Book by

CRAIG LUCAS

Music and Lyrics by

ADAM GUETTEL

Produced by arrangement with Turner Entertainment Co.Owner of the original motion picture “Light In The Piazza”

Based on the Novel by Elizabeth Spencer

September 14th-22nd, 2019The Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center

LIGHT IN THE PIAZZATHE

SHOWTUNES THEATRE PROUDLY PRESENTS

A NOTE FROM THE STAGE DIRECTOR AND THE MUSIC DIRECTOR

“Risk is everything” --Signora Naccerelli

Love and growth require risk. In order to love more deeply, we must risk our hearts. In or-der to broaden our perspectives, we must risk the known. In order to step beautifully into the fullness that could be our future, we must risk letting go of the past. Risk often does not come easy and the road to making the leap is often messy and complex; but taking that risk is the toll for the rewards that await us on the other side.

The music follows this nuanced journey of risk: at times seemingly simple melodies are heard on a backdrop of eccentric rhythms and complex harmonies that weave in and out of tension. It is breathtaking. What a brilliant pairing with a story filled with characters nav-igating complex relationships--characters who are sometimes at odds with one another, sometimes at odds with their own ideas of how the world is or should be.

Like the seemingly simple melodies, at first blush one might see this as a story of young, star-crossed lovers. But the backdrop over which their story plays is as complex as the music: three marriages, two families, and all their attendant heartache, heart-fullness, and heartbreak fill in the picture of love in its various stages and forms. At the center of this intricate story is Margeret: a woman, a wife, a mother who finds herself at a precipice of risk deciding if it Is it better to play it safe and continue to protect the life she has built for herself and her family--or is it time to release assumptions and fears to take a risk on a new life for her and give her child a chance at love & marriage with all of its twists and turns?

Like the story, the complexity of the music you will hear is a detailed tapestry that is beau-tiful and passionate. Even when a melody finds a seaming resolution, the chord still leaves a question of the risk involved. At the very end we hear Margaret exclaim, “Love if you can...love, and be loved” as if to say all we really have is that choice. Take the risk.

We are excited to bring this piece back into its original home at the very theatre it began. We hope you fall in love all over again with this story and this music as much as we have. Enjoy Light in the Piazza!

-Kelly & Nathan

Original Broadway Production by Lincoln Center Theater, New York City, 2005The World Premiere of The Light In The Piazza was produced by the Intiman Theatre

Seattle, Washington (Bartlett Sher, Artistic Director, Laura Penn, Managing Director), Opening Night: June 14, 2003 and The Goodman Theatre, Chicago, Illinois (Robert Falls, Artistic Director Roche

Schulfer, Executive Director), Opening Night: January 20, 2004. Developed with the Assistance of the Sundance Institute Theatre Laboratory

Italian Lyrics for “Il Mondo Era Vuoto” by Judith BlazerItalian Translation by Judith Blazer and Maria Vèrnole Blazer

A Sensible Theatre Company (Jared Michael Brown and Paul Flanagan) • Sensible PhotographerThe Ruins Seattle • Danielle Barnum Photography • Elizabeth and the Seattle Repertory Theatre

Chris Bennion University Lutheran Church (Mari Mitchell-Putnam and Pastor Sue Schneider) • Sophia Franzella Varsha Raghavan • Tori Gresham • Jeff Bell Chris DiStefano • Allan Armstrong • Jan Floate • Molly Linden

Nate McVicker • Cassie Hasselbach • Kathryn Flannigan • Kelly Kemmerling • James Rocco • Rachel Uschock Jim Blackett Cornish Playhouse (Andrew Murray, Jill Beasley, and Pinky Estell) • Northwest Theatre Press

Special Thanks

LIGHT IN THE PIAZZATHE

CastMargaret Johnson – Billie Wildrick*

Clara Johnson – Carly MarieFabrizio Naccarelli – Michael Krenning*

Franca Naccarelli – Danielle BarnumGiuseppe Naccarelli – Nathan Brockett

Signor Naccarelli – Allen Fitzpatrick*Signora Naccarelli – Ellen McLain*

Roy Johnson – Terence Kelley*Priest – Mark Rabe

Ensemble – Hannah SchuermanEnsemble – Kataka Corn

Ensemble – Casey DeCaire

Production TeamDirector – Kelly Kitchens

Music Director – Nathan YoungProduction Stage Manager – Pamela Campi Spee*

Assistant Stage Manager – Anna VraneySound Designer – Lisa FinkralDialect Coach – Ben Whippel

