SILENCSEIC!AL U M E H T
MUSIC AND LYRICS BY JON AND AL KAPLAN BELL R E T N HU BOOK BY PAUL N A L A Y B D E DIRECT
PRODUCTION STAFF Assistant Stage Managers HANNAH MITCHELL+ JACK RILEY+ ABI DILA VEGA Sound Mixer MACKENZIE ELLIS Assistant to Music Director ALEX GREENBERG Assistant to Choreographer MACKENZIE NEWBURY+ Dance Captain WOOD VAN METER+ Electrics Intern/ Light Board Operator ARTHUR COHEN Properties Intern CAMILA MONROY Production Intern SUSANNAH CLARK
Original Off Broadway Direction & Choreography and Stage Direction by Christopher Gattelli. Silence! The Musical is produced by special arrangement with the Playwright and Theater Mogul, 240 W 44th St, New York, NY 10036. Originally produced Off Broadway in New York City by Victoria Lang, Rich Affannato, Donna Trinkoff.
Silence! The Musical is a professional production employing members of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), and United Scenic Artists (USA).
Studio Theatre is grateful to Judy and Stephen Hopkins for their support of this production.
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MUSIC & LYRICS BY JON KAPLAN AND AL KAPLAN BOOK BY HUNTER BELL BASED ON THE SCREENPLAY “SILENCE! THE MUSICAL” BY JON KAPLAN AND AL KAPLAN
ARTISTIC TEAM Director Choreographer Music Director Set Designer Costume Designer Lighting Designer Sound Designer Projection Designer Production Stage Manager
ALAN PAUL JESSICA BETH REDISH CHRISTOPHER YOUSTRA JASON SHERWOOD FRANK LABOVITZ ANDREW CISSNA LANE ELMS ADRIAN ROONEY ALLIE ROY
Silence! The Musical will be performed without an intermission.
Beginning July 15, 2015 in Stage 4.
SILENCE! THE MUSICAL CAST Clarice Jack Crawford Dr. Chilton Dream Clarice Officer Pembry Ardelia Hannibal Lecter Buffalo Bill Catherine Dream Hannibal
LAURA JORDAN* JOHN LOUGHNEY ALAN NAYLOR+ MACKENZIE NEWBURY+ NEIL RUSHNOCK+ AWA SAL SECKA+ TALLY SESSIONS* TOM STORY* HAYLEY TRAVERS+ WOOD VAN METER+
THE BAND Conductor/Keyboard 1 Drums Keyboard 2 Bass
CHRISTOPHER YOUSTRA MARK CARSON ALEX GREENBERG YUSEF CHISHOLM
UNDERSTUDIES Ardelia, Catherine, Dream Clarice Jack Crawford, Dr. Chilton, Pembry, Dream Hannibal Hannibal Lecter Clarice Buffalo Bill
MATINA PHILLIPS CHRIS RUDY+ NEIL RUSHNOCK+ HAYLEY TRAVERS+ WOOD VAN METER+
*Member Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States +Equity Membership Candidate
CREATORS JON KAPLAN AND AL KAPLAN (Music and Lyrics) created Silence! The Musical, a stage version of The Silence of the Lambs that has played in London, New York City, and Los Angeles, as well as the YouTube channel Legolambs, which features musicalizations of various Arnold Schwarzenegger movies such as Conan the Barbarian, Predator, and Commando. Jon and Al also co-wrote and scored the film Zombeavers (2014). They composed the music for G4’s cartoon series Code Monkeys, arranged Andy Samberg’s “Lonely Island Medley” for the MTV Movies Awards, and scored the Syfy Channel original films Piranhaconda and Dinocroc vs. Supergator.
HUNTER BELL (Book) earned a Tony nomination for Best Book of a Musical, an OBIE Award, a Drama League nomination, and a GLAAD Media nomination for the original Broadway musical [title of show]. Other credits include the books for Silence! The Musical (Lucille Lortel Nomination for Best Musical, Outstanding Musical NY Fringe Festival), Found (Atlantic Theater, Drama Desk Nomination for Best Book), Now.Here. This. (Vineyard Theatre), Bellobration! (Ringling Bros. Circus), Villains Tonight! (Disney Cruise Lines), Julie Andrews’ The Great American Mousical (Goodspeed), and the upcoming Other World. He is a co-creator of the web series the [title of show] show and has developed television with ABC Studios and Cherry-Wind Productions. He is a proud graduate and distinguished alumnus of Webster University’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writers Guild, and a MacDowell Fellow.
