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A Letter From the Artistic Producers Happy holidays, and welcome to Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big Jersey Christmas Show!

We are delighted to share this joyful and Jersey-proud celebration with you, your families, and your friends this season.

Inspired by Dickens’ timeless A Christmas Carol, this production reimagines the classic tale through the heart, humor, and unmistakable spirit of our region. We wanted to create a holiday story that celebrates everything that makes New Jersey unique. We hope you feel that spirit in every moment onstage.

We extend our deepest thanks to Gordon Greenberg , whose vision and creative energy have shaped this production with such care and delight. We are equally grateful to his extraordinary creative team and this phenomenal cast, whose comedic flair and musical talents bring this story to life with heart and joy.

If the message of A Christmas Carol moves you, as it has inspired audiences for generations, we invite you to consider making a year-end donation to George Street Playhouse. Your support ensures that we can continue telling new stories, nurturing artists, and creating meaningful theatrical experiences for our community.

We wish you a season filled with peace, laughter, and memorable moments.

Thank you for celebrating the holidays with us.

We look forward to seeing you again in the new year.

With gratitude, Chris, Scott, and Laiona

photo by Jeffrey Auger

FEBRUARY 13 - 16

Mozart’s Don Giovanni Opera Theater Rutgers FEBRUARY 19

Candace Bushnell True Tales of Sex, Success and Sex and the City FEBRUARY 20 - 22

The Devil and Daisy Dirt A Garden State Gothic Event FEBRUARY 21

The Great American Soulbook Motown, R&B, and more MARCH 6-8

Cinderella A Timeless Tale of an Enchanting Journey MARCH 17 - APRIL 5

What Became of Us Directed by Laiona Michelle MARCH 21

Earth, Wind & Fire Tribute Band All the Classics APRIL 11

Avid Dance A Suite of Phil Chan’s Dances APRIL 25

Yellow Brick Road A Tribute to Elton John APRIL 28 - MAY 17

My Lord, What a Night Directed by Sheldon Epps MAY 1 - 3

Americana A Vibrant Mixed-Repertoire Performance MAY 9 - 10

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Board of Trustees Chairman: James N. Heston* President: Penelope Lattimer, Ph.D.* Vice President: Sharon Karmazin* Secretary: Janice G. Stolar Treasurer: Kimberlee S. P. Murphy, CPA* Edgar Herrera* Philip L. Kirstein* Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Dina M. Mastellone, Esq.

Normal Politziner Jocelyn Schwartzman Lora Tremayne *Denotes Members of the Executive Committee

Artistic Director Emeritus David Saint 1997-2025

Trustees Emeriti Al D’Augusta Cody P. Eckert Kenneth M. Fisher

Peter Goldberg William Hagaman Clarence E. Lockett

Anthony L. Marchetta Alan W. Voorhees George Wolansky

Honorary Board of Trustees James Cahill

Thomas H. Kean Eric Krebs, Founder

Honorary Memoriam Maurice Aaron∆ Dr. Edward Bloustein∆ Robert L. Bramson∆∆ Dora Center∆∆ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.∆ Milton Goldman∆ John Hila

Betty Wold Johnson∆ Arthur Laurents∆ Richard Sellars∆ Barbara Voorhees∆∆ Edward K. Zuckerman∆ Adelaide M. Zagoren ∆∆ – Denotes Trustee Emeritus ∆ – Denotes Honorary Trustee

CAST in Order of Appearance

Joy Behar* Veanne Cox* Adrienne C. Moore*

My First Ex-Husband is approximately 75 minutes long with no intermission

* denotes member of Actors’ Equity Association

The actors and stage manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

The director is a member of The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Inc., an independent national labor union.

The stage technicians of George Street Playhouse are proud members of IATSE Local 21.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting, Projection and Sound Designers in LORT theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

COMPANY Bios.

Joy Behar is among today’s leading comic talents. Whether performing standup comedy or interviewing politicians and artists, she is an original voice and leading woman on both

York Comedy Festival in November 2023.

Her new play, My First Ex-Husband, will be produced in New York City in January 2025.

She was a member of the original cast of ABC’s The View for 16 years, returning as co-host in September 2015 for the show’s three most recent seasons. Along with winning the 2009 Daytime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host, Behar is also the recipient of three MAC Awards, a CableACE Award and a 2000 GLAAD Award for her enduring friendship with the LGBTQ+ community.