OrchestraConductor- Nathan Young

Reeds – Bruce Carpenter, Cyrus RoatViolin – Luís Nenninger, Sol Im, Patrick Austin, Jonathan Kuehn, Kat Bula, Alec Lai

Cello – Matthew TevenanGuitar – Anthony PooleyHarp – Catherine CasePiano – Matt Hohensee

Bass – Dave PascalPercussion – Paul Hansen

SHOWTUNES StaffArtistic Director – Matt Wolfe

Associate Artistic Director – Nathan YoungExecutive Producer – Maggie Stenson Pehrson

Operations and Strategic Development Administrator – Alex RobinsonLiterary Associate – Jon Lutyens

20th Season Interns – Katie Ginther, Madeline Virtue

* Are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

MUSICAL NUMBERS

Act IOverture

Statues and StoriesThe Beauty Is

Il Mondo Era VuotoAmerican Dancing

PasseggiataThe Joy You Feel

Dividing DayHysteria/LullabySay It Somehow

Act IIEntr’ActeAiutami

The Light in the PiazzaOctet (Part 1)Clara’s TiradeOctet (Part 2)

The Beauty Is (Reprise)Let’s Walk

Love to MeFable

Danielle Barnum (Franca Naccarelli) Favorite credits include Nine (Claudia) and High Society (Tracy Lord) with Showtunes, Les Miserables (Eponine) at Balagan Theatre (Gregory Award nomination), First Date (Al-lison/Lauren u/s) at 5th Avenue/ACT Theatre, Into the Woods (The Witch) at Mt. Baker Theatre, Iron Curtain (Masha) at Village Theatre, Little Women (Jo), Chicago (Roxie) and Jane Eyre at SMT, and appearances in commer-cials and TNT’s Leverage. In offstage life, she is a freelance photographer at www.InspireByDanielle.com.

Danielle Barnum

Kataka Corn (Ensemble) is beyond honored to be working with such fabulous artists she looks up to. She started out as a KIDSTAGE kid and is pursuing professional theatre, music directing, and is now a Tweenstar in Tweenland with NM Entertainment! Kataka most recently starred in Once On This Island at Twelfth Night Productions as Ti Moune. She was a guest performer at Benaroya Hall from the WIAA-WMEA State competition, and is thankful to have studied with Julie Kae Sigars and Aaron Norman. Kataka thanks everybody for the endless support and new opportunities!

Kataka Corn

Allen Fitzpatrick* (Signor Naccarelli) Allen’s ten Broadway appearances include Les Misérables, Scarlet Pimpernel, Memphis, 42nd Street, Driving Miss Daisy, Damn Yankees, and Sweet Smell of Success. He starred opposite Petula Clark in Sunset Boulevard, and Patti LuPone in Passion (sharing an Emmy®). National Tours: Little Mermaid; Guys & Dolls; Aspects of Love; Six Degrees of Separation; and the Hal Prince-directed Whistle Down The Wind. 26 productions at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Many appearances at Seattle Rep, ACT, Intiman; 250+ roles in regional theaters. Multiple appearances on Law & Order. www.allenfitzpatrick.weebly.com

Allen Fitzpatrick*

Nathan Brockett (Giuseppe Naccarelli) is a Seattle-based actor, director and writer. Recent Seattle credits include West Side Story at 5th Ave, Ironbound at Seattle Public Theater, Assassins at ACT, ZM at Village, and Peter and the Starcatcher at Arts West. He is also a founding member of filament: a collab lab with Sophia Franzella and Brittany Allyson.

Nathan Brockett

Casey DeCaire (Ensemble) The majority of Casey’s theatrical career has been spent as a teaching artist with the Young Americans, an interna-tional non-profit focused on keeping music and the arts alive in schools. After half a decade of life on the road, Casey found home in Seattle! He made his Seattle debut in Joseph... Dreamcoat (Simeon/Butler) at SMT, was most recently seen as Eddie in Mamma Mia! with BPA, and couldn’t be more excited to keep things going with this bit of history at Show-tunes.

