Parade The Musical Brochure

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We hope that you enjoy the show.

I an Watk in s(Company President)

We are de l ighted to welcome the phenomena l Par ade - to the Communit y Theat re .

Spotlight Theatre Company is affiliated to N.O.D.A. and is supported by Ty Cerdd Music Centre (Welsh Amateur

Music Federation)

The National Operatic and Dramatic Association (N.O.D.A.), founded in 1899 is the main representative body for

amateur theatre in the UK. It has a membership of some 2500 amateur/community theatre groups and 3000

individual enthusiasts throughout the UK, staging musicals, operas, plays, concerts and pantomimes in a wide variety of

performing venues, ranging from the country’s leading professional theatres to village halls. Members have access to a

wide range of benefits.

N.O.D.A. aims:

• To give a shared voice to the amateur theatre sector

• To help amateur societies and individuals achieve the highest standards of best practice and performance• To provide leadership and advice to enable amateur theatre to tackle the challenges and opportunities of

the 21st century.

Spotlight’s newest production of the admirably ambitious and daring piece of

musical drama ‘Parade’. Set in the southern state of Atlanta, Georgia, the show

tells the real life story of a Brooklyn Jewish Northerner, Leo Frank, who was

framed for the assault and murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, who worked at

the pencil factory where he was superintendent, on Confederate Memorial

Day 1913.

The musical depicts not only the trial, but also dramatizes the love story between

Leo and his wife Lucille and examines historical class, and race relations and the

prejudice of the South. With music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown, Parade

holds a rich, riddling mix of military marches, hymns, dances and popular songs

swarming against one another to take you through a cornucopia of emotion.

Thank you for your continuous support without which Spotlight would be unable

to provide you with the standard of entertainment to which you have become

accustomed.

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THIS AMATEUR PRODUCTION IS PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD

ON BEHALF OF MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL OF NEW YORK

Julia

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Pat Evans

Neil Topping

Born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1936, Alfred Fox Uhry,

is a successful American playwright and

screenwriter. Uhry, who graduated from Brown

University, learnt the craft of lyric writing in New

York. Although his early work was somewhat

unsuccessful, he eventually earned a Tony

nomination for The Robber Bridegroom. Uhry’s

work includes what has become known as the

‘Atlanta Trilogy’. The trilogy of plays are set in the

first half of the 20th century and comprise of

Driving Miss Daisy (1987), The Last Night of

Ballyhoo (1996) and Parade (1998) which was the

result of a collaboration with composer, Jason

Robert Brown, and director, Harold Prince. The

libretto for Parade won Uhry a Tony Award for

Best Book of a Musical. In 2006 Alfred Uhry was

the first person to receive an Academy Award,

Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for

dramatic writing.

Regarded as one of the ‘New School’ theatrical

composers, Jason Robert Brown (J.R.B.) has an art

for fusing pop-rock styles with theatrical lyrics.

Born in New York in 1970, J.R.B. studied music at

the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and

attended French Woods Festival of the Performing

Arts. Beginning his music career as an arranger,

composer and pianist, he worked in New York on

shows and played in several nightclubs and bars in

the city. His first success was Songs for a New World

(1995) which featured pop-rock influenced music.

This show has since been performed more than

200 times around the world. Parade was his next

venture. The show won J.R.B. a Tony award in 1999

for his score. This musical masterpiece

written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold

Prince premiered at the Lincoln Center Theatre in

1998 and won a Drama Desk and New York

Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Musical.

In 2001 J.R.B. was successful with The Last Five

Years which was cited as one of Time Magazine’s

‘10 Best for 2001’. Further success was achieved

with this musical winning J.R.B. Drama Desk

Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. His latest

musical 13 has premiered in Los Angeles to rave

reviews. J.R.B is recognised as ‘one of Broadway’s

smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since

Stephen Sondheim’ (Philadelphia Inquirer) and

‘a leading member of a new generation of

composers who embody high hopes for the American

musical’ (The New York Times).

