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It is a real treat for me to welcome you to this multi-award winning Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s SOUTH PACIFIC. Since the musical SOUTH PACIFIC first opened in New York, April 1949, over 25,000 productions have graced stages around the world. Ranging from a concert at Carnegie Hall, high school and summer stock productions, to London’s West End and New York City Opera revivals, the musical SOUTH PACIFIC continues to be a beloved favourite among theatregoers. This first-ever Broadway revival of SOUTH PACIFIC is an example of musical storytelling at its best; a big, beautiful production based on James A. Michener’s collection of short stories titled Tales of the South Pacific. Set on a tropical island during World War II with powerful themes of love, war and racial tolerance, we in the audience are transported to another time and place witnessing the lives of compelling characters at various stages of crisis and self-discovery. It seems fitting to bring this most operatic of musicals to the magnificent Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts – the home of the prestigious Canadian Opera Company and National Ballet of Canada – making opera, ballet and musical theatre now accessible twelve months of the year. Together with lavish sets, an
exceptional cast and a full orchestra of 26 members, mainly made up of local Toronto musicians, SOUTH PACIFIC represents the largest orchestra of any touring Broadway production and provides a rich musical experience for all the senses. Led by Canadian resident and international opera sensation Jason Howard in the role of Emile de Becque, this landmark musical production of SOUTH PACIFIC will conclude our inaugural Summer Series here at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts. I hope you enjoy the show, and come see us again as we continue to bring you the Best of Broadway here, and at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. See you at the theatre,
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Music RICHARD RODGERS
Lyrics OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Book OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II and JOSHUA LOGAN Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Tales of the South Pacific by JAMES A. MICHENER Original stage production directed by JOSHUA LOGAN JASON HOWARD with CARMEN CUSACK
GERRY BECKER GENSON BLIMLINE CHRISTINA CARRERA ANDERSON DAVIS JODI KIMURA SUMIE MAEDA CJ PALMA PETER RINI RUSTY ROSS MATTHEW SALDIVAR and CHRISTOPHER CARL JACQUELINE COLMER MIKE EVARISTE ALEXIS G.B. HOLT ROBERT HUNT RASHAAN JAMES II CHAD JENNINGS CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE KRISTIE KERWIN JOE LANGWORTH CATHY NEWMAN JULIA OSBORNE DIANE PHELAN JOHN PINTO, JR. TRAVIS ROBERTSON BRET SHUFORD KRISTEN J. SMITH MATT STOKES GREGORY WILLIAMS VICTOR J. WISEHART AMOS WOLFF Sets by MICHAEL YEARGAN Costumes by CATHERINE ZUBER Lighting by DONALD HOLDER Sound by SCOTT LEHRER
Orchestrations by ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT Casting TELSEY + COMPANY Production Stage Manager BRIAN J. L’ECUYER Production Manager JUSTIN REITER General Manager GREGORY VANDER PLOEG GENTRY & ASSOCIATES
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CAST OF CHARACTERS Ensign Nellie Forbush ....................................................................................................................... CARMEN CUSACK Emile de Becque ....................................................................................................................................JASON HOWARD * Ngana, his daughter .................................................................................................................... CHRISTINA CARRERA Jerome, his son .................................................................................................................................................................CJ PALMA Henry....................................................................................................................................................................MIKE EVARISTE Bloody Mary ......................................................................................................................................................... JODI KIMURA Liat, her daughter ............................................................................................................................................. SUMIE MAEDA Bloody Mary’s Assistants ...................................................................DIANE PHELAN, ALEXIS G.B. HOLT Luther Billis..................................................................................................................................... MATTHEW SALDIVAR Stewpot (Carpenter’s Mate Second Class, George Watts) ................................... GENSON BLIMLINE Professor ...................................................................................................................................................................... RUSTY ROSS Lt. Joseph Cable, United States Marine Corps .................................................................. ANDERSON DAVIS Capt. George Brackett, United States Navy................................................................................ GERRY BECKER Cmdr. William Harbison, United States Navy.....................................................................................PETER RINI Lt. Buzz Adams..............................................................................................................................VICTOR J. WISEHART Yeoman Herbert Quale, Sailor ........................................................................................................JOHN PINTO, JR. Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey, Sailor.................................................................................... CHAD JENNINGS Morton Wise, Seabee .................................................................................................................................. ROBERT HUNT Richard West, Seabee .................................................................................................................. CHRISTOPHER CARL Johnny Noonan, Seabee ................................................................................................................................ AMOS WOLFF Tom O’Brien, Sailor .................................................................................................................... TRAVIS ROBERTSON James Hayes, Sailor ..................................................................................................................................... MIKE EVARISTE Kenneth Johnson, Sailor .......................................................................................................... GREGORY WILLIAMS Petty Officer Hamilton Steeves .........................................................................................................BRET SHUFORD Marine Staff Sgt. Thomas Hassinger ......................................................... CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE Lt. Eustis Carmichael, Shore Patrolman ......................................................................................BRET SHUFORD Lt. Genevieve Marshall, lead nurse ............................................................................................. CATHY NEWMAN Ensign Dinah Murphy ............................................................................................................................JULIA OSBORNE Ensign Connie Walewska................................................................................................................ KRISTEN J. SMITH Ensign Sue Yaeger.................................................................................................................................... KRISTIE KERWIN Ensign Cora MacRae ................................................................................................................................. DIANE PHELAN Islanders, Sailors, Seabees, Party Guests.......................................................................CHRISTOPHER CARL, MIKE EVARISTE, ALEXIS G.B. HOLT, ROBERT HUNT, RASHAAN JAMES II, CHAD JENNINGS, CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE, KRISTIE KERWIN, CATHY NEWMAN, JULIA OSBORNE, DIANE PHELAN, JOHN PINTO JR., TRAVIS ROBERTSON, BRET SHUFORD, KRISTEN J. SMITH, GREGORY WILLIAMS, VICTOR J. WISEHART, AMOS WOLFF Dance Captain ........................................................................................................................................JOE LANGWORTH Ass’t. Dance Captain .............................................................................................................. JACQUELINE COLMER Swings ......................................................................................JACQUELINE COLMER, RASHAAN JAMES II, JOE LANGWORTH, MATT STOKES * Jason Howard is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association pursuant to an exchange program between American Equity and UK Equity.”
The use of any recording device, either audio or video, and the taking of photographs, either with or without flash, is strictly prohibited. Please turn off your cell phones and pagers prior to the beginning of the performance.
