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APRIL 7 – MAY 1, 2022
THE GREAT GATSBY
Based on the concept album “Exodus” by Jeff Blaney Conceived by Jacqueline Hubbard Music & Lyrics by Jeff Blaney; Book by Lawrence Thelen
By Karen Zacarias
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Created By Roger Bean
THE MUSIC OF JOHNNY CASH
THE SONGS OF LEIBER AND STOLLER Words and Music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
JUNE 30 – JULY 31, 2022
NATIVE GARDENS
SMOKEY JOE’S CAFÉ
MAY 19 – JUNE 12, 2022
WINTER WONDERETTES
Adapted for the Stage by Simon Levy SEPTEMBER 29 – OCTOBER 23, 2022
WORLD PREMIERE OF A NEW MUSICAL
STAR OF FREEDOM
Created by Richard Maltby, Jr. Conceived by William Meade AUGUST 11 – SEPTEMBER 11, 2022
NOVEMBER 17 – DECEMBER 18, 2022
RING OF FIRE
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Additional Orchestrations by JOSH CLAYTON
KATE BALDWIN WILLIE BEATON II LAMONT BROWN E. CLAYTON CORNELIOUS SARAH DEARSTYNE KIRSTY FULLER BERKLEA GOING CANDICE HATAKEYAMA LISA HOWARD DANIELLE JACKMAN DAVID JENNINGS PATRICK OLIVER JONES EDWARD JUVIER ELOISE KROPP TAYLOR LANE BRIAN SHIMASAKI LIEBSON CARINA-KAY LOUCHIEY DEREK LUSCUTOFF BRADY MILLER CHRISTIAN PROBST CHRISTOPHER SHIN BLAKE STADNIK MAX von ESSEN
Lighting Design by CORY PATTAK
Founding Director MICHAEL P. PRICE
Produced by Special Arrangement with RICHARD WINKLER and RED HANGER PRODUCTIONS
Music Supervision & Additional Arrangements by ROB BERMAN
Original Direction and Dances by GOWER CHAMPION
Lyrics by AL DUBIN Book by MICHAEL STEWART & MARK BRAMBLE
The use of all songs is by arrangement with Warner Chappell Music, the owner of music publisher’s rights
DAVID B. BYRD Managing Director
Projection Design by SHAWN DUAN
Casting by TARA RUBIN CASTING: PETER VAN DAM, CSA; KEVIN METZGER-TIMSON, CSA Production Manager ERICA GILROY
Assistant Music Director MATTHEW R. MECKES
General Manager RACHEL J. TISCHLER
Based on the novel by BRADFORD ROPES and the motion picture 42nd Street owned by Turner Entertainment Co. and distributed by Warner Bros.
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Sound Design by JAY HILTON
Production Stage Manager BRADLEY G. SPACHMAN
Hair, Wig & Make-up Design by J. JARED JANAS
Marquee Producing Partners: FRANK & AMY CAMPBELL, DR. ANNE ROTHSTEIN & MS. JANE HELLMAN, and RICHARD &
Line Producer STEPHEN AGOSTO
Sponsored by:
Music Direction by ADAM SOUZA
DONNA LYNN HILTON Artistic Director presents
Originally produced on Broadway by DAVID MERRICK
Orchestrations by DAN DeLANGE
A Non-Profit Arts Organization
MABLE SEYMOUR
Scenic Design by MICHAEL CARNAHAN Costume Design by KARA HARMON
First Performance: September 16, 2022 at The Goodspeed
Music by HARRY WARREN
Directed & Choreographed by RANDY SKINNER
ENSEMBLE
10 GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2022 SEASON (in order of appearance) Andy Lee ................................................................................................................ LAMONT BROWN Maggie Jones LISA HOWARD Bert Barry ................................................................................................E. CLAYTON CORNELIOUS Mac ......................................................................................................................... EDWARD JUVIER Phyllis Dale CANDICE HATAKEYAMA Lorraine Fleming .............................................................................................. SARAH DEARSTYNE Diane Lorimer ................................................................................................... DANIELLE JACKMAN Ethel TAYLOR LANE Gladys ..................................................................................................................... BERKLEA GOING Annie Reilly ................................................................................................................ ELOISE KROPP Billy Lawlor BLAKE STADNIK Peggy Sawyer ............................................................................................... CARINA-KAY LOUCHIEY Julian Marsh MAX von ESSEN Dorothy Brock KATE BALDWIN Abner Dillon ............................................................................................................ DAVID JENNINGS Pat Denning PATRICK OLIVER JONES Waiter WILLIE CLYDE BEATON II Thug .................................................................................................... BRIAN SHIMASAKI LIEBSON Doctor EDWARD JUVIER
WILLIE CLYDE BEATON II, SARAH DEARSTYNE, BERKLEA GOING, CANDICE HATAKEYAMA, DANIELLE JACKMAN, EDWARD JUVIER, TAYLOR LANE, BRIAN SHIMASAKI LIEBSON, BRADY MILLER, CHRISTIAN PROBST, CHRISTOPHER SHIN SWINGS KIRSTY FULLER, DEREK LUSCUTOFF DANCE CAPTAIN KIRSTY FULLER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER NAOMI ANHORN ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER SARA BRIANS UNDERSTUDIES Andy Lee WILLIE CLYDE BEATON II; Maggie Jones SARAH DEARSTYNE; Peggy Sawyer BERKLEA GOING; Dorothy Brock CANDICE HATAKEYAMA; Julian Marsh PATRICK OLIVER JONES; Abner Dillon, Pat Denning EDWARD JUVIER; Annie Reilly TAYLOR LANE; Mac, Doc BRIAN SHIMASAKI LIEBSON; Bert Barry BRADY MILLER; Billy Lawlor CHRISTIAN PROBST MUSICIANS Keyboard I/Conductor ADAM SOUZA; Keyboard II MATTHEW R. MECKES; Percussion SAL RANNIELLO; Reed I LIZ BAKER SMITH; Reed II MIKE PAGLIONE; Reed III ANDREW STUDENSKI; Trumpet PETE ROE; Trombone MATTHEW RUSSO; Bass DAVE UHL ALTERNATES Keyboard I/Conductor MATTHEW R. MECKES; Keyboard II BILL THOMAS, DAVID KIDWELL; Percussion DAVE EDRICKS; Reed I RICK SADLON; Reed II MALLORY KOKUS; Reed III HARRY KLIEWE, MIKE PAGLIONE; Trumpet SETH BAILEY; Trombone ANDREW JANES, JORDAN JACOBSON; Bass STEVE GILEWSKI Covid Safety Officer KRISTAN McLAUGHLIN CAST OF CHARACTERS
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I Only Have Eyes for You (Reprise) Billy We’re In The Money Dorothy, Billy, & Company Act One Finale Dorothy & Company
Setting: New York City & Philadelphia, 1933
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ACT ONE
Scene 1, Forty-Second Street Theater, New York, Morning Opening Andy & Company
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There’s a Sunny Side to Every Situation Annie & Company Scene 2, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, later that evening Lullaby of Broadway Julian & Company
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Young & Healthy Billy & Peggy Shadow Waltz Maggie, Dorothy, & Company Scene 2, The Gypsy Tea Kettle, early afternoon
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Go Into Your Dance Maggie, Peggy, Annie, Phyllis, Lorraine, & Andy Scene 3, Forty-Second Street Theater, an hour later
ACT TWO
Getting Out of Town (Reprise) Julian, Maggie, Bert, Abner, Billy, Andy, Mac Scene 3, Forty-Second Street Theater, New York, the next day
SYNOPSIS OF SCENES & MUSICAL NUMBERS
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Rehearsal Montage Julian, Peggy, Andy, & Company Scene 4, Peggy Sawyer’s Dressing Room, 36 hours later
You’re Getting to be a Habit With Me Dorothy, Billy, & Company Scene 4, Dorothy Brock’s Dressing Room, minutes later Scene 5, Forty-Second Street Theater, four weeks later
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Shuffle Off to Buffalo Bert, Annie, Maggie & Company Forty-Second Street Peggy & Company Scene 6, Immediately following Forty-Second Street (Reprise) Julian
Dames Billy & Women With Plenty of Money & You Maggie, Bert, & Company Scene 7, The Regency Hotel, Philadelphia, later that evening
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Scene 1, Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, fifteen minutes later
I Only Have Eyes for You Dorothy Scene 8, Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, the next night
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About a Quarter to Nine Dorothy & Peggy Scene 5, Opening Night, Forty-Second Street Theater
Getting Out of Town The Company Scene 6, Arch Street Theater, Philadelphia, that evening
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* (Dorothy Brock) is a two-time Tony Award nominee. Broadway: Hello, Dolly! (Irene Molloy); Big Fish (Sandra Bloom); Finian’s Rainbow (Sharon McLo nergan); Wonderful Town (Helen Wade); The Full Monty; Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off Broadway: Giant (Public), John & Jen (Keen), Superhero (2ST). TV: NBC Law & Order: SVU, PBS Live from Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, Disney+ Just Beyond. Recordings: Let’s See What Happens (Broadway Records) and She Loves Him (PS Clas sics). Graduate: Northwestern University.
