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Footlights Focus: Karen Olivo Heads to Hamilton in ChicagoWhen Tony-Award winner Karen Olivo decided to take a break from Broadway and move to Madison in 2013, she did so to study a new role: herself.

But then a little musical by In the Heights friend and co-star, Lin Manuel Miranda, took the world by storm, and news broke that while still enjoying a sold-out, ongoing slot on Broadway in the Big Apple, it would come to Chicago to enjoy an open-end run.

Yes, Hamilton has come to the Midwest, and Karen Olivo, both Tony-Award Winner and now Wisconsin resident, will take to the stage as Angelica Schuyler. For those unfamiliar with Olivo, she has definitely actively immersed herself within the Wisconsin arts community since her departure from Broadway. She has spent her time in Madison focusing on musical theatre education, being an advisory company member for Forward Theater, and making several appearances on stage at the Overture Center, as well as out of state. Olivo reprised her award-winning role of West Side Story’s Anita this past summer, first in concert at the Hollywood Bowl in July and again with a full production in August during the Salzburg Festival in Austria.

But come September, it is time for one of Wisconsin’s favorite new residents to head to Chicago’s PrivateBank Theatre, where audiences that have missed Olivo can finally see her taking on yet another role in the lights.

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Milwaukee Chamber Theatre Welcomes New Staff Changes for SeasonSummer is often the time where companies see some changes within their staff, and it’s no different for the theater and arts community in Milwaukee. Long-established Milwaukee Chamber Theatre saw their education and literary manager Marcella Kearns become the associate artistic director (who will work alongside current producing artistic director

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Marquette Brings on Marti Gobel for Fall SemesterMarquette Theatre will have local actress and arts professional Marti Gobel join them for the fall semester. Gobel, seen last season in Next Act Theatre’s Twilight: Lost Angeles 1992, will teach a class on multicultural playwrights.

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1 Skylight Music Theatre 2016-2017 Season

Ray Jivoff Jack R. LemmonInterim Artistic Director Executive Director

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PRESENTS

September 30 - October 16BROADWAY THEATRE CENTER

CABOT THEATRE

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

This program was supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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SCENIC DESIGNERAdam Stoner

COSTUME DESIGNER Kärin Simonson Kopischke**

LIGHTING DESIGNERPhil Cruise Warren

DANCE CHOREOGRAPHERKrislyn World

SOUND DESIGNERChris Guse

DIRECTED BY Sheri Williams PannellMUSIC DIRECTOR Anne Van Deusen

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Daniel J Hanson*

Music by Jeanine Tesori Lyrics and Book by Brian CrawleyBased on “The Ugliest Pilgrim” by Doris Betts

Violetis presented through special arrangment with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials

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**The costume designer of Violet is represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE.

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On September 4, 1964, Violet Karl begins her pilgrimage from Spruce Pine, North Carolina to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in search of a miracle. The summer of 1964 saw the escalation of the Vietnam War, the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Ms. Fannie Lou Hammer’s address at the Democratic National Convention, the recovery of the bodies of murdered civil rights workers Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner and the recent removal of Jim Crow signs across the South. This is the backdrop for the musical Violet. It is based on a short story by Doris Betts, The Loneliest Pilgrim.

In an age when Miss America was the standard of western beauty and glamorous movie stars are revered, Violet wears a scar that makes a “rainbow across her face.” This scar has damaged her self-esteem and has implications on her place in her community. Violet’s decision to journey by bus to visit an evangelist for a healing results in her meeting strangers who struggle with their own challenges.

Witnessing these journeys, there are questions to ponder. What makes a person beautiful or worthy of love? Do miracles still happen today? How much has our society progressed in our attitudes about beauty and race since 1964? The opportunity for the exploration of these questions was part of the appeal for directing Violet. Devising a concept that would encapsulate the various locations, understanding the psychological journey and casting versatile artists who can interpret bluegrass, gospel, rhythm & blues and blues music was challenging. Well, I am a witness. Miracles still happen.

Ready for the journey,Sheri Williams Pannell

A MESSAGE FROM THE STAGE DIRECTOR -

A MESSAGE FROM INTERIM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR - RAY JIVOFFWelcome to Skylight Music Theatre’s 58th season! I am proud to now be Interim Artistic Director of Skylight, my artistic home for almost 30 years. To refresh your memory, I’ve appeared in shows here since 1990, became Education Director and started our Enlighten Education program in 1999 and am now working with our dedicated and talented staff and artists to produce the best possible music theatre experience for you, our patrons. This season is a classic Skylight season, covering the full spectrum of music theatre, from a relatively unknown ensemble musical (Violet), to a holiday blockbuster (La Cage aux Folles), to a popular and hilarious revue (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) a classical chamber opera based on

the fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast and concluding with one of Stephen Sondheim’s masterpieces, Sweeney Todd.