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THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION. UNDERSTUDIES Understudies never substitute for listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the performance. for Emile de Becque: CHRISTOPHER CARL, ROBERT HUNT, CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE; for Ensign Nellie Forbush: KRISTIE KERWIN, JULIA OSBORNE; for Lt. Joseph Cable: CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE, BRET SHUFORD, AMOS WOLFF; for Bloody Mary: CATHY NEWMAN; for Luther Billis: GENSON BLIMLINE, CHAD JENNINGS; for Liat: DIANE PHELAN, KRISTIE KERWIN; for Capt. George Brackett: CHRISTOPHER CARL, ROBERT HUNT, CHAD JENNINGS; for Stewpot: CHAD JENNINGS, VICTOR J. WISEHART; for Professor: JOE LANGWORTH, AMOS WOLFF; for Ngana and Jerome: ALEXIS G.B. HOLT; for Henry: RASHAAN JAMES II, GREGORY WILLIAMS; for Cmdr. William Harbison: ROBERT HUNT, CHAD JENNINGS; for Bob McCaffrey: JOE LANGWORTH, MATT STOKES; for Yeoman Herbert Quale: JOE LANGWORTH; for Ensign Dinah Murphy: JACQUELINE COLMER; for Lt. Eustis Carmichael: JOE LANGWORTH, MATT STOKES; for Lt. Buzz Adams: JOE LANGWORTH, MATT STOKES. ORCHESTRA Conductor: LAWRENCE GOLDBERG Concertmaster: JENNIFER CHOI Associate Conductor/Bassoon: BRADEN TOAN Harp: ERIN HILL Violin: VICTOR COSTANZI, BETHANY BERGMAN, AYA MIYAGAWA, ADELE PIERRE, KATE UNRAU; Sub Violin: ROBERT MISKEY; Viola: JONATHAN CRAIG, BRIDGET LAMARCHE; Cello: SHARON PRATER, CARINA REEVES; Bass: PETER PAVLOVSKY; Flute/Piccolo: NINA MARTINI-DOREY; Clarinet: STEVE PIERRE, RICHARD THOMSON; Oboe/English Horn: BRETT DILL; French Horn: DIANE DOIG, MICHELE GAGNON; Trumpet: MICHAEL FEDYSHYN, PAUL OTWAY, ROSS TURNER; Trombone: ALLISTAR GASKIN, JOEL GREEN; Percussion: RICHARD MOORE; Sub Bassoon: JERRY ROBINSON Local Orchestra Contractor: LEVON ICHKHANIAN, GLOBAL VILLAGE CREATIVE INC. Deputy Contractor: NINA MARTINI-DOREY, GLOBAL VILLAGE CREATIVE INC. Music Coordinator: DAVID LAI Richard Rodgers’ music is being presented at this performance with the orchestrations created for the original production. The scores and orchestral parts were restored by The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization using all existing material, including manuscripts (Rodgers, Trude Rittmann), the full orchestral scores (Robert Russell Bennett, and in two instances, Don Walker) and the individual parts played by the original orchestra in the Majestic Theater, New York, in 1949. 7
MUSICAL NUMBERS AND SCENES The action of the play takes place on two islands in the South Pacific during World War II. There is one week’s lapse of time between the two acts. ACT I OVERTURE Scene 1: The Terrace of Emile de Becque’s Plantation Home DITES-MOI .............................................................................................................................. Ngana and Jerome A COCKEYED OPTIMIST ........................................................................................................................Nellie TWIN SOLILOQUIES......................................................................................................... Nellie and Emile SOME ENCHANTED EVENING ....................................................................................................... Emile Reprise: DITES-MOI ......................................................................................... Ngana, Jerome and Emile Scene 2: Another Part of the Island BLOODY MARY ............................................................................................................................................. Seabees THERE IS NOTHIN’ LIKE A DAME ...................................................................Billis and Seabees BALI HA’I ................................................................................................................................................ Bloody Mary Scene 3: The Company Street Scene 4: Inside the Island Commander’s Office Scene 5: The Company Street MY GIRL BACK HOME .................................................................................................... Cable and Nellie Scene 6: The Beach I’M GONNA WASH THAT MAN RIGHT OUTA MY HAIR ........Nellie and Nurses Reprise: SOME ENCHANTED EVENING......................................................... Emile and Nellie A WONDERFUL GUY ......................................................................................................Nellie and Nurses Scene 7: Inside the Island Commander’s Office Scene 8: On Bali Ha’i Reprise: BALI HA’I ........................................................................................................................ Island Women Scene 9: Inside a Hut on Bali Ha’i YOUNGER THAN SPRINGTIME...................................................................................................... Cable Scene 10: Near the Beach on Bali Ha’i Scene 11: Emile’s Terrace FINALE ACT I ............................................................................................................................ Nellie and Emile ACT II ENTR’ACTE Scene 1: A Performance of “The Thanksgiving Follies”......................................Nellie, Nurses and G.I.’s Scene 2: Backstage at “The Thanksgiving Follies” HAPPY TALK ..................................................................................................................Bloody Mary and Liat Scene 3: The Stage HONEY BUN ...................................................................................................... Nellie, Billis and Ensemble Scene 4: Backstage YOU’VE GOT TO BE CAREFULLY TAUGHT ...................................................................... Cable THIS NEARLY WAS MINE ...................................................................................................................... Emile Scene 5: The Radio Shack Scene 6: The Beach Reprise: SOME ENCHANTED EVENING...................................................................................Nellie Scene 7: The Company Street Scene 8: Emile’s Terrace FINALE ULTIMO ............................................................................. Emile, Nellie, Ngana and Jerome
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JASON HOWARD (Emile de Becque). Born and raised in Wales. Former firefighter. Trained at Trinity and Royal Colleges of Music, London. Early roles in musicals Curly in Oklahoma!, The Ballad Singer in Paul Bunyan and Ravenal in Show Boat (RSC production). Lead roles in cast recordings include Show Boat, The King and I, A Little Night Music and Calamity Jane. Solo recording of Broadway material “Make Believe” the Hollywood Baritones, a personal tribute Gordon MacRae and Howard Keel. Opera highlights include: Rigoletto at Scottish Opera; Capt. Brant in Mourning Becomes Electra at the Chicago Lyric, Seattle and New York City Operas; Germont/La Traviata at English National, Minnesota, New York City Operas; Marcello/La Bohème at Covent Garden, Geneva, Paris, Welsh National Opera, Toulouse and Seattle. Most recently Wotan in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, Strasbourg.
