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What happens after "happily ever after?" What if Little Red Riding Hood met Jack (of the Beanstalk fame) and Cinderella? Throw in Rapunzel, a couple of handsome princes, a baker and his barren wife and a conniving witch. What do you get? Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, a combination of familiar fairy tales, music, and witty lyrics that deals with consequences that traditional fairy tales conveniently ignore. Ultimately, all of the characters in the stories must deal with what happens after "happily ever after.” The Tony award- winning musical will be staged by St. Petersburg Opera Company on September 11-13, 2009 at Janet Root Theater on the campus of Shorecrest Preparatory School, 5101 First St. N., St. Petersburg, FL. The international cast will feature Kathleen Berger, of Madrid, Spain as the witch, Margaret Rood of Montreal, Canada as Little Red Riding Hood, and local singers Todd Donovan (the baker), Michelle Rego (the baker’s wife) and Stephen Mollica as Jack. Donovan is the Fine Arts Pastor at Northside Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, and Rego is Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Jude. Mollica is a Tampa voice teacher. Also appearing will be St. Petersburg native Sara Peeples as Rapunzel, Bradenton’s Joseph Ryan as her prince, and Kara Cornell and Sean Kroll as Cinderella and her prince. All four of these young singers are part of SPO’s Emerging Artists program. The St. Petersburg Opera Orchestra and singers will be conducted by Mark Sforzini, Artistic and Executive Director of SPO. A.J. Wester, whose last production with SPO was La Traviata, is the stage director. The production will be fully staged with the original 16-player orchestration rising up from the pit at the Janet Root Theater.
Transcript of Into the Woods, - InstantEncoredata.instantencore.com/pdf/1000412/IntoTheWoods.pdf · Sondheim’s...
What happens after "happily ever after?"
What if Little Red Riding Hood met Jack (of the Beanstalk fame) and Cinderella? Throw in Rapunzel, a couple of handsome princes, a baker and his barren wife and a conniving witch. What do you get? Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, a combination of familiar fairy tales, music, and witty lyrics that deals with consequences that traditional fairy tales conveniently ignore. Ultimately, all of the characters in the stories
must deal with what happens after "happily ever after.” The Tony award-winning musical will be staged by St. Petersburg Opera Company on September 11-13, 2009 at Janet Root Theater on the campus of Shorecrest Preparatory School, 5101 First St. N., St. Petersburg, FL. The international cast will feature Kathleen Berger, of Madrid, Spain as the witch, Margaret Rood of Montreal, Canada as Little Red Riding Hood, and local singers Todd Donovan (the baker), Michelle Rego (the baker’s wife) and Stephen Mollica as Jack. Donovan is the Fine Arts Pastor at Northside Baptist Church, St. Petersburg, and Rego is Director of Music at the Cathedral of St. Jude. Mollica is a Tampa voice teacher. Also appearing will be St. Petersburg native Sara Peeples as Rapunzel, Bradenton’s Joseph Ryan as her prince, and Kara Cornell and Sean Kroll as Cinderella and her prince. All four of these young singers are part of SPO’s Emerging Artists program. The St. Petersburg Opera Orchestra and singers will be conducted by Mark Sforzini, Artistic and Executive Director of SPO. A.J. Wester, whose last production with SPO was La Traviata, is the stage director. The production will be fully staged with the original 16-player orchestration rising up from the pit at the Janet Root Theater.
DISCOUNTS ARE AVAILABLE FOR GROUP SALES TO INTO THE WOODS
• No discounts are given on the Tier D seating. • All prices above include a ticket charge of $1.50/ticket. Percentage savings
reflect discounts on the base ticket price only. • All tickets must be purchased at the same time; however, you may submit
individual checks and/or credit cards.
To place a group sale order, please contact us at 727-823-2040, or email [email protected]
Janet Root Theater at Shorecrest Preparatory School 5101 1st Street NE St. Petersburg, FL 33703 Part of the Raymund Arts Center, Janet Root Theater seats 600 and is state-of-the art. Opened in 2002, the theater includes an orchestra pit, backstage space, and overhead flies, which allow SPO to use different theatrical effects not available in the Palladium Theater. The modest size of the theater and its excellent acoustics ensure that the high quality of SPO’s singers and musicians will not be compromised.