To quote our season brochure, where words fail, music speaks, and that is certainly true of our first production, Violet. This beautiful and uplifting musical, with a thrilling score by Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home, Shrek) tells the story of a pilgrimage from Blue Ridge Mountains, with its country music to the rhythm and blues of a dance hall in Memphis to the gospel music at a revival meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As I’ve said in interviews when talking about this show, I think in light of the ongoing national and local conversation we are having about race in our communities, this show is particularly timely. This musical deals with issues of beauty and faith, race and gender in a human and moving way. If we’re going to move forward, we need to share and listen to our stories.

I’m happy to have our cast and production team led by dear Skylight family member, Sheri Williams Pannell. Her vision and passion for this material has been an inspiration to everyone and I’m grateful for her artistry and friendship as we kick off this exciting new season at Skylight.


SKYLIGHT LEADERSHIPJack R. Lemmon (Executive Director) has worked in the performing arts for over 30 years, serving as Executive Director of the Joffrey Ballet, Louisville Ballet and Colorado Ballet to name a few. He also worked at the National Endowment for the Arts and, most recently, as Executive Director of the Birmingham Children’s Theatre. He has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Arts and Cultural Affairs. He served on the board and executive committee of Dance/USA and was a board member of

the Partnership for Creative Economies (KY). He also chaired the board of the Arts and Cultural Attractions Council in Louisville, KY, and the Chicago Dance Alliance. Lemmon currently serves on the board of the Third Ward Association. He holds a B.M. in music education and performance from Coe College in Cedar Rapids (Iowa) and an M.F.A. in Theatre from the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

SKYLIGHT LEADERSHIPRay Jivoff (Interim Artistic Director) – is an actor, educator and director and is proud to now be Skylight’s Interim Artistic Director. Ray has been working at Skylight since 1990, when he appeared in Girl Crazy back at “the old space” on Jefferson Street. Other roles over the years include Harpo in three productions: The Cocoanuts, Animal Crackers and A Day In Hollywood, A Night In The Ukraine; Koko in The Mikado; Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore, Major General Stanley in Pirates of Penzance, Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls and Mr. Zero in

Adding Machine. He performed numerous cabarets in the Skylight Bar and Bistro and EVERYTHING FROM RAY TO Z in the Studio Theatre. He appeared in many shows at First Stage Milwaukee, and several at the Milwaukee Rep, including A Christmas Carol last season. He joined the Skylight staff as Education Director in 1999 and created Skylight’s education program, Enlighten, and the Partner School Program. Enlgihten offers music theatre education to students in eight MPS schools, with two school touring shows (The Standard Songbook and KidsWrites) , the annual High School Musical Celebration, our in-depth Audience Guides and the Skylight Insights pre-show talk series. He was a Drama Director at Catholic Memorial High School in Waukesha for 12 years and created the Next Actors, Next Act Theatre’s education program. He directed Hair and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris at Skylight; The Complete Works of William Shake-speare, Abridged, Revised and The Sum of Us at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; West Side Story at UW Milwaukee; Into the Woods and Little Shop of Horrors at Marquette University and Hair, ANNIE and Sweet Charity at the Sunset Playhouse. A member of Actors Equity, his appearance in La Cage Aux Folles this season marks his 25th mainstage role.

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6Violet

Act I In the fall of 1964, a young woman, Violet Karl, boards a Greyhound bus in Spruce Pine, an isolated mountain town in North Carolina. Her face was disfigured in a horrible childhoold accident, and she is on a pilgrimage to Tulsa, Oklahoma. She believes that a televangelist there will perform a miracle on her scar. On the bus, she meets various passengers including two soldiers, Monty, a white corporal and Flick, a black sergeant. Violet befriends the soldiers while playing poker, a game we see her learn from her widowed father in a flashback. Monty and Flick question her intention to “cure” her physical disfigurement and encourage her to look toward inner beauty. On an overnight stay in Memphis, Tennessee, the boundaries of their relationships become complicated and friendships begin to turn to romance.

Fifteen minute intermission

Act II Violet says goodbye to Flick and Monty in Fort Smith, Arkansas, their destination, and she continues to Tulsa, confused about her feelings for the men, but persistent in her desire to meet the televangelist in Tulsa. Upon her arrival, Violet is brushed off by the preacher, who encourages her to pray for inner beauty. Realizing the preacher is unable to cure her scar, defeated, Violet confronts difficult memories from her past and the complicated relationship with her father. In her vision, her father asks for forgiveness and tells her, “I raised you strong enough to start seein’ with your heart. That’s what I could do, that’s all I could do. The rest is up to you.” After this episode, Violet feels a change within herself and thinks that maybe the miracle worked. She decides to go back to Fort Smith to see Flick and Monty. Upon her arrival, Monty sees that the televangelist was unable to cure her scar, but Flick notices a change in Violet, which she eventually realizes is the miracle she was looking for all along. In the end, Violet realizes that her healing will be complete once she commits to a new life and a new-found appreciation of her own inner beauty.