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CHRISTINA CARRERA (Ngana) is thrilled to make her theater debut in South Pacific National Tour. TV: Numerous commercials, promos, independent films and print. She would like to give special thanks to God, her Mom, Grandma Beverly and her amazing family and friends, Marnie Cooper, Abrams Artists Agency, Cheryl Felicia Rhoads, the entire cast and staff and many others for their love and support. ANDERSON DAVIS (Lt. Joseph Cable). Broadway/ New York: Les Misérables (2006 Revival), Damn Yankees (Encores!), Homemade Fusion (Zipper Theater), Become (Joe’s Pub). Regional: Pirates! (The Huntington), West Side Story (Portland Center Stage), High School Musical 2 (World Premiere - TOTS), A Funny Thing...Forum (Denver Center Theater), The Who’s Tommy (Pittsburgh CLO). BFA Drama: Carnegie Mellon. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. JODI KIMURA (Bloody Mary). Regional: World Goes Round (Woman 1), Spelling Bee (Marcy), JC Superstar (Mary), La Mancha (Aldonza), Full Monty (Vicki), Godspell (Sonia), and Juno in Olympia Dukakis’s premiere of Another Side of the Island. Special thanks to Kelli O’Hara, Randi @ Gersh and love to her friends and family, especially JJO. SUMIE MAEDA (Liat). Broadway: Hot Feet, New York: City Center Encores! Kismet (Princess Ababu), Victor Woo (Fringe Festival), National Tour: The King and I (Topsy), Regional: Flower Drum Song (AMTSJ), Film: Disney’s “College Road Trip,” Television: “Law and Order: CI/SVU,” “One Life To Live,” Commercial: DKNY(web), Heineken, American Express. Originally from Japan. CJ PALMA (Jerome) is thrilled to be participating in the National Tour of The Lincoln Center’s production of South Pacific. CJ made his theatre debut at The New York Musical Theatre Festival’s production of Look What A Wonder Jesus Has Done, playing role of Prosser. CJ’s television credits include the David Letterman Show, Sesame Street and numerous national network commercials. CJ would like to thank God, his family, the management team at JMM and Innovative Artists. 9
CARMEN CUSACK (Ensign Nellie Forbush) from Houston, TX, has spent the last two years playing Elphaba in Wicked (US National tour, Chicago and Australia productions). Her career prior was based in England. Recent West End credits include: Les Misérables (Fantine; UK, US & Shanghai), The Secret Garden (Rose; Royal Shakespeare Company), Personals (Kim), Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens (Chesty Prospects), Over the Rainbow (Eva Cassidy; UK & Ireland) and The Phantom of the Opera (Christine; UK National Tour). She invites you to her official website at carmencusack.com. GERRY BECKER (Capt. George Brackett). NY: Song of Jacob Zulu (Broadway), Death Defying Acts (Off-Broadway). Steppenwolf Theatre: Born Yesterday, Inspecting Carol, Common Pursuit. Remains Theatre: Our Country’s Good, Once in Doubt. Film: “Donnie Brasco,” “The Game,” “Spiderman,” “Path to War,” “Man on the Moon,” “Blood Work.” TV: Medium, Law and Order, Ally McBeal, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The West Wing. GENSON BLIMLINE (Stewpot/Voice over Loudspeaker). Broadway: South Pacific (LCT). NY: Mask The Musical, Dir. Richard Maltby Jr., Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas Dir. Christopher Gattelli. Nat’l tours: A Chorus Line, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Grease, Footloose. Regional: Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse), A Chorus Line (Casa Manana), West Side Story (Gateway), Cabaret (Arkansas Rep.). TV: “As The World
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PETER RINI (Cmdr. William Harbison). Broadway: Neil Simon’s Proposals; A View From The Bridge; Tartuffe: Born Again. Off Broadway: Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight, Dead City, Peter and Jerry (u/s). Regional: DTC, Shakespeare Theatre, D.C., A.R.T., among others. Film/TV: Boiler Room, Sleepers, numerous re-runs of Law and Order and more. RUSTY ROSS (Professor). Broadway: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (original cast, created by Jack O’Brien). NYC: Alice (BAM). Regional: Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pioneer), Our Lady of South Division Street (Penguin), Sick (NJ Rep), Grinch (Old Globe), Cripple of Inishmaan (Depot), Crimes of the Heart (Totem Pole), Six Degrees... (Weston). TV: Law & Order. Northwestern graduate. MATTHEW SALDIVAR (Luther Billis). Broadway: The Wedding Singer (originated Sammy); Grease (recreated Kenickie); Off Broadway: Toxic Avenger (originated White Dude) Sea of Tranquility, Architecture of Loss, The Alchemist, Three Sisters, Julius Caesar, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Timon of Athens, Spread Eagle, Hamlet. Also; LAByrinthTheater Co, The Guthrie, The Long Wharf. Film: “Year of the Fish,” “Boiler Room,” “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding.” BA, MA- Middlebury College, MFA- NYU. CHRISTOPHER CARL (Richard West). Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Sam Carmichael), Tarzan (Standby for Kerchek, Porter, Clayton); Off-Broadway: Johnny Guitar (Johnny Guitar); National Tours: The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul, Phantom cover), Camelot with Robert Goulet (Sir Sagramore, u/s Lancelot); Regional: A Little Night Music – Los Angeles Opera (Standby for Fredrik and Carl-Magnus), Unsinkable Molly Brown with Cathy Rigby (Leadville Johnny Brown). JACQUELINE COLMER (Ass’t. Dance Captain/Swing) is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory. Credits include: Rizzo, Grease (National Tour); Aldonza, Man of La Mancha (Casa Manana); Anita, West Side Story (Barrington Stage); Estelle, The Full Monty (Paper Mill Playhouse); Linda, The Wedding Singer (Gateway Playhouse); Felicite, Finding Frida Kahlo (The York Theater). Thanks to her family, friends and Soon to Be. MIKE EVARISTE (Henry/James Hayes). Broadway: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South
Pacific Revival (Original cast), Les Misérables Revival (Montparnasse). National tours: Rent (Paul), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Ken/Fred), Fame. Regional: Hairspray, Once on this Island, Hair. Commercial: “Truth” (anti-tobacco campaign). Bachelor of Music from Florida State University. “Thanks to my family, friends, Tiff, and God.” ALEXIS G.B. HOLT (Bloody Mary’s Ass’t.) is incredibly blessed to be apart of an award winning production! She thanks God, her family, CESD and Bernard Telsey Casting. Alexis recently performed in The Wiz produced by Aspiring Young Artist, numerous commercials, print campaigns, Law & Order, Super Why, ABC Lost Child and she is the Little Crocs Princess. ROBERT HUNT (Richard West). Broadway: Les Misérables (Javert). Jerry Springer, the Opera at Carnegie Hall. Off-Broadway: Original casts of Boobs! The Musical and Have a Nice Day. Tours: Les Miserables (Javert), Forever Plaid (Smudge). Regional: Ravinia Festival, Wolf Trap, Goodspeed Opera House, Barrington Stage Co., Berkshire Theatre Festival, Theatre of the Stars, and Theatre Under the Stars, to name a few. www.Robert-Hunt.com RASHAAN JAMES II (Swing) is excited to join the tour of South Pacific! Regional: Aida (Westchester B’way), Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday (TOTS), Swing! (Surflight), Smokey Joe’s Café (Artpark and Co.), and Playground (MMAC). Tour: 50th Ann.World Tour West Side Story and 42nd Street. BFA Musical Theatre from Univ. at Buffalo! Thanks to AZ, mom, HC!!! CHAD JENNINGS (Radio Operator Bob McCaffrey). The first national tour for this native of Yakima, “The Palm Springs of Washington.” Chad is thankful for the support of family and the rich theatre community of Seattle, where he’s had the pleasure of performing at the wonderful 5th Avenue Theatre, Village Theatre, and Seattle Children’s Theatre, among others. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSTONE (Thomas Hassinger). Opera: Glimmerglass (Pirates of Penzance), Tanglewood (Mahagonny), Chateauville (Rape of Lucretia), Lyric Opera San Diego (Iolanthe, Waltz Dream), Mark Morris Dance Group (Dido & Aeneas). Soloist with: Cincinnati, Long Beach Pops, Grand Rapids, 11
