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Anonymous ▪ City of Plano ▪ Gay, McCall, Isaacks, Gordon & Roberts, P.C. ▪ Haggard Property Group ▪ Plano Arts & Cultural Endowment ▪ Texas Commission on the Arts
Trailblazer - $5000 to $9999 The Dale Wasserman Foundation ▪ Caitlin Schraufnagel
Pioneer - $2500 to $4999 Anonymous ▪ City of Richardson ▪ David McCall ▪ Jason & Carol Rice
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Jim & Jenifer Grace ▪ HP Enterprise Services ▪ Premier Wines
Adventurer - $500 to $999 Anonymous ▪ Tim & Jane Birkhead ▪ Einstein Bros. Bagels ▪ Ron Eubanks ▪
Margo Lynn Hablutzel ▪ Hirsch’s Specialty Meats ▪ Chris & Martha Kosel ▪ Lennox Corp.
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Gregory Boydston ▪ Bud & Bonnie Barlow ▪ BJ’s Restaurant ▪ Melody & John Bock ▪ Lea Courington ▪ Deep Ellum Brewing Company ▪ Nancy Day ▪ Frito Lay ▪ Goodsearch.com ▪
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Rosenstein ▪ Barry Schneider & Nancy Corley ▪ Robert Smith ▪ Tom Thumb ▪ John & Lee Ida Wacker ▪ Richard Wills ▪ Randy & Diana Wright ▪ Rebecca Wright
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Communities Foundation of Texas ▪ Ann & Terry Conner ▪ Mr. & Mrs. O. P. Corley ▪ Susan Fortin ▪ Dan & Claudia Gray ▪ Lindsey Humphries ▪ Tracy Hurd ▪ Laurie Johnson ▪
Trish Jones ▪ Robert M. Juday ▪ Bill & Terrie Justus ▪ Gerald & Gladys Justus ▪ Dave & Mary Beth King ▪ Kroger ▪ Brian McCall ▪ Denise Merkle ▪ Mark Oristano ▪ Joe Parkinson ▪ Michael & Penny Rathbun ▪ The ReStore ▪ Lynne Richardson ▪
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John Reas ▪ Dana Riley ▪ Ron Sehar ▪ John & Betty Silander ▪ Patrick & Mary Tiner ▪ Urban Crust ▪ Bill & Shirley Wasserman ▪ Kim Wickware ▪ Jill & Scott Wilkinson ▪ Brian Wolf
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Krispy Kreme Donuts ▪ Edith Dulles Lawlis ▪ Lenny’s Subs ▪ Nick Mann ▪ Sasha McGonnell ▪ Donald McLaughlin ▪ Bill Naifeh ▪ Betty Nieczyporowicz ▪ Melissa O’Neal ▪
Plano Community Charity ▪ Laura Reyes ▪ Larri Rosser ▪ Monica Salhuana ▪ Kelley E. Skidmore ▪ Laura Sosnowski ▪ Verizon ▪ Brian Wolf ▪ Laura Wright ▪ Tracy Yost
If we have failed to include you, please accept our sincere apology and let us know so we can rectify the situation.
Thank you ALL for your generous support!
presents
By Rebecca Gilman directed by Rebecca McDonald
Cox Building Playhouse February 28 - March 23
Rover Dramawerks’ Season Sponsors
Special Thanks
Boy Gets Girl would not have been possible without the generous contributions of the following:
Our wonderful donors, season sponsors, and purchasers of program ads. Please visit those businesses whose ads you see here
and let them know you appreciate their support of the arts!
YOU, for being in our audience - with an extra special thanks to our season ticket holders!
Please turn off all pagers, cellular phones, wristwatch alarms,
and other noise and light making devices. Thank you!
There will be one 15-minute intermission.
Boy Gets Girl is produced by special arrangement with Dramatic Publishing, Inc. Woodstock, IL.
