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The University of Charleston's Mass Communications & Drama Program, Music Program, and Theatre Aside |
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Some Enchanted Evening™ The Songs
of Rodgers |
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Music by Lyrics by Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein 2nd |
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November 7-9, 2002 at 8:00pm Geary Auditorium |
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Some Enchanted EveningŪ The
Songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Music by
Lyrics by Richard Rodgers Oscar Hammerstein 2nd |
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Concept by Jeffrey B.
Moss for Kravat Entertainment Services, Inc. |
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| Some Enchanted Evening is presented by special arrangement with the Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library, 229 West 28th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10001 | ||
The Songs |
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"The Surrey With the Fringe on Top"................................Brian Roller/Marianne Hall "It Might As Well Be Spring" .........................................................Jacque Sergent "There Is Nothin' Like a Dame .................Brian Roller, Scott Weimer, Levi Johnston "I Have Dreamed"............................................................................Heather Gill "People Will Say We're In Love"................................Sarah Orrison, Scott Weimer "A Wonderful Guy".......................................................................Kristy Balser "Some Enchanted Evening".............................................................Curt Spivey "If I Loved You".........................................................Curt Spivey, Heather Gill "Something Wonderful"....................................................................Ilse Moss "I Cain't Say No".......... ...........................................................Marianne Hall "Maria"...............................................................Erin Coffman, Kristy Balser "In My Own Little Corner" .............................Elizabeth Hazlett, Jacque Sergent, ........................................................................Sarah Orrison, Erin Coffman "I Enjoy Being A Girl".................................................................Brian Roller "A Fellow Needs a Girl".........................................Levi Johnston, Scott Weimer "Kansas City".............................................................................Heather Gill "Out of My Dreams".......................................................................Ilse Moss "A Puzzlement".........................................................................Brian Roller "A Cockeyed Optimist"...........................................................Jacque Sergent "Climb Ev'ry Mountain"...........................................................Kristy Balser "Sixteen Going on Seventeen".................................................Jacque Sergent "Younger than Springtime"........................................................Curt Spivey "I'm Gonna Wash that Man Right Outa My Hair"....................Women's Chorus Closing Medley..................................................................................All
"My
Favorite Things"/"I Whistle A Happy Tune"/"Happy
Talk"/ |
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COMPANY :Eric Holmes, Tiffany Johnson,
Teri Queen, Ashley Taylor |
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There will be no intermission. |
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Production Staff |
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Director....................................Stephen A. Schrum Musical Director.............................Joseph Janisch Costume Designer........................Dianna L. Bourke Assistant Director................................Carey Racer Additional Choreography.....................Brian Roller Set Construction....Tiffany
Johnson, Ashley Taylor, Scenic Painting............................. Tiffany Johnson Light Crew.........................................Dave Walters Makeup Crew.....................................Kristy Balser Costume Running Crew....................Elizabeth Hazlett |
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| Some students working on this show earned credits for
SPCH 313— Directing, SPCH 314—Play Production (which have
Leadership and Teamwork Portfolio Designations) or SPCH 350—Special
Topics: Theatre. |
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Acknowledgments: The Director, Cast and Crew would like to thank: |
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Janet Brightbill |
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ABOUT THE CAST |
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| Kristy Balser | is a senior Music Education major from Belle, WV. In the past, Kristy served as makeup crew for Peer Gynt, I Hate Hamlet, Whose Spouse and Merry Wives, walked—and talked—like a man for Mere Mortals (Speed-the-Play ). She also played and sang as Katherina Cavalieri in last spring's Amadeus. Previously, Kristy sang in a junior high school drama production entitled, You Can Be an Astronaut. |
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| Erin Coffman | is a sophomore Voice major
from Belle, WV, making her UC debut with this show. Past stage experience
includes the role of Belle in Beauty and The Beast, and singing in show choirs, churches and
clubs. Here at UC Erin is the Treasurer of KTE a member of SAA, Concert
Choir, University singers, and took first place in the UC Talent Show
in 2002. |
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| Heather Gill | from Richville, NY, previously
appeared in such roles as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and the Mother Abbess in The Sound of
Music. Here at UC, she has played the roles of
Mrs. Paige in The Merry Wives of Windsor and last semester as Costanze in Amadeus. A Junior Music major, Heather
is also President of the Concert Choir, a member of Theatre Aside, and
last year's recipient of the Tom Murphy Acting Excellence Award. |
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| Marianne Hall | is a sophomore Mass Comm/Business Management major from Elkview,
WV. Last year, she played the multiple personalities of Maria and Dr.