Casey DeCaire

CAST

Terence Kelley* (Roy Johnson) is honored to work with Showtunes! Ter-ence has performed El Gallo in The Fantastics; Horse, in Full Monty for Vil-lage theatre; Aslan in The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe, Seattle Children’s Theatre; Jim, in Big River; Harold Hill in The Music Man; The Pirate King, CDA Summer theatre; Hoke in Driving Miss Daisy; and Theatre Black Dog. Terence is a graduate of the Vancouver Film School of British Columbia. His studies included Directing, 3d character animation, 3d modeling, and film/stage lighting. Terence is the recipient of the Excellence in Educa-tion Award for Drama at the University of Washington. He has choreo-graphed for SCT’s production of Hair, Mercer Island H.S.’s productions of Evita & Bat Boy: The Musical. Directed and choreographed at Theatre Arts Guild of Mt. Vernon. Terence will be seen in the upcoming Village Theatre production of Guys and Dolls.

Terence Kelley*

Carly Marie (Clara Johnson) is thrilled to be returning to the stage with Showtunes where she was last seen as Serena in Legally Blonde. She received her training at Cornish College of the Arts in vocal performance and has performed throughout the Northwest with The Village Theatre (Singin’ in the Rain, My Fair Lady) 5th Avenue (A Chorus Line), Coeur d’Alene Summer Theater (Mary Poppins, Big River, 9 to 5), Seattle Musical Theater (Legally Blonde/Elle, Hairspray/Amber) Lyric Light Opera (Peter Pan/ Peter). When she’s not in a stage production, you’ll find her belting out some 1940s tunes with vocal trio The Memphis Belles!

Carly Marie

(The Priest) has music-directed over 18 shows for Showtunes starting with Anyone Can Whistle in 2000, and has also appeared as Oscar Wilde and Mr. Carney in A Man Of No Importance. Other roles include: Cosme McMoon in Souvenir (SecondStory Rep & ART Spokane); Hamlet; Max in Lend Me A Tenor; Arthur in Camelot. Nationally: toured various cities coast-to-coast (also Bath, England!) as Pianist (and joke-target) in An Evening With Groucho starring Frank Ferrante. Selected Music Director credits: Oh, Coward! - Seattle Rep; Goblin Market - ACT Theatre; Wizard of Oz, Goodnight Moon, Peter Pan, Pero, (and many more) - Seattle Children’s Theatre; Ragtime (and more) - Civic Light Opera.

Mark Rabe

Ellen McLain* (Signora Naccarelli) is proud to be in the 20th anniversary season for Showtunes, having sung in their first production, Anyone Can Whistle, in 2000. She was “Miss Primrose” in On the Twentieth Century, and “Heidi Schiller” in Follies. More recently she appeared in Showtunes’ glo-rious The Bridges of Madison County and hilarious The Boys From Syracuse. As the passive-aggressive computer, GLaDOS, in Portal and Portal 2, Ellen won a Spike Video Game Award.

Ellen McLain*

CAST

Michael Krenning* (Fabrizio Naccarelli) thanks for coming! Huge shout-out to my partner, Bellis, and also to the family and their puppy dog, Sapphire. Previously seen with Showtunes as part of the ensemble in last season’s Legally Blonde. Regional credits: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Village Theatre; Newsies, Village Theatre; Little Women, ArtsWest; Pump Up The Volume, 5th Avenue Theatre NextFest.

Michael Krenning*

Kat Bula (Violin 3) has toured extensively with bands ranging from hardline traditional blue-grass to math rock to pirate-themed folk-punk. She teaches fiddle and improvisation at Dusty Strings and to online students all over North America. Past musical theater credits include My Fair Lady at Seattle Musical Theater and Western Washington University’s summer stock produc-tion of West Side Story.