City of Plano The Habitat ReStore Andrew Hamilton Lindsey Humphries Beverly McDonald Michael B. Moore
Bill Naifeh, Naifeh Photography Patrick S. O’Neil Plano Stages Staff Pocket Sandwich Theatre
Taylor Reed Shepherd Pest Management Texas Commission on the Arts Texas Women’s University
Rover's Mission Searching for treasures, new and rediscovered,
for theatre "off the beaten path."
Rover Dramawerks produces lost or forgotten works of well-known authors, revives excellent scripts that have suffered from lack of exposure,
and discovers unknown gems of the stage.
Get Involved! Rover Dramawerks currently presents six exciting mainstage shows and two One Day Only 10-minute play festivals every season, as well as camps and classes in three North Texas cities, and we are elated about our continued growth! Join us as we grow, won’t you? Volunteers make all of this possible. We are a business. We are an art. We are a community. If you have ever been a part of any of these things, you have the skills we’re looking for! We’re looking for people to join our dynamic Board of Directors, help us write grants, network on Rover’s behalf with local businesses, build sets, join our new guild - if you’ve got a talent, we can probably make use of it! Just give your contact information to the box office or a roving board member and we’ll take it from there. You can also send an email to Rover’s Artistic Director Carol M. Rice at [email protected] for more information or with kudos, questions, or concerns about anything Rover related, too! If you don’t have a lot of extra time, you can still help us out. Use GoodSearch.com when surfing the web (instead of Google), and Rover gets a penny per search. Use GoodShop when you shop online, and we get a percentage of your purchase! There’s even a nifty toolbar you can download that will tell you when you’re visiting a shopping site that will benefit Rover! With COUPONS! And new to the GoodSearch family is GoodDining, which benefits Rover when you eat out at participating restaurants. Check it out today and register, and you can support us without even thinking about it! You can also link your Tom Thumb Reward Card to Rover. Just fill out an application at the store including our account number, 10965, and we’ll get a percentage every time you buy groceries! Every little bit ads up! Another easy way to support Rover is to visit the businesses whose ads appear in our program, and let them know you’re there because you saw them here! You can even buy an ad for YOUR business! Rates start at just $48 for a quarter page, and we have season ads available, too. More than anything though, we love it when you’re here in our audience. We need and appreciate your support and hope to see you again SOON. Be sure to make your tax-deductible donations and buy your season tickets!
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By Michael Frayn Directed by Carol M. Rice
February 22 - March 23 Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, Sundays at 7:00 pm
Food and beverage service available one and a half hours before showtime.
5400 E. MOCKINGBIRD, #119 DALLAS, TX 75206 For reservations, please call (214) 821-1860.
The Cast Theresa Bedell..........................................................................Kim Winnubst Tony...................................................................................Ross James Miller Howard Siegel........................................................................Mark C. Guerra Mercer Stevens........................................................................Walt Threlkeld Harriet...........................................................................................Jade Reyes Madeleine Beck.................................................................Jennifer Stoneking Les Kennkat..............................................................................Ben Westfried
The Production Staff Director.…........................................................................Rebecca McDonald Stage Manager..........................................................................Sarah Barnes Producer...................................................................................Robbi Holman Set Designer............................................................................Cameron Hefty Costume Designer...………………………......................Ryan Matthieu Smith Lighting Designer.…...…………………....................................Cameron Hefty Sound Designer...............................................................Rebecca McDonald Properties Designer.….................…...............…........................Natalia Borja Make-up/Hair Designer..................................................Ryan Matthieu Smith Sound Board Operator.....................................................Rebecca McDonald Light Board Operator.................................................................Sarah Barnes Backstage Crew.....................................................................Chandler Jones Darcy Koss Zach Schiesser Program.................……………………………………..................Carol M. Rice Box Office…………………………………..................................Kim Wickware
The songs "Only Yours", "Choke" and "Buried" are written and performed by Taylor Reed.
Graphic Novelties!Graphic Novelties!
Rover Late Night Returns!
Join us on Fridays (March 1, 8, 15, and 22) following Boy Gets Girl at 10:30 p.m. for
presenting
The Killing Joke
FREE if you see Boy Gets Girl that night; otherwise just $5!