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Jason Robert BrownComposer

Alfred UhryPlaywright

Affiliated to NODA

Featured above: Karly Hill, Naomi Walker, Rhoswen Morgan and Emily Kate Jones


Music and lyrics by Jason Rober t Brown

Co-conceived by Harold Prince

THIS AMATEUR PRODUCTION IS PRESENTED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH JOSEF WEINBERGER LTD

ON BEHALF OF MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL OF NEW YORK

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY

present

PARADE Julia

KennedyGlenn

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Pat Evans

Direction by

Musical Direction by

Neil Topping

Jason Rober t Brown’s

Set Design by Costume Design by Technical Manager

Xtreme Set Design Footlights Theatrical Costumiers Greg Prosser

Starring

Adrian Evans Kieran Car ter Chris Pyke Ralph Thomas Dale Evans Alex Pugsley

Angela Lloyd Nichola Fennell Rhys Williams Adam Lewis Gaynor Thomas

Karly Hill Peter Radmore Matthew Preece Gordon Thomas

Naomi Walker Rhoswen Morgan Emily Kate Jones

Book by Alfred Uhry

Adver tising & Design by

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Props

Sarah Lynch

Sound Design by

Charles Markham

Treasurer Administrator Publicity Team

Ralph Thomas Kay Syms Gaynor ThomasAdrian Evans

Ticket Secretary Membership Secretary

Yvonne Edwards Mandy Raby

Repetiteur

Michelle Diamond

Brijnath Geerjanan Gavin Lynch

Stage Crew

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Make - Up Design

Carys Williams

Front of House

Friends of Spotlight

Affiliated to NODA


Speaking Roles (Cast in order of appearance):

Adrian Evans

Kieran Car ter

Chris Pyke

Julia Kennedy

Glenn Bowen

Ralph Thomas

Dale Evans

Angela Lloyd

Alex Pugsley

Nichola Fennell

Emily Kate Jones

Brijnath Geerjanan

Rhys Williams

Adam Lewis

Brijnath Geerjanan

Gaynor Thomas

Kar ly Hill

Matthew Preece

Peter Radmore

Gavin Lynch

Gordon Thomas

Naomi Walker

Rhoswen Morgan

Young Confederate Soldier

Fiddlin’ John

Old Confederate Soldier

Judge Roan

Lucille Frank

Leo Frank

Hugh Dorsey

Governor John Slaton

Sally Slaton

Frankie Epps

Mary Phagan

Iola Stover

Jim Conley

Detective Starnes

Officer Ivey

Newt Lee

Mrs Phagan

Lizzie Phagan

Britt Craig

Tom Watson

Prison Guard

Luther Rosser

Monteen

Essie

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Simon Bradley Michelle DiamondYvonne EdwardsAlison EvansAlicia JenkinsClaire JenkinsMeirion JohnChris JohnsonSue LewisEthan LynchNatalia Lynch

Kathryn MorganLewis MorganRichard MorganFinley O’ShaughnessyTracy Porch-BradleyMandy RabyDennis StallardKay SymsLaura ThomasMorgan Westcott

CAST & ENSEMBLE


Prologue: The Old Red Hills of Home

The Old Red Hills of Home (Par t 2)

The Dream of Atlanta

How Can I Call This Home

The Picture Show

What Am I Waiting For

I am Trying to Remember

Big News

There is a fountain / It Don’t Make Sense

Watson’s Lullaby

Somethin’ Ain’t Right

Real Big News

You Don’t Know This Man

The Trial Par t I: It Is Time Now

The Trial Par t II: Dorsey’s Statement: ‘Twenty Miles from Marietta’

The Trial Par t III: Frankie’s Testimony

The Trial Par t IV: The Factory Girls / Come Up to My Office

The Trial Par t V: Newt Lee’s Testimony

The Trial Par t VI: My Child Will Forgive Me

The Trial Par t VII: That’s What He Said

The Trial Par t VIII: It’s Hard to Speak My Hear t

The Trial Par t IX: Closing Statements & Verdict / Cakewalk

ACT ONE

ACT TWO

MUSICAL NUMBERS

Opening

A Rumblin’ and a Rollin’

Do It Alone

Tea Dance 1

Pretty Music

Tea Dance 2

Letter to the Governor

This Is Not Over Yet

Factory Girl Reprise

Newt Lee Reprise

Blues: ‘Feel the Rain Fall’

Where Will You Stand When the Flood Comes?

All the Wasted Time

Sh’ma & Final e

(Inter val: 15 minutes)


Glenn Bowen

Theatre credits include:

Seymour (Little Shop of

Horrors - Selsig) The Lion

(The Wizard of Oz - Selsig)

Cosmo Brown (Singin’ in the

Rain - Selsig) Bill (Me and my

Girl - Mid Rhondda) Mr Snow

(Carousel - Mid Rhondda)

Ar thur Kipps (Half A Sixpence

- Mid Rhondda)

Julia Kennedy


Anna (The King & I - Sherman

Theatre) Chairy Barnum

(Barnum - BLOC) Peggy

Sawyer (42nd Street - BLOC)

Natalie Stone (Windy City -

Redgrave Theatre) Suki

Rougemont (Witches of

Eastwick - Spotlight)

Glenn BowenLeo Frank

Julia KennedyLucille Frank

Nichola Fennell

Alex Pugsley


Serena Katz (Fame - Selsig)

Ga-Ga Girl (We Will Rock You

- Selsig) Ermengarde (Hello

Dolly - Selsig) Velma (West

Side Story - Selsig)