LAMONT BROWN* (Andy Lee) Goodspeed debut! National Tours: Means Girls 1st National Tour (u/s Aaron Samuels); White Christmas, 42nd Street (Andy Lee); Riverdance (Radio City); After Midnight (Nor wegian Cruise). Regional: Chasing Rainbows (PaperMill), New 42nd Street (Ordway/Drury Lane). Film/TV: Wutang: An American Saga (HULU), Your Attention Please (HULU). Hudson Artists Agency | IG: @LamontBrownNyc | LamontBrownNyc.com
E. CLAYTON CORNELIOUS* (Bert Barry) Goodspeed: Romeo and Ju liet in ‘99. Broadway: POTUS, Ain’t Too Proud, Beautiful, Wonderland, Scottsboro Boys, A Chorus Line, The Music Man, Kat & the Kings, and The Lion King. West End: Sammy Davis Jr. in Rat Pack Live from Vegas!. National Tours: Kinky Boots, Sister Act, Jersey Boys, Dirty Dancing, Hairspray, The Lion King, A Chorus Line, The Goodbye Girl, and The Wiz. He is also a 5-year Broadway Investor/Pro ducer. Investments: MJ The Musical, Hadestown, Ain’t Too Proud, Magic Mike Live, and Caroline or Change revival. Producer: Chicken & Biscuits, Little Girl Blue, When It Happens To You, and Little Did I Know. Follow him @Eclaycorn
DAVID JENNINGS* (Abner Dillon)
*Member
LISA HOWARD* (Maggie Jones) Broadway: Escape To Margarita ville, It Shouda Been You (Drama Desk nominee), Priscilla Queen Of The Dessert, 9 to 5, South Pacific and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drama Desk winner). National tour: Les Misérables. Film: The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn Part 2 & indie thriller Decay. TV: Ugly Betty, Power, Madame Secretary, The Good Fight and The Gilded Age. Solo albums: Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Most Wonderful Time of the Year available on all digital platforms. Graduate of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. Social media: @lisahowardnyc
Broadway: Music Man, Cats (Jen nyAnyDots), Dames At Sea (Ruby), and On The Town (Claire U/S). She was in Fosse/Verdon on FX, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 3, and was a Jet Girl in the West Side Story remake directed by Stephen Spielberg. Regional credits include Minnie Faye in Hello, Dolly! at The Muny, Louise in Carousel at Goodspeed Musicals, the world premiere of The Honeymooners at Papermill Playhouse, multiple City Center Encores!, Kennedy Center Broadway Series, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Music Theatre Wichita, and more. All the love in the world to my family, CGF, Jonathan and Amy, and my pup Polly! @eloisekropp
ELOISE KROPP* (Annie Reilly)
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PATRICK OLIVER JONES* (Pat Denning) is happy to be back at Goodspeed after a wonderful Anne of Green Gables production. Off-Broadway credits include The Extraordinary Ordinary, Church & State, and The Magdalene in addition to the national tours of The Addams Family and Evita. Regional perfor mances include Kinky Boots, Bridges of Madison County, and Best Actor nominations for Fun Home and Crazy For You. His top 25 theater podcast Why I’ll Never Make It received a 2022 Communicator Award of Distinction. Many thanks to God for contin ued blessings and to family and friends for their constant support. @winmipodcast
WHO’S WHOKATEBALDWIN
Broadway: Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Richard Bullock); Once On This Island (Armand); After Mid night (Standby for star lead); Hands On A Hardbody. Off-Broadway: The Secret Life Of Bees. West End London: The Genius Of Ray Charles (Lead). National: Ragtime (Coalhouse); Miss Saigon (John); Kinky Boots (Simon Sr.); Waitress (featured); Freaky Friday (Mike); Dreamgirls (Curtis) with Jennifer Holliday; Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Grammy Award nominee for 30th Anniversary Recording). TV: Law & Order SVU (NBC), Blue Bloods (CBS), The Shield (FX), The Sinner (USA). IG: @djmusicbiz
CARINA-KAY LOUCHIEY* (Peggy Sawyer) is thrilled be making her Goodspeed debut with 42nd Street! Born in London but raised in Georgia, CK’s a proud graduate of The University of Michigan. Broadway: MJ The Musical OBC. Broadway Tours: Hamilton Philip, And Peggy, LA. Endless love and gratitude to her Parents+RISPA, A3 Artists Agency, Jamie+Sam, and BroadwayDreams. Dream, Create, Inspire…Mani
of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
CANDICE HATAKEYAMA* (Ensemble) Goodspeed debut! Candice was most recently seen playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret at the Hangar Theatre. Addition al credits: Catch Me If You Can (Arena Stage); Rodgers and Ham merstein’s Cinderella (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Texas Shakespeare Festival); Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Syracuse Stage); South Pacific, All Shook Up (Flat Rock Playhouse). BFA Syracuse University. Love and gratitude to my family, Randy, Sara, Ann, and the 42nd Street team! Instagram: @canditheduck
DANIELLE JACKMAN* (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making her Goodspeed Musicals debut in her dream show, 42nd Street! Recent credits include Guys and Dolls (Sharon Playhouse, CT), Holiday Inn (Drury Lane, IL), Thor oughly Modern Millie (Riverside Theater, FL), Show Boat (The Glimmerglass Festival, NY), and more. Danielle is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. She studied Musical Theatre and Dance at Columbia College Chicago, currently resides in New Jersey, and trains regularly in NYC.
BLAKE STADNIK* (Billy Lawlor) is incredibly pleased to be on the historic Goodspeed stage in this production breathing new life into a beloved classic. Other credits include: Theatre - 42nd Street (National Tour), The Secret Garden (Broadway at Music Circus), Sweeney Todd (Pioneer Theatre); Television - Jack Damon on NBC’s This Is Us. Many thanks to this wonderful company for this entire experience, and special thanks to his team at A&R and Nani/ Saperstein, his beautiful family, and the love of his life Anne.
fest the life you desire. IG: @carinakaylouchiey
BERKLEA GOING* (Ensemble) is thrilled to be returning to East Haddam after playing Lana Turner in the 2016 Goodspeed production of Chasing Rainbows! National tour: Frozen (original tour ensemble/Anna understudy). NYC: City Center Encores! High Button Shoes; The Actors Fund Benefit Reunion Concert for Broadway’s Thoroughly Modern Millie. Regional: St. Louis MUNY (including Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain), Paper Mill Playhouse, and TUTS. Love, as always, to her family.
SARAH DEARSTYNE (Ensemble)
Goodspeed debut! Bandstand First National Tour (Swing, Julia U/S). Endless gratitude to Randy & Sara, the entire creative team, and Tara Rubin Casting. All my love and thanks to my husband Garrett, my Mom, Dad & brothers, DS, Judy, Ray, and sweet Shirley. Dedicated to my nieces and nephews. Dream big! @sarah.dearstyne
WHO’S WHO
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WILLIE CLYDE BEATON II* (Ensemble) is ecstatic to be making his Goodspeed Musicals debut. Regional credits: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Judah), The Color Purple [Maine State Music Theatre]; Sh-Boom: Life Could Be a Dream (Wally), Gypsy (Tulsa) [Wick Theatre]; 42nd Street [Ogunquit Playhouse]; A Chorus Line (Gregory Gardner), Cab aret (Emcee), Mamma Mia!, Jesus Christ Superstar (Peter), The Wedding Singer [Surflight Theatre]. Special Love to my Mother, Kimberly, for being my biggest supporter.