Act IWater In The Well

Surprised

On My Way

M&M’s

Luck of the Draw

Question ‘n’ Answer

All To Pieces

Let It Sing

Anyone Would Do

Who’ll Be The One (If Not Me)

Last Time I Came To Memphis

Lonely Stranger

Lay Down Your Head

Act IIAnyone Would Do (Reprise)

Hard To Say Goodbye

Promise Me, Violet

Raise Me Up

Down The Mountain

In The Chapel

Raise Me Up (Reprise)

Look At Me

That’s What I Could Do

Surprised (Reprise)

Promise Me, Violet (Reprise)

Bring Me to Light

SYNOPSIS

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Violet ..............................................................................................................................................Allie BabichMusic hall singer, Almeta, bus passenger .................................................................. Cynthia Cobb*Lula Buffington, bus passenger .................................................................................... Raven DockeryFlick...................................................................................................................................... Lamar Jefferson*Monty .............................................................................................................................................Alex Mace*Leroy Evans, Radio Soloist, bus driver 3, bus passenger .................................... Robby McGheePreacher, Radio Singer, bus driver 1, bus driver 4 .....................................................Rick PendzichFather ........................................................................................................................................Jeff SchaetzkeVirgil, Billy Dean, bus driver 2, Radio Singer, bus passenger .............................Ryan StajmigerOld Lady, Hotel Hooker .......................................................................................... Samantha SostarichYoung Violet ............................................................................................................................ Kylee HennesYoung Violet ............................................................................................................................. Ella Kleefisch

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

Guitars ................................................................................................ Steve Lewandowski, Joe GormanBass ................................................................................................................................................. Tom McGirrDrums ..................................................................................................................................... Michael LorenzKeyboards ........................................................................................... David Bonofiglio, Mark CarlsteinViolin ............................................................................................................................................... Cathy BushCello .................................................................................................................................................Scott Cook

CAST OF VIOLET

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Assistant Stage Manager ....................................................................................................... Jake SchertzProp Artists: ......................................................................................... Meghan Savagian, Madelyn YeeProperties Lead, Run Crew ................................................................................................. Tanya DheinScenic Artists..................................................................... Catherine Lottes, Malvy Clark Westbrook Wig Designer .............................................................................................................................. Lara DalbeyWardrobe .......................................................................................................Jennifer Angeli, Kara WaalaStitcher ...................................................................................................................................Jeanne SchrankElectricians ..................Christine Isbell, Amanda McDonald, Heidi Rebarchik, Thomas MooreLight Board Operator ................................................................................................ Amanda McDonaldFollowspot Operators .............................................................................. Mark Jacobsen, Doug VanceAudio Engineer ....................................................................................................................... Melissa NillesAudio Technician ..................................................................................................................... Tony Baglien

Acknowledgements Special Thanks to Milwaukee Repertory Theatre Costume Shop

and Lawrence University Theatre

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WHO’S WHO

Allie Babich (Violet) is thrilled “all to pieces” to make her Skylight debut, to tell this story of forgiveness and healing, and to tell it here and now. A Wisconsin native,

Allie trained at First Stage and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program. She has performed Shakespeare in parks, bars, parking lots, across the southwest, and on the Globe stage, as well as producing and performing with her own company, BARd Shakes. Other roles include Ensign Nellie Forbush (South Pacific), Ela Delahay (Charley’s Aunt), and Hamlet (Hamlet) at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, originating the role of Dottie (Victory Farm) at Northern Sky Theatre, several shows with Optimist Theatre, and many with First Stage, including Marian in their new adaptation of Robin Hood this winter. Many thanks and huge hugs to the family, whose support means everything. She especially sends her love to the aunt who inspires her. www.alliebabich.com

Cynthia Cobb (Music Hall Singer...) is delighted to return to the Skylight in this production after last being seen in Crowns as Mother Shaw. Credits

include Gershwin and Friends, AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’, (Charlaine and Armelia), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (B.J.), Tintypes (Susannah), Blues in the Night (the Lady), and The All Night Strut (woman 2), all at Skylight Music Theatre. Other favorites: Carousel (Carrie) at Candlelight Dinner Playhouse, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up (Mary) at Drury Lane Theatre, Elmer Gantry (Epatha) at Marriott Theatre at Lincolnshire, Cowgirls (Lee) at Northlight Theatre, and Showboat (Queenie) at Gateway Playhouse. Cynthia

has also traveled the world as a featured singer with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Raven Dockery (Lula Buffington, Bus Passenger) is excited to return to Skylight Music Theatre in its production of Violet. This is her 4th show with Skylight.

Skylight credits include: Hair (Dionne), Once on this Island (Asaka) and Crowns (Velma). Other favorite credits include: Dreamgirls (Effie’s U/S, Ensemble) at The Milwaukee Rep, Rent (Ensemble) at Paramount Theatre, Shrek The Musical (Dragon/Mama Bear) at First Stage Children’s Theatre, Rent (Joanne), Murder Ballad (Narrator), Songs For a New World (Woman 2) at Kalliope Vocal Arts and Ragtime (Sarah) at DSHA Community Theater. She would like to thank her friends and family for their continuous love and support. Thank you to God for the gift of music and the ability to share her gifts with everyone. Thank you to her very supportive #stagehusband, Shawn Holmes. And lastly, her forever beautiful Angel in Heaven, Mommy. Love you and God Bless!