CAST

Billie Wildrick* (Margaret Johnson) enjoys a vibrant, multi-faceted theatri-cal career as an actor and a director based in Seattle. She has received 4 nominations, a Gregory and three Footlight Awards for her work onstage at the 5th Avenue, (Pajama Game/Babe, Carousel/Carrie, Guys and Dolls/Adelaide, Sunday In The Park.../Dot, Wonderful Town/Eileen, INto The Woods/Cinderella), ACT, (Vanities, First Date Das Barbecu/Brunhilde), Vil-lage Theatre, (Cabaret/Sally, Lizzie Borden, Hello Dolly) and SCT (Seussical/Mayzie). Billie has also delighted in performing at the Twin Cities’ Ordway (Sound Of Music/Maria, A Christmas Story/Mother), DC’s Shakespeare The-atre Company (The Secret Garden), Asolo Repertory (Beatsville/Alice, Rag-time/Evelyn Nesbit) and she debuted on Broadway in Scandalous. Billie’s most recent directing credits include the critically acclaimed Annie @ The 5th Avenue Theatre and The Champagne Widow @ Café Nordo. Up next, Billie is excited to be directing Guys And Dolls for the Village Theatre. Billie takes life lessons at the church of Maya Angelou and L. Cohen albums. Find out more and where to follow Billie on the media that is social at www.billiewildrick.com

Billie Wildrick*

Hannah Schuerman

Hannah Schuerman (Ensemble) (She/Her) is returning to Showtunes after being part of The Bridges of Madison County (Marion). Past shows include Romy and Michelle’s Highschool Reunion... (Toby), The Pajama Game, and The Sound of Music at the 5th Avenue Theatre. Recently she was in The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes and The Homefront at Village Theatre. Keep an ear out for the recent release of the World Premiere Recording of The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes!

Patrick Austin (Violin 2) is excited to help kick off Showtunes’ 20th Season!

Bruce Carpenter (Reed 1) has played multiple woodwinds for 40 years and in 42 countries as a touring musician. He holds music degrees from the University of North Texas and Cal State, Fresno. He performs locally for musical theater productions, and plays bassoon for Sammamish Symphony Orchestra.

Catherine Case (Harp) is thrilled to be back with Showtunes after performing in past productions of The Fantasticks and Nine. She also plays at the 5th Avenue Theater and Symphony Tacoma. Catherine teaches harp at Pacific Lutheran University and University of Puget Sound.

Paul Hansen (Percussion) has been active in Seattle’s music and theater circles for over thirty years, and has been a mainstay in Seattle’s top pit orchestras at the Fifth Avenue, Para-mount, and Village Theaters, including the world premieres of Hairspray, Shrek, and Aladdin, and performs regularly with the Seattle Symphony. Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Auburn Symphony. He is also a proud member of the Harry Partch Ensemble, currently based out of the University of Washington.

ORCHESTRA

Matt Hohensee (Piano) is an accomplished pianist and music director in Seattle and is so excited to play this beautiful concert!

ORCHESTRA

Dave Pascal (Bass) plays bass with bands including The Love Markets, Show Brazil, Carrie Clark and the Lonesome Lovers, and the Jazz Police, and in theaters, club bands, and recording studios. He is also an album producer and engineer, and a sound designer for theater and multi-media projects.

Anthony Pooley (Guitars, Mandolin, Cymbal) writes about being a musical theatre guitarist at www.STRUMpit.org. Recent credits: As You Like It (Seattle Rep), Bright Star (Taproot), Spitfire Grill (Showtunes), Reefer Madness (Second Story Rep). Thanks to Nathan and Showtunes for this unique opportunity. Love and gratitude to Nicki for her support and patience.

Matthew Tevenan (Cello) is excited to be a part of this amazing team! Previous cello credits include: The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion at ArtsWest, Persuasion: A New Musical (and cast recording) at Taproot, JCS at Cornish, and The Who’s Tommy at Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan. When not playing, Matthew works at Google.

PRODUCTION TEAMKelly Kitchens (Director) is a professional director, actor, adaptor, and arts educator. She is a Guest Lecturer in Directing and Acting at the University of Washington, a member of Actor’s Equity Association, and a member of The Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers. Her honors include: three-time nominated and two-time recipient of the Gregory Falls Award for Outstanding Director; winner of the Broadway World Critics Picks for Best Direction of a Play; two time winner of Seattle Theater Writers awards for Best Direction of a Play; named Best Director by the Seattle Weekly Readers Poll; and named in Seattle Magazine’s inaugural list of “Top 20 Most Talented People in Seattle.” Kelly earned her B.A. from Vanderbilt University and her M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Some past directing projects include: the NYC workshop of Esther, a dance musical; stage directing O+E, a new adaptation of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice (Seattle Opera); Hand to God (Gregory Award recipient for Outstanding Production), Ironbound (Gregory Award nominee for Outstanding Production), Grounded, On Clover Road, The Other Place, (Seattle Public Theater); Medea, As You Like It, and The Tempest (Seattle Shakespeare Company); Pride and Prejudice (THEATERWORKS, Colorado); and adapting and directing She’s Come Undone (Book-It Repertory Theatre). Some upcoming directing projects include: A Christmas Carol for ACT; The Revolutionists for ArtsWest; Pulitzer Prize winner Cost of Living for Seattle Public Theater; and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro for Kentucky Opera.

