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ANYTHING GOES(Original 1934 Version)

Steven Jones, Founding ProducerPresents

Music and Lyrics by Cole PorterBook by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse,Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse

Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Hans SpialekChoral Arrangements by Ray Johnson

Additional Orchestrations by Russell Warner1934 Libretto & Score Restoration by Jay Dias

FeaturingJ. Clayton Winters Daron Cockerell Andy Baldwin*

Kelly Silverthorn Max Swarner* Rachel Reininger Deborah Brown*

withAlex Heika, Scott Sutton, Trevor Martin, Tyler Jeffrey Adams,

David Meglino, James Williams, Christian Luu, Vahn Phollurxa, David Fenley, Patrick Shukis, Sarah Comley Caldwell, Mark Oristano, Amy Stevenson, Sally Soldo*, Rhett Warner, Jordan Crites,

Ryan C. Machen, Peter DiCesare, Jonathan Hardin, Jack Bristol, Chapman Blake, Tatem Lee,Kimberly Pine, Mary Jerome, Ally Van Deuren, Sydney Kirkegaard,

Haley Jane Schafer, Jackie Raye, Caroline Ellis, Abigail Gardner

Lighting DesignJulie N. Simmons

Sound DesignBill Eickenloff

Director/Choreographer

Penny Ayn MaasMusic Director/Conductor

Jay Dias

Production Stage ManagerJack H. Degelia*

Costume CoordinatorMargaret Claahsen

Set DesignDave Tenney

This restoration of the 1934 version of ANYTHING GOES is produced by special arrangement withTams Witmark Music Library 560 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10022 212-688-9191

And by special arrangement with Roberta Staats of the Cole Porter Trusts*Member, Actor’s Equity Association

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(in order of appearance)Bartender ........................................................................................................................................ Peter DiCesareMr. Elisha J. Whitney ......................................................................................................................David MeglinoBilly Crocker ............................................................................................................................. J. Clayton WintersReno Sweeney .............................................................................................................................. Daron CockerellReporter .......................................................................................................................................Jonathan HardinFirst Cameraman .................................................................................................................................. Jack BristolSecond Cameraman .............................................................................................................................. Tatum LeeHope Harcourt.............................................................................................................................Kelly SilverthornMrs. Wadsworth T. Harcourt .......................................................................................................Deborah Brown*Sir Evelyn Oakleigh .......................................................................................................................... Max Swarner*Bishop Dodson ..................................................................................................................................David FenleyChing ............................................................................................................................................... Christian LuuLing ...............................................................................................................................................Vahn PhollurxaSnooks ..................................................................................................................................................Jackie RayeReno’s Angels ................................................................................Mary Jerome, Kimberly Pine, Ally Van Deuren, .................................................................................................................. Sydney Kirkegaard, Haley Jane Schafer,............................................................................................................Jackie Raye, Caroline Ellis, Abigail GardnerFirst Federal Man ............................................................................................................................Mark OristanoSecond Federal Man ......................................................................................................................... Trevor MartinReverend Dr. Moon ....................................................................................................................... Andy Baldwin*Bonnie Letour ..............................................................................................................................Rachel ReiningerMrs. Wentworth .................................................................................................................Sarah Comley CaldwellMrs. Frick ...................................................................................................................................... Amy StevensonSteward ........................................................................................................................................... Peter DiCesarePurser ................................................................................................................................................... Jack BristolSailor Quartette ........................................................Alex Heika, Scott Sutton, Trevor Martin, Tyler Jeffrey AdamsBabe .................................................................................................................................................Kimberly PineChief Petty Officer ............................................................................................................................Rhett WarnerCaptain .......................................................................................................................................... James WilliamsMr. Swift ............................................................................................................................................David FenleyJunior ............................................................................................................................................... Patrick ShukisAssistant Purser Bartlett ................................................................................................................Jonathan HardinMan With Beard ............................................................................................................................ James WilliamsShip’s Drunk ...................................................................................................................................Mark OristanoLord Oakleigh .................................................................................................................................Mark OristanoButler ..................................................................................................................................................Scott SuttonMaids ..................................................................................Sydney Kirkegaard, Abigail Gardner, Ally Van Deuren Ensemble............................................................................ Sally Soldo*, Amy Stevenson, Sarah Comley Caldwell,............................................................................ Abigail Gardner, Caroline Ellis, Jackie Raye, Haley Jane Schafer,.......................................................................Sydney Kirkegaard, Ally Van Deuren, Kimberly Pine, Mary Jerome,...................................................................... Rachel Reininger, Ryan C. Machen, Chapman Blake, Jordan Crites,...............................................................Rhett Warner, Jack Bristol, Jonathan Hardin, Tatem Lee, Peter DiCesare, ......................................................Tyler Jeffrey Adams, Trevor Martin, Scott Sutton, Alex Heika, James Williams, ...................................................... Mark Oristano, David Meglino, Vahn Phollurxa, Christian Luu, David Fenley

