Glenelg Country School
MULITZ THEATER Ellicott City, Maryland
Written by Carole Graham Lehan Musical arrangements by Sammy Miller, Sam Crittendon, David Linard
I’ve been thinking about you for months. When Sammy Miller and the Congregation performed and held master classes last year, the GCS world was a little rocked. The Mulitz Theater bounced with energy and excitement. In discussing a return, Sammy said, “Let’s step it up. Let’s collaborate on something.” I was looking for a new project. Cue the unprecedented partnership with the question, “What story do we want to bring to GCS?” When Sammy performs in schools, he always includes a little jazz history because he’s passionate about young people learning the diverse roots of the form he loves. So, we knew we wanted to include that as well as some traditional New Orleans tunes. I’m always surprised at what can inspire when I’m working on a production, but this time was no surprise. When my mother was sick last year, I had the opportunity to spend lots of time with her. We came to talk about all sorts of things, and I learned more about her early life in Indiana. I heard of how her father went to the 1932 Chicago World’s Fair and returned with jazz records of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller. The music became part of the soundtrack to her early life. Her house was always full of music, and her dad sang in the town’s churches. At the table, he would lead Mom and her two brothers in singing Sousa marches …as the instruments. I even learned that she hated her name, Mary, because kids would tease her that it “sounds so square,” as the old Cohan song says. “Square,” in the jazz world, is what you don’t want to be. So, Mom inspired the context for our new show. We set the story in 1933, the nadir of the Great Depression – a time when a new president made sweeping changes and people were uncertain about the future. It was also a time in which a “separate but equal” culture was beginning to pick up steam again providing an unsafe environment for some races and foreign cultures. “What story do we want to bring to GCS?” One about community and the power of music to help create it. Thanks for coming. CGL
BIG DOG MARY HOWARD LC ARTHUR EDDIE LOWELL KATY MARGARET MR. HOWARD MRS. HOWARD MR. GRANGER MR. LOWELL MRS. LOWELL MISS MIRABELLE MR. BROWN
SAMMY MILLER SAM CRITTENDEN BEN FLOCKS GABRIEL KING MEDD DAVID LINARD JOHN SNOW LARON LAND
Brendan DeBonis Miranda Solomon Emma Smith Bailey Doloff Luka Madhok Simity Jalloh Amy Akinrebiyo Sawyer Palsen Sierra Keller Grant Hernandez Jacob Myers Kate Crossett Madison Clay Brad Daitch
Drums Trombone Tenor Sax Trumpet Piano Bass Guest Musician
RUTH
Izzy DeBonis Meg Dodge LUCILLE Natalie Good BERNADETTE McKenzie Kittrell DOT Sophia Macaluso IRENE April Merdon GINNY Kiran Saini FLO Emma Ward DAVID Alejandro Flores-Chévere CHARLES Drew Seipel HENRY Corey White BOBBY Alex Todor CLIFF Spencer Goldrich TESSIE
Jordan Daitch Elise Ferkler Brian Hersey
Priyanka Pandya Jason Zhang Ruby Zhang
ISA CAZARES IAN CROSSETT IME ETOKEBE ASHLEIGH PRENTICE
SIMITY JALLOH ELISE FERKLER NATALIE GOOD
Flute Trumpet Clarinet Bass Clarinet
Coreographer Dance Captain Dance Captain
Posi Babalola Marina Costa Julianna Dilbert Elise Ferkler Phoebe Jeng Jamie Jobson Laura Littlefield
Kellan McAleer Miranda Solomon Skye Stellone Christian VandenHeuvel Emma Ward Shelly Xu
Meg Dodge Brian Hersey
Bella McGlone
TECH: MEG DODGE BELLA MCGLONE WILL SOLOMON DEVAN RAI ELIJAH MILLER TARA BASIR SHELLY XU
Carter Bandiere Ian Dalrymple Brayden Franey Brendan Grady Soven Kumar Sarah Lienert
Stage Manager Co-Stage Manager Sound Designer and Operator Sound Effects Operator Light Operator Hair & Make-up Designer Hair & Make-up Designer
Jeb Pappas Jacob Schiller Ian Swartz Trevor Westcoat Zach Zaller Karlsson Zhao
Elena Cuenca Kacie Greenfield Naa Lamptey-Mills Morghan Swaim Samantha Morningstar
Yianni Karabatis Kaitlyn Park