Modesto Symphonies. Regional: A Little Night Music (Boston Pops), Tommy! (Capt. Walker). TV: “All My Children,” “Personal Justice” for TLC. www.topherstone.com KRISTIE KERWIN (Ensign Sue Yaeger). Broadway/NY: Monty Python’s Spamalot, Bye Bye Birdie (City Center Encores!). Also SF world premiere Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Curran Theatre, Orpheum Theatre and cast recording); No, No, Nannette (Betty Brown, Cape Playhouse), Anything Goes (Shubert Theatre). BFA, NYU/CAP21. Love and Thanks to family and friends. JOE LANGWORTH (Dance Captain/ Swing). Broadway: Next Fall (Associate Director; 2010 Tony Award nominee, Best Play and Best Director), Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific (Associate Choreographer/ Casting; 2008 Tony Award, Best Revival). Broadway/Tours: Ragtime, A Chorus Line, Follies, Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story and The Who’s Tommy. Casting with Telsey + Company: High Fidelity, In The Heights, Company, Rent and others. Teacher/ Choreographer: SUNY Geneseo & NYU. CATHY NEWMAN (Lt. Genevieve Marshall) is thrilled to be enlisting for duty with this, her 7th National Tour! Others include: Les Misérables (twice!) – U.S. & China premiere with Colm Wilkinson and the final touring company, National Theatre of Great Britain/ Mackintosh production of My Fair Lady and the critically acclaimed Deaf West production of Big River. JULIA OSBORNE (Ensign Dinah Murphy). Credits: Centerstage (A Little Night Music), Paper Mill Playhouse (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Baker’s Wife), TUTS (Meet Me in St. Louis), Huntington (Pirates!), Goodspeed (Half a Sixpence), Fulton Theatre (Crazy For You, Rags, Evita). BFA from Penn State University. Yoga instructor in NYC. Beyond thrilled to be here. DIANE PHELAN (Ensign Cora MacRae/ Bloody Mary’s Ass’t.). Lincoln Center: Bernarda Alba. International: West Side Story (Maria) in Paris, Tokyo, Zurich, Bangkok & Dresden, and Where Elephants Weep in Phnom Penh. Off-B’way & workshops: Yes. Nat’l tours: A handful. Regional: A bunch. Cabaret: Diary of an Ambiguously Ethnic Girl at The Duplex with all proceeds benefiting Cambodian Living Arts. 12
JOHN PINTO JR. (Yeoman Herbert Quale) is elated to be joining South Pacific! Credits include: Altar Boyz (Mark; BRT, Riverside Theatre, Arvada Center), Henry and Mudge (Henry; Theatreworks/ USA). 2006 Roger Sturtevant Award. Much thanks to Chris Gattelli, Mom, Dad, Joe, Curtis and friends. I Love You! TRAVIS ROBERTSON (Tom O’Brien). Broadway: Hairspray (Duane, u/s Seaweed) Nat’l tours: Hairspray Las Vegas (Gilbert), Mamma Mia! (Eddie, u/s Sky), Fame (Europe). Regional: Ragtime, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Smokey Joe’s Café, Sweet Charity. Thanks to Telsey and Stage 9. Much love to Danika, Mom and friends for their love. BRET SHUFORD (Lt. Eustis Carmichael/Petty Officer Hamilton Steeves). Broadway: The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Television: “The Good Wife,” “As the World Turns,” “All My Children.” Film: Uncle Melvin’s Apartment, Bedfellows. National Tour: The Sound of Music. Regional: Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Walnut Street Theatre, North Carolina Theatre, Casa Manana. Proud member of Actor’s Equity and Broadway Green Alliance. www.BretShuford.com KRISTEN J. SMITH (Ensign Connie Walewska). An American in Paris (world premiere - Alley Theatre), White Christmas (Ordway Center), The Music Man (Zaneeta), West Side Story (Velma), Singin’ in the Rain (Kathy Selden), 42nd Street (Peggy Sawyer), Beauty and the Beast (Belle), Bye Bye Birdie (Kim MacAfee), Fiddler on the Roof (Hodel) and The Radio City Christmas Spectacular. www.kristenjsmith.com MATT STOKES (Swing). Regional credits include Les Misérables (Enjolras), Beauty and The Beast (Gaston, The Beast), West Side Story (Tony), Damn Yankees (Joe Hardy), A Little Night Music (Frid) and Camelot (Sir Lionel). Matt’s second love is personal health and nutrition (www.StokesHealth.com). A BIG thanks to Mom, Dad, Josh, Jon, Keri and Mrs. Bo. GREGORY WILLIAMS (Kenneth Johnson) is excited to be making his touring debut! NYC credits: Broadway’s Rising Stars III (Town Hall), 4@15-The Wake (York Theatre). Regional: A Funny Thing... (Triarts Sharon Playhouse). A recent graduate of New York University, his college credits include Violet (Flick), Candide (Maximilian), Floyd Collins (Ed Bishop), A Little Night Music and King David.
VICTOR J. WISEHART (Lt. Buzz Adams). West End: West Side Story Diesel/ Riff u/s (Sadler’s Wells Theatre London). Tour: 50th Ann. World Tour West Side Story, Dir. Joey McKneely Diesel/Riff u/s. Regional: Pirates! Pirate (Huntington Theatre Boston), Oklahoma! Dream Curly (St. Louis MUNY), Danced Principal roles with the New York Theatre Ballet. B.F.A in Dance from The Boston Conservatory. Proud member of Actors Equity. AMOS WOLFF (Johnny Noonan) is so proud to be a part of this company. Other National Tours: A Chorus Line. Regional: Goodspeed Opera House, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The St. Louis MUNY, and Williamstown Theater Festival. Thanks to Chris, Jen and Neil for all their hard work. Graduate of the University of Michigan. www.amoswolff.com RICHARD RODGERS (Music) and OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II (Lyrics and Co-Author). After distinguished careers with other collaborators, composer Richard Rodgers (1902–79) and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) joined forces in 1942 to create the most successful partnership in the American musical theatre. Their output included Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), the movie State Fair (1945; remade 1962; Broadway premiere, 1996), Allegro (1947), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Me and Juliet (1953), Pipe Dream (1955), the TV musical Cinderella (1957; remade 1965, 1997); Flower Drum Song (1958) and The Sound of Music (1959). To date, the Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals have received several dozen major awards, including Pulitzers, Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and Emmys. JOSHUA LOGAN (Co-Author). Born in Texarkana, Texas, Joshua Logan (1908-88) was a director, writer, and producer. His stage directorial credits included I Married An Angel, Knickerbocker Holiday, Morning’s At Seven, Higher And Higher, Charley’s Aunt, By Jupiter, This Is The Army, Annie Get Your Gun, Mister Roberts, Wish You Were Here (also co-author and co-producer), and Mr. President, as well as South Pacific, for which he was co-author, co-producer and director of the original production. His film directorial credits include Picnic, Bus Stop, South Pacific, Sayonara, Tall Story and Fanny.
