Tick Tick Boom Playbill

Tick, Tick ...BOOM!

By Jonathan Larson

November 8-9, 7:30 pm November 10, 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm Directed by Mitch Nugent Perko Black Box Theatre

Tick, Tick ...BOOM! Book, Music, and Lyrics By Jonathan Larson David Auburn, Script Consultant Vocal Arrangements and Orchestrations by Stephen Oremus Tick, Tick ‌BOOM! was originally produced off-broadway in June, 2001 by Victoria Leacock, Robyn Goodman, Dede Harris, Lorie Cowen Levy, and Beth Smith Tick, Tick ‌BOOM! is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).

All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.MTIShows.com This production will be presented with no intermission.

The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

Cast Michael............................................................................................................................. James Harrison ’22 Jon.......................................................................................................................................Lance Mitchell ’22 Susan.................................................................................................................................Hannah Rowan ’22

Production Staff Director.....................................................................................................................................Mitch Nugent Stage Manager.................................................................................................................Kelsey Snively ’20 Production Designer.........................................................................................................Seth Werner ’06 Assistant Director/Choreographer.............................................................................Irving Gonzalez Music Director......................................................................................................................Mark Zortman Costume Assistant.....................................................................................................Emily Overmyer ’21 Sound Assistant............................................................................................................Taylor Bartoski ’21 Assistant Choreographer...........................................................................................Rebecca Gibbs ’22 Musicians..............................................................................Noah Jensen, Bryan Loy, Nakiyah Wilson Stage Crew.......................................................................................................................Charity Stump ’20 Stiles Colbert ’22

Robert Coppersmith ’22 Joshua Sparrow ’22 Shop Crew........................................................................................................................Kelsey Snively ’20, Kyra Shoemaker ’19, Robert Coppersmith ’22, Lyle Sweppenheiser ’19, Taylor Bartoski ’21, David Tyson ’19, Megan Finney ’21, Melina Eller ’22, Jared Colbert ’22, Sam O’Dea ’22, Craig Babineaux ’19, Vivian Ferris ’19, Arielle Tetro ’21, Emily Overmyer ’21

Front of House Season Poster Design...........................................................................Nichole Marsh, AnyEmDesign Show Poster Design.......................................................................................................Kathryn Mays ’19 PR Photos............................................................................................................................Vivian Ferris ’19 House Manager...............................................................................................................Kyle Tacopina ’19 Box Office...................................................................................................................Taara Muhammad ’21, Charity Stump ’20 Ushers............................................................................................From THE154: Intro to Theatre course

Cast & Crew Biographies Taylor Bartoski (Sound Assistant) is a Sophomore Theatre major and is working on her third show with YCP. She is very passionate about theatre is would like to thank everyone who has supported her throughout the years.

Becca Gibbs (Choreographer Assistant) is a Freshman theatre major from York, PA. Becca was previously an ensemble member in Marie Antoinette here at YCP. They would like to thank the team for allowing them this opportunity.

Irving Gonzalez (Assistant Director/Choreographer) is a performer, director, and choreographer. His work has been recognized by BroadwayWorld.com of Central PA, Theatre Sensation, LNP, Ephrata Review, and the Lancaster Latino newspaper La Voz Hispana. He is an alumnus of The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in NYC. Irving has had the opportunities to study under great mentors from Julliard and the New York City Opera. Previous credits include both regional and national tours, Prima Theatre and the Ephrata Performing Arts Center. He has served as both assistant director and choreographer to Mitch Nugent including Defying Gravity with Stephen Schwartz.

Irv serves as Ephrata High School Theatre Program Director and the Ephrata Performing Arts Center Kids4Kids Youth Programming Director.

James Harrison (Michael) is a freshman Theatre major from Philadelphia. Previous plays include Shrek the Musical, Aida and Songs for a New World. Tick, Tick ...BOOM! will be his first YCP Production.

Noah Jensen (Bassist) is a Music Industry and Recording Technology Major from Topsfield, MA. Tick, Tick…BOOM! will be his first production with YCP. He would like to thank his family, friends for all their support throughout his music career.

Jonathan Larson (Playwright) received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for RENT. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for RENT and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation’s Comendation Award. In 1989 he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical Sitting on the Edge of the Future. In 1988 he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical Superbia, which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. He composed the score for the musical J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. Mr. Larson performed his rock monologue Tick, Tick... BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate and New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to scoring and song writing for Sesame Street, he created music for a number for children’s bookcassettes, including Steven Spielberg’s An American Tail and Land Before Time. Other film scores include work for Rolling Stones magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed and wrote four original songs for Away We Go!, a musical video for children.

RENT, his rock opera based on La Boheme, had its world premiere on February 13, 1996 at New York Theatre Workshop. Mr. Larson died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, ten days before his 36th birthday.

Bryan Loy (Guitarist) is from Harrisburg, PA. Previous productions at YCP include Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play (Guitarist), The Drowsy Chaperone (George) and Pirates of Penzance (Frederic) He would like to thank Professor Delle for another great opportunity to work with YCP theatre!