PRODUCTION TEAMDirector/Choreographer ............................................................................................................... Penny Ayn MaasMusic Director/Conductor ........................................................................................................................ Jay DiasProduction Stage Manager............................................................................................................ Jack H. Degelia*Assistant Stage Manager ............................................................................................................... Bonnie Hanvey*Rehearsal Pianist.................................................................................................................................. Don PowersLighting Design ......................................................................................................................... Julie N. SimmonsSound Design ...................................................................................................................................Bill EickenloffCostume Coordinator ...............................................................................................................Margaret ClaahsenAssistant Choreographer ........................................................................................................................ Abbie RuffDance Captain .......................................................................................................................... Sydney KirkegaardMusic Intern .........................................................................................................................................Esther LimStage Management Intern ......................................................................... Courtney White, Nicholas VillemaretteProps .........................................................................................................................................Jacie Hood WenzelSet Design ..........................................................................................................................................Dave Tenney

* - Denotes Member Of Actors’ Equity Association

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ACT ONESCENE 1: The Weylin Hotel’s Caprice Bar, New York City, 1934.SCENE 2: The Afterdeck. Midnight sailing.SCENE 3: Mr. Whitney’s and Dr. Moon’s Cabins. The next morning.SCENE 4: The Afterdeck. Same morning.SCENE 5: Sir Evelyn’s Cabin.SCENE 6: The Deck.

ACT TWOSCENE 1: The Ship’s Lounge. That evening.SCENE 2: The Ship’s Brig. Five days later.SCENE 3: Conservatory of Sir Evelyn’s Home in England.

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ACT IOverture .............................................................................................................................. OrchestraI Get a Kick Out of You ............................................................................................................. RenoThere’s No Cure Like Travel / Bon Voyage ...........................................................................EnsembleKate The Great ............................................................................................................ Reno and GirlsAll Through the Night ................................................................................... Billy, Hope, and SailorsSailor’s Chanty .....................................................................................................................QuartetteWhere Are the Men? .................................................................Bonnie, Babe, Petty Officer and GirlsYou’re The Top .............................................................................................................Billy and RenoReprise: Sailor’s Chanty ........................................................................................................QuartetteAnything Goes ....................................................................................Reno, Quartette and EnsembleFinale Act One .....................................................................................Reno, Billy and Doctor Moon

ACT IIPublic Enemy Number One ..........................................................................Quartette and EnsembleWhat A Joy To Be Young ............................................................................................................HopeBlow, Gabriel, Blow..............................................................................................Reno and EnsembleBe Like the Bluebird ......................................................................................................Doctor MoonReprise: “All Through the Night” ................................................................................Billy and HopeBuddie, Beware .......................................................................................................................... RenoWaltz Down The Aisle..............................................................................................Evelyn and HopeThe Gypsy in Me ........................................................................................................Hope and GirlsFinale Ultimo ............................................................................................................Entire Company