ROBERT RUSSELL BENNETT (Orchestrations). Robert Russell Bennett (18941981) orchestrated more than 300 Broadway musical scores, including Show Boat; No, No, Nanette; Of Thee I Sing; Face The Music; Oklahoma!; Carmen Jones; Finian’s Rainbow; Kiss Me, Kate; South Pacific; The King and I; My Fair Lady and Camelot. His arrangements for the 1955 film version of Oklahoma! earned him an Academy Award. He also orchestrated and arranged Rodgers’ TV documentary score for “Victory At Sea.” A classically trained composer, Bennett’s prolific output of original compositions includes symphonies, sonatas, a ballet, a concerto and an opera. Mr. Bennett was honored with a Special 2008 Tony Award in recognition of his historic contribution to American Musical Theater. TRUDE RITTMANN (Dance and Incidental Music Arrangements). Trude Rittmann (1908– 2005) amassed more than 50 Broadway credits as a choral and dance arranger, including The Sound Of Music, The King and I, South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Finian’s Rainbow, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Peter Pan. A composer in her own right, she provided music for such shows as Omnibus and Seven Lively Arts. JAMES A. MICHENER (Author, Tales of the South Pacific). James A. Michener (1907-97) published his first book at age 40; entitled Tales of the South Pacific, it won the Pulitzer Prize and launched his writing career. Over the course of the next 45 years, he would write such monumental best sellers as Sayonara, The Bridges of Toko-Ri, Hawaii, The Source, Iberia, and Chesapeake. Decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Michener served on the Advisory Council to NASA, the Postal Committee, and the operating committee for the U.S. radio network broadcasting to the former U.S.S.R. and its satellites. BARTLETT SHER (Director). Lincoln Center Theater: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, South Pacific (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Awake and Sing (Tony nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony nomination). Artistic Director of Seattle’s Intiman Theatre; credits there include: the world premieres of Prayer for My Enemy and Singing Forest by Craig Lucas (both also Long Wharf Theatre) and Nickel and Dimed; plays by Chekhov, Wilder, Shakespeare, Goldoni 13
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and Tony Kushner. Opera: Roméo et Juliette (Salzburg Festival), The Barber of Seville (Metropolitan Opera), Mourning Becomes Electra (Seattle Opera and New York City Opera). New York: Cymbeline (2001 Callaway Award for Best Director; first American Shakespeare at the Royal Shakespeare Company), Waste (2000 Best Play Obie), Don Juan (all TFANA). He is a member of the TCG Board. CHRISTOPHER GATTELLI (Musical Staging). Broadway: South Pacific (Tony, Outer Critics Circle nominations), Sunday in the Park with George, The Ritz, 13, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, High Fidelity. West End: Sunday in the Park with George. Off-Broadway: Altar Boyz (Lortel, Callaway Awards, Drama Desk nomination), Bat Boy: The Musical! (Lortel Award), tick,tick… BOOM!, 10 Million Miles, Adrift In Macao. Favorites: directed the World Premiere of Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, Silence! The Musical (Best Musical Fringe ‘05), Hair with Jennifer Hudson, Chess with Josh Groban. TV: “Rosie O’Donnell Show,” Tony Awards 2000. TED SPERLING (Music Direction). LCT: South Pacific, The Light in the Piazza (2005 Tony and Drama Desk Awards), A Man of No Importance, A New Brain, My Favorite Year. Broadway: Guys and Dolls, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty, Titanic (as actor), Kiss of the Spider Woman, How to Succeed..., The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Sunday in the Park with George. Off Broadway: Striking 12, See What I Wanna See (both as director), Saturn Returns, Floyd Collins, Falsettoland, Romance in Hard Times. Film: Everything Is Illuminated, The Manchurian Candidate, Anastasia, Love Mom (director). Conductor/music director for Audra McDonald, Victoria Clark, Deborah Voigt, Patti LuPone. www.tedsperling.net MICHAEL YEARGAN (Sets). LCT: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nom), South Pacific (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Cymbeline, Awake and Sing! (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination), Edward Albee’s Seascape, The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critic Circle Award nom.). Broadway: The Ritz (original production); Hay Fever with Rosemary Harris; Ah, Wilderness! with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst; A Lesson From Aloes; as well as many credits Off-Broadway and in regional theatre.