Who's Who Sarah Barnes is back in action backstage for Rover. She has seen a cast of Epic Proportions, gone on a 3 hour tour, and found all of it More Fun Than Bowling. Now she will sit by and watch as a boy meets a girl. After graduating from SFASU in May 2010 with a BA in Theatre & Music, Natalia Borja worked as an actress and lighting designer in Houston before making her way to Dallas and to props. Currently, she is filming the webseries “Welcome to the County” which is set to premiere in June. Thank you to the wonderful cast and crew for making this such a rewarding experience. She dedicates this show to her most darling clown in the world, Lenny. This is Mark C. Guerra's first time on stage at Rover Dramawerks. He has also been seen onstage at Theatre Three (The Full Monty, Mack & Mabel, A Dog's Life, Wild Oats), Shakespeare Dallas (As You Like It), Risk Theatre Initiative (Last Days of Judas Iscariot), Pegasus Theatre (Death Express), Rite of Passage Theater (Binge) and FTP for the F.I.T. Festival (Holy Rollers). Mark directed the last Rover show, Something's Afoot, and Sunday in New York in 2011. Mark has directed for Mesquite Community Theater (Don't Dress For Dinner; Kiss or Make Up), Creative Arts and Theatre School (Pinkalicious, the Musical), Nouveau 47 (various staged readings), and Jesters. He has costumed for Theatre Three, Risk, Imagination Players and Richardson Theater Centre. When Mark is not acting, directing or costuming, he teaches Theatre Arts at Fannin Middle School in Grand Prairie. Mark earned his degree i Theatre Performance/Design from the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, Tx. Special thanks to my family for their support, to my friends for being my “family,” and to Becki for showing me how to “BeaM”!
214-870-1442 [email protected]
Kim & Cory Wickware
Cake Makes the World Go ‘Round!
MMM...Cake!
Would you like to see your company’s name in a Rover program?
There are so many opportunities! You can purchase an ad, sponsor a show, or donate goods and services! Contact Jason Rice, Board President, at [email protected] for more information about how easy it is to sponsor a show at Rover Dramawerks! You can sponsor the whole run, be a co-sponsor, or even just sponsor an opening night, closing night, or any special night during the run of any show in our season! We also offer very affordable ads in our programs - and this is a captive audience! You can purchase single show ads or ads for the whole season! Does your company provide something Rover could make use of? Labor for our move-ins, printing services, the loan of a moving truck, and food and drink for our volunteers are just a few things we have gratefully received from local businesses. Do you have an empty building we could rehearse or build in, unused laptops, volunteers you could loan us for various duties, or something else? Contact us!
Cameron Hefty is the President of ProFormance Systems. ProFormance provides technical assistance to local school districts and individual clients for various live productions. Cameron attended Collin County Community College working as a Shop Assistant, Lighting Designer and Stage Manager. His lighting design of Through a Glass Onion won him the Kennedy Center/ACTF Excellence in Lighting Design award. Cameron moved to New York where he was accepted into the Juilliard School Professional Intern Program. There he was a Stage Manager for theatre, dance and opera. After his internship, he became the Tour Manager for Manhattan Dance Project and began touring nationally. He is currently designing shows locally, and has begun teaching classes and workshops in technical theatre. Rebecca McDonald is excited to direct Boy Gets Girl a second time! She has sung, acted, danced, directed, and choreographed around the DFW Metroplex, New York, Ireland, and Scotland. Recent directing credits include: staged readings at Kitchen Dog Theatre’s “PupFest”, Gilligan's Island: the Musical at Rover Dramawerks, Boy Gets Girl and Mark One at Texas Woman’s University, and Words with Junior Players. Favorite choreography credits include: The Wizard of Oz: The Musical, Crazy For You and Footloose (ACT), Hip Hop Real Stop: BGirlz Swag (New York), and Crabs in a Bucket: The Ladder of Booker T. Washington (Ft Worth MoMa). Rebecca will next choreograph the play Into the Night at Nouveau 47 in Dallas. Ross James Miller studied acting at Southeast Missouri State University. He then transferred to KD College in Dallas where he recently graduated. He has been in such productions as In