Nichola FennellMary Phagan


John Darling (Peter Pan -

Selsig) Chino (West Side Story

- Selsig) Tyrone (Fame - Selsig)

Alex PugsleyFrankie Epps


Adam (Seven Brides for Seven

Brothers - Spotlight) Darryl

Van Horne (Witches of

Eastwick - Spotlight) Pirate

King (Pirates of Penzance -

Moonlight, St Fagan’s Open Air

Festival) Pilate (Jesus Christ

Superstar - Neath, Spotlight)

Mr Thomas Andrews (Titanic

- Neath, Spotlight) Sweeney

Todd (Sweeney Todd -

Concept Players, Xtreme

Theatre Company)

Ralph ThomasHugh Dorsey

Gordon Thomas

Br ij Geerjanan


Britney Spears (We Will Rock

You - Selsig) Cornelius Hackl

(Hello Dolly - Selsig) Don

Lockwood (Singin’ in the Rain

- Selsig) Edgar Beane (Titanic

- Spotlight) Frank (Seven

Brides for Seven Brothers -

Spotlight) Tobias (Sweeney

Todd - Selsig, Xtreme

Theatre Company)

Dale EvansGovernor John Slaton


Front & Guitarist (Nor th East

Band Delusions of Adequacy)

Front & Guitarist (Cardiff

Based Band)

Brij GeerjananJim Conley / Newt Lee


Fagin (Oliver - ACT 1 Theatre

Group) Hamlet (Hamlet -

Berkshire Theatre Group) Zig

(Zigger Zagger -N.Y.T) Alfi

(Alfi - N.Y.T) Black Bird (Taste

of Honey - Islington Theatre

Group) Snow Queen (Snow

Queen Pantomime - Berkshire

Theatre Group)

Chris PykeJudge Roan


Anthony (Sweeney Todd -

Xtreme Theatre Company)

Gideon (Seven Brides for

Seven Brothers - Spotlight)

Tony (West Side Story -

Selsig) Michael Spofford

(Witches of Eastwick -

Spotlight) Big Macca (We Will

Rock You - Selsig) Bob

Cratchit (Scrooge - Spotlight)

Adrian EvansYoung Soldier / Fiddlin’ John


Galileo (We Will Rock You -

Selsig) Riff (West Side Story -

Selsig) Barnaby Tucker ( Hello

Dolly - Selsig) Tom Evans

(Disco Inferno - Mid Rhondda)

Joe Vegas (Fame - Selsig)

Adolfo Pirelli (Sweeney Todd -

Xtreme Theatre Company)

Matthew PreeceBritt Craig


Mrs Bigsby (Seven Brides for

Seven Brothers - Spotlight)

Mrs Elenor Weidner (Titanic -

Spotlight)

Angela LloydSally Slaton

Dale Evans

Gaynor Thomas


Ralph Thomas

Chris Pyke

Matthew Preece


Captain Smith (Titanic -

Spotlight) Herod (Jesus Christ

Superstar - Spotlight) Mikado

(Hot Mikado - Brynmawr)

Gran (Family Planning -

Phoenix Theatre) Teddy (Trivial

Pursuits - Phoenix Theatre)

Widow Twanky (Aladdin -

Spotlight)

Peter RadmoreTom Watson

Adrian Evans

Peter Radmore

Angela Lloyd


Alexandra Spofford (Witches

of Eastwick - Spotlight) Milly

(Seven Brides for Seven

Brothers - Spotlight) Alice

Beane (Titanic - Spotlight)

Katisha (Hot Mikado - Neath)

Mrs Johnson (Blood Brothers

- Theatremask) Mrs Lovett

(Sweeney Todd - Xtreme

Theatre Company, Neath)

Gaynor ThomasMrs Phagan


Dorothy (Wizard of Oz -

Bridgend College) Audrey

(Little Shop of Horrors -

Bridgend College) Fairy of the

Bells (Dick Whittington - Stan

Stennet Pantomime Company)

Trixie (Daisy Pulls it Off -

Barry Ar ts Centre) Robin

Hood (Babes in the Wood -

Barry Ar ts Centre)

Kar ly HillLizzie Phagan


Iris (Fame - Selsig) Meat (We

Will Rock You - South Wales

School of Performing Ar ts)

Rhoswen MorganEssie


Murdoch (Titanic - Spotlight)

Caleb (Seven Brides for Seven

Brothers - Spotlight) Smee

(Peter Pan - Spotlight) Dave

(The Full Monty - Mid

Rhondda) Office Krupke

(West Side Story - Selsig)

Gavin LynchGuard


Gabriella (High School

Musical- Mid Rhondda)

Scaramouche (We Will Rock

You - South Wales School of

Peforming Ar ts) Maggie (Disco

Inferno - Mid Rhondda)

