Last 5 Years Program by Significant Productions, Inc

“We are so excited to launch our inaugural season at The Studio Theatre™. This season’s selected scripts follow a common theme, “A Model Home: Peer Beyond the Façade.” It features four stories of seemingly perfect homes and the lengths these characters go through to hold these homes and their lives together. What we observe from the outside is a perfect house, but if you just peer through the shaded window, you’ll find that things are not so perfect after all.”

—Whitney Morse, Artistic Director

ABOUT THE STUDIO THEATRE™:

Tierra del Sol was formally a Country Club with performances as a backdrop to the outstanding food and impeccable golf course views. It has since transitioned, bringing the performances to the forefront by evolving into a new black box theatre. The Studio Theatre™ is now a flexible theatre with ninety-nine seats and options for Thrust, Round, or Proscenium style seating. There will be 100 performances total in the inaugural season (25 performances per each of the 4 shows), that will commence from November 2016 through April 2017.

The Studio Theatre is an extension of The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center™, located in The Spanish Springs Town Square™, in The Villages® Community. The Sharon® is primarily a touring house hosting a variety of artistic disciplines ranging from concerts and comedians to dance, musicals, and operas. The Sharon seats just over 1,000 guests in a multi-level theater offering state of the art audio, visual, and theatrical rigging systems to create an entertainment experience second to none.

The Studio Theatre will be staffed by The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center’s employees as well as a few new members. The Sharon’s Educational Director, Trevin Cooper will direct three out of the four shows (Private Lives, The Last 5 Years, and Proof) the Artistic Director, Whitney Morse will appear in three of the plays (as Diana in Next to Normal, Cathy in The Last Five Years, and Claire in Proof) while Technical Director, Kenneth Constant; Lighting Director, Dan Hopper; and Audio Director, Eric Mielke will be designing the entire season. Gary Powell will be jumping from The Sharon to The Studio Theatre as Musical Director. The team is excited to produce its own work.

THE LAST 5 YEARS

Written and Composed by JASON ROBERT BROWN

Originally Produced for the New York stage by Arielle Tepper and Marty Bell

Originally Produced by Northlight Theatre, Chicago, IL

Director Trevin

Produced by Jason Goedken

Sound Designer

Mielke

Production

Scenic Artist Virginia McKinney

THE LAST 5 YEARS is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI, 421 West 54th Street, New York, NY 10019

Tel.: (212) 541-4684 Fax: (212) 397-4684 www.MTIShows.com

THE LAST 5 YEARS

If I didn't believe in you we wouldn't be having this fight. With music and lyrics by three-time Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown, The Last 5 Years follows the characters of Jamie (an upcoming novelist) and his girlfriend/ fiancé/wife, Cathy (a struggling actress). This powerful and intimate musical explores the journey of a young New York couple who succeed, struggle and succumb to the challenges and charms of married life. Utilizing a divergent plot structure, this two character musical simultaneously demonstrates a budding romance and a dissolving marriage. Follow Jaime's story in chronological order as it crashes into Cathy's side of the story told in reverse chronological order. See the Drama Desk award winning musical once named by Time Magazine as one of the ten best shows of the year!

STILL TO COME THIS SEASON:

PROOF | APRIL 7th - APRIL 30th

The house where genius and insanity collide. Catherine is the daughter of a brilliant, but mentally disturbed mathematician, trying to come to grips with her possible inheritance: both his brilliance and his insanity. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk Awards' Playwright, David Auburn's Proof currently holds the record for the longest running Broadway play of the 21st century. The final offering in The Studio Theatre at Tierra del Sol's inaugural season, see the play that has garnered more awards and critical praise than any other play of its time.

SEASON 2 SUBSCRIPTIONS:

