OC - Magic School Bus

1The Magic School Bus, Live! | Overture Center

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENTin association with

BAY AREA CHILDREN’S THEATRE and OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATREpresent

An American Girl’s Fund for Children Family Event

The Magic School Bus, Live!The Climate Challenge

Book, Music and lyrics byScott Elmegreen

Based on the Book byJoanna Cole & Bruce Degen

Starring(in alphabetical order)

Brian Conway Catherine Gloria Jaqueline Goalwin Calia Johnson Matt Ono Jessica Payne

Kyle Payne

Scenic Design by Projection Design by Costume Design by Emily Greene Lloyd Vance Ulises Alcala

Lighting Design by Tour Manager Tour Technical Director Stephanie Buchner Kristin Valentine Eric Behnke

General Management byMAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTIONS

SAT, JAN 21, 2012 | Capitol Theater

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This program is part of Overture’s Community Ticket Program. Funding for the Community Ticket Program is provided by American Girl’s Fund for Children, a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by Overture Center Foundation contributors. Learn how you can help make arts experiences real for hundreds of thousands of people in the greater Madison area at overturecenter.com/contribute.

Musical Supervision bySean Fenton

Choreography byNicole McGann

Direction byTracy Ward

Overture’s Holiday Lights are generously sponsored by MGE Foundation

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CAST in alphabetical order Carlos .........................................................................................................Brian ConwayWanda ...................................................................................................Catherine GloriaDorothy Ann ................................................................................... Jacqueline GoalwinKeesha ....................................................................................................... Calia JohnsonLiz ..................................................................................................................... Matt OnoMs. Frizzle .................................................................................................. Jessica PayneArnold ............................................................................................................. Kyle Payne

Please join us for an informal discussion and talk-back in Capitol Theater immediately after tonight’s performance.

Meet the Artist

WHO’S WHO BRIAN CONWAY (Carlos) appears in commercials, TV, and films. Favorite stage credits: Paul in A Chorus Line, Angel in Rent, Thalia (Sonny u/s) in Xanadu, Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun, Chino in West Side Story, Judah in Joseph, Linus in Charlie Brown, Damn Yankees, Footloose, Annie, Aida, Flower Drum Song, All Shook Up.

CATHERINE GLORIA (Wanda) is excited to make her debut performance with Maximum Entertainment Productions. Catherine was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area. Past credits include Oliver! (“Bet”; Woodminster), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (“Narrator”; TVRT), You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown (“Lucy Van Pelt”; Willows Theatre Company), and Miss Saigon (“Kim”; Broadway by the Bay, DTC).

JACQUELINE GOALWIN (Dorothy Ann) has her BA in Theatre from California Baptist University. Recent credits include: Kaiser Permanente’s ETP (Trina- Peace Signs), Torch: A New Musical (Reading, Ensemble), Oklahoma! (Laurie), The Fantasticks (Luisa), Godspell (Disciple), Beauty and the Beast (Silly Girl), and Fiddler on the Roof (Hodel). Love to my Savior Jesus Christ, my family, friends, and this team! 2 Corinthians 4:7

CALIA JOHNSON (Keesha) is excited to get on The Magic School Bus. With Shakespeare Santa Cruz Company she appeared as Titania from Midsummer in their regional school tour. Last year she appeared in Singing

In the Rain (Berkeley Playhouse) and Jerry Springer the Opera ( Ray of Light Theater). She’s extremely blessed to learn and teach others about...Going GREEN!

MATT ONO (Liz) is thrilled to be traveling the US with The Magic School Bus! Past credits include Blue Window (Tom), People America (Nikko), Children of the West (Art). Revues/Concerts: All That Glitters, First Comes Love, Colors. He has choreographed numerous concerts in hula and hip-hop. This one’s for mom and dad.

JESSICA PAYNE (Ms. Frizzle) is thrilled to be taking chances and getting messy originating the role of Ms. Frizzle. She has recently been seen in Strega Nona (Maximum Entertainment Productions), The Great American Trailer Park Musical (Willows), and Girl Crazy (42nd Street Moon). Jessica hails from Pennsylvania, and has her MFA in Acting from Western Illinois University. www.iamjessicapayne.com.