MAX von ESSEN* (Julian Marsh) is thrilled to finally make his Goodspeed debut! Broadway: An American in Paris (Tony nomination), Anastasia, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dance of the Vampires, Les Misérables (revival and closing company of original). Tours: Falsettos, Xanadu, West Side Story, Chicago. TV/Film: Family Guy, Blacklist, Law & Order: SVU, Elementa-ry, Boardwalk Empire, The Good Wife, Royal Pains, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City 2, Submissions Only. Recordings: Call Me Old Fashioned (solo album), An American in Paris (Grammy nomination), Evita, Death Takes a Holiday, Finian’s Rainbow. @maxizpad.
EDWARD JUVIER* (Ensemble) is grateful to be making his Good speed debut. Broadway/Tour: Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera. NY: Fanny (York), Smoking Bloomberg (NYMTF). Regional/ Stock: STAGES St. Louis (Theater Circle award), Engeman, Tuachan, Riverside, Meadow Brook, Theatreworks Palo Alto, Allenberry, Ivoryton, Forestburgh, Gulf Coast Symphony, Transcendence. Graduate of Boston Conservatory. Thank you for supporting live theater!
CHRISTIAN PROBST* (Ensemble) is ecstatic to be tapping his heart out at Goodspeed this fall! Broad way: The Book of Mormon (Swing), Tours: Mormon (Swing/Dance Cap tain), The Little Mermaid (Floun der), and The Yale Whiffenpoofs. Selected regional: The Muny/North Shore Music Theatre (42nd Street), Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Aspen (Hairspray, Link), Casa Mañana (Grease, Doody), and Riverside Theatre (Gypsy, Tulsa). Proud alumnus of Yale University ’17. Love and endless gratitude to professors, friends, family, and Nicky. IG: @christianbprobst
RANDY SKINNER (Director/Choreographer) Broadway shows include 42nd Street (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Olivier, Astaire nominations), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tony, Drama Desk nominations), Dames At Sea (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Astaire nominations), Ain’t Broadway Grand (Tony, Outer Critics nominations), State Fair (Outer Critics nomination), After The Night And The Music (MTC/Friedman Theatre). West End: Lend Me A Tenor, The Musical. For City Center Encores! Mr. Skinner choreographed Do Re Mi; Of Thee I Sing; Face The Music; No, No, Nanette; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Lady Be Good and he played the role of Pa Dolan in On Your Toes. Off-Broadway he choreo graphed Lone Star Love (Lucille Lortel nomination), Cheek To Cheek: Irving Berlin In Hollywood (York Theatre, Lucille Lortel nomination), Show Boat (NY Philharmonic/PBS). For Goodspeed: Lucky In The Rain, George M!, Babes In Arms
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
CHRISTOPHER SHIN* (Ensemble) Chris is thrilled to return to Good speed where he has performed in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Anything Goes. Broadway/Tour: Mary Poppins, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Regional: Arena Stage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, Kansas City Starlight, Walnut Street Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse. MFA in Musical Theatre (SDSU) and BFA in Theatre (NYU/ Tisch/CAP21). Thanks to Randy and everyone at Goodspeed! @chrisshinsplints
DEREK LUSCUTOFF (Swing) Good speed debut! Previous credits: Cinderella (Paper Mill Playhouse), Mamma Mia! & A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theatre), Singin’ in the Rain & Something Rotten! (The Phoenix Theatre Company), and Swing! (Norwegian Cruise Line). BA from UC Berkeley. Many thanks to Goodspeed Musicals, Randy, Sara, Adam, Rob, Tara Rubin Casting, BWA Agency, friends, and family! www.DerekLuscutoff.com @derekluscutoff
BRADY MILLER* (Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his Good speed debut! National Tour: 42nd Street. Favorite Regional: Mary Poppins (Robertson Ay), Wonder land, Joseph and the…, Sound of Music (Rolf), Little Mermaid [Tuacahn Center for the Arts]; Thoroughly Modern Millie, My Fair Lady, Gypsy [Riverside Theater]; Gypsy (Tulsa) [Lyric Stage Co. A Christmas Carol [NSMT]; Jersey Boys [Stages St. Louis]. Much love to my family, Good speed, and the Professional Artists team. @itsbradymiller
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KIRSTY FULLER* (Swing) West End: 42nd Street (Swing/1st Cover Anytime Annie), Up Next Gala Na tional Theatre London. Off Broad way: Broadway by the Year 20th Anniversary. US Regional: Beauty and the Beast (Associate Choreo/ Dance Captain). UK Regional: White Christmas 2021 UK tour (Dance Captain/ Cover Martha), Sleeping Beauty (Dance Captain/ Cover Beauty), Chapel Choir (The Royal Albert Hall). UK Television: BBC Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two. Thank you to my family, friends and Carlos for always supporting me. Luke 1:37
BRIAN SHIMASAKI LIEBSON* (Ensemble) Thrilled to make his Goodspeed Debut! NYC-Based Dancer, recently featured in Sour Prom with Olivia Rodrigo and numerous works with Todrick Hall. National Tours: Miss Saigon, Cinderella (The Fox). Recent: Philadelphia Orchestra, The Muny, Ogunquit, MSMT, Wheelock, Trinity the Tuck, Gia Gunn, Lexi Andra Luzon. Proud BS in Robotic Engineering. Thanks to Lucille, Mom, and to my roommates who let me tap in the living room.
TAYLOR LANE (Ensemble) is absolutely thrilled to be making her Goodspeed Debut! Regional Credits: West Side Story and Kiss Me, Kate (Marriott Theatre); Joseph...Dreamcoat (Maine State Music Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Paramount Theatre); Judy Turner in A Chorus Line (Porchlight Music Theatre). Taylor has performed with Barry Manilow and at the happiest place on earth, Disneyland! (CA, Hong Kong). Infinite gratitude to her family. This one’s for you Grammy, I know it’s your favorite.
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KARA HARMON (Costume Designer) Off-Broadway: Public Theater: Cullud Wattah; Rattlestick Play wrights: Lockdown; Manhattan Theatre Club: The
ADAM SOUZA (Music Director) Broadway credits include Wicked, Kinky Boots. National Tours: Wicked (2nd National, Original MD/Conductor), Kinky Boots (Original MD/Conductor), Spamalot (1st National as MD/Conductor), The Midtown Men, and Les Misérables. Adam also served as Associate Music Supervisor for the international mountings of Wicked in São Paolo, Brazil (in Portuguese) and Mexico City (in Spanish). His regional credits include Next to Normal (TheaterWorks Hartford), North Shore Music Theatre, and over 15 produc tions with Goodspeed, including Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing, Because of Winn Dixie, The Great American Mousical with Julie Andrews, Snapshots by Stephen Schwartz, Roar of the Greasepaint..., George M!, Brigadoon, Very Good Eddie, Rags, Great Expectations, and The Road to Hollywood Adam serves as Associate Artistic Director and Music Supervisor for Destination Broadway (desti nationbroadway.org) and has served on faculty for the Boston Conservatory at Berklee as an Associate Professor of Musical Theatre, of which he is also an alumn.
SHAWN DUAN (Projection Design) is a New Yorkbased Projections/Media Designer. Recently in New York: Letters of Suresh (2nd Stage. Lortel Award, OCC nomination), The Chinese Lady (Ma-Yi/The Public. Lortel nomination, Drama Desk nomination). Other NYC credits: the MET Museum, New York City Opera, the Public Theater. Regional credits: Arena Stage, The Alliance, Berkeley Repertory, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center, The Guthrie, The MUNY, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, South Coast Repertory. Tour/Concert work include: An Evening with Pacino (US/international), HK Arts Festival, numerous US commercial entertainment tours and Las Vegas shows/concerts.
