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Patty and Jay Baker Theater ComplexStackner Cabaret

Mark Clements Chad BaumanArtistic Director Managing Director

Created by David Grapes and Todd OlsonOriginal production directed by Todd Olson

Original piano/vocal arrangements by Vince di Mura

Directed by Todd OlsonMusical Direction by Richard Carsey

Scenic Designer Megan Truscott Costume Designer Katherine McLaughlin Lighting Designer Craig Gottschalk Sound Designer Erin Paige Stage Movement Director Ashlee Edgemon Wasmund Casting Directors Sandy Ernst/JC Clementz Stage Manager Melissa Van Swol*

Production Manager Melissa Nyari Vartanian Lighting & Sound Director Craig Gottschalk Assistant Sound Supervisor Erin Paige Technical Director Tyler Smith Properties Director James Guy Charge Scenic Artist Jim Medved Costume Director Mary Folino Resident Crew Rick Grilli Wardrobe Cassie Head

World premiere production presented at American Stage Theatre Company; St. Petersburg, FL, February 2005

*Presented by special arrangement with Summerwind Productions, P.O. Box 430; Windsor, CO 80550

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors Stage Managers in the United States.

The director of this show is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union.

Special ThanksK. Dawn Grapes

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Tenor #1 .............................................................................................. Andrew McMath*

Tenor #2 ........................................................................................................Rob Tucker*

Tenor #3..............................................................................................Eric Jon Mahlum*

Musical Director/Pianist ........................................................................Richard Carsey

Pianist (performances Oct. 8 – 20) ...........................................................William S. Hindin

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

There will be one intermission.

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ACT ONEOpening Set

“Steppin’ Out with My Baby” – Irving Berlin“Top Hat, White Tie, and Tails” – Irving Berlin

“With Plenty of Money and You” – Al Dubin and Harry Warren

The Early Years“Boulevard of Broken Dreams” – Al Dubin and Harry Warren“Because of You” – Arthur Hammerstein and Dudley Wilkinson“Stranger in Paradise” – Robert Wright and George Forrest

“Best is Yet to Come” – Carolyn Leigh and Cy Coleman

Crazy Rhythm Set“Crazy Rhythm” – Joseph Meyer, Roger Wolfe Kahn, and Irving Caesar

“Lullaby of Broadway” – Al Dubin and Harry Warren“Let’s Face the Music and Dance” – Irving Berlin

Friends Set“I Got Rhythm” – George and Ira Gershwin

“Night and Day” – Cole Porter“That Old Black Magic” – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen“I Got It Bad (and that Ain’t Good)” – Duke Ellington

“It’s Wonderful” – Irving Berlin“Come Rain or Come Shine” – Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen

“Puttin on the Ritz” – Irving Berlin“It Don’t Mean a Thing” – Duke Ellington

- Intermission -

ACT TWOThe Film Set

“Where Do I Begin” – Carl Sigman and Francis Lai“The Days of Wine and Roses” – Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini

“As Time Goes By” – Herman Hupfield“The Shadow of Your Smile” – Paul Francis Webster and John Mandel

Quiet Set“You Must Believe in Spring” – Alan and Marilyn Bergman, Michel LeGrand, & Jacques Demy

“A Child is Born” – Thad Jones and Alec Wilder“Fly Me to the Moon” – Bart Howard

“Street of Dreams” – Samuel Lewis and Victor Young

The Last Blast“How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” – Michel Le Grand and Alan Bergman

“I’m Just a Lucky So and So” – Duke Ellington“I Wanna Be Around” – Johnny Mercer and Sadie Vimmerstedt

“The Good Life” – Jack Rearden and Sascha Distel“Rags to Riches” – Richard Adler and Jerry Ross

Finale“I Left My Heart in San Francisco” – Douglass Cross and George Cory

Encore“Make Someone Happy” – Adolph Green and Betty Comden

SONG LIST

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C A S T B IO G R A P H I E S

Eric Jon Mahlum, Tenor #3

Eric is delighted to be making his Milwaukee Rep debut! A native of LaCrosse, WI, he is

always happy to be close to home. Broadway credits include: Wicked. Off-Broadway: Plane Crazy and The Yard. National Tours: Young Frankenstein, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and The Wizard of Oz. Regionally, Eric has been seen in featured roles at such theaters as: Goodspeed Opera House, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh CLO, Kansas City Starlight Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Dallas Summer Musicals, The Riverside Theatre, Carousel Dinner Theatre, Opera Kansas and Atlanta Theater of the Stars, to name a few. Eric holds both a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Enjoy the show! www.ericjonmahlum.com.

