Friends! The Musical Parody at Marathon Center for the Performing Arts | November 19, 2021

Right Angle Entertainment

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T H E CA S T RIGHT ANGLE ENTERTAINMENT ALISON SPIRITI & JUSTIN SUDDS, CO-FOUNDERS present

Book & Lyrics BOB & TOBLY McSMITH

Production Scenic JOSHUA WARNER

NICK ANASTASIA as Ross

MAGGIE McMEANS as Monica

JENNA CORMEY as Phoebe

DOMENIC SERVIDIO as Joey

DANA CULLINANE as Swing/Dance Captain

AC RUTHERFORD as Chandler & Others

Music & Orchestrations ASSAF GLEIZNER

Costume Design DAVID RIGLER

Lighting Design BRIAN TOVAR

Prod. Mngr./Prod. Sound MATTHEW FISCHER

Music Director ETHAN ANDERSEN

Wig Designer CONOR DONNELLY

Associate Director JOYAH LOVE SPANGLER

General Management RIGHT ANGLE ENT. TYLER SOLTIS

Producer RIGHT ANGLE ENT. JIM LANAHAN

Marketing Management RIGHT ANGLE ENT. ANDREA ANDRADE YARNI POLAND

Choreographer BILLY GRIFFIN

BRETT CALO as Swing

WHOʼS WHO I N T H E CA ST

Director

TIM DRUCKER

PRODUCTION STAFF Company Manager & Vocal Captain: Luke Meyer Production Stage Manager: Ryan Barto Wardrobe Supervisor/Associate Production Manager: Sarah Lord Head Audio: Joshua Weidenbaum

SETTING ‘NYC in the ‘90’s’ There will be one 15 minute intermission.

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LAUREN J. BELL as Rachel

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Lauren J. Bell (Rachel) is ecstatic to join the Friends family! Lauren graduated from WCSU for Theatre Performance and Communication. Recent credits include: The Office! A Murder Mystery Parody as Michael Scott, Numbers, and Pippin.

Laurenjbell.com Nick Anastasia (Ross) Past professional credits include: Hair (Claude, International Tour); Voca People (Tenoro, Off-Broadway*/National/International Tours, *Lucille Lortel Award); Monster Jam (Host/Announcer, Fox Sports 1); The Love Note (Adam, Original Off-Broadway Cast); In The Heights (Sonny, Regional Premiere); Scab (ft. Alice Ripley); The Office! A Musical Parody (Michael Scott, World Premiere); Disney Cruise

Line, Royal Caribbean, & Celebrity Cruises. BIG love to this amazing team for making “my day, my week, my month...even my year.” Instagram: @nottherussianprincess Maggie McMeans (Monica) is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was recently seen in the national tour of George Orwell’s 1984 and Weekenders (Amazon Prime). Instagram: @coolbeansmcmeans AC Rutherford (Chandler & Others) would like to acknowledge that we are performing on stolen land (Landback.org for more information). Instagram: @acr.cool

WHOʼS WHO I N T H E CA ST Jenna Cormey (Phoebe) is so grateful to be safe, vaccinated, & reunited with her FRIENDS. She sends her love to her incredible support system, especially her mom, grandma, and “lobster” (TJ).

JennaCormey.com. Instagram: @jennacormey Domenic Servidio (Joey) is very happy that he survived the pandemic and very happy that YOU did as well. Let us share this moment tonight together to celebrate all that we have lost but more importantly all that we have learned. Instagram: @domdomservidio

Dana Cullinane (Swing) is a graduate of Otterbein University with a BFA in Musical Theatre. She is joining the Friends family this fall after strutting her stuff in Kinky Boots at Arts Center Coastal Carolina. Pre-pandemic she lived in Japan for a year working as a Main stage performer in Tokyo Disneyland. Other credits include: Audrey(Little Shop of Horrors) and Magenta (Rocky Horror).

Brett Calo (Swing) is thrilled to join this cast.

Recent credits include Robert Martin in Emma (ETC), Rolf Gruber in The Sound of Music (Plan B), and Michael Donnelly in Quantum (Native Voices/La Jolla Playhouse). Thank you, FSE family! brettcalo.com Bob and Tobly McSmith (Writers) are best friends who created nine parody musicals over 15 years. Their musicals have played in New York, Toronto, London, Chicago, Las Vegas, and two national tours. Tobly McSmith is author of Stay Gold, a young adult novel about love, staying true to yourself, and transgender issues. Published by HarperCollins Stay Gold was selected as Amazon, Audible, and Indie Bookstore Best of May 2020.