Veanne Cox has received a Special Drama Desk Award for 'Excellence and Significant Contributions to the Theatre' and an Obie Award for 'Sustained Excellence'. She has appeared on Broadway in An American in Paris, A Free Man of Color, La Cage aux Folles, Caroline or Change, The Dinner Party, Company (Tony Award nomination), and Smile. Off-Broadway: The Wedding Band, The Old Friends, The Most Deserving, Damn Yankees, Blind, Paradise Park, Spain, Last Easter, The Wooden Breeks, House and Garden, Labor Day, The Altruists, The Batting Cage, The Waiting Room, Flora the Red Menace, Freedomland, A Question of Mercy, The Food Chain, The Vagina Monologues. Film and TV includes: Only Murders in the Building, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Summoning Sylvia, The Mandalorian, Erin Brockovich, Big Eden, Beethoven's 4TH, You've Got Mail, Marci X, Odd Mom Out, Louie, Smash, Pan Am, Two Broke Girls, Seinfeld, Cinderella, Boston Legal, Royal Pains, Joan of Arcadia, all Law and Orders and the web series Indoor Boys (Emmy nomination) and Cady Did. She has performed regionally in DC, the Berkshires, Sag Harbor, Hartford, San Diego, San Francisco, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Houston, Minneapolis, and Louisville in Shakespeare, Moliere, Coward, Wilde, Simon, Durang, Ives, Foote and Ludwig.

stage and screen.

On television, she starred in two HBO specials and was a regular on the series Baby Boom. She also appeared in Woody Allen’s Amazon series Crisis in Six Scenes.

In June 2016, Behar was inducted into the Brooklyn Walk of Fame at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, joining an impressive list of Brooklynites honored for their distinguished work in entertainment, sports, media and the arts.

Behar has hosted her own shows, including a call-in radio show on WABC, The Joy Behar Show on HLN, and Say Anything on Current TV. Her film appearances include This Is My Life, directed by Nora Ephron, and Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery.

In theater, Behar starred in Nicky Silver’s play The Food Chain, for which she earned rave reviews, and also in the critically acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues. She also wrote and performed in her own solo show, Me, My Mouth and I, at the Cherry Lane Theatre.

As a playwright, Behar has written Crisis In Queens, along with her short play “Bonkers In The Boroughs, which was featured in the New

Behar has written five books, including two children’s books. Her most recent book, The Great Gasbag: An A-to-Z Study Guide to Surviving Trump World, was released in October 2017.

Adrienne C. Moore is a critically acclaimed and award-winning stage, TV/film and voice-over actress. Moore's extensive theatre repertoire includes

COMPANY Bios Black Odyssey (Stevie Walker-Webb, Classic Stage Company), the award-winning revival of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls... (Leah Gardiner, The Public), The Taming of the Shrew (Phyllida Lloyd, Shakespeare in the Park), Milk Like Sugar (Rebecca Taichman, La Jolla Playhouse, Playwrights Horizons) and 365 Plays/365 Days (Suzan-Lori Parks, The Public). Adrienne is most recognized for her NAACP Image Award-nominated role of Black Cindy on Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, for which she earned three SAG awards. Selected TV, film and animation credits include 30 Rock, Homeland, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Law and Order SVU, Pretty Hard Cases, Search Party, Bupkis, Poker Face, Shaft, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (DC Comics, Etta Candy), We Lost Our Human (Netflix Interactive, Human) and Curious George: Royal Monkey. Adrienne has most recently been seen in Clint Eastwood's film Juror #2 as well as on-stage in Katori Hall's The Blood Quilt (Lileana Blain-Cruz, Lincoln Center Theater).

Randall Myler (Director) Tony Award® nominee for co-conceiving and directing It Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues at Lincoln Center.

He recently directed Rock & Roll Man at New World Stages (with producer Rose Caiola), which won a 2023 BEST MUSICAL AUDELCO Award for Excellence in Black Theatre. He is also known (both as writer and director) for his critically acclaimed Hank Williams: Lost Highway (Drama Desk, Lortel nom, Outstanding Musical; 2 years at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville) and his Janis Joplin bio-musical Love, Janis, which surpassed 700 performances at the former Village Gate. Myler’s other numerous credits include co-conceiving Nat King Cole and Me with Gregory Porter; directing former Ronette Ronnie Spector’s triumphant UK tour of Beyond the Beehive; directing Dream A Little Dream: The Mamas and Papas Musical with “Papa” Denny Doherty; Fire On The Mountain: Music Of The Coal Mines (Best Musical— Bay Area Critics); and, most recently, I’ll Take You There: The Music Of Muscle Shoals.