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CAST cont. KYLE PAYNE (Arnold) has performed on many national tours, in China, England and Russia, and extensively in the SF Bay Area. His favorite children’s productions include Strega Nona (with Maximum Entertainment), Goodnight Moon, and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow. For adults, his favorite roles include himself in Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Jerry in the Full Monty, and Frankie in Forever Plaid. Thanks, Jessica. www.kylepayne.com

SCOTT ELMEGREEN (Playwright, Composer, and Lyricist) is a playwright, composer, lyricist, and novelist whose work has premiered on Broadway, television and in film, as well as off-Broadway, regionally, and internationally. Recent projects include the Emmy Award-nominated Colin Quinn Long Story Short, directed by Jerry Seinfeld (original compositions; Helen Hayes Theatre, HBO special, national tour), Awesome Allie: First Kid Astronaut

(book; Vital Theatre, pub. Theatrical Rights Worldwide), College The Musical (NYMF Award for Excellence in Writing, pub. Dramatic Publishing), Vote For Me: A Musical Debate (New York Musical Theatre Festival, commissioned by Aged in Wood productions), Straight (developed by Tony Award-winning producer Andy Sandberg), and Thucydides (Samuel French Off Off Broadway Festival Winner, pub. Samuel French). Elmegreen’s original music is featured in Piled Higher And Deeper The Movie, based on the popular webcomic, PhD Comics. He has scored and orchestrated numerous plays, including What I Took In My Hand (Ontological-Hysteric Incubator, Brick Theatre), Daguerreotype (Abingdon Theatre), We Can’t Reach You, Hartford (Fringe First Nomination), Joyce Carol Oates’ Tone Clusters (Fringe Report Award - Best Play), and ‘’S Wonderful: The New Gershwin Musical (orchestrations; national tour).

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CAST cont. TRACY WARD (Director) works as a freelance director in the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on New Works for the American Theater. Recent productions include: National Tour of Strega Nona with Bay Area Children’s Theatre/Maximum Entertainment (2009.2010 tours) The Horses by Brian Thorstenson at AlterTheatre, The Shaker Chair by Adam Bock at Shotgun Players/Encore Theater, JUANA, a new opera by Carla Lucero at Theatre Artaud, and the critically acclaimed, award-winning production of Hunter Gatherers by Peter Nachtrieb at the Thick House in June 2006. Other directing credits include work with: Theatre Rhinoceros, Abydos Theater, Lunatique Fantastique, Stephen Pelton Dance Theater, Word for Word, Playground Company, Oakland Public Theatre, Z Space, and the Summer Plays Festival New York City.

NICOLE MCGANN (Choreographer) is a proud member of the Bay Area Children’s Theatre family which brings her passions of dance and reading together. Nicole is a founding member of the award-winning Youth Theatre Company, and has provided choreography for other children’s theatre groups throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in English.

SEAN FENTON (Music Director) has worked with BACT since 2004, most recently supervising the music for the national tour of Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona. A graduate of Stanford University, Sean has worked with companies throughout California, including TheatreWorks, California Conservatory Theatre, and Willows Theatre Company.

STEPHANIE BUCHNER (Lighting Designer) is delighted to work on Magic School Bus Live! Climate Challenge. Recent designs include: A Year with Frog and Toad for Bay Area Children’s Theater, Songs of Dragons

Flying To Heaven for Asian American Theater and Crowded Fire, Best of PlayGround 2011, Iph at Brava, The Ten Will Festival at Boxcar Theatre, The Creature for Black Box Theatre, Singing in the Rain and Peter Pan at Berkeley Playhouse, The Bald Soprano and Thom Pain at Cutting Ball, Current Nobody for Just Theatre, Midsummer Night’s Dream at Impact Theatre, Love Person at Marin Theatre Company, Mike Daisey’s Great Men of Genius at Berkeley Rep, Fe and the Desert for Campo Santo, Playboy of the Western World, Dear Liar and Fools in the Forest at Shakespeare Santa Cruz.