London: Becket, Cyrano de Bergerac. Opera: Metropolitan Opera (Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Otello, Ariadne auf Naxos, Così fan Tutte, Don Giovanni, Susanna, The Great Gatsby), NY City Opera (Norma, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, La Finta Giardiniera, Central Park) as well as work at major opera companies throughout the United States, Europe and Australia. CATHERINE ZUBER (Costumes). Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, (Lincoln Center Theater) The Cherry Orchard, The Winter’s Tale for BAM’s Bridge Project; South Pacific (Tony Award), The Coast of Utopia, (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award): Awake and Sing (Tony Award) Edward Albee’s Seascape (Tony Award nomination), The Light in the Piazza (Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), Dinner at Eight, Twelfth Night (Tony Award nominations), Ivanov, all at Lincoln Center Theater. Other Broadway credits include: A Man for All Seasons, Cry-Baby, Doubt, Frozen, Dracula, The Sound of Music, Triumph of Love among others. Recipient: 2003, 2004 and 2007 Henry Hewes Award for Design, 2004, 2005 Lucille Lortel Award, 2004 Ovation Award, 1997 and 2005 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement. Other projects include the 1999 Fete des Vignerons, Vevey, Switzerland. Opera credits include Romeo et Juliette for the Salzburg Festival, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Dr. Atomic, The 125 Gala and The Tales of Hoffmann for The Metropolitan Opera. DONALD HOLDER (Lighting Design Broadway: South Pacific (2008 Tony Award, Drama Desk nomination), Les Liasons Dangereuses, A Streetcar Named Desire, Gem of The Ocean, Movin’ Out, Juan Darien (all Tony-nominated), The Lion King (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Paris Moliere Award, London Olivier nomination), Cyrano de Bergerac, Radio Golf, The Little Dog Laughed, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Little Shop of Horrors, Prelude to a Kiss, The Boy From Oz, Spiderman (upcoming: 2010), many others. Off Broadway: Happiness, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Saved, Romeo and Juliet (Delacorte: Central Park), The Pain and the Itch, Sore Throats, A Man of No Importance, Observe the Sons of Ulster… (Lortel Award), Jitney, Birdie Blue, Saturday Night, Three Days of Rain, All My Sons, Communicating Doors, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Drama Desk nomination), Spunk, Jeffrey, many others. Opera: 15
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The Magic Flute (NY Metropolitan Opera), Grendel (Los Angeles Opera, Lincoln Center Festival, New York). Mr. Holder is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and is Head of the Lighting Design program at the California Institute of the Arts. SCOTT LEHRER (Sound Design). Among his designs: Broadway: South Pacific (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination) Chicago, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, The Caretaker, Frankie and Johnny…, The Dead, Angels in America, Once on This Island, The Heidi Chronicles. 30 City Center Encores! Lincoln Center Theater: Happiness, Dessa Rose, The Frogs, Invention of Love, Hapgood. Playwrights Horizons: Franny’s Way (Lortel Award), Assassins, Isn’t It Romantic, Geniuses. Manhattan Theatre Club: A Perfect Ganesh, Putting It Together, The Last Yankee. 2nd Stage: Little Fish, Saturday Night. Also sound for museums, corporate media, film and TV. Music recording includes: Last Forever (Nonesuch), Geoff Muldaur’s Private Astronomy (DG), Meredith Monk’s mercy (ECM), Hazmat Modine (Barbes). A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, he teaches sound at Bennington College. DAVID LAI (Music Coordinator) Broadway music coordinator credits: South Pacific, Mary Poppins, Woman In White, Jesus Christ Superstar and Riverdance. Other contracting credits: the Actors Fund, Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS, the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center, Bernadette Peters, Audra McDonald, and Bjork’s 54 piece symphony orchestra at Radio City Music Hall. Broadway credits as conductor and/or pianist: Miss Saigon, Les Misérables, Aspects of Love and The Phantom of the Opera where David is currently serving as conductor. Recent conducting credits: the Dallas, Fort Worth, Taipei, Jacksonville and Pacific symphonies and the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra. Producing credits: Broadway cast albums of South Pacific (Grammy nominated), Allegro, West Side Story, Grease and The Phantom of the Opera (Spanish). BRIAN J. L’ECUYER (Production Stage Manager) just completed the revival of Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum. Recent U.S. tours include The Drowsy Chaperone and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Prior
tour credits include the Sir Peter Hall directed The Importance of Being Earnest starring Lynn Redgrave, the much acclaimed Deaf West tour of Big River (U.S./Japan), as well as several years with John Astin’s one man show Edgar Allan Poe – Once Upon a Midnight (U.S./Australia/ Ireland). Member of Actors’ Equity. MICHAEL KRUG (Stage Manager). Broadway: Ring of Fire, Hot Feet. Off Broadway: The Fantasticks, Modern Orthodox, A Stoop on Orchard Street. Tours: The Drowsy Chaperone, My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza, Doctor Dolittle, Fiddler on the Roof, Burn The Floor (Australia & Japan), Clifford The Big Red Dog, Sing Along Santa (Korea), Fame. Regional: A Christmas Carol. Many thanks to my parents, family, and friends for their love and support. RACHEL ZACK (Stage Manager). Broadway: Sunday in the Park With George, The Drowsy Chaperone, Cymbeline, The Light in the Piazza, Edward Albee’s Seascape, Wonderful Town. Tours: Rent: The Broadway Tour, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Off- Broadway: The Black Eyed, ??El Conquistador! (NYTW), As You Like It (NYSF), BFE (Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Paper Mill, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf. Graduate: Ithaca College Theatre Arts. LAWRENCE GOLDBERG (Music Conductor). Broadway: The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Phantom of the Opera, Carousel. National tours: The Producers, Les Misérables, Sunset Boulevard, Cats. Boston Pops concert versions of Carousel, A Little Night Music, and “A Richard Rodgers Celebration.” Composer/lyricist: Big Bad Wolf and the Endangered Forest, Grounded For Life and the song “Seize the Day,” recorded by Petula Clark. BROADWAY BOOKING OFFICE NYC (Tour Booking, Engagement Management, Press & Marketing) is a leading theatrical tour booking, marketing and press company, distributing musicals, plays and attractions: Jersey Boys, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, Hair, Les Misérables, Banana Shpeel from Cirque du Soleil, Wintuk from Cirque du Soleil, NETworks presents Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Groovaloo, Menopause The Musical, The Rat Pack is Back!, An Evening with Lucille Ball: Thank You for Asking, Roger Rees in What You 17
Will, Waistwatchers, Wonderland, My Fair Lady, The Light in the Piazza and Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands. www.bbonyc.com TELSEY + COMPANY (Casting). Broadway/ Tours: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, The Addams Family, Race, Memphis, Superior Donuts, Next to Normal, Rock of Ages, In the Heights, Wicked, Rent, Legally Blonde, The Color Purple, Peep Show and Bette Midler in Vegas; Off-Broadway: Atlantic, MCC, Signature; Film: Jonah Hex, Main Street, 17 Photos of Isabel, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City, Dan in Real Life, Then She Found Me, Across the Universe, Ira & Abby, Rent, Pieces of April, Camp, The Grey Zone, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector. TV: Ugly Betty (pilot), Whoopi, HBO’s Undefeated, commercials. LINCOLN CENTER THEATER (Broadway Producer), under the direction of André Bishop, Artistic Director, and Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer, is one of New York’s favorite not-for-profit theaters. Now celebrating its 25th year, it has produced over 130 productions at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont
and the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theaters, and at theaters on and off-Broadway, as well as touring productions nationally and around the world, TV and film projects and original cast recordings. Last fall, LCT began a new programming initiative – LCT3 – devoted to producing the work of emerging artists. In addition, LCT develops new work and encourages theater artists via play readings, workshops and an annual Directors Lab. Open Stages, LCT’s education program, reaches thousands of New York City public school students. The theater is the publisher of the Lincoln Center Theater Review, which explores subjects related to its productions. SETH C. WENIG (Executive Producer) has been with NETworks since its inception in 1995. He spearheaded the International tours of Fosse starring Ben Vereen/Ruthie Henshall as well as the UK regional tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. Together with Cameron Mackintosh, Seth served as executive producer of a forty week UK/US tour of the National Theatre’s My Fair Lady. He is currently serving as Executive Producer on Hairspray, The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Beauty
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and the Beast and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific. He is most proud of his greatest productions, Marlo and Camden. BOB BOYETT (Producer). Broadway: 13 A New Musical, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, The Country Girl, South Pacific, Sunday in the Park with George, The 39 Steps, Seafarer, Is He Dead? A New Comedy by Mark Twain, Rock N Roll, Journey’s End (2007 Tony, Best Revival); The Coast of Utopia (2007 Tony, Best Play); Deuce, Coram Boy, Inherit The Wind; The Drowsy Chaperone; The History Boys (2006 Tony, Best Play); Monty Python’s Spamalot (2005 Tony, Best Musical); Bridge & Tunnel; The Woman in White; The Pillowman; Glengarry Glenn Ross (2005 Tony, Best Revival); Democracy; The Frogs; Jumpers; Fiddler on the Roof; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? (2002 Tony); Topdog/Underdog (2002 Pulitzer Prize); Sweet Smell of Success and The Elephant Man. London: Dealer’s Choice, Little Shop of Horrors, Boeing-Boeing, The Dumb Waiter, The 39 Steps, Bent, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Donkeys’ Years, Sunday in the Park with George, The Woman in White, Boston Marriage, Lobby Hero, Jumpers, Monty Python’s Spamalot and The Drowsy Chaperone. NETworks PRESENTATIONS, LLC (Producer). Founded in 1995 by Kenneth Gentry, Seth Wenig and Scott Jackson, NETworks has produced and managed over 70 national and international touring productions. Previous productions include Oliver!, Little Women starring Maureen McGovern, Jekyll & Hyde, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Cinderella starring Eartha Kitt and Deborah Gibson, Fosse starring Ben Vereen and Ruthie Henshaw, The Light in the Piazza, My Fair Lady co-produced with Cameron Mackintosh, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Annie and Hairspray among many others. Joining returning hits The Wizard of Oz, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Young Frankenstein, and the Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific this season are Joyful Noise’s production of Handel’s Messiah Rocks, Spring Awakening, A Chorus Line, Blue Man Group National Tour and Les Misérables.
