Academy for the Performing Arts
400 East washington Street - Chagrin Falls, Ohio - 44022
www.chagrinacademy.org - 440-247-2072 x4344
2009-2010 SEASON
EVENTS THIS YEAR:
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World "swine flu", Global pandemic. ... Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President... ... Michael Jackson dies in strange circumstances. ......WikiLeaks
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Time Square Bomber ... BP Oil Spill
Celebration
By Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt
October , 2009
Directed by Mitchell Fields
Choreography by Wendy Lynne & Mitcell Fields Music Direction by Marcia Snavely
Set and Lighting Designer - Ben Needham Costume Director - Caitlin Van Neil
Technical Director - Marcus Dana Properties: Ben Needham
Stage Manager - Mandi Stevens
CAST
Potemkin Luke Wehner
Orphan Nick Hyland
Angel CorLesia Smith
Mr. Rich Bryan Kravitz
THE REVELERS
Lindsey Anderson (S), Samantha Becker (J), Zoe Conley (S), Kayla Davis (S),Terra Gatewood (J), Laurel Gehrisch (J), Katherine Gottsegen (S), Jessica Gramc (J), Morgann Grampp, Sean Grandillo (J), Marissa Greenwald (S), Derrick Hann (S), Kourtney Horne (J), Kyle Marbury (S), Rachel Martinelli (J), Tali Merdler (J), Alex Ranchman (J), Kayla Spira (J)
THE ORCHESTRA
Keyboards -Marcia Snavely (Conductor), Robert Day
Percussion - Kathy Shoenfelt, Brian K. Manchen
Guitar - Jesse Fishman, Bass - Joyce Gilliland,
MUSICAL NUMBERS
ACT ONE
CELEBRATION Potemkin and Revelers
ORPHAN IN THE STORM Orphan & Revelers
SURVIVE Potemkin and Revelers
SOMEBODY Angel and Devil Girls
BORED Mr. Rich
MY GARDEN Orphan and Revelers
WHERE DID IT GO? Rich and Revelers
LOVE SONG Angel, Orphan, Potemkin, Rich & Revelers
ACT TWO
I’M GLAD TO SEE Orphan and Angel
IT’S YOU WHO MAKE ME YOUNG Rich and Revelers
NOT MY PROBLEM Potemkin and Revelers
FIFTY MILLION YEARS AGO Orphan
BEAUTICIAN BALLET Rich and Revelers
SATURNALIA Revelers
UNDER THE TREE Angel and Orphan
WINTER AND SUMMER Revelers
CELEBRATION (REPRISE) All
Look Homeward Angel
By Ketti Frings
Based on the Novel by Thomas Wolfe
Directed by Tom Fulton
Set Design by Ben Needham
Costumes by Caitlin Sandham
CASt
Eliza Gant - Olivia Sciccolone
W.O. Gant - Mitchell Fields
Eugene Gant - Bryan Kravitz
Austin Murray
Laura James - Zoe Conley
Ben Gant - Derrick Hann
and the ensemble of the Academy
Look Homeward, Angel is a 1957 stage play by the playwright Ketti Frings. The play is based on Thomas Wolf's 1929 largely autobiographical
novel of the same title.
Look Homeward, Angel traces the coming of age of Eugene Gant, as well as the lives of his family members. It takes place in the town of Altamont, North Carolina. Eugene's mother, Eliza, runs a boarding house, "Dixieland", where boarders often interact with and affect the lives of the Gants. His father, William Oliver, runs a marble sculpture shop, where his prized possession, a statue of an angel, is kept.
The play begins by showing life in the boarding house when a young woman, Laura enters and requests to stay there. Gant enters drunk, but is eventually helped by his daughter, Helen. The next scene sees Eugene and his brother, Ben, discussing life and love. Eugene meets Laura, and they appear to fall in love, though Eugene lies about his age, claiming to be older. Eliza and Gant fight over the matter of selling his shop and the angel statue.
February 12, 13, 14
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Eliza enters the boarding house and begins arguing with Ben, cumulating in her slapping him. The next scene, days later, sees Gant and Eugene working in his shop. Laura enters to confront Eugene about the truth—she has lied about her age and he has as well. Eliza enters, ready to sell Gant's shop, until he at last announces that rather than use the money for Dixieland's expenses, he would take the money, put Gene in college, and begin traveling. Eliza rips up his check in a fit of fury and exits. Immediately following, Ben falls ill. He is then seen on his deathbed, where he dies.
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The Canterbury Tales
Adaptation by Andrew May from the Novel by Chaucer
Directed by Andrew May
CHAUCER (Speaking in the original Middle English)
Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droughte of Marche hath perced to the mote,
And bathed every veyne in swich licour....
Andrew May's new adaptation is an hysterical retelling of these raucous tales from the 14th Century. Played with just 8 actors taking on several roles each from Chaucer himself to the imbecilic Millers in the Miller's tale. May brings them all to life with a nod to Monty Python along the way.
Many commentators marvel at Shakespeare's ability to address the concerns of today's audiences with plays that were written 400 years ago.
Yet it was 200 years before that when Chaucer penned his account of the "full nine and twenty" pilgrims setting off from the Tabard Inn on the road to Canterbury. The moralistic stories of love, sexual discrimination, revenge and forgiveness are probably more relevant today than when they were first seen.
THE KNIGHT'S TALE
THE MILLER'S TALE
THE REEVE'S TALE
THE TALE OF SIR TOPAZ
THE PARDONERS TALE
THE WIFE OF BATH'S TALE
with
Austin Murray, Liana DeCates, Ben Ducoff, Hanna Cheplowitz
Laurel Gehrish (Nichole), Cole Hersh, Ryan Stafford, Dior Stephens
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Alice in Wonderland
By Lewis Caroll
Directed by Julie Kolibab and Wendy Kriss
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The Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov
English Translation by Randall Jarrel
Directed by Tom Fulton
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Agnes of God
By John Pielmeier
Directed by Bernadette Clemens