May 10th Season 2 will be Announced

May 16th Season 2 Subscription Renewals will go on sale at 8:30am

Sept 5th Deadline to Renew Subscriptions

Sept 12th New Subscriptions will go on sale at 8:30am

Sept 19th Individual Tickets will go on sale at 8:30am

CAST

WHITNEY MORSE (Cathy) Whitney is so excited to be a part of The Studio’s inaugural season. Central Florida Theatre credits include Diana in Next To Normal here at The Studio, The Science Play Festival's reading of Arcadia, The Secret Garden, and 1776 (Mad Cow Theatre.) Her recent Chicago credits include Next To Normal (Skokie Theatre), Other Desert Cities (Citadel Theatre), The Children’s Hour (Pride Films and Plays), Spike Heels (Brown Paper Box), Down Range (Genesis Theatricals), Trafford Tanzi and I Carry Your Heart (Prologue Theatre Company), Accomplice (Jedlicka Performing Arts Center), The Turn of the Screw, Jeeves at Sea, Unnecessary Farce and The Merchant of Venice (First Folio Theater), and Little Women (Theatre-Hikes). New York credits: Hold Music (Culture Project,) and Love’s Labour’s Lost and Three Sister’s (both directed by Andrei Serban.) Whitney is also the Artistic Director of The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center and The Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol. BA Psychology - Rollins College, MFA Acting - Columbia University School of the Arts.

BRIAN ZEALAND

(Jamie) Originally from Omaha, Nebraska, Brian Zealand has been seen on stages across the nation. After studying at the University of South Dakota, Brian went back to Omaha where he performed at the Blue Barn Theatre (Mike in 33 Variations, Georg in Spring Awakening, Peter in Bug ), the Omaha Community Playhouse (Ash in Evil Dead The Musical ), and toured with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan's production of A Christmas Carol as Jacob Marley. Most recently Brian was seen here at The Studio Theatre as Dan in Next to Normal and Elyot Chase in Private Lives . After the season, Brian will head back to Chicago where he has resided for two years.

LAUREN

CULVER

(U/S Cathy) Lauren Culver holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Millikin University (Decatur, IL). She has worked regionally all over the country, and is happy to now call Orlando her home. She spends her days performing at Universal Studios Florida, singing, dancing, acting, and helping create magic in one of her favorite fictional worlds. You may recognize Lauren from The Studio Theatre's most recent production of Private Lives in which she starred as Amanda. Credits include: Blanche Barrow, Bonnie and Clyde (Garden Theatre, Fall 2016); Betty Hudson, White Christmas (Showpalace); Vibrata, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Theatrezone); Lulu/Chanteuse Cabaret (Gen Y Productions); Sister Sophia, The Sound of Music (Porthouse Theatre); Woman 2, And The World Goes Round (Porthouse Theatre). She is absolutely thrilled to be a part of The Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol's first season, and thanks every single one of you for your patronage. You help keep theatre alive! www.laurenculver.weebly.com

SCOTTY TOMAS

(U/S Jamie) A native to Florida, Scotty Tomas began his talents at a young age with the Sunshine Generation Children’s Performing Group, touring many different venues in the southeast region. Completing studies at the College of Central Florida, Scotty now resides in Tampa and will attend The University of Tampa this fall, starting their BFA program in musical theatre. Favorite community, academy, and professional credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Hello Dolly, All Shook Up, Grease, The Baker’s Wife, High School Musical, Once Upon A Mattress, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Peter Pan, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, The Merry Widow, and many more. He is currently a Resident Artist with the Central Florida Lyric Opera, where he had the pleasurable invite to share the stage with Patti LuPone in her One Woman show for the inauguration of The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center in 2015. Scotty is no stranger to The Villages and is thrilled to work with the talented family and team of The Sharon and the new The Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol.

DIRECTOR

TREVIN COOPER (Director) Trevin Cooper serves as the Director of Education for the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center and Resident Director for The Studio Theatre at Tierra Del Sol where he most recently directed Private Lives. Previous directing credits include: Lend Me a Tenor, The Miracle Worker, The 39 Steps, The American Plan, The Last Five Years, Art, Always…Patsy Cline, and 9/11: We Will Forget, voted one of the top 10 plays of the 2012 Orlando Fringe Festival. He holds an M.F.A from The University of Central Florida, an M.A. from The University of Oklahoma, and a B.A. from Rollins College.

MUSICAL DIRECTOR

GARY POWELL (Music Director) Gary has been musically directing and staging shows for over 30 years in Texas, Chicago, New York City, and now Central Florida. Select standouts of Gary’s career include Sound of Music, Godspell, Brigadoon, South Pacific, and regionally Sweet Charity and Next to Normal at the Skokie Theatre. He has worked on several world premiere productions including: Tomorrow Morning and Scotch Verdict. While directing in Chicago, Gary was nominated for several Jeff Awards for the following productions: Jerry Springer-The Opera, Thrill Me, Adam’s Family, Opus 1861, The Baker’s Wife, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Evolution/Creation, and Cats among several others. Gary currently serves as the resident Music Director for both The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center and The Studio Theatre Tierra Del Sol.