the Boom Boom Room, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Cabaret Jade Reyes is excited to be a part of this production with Rover. Favorite credits include Beauty and the Beast, After the Fall, Love From a Stranger, and Written in Time with Rover Dramawerks. She received training from The New York Conservatory and many talented Dallas teachers. Jade would like to thank God, her family, and her supporters for their encouragement and help. Ryan Matthieu Smith is an award winning costume designer, stylist, and production designer working in film and theatre in New York City, Los Angeles, and Dallas. His Styling has graced the pages of Rolling Stone and Interview Magazines. Favorite film credits include production design for Wendy & Lucy, and set dressing for Twilight and Into the Wild. Favorite Theatre Designs include the Southwest Premier of Sideshow the Musical and Batboy the Musical. He is a three time recipient of the Column Award for Best Costuming. Ryan is also a Casting Producer for MTV Networks and a Casting Associate for Bunim & Murray. Most recently, Ryan has received critical acclaim for his design work in the NYC Fringe Festival musical Who Murdered Love? and for Siren's Heart, currently running at The Actor's Temple in New York. Ryan just finished some design work for the upcoming Broadway smash Kinky Boots, book by Harvey Fierstein and Music by Cyndi Lauper. Ryan is also currently directing Greater Tuna for Grand Prairie Arts Council starring Jon Morehouse and Brad Smith. Extra special thanks to Becki, for being brilliant!!! This is Jennifer Stoneking’s debut performance with Rover Dramawerks and she is delighted to be here. She has most recently been seen hamming it up at The Pocket Sandwich Theater in such plays as Captain Phantasm and the Countdown to Doom, The Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor, and Murders in the Rue Morgue. Jenny received her BFA in Performance from Stephen F. Austin State University and also studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and the Institut del Teatre. Jenny would like to thank her friends, family and boyfriend for their wonderful support and ego stroking.
Walt Threlkeld is thrilled to be returning to Rover Dramawerks after playing Professor Pusey in 2012's election year farce The Girls in 509. Walt also appeared last year in The Pocket Sandwich Theatre's production of The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 as Italian/Irish/German singer/spy Patrick O'Reilly. Walt lives in Frisco and works as a Corporate Recruiter for an internet marketing firm, and he is the proud father of two boys ages 7 and 11. Over the past forty years, Ben Westfried has put his hand to many aspects of theater, from stage management, to playwriting, to directing to publicity, but acting is his passion. Roverites may recall seeing him as David Gray in A Murder, A Mystery and a Marriage and as Chief Brown Bear in Little Mary Sunshine. He has performed at several local theaters including the Frisco Community Theater where he won the Reggie Award this year. He has also been nominated for four Column Awards. Ben has acted professionally in commercials and movies and learned stage management at the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court in London, England. He plays clarinet with the Frisco Community Band. The father of two grown sons, Ben is a retired school teacher. He is grateful to have such a quality, professional theater like Rover Dramawerks here in his own home town and also to Pilar, his wife of 40 years, for her forbearance and sacrifice, enabling him to pursue his passion for theater, even when it conflicts with her passion for shopping. Kim Winnubst is truly honored to be a part of this production. She was last seen in LGA's Raft of the Medusa and previously worked at Rover in The Crowd You're In With. Huge thanks to Becki for having faith in her, Sarah for tirelessly giving line notes, and to a fantastically talented cast and crew who made it easy to laugh (even when she wasn't supposed to) every night. As always, thanks to her amazing friends and family for their unfailing support. But no thanks to "Linda"; she's the worst.
Next Up For Rover Onstage...
by David Lindsay-Abaire
May 23 - June 15, 2013 Cox Building Playhouse, 1517 H Avenue in Plano
Tickets are on sale now!
(It’s also not too late to buy 3-show season ticket samplers!)
Our TWENTIETH installment of 7 plays created from scratch in just 24 hours!
April 20, 8:00 p.m. at the Courtyard Theater, 1509 H Avenue in Plano