BOB BARTNER/AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer). Broadway: The Norman Conquests (Tony), Boeing Boeing (Tony), Company (Tony), Anna and the Tropics (Pulitzer). Off-Broadway: Wit (Pulitzer). West End: La Cage… (Olivier), Guys & Dolls (Olivier). Mr. Bartner thanks his family, especially M. Beverly, for their love and support. HOWARD PANTER FOR AMBASSADOR THEATRE GROUP (Producer). Co-founded by Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire in 1992, ATG, with 23 venues, is the largest theatre group in the West End, and second in the UK. ATG is also one of the foremost theatre producers internationally. ROGER BERLIND (Producer) has been producing plays and musicals for more than 30 years. His productions have won more than 70 Tony Awards, including 14 for best production in its category. THOMAS L. MILLER (Producer). Broadway: 13 A New Musical, Is He Dead? A New Comedy By Mark Twain, The Drowsy Chaperone, The Woman In White. London: Marguerite. Tour: Little House on the Prairie, Happy Days: A New Musical. He is an active member of the Motion Picture Academy, The Writers Guild, and The Broadway League. ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 48,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org
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STAFF FOR South Pacific Executive Producer Seth C. Wenig General Management Gentry & Associates Scott W. Jackson, Gregory Vander Ploeg Tour Booking, Engagement Management Press and Marketing Broadway Booking Office NYC Steven Schnepp, Temah Higgins, David Freeland, Kent McIngvale, Jenny Bates, Zach Stevenson, Alexander Parra, Julia D’Angelo Casting TELSEY + COMPANY Bernie Telsey CSA, Will Cantler CSA, David Vaccari CSA Bethany Knox CSA, Craig Burns CSA Tiffany Little Canfield CSA, Rachel Hoffman CA, Carrie Rosson CSA, Justin Huff CSA, Bess Fifer CSA Patrick Goodwin, Abbie Brady-Dalton Resident Director Sarna Lapine Company Manager Joel T. Herbst Production Stage Manager ..... Brian J. L’Ecuyer Stage Managers ..... Michael Krug, Rachel Zack Ass’t. Costume Design .................... David Newell Assoc. Choreographer .................... Joe Langworth Scenic Designer Associate............ Mikiko Suzuki MacAdams Sound Designer Associate .................... Drew Levy Lighting Designer Associate........... Karen Spahn Ass’t. Lighting Designer ..................... Lucas Krech Moving Light Programmer ................ Sean Beach Wig and Hair Designer ............ Gerry Altenburg Technical Director ................................... John Ward Flyman ....................................................... Shaun Altman Ass’t. Carpenter/Automation ........... Ben Neafus Ass’t. Carpenter ......................................... Elan Bustin Production Electrician .......................... Jack Culver Head Electrician...........................Thomas W. Ford Ass’t Electrician ............................... Dirk Van Pernis Ass’t. Electrician/Moving Light Technician ........................... Patrick Johnston Head Audio .......................................... Robert Mengel Ass’t. Audio ......................................Keith Monaghan Production Properties ..................................Propstar, Kathy Fabian 20
Head Props ........................................... Michael Triolo Ass’t. Props ........................................................ KJ Thorp Head Wardrobe..........................Barbara Oleszczuk Ass’t. Wardrobe ........................................... Eric Briggs Head Wigs ...................................................... Tim Bohle Dialect Coach .................................... Deborah Hecht Rehearsal Pianist ................................. Andy Einhorn Production Assistants ...................... Lisa Chernoff, Matthew W. Jower-Ho Children’s Tutoring.... On Location Education National Tour ................................Sarah Cundiff Print Design, Radio and TV Spot Production ........................ Serino-Coyne, Jim Russek, Roger Micone Website.............................................................. Allied Live Production Photography ................... Joan Marcus Merchandising ..... Marquee Merchandise, LLC Matt Murphy Accounting ...... NETworks Presentations, LLC Legal Counsel......................Lazarus & Harris LLP Scott Lazarus, Esq., Robert C. Harris, Esq. Payroll Services.......................................... A.D.P., Inc. Insurance .................................. DeWitt Stern Group Tax Consultant .............................. Brent A. Turner, One Source PSG IT Services ............................................ George Wilson, One Source PSG Trucking .................................................. Clark Transfer For The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization President and Executive Director ............................. Theodore S. Chapin Senior Vice President and General Manager .... William S. Gaden Senior Vice President and General Counsel ..... Victoria G. Traube Senior Vice President/Communications .............. Bert Fink Director of Music ........................... Bruce Pomahac For Lincoln Center Theater Executive Producer........................ Bernard Gersten Artistic Director .................................... André Bishop Associate Producer............................... Ira Weitzman General Manager ..................................... Adam Siegel Production Manager .............................. Jeff Hamlin Director of Development ............... Hattie Jutagir Director of Marketing............ Linda Mason Ross General Press Agent............................Philip Rinaldi
For Robert Boyett Theatricals, LLC CEO/Executive Producer ..................... Bob Boyett Producer .............................................................. Tim Levy Office Manager, Executive Administrator .......... Diane Murphy Staff .............. Michael Mandell, Keifer Mansfield GM Consultant ..................101 Productions, Ltd. For NETworks Presentations Chief Executive Officer.........................Ken Gentry Chief Operating Officer .......... Scott W. Jackson Executive Producers..........................Seth C.Wenig, Kary M. Walker Associate Producer............................... Angela Rowle Ass’t. Producer .................................... Mary K. Witte Senior General Manager............ Gregory Vander Ploeg Production Managers .......................Jason Juenker, Justin Reiter Ass’t. Production Manager ................... Brad Korff Marketing/PR ..........................................Heather Hess Playbill Creation & Maintenance............ Tuckey Requa Music Coordinator.................................John Mezzio Controller ............................................ Paula L. Jenkins Assistant Controller .......................Jennifer Gifford Chief Accountant ........................... Beverly Howard Accountant........................................................ Lisa Blank Office Manager ............................... Buddy Piccolino Office Assistant ........................................... Nancy Kerr Credits Sound Equipment from PRG Audio; Lighting Equipment from PRG Lighting; Scenery Constructed by Global Scenic Services, PRG Scenic Technology; Scenic painting provided by Scenic Art Studios; Properties provided by Propstar; Automation Provided by PRG Scenic Technology; Costumes provided by AngelsLondon, Parsons-Meares, Eddie Dawson Tailoring, Arnold Levine Millinery, Euro Co Costumes, John Cowles, Brian Hemesath, Jennifer Love, Jeffrey Fender. Rehearsed at the New 42nd Street Studios. For help with Michener matters, thanks to Selma Luttinger, Shirley Soenksen at the University of Northern Colorado, Alice Birney (Manuscript Division) and Mark Eden Horowitz (Music Division) of the Library of Congress, and the Vice President’s Office at Swarthmore College.