Brigitta (The Sound of Music -

Mid Rhondda) A Star to Be

(Annie - Mid Rhondda)

Emily Kate JonesIola Stover


Alderman Fitzwarren (Dick

Whittington - ACT 1 Theatre

Group) Zeke (Seven Brides

for Seven Brothers - Spotlight)

Bill Sykes (Oliver - ACT 1

Theatre Group)

Adam LewisOfficer Ivey


Bill (Me and My Girl -

Colstars) Rico (Copacabana -

Brynmawr) Pish Tush (Hot

Mikado - Brynmawr) The Lion

(Wizard of Oz - Selsig) Jack

Scott (High School Musical -

Mid Rhondda) Bishop (Les

Miserables - Spotlight)

Rhys WilliamsDetective Starnes

Dale Evans

Gaynor Thomas

Rhys Williams

Adam Lewis


Prospero (The Tempest -

Players Anonymous) Salieri

(Amadeus - Players

Anonymous) Major (Titanic -

Spotlight) Marley’s Ghost

(Scrooge - Spotlight) King Lear

(King Lear - Players

Anonymous) Willie (The

Sunshine Boys - Neil Simon)

Gordon ThomasLuther Rosser


Mar tha Cratchett (Scrooge -

Spotlight) Peter Pan

(Spotlight) Beauty and the

Beast (Spotlight)

Naomi WalkerMonteen


Ziegfeld Tenor (Funny Girl -

Selsig) Nick Piazza (Fame -

Selsig) Ephraim (Seven Brides

for Seven Brothers - Spotlight)

A-Rab (West Side Story -

Selsig) Indian Chief (Peter Pan

- Spotlight) Fleet (Titanic -

Spotlight)

Kieran James Car terOld Soldier

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A C T 1 T H E A T R E G R O U P

S P O T L I G H T T H E A T R E C O M P A N Y

A Slice of Saturday Night 1999

Scrooge 1999

Godspell 2000

Bugsy Malone 2000

Mack and Mabel 2000

Honk! 2001

Sugar 2001

South Pacific 2002

Copacabana 2002

Guys and Dolls 2003

42nd Street 2003

Aladdin (Pantomime) 2004

Pirates of Penzance 2004

Annie 2004

Jesus Christ Superstar 2005

Smokey Joe’s Café 2005

Les Miserables (School Edition) 2005

Titanic 2006

Scrooge 2006

The Witches of Eastwick 2007

Peter Pan 2007

Beauty and the Beast 2007

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers 2008

P A S T P R O D U C T I O N L I S T

Oliver 1986

Mame 1987

Joseph & The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 1988

George M 1988

Grease 1989

Little Me 1989

Some Enchanted Evening 1990

West Side Story 1990

The Card 1991

Anything Goes 1991

Babes in Arms 1992


Dames at Sea 1993

Irene 1993

Anything Goes (Sherman) 1994

Barnum 1994

42nd Street 1994

My Fair Lady 1995

Chess 1995


Sweet Charity 1996

Hello Dolly 1996

Hot Mikado 1997

Singin’ in the Rain 1997

Jerry’s Girls 1998

Crazy for You 1998

The members of the Company gratefully acknowledge the support and help of:

Mr Ian Watkins, Company President

Staff of Coleg Morgannwg, Llwynypia

RAFA Club, Treorchy

St. Peter’s Church, Pentre

Neath Amateur Operatic Society

Vice Presidents and Friends of Spotlight Theatre Company

And YOU, the AUDIENCE for your continued support

In Memoriam

The Company would like to remember Mr Dewi Reynolds who sadly passed away earlier this year. Dewi was a Vice President of

the Company and we are extremely grateful for all the support that he and his wife gave the Company over the years.

The Company would also like to remember Suzanne Rees who passed away recently. Suzanne, who was a leading lady with Selsig

and was well known for her beautiful singing voice, starred as Yum Yum in the Company’s production of Hot Mikado. Suzanne was

a dear friend to many of the Company’s members and will be sadly missed.


A C T 1 T H E A T R E G R O U P

S P O T L I G H T T H E A T R E C O M P A N Y


Scrooge 1999

Godspell 2000

Bugsy Malone 2000

Mack and Mabel 2000

Honk! 2001

Sugar 2001

South Pacific 2002

Copacabana 2002

Guys and Dolls 2003

42nd Street 2003

Aladdin (Pantomime) 2004

Pirates of Penzance 2004

Annie 2004

Jesus Christ Superstar 2005

Smokey Joe’s Café 2005

Les Miserables (School Edition) 2005

Titanic 2006

Scrooge 2006

The Witches of Eastwick 2007

Peter Pan 2007

Beauty and the Beast 2007


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