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O R C H E S T R A

JAY DIAS, Conductor

VIOLINSStephen Beall, ConcertmasterTonda SykesKarina SimHa DangInga KrollLucia NeagaThane IsaacRachel BundyRandy LyleUsman PegueroMary HavenstriteJana Powers

VIOLASAnnika DonnenMiguel Cantu IVEthan Rouse

CELLOSEric SmithChris PhilpottLeijing Zhou

DOUBLE BASSESTalon DavisPhilip Friend

REED I(Oboe, English Horn, Bass Oboe, Ocarina)Jason Paschall

REED II(Clarinet, Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Ocarina)Christy Springer

REED III(Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Tenor Sax, Ocarina)Christian Gonzalez

REED IV(Flute, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Tenor Sax, Ocarina)Bobby Lapinski

TRUMPETSMiles JohnsonAbel SanchezDenise Stitzel

TROMBONEMarty Kobuck

PERCUSSIONJeff KeaneMegan Von Dreau

PIANOBruce Greer

CELESTEJeff Crouse

GUITAR/BANJOMaristella Feustle

S P E C I A L T H A N K S

Roberta Staats of the Cole Porter Trusts, Mark Horowitz and the staff of the Music Division of the Library of Congress for the Collections of John McGlinn and Russell Warner, Larry Moore, Karen Burke, James Stenborg, Len Pfluger, Sargent Aborn and Finn Byrhard of the Tams-Witmark Music Library, Inc.

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TYLER JEFFREY ADAMS (Sailor Quartet ) was most recently seen at Lyric Stage in Grand Hotel. DFW credits include Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie (Firehouse Theatre), Georg in She Loves Me (GLCT), and Hot

Blades Harry in Urinetown (Theatre Arlington). www.tylerjeffreyadams.com

ANDY BALDWIN* (The Reverend Dr. Moon) has performed and directed all over the metroplex including Lyric Stage (Grand Hotel, The New Moon, Into the Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, The Golden Apple), Circle Theatre, Stage

West, Theatre Three, WaterTower and Casa Manana (eight years as Resident Actor). He also studied at Circle in The Square Theatre Conservatory on Broadway.

CHAPMAN BLAKE (Ensemble) recently appeared in The New Moon. Other recent credits include Ancestor/The Addams Family (Mainstage Irving-Las Colinas), Billy Clanton/Sundown, Jess/Oklahoma! and Ensemble/The

Mystery of Edwin Drood at SSG. He would like to thank the wonderful cast and crew for all their hard work throughout this production. Mom, Dad and Ethan – I love you!

JACK BRISTOL (Ensemble) is thrilled to return to Lyric after performing in Grand Hotel! Other theatre credits include Casa Mañana (Side Show, Parade, Les Miserables) and Theatre TCU (Guys and Dolls, Spring

Awakening, We Need a Little Christmas, and The Elephant Man).

DEBORAH BROWN* (Mrs.Wadsworth T. Harcourt ) last appeared at Lyric in Fiddler on the Roof and The Golden Apple. Other area theaters for whom she has performed include Dallas Children’s Theater, Casa Mañana, Circle Theatre,

and many others. She is a proud member of AEA, a summa cum laude graduate of Texas Wesleyan University and the 2014 recipient of Fort Worth’s Live Theatre League Lifetime Achievement Award.

SARAH COMLEY CALDWELL (Mrs. Wentworth) loves working at Lyric Stage, most recently in The New Moon. Past Lyric favorites: Fiddler On the Roof and The Golden Apple. Recently seen as Mrs. Meers in Thoroughly Modern

Millie {Firehouse Theatre}. Thanks to Jay, Steve, Penny & Shane!

