Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Don Black
ABOUT THE STUDIO THEATRE™:
Tierra del Sol was formerly 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 intimate seating and options for Thrust, Round, Alley or Proscenium style seating. The Studio Theatre at Tierra del Sol’s season runs from October through April each year with four productions running approximately 140 total performances.
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 is led by Producer, Jason Goedken and Artistic Director, Whitney Morse. Trevin Cooper serves as Resident Director, with Technical Director, Preston Speaker; Set Designer, Kenneth Constant; Lighting Designer, Weston Corey; Production Manager, Danielle Paccione; Stage Manager, Abigale Bobb; House Manager, Grace Petty and Gary Powell as Resident Music Director.
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TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics by Don Black
Produced by Jason Goedken
Artistic Director
Whitney Morse Director Trevin Cooper Music Director Gary Powell
Set Designer Kenneth Constant
Production Manager Danielle Paccione
Technical Director Preston Speaker
Lighting Designer Weston Corey Costume Designer Rich Najuch Stage Manager Abigale Bobb
House Manager Grace Petty Company Manager Autumn Encarnacion
Tell Me On A Sunday is presented by arrangement with The Musical Company, LP, 214 Sullivan Street, Ste. 4, New York, NY, 10012-1354. www.themusicalcompany.com Phone: (212)-598-2204. Email: info@themusicalcompany.com
The video and/or audio recording or streaming of this production, and the distribution of recordings or streams in any medium, including via the internet is strictly prohibited.
TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
Dreams Never Run on Time.
UPCOMING PERFORMANCES:
From the composer of The Phantom of the Opera and Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's intimate one person musical, Tell Me on a Sunday, follows the heartfelt and comedic journey of a character known only as "Girl." Fresh from her native England, this sweet, ambitious, gullible heroine attempts to navigate life and romance in the beautiful, sometimes blistering, streets of New York City. Along the way, she will learn how to love the most important person in her life, herself. HEAR
HEAR MY SONGS: THE MUSIC OF JASON ROBERT BROWN
OPENING: MAY 25th
CLOSING: MAY 30th
$35 Performances
$25 VIP Package Add On
VIP Packages includes:
Post-show Meet & Greet with photo opportunity with Performers Talk Back with Performers
First choice of seats (early entrance to theatre, 6:15pm)
A thrilling concert celebrating the works of three-time Tony Award winner, Jason Robert Brown. Brown is best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and Parade, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score. This exclusive event features a stellar cast of rising Broadway talent and outstanding musicians performing songs from The Last Five Years, Songs for a New World, Parade, Honeymoon in Vegas, Urban Cowboy, 13, and The Bridges of Madison County. Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his "extraordinary, jubilant theater music" (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world. Join us for an unforgettable evening at The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol.
WHITNEY MORSE (Girl) was last seen at The Studio Theatre in Company, Frankie & Johnny, Next To Normal, The Last Five Years, Proof, and Songs for a New World. Her Central Florida Theatre credits include The Secret Garden, 1776 and Big River (Mad Cow Theatre), The Giver (Orlando REP). Chicago: 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). Whitney is the Artistic Director of The Sharon and The Studio Theatre. MFA Acting - Columbia University School of the Arts. www.whitneymorse.com
ALYSON JOHNSON (US/Girl) has performed for 15 years in Central Florida regional and community theatres. Some favorites include Next to Normal (The Studio Theatre); Bonnie & Clyde (Garden Theatre); Young Frankenstein, Beyond Therapy, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Into the Woods, Man of La Mancha (Moonlight Players, Clermont FL); Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Noises Off, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Bay Street Players, Eustis FL). University of Central Florida, Business Administration (2001) and Political Science (2019). She is thrilled to return to The Studio Theatre and thanks her family for their love, support, and encouragement.