KyLee Hennes (Young Violet) is very excited to be on the Skylight stage for the first time! Recent credits include: The Sound of Music (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Gypsy

(Northwestern University & Capitol City Theatre), Les Miserables, Annie Get Your Gun, and Scrooge the Musical (Fireside Theatre). KyLee also enjoys rocking out on her guitar with her three sisters in The BAND Hennes, and has even performed at Madison Square Garden! She would like to thank her family, friends and her team (Stewart Talent Chicago, Take 3 Talent Agency & Prevail Artist Management) for all of their continued support. Much gratitude!


Lamar Jefferson (Flick) is thrilled to be making his Skylight debut. Originally from Lancaster, TX, Lamar received his BFA. In Acting from Stephen F.

Austin State University. Lamar began his artistic journey with Milwaukee Repertory Theater as an Acting Intern for the 2012/2013 season, he then went on to perform with First Stage, Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre, Casa Mañana, Open Window Theatre, Theater Latte Da, Children’s Theatre Company, Guthrie Theatre, and others. Lamar is humbled to be in this show, and thankful for all the artists that help bring this story to life.

Ella Rose Kleefisch (Young Violet) is excited to make her Skylight debut as “Young Violet”. She was most recently “Nellie Oakley” in Waukesha Civic Theatre’s

Annie Get Your Gun. Ella Rose doesn’t always have a southern accent: she played the French orphan “Opal” in Acacia Theatre’s OPAL. And when she’s not playing kids with no mother, she acted as the daughter of the ultimate stage mom in Sunset Playhouse’s Gypsy, where she was “Baby June”. Ella is an 8th grader at Nature Hill Intermediate School in Oconomowoc where she is in the gifted and talented program and a member of National Junior Honors Society. She loves to feed baby birds at the Wildlife In Need Center and is saving to buy herself a horse, so thanks for supporting the show!

Alex Mace (Monty) is thrilled to be returning to Skylight and to the city of Milwaukee. He last appeared on the Milwaukee stage playing the role of Berger in

Skylight’s 2014 production of Hair. Other previous roles include National Tour: Hair (Tribe. Claude/Berger/Woof understudy. Dir. Diane Paulus-Big League Productions). NYMF: That Lady from Maxim’s (Corignon-Isle of Shoals). Regional: HAIR (Berger-Cohoes Music Hall), Les Miserables (Enjolras-CR Productions & Prather Entertainment), Into The Woods (Rapunzel’s Prince-Theatre Workshop of Nantucket), Love, Sex, and the I.R.S. (Jon-Millbrook Playhouse). NYC: Lighthouse (The Stranger-Isle of Shoals), Romeo and Juliet (Paris-Isle of Shoals), Edward II (Mortimer-Isle of Shoals). Readings: Skye of July (Skye-Lone Star Theatre). Alex would like to thank his mother, brother and Amara for their endless love and support.

Robby McGhee (Leroy Evans...) has been working in the Milwaukee theatre community for over ten years. He has most frequently performed

with Greendale Community Theatre as: “Thenardier” in Les Miserables, “Dave” in Full Monty, “Edna Turnblad” in Hairspray, “Tom Collins” in Rent, and more. This is McGhee’s first production at Skylight Music Theatre. He is the Artistic Director of All In Productions and a member of Tall Boys Improv Comedy. During the day, he is employed at ManpowerGroup where he recruits recruiters. This performance is dedicated to his rock and number one fan, Andrea Homan.

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Rick Pendzich (Preacher...) is proud to be returning to Skylight for his seventh show with the company. Past roles include Roger in I Hear America Singing,

Grantaire in Les Misérables, Brian in Avenue Q, and Mark in Rent. A graduate of UW-Whitewater, Rick has performed with numerous Milwaukee theatres, including Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theater, In Tandem Theatre, and Milwaukee Shakespeare Company. Some of his favorite roles include Max in Lend Me a Tenor, Steve in Grace, and Charlie Brown in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Rick will return to Skylight in February for I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change.

Jeff Schaetzke (Father) is delighted to return to Skylight where he has been on stage and off in different roles including: Music Director for In The Heights, Dames at Sea,

and An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan, and on stage in An Evening with G+S, and My Fair Lady. Jeff is the Company Manager at First Stage, and Director or Music Director for: Big Fish (also appeared as Edward Bloom), Ella Enchanted, Big Nate, Spookley the Square Pumpkin, many others. Other acting roles: The Daly News at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, 2 seasons with American Players Theatre. Jeff has spent 20 years as Theatre Director at Dominican High School in Whitefish Bay, and is a 2014 inductee in the Wisconsin High School Theatre Directors Hall of Fame. Proud graduate of North Central College. Loving husband to Sheila, devoted father to Amelia, Jeremy, and Adelaide. For his daughters.

Ryan Stajmiger (Virgil...) Ryan is incredibly happy to return to the Skylight stage after being seen last year as Jack in Into the Woods. Ryan is a

graduate of The Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. A Milwaukee native, he is currently living in Chicago where he has worked with such theaters as Drury Lane, Porchlight, Mercury Theater, Lifeline, Fox Valley Rep, Bailiwick, and Circle Theater. “This is Ours.”