His extensive regional credits include The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, Mark Taper

Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Seattle Rep, Denver Center, Dallas Theatre Center, San Diego’s Old Globe, and many others.

Rose Caiola (Producer) Caiola Productions has won eight Tony Awards® and numerous Drama Desk Awards, producing over 50 Broadway shows. Their award-winning productions include: Company, The Inheritance, Once on this Island, Dear Evan Hansen, The Color Purple, All The Way, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Parade. Current productions include Cabaret, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Left On Tenth. Rose Caiola is a musical book writer and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Freckleface Strawberry The Musical. She received an AUDELCO Award as book writer of Best New Musical Rock & Roll Man, which is currently en route for a UK run. Rose is the owner of Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, as well as the exciting new MMAC Theatre opening this January with its pilot production, My First ExHusband.

Cyrena Esposito (Producer) A long-time talent manager, former talent agent, and founder of Red Letter Entertainment, representing some of the industry’s finest and award-winning talent. Cyrena is a producer on Broadway’s Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, which was nominated for nine Tony Awards®, including Best Musical Revival. She also co-produced the Tony® Award-winning musical Memphis, as well as Spider- Man on Broadway. She earned her BFA in Theatre and began her career as an actress. She worked in television development before becoming an agent, where she repped Ms. Behar and her childhood idol, a dream come true, Liza Minnelli. She and Rose Caiola will also produce Bonkers In The Boroughs with Joy Behar next year. Follow @redletterent on Instagram.

Catalyst Theatricals (General Management) Catalyst Theatricals champions unusual, inspired, and passionate creative voices through management and

COMPANY Bios small business services. Representative productions: Broadway/ National Touring - Austen’s Pride (2025), All Things Equal: The Life and Trials of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2026), MARIAN (Regional 2026), My First Ex-Husband (Touring 2025 26), Fraggle Rock Live (Int’l Tour 2026), Cagney (PreBroadway 2026), When Elvis Met the Beatles (Ogunquit Playhouse 2025), The Naughty List (NYC Winter 2025) Young Audiences Productions for Rockefeller Studios: Sesame Street the Musical (Kennedy Center 2025), The Very Hungry Caterpillar (US/Int’l Touring).

Business management: The Rock Shop; Creative Licensing; In Fine Company. www catalysttheatricals.com/ Christopher Bailey (Additional Sound/ Artistic Producer) This season marks Christopher Bailey’s 27th at George Street Playhouse and his 2nd as Artistic Producer, Production and Operations. Over the years, he has also served the Playhouse as Production Manager for 19 seasons, Technical Coordinator, and Sound and Lighting Manager.

At GSP, Christopher’s design work includes lighting for last season’s What the Constitution Means to Me and sound for King James. He was also the Lighting Designer for Clever Little Lies, which transferred from GSP to the Guild Hall Theatre in East Hampton and subsequently Off-Broadway to the Westside Theatre. In addition, he has designed six scenic and nine sound designs for GSP’s Educational Touring productions, as well as 28 lighting and 40 sound designs for the Playhouse’s mainstage productions.

Beyond GSP, Christopher has designed for numerous companies, including Pearl Theatre, Barrington Stage, Premiere Stages, Bickford Theatre, Abingdon Theatre, Strand Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Two River Theater, Ashlawn Highland Opera, LKB Dance, Randy James Dance, Rand Theater, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Jacob’s Pillow, and more. He also teaches Stagecraft

and Play Production at Middlesex County College.

Scott Goldman (Artistic Producer) Scott Goldman was appointed General Manager in 2019 and has been with George Street Playhouse for 20 seasons beginning his career as Company Manager. His time at George Street Playhouse has allowed him to work with legendary artists spanning nearly 100 productions and the NY transfers of world premieres of productions of The Toxic Avenger, It Shoulda Been You, Gettin’ The Band Back Together, Clever Little Lies, Curvy Widow and Little Girl Blue. Since 2012, he has served as Foundation Manager for the Laurents / Hatcher Foundation, named after legendary playwright Arthur Laurents and his partner Tom Hatcher, distributing over $20 million in grants to support new work at theaters across the country. Goldman is a graduate of Ithaca College with degrees in Speech Communication and Drama, and a Masters of Science in Communications.