Fritz in Mere Mortals, and the Countess von Strack in Amadeus. She also appeared in a long list of productions at Capital
High, including Annie Get Your Gun, Snow White, Friday Night Live
2000 and 2001, and The Robber Bride Groom, among others. She
has also won awards for her work in Fantasy Make-up and Masks, and is
a member of the National Thespian Society and Theatre Aside. |
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| Elizabeth Hazlett | is a senior Music Education
major/Theatre minor from Pittsburgh, PA. On the UC stage, Liz has appeared
as Robin in Merry Wives, Carol in Speed the Play (Mere
Mortals), and the Cook and Ballet Dancer in Amadeus. She
is a member of Theatre Aside and Kappa Tau Epsilon and is also a Peer
Educator. |
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| Eric Joseph Ross Holmes | a senior Business Administration major
from Alexandria, VA, Eric made his stage debut two years ago as the
last minute stand-in Gratiano Forbisone in Whose Spouse, and has returned to our stage again
and again, as Slender in Merry Wives and Baron von Swieten in Amadeus. |
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Tiffany Ann Johnson |
is a sophomore Interior Design major from New Martinsville, WV. Last year she worked on crew for both Mere Mortals and Amadeus, and in high school she could be found in the musical pit, in the air hanging lights, and backstage building sets and running the fog machine. She took first place in a Drama Festival for Costume Design (Actual Production of Design) in May of 2001. |
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| Levi Johnston | has appeared twice on campus as royalty, playing a construction worker who believed
himself to be the son of Czar Nicholas II of Russia in Mere Mortals and as Joseph II, The Emperor, in
Amadeus. Levi lists previous roles as Guy Ketchum
in Love is Contagious, Doc Gibbs in Our Town, Dr. Seward in Dracula, and Eugene in Grease. A Junior Biology Pre-professional major
originally from Oklahoma City, OK and now living in Yawkey, WV, Levi
also sings bass in UC's Concert Choir, and is the President of Theatre
Aside. |
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| Ilse-Renee Moss | lists her points of origin
as Detroit, MI and Hurricane, WV, and previous theatrical experiences
in Cinderella and Into the Woods. President of UC's
Collegiate 4-H Club, a member of the UC Choir and University Singers
and the Baptist Campus Ministries member (BCM), she is a Sophomore Voice
and Piano major in the Music Program. |
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| Sarah Orrison | counts among her involvement
activities: the Welch Colleague program, Peer Educator, member of
Kappa Tau Epsilon, Student Ambassador, and Student Alumni League.
Prior to coming to UC, she was the Outstanding Performer at 1999 West
Virginia State Show Choir Festival, and Dance Captain of General Admission
Show Choir. Sarah is a Sophomore Language Arts Education major from
Winfield, WV. |
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| Teri Queen | is a senior History major from Terra Alta,
WV. She made her UC debut last year as Venticello 2 in the production
of Amadeus. She
is also Vice President of Student Ambassador Association, Vice President
of the Student Alumni League, and Vice President of the Social Science
Honorary Society, Pi Gamma Mu. A Welch Colleague, Teri works as an Intern
for the Office of Admissions and Records. |
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| Brian Roller | is a Psychology and Two-year Information Technology double-major,
graduating this semester (if he sings well enough!). Past roles onstage
here at UC include Count Orsini-Rosenberg in Amadeus, Horace the Mayfly and Tom in Mere
Mortals, Andrew
Rally in I Hate Hamlet, the title role in Peer Gynt, Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors, Don in All in the Timing (The Universal
Language),
Arlecchino in Whose Spouse, and Master Ford in Merry Wives here at UC, as well as Billy Crocker
in Anything Goes, Cord Elam in Oklahoma, and Edmund in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, all at Capital High. He also co-directed
David Ives' The Philadelphia, for which he received the 1998-99 Tom Murphy Award for
Directing. Two summers ago he worked as the Technical Director for The
Aracoma Story in Logan, and is the immediate past
President of Theatre Aside. |
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Jacque Sergent |
a native
of Charleston, WV, has appeared in many local productions including
Amadeus (as the signing Susanna), Ahmal and the Night Visitors, Carmen
and Carmina Burana (West Virginia
Symphony Orchestra), Jesus Christ Superstar, Mary, Romeo and Juliet,
American Paradise and Hair (CYAC)
and A Midsummer Night's Dream (CADRE).
Jacque is a Music Education/ Performance major. |
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Curt Spivey |
from
Columbus, OH, graduated from the Ohio State University
in 1992 with a degree in Astronomy, and is currently the planetarium
coordinator for Sunrise Museum.. Though a relative newcomer to acting
(as a Policeman in the local production of Pirates of Penzance and as Figaro and the Masked Figure in Amadeus ), Curt has performed with the OSU Men's Glee Club and
the West Virginia Symphony Chorus. |
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| Ashley Taylor | is a junior Mass Communication major (with minors in English and
Theatre) from Charleston, WV. In previous UC productions, Ashley served
as assistant director for Amadeus, and as stage manager, set construction crew, audio running crew on
Amadeus, Mere Mortals and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She is also very active on campus, as President
of the Mass Communications Club, VP of Communications for the Student
Government Association, Managing Editor and Advertisement Manager and
Managing Editor for The Eagle, member of the Athletic Committee and
a Kanawha Co. UC Scholar. When not at UC, she often serves several functions
in the KCS TV Studio. |
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Scott Weimer |
is a freshman History major with numerous
theatre credits before coming to UC, including roles in Mr. Roberts,
Man of La Mancha, Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph and the amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, 1776, west Side Story, Twelve Angry Men, The Music Man, Oliver and Annie. Scott comes to us from Baltimore, MD. |
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PRODUCTION CREW |
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Dave Walters |
is no
stranger to our tech booth, having worked our last several shows as
light and sound operator. A member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity and
a competitor last year for the title MR. UC, Dave is a Mass Comm major
scheduled to graduate in May. |
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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION STAFF |
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Stephen A. Schrum (Director) |
holds a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Berkeley and has worked in every aspect of the theatre.