Samantha Sostarich (Old Lady/Hotel Hooker) is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she received a BA with distinction as a

Theatre Acting Specialist. Her credits include Four Seasons Theatre (Monty Python’s Spamalot), Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (Boeing Boeing), Skylight Music Theatre (Pirates of Penzance, Into the Woods, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Avenue Q, Sunday in the Park with George, Dames At Sea, The Producers, White Christmas), The Milwaukee Opera Theatre (Fortuna the Timebender vs. The School Girls of Doom), First Stage Children’s Theater (Miss Nelson is Missing), Children’s Theater of Madison (Goodnight Moon), In Tandem Theatre (A Cudahy Caroler’s Christmas, A Twisted Carol), Optimist Theatre (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), and she was an original company member and show captain of Kohl’s Wild Theater with the Zoological Society of Milwaukee. www.samanthasostarich.com

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Sheri Williams Pannell (Director) has performed, directed or written for a number of Milwaukee’s theaters, cultural and youth serving organizations

including First Stage, Skylight Music Theatre, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Milwaukee Public Theater, Milwaukee Rep, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, African American Children’s Theater, Sunset Playhouse, Milwaukee Art Museum and Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee. Beyond Milwaukee, Sheri has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah’s Old Lyric Theatre, University Opera- Madison, University Theater at UW Madison and the Children’s Theater of Madison. Sheri is an Education Lead Teacher and Dramaturg at First Stage where she was commissioned to write WELCOME TO BRONZEVILLE, a play celebrating Milwaukee’s Bronzeville history (premier January 2017). She is founding associate artistic director of the Bronzeville Arts Ensemble and co-directs the drama ministry at Calvary Baptist Church. A graduate of Spelman College, Sheri also holds a MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Love to Don and Donnie.

Anne Van Deusen (Music Director) is thrilled to step into the role of Music Director for this touching story that asks the question, “Where does our beauty

really lie – on the outside or on the inside? And how does forgiveness help us shine?” Anne is a pianist, accompanist and music director in and around the Milwaukee area. Her work with local theatres and schools includes: Milwaukee Opera Theatre, Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Ballet, First Stage, In Tandem, Off the Wall, Waukesha Civic, UW-Milwaukee, Carroll University,

and the Wauwatosa, Waukesha and West Allis school districts. Outside the theatre world, Anne does vocal coaching and is the Director of Music at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church in Greendale. Recent Skylight projects include: Powder Her Face, Tosca, Into the Woods, Sunday in the Park with George, and KidsWrites. Upcoming projects: 9 to 5 at DSHA High School and Beauty and the Beast at Skylight. Thanks always to Jim, for his constant support.

Chris Guse (Sound Designer) recent design projects include sound for Lend me a Tenor, October, Before I was Born, Collected Stories, Heroes, Jeeves Intervenes, Duet for One, and sound and video for Master Class and The Detective’s Wife with the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. He designed and created the environment and multimedia content for The Congo Code (a 2015 Milwaukee Business Journal Eureka Award winner) and Trash or Tunes with Kohl’s Wild Theatre. Chris worked with Uprooted/Renaissance Theaterworks creating the sound designs for Neat and Crumbs From the Table of Joy and the video for Shorewood High School’s groundbreaking, 2016 Tommy Award sweeping American Idiot. An associate professor at UWM, Chris teaches in the areas of sound design/technology and technical direction and has designed sound, video and/or composed music for over 50 shows, including highlight productions of Corktown, Oedipus Rex, Mr. Melancholy and From These Green Heights.

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Daniel J Hanson* (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to return to Skylight as the full season Production Stage Manager. Dan’s previous Skylight credits include Tosca. Recent stage management credits include: Guys on Ice (Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee, WI); The Snow (First Stage, Milwaukee WI); The Producers, The Addams Family, Avenue Q and The Color Purple (Mercury Theatre Chicago); Big Fish, All Shook Up (Theatre at the Center, Munster, IN). Some favorite stage management credits include A Year with Frog and Toad, The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (Children’s Theatre Company, Minneapolis, MN), To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Park Square Theatre, St. Paul, MN); Queens of Burlesque (The History Theatre, St. Paul, MN); and Menopause the Musical (The Lab Theatre, Minneapolis, MN). Dan received his MFA in stage management from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Adam Stoner (Scenic Designer) is a local Milwaukee artist and scenic designer whose work investigates issues of identity, spiritual fantasy and theological narratives. After graduating from Skylight Music Theatre’s Scenic Apprentice program, Adam continues to work with the Broadway Theatre Center as a painter, designer and artistic collaborator. Past shows with Skylight include The Skylight Ring, Hair, and Les Miserables; The Good Father with Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; and The Kreutzer Sonata with Renaissance Theatreworks.