MICHAEL CARNAHAN (Scenic Designer) is a Tony-nominated, award-winning scenic designer working internationally in theater and live events. Recent work includes the Broadway production of Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew, Billy Elliot The Musical in São Paulo, Brazil; Mud Row, Katori Hall’s The Blood Quilt at Arena Stage; Noah Hei dle’s Birthday Candles, Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s Your Blues Ain’t Sweet Like Mine, Quiara Alegria Hudes The Happiest Song Plays Last at Second Stage; the acclaimed Signature Theatre revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, and The Marvelous Wonderettes. He has collaborated with directors such as Joel Grey, Ruben Santiago-Hud son, Charles Randolph-Wright, Christopher Ashley, Neil Pepe, Roger Bean, Austin Pendleton, among others. Broadway associate credits include: The Ferryman (Tony Award - Scenic Design), The River starring Hugh Jackman, Peter & The Starcatcher (Tony Award - Scenic Design); Bloody, Bloody An drew Jackson (Tony nomination); and others. Mike lives in Brooklyn with his dog, Beau. michaelcarna handesign.com | Instagram: Carnypics | Twitter: @mike_carnahan
JAY HILTON (Sound Design) is pleased to continue his long association with Goodspeed Musicals and is happy to be back in this beautiful theatre after the nearly two years of pandemic shutdown. Jay has designed countless productions at both The Goodspeed and The Terris Theatre in Chester and recently created sound design for Goodspeed’s
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ROB BERMAN (Music Supervisor/Arranger) In 15 years as music director of Encores! at New York City Center, Rob conducted over 35 shows culminating in the current Broadway production of Into the Woods. Broadway music supervision and conduct ing includes: Bright Star; Dames at Sea; Finian’s Rainbow; White Christmas; The Pajama Game; The Apple Tree; Wonderful Town; and Promises, Promises. Winner of the Emmy Award for Outstand ing Music Direction and six-time nominee for The Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.
Niceties; Vineyard Theatre: Dot. Regional (select credits): Steppenwolf: Choir Boy; The Children’s Theatre Company: Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Arizona Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte; Santa Fe Opera: Hometown to the World; Old Globe: Shutter Sisters; Alliance Theatre: Darlin’ Cory; Guthrie Theater: Guys And Dolls, Steel Magnolias; Milwaukee Rep: Toni Stone; Portland Center Stage: The Color Purple; Hunting ton Theatre: The Purists; Geva: In the Heights; Ford’s Theatre: The Wiz! (Helen Hayes Award); Arena Stage: Nina Simone: Four Women; Geffen Playhouse: Barbecue (NAACP Award); Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Much Ado About Nothing. TV/Film (Assistant Costume Design): Amazon: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Season 2; Netflix: Daredevil, Season 2; HBO: Boardwalk Empire, Season 5. Education: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. KaraHarmonDesign.com
CORY PATTAK (Lighting Designer) Previously for Goodspeed: Passing Through, The Fabulous Lipi tones. Off-Broadway: The Lucky Star (59E59), Final Follies (Primary Stages), Stalking the Bogeyman (New World Stages), Revolution in the Elbow… (Minetta Lane), Handle with Care (Westside The atre), Skippyjon Jones (Theatreworks), Unlocked (Prospect Theatre Company). Regional: Resident LD for the Broadway Center Stage series at the Kennedy Center, shows with Weston Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Ogunquit Playhouse, Old Globe, Portland Stage, KC Rep, Everyman Theatre, Miami New Drama, Northern Stage, Phil adelphia Theatre Company, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Rep, Tuacahn Amphitheater, Sacramento Music Circus, Olney Theatre, and Syracuse Stage. Tours/International: In the Heights (Coliseo de Puerto Rico), Flashdance (US National Tour), Sunset Boulevard, Singin’ in the Rain (Teatro Santander, São Paulo, Brazil) and shows for Norwegian Cruise Line and MSC Cruises. www.corypattak.com. IG: @corypattak
After the Night and the Music, and 42nd Street. Sara most recently directed and choreographed Rock of Ages. Selected choreography credits: Jesus Christ Superstar, Cabaret, Godspell, Snapshots, Spring Awakening, and Follies* (*NYIT Award Out standing Choreography) as well as new musicals, Newton’s Cradle and The Trouble With Doug. Sara’s work has taken her from Broadway to England, Scotland and Wales, to Denmark and across the world. She was a Radio City Rockette and is also a dance educator at several of the U.S.’s top schools for theatre and dance training. IG: @brianssarak
Recent TV: And Just Like That, The Gilded Age, and Gotham
MATTHEW R. MECKES (Assistant Music Director) Broadway: MJ: The Musical. Goodspeed: Devotion, Private Gomer (FNM); Passing Through, Cyrano, A Connecticut Christmas Carol (The Terris); A Grand Night For Singing (Opera House). Other regional credits include: Knoxville, Sweeney Todd, In The Heights, Man of La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Oklaho ma, Always...Patsy Cline, Bat Boy The Musical, Next To Normal, Seussical, Assassins, among others. He would like to thank his parents for their unending support and Dixie, a constant companion.
JOSH CLAYTON (Additional Orchestrations) has been a member of the music department in various capacities for many Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional shows over the years. Recently, his work as an orchestrator was heard in the US National tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s award-winning revival of My Fair Lady. He also provided new orchestrations for the US national tour and London productions of LCT’s revival of The King And I. He collaborated with Jonathan Tunick on the National Theatre of Lon don’s revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. Other orchestration credits include Titanic (Signature Theatre & Milwaukee Repertory Theatre); Briga doon (Goodman Theatre); The New Yorkers and The Cradle Will Rock (New York City Center); Meet Me In St. Louis, On A Clear Day, Finian’s Rainbow, and Donnybrook (Irish Repertory Theatre). He currently serves as the Supervisor of Music Administration and Score Restoration for the New York City Center Encores! Series.
J. JARED JANAS (Hair, Wig & Make-Up Designer)
SARA BRIANS (Associate Director/Choreographer) is an NYC-based director, choreographer, and ed ucator. Her Broadway credits include Matilda, Billy Elliot, White Christmas, The Terms of My Surrender,
TARA RUBIN CASTING (Casting) Selected Broad way and National Tours: Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, The Band’s Visit, Prince
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Goodspeed: Anne of Green Gables. Broadway: How I Learned to Drive, American Buffalo, Jagged Little Pill, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Get tin’ the Band Back Together, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, and All about Me. Recent Off-Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (MTC), Kimberly Akimbo (Atlantic Theater), Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic), Sing Street (NY Theatre Workshop), and Yours Un faithfully (Mint Theatre, Drama Desk nomination).
Goodspeed: Cabaret, A Grand Night for Singing, Little Girl Blue, Billy Elliot, Passing Through, The Music Man, The Will Rogers Follies, The Drowsy Chaperone, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rags, Anything Goes, Chasing Rainbows, Guys and Dolls, La Cage aux Folles, and A Wonderful Life. NYC: VocaPeople (Off-Broadway); The Gig, Crossing Swords, Swing State, Septimus & Clarissa (Ripe Time); The Diary of a Teenage Girl (The Essentials); Sunfish (ASCAP); Snapshots (Prospect Theater); Reborning (The Public); Zombie (Fringe & Off-Broad way). Regional: A Christmas Story, Evita, Music Man (John W. Engeman Theater); Ella (Long Wharf/ National Tour). Naomi also spent five seasons with the National Alliance for Musical Theatre’s Festival of New Works presented each fall in NYC. For Mom, C, C, L, & S
successful re-entry programming Goodspeed by the River and A Grand Night for Singing. In addition to being Goodspeed’s Resident Sound Designer, Jay serves as their Audio Supervisor and has spent much of his time during the pandemic recording, mixing and mastering musical theatre content for streaming platforms including Goodspeed’s 2020 Gala Shakin’ the Blues Away. He and his wife, Goodspeed Artistic Director Donna Lynn Hilton, make their home (and garden) in Hadlyme, Con necticut with Cookie and Macy.
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DAN DeLANGE (Orchestrator) has scored for many professional composers & arrangers. His work has been heard on Broadway, Carnegie Hall, London’s West End, national & European tours and regional theaters across the country including over 50 productions at Goodspeed Musicals.
NAOMI ANHORN* (Assistant Stage Manager)
Recent Regional: Good Night, Oscar (Goodman), The Bluest Eye (Huntington), Clue (Paper Mill).
BRADLEY G. SPACHMAN* (Production Stage Manager) After our “Pandemic Pause,” Brad is very happy to be back in our beloved Opera House—his artistic home for over 25 years! Some of his favorite productions include Redhead, George M!, Show Boat, and A Connecticut Christmas Carol. He sends a heartfelt “Thank You!” to everyone who made our productions this season (and who make them happen every night). Although his time away from the Opera House was productively spent baking and building, he has yet to appear on any flavor of Law & Order. Finally, a very special thanks to Kim, without whose patience none of this would be possible.
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of Broadway, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Les Misérables, Big Fish, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, …Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, The Phantom of the Opera. Selected Off-Broadway: Sing Street, Trevor, Between the Lines, Clueless, Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Café, Here Lies Love. Film: Here Today.