DARON COCKERELL (Reno Sweeney) is happy to be back at Lyric! Previous Lyric shows: The New Moon (Clotilde), Into the Woods (Lucinda), Annie Get Your Gun (Annie Oakley), The Desert Song (Susan), Too Many

Girls (Eileen), The Music Man, The Most Happy Fella. Other recent shows: Curtains (Mainstage), Les Miserables (Casa Mañana), Shrek (Plaza Theatre Company), Bonnie & Clyde (WaterTower), Assassins, (Theatre Three). TCU graduate.

JORDAN CRITES (Ensemble) is a current student at TCU from Little Rock, Arkansas, who is pursuing a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre. While at TCU, Jordan has performed in Guys and Dolls, We Need a Little Christmas,

and Spring Awakening.

PETER DiCESARE (Bartender, Steward ) returns to Lyric after appearing in Main Street Musicals as The Narrator in Woody, A New Fairy Tale. Other credits: Andrew/Facing East (Lyric Theatre, London), Robbie/Soho Cinders (Uptown

Players), and Camille/Flea in Her Ear (ICT). Peter is a proud graduate of Texas Christian University.

CAROLINE ELLIS (Angel ) is thrilled to be back at Lyric Stage! A few of her favorite roles from area theaters are: Wednesday/Addam’s Family (ICT Mainstage), Natalie/All Shook Up (Artisan), Liesl/Sound of Music

(Firehouse), and Lady Beaconsfield/Jekyll & Hyde (Casa Manana). She’s grateful for this opportunity. Ps. 28:7

DAVID FENLEY (Bishop Dodson) appeared in Company at Stage West, The Sea Gull and Strider at Theatre Three, and in over 60 productions at the Tony Award-winning Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

Thank you to Jay and Penny!

ABIGAIL GARDNER (Angel ) is excited to be making her Lyric Stage debut. She’s a senior BFA Musical Theatre major at Texas Christian University, where she has appeared in Guys and Dolls (Hot Box Girl),

Everyman, and Best Little Whorehouse… (Dawn/Angelette). Go Frogs!

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* - denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

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JONATHAN HARDIN (Ensemble) Lyric Stage credit: The New Moon. Recent credits: Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! (Theatre Arlington), Ronnie in The House of Blue Leaves (ONSTAGE in Bedford), Valentine in Mary Poppins

(Firehouse Theatre), and Montel/Jesus in Jerry Springer: The Opera (OhLook Performing Arts). BFA Musical Theatre – TCU.

ALEX HEIKA (Sailor Quartette) Lyric: Annie Get Your Gun, Lady in the Dark, South Pacific; Others: CREEP (WaterTower), AIDA (Uptown Players), The Neverending Story (Dallas Children›s Theater), Assassins (Kokandy

Pr.), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Bailiwick Chicago) Upcoming: One Man, Two Guvnors (WaterTower). Graduate of the CCPA.

MARY JEROME (Angel ) graduated Cum Laude with a BFA in Theatre Performance from UTA. Mary has worked at Casa Manana, Contemporary Theatre of Dallas, Uptown Players, Theatre Three, Stage West, and more.

Love to Nate and her two year old Liam.

SYDNEY KIRKEGAARD (Angel, Dance Captain) is a TCU BFA undergraduate. Professional credits include: three Milw. Repertory productions of A Christmas Carol (Fan), Skylight Music Theatre’s The Music

Man (Zaneeta) & The Sound of Music. Recent credits include: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Jaquentta), King Lear at Trinity Shakespeare Festival

RYAN C. MACHEN (Ensemble) is excited to be back! Lyric credits: Grand Hotel (ensemble), South Pacific (Thomas Hassinger). Other: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Ensemble) at Firehouse Theatre and Prism Theatrics. Asst. Theatre

Director at Everman HS. Thanks everyone! You can’t stop the beat!

TATEM LEE (Ensemble) is excited to make his first appearance at Lyric Stage. He has previously been seen performing in area theatres such as Casa Mañana and Garland Summer Musicals. Some of his favorite roles includes Baby John

(West Side Story), Neleus (Mary Poppins), and The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker).