Director Technical Director JEFF YATES Musical Director STEPHEN STROSNIDER Set and Light Designer and Assistant Technical Director CATE BARRY Costume Advisor & Instructor DEB DEVOE Production Assistant MARYANN JAMES Production Assistant LARON LAND Chart Writer and Coach for Student Instrumentalists ED SOLOMON Sound Advisor MONIQUE ZASTROW Ticket Master JOE STAUB Set Assistant LUCAS SHIPLEY Set Assistant LIAM WALLACE Set Assistant BETHANY NUSBAUM Set Assistant CHRIS SHEMATEK Marketing Advisor and Teacher BEN SHOVLIN
TK Olaniyan
ASSISTANT HOUSE MANAGERS
Laura Littlefield Peter Karabatis
CAROLE GRAHAM LEHAN
Amanda Ramada
The GCS Marketing Class of 2017
Greg Ventre (Head of School), Dr. Ray Broderick (Head of Upper School), Kevin Boland (Head of Middle School), Anne Wooleyhand (Head of Lower School), MaryEllen Prantl, Kiki VandenHeuval, Rosa Brantley, David Hodgson, Kevin Macaluso, Jess Dolan, Seth Schwartz, Carroll Community College, Ken and Lora Strosnider, Paul Weir, Patty Burton, Nancy and John Barry, Christie Graham, Michael Lehan, Toby Orenstein, Carolyn Kelemen, Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, Upper School Faculty, Middle School Faculty, the Operations Team, Coaches, Parents … and Mary Graham THANKS ALSO TO:
Tamara Doloff who kept the cast and crew hydrated and happy with snacks. Cast parents who provided nourishment coordinated by Ana Gabrea and Deb DeVoe and contributed by these families: DeBonis, Keller, Melotti-Merdon, Seipel, Todor, Rafiullah, Smith, Daitch, Crossett, Saini, Ludington, Jalloh, Hernandez, Macaluso, Desai Pandya VISIT OUR.SHOW/GLENELGCOUNTRY/HOTNEWDEAL TO PURCHASE THE HOT NEW DEAL MERCHANDISE
ACT I STARS & STRIPES
Kids
Sousa, 1898 K-K-K-KATY Kids
Geoffrey O’Hara, 1918 MARY IS A GRAND OLD NAME
Kids
George M. Cohan, 1915 WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS
Big Dog with Kids
Henry Creamer, J. Turner Layton, Bernie Bennick, 1922 ST LOUIS BLUES
Katy & Margaret
WC Handy, 1914 WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHIN’ IN
Big Dog & Small Kid Ensemble
Katharine Purvis, James Milton Black, 1896 JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE
Big Dog, Mr Howard & Mary
Traditional STARS AND STRIPES
Kids
Closing Additional voicings by LaRon Land and Jeffrey Yates
ACT II ALEXANDER’S RAGTIME BAND
Kids with Charlie, Flo, Tessie, David
Irving Berlin, 1911 HONEY GIRL
Big Dog & Katy
James A Morcaldi, 1917 I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE
Margaret with Kids
Armand J. Piron, 1922 SIMPLE MELODY
Irene, Flo, Cliff, Bobby
Irving Berlin, 1914 LOOK FOR THE SILVER LINING
Mary & LC
Buddy DeSylva, Jerome Kern, Jerry J Nowak, 1920 LI'L LIZA JANE
Countess Eda De Lachau, 1916 GENTLE LENA CLARE
Eddie, Sammy Miller and the Congregation
Stephen Foster, 1862
Kids, Sammy Miller and the Congregation
MARY’S A GRAND OLD NAME
Kids
George M Cohan, 1915 THIS TRAIN IS BOUND FOR GLORY
traditional
WAY DOWN YONDER REPRISE
Big Dog, Katy, Mary, Margaret, Full Cast Full Cast
Glenelg Country School is proud to be a part of The Cappies of Baltimore, one of 13 charter programs in the United States and Canada. The Baltimore program consists of 22 schools from Howard, Baltimore, Carroll and Anne Arundel counties. The Cappies, Critics and Awards Program, is a program by which high school theater and journalism students are trained as critics, attend shows at other schools and write reviews for them. When this season is complete almost 1000 reviews will be written about high school theatre in the Baltimore region. At the end of the year, the student critics vote for awards that are presented at a formal Cappies Gala. The Cappies of Baltimore Gala 2017 will be held at the Hippodrome Theatre of the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center in Baltimore on Sunday, May 21st 2017 from 5:30-8:30pm. If you are interested in purchasing a ticket for the Gala event, please contact Mrs. Lehan lehan@glenelg.org GCS CAPPIES OF BALTIMORE PARTICIPATION
GCS Lead Critic: Cappies Critic Team: GCS Advisor/Director and National Board Mentor Booster Chair Cappies Night Prep Cappies Club and Marketing Team: Cast Headshot Photos
Grant Hernandez Madison Clay Kate Crossett Brendan DeBonis Izzy DeBonis Elise Ferkler April Merdon Samantha Morningstar Mallory Siuta Carole Lehan Cate Barry Karen Dugan Karen Dugan Annamarie DeBonis Jennifer Hernandez Samantha Morningstar Grant Hernandez Brendan DeBonis Sophie Macaluso