RICHARD WINKLER (Enhancing Producer) Seven Tony Awards and five Olivier Awards since 2009, following a worldwide 35-year career as a lighting designer for theatre and opera. Tonys: The Lehman Trilogy, The Inheritance, The Ferryman, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Memphis, La Cage…, The Norman Conquests. Oliviers: Come From Away, Leopoldstadt, The Inheritance, Home I’m Darling, Long Day’s Journey Into Night. Current West End and Broadway: Come From Away. Previous Broad way: Ain’t Too Proud, Betrayal (Tom Hiddleston), Three Tall Women, A Little Night Music (2009 Tony nom.), La Bête (Mark Rylance), Something Rotten! (2015 Tony nom.), Hand to God (2015 Tony nom.), Disgraced (2013 Pulitzer Prize, 2013 Tony nom.), King Charles III (2016 Tony nom.), Sunday in the Park with George (Jake Gyllenhaal), Sweat (2017 Pulitzer Prize, 2017 Tony nom.). Very special thanks to Riki Kane Larimer, Alan Shorr, Dawn Smalberg, and Chris Ketner without whom this production would not have been possible.
MICHAEL P. PRICE (Founding Director) Under the direction of Michael Price for 47 years commencing in 1968, Goodspeed Musicals became internation ally recognized for its dedication to the advance ment and preservation of the American Musical. For Goodspeed, Mr. Price produced over 250 classic and forgotten musicals, 100 new musicals, and transferred 19 shows to Broadway, earning 13 Tony Awards. Goodspeed itself was honored with two special Tony Awards. Mr. Price was recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame, which hon ors lifetime achievement in the American theater. Mr. Price is the founder of the League of Historic American Theatres and a founding member of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. He serves on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Wing and as a member the Tony Administration Committee. His board memberships include the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Johnny Mercer Foundation, the ASCAP Foundation, and numerous charitable and non-profit organizations. He received his BA from Michigan State University, MA from Minnesota, MFA from Yale, and holds honorary doctorates from Wesleyan University, Con necticut College, and The University of Hartford. He is married to Jo-Ann Nevas Price; they are the proud grandparents of Ezra and Ari.
STEPHEN AGOSTO (Line Producer) begins his first season as Line Producer at Goodspeed Musicals. For nearly 14 years he served as Associate Director of Education and Senior Director of Artistic Engage ment at Tony Award-winning Paper Mill Playhouse shepherding such productions as The Sting (star ring Harry Connick Jr.), Unmasked: The Music of An drew Lloyd Webber (World Premiere), and Half Time (directed by Jerry Mitchell) He has taught theatre at
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ERICA GILROY (Production Manager) is now in her fifth season as Production Manager. She has been part of the Goodspeed Production Management team since 2005, where she has assisted on two National Tours, several world premieres, and trans fers to Broadway. Prior to Goodspeed, she worked in the field of stage management up and down the East Coast. A proud mom of two, she enjoys exploring Connecticut playgrounds with her kids and husband Mike.
both Fordham University and Rutgers University. He is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer across the country in the area of equitable college admissions practices in the arts and drafted the Musical The ater Common Prescreen which now boasts almost 90 participating institutions geared toward inclusive guidelines for college applicants.
RACHEL J. TISCHLER (General Manager) [she/her] joined Goodspeed Musicals in 2016, after practic ing as an attorney in NYC. Rachel started her career in theatre at Trinity Rep (Providence, RI), where she worked her way up from intern to General Manager. Rachel combined her love of art and passion for detail while at Amherst College, where she received her Special Studies B.A. in Performance Art. She earned her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Rachel and her partner Owen live with their daughters in Rocky Hill.
DAVID B. BYRD (Managing Director) [he/him] was named Goodspeed Musicals’ first Managing Director in early 2021 and has held leadership po sitions at Yale Repertory Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, and the Dwight/Edgewood Project in New Haven. With a career in the professional re gional theatre spanning 20 years, he most recently served as the Managing Director of Virginia Stage Company, Southeastern Virginia’s largest produc ing theatre. A passion for placemaking, thought ful community engagement, arts advocacy and coalition-building have made him a sought-after collaborator. His commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and access is steadfast, with appointments to anti-racism working groups and other related posts in academia and the non-profit sector. Prior to his work in Norfolk, David was Managing Director of the Clarence Brown Theatre (CBT) at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville where he also served as Adjunct Professor in the UT-Knoxville Department of Theatre. David has served on the McClung Museum Academic Programs Advisory Board and the Great Schools Partnership Advi sory Council, in addition to grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, Tennessee Arts Commission, Virginia Commission for the Arts and the United Way. Throughout his career, he has held a deep passion for musicals, beginning with his
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work as General Manager at Triad Stage where he shepherded many new works. In addition to par ticipating in union negotiations with the League of Resident Theatres (LORT), David has guest lectured at Greensboro College, UNC-Greensboro, Virginia Wesleyan University, Christopher Newport Uni versity, Skidmore College and Texas Tech, among others. He received an MFA degree in Theater Man agement from Yale University School of Drama and a BA degree in Drama from UNC-Greensboro in his native North Carolina. David and his husband Jeff enjoy walking their rescue pups Maddie & Queenie through the gorgeous CT woods.
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MICHAEL STEWART (Book) scored on Broadway the first time when he won a Tony Award for his Bye Bye Birdie libretto. He was the librettist for Carnival (Drama Critics Circle Award) and Hello, Dolly!, which earned him both a Tony and Drama Critics prize. Stewart also wrote the lyrics for Barnum and the book for: George M! (with Francine and John Pascal), Mack & Mabel, The Grand Tour and 42nd Street (with Mark Bramble), Harrigan and Hart, and I Love My Wife
DONNA LYNN HILTON (Artistic Director) is a highly-effective creative producer with a signifi cant record of leading, developing and producing new musical theatre works as well as inspiring a re-envisioning of the classic musical theater canon. She has led the creation of many of Goodspeed’s most successful productions of the last 15 years, including the 2014 World Premiere of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn, developed with Universal Theatrical Group. She inspired the creation of Goodspeed’s critically acclaimed 2012 production of Show Boat which was subsequently licensed by Rodgers and Hammerstein and has been produced across the US and in the West End. Donna Lynn brought to Goodspeed the new musicals Because of Winn Dixie, Chasing Rainbows, Amazing Grace and Anne of Green Gables. At The Terris Theatre, she led the development of many new musicals to successful production, among them The Circus In Winter, Passing Through, Band Geeks! and A Sign of the Times. With the development of Hi, My Name is Ben, she led Goodspeed’s first collaboration with a resident theatre outside the US—Scotland’s Dundee Rep Theatre. Donna Lynn led the creation of the Johnny Mercer Writers Grove at Goodspeed, the partnership with the Johnny Mercer Foundation which welcomes nearly 50 musical theatre composers, lyricists and librettists to Goodspeed’s campus each winter and has become one of the premiere development opportunities available to emerging musical theatre writers. She led an expansion of Goodspeed’s Festival of New Musicals and through the Festival brought to Goodspeed the first US development of the now international hit Come From Away. Donna Lynn is a past-Presi dent of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She currently serves as a Trustee of Dundee Rep Theatre/Scottish Dance Ensemble in Dundee, Scot land and on the Advisory Panel for the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat. Donna Lynn began her career as a stage manager of Musical Theatre and Opera and remains a proud member of Actors’ Equity Associ ation. She and her husband, Sound Designer Jay Hilton, make their home in Hadlyme with Cookie and Macy.
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HARRY WARREN & AL DUBIN (Music & Lyrics) were legendary tunesmiths, both as a team and as individuals. Between the two, their prodigious careers spanned six decades. Warren & Dubin
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wrote several Broadway musicals and revues, including White Lights (1927) and Streets of Paris (1939). They wrote songs for over two dozen Hollywood musicals, including Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Sally (1929), 42nd Street (1933), Moulin Rouge (1934), Dames (1934), Stars Over Broadway (1935), Streets of Paris (1939) and Stage Door Canteen (1943). Their combined output of songs can only be described as astonishing. Highlights include “Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” “You’re Getting to Be a Habit with Me,” “Keep Young and Beautiful,” “We’re In the Money,” “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” “I Only Have Eyes for You,” and “Lullaby of Broadway.”
Al Dubin, born in Switzerland in 1891, died in NY in 1945. Harry Warren was born in Brooklyn in 1893 and passed away in 1981. His first hit song was written in 1922, and he scored his last movie in 1962. His other collaborators included Ira Gershwin, Billy Rose, Joe Young, Gus Kahn, Arthur Freed, Johnny Mercer, Mack Gordon, Mort Dixon, Bud Green and Ralph Blane.