CHRISTIAN LUU (Ching ) is elated to be making his debut at Lyric Stage! Past credits include Man of La Mancha (Sancho) and Songs For A New World (Man 1). He currently studies Musical Theatre at the University of Central

Oklahoma with Dr. Marilyn Govich as his voice teacher.

TREVOR MARTIN (Sailor Quartette) is an Apprentice Artist with the Fort Worth Opera. He was worked with many opera companies including Houston Grand Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Virginia Opera, Madison

Opera and Opera in the Heights performing both operatic and musical theater roles.

DAVID MEGLINO (Elisha J. Whitney): David is pleased to be returning to Lyric Stage after having appeared earlier this season as Witt in Grand Hotel. In addition to his work across a variety of DFW stages, he also

serves as the Managing Director of the Festival of Independent Theatres.

MARK ORISTANO (Lord Oakleigh, FBI Man, Drunk) – Twelfth Lyric show, including Titanic, 1776, Fiorello, Funny Girl and Grand Hotel. Mark’s new book, SURGEON’S STORY, with Dr. Kristine Guleserian, will be

published in 2016. www.surgeonsstory.com. To see Mark’s fine art photography – www.markoristano.com

VAHN PHOLLURXA (Ling ) is a graduate of Musical Theatre at UCO, recent credits include Thuy Miss Saigon in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Fort Collins, Colorado, and Meredith, New Hampshire. Vahn would like to

thank his family, friends and the Acting Studio for their love and support.

KIMBERLY PINE (Babe) is a rising senior at CCM. She is thrilled to be returning for Anything Goes ! Favorite performance credits include Louise in Gypsy and The Music Man with the Cincinnati Pops and Lyric Stage.

Thanks to God and her wonderful friends and family!

JACKIE RAYE (Snooks) is thrilled to be back with Lyric Stage! Past Lyric credits include South Pacific, and Titanic. Other regional credits include Catch Me If You Can (Uptown Players), and A Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch (Bass

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Hall). She will be playing Laurie Williams in Riverside Center’s production of Oklahoma in Virginia. TCU grad with a BFA in Musical Theatre.

RACHEL REININGER (Bonnie Latour) This is Rachel’s Lyric Stage debut. Credits include: The Drowsy Chaperone (Mrs. Tottendale) at Collin Theatre Center. Legally Blonde (Ensemble) at Level Ground Arts.

Rachel graduated from Millikin University with her BFA in acting and dance minor. She would like to thank everyone who has supported her along this crazy journey.

HALEY JANE SCHAFER (Angel ) is thrilled to be making her DFW area debut! She would like to thank her friends, family for the love and support. See her next in Chicago in Mamma Mia and Disney’s The Little Mermaid at the

Paramount Theatre.

PATRICK SHUKIS (Junior) is excited to make his Lyric Stage debut! Other recent credits include Frosty the Snowman (Casa Mañana); and Charlie Bucket/Willy Wonka, Pugsley/ The Addams Family, Jack/Into the Woods

(Acting Studio).

KELLY SILVERTHORN (Hope Harcourt) is thrilled to join the cast of Anything Goes. Lyric Stage credits include Into the Woods as Rapunzel, Grand Hotel, Lady in the Dark, and The New Moon. Other credits include

The Kountry Girls (Theatre Three).

SALLY SOLDO* (Ensemble) – Lyric Stage: Bloody Mary in South Pacific, Jerry’s Girls, Cather County, Joseph and Mary (Leon Rabin Award for Best Supporting Actress), Annie Get Your Gun, and starred in Lyric’s first concert

version of Dear World. Sally is the only “Diva” to appear in all ten Lyric Stage’s Dallas Divas productions and serves as Lyric’s Company Manager.