CAST LAURA JORDAN (Clarice) BROADWAY: original companies of CryBaby and In My Life. NEW YORK: Kathy Griffin in Perez Hilton Saves the Universe!, Ronnie in .22 Caliber Mouth (dir. Diane Paulus), Coral in Glimpses of the Moon. REGIONAL: The Great American Mousical at Goodspeed (dir. Julie Andrews), Company at Bucks County Playhouse (dir. Hunter Foster). TELEVISION/FILM: Glee, The Big C, Submissions Only, A Gifted Man, Admission, The Jimmy Show, A Case of You, creator of the new web series OTP: One True Pairing (Season 1 available on YouTube). JOHN LOUGHNEY (Jack Crawford) DC AREA: The Full Monty (Helen Hayes nomination, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical), RENT, Working, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, National Pastime, Keegan Theatre; The Secret Garden, Gutenberg! The Musical!, Into the Woods, NextStop Theatre Company; Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Creative Cauldron; The Last Five Years, 1st Stage & Limelight Theatre; The Rocky Horror Show, Savoyards; Celebrate Broadway, The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: BA Theater Arts, Dickinson College.
ALAN NAYLOR (Dr. Chilton) REGIONAL: A Chorus Line, Godspell, Singin’ in the Rain, Roman Holiday, Miss Saigon, The Muny; Thoroughly Modern Millie, McLeod Playhouse. DC AREA: Jacques Brel… (Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical), Creative Cauldron; Bat Boy (Helen Hayes nomination for Best Ensemble), 1st Stage; Les Misérables, Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia. EDUCATION: MM, Washington University in St. Louis; BM, St. Olaf College. UPCOMING: Caps for Sale, Adventure Theatre. MACKENZIE NEWBURY (Dream Clarice) REGIONAL: 42nd Street and Oklahoma, Allenberry Playhouse. DC AREA: Carousel and Sweet Charity, The Catholic University of America. TRAINING: Capital Area School for the Arts. EDUCATION: BM in Musical Theatre, The Catholic University of America. NEIL RUSHNOCK (Officer Pembry) REGIONAL: The Producers (ensemble), Fiddler on the Roof (fiddler), VA Rep; Night Beats & Deck the Halls (dancer), Busch Gardens Williamsburg. DC AREA: Legally Blonde (ensemble), Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia; Avenue Q (Rod), Silhouette Stages; 2007 Gene Kelly Award Scholarship Winner. TRAINING: 2014 Overtures at Signature Theatre. EDUCATION: BFA Musical Theatre from Point Park University. AWA SAL SECKA (Ardelia) REGIONAL: National Tour of BIG NATE the Musical, Adventure Theatre MTC. DC AREA: Avenue Q, Olney Theatre Center; Holly Bass Presents: Flock 01, National Museum of African Art; You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Skin of Our Teeth, Once in This Island, Big Love, Lucky Stiff, The Unmentionables, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Rent, Robert E. Parilla Performing Arts Center; Brigadoon, AIDA, Hairspray, The Wiz, Montgomery College Summer Dinner Theater. TRAINING: Lisa Carrier Baker, KenYatta Rogers, Susan Hoffman. EDUCATION: AA in Theatre Performance from Montgomery College, Rockville Campus; BA in Theatre (in progress) from The University of Maryland. TALLY SESSIONS (Hannibal Lecter) BROADWAY: Big Fish, The House of Blue Leaves. TOURS: South Pacific, Legally Blonde, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. OFF BROADWAY: Giant (Public Theater), Queen of the Mist (Transport Group), Yank! (York), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Godspell. REGIONAL: Holiday Inn, Carousel, Goodspeed Opera House; South Pacific, Spamalot, The Muny; Robin and the Seven Hoods, The Old Globe; The Immigrant, Westport Country Playhouse; South Pacific, Paper Mill Playhouse; The Full Monty, Theatre Aspen; Chess, Arvada Center; Floyd Collins, Actors’ Playhouse. DC AREA: Carousel, Olney Theatre Center; Assassins, The Gospel According to Fishman, Signature Theatre. TELEVISION: Elementary. AWARDS: Henry Award, 2 Carbonell Awards. TOM STORY (Buffalo Bill) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Terminus (director), Moth (director), POP!. STUDIO THEATRE: The Wolfe Twins, The Invention of Love, A Number, The Pillowman. DC AREA: Affiliated Artist at Shakespeare Theatre Company, where credits include Design for Living, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, Major Barbara, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum; Folger Theatre, Arena Stage, Round House Theatre, The Hub, and Ford’s Theatre. REGIONAL: Seattle Rep, Missouri Rep, Provincetown Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, and eleven seasons at The Berkshire Theatre Festival, where he recently directed Design for Living. EDUCATION/TRAINING: Duke University, The Juilliard School, Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory.