Laiona Michelle (Artistic Producer) has a rich background as a director, playwright, and actress. She has directed several mainstage productions at George Street Playhouse, which include Her Portmanteau, Having Our Say, and What the Constitution Means to Me—her work on the latter earning her a Broadway World Award nomination for Best Director. Laiona will be directing the upcoming production of Shayan Lotfi’s What Became of Us. As an actress, Laiona is a recipient of the Barrymore and Carbonell Awards (2004); and the NAACP Hollywood Award (2005). Laiona was also nominated for numerous awards, including the Lucille Lortel and Antonyo Awards (2022); and the Helen Hayes Award (2005). Laiona co-starred in the Broadway production of Amazing Grace, The Musical at the Nederlander. Laiona has also starred in several shows at GSP which include: American Hero and Tiny Beautiful Things.

In addition Laiona created and starred as Nina Simone in the musical, Little Girl Blue, which also made its world premiere at GSP. Little Girl Blue is the recipient of numerous

COMPANY Bios nominations and won the Off-Broadway Alliance Award and the Lilly Award in 2022.

She penned the book for Mandela, The Musical, which premiered at London’s Young Vic in 2022. Some of her TV/FILM credits include: Law & Order series, CBS’s FBI, The Blacklist, Crashing, and Amazon’s Sneaky Pete.

Facebook & Instagram @laionamichelle Edgar Herrera (Executive Director) is an arts leader and entrepreneur with more than two decades of experience across the U.S. and Mexico. Since 2023, he has served as Executive Director of George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ, where he sets strategy, forges partnerships, expands audiences, drives strategic growth, and deepens community engagement. He has also led several symphony orchestras, bringing vision and innovation to major performing arts institutions.

Alongside his leadership in the performing arts, Edgar built and sold an IT startup, led an export–import company, and launched an accelerator for small businesses, ventures that shaped his entrepreneurial mindset and focus on innovation. He also directed a foundation dedicated to measuring social impact.

Passionate about the arts and a pianist at heart, Edgar champions Latin American classical music through The Ponce Project Music Foundation, where he volunteers to promote and resuscitate the music of great composers of the past.

CORPORATIONS, FOUNDATIONS & GOVERNMENT

GEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSE gratefully acknowledges the following for their annual support: EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS $100,000 and Above

The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation

PRODUCERS $50,000 - $99,999

THANK YOU for Your Annual Support CO-PRODUCERS $20,000 - $49,999 Bloomberg Johnson & Johnson PepsiCo Rita Allen Foundation Robert Wood Johnson III Fund Union Foundation

ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS $10,000 - $19,999 Amblin Entertainment E.J. Grassmann Trust MacMillan Family Foundation Nancy Friday Foundation Parker Home At Stonegate

CONTRIBUTING PARTNER $5,000 - $9,999 Community Foundation of New Jersey The Fred C. Rummel Foundation Kean Foundation, Inc. Merrill G. And Emita E. Hastings Foundation Northfield Bank Puleo International, Inc. Withum Smith + Brown

GUARANTORS $2,500 - $4,999 BNY Mellon Bristol-Myers Squibb Company EisnerAmper LLP Fox Rothschild LLP Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc. LCK Wealth Advisors Magyar Bank Charitable Foundation Maple Capital Management Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch/The Erdmann Group Musical Theatre International Schumann Fund for New Jersey Somerset Patriots/Clinton Honda/Land Rover of Princeton Stevens & Lee PATRONS $1,000 - $2,499 Alchemation American Properties The Campbell Family Foundation Genova Burns International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 4 Investors Bank Foundation The Leonard Bernstein Foundation Medicor Cardiology New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Group PNC Foundation The Jerome Robbins Foundation RWJBarnabas Health Ruth Hendel Productions Somerset Health Care Foundation Stage Left WME Agency

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CO-PRODUCERS $10,000– $24,999

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DIRECTOR $2,500 – $4,999 Anonymous Edward Atwater Isa Beck Bobbi and Barry Freedman Betsy and Louis Garlatti L. Goldstein and I. Novak Margaret and Thomas Gorrie Chrisitine Grant Janice and Brian Haggerty Laura and Dean Livingston