Kärin Simonson Kopischke(Costume Designer) is delighted to design again at Skylight, where favorite designs include The Mikado, The Spitfire Grill, Once on This Island, The Man of La Mancha and many Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Kärin’s costume designs have been awarded the Joseph Jefferson, the AriZoni and a Prague Quadrennial nomination. She has designed for regional theatre Tony winners American Conservatory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, Victory Gardens, Children’s Theatre Company, Crossroads, Huntington and Cincinnati Playhouse, as well as Milwaukee Rep, Peninsula Players, First Stage, Door Shakespeare and American Players. Kärin taught costume design at DePaul, Northwestern and Carroll Universities and heads Lawrence University’s costume design department. She designed costumes for the feature film “Feed the Fish” with Tony Shalhoub, new works for Harry Connick Jr. and Stephen Schwartz, Kevin Puts’ 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning opera Silent Night, and the world premiere opera The Shining. Proud member of USA.

Raeleen McMillion (Dialect Coach) is very happy to be serving as dialect coach for Skylight! She has coached several sounds for Milwaukee groups, including: “British” for My Fair Lady at Skylight; “New York City” for Brooklyn Boy at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre; “New Zealand” for Skin Tight, “South African” for The Road To Mecca, and “Mississippi” for Ballad Of Emmett Till at Renaissance Theaterworks, where she is also a proud co-founder. Raeleen teaches Acting, Voice & Speech, and Dialects at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts where she is currently directing a production of Women On the Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown with Musical Theatre students. Raeleen is a member of Voice & Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and The American Dialect Society.

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Phil Cruise Warren (Lighting Designer)work this season includes Wildspace Dance Company’s Into the Garden and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre’s upcoming production of The Few. In addition to serving as the Master Electrician for the Broadway Theatre Center, Phil has designed lighting for The Skylight Ring, Wildspace Dance Company’s Brew City Dreams, and Cardinal Stritch University productions including: Rabbit Hole, Shakespeare’s Women, & Little Shop of Horrors. A Milwaukee native, Phil enjoys traveling, and takes time to crew aboard the 18th century replica Brig, Lady Washington. He holds a BFA in Theatre Production & Design from Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Krislyn World (Choreographer) is a Senior Lecturer at UW-Milwaukee. She’s a graduate of The Juilliard School (BFA) and PSOA-UWM (MFA). Her choreographic works include The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ohio Contemporary Dance Theater, Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater and Crowns, Skylight Music Theatre. Krislyn received the Legendary African American Choreographers Award, from LVCDT. She has sung locally with R.A.S Movement, nationally with the Morgan State University Choir and Internationally with “Raphael”, Madrid, Spain. She danced for Stevie Wonder’s World “Characters” Tour. Her musical theater appearances include, The Milwaukee Repertory Theater Education Program, North Carolina Black Repertory Company, and First Stage Theater. She is serving as head judge for the Wisconsin Salsa Open 2016. Her choreographic residencies include, Danceworks, African American Children’s Theater, Walker’s Point Center of Arts, Bruce Guadalupe Community School, UWM Pre-College and Trio Programs. Her most recent choreographic production is Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, UWM 2016.

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Brian Crawley ( Lyrics and Book) is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the book and lyrics for A Little Princess (composer Andrew Lippa) which debuted at Theatreworks of Palo Alto in the summer of 2004. He also wrote the book and lyrics for Violet (composer Jeanine Tesori) which was mounted Off-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons in 1997, then remounted in a concert version in 2003 to help inaugurate their new theater. Other musicals he has written include Evangeline with Ted Dykstra, and Down There with composer Lewis Flinn. He appears in the documentary One Night Stand, in which he writes a short musical in 24 hours with composer Gabriel Kahane. For the libretto of Violet, Brian won the Kleban Award. Prior to the Playwrights Horizons production, and on its behalf, Violet was given the Richard Rodgers Musical Production Award and an AT&T OnStage Award. Afterwards, besides a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Musical, Violet received the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical over all the year’s Broadway offerings (as did Paula Vogel’s play How I Learned to Drive; the first time two off-Broadway pieces took these top awards in the Drama Critic Circle’s history). Brian’s plays have been developed or staged at Lincoln Center, New York Theater Workshop, the National Alliance of Musical Theatre, and the Eugene O’Neill summer theater conference. He majored in Theater Studies at Yale and has an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Brian is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Jeanine Tesori (Music) won the Tony Award for Best Original Score with Lisa Kron for the musical Fun Home, which is currently playing on Broadway. She has also written Tony-nominated scores for Twelfth Night at Lincoln Center; Thoroughly Modern Millie (lyrics, Dick Scanlan); Caroline, or Change (lyrics, Tony Kushner); and Shrek The Musical (lyrics, David Lindsay-Abaire). The production of Caroline, or Change at the National Theatre in London received the Olivier

Award for Best New Musical. Her 1997 Off-Broadway musical Violet (lyrics, Brian Crawley) opened on Broadway in 2014 and garnered four Tony nominations, including Best Musical Revival. Opera: A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck (libretto, Tony Kushner; Glimmerglass) and The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me (libretto, J. D. McClatchy, Kennedy Center). Music for plays: Mother Courage (dir. George C. Wolfe, with Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline), John Guare’s A Free Man of Color (Lincoln Center Theater, dir. George C. Wolfe), and Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte Gala). Film scores: Nights in Rodanthe, Every Day, and You’re Not You. Ms. Tesori is a member of the Dramatists Guild and was cited by the ASCAP as the first female composer to have two new musicals running concurrently on Broadway. She is the founding artistic director of Encores! Off-Center at New York City Center, and is a lecturer in music at Yale University. Most of all, she is the proud parent of Siena Rafter, a senior at LaGuardia High School for the Arts.