MARK BRAMBLE (Book) was nominated for a 2001 Tony Award for his work on 42nd Street. He began his theatrical career working for David Merrick. He directed 42nd Street in London, Tokyo, Sydney and Amsterdam and is the author of Barnum (Tony Award nomination for Best Book and Best Musical) and The Three Musketeers and co-author (with Michael Stewart) of The Grand Tour; Treasure Island; Elizabeth and Essex and 42nd Street (Tony Award Best Musical, Laurence Olivier Award for Musical of the Year). Bramble directed the rock and roll extravaganza Fat Pig for the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in England and Notre Dame, based on Victor Hugo’s novel, at Saddler’s Wells in London; he also created the radio musical In With the Old for the BBC. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers and the Dramatists Guild.
In our brand-new production, we’ve cast a true triple-threat theatrical icon to embody the character, which allows much more realistic complexity to the character and the conflict at the center of the story. Losing her ability to dance now means something to the character of Dorothy. It puts her entire career at risk—and makes it far more plausible that Sawyer might actually succeed in taking over for her, and come back a star.
“Come and meet those dancin’ feet, on the avenue I’m takin’ you to 42nd Street”
The first lines of the beloved title song of 42nd Street tell us exactly what the show is—a love letter to New York City, Broadway, and dancing. For a show that is synonymous with old school musical theatre, it’s surprising that it is just over 40 years old.
Like many older shows, there are some ele ments to 42nd Street that Skinner and Mark Bramble (Co-Librettist) had wanted to revisit to make the show more palatable for con temporary audiences, but never got to work on due to Bramble’s untimely death.We’re thrilled Goodspeed audiences will be the first to see a brand-new 42nd Street from the man who knows it best.
Prior to its infamous debut at the Winter Garden Theatre (where famed producer David Merrick announced the original director/cho reographer Gower Champion’s sudden death from the stage after curtain call), 42nd Street was best known as one of the more famous pre-Code Hollywood musicals featuring the iconic choreography of Busby Berkley. And while the film features many of the Al Dubin and Harry Warren standards that went on to populate the musical adaptation (“Shuffle Off to Buffalo,” “Young and Healthy,” “You’re Get ting to be a Habit,” “42nd Street”), the tone is decidedly more risqué and dark than you’d think for a 1933 piece of escapism.
It may seem that this was always the intent of the original creative team, led by the incomparable Gower Champion, but the reality was much different. All musicals evolve and change over the course of their creation, and having been the Dance Assistant on the original production, and integral to every other first-class remounting of 42nd Street, Goodspeed’s Direc tor/Choreographer Randy Skinner knows the show inside and out.
The original Broadway cast of 42nd Street (1980). Photo by Martha Swope. Courtesy of the New York Public Library.
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Skinner has long felt that 42nd Street’s particular development included quite a bit of shaping the show around the performers in the original company, most notably in the role of Dorothy Brock, originally portrayed by Tammy Grimes. As a non-dancing star, much of the shape of her character was formed around Grimes’ abilities, and therefore the triple-threat Doro thy Brock of the film became an aging leading lady. How were we to believe that chorus girl Peggy Sawyer was truly capable of taking over for the aging character actress?
Of course in its translation to Broadway, the score was expanded to include many additional songs that Dubin and Warren (and occasionally lyricist Johnny Mercer) wrote for many other famous movie musicals including The Gold Diggers of 1933 (and ’35 and ’37), Go Into Your Dance, Dames, and more. And the parade of light toe-tappers is arguably what turns the show into the quintessential piece of escapism.
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Mr. William Gilman William J. Ginnetti, Sr. The Harry E. Goldfarb Family
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Chabot* Maury and Sonia Cohn Foundation+ Betsy and Richard Didan* Bill and Denice Feeley Muriel and Karl Fleischmann Lynne and Richard Fletcher* Sue Frost and Dan Renn
FOUNDING PARTNERS ($25,000+)
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Coviello Ms. Danielle Danese Ruth Ann C. Davis+ Laura and Jim Duncan Fiona A. Egan
DIRECTOR
Suzanne Joffray
LauraFoundation+andRoger
Deb and Ken Grass Ronald & Nina Harris Nancy and Jeffrey Hoffman Penfield & Teresa Jarvis Peter and Linda Jokl & Elisabeth Drs.D’AlberoSheldon and Judith Kaufman
Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Feldman Chuck & Elena Foster Ron and Karen Goodspeed
Dianne and Chuck Ramsey Jeffrey Richards
Dr. & Mrs. Dennis Spencer Donna and Bill Stamm Suzio/York Hill
Mrs. Ashton M. Tenney, Jr. Donald and Sharyn Timmerman John Voege and Geoffrey Paul June Willson
+With special thanks to our members who have been with us 40+ years
Ms. Jean Selden Greene
RADM. Louise C. Wilmot USN (Ret.) and James E. Wilmot CIRCLE
Dr. Christopher Joy and Ms. Cathy Velenchik Julie and Peter LeBlanc Jennifer Alexander and Mark Masselli Myron J. and Jo Trotta Poliner+ Mr. Michael G. Polo Michael and Jo-Ann Price+ Mary M. Wilson and Jeff Riley James and Penelope Sherrard Roz and Peter Shoemaker
GOODSPEED MEMBERS
Judy B. Taylor
Sandra Anagnostakis
ASSOCIATE PARTNER ($5,000+)
*Members whose gifts have been matched by their employer
DIRECTOR’S
Mr. and Mrs. Timothy J. Arborio Beverly Buckner Baker Greg and Joyce Barabas Jennifer Brown and Ian Ayres
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Susan and Bruce Baiter Louise and John Beard William & Janet Brownstein Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Cacace Kay Knight Clarke
Frank and Amy Campbell+ Dr. Anne L. Rothstein and Ms. Jane Hellman Mable and Richard Seymour
INVESTING ($2,500+)
Richard T. Cersosimo and Valerie J. Koif+ Herb Chambers Day Family Foundation
Mr. Francis G. Adams, Jr.
Frank and Diane Kelly Catherine Ladnier and J.M. Robinson Linda and Jim Lianos Mr. and Mrs. Harry Link Mr. Peter Luchini Ian G. ReginaBobAnthonyStephenMacDonaldSeldenMathewsandChelseaMichaudandAmiMontstreamNeal
Goodspeed+
Arthur Zieky and Bill Witkowsky
Sorenson-Pearson Family Foundation, Inc.
INVESTING PARTNER ($10,000+)
Dolores L. Andrew+ Billie and Peter Anker
Jean M. Wiseman
Robert and Carolyn Nelson+ Eric Ort and Duff Ashmead Jane Porterfield
23GOODSPEED MUSICALS | 2022 SEASON
WHO’S WHO
Thank you, Goodspeed Members! Goodspeed is over 5,000 members strong—for a complete listing, please visit goodspeed.org or scan the QR code with your phone.
