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Presents

A Musical Entertainment

Music & Lyrics by Stephen SondheimWith music by Leonard Bernstein, Mary Rodgers,

Richard Rodgers, Jule Styne

Continuity by Ned Sherrin

Produced on Broadway by Harold Prince in Association with Ruth Mitchel

March 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 2011

Directed By Joe FeustelMusical Director/ Pianist – Casandra Palmer

2nd Pianist – Sebastian Palmer

Cast:Erin LaFond

Holly PietenpolLynn KlemmPat ForknerBill Kohler

Joe FeustelLuke Kraemer

T.C. Roberts

Side by Side by Sondheim is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019. Phone:

212-541-4684. Fax: 212-397-4684. www.MTIShows.com

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

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SONG L ISTING

ACT IComedy TonightLove Is In The AirComedy TonightIf Momma Was MarriedYou Must Meet My WifeThe Little ThingsGetting Married TodayI RememberCan That Boy FoxtrotCompanyAnother Hundred PeopleBarcelonaMarry Me A LittleI Never Do Anything TwiceBeautiful GirlsAh PareeBuddies BluesBroadway BabyYou’re Going to Love TomorrowYou Could Drive A Person Crazy

INTERMISSION

ACT IIEverybody Says Don’tAnyone Can WhistleSend In The ClownsNowWe’re Gonna Be All RightA Boy Like ThatThe Boy FromPretty LadyYou Gotta Have A GimmickLosing My MindCould I Leave YouI’m Still HereConversation PieceSide By Side By Side

DIRECTOR ’S NOTES

What can one say when you are talking about a man who is considered the very best lyric writer and most adventurous composer in the musical theatre. Stephen Sondheim has given us so many wonderful theatrical adventures and tonights production is a celebration of his earlier works. Written over 30yrs ago, Side by Side by Sondheim, gives you a look at many of the big musicals he was instrumen-tal in creating. West Side Story, Gypsy, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Hap-pened on the Way to the Forum, Pacific Overtures, Follies and Company.

You may be sitting there thinking, I really do not know a lot of Sondheim’s music. So I invite you to read through the list of songs we will be performing tonight and you may be surprised just how much of his music you really do know. Sondheim, now 80yrs old, continued to write more lyrics and music. Shows like Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods just to name a few.

Sondheim’s music and lyrics are very challenging for a performer. Sondheim often weaves two melodies together and they fit perfectly. Then you have the words, and Sondheim loves to use a lot of words. Thank you to the cast of tonights show for taking on this challenge. Sit back and enjoy the music and lyrics Stephen Sondheim.

Joe Feustel - Director

CREW

Set Design and Construction ...............................................Joe Feustel and Don NicklausLight Design ............................................................................................................Bob GosewehrSound .........................................................................................................................Nic GilbertsonMarketing .................................................................................................................... Tara WilliamsLight Operator ............................................................................................................ Kyle Sibbald

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B IOGR APHIES

Erin LaFondErin, a Manitowoc native, is thrilled to be appearing for the first time at Memories Dinner Theatre! She has appeared in Thoroughly Modern

Millie (Muzzy), The Rocky Horror Show (Magenta), and Rent (Joanne) to name a few. Erin is a private voice teacher and does a lot of work as a choral director and vocal coach. She would like to thank her husband Jeff for all his love and her family and friends for their kind words and support.

Holly PietenpolHolly is thrilled to be part of another production here at Memories! Many of her favorite shows are Stephen Sondheim works

and her love for Stephen is unending. She was last seen in The Christmas Schooner as Martha/Storyteller and before that performed a dream role, Maureen in UW Manitowoc’s production of RENT. Holly is a veteran of the stage having trained in London, Scotland and Ireland at the Gaiety School of Acting. Favorite roles include: Miss Mazeppa, Gypsy, Baker’s Wife, Into the Woods, and Shelby Spitfire Grill. She wants to thank her husband Anton for sacrificing his time with her for her love of theatre!

Lynn KlemmLynn is no stranger to the stage at Memories. She has been performing here for some 14+ years. Over the past 7 years as one of

the owner of Memories, she is thrilled to see the growth that has taken place in the dinner theater aspect of this facility that she loves so much.