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SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

SKYLIGHT ADVOCATES

F. Tessa Escamilla BartelsMarta BianchiniBarbara BolensColin Cabot (Honorary)Sam DickmanLaura EmoryGerald Falci

Moira FitzgeraldJohn FlanaganDavid HarveyJoel HessValerie JohnsonMichelle MattsonHoward Miller

Sadhna Morato-LindvalJohn ShannonJohn StollenwerkBrian D. TillJudith Williams-Killackey

Michael C. Lueder, President

PAST PRESIDENTSMary EmoryJohn FlanaganMatt FlynnByron FosterAlec FrasierSue Frautschi

Timothy FrautschiJack GardnerDavid HarveySuzanne HeftyTerry KurtenbachHoward Miller

Jeff NohlNick OwenMary PollockLarry SalustroJohn StollenwerkRichard Wright

Betty & Tom ArndtCarol & Richard BayerleinPolly & Robert BealKatherine & William BiersachWendy & Richard BlissMorton BlutsteinE. J. Brumder, Jr.Barbara BuzardPatricia & Phillip CrumpThallis DrakeElizabeth ElserMary & John EmoryMary & Matthew FlynnSuzy & Byron FosterGabrielle & John FrankeSusan & Timothy FrautschiElizabeth & Frederic FriedmanLloyd GerlachGwenn & Joseph GraboyesCatherine GrahamSuzanne & Roy GrommeLindsay Holbrook Hammerer & Peter HammererArlene HansenKatie Harding & James PionkoskiCheryl & Roy HauswirthG. Edward HeineckeJohn Holland & Konrad KuchenbachMary & David Huntington

Sharon & Ted HuttonCharlotte & William JohnsonJudy & Gary JorgensenJeanne & Richard KesslerSusan & Robert KindeTracey & Richard KleinMary & Kipp KoesterMarie Kohler & Brian ManiPatricia & Robert KraftRoz & Charlie KrausePam KrigerKristie & Terrance KurtenbachNancy & Arthur LaskinEmilia & Christopher LaydenPhoebe LewisSally LewisSally ManegoldRose Mary & Frank MatusinecGrace McBain Haydon & John HaydonSandra & Michael McNeelyDonna & Anthony MeyerSusan NicholsMary & Jeff NohlJody & Joe NolanBarbara NotesteinJane S. O'ConnellMary OwenBruce & Candy PindyckNancy Pinter & R. Max SamsonGwen Plunkett

Roberta & Larry PolacheckIldy & Skip PolinerMary S. PollockHattie & Edward PurtellGordana & Milan RacicKristine & James RappeLinda & Blaine RiekeLee Dougherty Ross & Jerold RossPatricia & Charles RoyMarlene & Richard SchilffarthKathleen & Thomas SchraderCarol & Kevin SchueleMarsha Ruth SehlerMaureen & Larry SherkowJoanne & Vincent Shiely, Jr.Paige SindenAnne & Frederick Stratton, Jr.Lisa & Paul SweeneyJohn W. TaylorGloria TracyPauline & Calvin VerbruggeAnne & Tom WamserGwen & William WernerNora & Jude WerraKathleen & David WilliamsHelen & Nicholas WilsonDiane & Richard WrightHerbert Zien & Elizabeth Levins

Alec Fraser, Past PresidentMichael Bula, SecretaryLeslie Hauser, Treasurer

Robert J. Heath, VP of DevelopmentSara Meaney, VP of Marketing

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Save the Date!SKYLIGHT NIGHT

April 1, 2017

SKYLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE STAFF

RAY JIVOFFINTERIM ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

JACK R. LEMMON EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

ARTISTICMichael Lorenz ................................... Orchestra ContractorSam Nykiel ............................................Artistic Administrator

BOX OFFICEKelley Arlt ..................................................Box Office ManagerJennifer Tirado ....................................Box Office SupervisorKatie Young ........................................... Weekend SupervisorIndalecio de Jesus Valentin, Kristaleen Hernandez, Becky Cofta, Mike Dent, Veronica Zahn ................................................. Box Office Staff

COSTUMESShima Orans ................................................ Costume DirectorBarry Link ........................................ Costume Shop ManagerMolly Mason .............................................Costume Assistant,

Lead Wardrobe

DEVELOPMENTJames A. Moore .......................... Director of DevelopmentLibby Amato ...................................Development AssociateMegan Maikowski ............................. Donor Engagement &

Special Events Manager

EDUCATIONMargaret Bridges ...................................Education ManagerGrace DeWolff ...............................Resident Teaching Artist

ELECTRICSPhil Cruise Warren .................................... Master Electrician

FACILITIESPaul Kaishian...............................................................Custodian

FINANCELisa Golda ....................................................Business ManagerNate Press ..................Administrative & Finance Assistant