Andrew McMath, Tenor #1

Andrew McMath is thrilled to be making his debut at Milwaukee Repertory Theater.

From Scituate, MA, Andrew is a recent graduate of The Hartt School (CT) class of 2013 with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Previous credits include: Henry Mann in Nine Wives (Goodspeed Musical Festival of New Artists); Axe Ghost in A Christmas Carol (Hartford Stage); Featured Soloist (Hartford Symphony Orchestra); Matt in Fantasticks, Jean-Michel in La Cage Aux Folles and Charlie in Brigadoon (The Mac-

Haydn Theatre); Barnaby Tucker in Hello Dolly and Corny Collins in Hairspray (New London Barn Playhouse) and Dick in Dames at Sea, Anselmo in Man of La Mancha and Cleante in Imaginary Invalid (The Monomoy Theatre). www.andrewmcmath.com

Rob Tucker, Tenor #2

Rob is pleased to appear in his first Milwaukee Rep production. He holds a BFA in

Musical Theatre from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and an MA in Classical Acting from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London, UK). Favorite roles include: Nero (Britannicus); Time (A Winter’s Tale); Othello (Othello); Charley Kringas (Merrily We Roll Along); Ensemble/Beadle (Sweeney Todd); Man 1 (Songs for a New World); Nick (Baby); Schroeder (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown); Observer/Priest/Kanagawa Girl (Pacific Overtures) and Martin/Cookie/Ensemble (Anyone Can Whistle). Offstage, Rob works as a musical director and pianist.

 Richard Carsey, Musical Director/Pianist

Richard Carsey is a conductor, arranger, pianist and actor. In 2012,

he served as Music Director for the first national tour of the Broadway revival of La Cage aux Folles. On Broadway in 2011 he provided music coaching for House of Blue

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Leaves, and was music supervisor for Joshua Schmidt’s world premiere musical A Minister’s Wife at Lincoln Center Theater. In 2010 he was Music Director for the first national tour of Little House on the Prairie. For eight seasons he was Artistic Director of Skylight Opera Theatre, where he has conducted over 70 productions, most recently Porgy and Bess. Other music direction: Syracuse Opera, Florida State Opera, Marriott Lincolnshire Theater, Writers’ Theatre and First Stage Milwaukee. As an actor, he has appeared in: 2 Pianos, 4 Hands at Milwaukee Rep; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Dallas Theater Center; The Laguna Playhouse; Hartford Stage (Connecticut Critics Circle Award) and the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. He also appeared onstage in Souvenir (Skylight Music Theatre); Dirty Blonde (Milwaukee Chamber Theatre) and Old Wicked Songs (In Tandem Theatre). Upcoming: Music Director/Conductor for the national tour of Phantom of the Opera.

William S. Hindin, Pianist

Bill has been a resident of New York City for 36 years. After growing

up in Shorewood and attending Shorewood High School, he graduated from Northwestern University’s acclaimed Music School. He is currently working in NYC on the development of a new musical entitled Hereafter. He recently completed a five-week Off-Broadway run of the acclaimed show, Spaghetti & Matzo Balls.

Bill co-musical directed the 35th Anniversary show of All My Children at New York City’s Town Hall. He is proud of being a part of the Grammy Award-winning recordings Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” and “Verdi Requiem” with the Chicago Symphony Chorus. His management company, William Hindin Artist Management (WHAM), represents variety and theatrical performers.

David Grapes, Co-Creator

David Grapes is currently a Professor of Theatre and the Director of the

School of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Northern Colorado. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC, David served for six years as the Producing Artistic Director at Tennessee Repertory Theatre located in Nashville, TN. There he produced 36 productions, and was the recipient of eight “Tennie Awards” for Best Direction. Born and raised in Parkersburg, WV, David is a graduate of the MFA Theatre Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. During his 29-year career in the theater, David has produced over 800 major productions. His work as a director has been seen from coast to coast. David is the creator/co-author (with Todd Olson) of four musical revues: My Way – A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, Christmas My Way – A Sinatra Holiday Bash, Moon River – Johnny Mercer’s American Songbook and I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett, which have been performed at over 200 theaters world wide.