Lynn’s favorite Memories’ roles include; Louise in Always… Patsy Cline, Sister Amnesia in Nunsense, Doris in Same Time Next Year, Louise in Wally’s Café and her performance in the musical review

Some Enchanted Evening. Side by Side by Sondheim has now been placed in a new category of the most challenging of all the musical productions that Lynn has been part of, but who doesn’t love a challenge. Lynn wishes to thank Joe for the opportunity of working with this very talented cast. Lynn would like to thank her husband, Bob, of 31 years, for his continued love and support of her crazy and demanding involvement in theatre. She would also like to thank the audiences for their support. It is wonderful to look out at the tables and see the faces of so many friends.

Pat ForknerPat’s performance roles are far too numerous to mention. She has appeared here at Memories in Mixed Emotions, Cemetery

Club, The Queen of Bingo, A Bench in the Sun and March of 2009’s production of The Spitfire Grill. Pat is always thrilled to be working at Memories, but particularly delighted to be working with Joe Feustel again. She also has the added good fortune to work with such a talented cast. When I grow up, I want to sing just like them.\

Bill KohlerBill has been doing theater so long that he can’t remember all the shows he has done. Most recently he has played Gustav in The Christmas

Schooner and Smudge in Forever Plaid. He is thrilled to be a part of this talented cast and working with Joe again. He owes all to his wonderful family, his lovely wife Susie, and his wonderfully understanding mom. I LOVE YOU BOTH! They say that behind every good man is a great woman. I am blessed with two great women.

All glory and Praise be to Jesus Christ.

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Joe FeustelJoe has been involved in theatre in the Sheboygan area for over 25 years. His favorite roles would be Eric (Phantom) in Phantom, Bobby

in Company, Emcee in Cabaret, and the Baker in Into the Woods, just to name a few. Joe has performed in Manitowoc with The Capital Civic Center’s Off-Broadway Series production of The King and I, where he played the King. Joe has performed in several Sondheim musical including Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music. He is glad he can revisit those wonderful shows and add Side by Side by Sondheim to the list. He has directed productions of The Christmas Schooner, The Spitfire Grill, and Always Patsy Cline at Memories.

Luke KraemerLuke has been involved in theatre for over 16 years. You may have seen him on Memories stage in the past in roles such as, Frankie

in Plaid Tidings, Steve in The Christmas Schooner, and Bradley Naughton in Baggage. Other roles include, Frankie in Forever Plaid, Jesus in Godspell, Collins in Rent, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum, to name a few. Luke has also been seen on the screen in multiple independent films. Luke is thrilled to be joining this talented cast/crew, and thanks his wife, Jody, for her continued love and support. www.lukekraemer.com

T. C. Roberts Tom has always considered himself more of a writer than a performer, but when he was offered the opportunity to perform Stephen

Sondheim’s music he couldn’t say no, especially working with this fun cast. Tom is most well-known for playing Josh Baskin in Big: the musical, Sid Sorokin in The Pajama Game, and, more

recently, Roger Davis in RENT. He has only been in one Sondheim show in the past, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Hero), and has been chomping at the bit to perform more of his masterful work. You can also find him working amongst the tables at the Courthouse Pub in Manitowoc. Thanks to family, friends, and cast for making this show as fun as the music. Enjoy!

Casandra PalmerCasandra’s artistic career has included choral conducting, teaching and performing vocal and instrumental music, and theatrical

performances as an actor, music director, and orchestral musician. She has spent over 20 years as a church musician/choral director at various churches in Wisconsin and Michigan, and is also the Executive Director of the Lakeshore Chorale. She enjoys working with dialects and music notation, as well as photography, theology, and cats.

Sebastian PalmerSebastian is an actor, singer, and musician from Sheboygan. He has enjoyed an active theatrical adolescence, appearing in more than

twenty productions, not including concerts, backstage work and whatnot. He has previously appeared with Memories last May as Billy Ray Jr. in On Golden Pond, and as Karl (age 9) in The Christmas Schooner in 2008

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2010-2011 Dinner Theater Season

UPCOMING EVENTS

Spreading it Around

by Londos D’ArrigoApril 8-17, 2011

Chicken Comedy Series- Hosted by Channel 6’s Rob Haswell “All the Chicken You Can Eat, All the Comedy You Can Handle!” March 26, 2011: Chris BarnesApril 30, 2011: Sonya White with Janet Kane

Psychic and Wellness FairsNo Admission Fee- Psychic readings, palmists, tarot readings, hypnotists, mediums, astrologists, handwriting interpreters, wellness gifts, crystals, and alternative health products and more! March 27th 11 am- 4 pm

Join us for Brunch! Easter Sunday, April 24th and Mothers Day, May 8th$17.95 Adults, $6.95 kids 10 and underDetails at www.memoriesballroom.com

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Summer 2011

Summer Weekday MatineesYou Asked, We Delivered!