To date he has had several of his own plays produced, including four
one-acts (including productions in Australia) and his adaptation of
Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt (here at UC) and Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis/Tauris
(at the Penn State Hazleton Campus). Last year Steve directed
the Seneca Chamber Orchestras production of The Pirates of Penzance.
Steve is also the editor of Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching,
Acting and Directing. As Co-ordinator of the Mass Communications
program (and the Theatre Minor!), Chair of the Communication Roundtable,
and a member of the Curriculum Committee here at UC, Steve is looking
forward to teaching both the Digital Cinema and Acting (for non-majors)
courses in the spring. |
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| Dr. Dianna L. Bourke (Costume Designer) | teaches Human Anatomy & Physiology
and other upper-division courses in the UC Dept. of Natural Sciences.
When not teaching and mentoring her many students, she also serves on
the Curriculum Committee, the Budget Committee, and the Colleague Committee.
Dianna received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine and did Postdoctoral work at the University of California,
Davis. While at Penn State as an undergrad, Dianna completed 15 credits
in theatre, with a concentration in costume design, and served as costume
designer (and set dressing/costume co-ordinator for The Best Man at KP) for Dr.
Schrum's productions over the last eleven years. Dianna has found production
meetings much easier since she lives with the director. Incidentally,
they are married, but neither changed their last names. |
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| Joseph Janisch (Musical Director) | is the Chair of the Humanities Dept.,
Director of Choral Activities, and Assistant Professor of Music here
at UC, where he conducts the Concert Choir and University Singers, and
teaches courses in Conducting, Music Education, and Aural Skills. Joe
also conducts the WV Sym-phony Chorus, preparing two major choral works
annually in addition to preparing the Opera Chorus for a fully staged
opera. Joe received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The Ohio State
University, a Master of Music degree from Bowling Green, and a Bachelor
of Music Degree from Ashland (Ohio) University. As a conductor, Joe
has led a variety of choral ensembles including mixed choirs, men's
and women's choruses, and chamber ensembles. While serving as a Graduate
Teaching Associate at OSU Janisch directed the University Chorus, Men's
Glee Club, and Symphonic Choir. As a church musician, Joe has served
as Director of Music, choir director, and bell choir director at North
Community Evangelical, Hope, and Saint John's Lutheran churches. His
teaching credentials include courses taught at OSU, Bowling Green, and
Buckeye Central Local Schools where he was a kindergarten through twelfth-grade
vocal music teacher for fourteen years. |
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| Mary Beth Norman (Accompanist) | received her B.A. from West Virginia
University Institute of Technology and her M.A. from Marshall University.
A union musician, Mart Beth has played with the Huntington Symphony
and the West Virginia Symphony. Here at UC she teaches piano and percussion. |
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Director's Notes |
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Last year, Joe Janisch suggested that we consider staging
something by Rodgers and Hammerstein, since 2002 is Richard Rodgers'
Centennial year (the hundredth anniversary of his birth). After discussing
various possibilities, we decided to combine our efforts on the musical
revue, Some Enchanted Evening. In the spring semester and over the summer, when students
asked, "What show are we doing in the fall?" I told them.
Of course, I received many quizzical looks. I have a well-known reputation
for not liking many Broadway musicals. In spite of my enjoyment of Les
Miserables, Sweeney Todd
and, most recently, The Producers,
this is pretty accurate. I have often threatened to stage Annie Get
Your Gun with Annie
shooting Frank, instead of losing to him to gain his love. If he can't
love her along with her talent and abilities, he doesn't deserve her.
For me, too many musicals are like this: old-fashioned, and extolling
behaviors and attitudes that seem out of place in the 21st
Century, in a world greatly changed since September 11, 2001. At the same time, these songs, the results of Rodgers
and Hammerstein's collaboration, can alleviate our fears, lift us out
of the everyday, mundane world, and remind us that, even in the midst
of chaos, the human spirit can soar, in work and in song, to create
order, beauty and art. One challenge in this show came with presenting a number
of songs that audience members may know from the shows they come from,
and yet here are out of context. We hope that the framing device we
use, with transitional material developed through improv in rehearsal
and written by the cast, creates an entertaining setting for the songs. Incidentally, if I may steal the "anniversary spotlight"
from Rodgers for a moment, this show marks my quarter-century of doing
theatre. One night, while rehearsing with the Ensemble in the ballroom,
I had a recurrence of that feeling I have with every show I work on.
I stood there, witnessing the intensity of the performers, and once
again was reminded why I do theatre. It's still fun. And I hope I can
continue to do theatre for a long time to come. Enjoy the show!
—Steve Schrum |
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Audience members are requested to refrain
from taking |
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