As of August 19, 2022
JudithAnonymousW.Adams
Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Scherer, Jr.+ Jennifer T. Serra and Wayne Schulz
and Bruce Avery Dr. and Mrs. John V. Banta+ Shelley and Michael Barker+ Mr. and Mrs. David N. Barry Jean L. Bartlett
Lisa Durland and Jonathan Cowles Eileen and Helen Ede Betsy Eichholz and Karen Scopino Mr. Fenmore Feigenbaum+ Steven and Elyse Feltman in memory of Fran and Phil Feltman Ann I. Field
Anonymous (11) Inta & Taggart Adams+ Nancy and David Altschuler Christine and Lou Auletta Bette
Mr. William Riley and Dr. Susan Ms.ForsterKristen Roberts* Mitchell and Lorraine Rochefort Anja Rosenberg Gary R. Rounseville Mr. and Mrs. Neil Ruenzel Bob & Lynn Salen Mary T. Sargent
David and Susanna Dressler
Mr. Robert N. Davie and Ms. Anne E. MacLeod
Mr. David W. Dangremond Steven & Debra Daren
Thomas and Pamela Moriarty Jack & Ginny Murphy Dr. and Mrs. Jerry and Naomi Neuwirth Jane E. Ondovcsik Ivan and Naomi Otterness Bill & Barbara Pattison Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Payne Perakis Family Virginia J. Perruccio+ Rolf C. Peterson* Dr. and Mrs. Dennis Pilarczyk Annella C. Preble
Christopher and Abby Beale
Shelley and Alan Cetel Donald and Joan Chamberlin*
Mrs. Nathan L. Dubin
Dr. Craig and Pietrina Saxton Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Scherer Thomas Schwenke/Schwenke Auctioneers
David and Bonnie Beaulieu Alice C. Belden+
Julia Francis and Victor Vroom David and Liz Frankel William Fuller+ Gloria and Bob Gery Richard and Monika Gibbons Charitable Account, a Donor Advised Fund of U.S. Charitable Gift Trust Dr. Morton G. Glickman+ Lorelei and Neal Goldstein Susan F. Gonsalves Michael and Joan Gordon Rachel Syrek and William Gorton* Tina and Mark Gossner Ray and Judy Grasso Bill Gratz and Jay Bruno Arnold Greenberg John and Pamela Griffin Anita Griffith and Robert Parrott David and Patricia Hadlow* Robert & Catharine Haff* Bill & Sue Harrelson Sue Hart+ Sylvia & Dennis Heffley Barbara and Gerald Hess Claudette & Ned Hickey* Prudence Hoffman+ Patricia A. Holmes John D RichChristineHughesN.Hunihan&DianeHyman
David and Patricia Fisher+ James and Donna FitzGerald Charles & Charlotte Fortune Dr. Brendan Fox
Nicole Stanton
TomDodd&Carol Doherty
Rev. and Mrs. Marston Price Mr. Richard V. Proffitt and Ms. Carol JamesSirotPyne & Marlene Tompkins
Fred and Barbara Sette+ Alicia and Tom Settle
Robert Bausmith & Jill Peters-Gee MD
Mr. Don Bowen
Jan Coxe Berlage
Alison and Stephen Brinkmann Harold Buckingham+ Laura Bunnell
Mr. and Mrs. Dean P. Cyr Carolyn D’Alessandro
Millie and Martin Shapiro+ Edward & Sandra Sharr
Ned and Christine Burt Helen Babcock and Tom Buttacavoli James S. and Heidi L. Bzdyra Anne Sullivan Calanquin Richard and Lisa Caporaso Anne and Jim Carroll
Mr. Michael Arseneault*
Mrs. J. Noyes Crary+
Anonymous (3)
Barbara & William Abbate
Steve Rabb and Rena Citron Nancy J. Ramseyer
Arthur E. Webster, Esq. Leslie and Richard Weinstein
Harold & Nicole Benson
Dr. and Mrs. Arthur C. DeGraff, Jr. Barbara and George Delmhorst Senator Chris Dodd and Jackie Clegg
PATRON ($500+)
Dee & Ed Baum+
Theresa Tuthill and Dave Eder* Margaret Saxe and George Vinick James and Gail Viola
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Benedict Caryl and Edward Bengelsdorf Denise Bernardo and Edwin Muentes Ann & Alan Blanchard
Karen and Allyn Seymour
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Liliane T. Braman+ Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Bravo
James and Isabel Jackson+ Barbara and Raymond Jacobsen+ Shea and Scott Jezek Emily and John Johl Elizabeth Gianesello Judd Lynde and Michael Karin Emily Kaufman Sallie L. Kemp Ted and Kiki Kennedy Robbie and Albert Kestnbaum Nancy Kline and Jim Trail Dick and Hazel Koszyca Abbey Kreinik Frank and Elisabet Landrey Ira A. Levin+ Barb and Cliff Libby* Mrs. Charles Lindberg+ Peter and Rosemary Lombardo Jon Lukomnik and Lynn Davidson Douglas R. Magee, Jr. Emanuel and Irene Makiaris Sharon Malone John Markel Joseph & Nancy Mazza Jay JohnMcAnallyandAmy McCauley Sarah McGinty Larry and Patty McHugh Andrew and Bonnie Lee McKirdy+ Senator and Mrs. Edward Meyer Joe and Beth Molder
Pamela and Dean Richlin
Carl SheilaThompsonL.Tomlinson & Ted R. Earl
Gus and Virginia Bodin+ Craig and Annette Bolt Kenneth and Judith Boudreau Wallis and Laurie Boyd Desolie and John Boys
The Assante Family Sherri and Scott Baggett Christine Bassett
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ($1,000+)
Martin and Randee Berliner Dr. and Mrs. Ellison Berns Bernadette M. Blake
David B. Byrd and Jeff Stanley Steven C. Callahan
Mr. Brian Thibeault*
Pamela and Charles Benson
Richard Chiaramonte & Sally Eberhardt
Stan Shaw and Barbara Rhein Anthony & Lorraine Shetensky Jon and Cleo Sonneborn
Benanav Family+
Ms. Mary Gaskell Cobleigh+ Terri and Cosmo Corigliano Terri and Don Coustan
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Bonadies Jordan & Rebecca Boss
Mr. and Mrs. Siesel E. Canaday, Jr. Melissa and Robert Carlson Patricia B. and Paul C. Carlson Fund Scott and Robin Chasse Bertie KathleenChuongandMark Ciliano
Carol A. Wiggins+ Penny and William Young
Mary Jane Dunn
PJ Younglove Hovey and Doug Long Dr. and Mrs. Robert Zavod+
Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan M. Sturman Maureen Sullivan & Jack Siggins Dr. and Mrs. S. Russell Sylvester, Jr.+ Charleen D. Taylor Bill & Michele Rosa
Linda R. Savitsky and Alvin G. Wolfgram+
Drs. Michael and Nancy Bragulla Suzy and Jack Brinegar Nadine and Robert Britton, III Andre and Maureen Brouillard+ Alice and Michael Brown Richard Buel Martha Bunker and David VerMeulen Peter & Sally Burgess
GOODSPEED MEMBERS
Dr. Joseph D’Ascanio
Peter and Marcie Clarke
Rob & Heidi Esteve*
Orchestra members are represented by The Connecticut Valley Federation of Musicians, AFM Local 400.
Bradford W. Galiette and The Galiette
Walter and Kathryn Gregory Anne & Allen Greiner+ Milo Guisti
Margaret Strange & Richard Croce Carol Z. Sundlin Family Szafarek Fred Szufnarowski
Mr. and Mrs. Louis F. Tagliatela, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Todd and Hillary Talmadge Melanie G. Tenney
The scenic, costume, lighting and sound designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
Ruth E. Clark
William and Christine Donohue Gary McManus and Teresa Drew Dr. Jon C. Driscoll
Sheldon Erwine
Anne S. Evans
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Foley+ Stephen and Susan Forbes
Goodspeed Musicals is a professional theatre operating under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Stacy
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Gonci
Brian and Linda Dewhirst Ms. M. Dominguez & Ms. J. Poloso Wilma C. Donaldson
Barton and Jacqueline Hessler Donna Lynn and Jay Hilton John and Ann Houston The Jacobson Family Michael and Linda Jainchill Susan and Brian Jobson Frank and Brenda Karsmarski Dick Katz+ Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kehl Chet and Suzanne Kitchings+ Debbie and Steve Kleinman+ Ronald Klimas David W. Knapp Dr. and Mrs. Bernard Kosto Deborah Kotchen Dr. Rita A. Landino Robin A. Laudette
Stuart and Arline Small+ Brian T. and H. Jean Smith Lorraine R. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thomas Robert and JoAnn Thulin Lida DavidTingley&Patricia Havens-Tolly Mrs. Gay Tomasevich* Pam Townsend Lucien Lefevre Gerald and Katherine Tullai John and Judy Turpin Richard & Jessica Tyrol Frank and Farilyn J. Van Cleef Americus S. Vicari+ Victoria Wagner
Vicki DavidEngelhardtandCheryl Epstein
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Goodspeed Musicals is a member of The League of Resident Theatres.
John and Joanna Hamby+ Jon and Carrie Hammond Angie & David Hein
Adam Stuart Weinreb Bob and Roz Weinstein
Mr. Antonio D’Addeo Maureen E. Dalton
Dr. Spencer and Nancy Erman
Mr. Greg Giangrande Maureen and Bernie Gillis Wil and Mary Ellen Gladue+
Pat & Frank Zak
Mimi Wildeman Mary Lynn Windsor Victoria Winterer+ Michael and Kimberly Wolchesky J.V.E. Woodward
J. KateShacklesandSteve Sigmon
Captain Frank A. Lerose Roger and Carla Levien David Lewis and Francisco Ribas Mike and Joan Litwinski Ed and Nancy Lonergan Barbara Long and Roxann Walters Don & Judy Lorusso Phyllis and Ray Losnes Carl and Nora Lund David MacClelland and Sharon Curran Dave and Judith Macri Sonya Morton Mangan Dan McMahon and Joe Rhodes Kerry and Donna Meehan Josie Merck Mary Miko and Joseph Migliaro Margie and Lance Minor
SallyCournoyerandTom Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Crocker
Mr. and Mrs. Francis DeRobertis
GOODSPEED MEMBERS
Sets, costumes, and props are designed especially for The Goodspeed and are built in Goodspeed Musicals’ shops.