ULISES ALCALA (Costume Designer) returns to Bay Area Children’s Theatre having previously designed costumes for Pippi Longstockings and the national tour of Strega Nona. Mr. Alcala has also designed for the San Francisco Opera Center where he did The Elixir of Love and Don Giovanni. Mr. Alcala is a professor of design at CSU, East Bay.

ERIC BEHNKE (Technical Director) is thrilled to be working on The Magic School Bus. Eric has spent the last three years touring with The Kennedy Center (Washington, DC), and spends his summers as a stage manager and lighting designer for Cortland Repertory Theatre (New York). Thank you and love to my friends and family, especially SwPHB. www.ericjbehnke.com

KRIS VALENTINE (Tour Manager) is thrilled to be on the road again with Maximum Entertainment and The Magic School Bus: The Climate Challenge! after last season’s Strega Nona the Musical. Happy to be showing kids across the country how to GO GREEN!

MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT (Producer/General Manager) is a producing, developing, and general


CAST cont. management company in NYC stretching across Broadway, Off-Broadway and the touring spectrum founded by Avram Freedberg, Mary Beth Dale and Eva Price. Broadway Credits: Annie (Fall 2012), The Addams Family, Kathy Griffin Wants A Tony, The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino (Tony Nomination), Colin Quinn’s Long Story Short directed by Jerry Seinfeld, A Life in the Theatre, Carrie Fisher’s Wishful Drinking, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Off Broadway: Voca People, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom starring Judy Gold, Circumcise Me, The J.A.P Show: Jewish American Princesses of Comedy, Marga Gomez’s Los Big Names (Drama Desk Nomination), Private Jokes Public Places, Joy. Touring: Ella, a bio-musical about the life and music of Ella Fitzgerald, Irving Berlin’s I Love a Piano, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Tomie dePaola’s Strega Nona The Musical. www.maximumcompany.com

BAY AREA CHILDREN’S THEATRE (Producer) was founded in 2004 as Active Arts Theatre for Young Audiences to bring high quality theatre to family audiences in the Bay Area. We specialize in literary adaptations of great children’s books. Through challenging and exciting productions that emphasize artistic excellence, we seek to engage a new generation of theatergoers and inspire young people to open their imaginations to new worlds. Bay Area Children’s Theatre has four programs: Main-stage productions, educational drama classes, touring productions, and pre-kindergarten special productions. We produce main stage productions in Berkeley, San Ramon, San Francisco, and Saratoga. Our performances feature professional adult performers. We hire designers and directors who bring vibrant, creative worlds to life and who understand how to make theatre accessible for young audiences. Past productions

include: Strega Nona (national tour in association with Maximum Entertainment), Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, James and the Giant Peach, Little Women, Pippi Longstocking, If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (in partnership with Children’s Fairyland), How I Became a Pirate, Wonderland: A Circus Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (in partnership with The Circus Center of San Francisco) and many other adaptations of great children’s literature. OREGON CHILDREN’S THEATRE (OCT) (Producer) is Oregon’s flagship performing arts company for children and families. All of its programs, from stage to classroom, open the door to a life-long appreciation of the arts and use theater to advance growth, development and creativity in children. Each season, OCT produces five professional plays for families and school groups, reaching an audience of close to 100,000. As a resident company in the Portland Center for the Performing Arts, its audience members experience top-quality productions in spectacular venues in downtown Portland. The company is proud to commission at least one original work each year in collaboration with award-winning authors and playwrights; many of its world premieres are subsequently seen on stages all over the country.

BRAD SIMON (Booking Agent) A native of Pittsburgh, PA, Brad formed BSO in 1983 as a management company and booking agency for classic and contemporary jazz artists and is responsible for the company’s expansion into the representation of theatrical, dance and variety presentations. Brad has a Bachelor of Science degree from Carnegie-Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business. He is a graduate of the Commercial Theater Institute and a member of The Broadway League.

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Overture Center for the Arts would like to recognize our 2011/12 Community Partners and thank them for all they do to support Madison’s thriving arts community.

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