Sol Im (Violin 1B) loves playing this marvelous music with this talented cast

Jonathan Kuehn (Violin 2B) thanks you for supporting the performing arts.

Luís Nenninger (Violin 1) grew up in NY and moved to the Pacific Northwest three years ago and has enjoyed the experience playing as a freelance musician in Seattle. Most recently Luís has been recording for upcoming movies, TV shows and video games. Luís currently plays a Balmforth Violin which he had commissioned in 2017.

Cyrus Roat (Reed 2) Since relocating to Seattle from the Midwest in 2014, Cyrus has appeared regularly on both modern and historical bassoons. He performs with the North Corner Chamber Orchestra, Seattle Rock Orchestra, Federal Way Symphony, and other local ensembles. Cyrus completed his MM at Indiana University and his BM at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Alec Lai (Violin 3B) is ecstatic to participate in Light in the Piazza at Showtunes! He is a student at Roosevelt High School, and this is his first professional gig. Thanks to his Nathan, his violin teacher, and his parents, for giving him this opportunity.

Anna Vraney (Assistant Stage Manager) is a graduate of Western Washington University, having received a BA in Theatre with concentrations in Stage Management and Technical The-atre. She has been apart of stage management teams at Village Theatre KIDSTAGE and recently helped mentor theatre students with Intiman Theatre’s Starfish Project, as well as at The 5th Avenue Theatre for their 2019 Rising Star Project (West Side Story). She is very excited to be back working with Showtunes! Some past credits include Les Miserables (Village Theatre KIDSTAGE), Always... Patsy Cline (Taproot Theatre Co.) and The Spitfire Grill (Showtunes Theatre Co.).

Pamela Campi Spee* (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to participate in her first Showtunes production! She most recently managed offstage magic at Village Theatre and has also worked around the Sound at Seattle Children’s Theatre, Taproot Theatre Company, Seattle Shakespeare Company, The 5th Avenue Theatre, ArtsWest and ACT. She recently worked as the Production PA for the National Tour of Hamilton. Up next: Guys and Dolls at Village Theatre. LOVE to her favorite leading man and Miss Hunter!

Lisa Finkral (Sound Designer/Board Operator) is thrilled to be working with Showtunes again. Lisa has been a live audio engineer for over 13 years and has been sound designing for the last 7. Favorite past designs include: Spring Awakening (Balagan), Les Miserables (Village The-atre KIDSTAGE), and Goblin Market (Sound Theatre Company). When Lisa’s not doing sound, she is a licensed attorney. She thanks Maggie, Alex, Nathan, and the rest of the Piazza team for the pleasure of working with all of you!

PRODUCTION TEAMNathan Young (Music Director /Associate Artistic Director) is a music director, arrang-er, composer and vocal coach. He studied vocal pedagogy and orchestration. He is passionate about conducting and accompanying. For Showtunes, Nathan has music directed Leap of Faith and The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Legally Blonde. He is especially passionate about creating unique and powerful textures from musical theatre vocal ensembles. He has taught voice at Village Theatre and for Cornish College. Nathan is a collaborator on several new works as the music supervisor. He is currently composing the scores to several musicals with his collaborator Leslie Wisdom. Nathan loves the energy of cabaret – the art of creating something new each time with an individual artist. He music-directs and produces cabarets here in Seattle and San Francisco. Nathan also works as an IT professional and consults for tech startups in how to de-sign IT systems. Nathan is passionate about bringing the full score and full orchestration to life, in concert, with Showtunes!