Lance Mitchell ( Jon) is a freshman at York College he is majoring in theater and minoring in so numerous other things. This is Lance’s first York College Theatre production and he’s excited to further his skills in theatrics here at YCP. Mitch Nugent (Director) is the Executive Artistic Producer of Prima, a contemporary theatre in Lancaster, PA. Mitch’s professional theatre history includes directing (over 50 productions), acting (for nearly 3 million people over 5 years), and producing (over 75 productions). In addition to his work with Prima, Mitch consults for companies and community benefit organizations, specializing in the areas of arts leadership, brand messaging, and special events programming. Mitch is proud father to two young boys, Aiden and Sutter, and husband to Diana. He wishes to congratulate this production team on their passionate efforts to tell the story of Jonathan Larson. See primalancaster.org for more information on Mitch’s work.

Emily Overmeyer (Costume Assistant) is a Sophomore theatre major from Mount Joy, PA. She was also the costume assistant for Speech & Debate and Woman in Black at York College. She would like to thank her family and her professors for supporting her.

Hannah Rowan (Susan) is a freshman theater major from Collegeville, PA. Hannah has been Molly in Annie and Eponine in Les Miserables. She is so excited to be a part of Tick, Tick...BOOM! which is her first production with YCP. Hannah is so thankful to all of her friends and family for their unending love and support throughout her crazy journey to get where she is now. She sends her upmost love to Marusia Griffin Lynn for teaching her everything she knows.

Kelsey Snively (Stage Manager) is a junior Theatre Major from Roebling, NJ. Previous YCP Productions include Woman in Black (Stage Manager), Red Velvet (Betty), and Alice in Wonderland (Mad Hatter). She would like to thank the department for the opportunity to help tell this amazing story.

Nakiyah Wilson (Percussionist) is a junior Music Industry major/Spanish minor from York, PA. Previous productions with YCP include Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play. She would like to thank her family for supporting all of her musical endeavors throughout the years, and the YCP Theatre Division for giving her the opportunity to be a pit musician in yet another one of their wonderful productions.

Mark Zortman (Musical Director) is retired from Central York High School where he was the Choral Director and Director of the Performing Arts Department for 35 years. He is the PA Chapter Director for the Educational Theatre Association. Mark has extensive involvement in shows as a director, producer, musical director, actor, SM, musician and designer.

Division of Theatre Faculty and Staff, Fall 2018 John Hughes, Ed.D..................................Dean, School of Arts, Communications & Global Studies Ken Osowski, DMA.........................................................................................................Department Chair Suzanne Delle, MFA...........................................................Assistant Professor, Division Coordinator Alexis Skinner, MA.......................................................................................................Assistant Professor Seth Werner, BFA.......................................................................................................Production Manager Lauren Wolfe, BFA........................................................................................................Technical Director Allison Altland.........................................................................................................Department Assistant Dan Burke, BFA, Jessica Hillier, BFA, Priscilla Kaufhold, mFA......................................Instructors

The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, part of the Rubenstein Arts Access Program, is generously funded by David M. Rubenstein.

Special thanks to The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust for supporting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

Additional support is provided by The Honorable Stuart Bernstein and Wilma E. Bernstein; and the Dr. Gerald and Paula McNichols Foundation.

Kennedy Center education and related artistic programming is made possible through the generosity of the National Committee for the Performing Arts.

This production is entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF). The aims of this national theater education program are to identify and promote quality in college-level theater production. To this end, each production entered is eligible for a response by a regional KCACTF representative, and selected students and faculty are invited to participate in KCACTF programs involving scholarships, internships, grants and awards for actors, directors, dramaturgs, playwrights, designers, stage managers and critics at both the regional and national levels.

Productions entered on the Participating level are eligible for invitation to the KCACTF regional festival and may also be considered for national awards recognizing outstanding achievement in production, design, direction and performance.

Last year more than 1,500 productions were entered in the KCACTF involving more than 200,000 students nationwide. By entering this production, our theater department is sharing in the KCACTF goals to recognize, reward, and celebrate the exemplary work produced in college and university theaters across the nation.

LATE SEATING: Latecomers will be seated at the direction of House Management.

WHEELCHAIR ACCOMODATIONS: Seating is available on main floor. Please inform us of specific wheelchair seating arrangements when ordering tickets.

SMOKING POLICY: For each theatre there is a no-smoking policy.

PLEASE SILENCE ALL CELL PHONES, WATCHES, PAGERS OR ANY OTHER DEVICES THAT MAKE NOISE! THE USE OF CAMERAS, VIDEO CAMERAS AND OTHER RECORDING DEVICES IS STRCITLY FORBIDDEN. The photographing or sound recording of any performance or the possession of any device for such photographing or sound recording inside this theatre, without written permission is prohibited by law.

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INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY: YCP makes every attempt not to cancel any performances. If the college is closed the event will be canceled. Please check local media sources such as the YCP website for any updates of cancelation.

REST ROOMS: Rest rooms are located on both the first and second floor. The main rest rooms are located on the first floor.

LOST & FOUND: Lost and found articles are kept in the Box Office for 10 days.

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Please watch your step when you enter and leave the theatre. Also, for your safety, please do not leave your seats until the house lights come on at the end of the performance.

CONTACT INFORMATION York College of Pennsylvania Theatre Division 441 Country Club Road York, PA, 17403 Box Office: 717-600-3868 Website: www.ycp.edu/theatre FALL 2019 BOX OFFICE HOURS: Mondays 1 pm-4 pm, Tuesdays from 2 pm-4 pm, Wednesdays from 1 pm-4 pm, Thursdays from 2pm-3pm, and an hour before all performances through intermission.

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