Adele T. Macula, Ed.D. Anthony Marchetta John M. Mortenson Richard A. Patt Rita Paszamant Christine Renz and Noah Levy Ann and Robert Rafano Robert Rubin Jeffrey Seller Lynn and Barry Sherman Beth Sparling

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STAFF Edgar Herrera, Executive Director

ARTISTIC Artistic Producers

Wardrobe Supervisor Christopher J. Bailey Scott Goldman Laiona Michelle

FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION Director of Finance Administration Manager / Board Liason Business Assistant

DEVELOPMENT Director of Advancement Development Manager Development Associate

Ganapathi Kamath Megan Cherry Lynne Holton

Todd Rosen Alicia Whavers Jane Mirvis

MARKETING & PATRON SERVICES Marketing Manager Sales and Audience Development Manager Data Services Manager Patron Services Manager Assistant Patron Services Manager Patron Services Associates

EDUCATION

Acting Studio Teaching Artists

PRODUCTION

Marcus Montgomery Erin Neupauer Vanessa Hamilton Rose Curran Gary Frangione Susan Blumert Jessica Pace Marlene Zyontz

Sam Clemett Chad Colacurcio Caroline Festa Charlie Hudson III

Assistant Production Manager Company Manager

Billy Goheen Sal Fabio

Technical Director Shop Foreman Head Carpenter Carpenters/Riggers

Scenic Charge

Mohamed Haddara Nick Skiba Jake Blanchette Tyler Hughes Ezra Silkes Jim Hancocks

SETS

PROPERTIES Properties Director

COSTUMES

Robert Lavagno

Costume Shop Manager Becky Erlitz Head Draper and Assistant to Costume Shop Manager Kaden Adrian Woolard

Christina Gillespie

FOR THIS PRODUCTION Stage Manager Assistant Stage Manager Commercial General Management

Vincent Paradiso Nicole DelVirginia Catalyst Theatricals: Claire Kedjidjian Katherine Boener Lily Miller Jonah Goldman Chris Singleton

NEW BRUNSWICK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Executive Director Managing Director Director of Patron Services Senior House Manager House Manager Assistant Patron Services Manager Marketing Director Social Media Coordinator Box Office Associate Production Manager/ Lighting Supervisor Deck Supervisor Sound and Video Supervisor Assistant Sound and Video Supervisor LX Programmer and Board Operator A2 Deck Crew

Merissa Buczny Mark Sharp Victoria Muscio Jessica Jasionowski Sadiera Esannason Gwen Streitman Eric Greenberg Shellby Lawless Shellby Lawless Tommy Williamson Jerry Pacheco Joseph Copsetta Prince Bawuah Jack Creegan Chiara DeSantis Christopher Nielsen

For Your Information George Street Playhouse is located at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center 11 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 GeorgeStreetPlayhouse.org • Patron Services: 732-246-7717 AUDIO-DESCRIBED PERFORMANCES

We offer audio-described performances for patrons with visual impairment.

Please call the Patron Services, 732-2467717, for further information. Large print and Braille programs are available upon request.

Audio-described performances are made possible by support from Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc.

CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES

We offer captioned performances for patrons with hearing impairment.

FIRE NOTICE

The exit indicated by the red light and sign nearest to the seat you occupy is the shortest route to the street. In the event of a fire or other emergency, please do not run, WALK TO THE EXIT.

INCLEMENT WEATHER

George Street Playhouse maintains a policy of not canceling performances due to inclement weather. Please call Patron Services, 732-246-7717, if you have any questions.

LATE SEATING POLICY

George Street Playhouse’s accessible programming is made possible in part by Fund for the New Jersey Blind, Inc.

The theatre is open to the public one halfhour prior to the performance. In consideration of all patrons, latecomers will be seated at the discretion of House Management.

ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM

RECORDING EQUIPMENT

For patrons who have a hearing impairment, light-weight, comfortable receivers are available from the NBPAC Concierge desk. If any individual requires special assistance or assistive technology, please contact the Patron Services Manager at 732-246-7717 as far in advance of the program as possible.

Due to copyright and union regulations and restrictions, still cameras, video cameras or any type of recording equipment is not permitted at any time in the theatre and will be confiscated.

SMOKING

The NBPAC is a smoke-free environment.

There is no smoking or vaping in the building.

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