Special Thanks to Carole Shorenstein Hays, Robert Nederlander Greg Holland, Regina Guggenheim SHN, Golden Gate Theatre, San Francisco Financial Services and banking arrangements by M&T Bank Stock and Amateur Rights for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific are represented by R&H Theatricals: www.rnhtheatricals.com For South Pacific Merchandise www.marqueemerchandise.com Visit the South Pacific website at www.SouthPacificOnTour.com
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States. All stage work performed by employees represented by IATSE. UNITED SCENIC ARTISTS represents the designers and scenic painters for the American Theatre.
The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. The Director and Choreographer are members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an independent national labor union. The Press Agents, Company and House Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers. The musicians in this production are represented by the Toronto Musicians Association. Live Music is best.
Audio System Designer is represented by the Associated Designers of Canada.
Toronto Credit The cast of SOUTH PACIFIC gets fit at the Adelaide Club Toronto
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Patron Services Supervisors Kelly Bailey Kathryn Morrow Adam Orr Brynn Pearson Rebecca Riddell Kimberly Wu Building Services Manager Michael Tremblay Assistant Building Services Manager Piro Milo Security Supervisors Videsh Dookhu Dave Samuels Security Officers Tammy Hill Natalia Juzyc Heather Reid Maintenance Assistants Tymen De Vries James Esposito Wojtek Plichta Building Operators Radu Chereji Dan Popescu Cristian Tripa Hurley Supervisor Paula Da Costa General Accountant Zoran Orli Ticket Services Manager Alan Moffat Assistant Ticket Services Managers Andrea Salin Nikki Tremblay Ticket Services Supervisors Erin Cook Lilian Fung David Nimmo
Technical Director David Feheley Associate Technical Director Barney Bayliss Assistant Technical Director Melynda Jergenson I.A.T.S.E. Local 58 Head Electrician Janice Fraser Assistant Electrician Joel Thoman Head of Sound Al Merson Assistant Sound Bob Shindle Head Carpenter Paul Watkinson Assistant Carpenter Mike Gelfand Head Flyman Rupert Baker Head of Properties Alison Potter Core Crew Guy Campagnaro Scott Clarke Terry Hurley Paul Otis I.A.T.S.E. Local 822 Wardrobe Mistress Marilyn Rodwell Wardrobe Assistant Rafe Macpherson Wig & Make-up Lead Hand Cori Ferguson
Parking is available under the Four Seasons Centre, entering off York Street, just south of Queen Street West with access to the Four Seasons Centre. Additional event parking is just steps away at the GREEN P lot under Nathan Phillips Square. Visit www.greenp.com for pricing, locations and directions. TTc subway access Elevator and stair access is available directly into the Four Seasons Centre Box Office lobby from Osgoode subway station. Passenger pick up and drop off is on the east side of northbound University Avenue, between Richmond and Queen Streets. Food and Beverage pre-order service In order to decrease your wait time, we invite you to pre-order intermission refreshments at any of the bars, prior to the performance. r. Fraser elliott Hall Food and beverages are not permitted in R. Fraser Elliott Hall. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building.
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Executive Management President Aubrey Dan Chief Operating & Financial Officer Elias Toby Producer, Executive Vice President Peter W. Lamb Vice President & General Counsel Brenda Lazare Operations and Programming Director of Operations Iris Nemani Associate Director of Operations Laura McLeod Programming Manager Chris Scholey Technical Director Craig Putt Production Assistant Anièle Lecoq-Fortin Sales Director, Sales & Business Development Judi Pressman Associate Director, Ticketing Services T.J. Tasker CAP Sales & Operations Manager Odette Nader Ticketing Analytics Manager Tom Kerr Online Sales & Inventory Coordinator Trevor Mangion Ticketing Coordinator Alan Leightizer Ticketing Agent Anastassia Lavrinenko, Nicholas Melymuk, Jessica Rashotte Mail Agent Mike Nader CAP Supervisors Jenny Kerr, James Metcalfe CAP Agents Samantha Aylsworth, Diane Crook, Emily DeFeo, Saskia Edwards, Anna Denkers, Alley Forsey, Adrienne Kennedy, Melissa McCarthy, Nicholas Melymuk, Amber Mills, Lynn Nikolaidis, Catherine Owen, Jessica Rashotte, Leah Thorn, Julie Ugar, Sigrid Velis Group Sales Operations Manager Melissa Corbin Outbound Sales Manager Darlene Leskovar Senior Group Sales Specialist Samantha Smith Group Sales Specialists Jack Kerekian, Riccardo Pecora, James Reid, Amy Whitham Group Sales Administrator Andrea Leathley Marketing & Communications Director of Marketing & Communications Sandra Iacobelli Advertising Manager Young In Turner New Media & Graphic Designer David Burlovich IS Manager Jenson Yu Marketing & Promotions Specialist Maria Simonelli Media & Public Relations Coordinator Michelle McTeague Marketing Assistant Natasha McEwen Creative Agency SOS Design Inc. Senior Designer Saskia van Kampen, SOS Design Inc. Media Relations FLIP Publicity & Promotions Inc., www.flip-publicity.com Project Manager Rachel Hilton Financial Production Controller Joycelyn Williams Assistant Production Controller Grace Liang Project Accountants Michael White, Michelle Gujol Administrative Office Manager Susan Berger Receptionist Evelyne Jenah Consultants Consulting Executive Producers Frank P. Scardino, Martyn Hayes FOH Audio System Designer Peter McBoyle
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