Sue Hessel and Karen Dahle
James Ferrara* Korine and Ronald Ferraro Bruce and Debra Fischman
Donna & J.T. Dunn
Mr. John F. Moore and Christine Schell Jan and Harold Moskowitz Wayne and Susan Mountz Ken and Paula Munson Kevin H Murphy Norman Needleman and Jacqueline StephenHubbardand Catherine Negri Marianne Neill G. Robert & Mary O’Brien David and Janice Ogden Mrs. Elaine V. Otter+ Francine Pascal Frances and William Patsiga Lyn Mathews Perrin Joan and Craig Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Willard F. Pinney, Jr. Ann MichaelPolanskiandRobin Poulos Joan and George Racine Daniel S. Hansen & David D. J. Rau Ms. Lonnie Reed John & Jennifer Reeve Mr. Wayne Rennie Dr. and Mrs. Charles Rich Toni Robinson and Michael Plouf Alix Rokita+
Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Waldo+ Dr. William & Melinda Walsh Thomas J. Walsh
In Memory of John Haggerty Newell and Betty Hale Fund of Greater Worcester Community Foundation
Ms.MichaelCarolKevinElizabethCohenComcowich&KatherineConwayCorlissandKarenCormierRobinCournoyerandMr. Anthony
Dr. Lawrence H. Goodman
Carlisle Wildeman
Mr. Colin Eastland & Mr. Joe Landry Vera J. Ehnen
The Howard and Katherine Aibel Foundation, Inc. Dennis and Joan Welch, The LorenWheatmarketandBobbie Theodore
Gloria J. Gorton
Rob R. Mr.CynthiaSmithStannardandMrs.Chris
M. Steele
Dr. and Mrs. Robert Rose Mr. and Mrs. Roger Rubitz* Joan & Dennis Rusconi Mr. and Mrs. William J. Salvatore Rita Salzman+ Kathleen M. Sauer Katie and Daniel Connolly Starr and Phil Sayres+ Kristin L. Schaer Beth and Jim Scully Andrew Seddon & Kathy Smith* Mrs. Carol Seeman+ Mr. and Mrs. Bill Seeman Thomas and Rose Selnau
Gus Esselstyn
Constance Henshaw
Samuel H. Chorches+
Burton MichaelWarnerandEllen Wasyl Patti and Howard Weiner
Dave and Roberta Denya Valerie F. DeQuattro+
JenniferHelenFamily*GallivanandKen Geisler
Dr. and Mrs. William Fitzgerald
Amy Sutton Assistant Costume Designer
DEVELOPMENT
Taylor Bartoski
Director of Major Gifts
David Mitsch ..................................... Costume Shop Coordinator
Lighting Equipment from PRG Broadway
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Gloria Gorton
Morgan Dumark-McNamee Box Office Supervisor
Stephen Agosto Line Producer
Carla Tiezzi
Dominick Pinto Technical Director
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COMPANY MANAGEMENT
Pam Prior Costume Shop Manager
Stacy Brannan, Anderson Miller Drapers
David Mai Development Associate
WithumSmith+Brown, PC; Karen Kowgios Accountants
Kristan McLaughlin Artistic Administrator Kendra Garnett Executive Assistant
MARKETING
Ryann D. Lee
Billy Mitchell Show Logo Design
Adam Souza Resident Music Director Michael Fling Artistic Associate
FOR THIS PRODUCTION
Katie Wasserman Database Administrator
COSTUMES
SCENERY
John Riccucci Wardrobe Supervisor
PRODUCTION
Mary Miko Special Events and Corporate Relations
Derek Luscutoff Dance Assistant
Bob Bennett, Joe Kaminski, Paula Moriarty Bartenders
Jaysen Engel First Hand
Katie Paris Audio Engineer
Erica Gilroy Production Manager Wesley Schroeder Production Management Apprentice
Jay Hilton Audio Supervisor
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Ryan Mayfield Assistant Company Manager
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Marjorie Rode Grant Writer
Karin Nickel Building Services Assistant Paul Zajac Building Services
Dan McMahon Director of Marketing
Katherine Desjardins Associate Marketing Director Ian Galligan Marketing Associate
Debbie Carney, Chris Furtado, Lori Inferrera, Tyler Manemeit, Katherine Scott Box Office Reps
Ian Denham Company Management Apprentice
Lighting Supervisor
Jordan Bliese Head Electrician
Diane Sobolewski Official Photographer
Bee Decker, Lora McIntosh Props Artisans
Aaron Frongillo Stage Carpenter
Tony Lauro Associate Hair/Wig & Make-up Designer
Sara Brians Associate Director/Choreographer
Mike Cummings Lead Carpenter/Shop Foreman
Shanna Lisitano Assistant Box Office Manager
..........................................................Wig&HairCoordinator/Technician
Brendan Figueras Assistant Technical Director
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Matthew R. Meckes Music Copyist
GOODSPEED MUSICALS STAFF
TICKETING
April Chateauneuf Staff Scenic Artist
Beryl W. Thorpe House Manager
David B. Byrd Managing Director
LIGHTING
HOUSE MANAGEMENT
Don Cieslik Projections Engineer & Programmer
Kathy Raczka Supervising House Manager
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Stephanie Wooley Costume Rentals Assistant
Charge Scenic Artist
Troy A. Junker
Paul Sieveking Company Manager
BUILDING SERVICES
Tracy Livingston Payroll Manager
SOUND
Rachel J. Tischler General Manager
Michele R. Baumann Membership Director
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Ed Dawson, Jeff Fender, Kathleen Gephart, Austin Pettinger, Steven Simon, Ted Stumpf, Stephanie Taff,
Philip Bird, Valerie Drake, Chris Konstantinidis, Michaela Leib, Carl Thompson Carpenters
Samantha Bruce, Clayton Cushing, Kim Garland, Kailee Goodine, Cassandra Greeley, Sydney Hughes, Margaret Leupold, Grace Linzner, Grace Locklin, Sam O’Dea, Grace Petersen, Abigail Yanaway Apprentices
CleanChoiceCleaning.com Custodial Services
Elaine McKirdy Student Apprentice
Special Thanks: Bank Street Cobbler, Costume Rental Vol unteer Lenore McLean, Peter Mintun, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, Neil Mulligan
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Video package provided by 4Wall Entertainment
This production is costumed with assistance from Milwaukee Repertory Theater
Carol Giroux Public Relations Manager
Judy O’Mara Gift Shop Supervisor
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Roger-Paul Snell Ticket Sales Manager
Props Manager
Mason Frasher Music Assistant
Stacy Booth Accounts Payable Manager
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ADMINISTRATION
COSTUME RENTALS
Miranda Harkins Lead Scenic Artist
ARTISTIC
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LEADERSHIP
Dylan Callery, Cam Camden, Chris Konstantinidis, Gabi Scheinthal
PROPS
Anna Brewster, Keeley Grossman Scenic Artists
Donna Lynn Hilton Artistic Director
Edward C. Blaschik Theatre Manager
Elaina K. Kaehler Production Assistant
Box Office Supervisors on Duty
Anastasia Lillpopp Assistant Costume Shop Manager
Lead Props Artisan
James Carter Pianos Piano Technician
SCENIC ARTISTS
Shelby Loera Assistant Lighting Designer
Helena Hirschfeld Williams
Drafting
Catherine Ematrudo Group Sales Manager
Jeffrey Mays Systems Administrator
Emily BarbaraSquatrito,Wilkinson
Smart, Strategic Marketing for the Arts Direct Sales
Will Johnson
Leigh Beatty, Allison Harris, Kathleen Sedgwick Assistant House Managers
TECHNOLOGY
FINANCE
Josh Kelly Costume Crafts Artisan
Top Hat Image Wear Additional Costume Construction Bri Alayne Soekoe Associate Producer
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