He has created The Stay Gold Fund to provide financial assistance for gender affirming health care to transgender and non-binary people in need.

Bob and Tobly parody musicals include: FRIENDS!

The Musical Parody (New York, Las Vegas, US and UK tour); The Office! A Musical Parody (New York and US Tour); Bayside! The Saved by the Bell The Musical (upsetting Andrew Lloyd Weber), 90210! The Parody Musical! (New York and Chicago); Showgirls! The Musical Parody (New York, San Francisco); Full House! The Musical Parody (Starring Perez Hilton), Love Actually! The Parody Musical (New York, upcoming US tour), and Parks & Rec! The Musical Parody (Coming Fall 2021).

They are hard at work on their next musical: Sopranos: On Ice! A Figure Skating Parody.

Assaf Gleizner (Music & Orchestration) was born and raised in Israel. He is a Grammy nominated composer, MD, orchestrator, and arranger both in NYC and around the world for the past 10 years.

Assaf’s favorite credits include: Broadway: Arts For Autism - Featuring Kelly O’Hara, Julia Murney (Gershwin Theater). Orchestrator, Arranger.

Off-Broadway/Tour: The Office! A Musical Parody (The Theater Center, North America Tour), 90210!

The Musical (Theater 80, Chicago)) Composer, Orchestrator. Regional: The Swingaroos (Florida Studio Theater) Composer, MD. Cassandra (Proctor’s Theater) MD, Orchestrator. Other: Show Choir!

The Musical - Featuring Christiane Noll (NYC) Orchestrations. The Wolf, (NC & NYC) Orchestrator. Assaf is also a member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Tim Drucker (Director) returns to Friends! after directing the 2018-2019 North American tour. Previously at the Orbach: the holiday smash Love Actually? the musical parody. Thrilled to be returning to live theater. TimDrucker.com Billy Griffin is a NYC based maker and shaker.

Check out @sillybillygriffin on Instagram and BillyGriffinOnline.com to learn more. Much love to Tim, the cast/crew, Right Angle Entertainment, family, friends, his agent Sofia at CESD, his husband Alex and their furbaby Archie.

WHOʼS WHO I N T H E CA ST Ethan Andersen (Music Director) Select credits: Saturday Night Fever national tour, Mean Girls, BCEFA’s Easter Bonnet, Elon University’s Music Theatre program. Proud member of the Local 802 AFM, BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, ASCAP, and Dramatists Guild. Ethan-Andersen.com.

Joyah Love Spangler (Associate Director/Choreographer) Director/Choreographer: Bottom Gun, Rocky Horror, 30 Minute Thrones (Reckless Theatre) My Fair Bernie (Flea) ChoreographerNot For Resale (NYU), The Dolls of New Albion (NTSA), Bubble Boy (5th Floor Theatre), Longest Road (Tank), and Ghost Girl (Web Series).

JoyahLoveSpangler.com Joshua Warner (Scenic Design) has designed nearly 100 live performances throughout NYC, regionally, and internationally; as well as numerous credits in virtual theater, film, television + special events. Staff and resident scenic designer at York College. BFA: Emerson College. MFA: Brooklyn College. JoshuaWarnerDesign.com. Instagram: @joshuawarnerdesign David Rigler (Costume Design) FRIENDS! The Musical Parody (Off-Broadway, Las Vegas, North American Tour), Booth Variations (Off-Broadway), Red Maple (Capitol Rep, World Premier), Suds! (The Grange, VT), Xanadu (The Ritz. NJ), Beauty and the Beast (The Fireside, WI), The Fourposter (Contemporary Stage Company, DE), Ringling Brothers Hometown Edition (Feld Entertainment), Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Rhythms of Rio Parade (20th Century Fox Land, Kuala Lumpur), Straight Outta Oz Tour (Todrick Hall), People Magazine Investigates Cults (Investigation Discovery). Graduate New York University.