DIRECTOR
TREVIN COOPER (Director) serves as the Director of Education for the Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center and Resident Director for The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol. Previous directing credits include: RED, Bad Jews, Songs for a New World, Proof, The Last Five Years, Private Lives, Lend Me a Tenor, The Miracle Worker, The 39 Steps, The American Plan, 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) has been musically directing and staging shows for over 30 years in Texas, Chicago, New York City, and now Central Florida. Gary currently serves as the Resident Music Director for both The Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center and The Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol. Gary is proud to have been the Music Director since the inaugural season of The Studio Theatre and has worked with such talented actors and musicians for Next to Normal, The Last Five Years, Songs For a New World and Company. 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: American Premier of Jerry Springer-The Opera, Thrill Me, Addam's Family, Opus 1861, The Baker's Wife, Kiss of The Spider Woman, Evolution/Creation, and Cats among several others. Gary has recently been nominated for Best Music Direction by BroadwayWorld for Next to Normal, The Last Five Years, and Songs for a New World. He is excited to be working with his friends Whitney and Trevin on the project.
MUSIC
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER When Sunset Boulevard joined School of Rock – The Musical, Cats and Phantom on Broadway in February 2017 he became the only person to equal the record set in 1953 by Rodgers and Hammerstein with four shows running concurrently.
As well as The Phantom Of The Opera and Cats, his productions include the groundbreaking Bombay Dreams, which introduced the double Oscar-winning Bollywood composer AR Rahman to the Western stage. His awards, both as composer and producer, include seven Tonys, seven Oliviers, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, the Praemium Imperiale, the Richard Rodgers Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre, a BASCA Fellowship, the Kennedy Center Honor and a Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition for Requiem, his setting of the Latin Requiem mass which contains one of his best-known compositions, “Pie Jesu.” He owns seven London theatres including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Palladium.
He was knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 1992 and created a life peer in 1997. He is passionate about the importance of music in education and the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has become one of Britain’s leading charities supporting the arts and music. In 2016 the Foundation funded a major new national initiative which endowed the American Theatre Wing with a $1.3 million, three-year grant to support theatre education opportunities for underserved young people and public schools across the U.S.
LYRICS
DON BLACK They first joined forces to write the song cycle Tell Me On A Sunday which developed to form the basis of the stage show Song and Dance. They were reunited again for Aspects of Love. He also wrote the lyrics for the Andrew Lloyd Webberproduced Bombay Dreams. Awards include an Oscar for his song “Born Free,” five Academy Award nominations, two Tony Awards and three Tony nominations, six Ivor Novello Awards, a Golden Globe and many platinum and gold discs. He has written a quintet of James Bond theme songs: “Thunderball,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “The Man With The Golden Gun,” “Surrender” from Tomorrow Never Dies and “The World Is Not Enough.” Among his many popular songs are two U.S. number ones, “Ben” for Michael Jackson and “To Sir With Love for Lulu.” He was inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008 and recently honoured in London with a BMI Icon award. Don also received the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s honours list. Don’s latest musical is Mrs Henderson Presents, which opens in Toronto in March 2017. Don is also a regular broadcaster and has his own show on Radio Two.
CAST & CREW
CAST
Girl ..................................................................... Whitney Morse
US/Girl ............................................................... Alyson Johnson
MUSICIANS
Keyboard ...................................................................Gary Powell
Percussion ................................................................. Jerry Bruno
Bass ......................................................................... John Gaffney
Guitar .......................................................................... Bill Neale
DESIGNERS
Set/Projections Design..................................... Kenneth Constant
Lighting Design Weston Corey
Assistant Lighting Design ................................. Michael Giovinco
Costume Design ....................................................... Rich Najuch
PRODUCTION TEAM
Production Manager Danielle Paccione
Technical Director Preston Speaker
Stage Manager Abigale Bobb
Audio Mixer/Production Assistant Amber Sacks
House Manager Grace Petty
Company Manager Autumn Encarnacion
Assistant Company Manager .................................... Layna Sasser
Set Construction ......................... Preston Speaker, Tony Fairchild
SPECIAL THANKS
The Villages® Sales & Marketing
Tierra del Sol Bar & Grill
City Furniture for providing The Studio Theatre with all the furniture for this season’s productions.
SEASON 3
Individuality: Take the leap and celebrate the difference.
SEASON 3 TICKETS:
May 1st Season 3 Subscription Renewals will go on sale at 8:30am
July 9th Deadline to Renew Subscriptions
July 10th New Subscriptions will go on sale at 8:30am
July 24th Deadline for New Subscriptions
Aug 7th Individual Tickets will go on sale at 8:30am