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Todd Olson, Co-Creator/Director

Todd Olson is in his tenth season as Artistic Director at American

Stage Theatre Company in St. Petersburg, FL. He was this year’s recipient of the Florida Professional Theatre Association’s Richard G. Fallon Award for “Excellence in Professional Theatre.” Todd has directed over 150 plays, musicals and operas, including My Way – A Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra, (which he co-created) at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Original works include Lysistrata, Casa Blue, The Last Moments in the Life of Frida Kahlo, and Joe Corso Re-Enters from the Wings, which won the 2012 Holland New Voices Playwright Award at the Great Plains Theatre Conference and is now published on Amazon.com. Todd is a graduate from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard where he took classes with David Mamet, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Robert Scanlan, Robert Woodruff, Anna Deveare Smith, and Robert Brustein, among others.

Megan Truscott, Scenic Designer

Megan Truscott is thrilled to return to The Rep after previously designing Blues in the Night and Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash. A Chicago-based scenic designer, Megan’s work has been seen at Bailiwick Chicago, Pennsylvania Youth Theater, TheatreSquared and Young Actors Guild of Arkansas. Recent and current projects include Our Town (DePaul University), Harry

and the Spy (Pavement Group) and the upcoming Forever Plaid at The Rep. She is a graduate of DePaul University. www.megantruscott.com.

Katherine McLaughlin, Costume Designer

Kate is very pleased to be back at Milwaukee Repertory Theater debuting as a Costume Designer. She returns after nine and a half seasons in The Rep’s Costume Shop as the Costume Crafts Supervisor. Kate is the owner of the men’s hat store, The Brass Rooster, in Bay View. With Kate’s love of history and costume design she was always able to apply her knowledge to the work she was creating at The Rep. Credits for designing costumes for film and television include: the internationally award-winning film The Wheel; The Protestant Reformation (The History Channel); Secret America (The Discovery Channel) and the 2008 series of When Weather Changed History (The Weather Channel). Kate is actively involved with the Milwaukee independent film community and has enjoyed teaching high school students through the Milwaukee Film projects. 

Craig Gottschalk, Lighting Designer

Craig is happy to be designing another production in the Stackner Cabaret. Previous Milwaukee Rep designs include Blues in the Night, Always . . . Patsy Cline, The Bomb-itty of Errors, Nobody Lonesome for Me and Route 66. Other lighting credits include: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; Ivey award-winning Kiss of the Spiderwoman; ‘Best in Twin Cities’ award-winning

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Jerry Springer – The Opera for Minneapolis Musical Theatre; King Lear for Minnesota Shakespeare Project; Into the Woods and Wizard of Oz for Minnetonka Center for the Arts and 1940’s Radio Hour for 8-Ball Theatre. Craig holds an MFA in Lighting and Sound Design from the University of Minnesota.

Erin Paige, Sound Designer

Erin Paige comes to Milwaukee from five seasons of engineering at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where favorite shows included Hamlet, She Loves Me, and Death and the King’s Horseman. She has designed for New Works Festival at Looking Glass Theatre in New York and The Tale of Jemima Canard at Annex Theatre in Seattle, in addition to several shows at Southern Oregon University, where she earned a BFA in Sound Design. Most recently her music was heard in King Lear at The Alchemist Theatre in Bay View.

Ashlee Edgemon Wasmund, Stage Movement Director

Ashlee Edgemon Wasmund is delighted to be working with Milwaukee Rep for the first time! She is a graduate of the MFA Acting Program at Western Illinois University. As a Chicago-based actor, choreographer and director, Ashlee has worked with theaters such as Drury Lane Theatre, Provision Theater Company, First Folio Theatre, Stage Left Theatre and Midsommer Flight theaters

amongst others. She is currently a faculty member with the Chicago Academy for the Arts and also teaches in the theater department at Concordia University Chicago and musical theater dance at Carthage College. 

Melissa Van Swol, Stage Manager

This is Melissa’s first show with The Rep; she’s excited to be working with such a great company! Melissa has previously worked with First Stage Children’s Theater, Skylight Music Theatre and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin – Parkside and her MFA from the University of Alabama. Melissa is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Kimberly Carolus, Stage Management Intern

Kimberly Carolus is a recent graduate of the University of Central Florida where she received her BFA in Stage Management. Her most recent credits include Stage Manager for Spring Awakening, Assistant Stage Manager for Stop Kiss and The Last Night of Ballyhoo at the University of Central Florida as well as for Shove! Push! The Sixth Annual Dance Concert presented by UCF at Orlando Repertory Theatre. She has also worked as an Event Coordinator organizing special events in conjunction with the UCF season and completed an internship at Walt Disney World as an Entertainment Technician.

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