HAYLEY TRAVERS (Catherine) STUDIO THEATRE: Murder Ballad (Narrator u/s). NEW YORK: Shamrock City (workshop), Irish Arts Center. REGIONAL: I’ll Be Seeing You, Fairfax Symphony Orchestra; Paul Bunyan and Pals, West Virginia Symphony; American Songbook Hall of Fame Concert, Palladium Theater, Indiana. DC AREA: Children of Eden, The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: BA Musical Theater, American University. WOOD VAN METER (Dream Hannibal) REGIONAL: Gypsy, James & The Giant Peach, Hangar Theatre; Les Miserables, Weathervane Playhouse; The Sound of Music, Pittsburgh Musical Theater; The Rocky Horror Show, Greensburg Palace Theater; The Fantasticks, Rabbit Hole, Actor’s Guild of Lexington. DC AREA: Elmer Gantry, Cloak & Dagger, Revenge of the Understudies 2014, Signature Theatre; The Whale, Rep Stage; Sinbad: The Untold Tale, Wiley & The Hairy Man, Imagination Stage. EDUCATION: BFA Point Park University.
ARTISTIC TEAM ALAN PAUL (Director) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. DC AREA: Man of La Mancha, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Boys From Syracuse, Free For All Revivals of Twelfth Night and The Winter’s Tale, Associate Director for Henry IV (directed by Michael Kahn) and As You Like It (directed by Michael Attenborough), Shakespeare Theatre Company; I Am My Own Wife, Signature Theatre; Penny, Washington National Opera; operas for Urban Arias and the In-Series; and productions for The University of Maryland and Catholic University. INTERNATIONAL: 2013 Finalist for the European Opera Directing Prize (Vienna, Austria). AWARDS: Helen Hayes Award for Best Director of a Musical. TEACHING: Washington National Opera Young Artists Program. EDUCATION: Northwestern University. JESSICA BETH REDISH (Choreographer) NEW YORK: Adding Machine: A Musical (Movement Director), The Act at 54 Below, NY Musical Theatre Festival, Musical Theatre Factory. REGIONAL: House Theatre of Chicago, Ravinia Festival, Writers Theatre, American Theater Company/About Face Theatre, First Stage, The Music Theatre Company (Jeff Nomination for Outstanding Choreography – PIPPIN); choreography for new work by Billy Corgan. TELEVISION: “Gentleman’s Rule,” PBS; Music Video: Jess Godwin, Janelle Kroll. EDUCATION: Northwestern University. CHRISTOPHER YOUSTRA (Music Director) STUDIO THEATRE: Adding Machine: A Musical. STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Jerry Springer: The Opera, Passing Strange, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, POP!. TOURS: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Europe & Korea). DC AREA: Olney Theatre Center (Associate Artistic Director), Ford’s Theatre, Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, Imagination Stage, Adventure Theatre MTC, The Kennedy Center, Toby’s Dinner Theatre. AWARDS: 2008 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Musical Director, nine Helen Hayes nominations. OTHER: Compositions include Home (for the re-opening of the ATLAS), Big Nate (Samuel French), and music for the Helen Hayes Awards and the Summer Hummer.