Tuesdays and Wednesday afternoons

Same Great Food,Same Great Entertainment,NEW Days and Times!

June 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29, 2011A Bench in the SunA Comedy By Ron Clark

Harold and Burt, longtime friends, live in a retirement home and spend their days on a bench in the garden bickering. A once-famous actress moves in and gives them something new to argue over. When they learn their home is to be sold, and they will have to find new residence, the three join forces to prevent this upsetting development. “Very wise, very moving, but most of all, very funny.” - Mel Brooks.Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

July 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, 2011 ArtComedy by Yasmina Reza

The comedy, which raises questions about art and friendship, concerns three long-time friends, Serge, Marc, and Yvan. Serge, indulging his penchant for modern art, buys a large, expensive, completely white painting. Marc is horrified, and their relationship suffers considerable

strain as a result of their differing opinions about what constitutes “art”. Yvan, caught in the middle of the conflict, tries to please and mollify both of them. Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

Aug 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, 2011I Do, I DoMusical by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt

The story of a marriage is at the center of this

intimate and nostalgic work. We meet Michael & Agnes on their wedding day, tracing their life together over a period of 50 years, until the day they leave their house to the next pair of newlyweds, all to a charming, tuneful score. Based on The Fourposter by Jan de Hartog.

Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

Fall 2011

Oct 28- Nov 6, 2011Murder at the Howard Johnson’sComedy by Sam Bobrick

and Ron ClarkAll is fair in love? Even murder? That’s the question posed by this light and funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. Mitchell, a commonplace dentist who sees himself as heroic, and his mistress Arlene, plan to murder her husband Paul, a blundering used car salesman, til Arlene discovers Mitchell has been unfaithful, unsettling ally loyalties and sending the murder plots flying. “A holiday of laughter. . . Beautifully polished, very funny very

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American comedy.” WNBPurchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

Dec 9-18, 2011The Christmas SchoonerBook by John Reeger, Music and Lyrics by Julie Shannon

Join us as we recreate the voyages of /The Molly Doone in this critically-acclaimed holiday musical about a Michigan shipping captain who braves the deadly winter weather to bring Christmas trees to homesick German-American families in turn-of-the century Chicago. Sail with us along the shorelines of Lake Michigan from Manitowoc to Racine in a show that’s sure to please the whole family.Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

Spring 2012

Feb 3- 12, 2012The Dixie Swim ClubComedy by Jones, Hope, & Wooten

The Dixie Swim Club is the story of five southern women, friends for years through their college swim team. Each August, they meet at the same beach cottage to catch up, laugh, and meddle in each other’s lives. As the next 33 years unfold, these women increasingly rely on one another to get through the challenges (men, sex, marriage, parenting, divorce, aging) life flings at them. When fate throws a wrench into one of their lives, these friends rally ‘round their own with strength and love that takes this comedy in a poignant and surprising direction. Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

March 9-18, 2012So There Was this RatComedy by Judith Sapperstein and Gary Murway

Myra Guthrie has lost her mother, and invited her father, Virgil, to come to live with her and her husband. Upon moving in, Virgil makes a new friend. The two of them decide they’veworked hard their whole lives, and now that they are in their 70s it’s time for some fun, and the mischief meter goes way up! Myra is at her wits’ end when suddenly tragedy strikes, and her Daddy re-emerges into the strong man she always knew she could count on.Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

April 20-29, 2012The Odd Couple- Female Version

Comedy by Neil Simon

This famous update of his classic starts with a group

of women playing their weekly game of Trivial Pursuit at the apartment of Olive Madison, a divorcee who freely admits to being a slob. Late to arrive is Florence Unger, a stickler for detail who would try the patience of a saint, and who has unfor-tunately just become separated from her husband. As life would have it, the slob and the fuss-budget decide to room together, finding even the best of friends can make the worst of roommates.Purchase Tickets Now: Dinner and Show $30, Show-Only $17 Call for tickets 262-284-6850

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