HOUSE MANAGEMENTElizabeth Warren ........................................... House ManagerTess Benser, Lee Caracci, David Tilton, Kat Tow, Dawn Wenszell .........................Assistant House Managers

MARKETINGSusan Heymann .................................Director of MarketingMorgan Halverson ............................................ Group Sales &

Community EngagementKendall Judy............................................ Marketing ManagerKristaleen Hernandez .............................. Marketing InternMary Beth Jablonowski, Veronica Mickley ................................ Summer 2016 Interns

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENTDJ Haugen ..............Director of Production and FacilitiesDaniel J. Hanson ......................Production Stage ManagerClaire Kedjidjian .................................... Stage Management

ApprenticePROPERTIES

Lisa Schlenker.......................................Properties Director &Associate Director of Facilities

Jennifer Lyons ......................................Properties CarpenterTanya Dhein,Tayler Varney ......... Properties Apprentices

SCENIC ARTCarri Dahl .............................................................Scenic ChargeTayler Varney ...................................... Scenic Art Apprentice

SCENIC PRODUCTIONJohn Houtler-McCoy .............................. Technical DirectorAlexander Moliere ..................................Technical AssistantTyler Guynes .................................................Stage SupervisorMark Jacobsen ............................................Scenic CarpenterBilly Ray Olsen ..............................................Scenic Carpenter


Skylight gratefully acknowledges the following individuals, foundations, organizations, businesses and government agencies who provided support within the last year and helped us to deliver high quality music theatre productions to the Greater Milwaukee community. Our thanks to the many donors below $250 whose gifts are vital to Skylight’s continuing success, we regret there is not space to list them all. Please refer to our website for a complete listing. This list is current as of September 1, 2016.

Skylight Music Theatre acknowledges and thanks United Performing Arts Fund, our single largest donor, for its generous annual support of over $600,000.

SKYLIGHT MUSIC CIRCLE OF DONORS

BENEFACTOR CIRCLE - $25,000+AnonymousThe Lynde & Harry Bradley FoundationMr. Lloyd A. GerlachGreater Milwaukee Foundation’s Robert F. & Jean E. Holtz Fund

David & Margarete HarveyHerzfeld FoundationJohn Shannon & Jan Serr

STAR CIRCLE - $10,000-$24,999Helen Daniels Bader Fund, a Bader PhilanthropyBaird Private Asset Management GroupCAMPACDemmer Charitable TrustGreater Milwaukee Foundation’s George H. and Virgilee F. Krueck FundJohnson Bank

Susan NicholsMary L. Nohl FundDaniel M. Soref Charitable TrustBert L. & Patricia S. Steigleder Charitable TrustStollenwerk Family Charitable FoundationJulia & David UihleinWisconsin Arts Board

SPONSOR CIRCLE - $5,000-$9,999Michael & Anne Marie BulaKrause Family FoundationKristin & Alec FraserMaihaugen FoundationMichelle Mattson & Matthew SirinekHoward & Sara MillerMilwaukee Arts Board

Ralph G. or Cherie Gorenstein Charitable Foundation, Inc.Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Asher and Susan Nichols Family FundReinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren s.c. Sempercor FoundationWe Energies FoundationHerbert Zien & Elizabeth Levins

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PRODUCER CIRCLE - $2,500-$4,999AnonymousRobert W. Baird & Co.Michael Best & Friedrich LLPSamuel & Rachel DickmanLaura & John Emory, Jr.Mary & John EmoryGerald & Sue FalciMoira FitzgeraldByron & Suzy FosterSandy & Bill HaackCindy HaasLeslie Hauser & Karl WuesthoffRobert & Maryeve HeathFrieda & William Hunt Memorial Trust

Johnson Controls FoundationGary & Judy JorgensenNancy & Arthur LaskinGreater Milwaukee Foundation’s Luedke-Smith FundSara MeaneyScott & Sadhna Morato-LindvallNorthwestern Mutual FoundationQuarles & BradyMeyer & Norma Ragir FoundationBlaine & Linda RiekeVasques Family FoundationJudith Williams-Killackey & Brent Killackey

DIRECTOR CIRCLE - $1,000-$2,499Anonymous (2)F. Tessa & Richard BartelsPolly & Robert BealMarta & Marc BianchiniMr. & Mrs. William D. BiersachBarb & Mark BolensBriggs & Stratton CorporationRandal & Mary Lynn BrotherhoodMargaret & B. Lauren CharousWilliam & Jane CriseFrederick & Amy CroenDominion FoundationArt & Rhonda DowneyMary Lou FindleyJohn Flanagan & Deborah SchwartzDavid FloresFoley & LardnerJoe & Gwen GraboyesGreater Milwaukee Association of Realtors Youth FoundationGreater Milwaukee Foundation’s Anonymous FundDr. Carl W. Eberbach & Elisabeth Falk Eberbach Fund

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Skylight StarsSkylight Stars was established in 1998 to recognize those special donors who have made special gifts to Skylight in one or more of the following ways: capital or en-dowment initiatives, trusts and bequests, and planned gifts. Thank you very much for your generous support.Christopher Seton AbeleAnonymous (8)

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