Matt Wolfe* (Artistic Director) Along with serving as Artistic Director, Matt directed the recent Showtunes productions of Bridges of Madison County and Shenandoah. Other recent credits include Oklahoma and The Drowsy Chaperone at Bigfork Summer Playhouse, Million Dollar Quartet at Coeur D’Alene Summer Theatre. As an actor, Matt was recently seen at the 5th Avenue Theatre as Bill Austin in Mamma Mia!, Ralph in Kiss Me, Kate, Ensemble in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and as Bert Healy in Annie. His career as an actor, director, producer, and educator has spanned over 24 years in Seattle, Broadway, and beyond. Many thanks to Maggie and the Show-tunes board. Love to Bryan. www.matt-wolfe.net.

Maggie Stenson Pehrson* (Executive Producer) a co-founder of Showtunes, has helped create every concert or special event “for the love of musicals” over the last 20 years. A working actor for over 30 years (proud AEA and SAG-AFTRA), she’s enjoyed many diverse stage, TV, film, industrial, and recording projects. Maggie sings with the vocal trio Modern Angels, and their most recent release - Go To Sleep (The Goodnight Songs) - is a collection of lullabies (mod-ernangels.com). Heartfelt thanks to this amazing cast, production team, musicians and crew – it’s been a joy to watch the magic unfold. Special kudos to Alex, Karen, Nathan, Matt and our Show-tunes Board and volunteers. Thanks to you - dear patron - for coming to support Showtunes, these performers, and live theatre. Love to Clint, Josh, and Emmy. Carpe diem!

STAFF

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA

Written by Madeline Virtue, Showtunes Intern

In 2003, Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel developed their musical The Light in the Piazza at the Intiman Theatre, now the Cornish Playhouse in Seattle. The original cast included theatre legend Victoria Clark (as Margaret Johnson), as well as Patti Cohenour (as Signora Naccarelli) and Mark Harelik (Signor Naccarelli), who went on to reprise their roles in the original Broad-way cast in 2005. It’s initial Seattle run was met with rave reviews from local and New York critics alike.

Based on the 1960 novel by Elizabeth Spencer, the musical is set in Florence and Rome in the summer of 1953. Playbill interviewed with Craig Lucas, for who the more lighthearted fairytale style musical was a bit of a departure for. “I have been writing these punishing, angry, tragic plays. I just could not write enough mean, cruel, dark, upsetting things,” Lucas told Playbill Online. “So when Adam brought me this [love story], I kind of thought ‘I don’t know, maybe I’m the wrong guy.’ But it’s been a tremendous joy.”

David-Edward Hughes (One of Showtunes’ founders and a former writer for Talkin’ Broad-way) wrote that, “One can only hope Lucas and Guettel can see not only the production’s present merits, but also look closely at fixing some rather troubling flaws. For even now, this light is one worthy of shining far beyond Seattle.” Which of course, it did. The Light in the Pi-azza premiered on Broadway on April 18th 2005. It went on to tour, and of course has been done at regional and community theatres since, including a run in London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The Light in the Piazza has not been produced locally since its original run in 2003. Showtunes Theatre is bringing the show home right back to its birthplace, The Cornish Play-house - formally The Intiman.

Alex Robinson (Operations and Strategic Development Administrator) is a local performer, director, teaching artist. She has worked as an executive assistant at many differ-ent companies over the past few years: Shadowbox Farms, Raiwasa Private Resort in Fiji, and Concord Technologies. Past notable directing credits include: The Boys from Syracuse (Assistant Director) at Showtunes Theatre Company; Legally Blonde (Director) at Village Theatre KIDSTAGE. She currently teaches at Village Theatre and Duvall Performing Arts. Past notable performance credits include: Junie B. Jones the Musical (Secondstory Repertory); Chicago, Hairspray, and James and The Giant Peach Jr. (Village Theatre KIDSTAGE); and currently Tweenland, a pop-cover band for kids, as well as a performer for Singing for Seniors at NM Entertainment. Thanks to Maggie, Nathan, Matt, and the whole Showtunes family.

Katie Ginther (Showtunes Intern) is currently a sophomore at Western Washington University studying theatre for acting and directing. She has done musical theatre productions in the Seattle area at venues including Raisbeck Hall and Village Theatre Issaquah since she was in high school. She is very excited to join the Showtunes family in its 20th year and is excited to reference this internship in whatever the future holds for her.

Madeline Virtue (Showtunes Intern) is going into her Sophomore year at Western Wash-ington University, where she is studying Acting, Musical Theatre, and Dramatic Writing. While her current experience on the stage is mostly limited to dance, she looks forward to how this opportunity with Showtunes Theatre will help her grow in all avenues of theatre.