AMY STEVENSON (Mrs. Frick) is thrilled to be onstage in her hometown with Lyric Stage. Before her recent theater retirement she was seen in numerous productions around the metroplex including Dallas Divas with

Lyric Stage. She can be seen the first three Mondays of every month hosting Dallas’ (and her) favorite – Mama’s Party at Uptown Theater of Grand Prairie.

SCOTT SUTTON (Sailor Quartette) is blessed to be returning to Irving for his seventh Lyric production. Opera: JFK (world premiere, comprimario swing), Silent Night (comprimario), Candide (Maximillan), Les Pêcheurs de Perles,

La Traviata, Hamlet. Regional: Grease (Vince Fontaine), She Loves Me (Steven Kodaly), Company (Peter), Assassins (Artie Bremer).

MAX SWARNER * (Sir Evelyn Oakleigh) is an award-winning singer and actor who has worked professionally in DFW theater for over 20 years. He is thrilled to return to Lyric Stage, after supporting roles in

1776, The Most Happy Fella, and Rags. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. All my love to Kim!

ALLY VAN DEUREN (Angel ), a recent graduate from SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ BFA theatre program, is thrilled to make her Lyric Stage debut in this production.

RHETT WARNER (Ensemble) a rising TCU junior BFA Musical Theatre major, is making his Lyric Stage debut. Credits include: ensemble roles in Aida (Uptown Players), Catch Me If You Can (Uptown Players), Best Little Whorehouse

In Texas (Theatre TCU), Hollywood/Ukraine (TCU), and Guys and Dolls (TCU).

JAMES WILLIAMS (The Captain) is excited to be in 31st show at LyricStage! Recently seen as Vicomte Ribaud in The New Moon. Recent Lyric favorites include Grand Hotel, Into The Woods, Annie Get Your Gun, and Titanic.

Love to Jake, sidekick Connor, and Kristen Beth, in the national tour of Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

J. CLAYTON WINTERS (Billy Crocker) Debuting at Lyric Stage, Clayton is Director of Musical Theatre at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Credits include: Andrew Jackson (BBAJ, The Dane), Jim

(Pump Boys and Dinettes, Great Plains) Carmen Ghia (Producers, VirginiaRep), Ring of Fire (Director/Choreographer, Riverside Center).

* - denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

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PENNY AYN MAAS (Director & Choreographer) is thrilled to be making her DFW directing debut here at Lyric Stage. She worked as a professional actress, singer and dancer in New York City for over 20 years. On Broadway she had long, successful runs in three Tony award winning shows: the original cast of Crazy for You, including singing on the cast album, the revival of Damn Yankees, and the acclaimed revival of Cabaret at Studio 54 where she played multiple instruments and worked with such stars as Neil Patrick Harris, John Stamos and Brooke Shields. She is featured on the Off-Broadway cast album of Swingtime Canteen, a show she has performed and staged all over the country. She was a ballroom dancer in the movie The Stepford Wives and she made her television debut as “Joy” on the soap opera “Another World”. As a director and choreographer she has worked Off-Broadway with the National Yiddish Theatre (The Pirates of Penzance, The Marriage Contract,) the Algonquin Theatre Company (Sessions, From Gershwin to Berlin), Second Stages (Vanities) and for the Fringe Festival (Kaboom! ). She was also the Associate Director and Choreographer for three years on the BC/EFA benefit concert “Broadway Backwards.” Regionally she continues to direct and choreograph for the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts (The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Les Miserables) where she recently won the Broadway World DC Award for Best Direction of a Dinner Theatre show, as well at the Richmond Triangle Players (Psycho Beach Party, Cabaret). Most recently, she co-directed & choreographed Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story (Riverside CPA) and Love Changes Everything & Come to the Cabaret! A Celebration of Kander & Ebb for the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival in Pennsylvania, where she served as the Artistic Associate for two years. For her day job, she is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Texas Christian University where she teaches Musical Theatre Performance and Dance. For Theatre TCU she has directed and choreographed The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Spring Awakening and provided choreography for Guys and Dolls, No, No, Nanette, the original revue We Need a Little Christmas as well as movement for the new plays Born on a Sunday and Everyman. Penny is a proud member of AEA, SAG/ARTRA and an Associate member of SDC.

