Director: A Little Night Music (Berkshire
Theatre Group); Adam Lives by Rob Baumgartner
(Goodspeed NMF); Pump Boys and Dinettes (Geva
Theatre); The
Lightning
Thief (Theatreworks
USA);Outlaws (ASCAP). Music Supervisor: Mr. Burns by Anne
Washburn, music by Michael Friedman (Playwrights
Horizons). Assoc. Music Director: What's It All About? (New
York Theatre Workshop); Fly By Night (Dallas Theater
Center); Triassic Parq: The Musical (Amas Musical
Theatre); Himself and Nora (NYMF, Tritone Productions); 40
Naked Women, a Monkey, and Me (O'Neill Cabaret
Conf.); Nightmare Alley (NYMF, Tritone Productions). Music
Assistant: First National Tour of The Addams Family.
JOSHUA QUINN (Stage Manager) is excited to join this
amazing team to bring you Fly Guy! You can usually find him
stage managing in New York City, running in Central Park, or
watching Broadway shows! Proud member of Actors’ Equity
and graduate of University at Albany. Much love to friends and
Johnson.
THEATREWORKS USA (Producer) founded in 1961, is
America’s foremost professional theatre for young and family
audiences. Its mission is to create imaginative and thoughtprovoking shows that are educational, entertaining and
thought-provoking. Their 2014-2015 touring repertoire
includes Charlotte’s Web; A Christmas Carol; Click, Clack,
Moo; Curious George; Fly Guy & Other Stories; Freedom
Train; Junie B. Jones; Skippyjon Jones; The Lightning Thief;
The Teacher From the Black Lagoon & Other Story Books and
We The People. Theatreworks’ honors include a Drama Desk
Award, Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Award, the Jonathan
Larson Performing Arts Foundation Award, the William M.
Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence given by the
Association of Performing Arts Presenters and the Medal of
Honor from the Actors’ Fund of America. www.TWUSA.org
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