STAFF

WELCOME TO SHOWTUNESIf you’re joining us for the first time, Welcome. Thanks for supporting Showtunes. We create concert events where people who love musicals can celebrate that love together.

Showtunes does this by championing the rarely produced gems and underdogs of Broadway so that the full voice of this uniquely American art form can be heard.

What sets Showtunes apart from other theatres in Seattle is that we produce streamlined concert experiences with book in hand, with minimal sets and costumes. This presents audiences with a unique theatrical experience. Every show that makes it to Broadway goes through a process as it gathers investors and support. It has to shine on its own accord from the page and inspires the imagination and the heart without the benefit of full sets, costumes, and the other storytelling elements of a full production. It is in this simpler format where the original magic of any script and score are stored, and we strive to bring to life.

Our cast performs with book in hand to give the performers the opportunity to focus on un-derstanding their characters and building moments during our condensed 30 hour rehearsal process. This short time frame allows us access to the wealth of local performers who have this abbreviated rehearsal and performance schedule available.

Karen Ilika (President), Patrick Forhane (Vice-President), Daniel Keef (Treasurer), Chester Weir (Secretary), Joshua Hardwick, Kevin Mikolajczak, Varsha Raghavan, Aaron Shanks

SHOWTUNES BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Showtunes is actively seeking to enlarge and diversify our board of directors. If non-profit board membership on a small but mighty arts company interests you, please contact please contact Karen Illika (karen@showtunestheatre.org) for more information. In addition, volunteers are

always needed to assist on show weekends as well as on other projects. Please contact Karen Ilika if interested in volunteering for Showtunes.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT We acknowledge that we live, work and play on the unceded and traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples and that we occupy this land. This acknowledgement does not take the place of authentic relationships with Indigenous communities, but serves as a first step in honoring the land we occupy.

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TWO STAR DONOR LEVEL - FOR CONTRIBUTIONS $240 UP TO $499• All the benefits of introductory One Star Donor listed above plus…• Two drink tickets to be used during the 2019-20 Season.• Exclusive Showtunes Donor Button and Land yard.

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FOUR STAR DONOR LEVEL - FOR CONTRIBUTIONS $1,000 UP TO $2,499• All the benefits of introductory One Star Donor listed above plus…• Six drink tickets to be used during the 2019-20 Season.• Two single tickets to be used during the 2019-20 Season seated in an exclusive VIP section.• Exclusive Showtunes Donor Button and a choice of a Mug or a Hat.

FIVE STAR DONOR LEVEL - FOR CONTRIBUTIONS $2,500 AND UP!• All the benefits of introductory One Star Donor listed above plus…• Eight drink tickets to be used during the 2019-20 Season.• Four single tickets to be used during the 2019-20 Season seated in an exclusive VIP section.• Exclusive Showtunes Donor Button, Land yard, Water bottle, and a choice of a Mug or a Hat.• Dinner Party for you and 3 friends with your choice of the Executive Producer, Artistic Director, • and/or the Associate Artistic Director.

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TALKBACK & LIBATIONS AFTER THE SHOWPlease join us in the lobby immediately after the show to continue your Showtunes experience with our cast and crew!

One of the most fun things about these rare musicals is to talk about them. What works? What doesn’t? Does it still hold up? We’ll enjoy a short talkback in the lobby with some of the cast and production team.

The bar will stay open (you can pre-order at intermission), and also take photos at our step-and-repeat, sign up for our “Give $20 Challenge, or purchase tickets to our May production of La Cage - all in the lobby!

Showtunes thanks The Ruins Event Center for hosting our photo shoot for The Light in the Piazza.

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Photo Credit: Danielle Barnum Photography - inspirebydanielle.com

THE CORNISH PLAYHOUSE AT SEATTLE CENTER MAY 9th - 17th, 2019

Director RICHARD GRAY

ChoreographerPAUL FLANAGAN

Music DirectorNATHAN YOUNG

Stage ManagerDARIAN CLOGSTON

GALA 20

feb. 22, 2020TOWN HALL, SEATTLE

JOIN US AS WE REMEMBER AND CELEBRATE 20 YEARS OF

SHOWTUNES THEATRE COMPANY!