Member United Scenic Artists, Local 829. DavidRiglerDesigns.com

Brian Tovar (Lighting Design) Off-Broadway: The View Upstairs, Wild Goose Dreams, Tamar of The River (Drama Desk nomination), Sex Tips, And She Would Stand Like This, The Wildness, Eager To Lose, The Lapsburgh Layover, City Of, The Underclassman, Sex Tips, Sleeping Rough, Spidermusical, Accidentally Like a Martyr, The Wendy Complex, The Wendigo, among others. REGIONAL: Goodspeed, Signature, Denver Center, Barrington, Two River, Northern Stage. Live Event: Original 29Rooms (Clio Award) Hall of Magic (Clio Award), and Museum of Ice Cream, among others.

BrianTovarDesign.com Instagram: @tovarbr Matthew Fischer (Production Manager/Production Sound) is a Los Angeles based Production Manager, Sound Designer, and Photographer.

Previous Sound Design credits include the Off Broadway premiers of Love Actually! A Musical Parody; The Office! A Musical Parody; and Vanity Fair. When not sound designing, Matthew can be found production managing a variety of titles in conjunction with Right Angle Entertainment at their main office in Los Angeles. Notable credits include Sasha Velour’s Smoke and Mirrors; The Price is Right! Live; and Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer: The Musical (National Tour). For Pepper and Ginger.

Conor Donnelly (Wig Design) is a wig designer and hair stylist in New York. The Office! A Musical Parody; Forbidden Broadway: Next Generation; Love Actually! A Musical Parody (Off-Broadway); Engeman Theater: Million Dollar Quartet (Regional). Instagram: @Bitchcraft Sarah Lord (Wardrobe Supervisor/Associate Production Manager) is thrilled to be back with Right Angle! Originally from Wisconsin and a UWParkside graduate, she now lives in sunny Florida.

She’s worked all around the country with regional theaters as a Wardrobe Supervisor. Thanks mom, for everything.

WHOʼS WHO I N T H E CA ST Ryan Barto (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning to Central Perk! Other credits include: The Office! A Musical Parody (off-Broadway/National Tour); Love, Actually?

The Unauthorized Musical Parody; and One Woman Sex and the City. @ryandavidbarto Luke Meyer (Company Manager/Vocal Captain) is thrilled to continue his work with Right Angle Entertainment by returning to Friends! He’s previously managed The Office! A Musical Parody, Sasha Velour’s Smoke and Mirrors, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Musical. Instagram: @lukemeyer Joshua Weidenbaum is an audio engineer, sound designer, and theatre artist. He earned a B.A. in technical theatre from East Stroudsburg University where he sound designed, mixed, and acted in several shows. His post-college work has mainly consisted of audio mixing for several Off Broadway shows such as The Office! A Musical Parody and Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody.

He greatly looks forward to taking his career on the road for the first time with Friends! The Musical Parody’s North American Tour.

Tyler Soltis (General Management) is a 20 year veteran of theatrical tour management who has led productions in all 50 states and over 30 countries.

Right Angle productions include Friends! The Musical Parody, Tarantino Live, and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer:The Musical.

Jim Lanahan spent two decades producing, managing and marketing Broadway shows for Disney, The Dodgers, Cameron Macintosh and Andrew

Lloyd Webber before joining Blue Man Group to lead global re-branding in advance of their 25thAnniversary. Currently, Jim serves at VP, Operations and Production for Right Angle Entertainment. He also hosts the wildly popular lifestyle and celebrity interview podcast Jim Lanahan and Friends available on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play.

Right Angle Entertainment specializes in the production, marketing, management and distribution of live theatrical, digital and concert events.

RAE’s proud roster includes: America’s Got Talent Live!; The Price is Right Live!; The Masked Singer National Tour; The Simon & Garfunkel Story; The Office! A Musical Parody (New York City and National Tour); Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: The Musical; Together Live with Abby Wambach and Glennon Doyle; Sasha Velour’s Smoke & Mirrors Tour; among many others. Recently, Right Angle Entertainment have been trailblazers in the theatrical space producing safe, outdoor and immersive productions including the Art Heist Experience; The Office! A Musical Parody; and the current Los Angeles hit, CLUE Live! A Walking Experience.

We at Friends! The Musical Parody! are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We support and stand with Black Lives Matter, Anti-AAPI hate, women’s rights, and rights for LGBTQIA+ especially Trans, Non-binary & GNC Rights.