JAY DIAS (Lyric Stage Music Director/Conductor) for Lyric Stage: The New Moon (music & libretto restoration), Grand Hotel, South Pacific, Lady in the Dark, Annie Get Your Gun in concert, The Golden Apple (music & libretto restoration; award winning complete recording on PS Classics), Fiddler on the Roof, Titanic (also scene work), Blue Roses, The Desert Song in concert (1926 version; music & libretto restoration; direction & musical staging), Nine at Dallas City Performance Hall, The Sound of Music, The Music Man, Too Many Girls, Pleasures and Palaces (restoration), 1776, The Most Happy Fella (complete version restoration), Oklahoma!, Kismet in concert (restoration), Rags, Gypsy (restoration), Oliver!, My Fair Lady, Bye Bye Birdie (restoration), Show Boat in concert (1927 version; music & libretto

restoration), Funny Girl (restoration), The King and I, West Side Story, Carousel, Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd in concert at Meyerson Symphony Center, and two concerts with the Irving Symphony Orchestra: programs of works by Rodgers & Hammerstein, and the music of Jule Styne and Harold Arlen – all featuring the original Broadway orchestrations.

JACK H. DEGELIA (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to Lyric Stage after a 12-year absence. He was last seen on this stage as Samovar in A Day In Hollywood/A Night In The Ukraine for which he also reproduced the original choreography earning him a Leon Rabin Award nomination. His theatre credits as a performer include: NYC–They’re Playing Our Song (Vernon u/s), A Day In Hollywood…(Samovar u/s), and Children of a Lesser God (James Leeds u/s). He spent more than 4½ years in Fiddler On The Roof as Motel, the tailor, working with original director/choreographer Jerome Robbins. Other favorite roles include Zach in A Chorus Line, Cornelius in Hello, Dolly! with Pearl Bailey, Barnum in Barnum, Marvin in Falsettos, Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened…, and Edmond in A Long Day’s Journey Into Night with Gale Sondergaard. As a director/choreographer his work has garnered awards across the country reproducing original choreography and staging of Broadway’s masters, Bob Fosse, Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins, Michael Bennett and Tommy Tune. He served as a television producer for 12 years at NBC in Los Angeles where movies he produced received both Emmy and Golden Globe award nominations. He currently serves as the Dean of Instruction for the College of Humanities, Art, Media and Performance and the Facilitator of the Academy of Media Art & Technology for Carrollton-Farmers Branch R.L. Turner High School.

JULIE N. SIMMONS (Lighting Design) is always thrilled to be working with Lyric Stage! Julie has designed for Lyric’s recent productions of The Lady In The Dark and Annie Get Your Gun. She is currently the Technical Director for the Murchison Performing Arts Center at UNT.

BILL EICKENLOFF (Sound Design) is the resident Sound Designer for Lyric Stage, as well as an adjunct professor at TCU’s Theatre Dept. in Fort Worth. He is also the resident sound designer for Theatre Arlington and works for Casa Manana, Wishing Star Productions, Prism Theatrics and the Trinity Shakespeare Festival. He is a proud graduate of Texas A&M University. See his complete bio at www.linkedin.com.

DON POWERS (Rehearsal Pianist) Don is very pleased to be involved with Lyric Stage. A graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University, he holds a Bachelor’s degree in theatre and a Master’s degree in music. After moving back home from Hawaii where he played keyboards for the Don Ho show, he acted as the resident music director at Theatre Arlington from 1982 until 2014. He enjoys retired life mainly because it gives him more time for music and theatre!

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