JASON SHERWOOD (Set Designer) STUDIO THEATRE: Choir Boy. REGIONAL: Company and National Pastime (Bucks County Playhouse); Jasper In Deadland (Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre); The Circus in Winter (Goodspeed); The C.A. Lyons Project (Alliance Theatre); Cake Off (Signature Theatre, upcoming); Paint Your Wagon (5th Avenue Theatre, upcoming); Songbird (Off Broadway, 59E59, upcoming). HONORS: LiveDesign Magazine “Young Designer to Watch” and a USITT Rising Designer Award Finalist. EDUCATION: NYU. FRANK LABOVITZ (Costume Design) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Astro Boy and the God of Comics, Mojo. STUDIO THEATRE: Laugh, Torch Song Trilogy, Dirt. LOCAL: Cabaret, The Threepenny Opera (Helen Hayes nomination), Dreamgirls (Helen Hayes recipient), Signature Theatre; NSFW, Ordinary Days, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Round House Theatre; The Totalitarians (Helen Hayes nomination), You For Me For You, Mr. Burns, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company; Doctor Caligari, Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet, Pointless Theatre Company. ANDREW CISSNA (Lighting Designer) STUDIO THEATRE: Murder Ballad. REGIONAL: Milwaukee Rep, Playmakers Rep, Perseverance Theatre. DC AREA: Round House Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Theater J, Ford’s Theatre, Imagination Stage, Forum, Adventure Theatre. AWARDS: Helen Hayes nominations for 1984 and Sex with Strangers. TEACHING: University of Maryland. EDUCATION: BFA, UNC School of the Arts; MFA, University of Maryland. LANE ELMS (Sound Design) DC AREA: Cabaret, Kid Victory, Diner, Elmer Gantry, Sunday in the Park with George, Cloak and Dagger, Beaches, Crossing, Brother Wolf, Signature Theatre. ASSISTANT DESIGN: Tobacco Road, Jelly’s Last Jam. BROADWAY ENGINEER: Hair (tour). NATIONAL TOUR ENGINEER: Sister Act, Mary Poppins, Hair, The Color Purple, Go Diego Go Live!. REGIONAL ENGINEER: A Christmas Carol, Next To Normal, I Dream, Class Of 3000, Smart Cookie, Sleuth, Jesus Christ Superstar Gospel, Degas’ Little Dancer, Sophisticated Ladies, Gem of The Ocean/Radio Golf, Seussical, In The Red and Brown Water, Curvy Widow, The Women of Brewster Place. EDUCATION: University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 2006 (Sound Design). ADRIAN ROONEY (Projection Designer) STUDIO 2NDSTAGE: Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love, Terminus, and Edgar & Annabel (lighting design). STUDIO THEATRE: Torch Song Trilogy (projection design), The Motherfucker with the Hat (projection design), Sucker Punch (projection design). DC AREA: Truth the Musical, THEARC Theater (lighting design); Discovery on the High Seas: Austin Clark and the Expedition Albatross and Q?rius at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. REGIONAL: Celebration of Flight: IBEX Puppetry at RISD; Miss Richfield: 1981 at Philadelphia’s Society Hill Playhouse; Last Rites at The South Camden Theatre Company. ALLIE ROY (Production Stage Manager) STUDIO THEATRE: Murder Ballad. NATIONAL TOUR: 1st National Tour of Young Frankenstein. REGIONAL: Legally Blonde, The Producers, Sound of Music, 1776, 42nd Street, Cats, among others (Cabrillo Music Theatre); Broadway Bound, Ring of Fire (La Mirada Theatre); Bells are Ringing, Ben Franklin in Paris (Musical Theatre West); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare LA). DC AREA: Diner, Elmer Gantry (Signature Theatre); Boy Meets Girl, and Other Dilemmas (Capitol Fringe). EDUCATION: UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television. Proud Member of Actor’s Equity.
E C N E L SI TIMELINE
1981-200 6 Thomas Harris published his four-part Hannibal Lecter saga: Red Dragon (1981), Silence of the Lambs (1988), Hannibal (1999), and Hannibal Rising (2006).
03 0 2 / 2 0 20 Composers Jon and Al Kaplan created Silence! The Musical, which began as a set of nine songs. After earning a cult following online, they composed additional music and wrote an “Airplane-style screenplay� that was adapted for the stage by Hunter Bell.
992 1991-1 Silence of the Lambs was adapted for film and received five Academy Awards in 1992, including Best Picture.
2005 Silence! The Musical premiered at the FringeNYC Festival and received the award for Outstanding Musical.
2011-2013 Silence! The Musical held its two-year Off Broadway run and received the Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical in 2012.
2013 The popular television program, Hannibal, premiered on NBC.
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