The Academy@pbd presents Songs for a New World

presents

songs for a new world

Music and Lyrics

by Jason Robert Brown

Sponsored by Mary Keymer and the Sean Boneri Creative Fellowship

Don & Ann Brown Theatre

Theatre To Think About

Theatre To Think About 2023/24 SEASON

LOBBY HERO

By Kenneth Lonergan

October 13 - 29, 2023

Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his by-the-book boss, a rookie cop and her macho partner – face moral and ethical dilemmas in this comic drama by the Academy Awardwinning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea. The play explores issues of racism and sexism, and whether it’s ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right reason.

THE MESSENGER

By Jenny Connell Davis

December 8 - 24, 2023

A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or remaining silent for the sake of self-preservation. Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, the play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.

THE CANCELLATION OF LAUREN FEIN

By Christopher Demos-Brown

February 2 - 18, 2024

Marsha & Stephen Rabb

Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live with Dylan, their 16-year-old African American foster son whom they’ve cared for since he was a baby. When Professor Fein’s actions run afoul of the university’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies, her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in jeopardy.

DEATH OF A SALESMAN

By Arthur Miller

March 29 - April 14, 2024

Executive Producers

Toni & Martin Sosnoff

Producers

Nancy Goodes

Ruth Baum

This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote in his memoir, was “to count.” Or as Willy’s wife, Linda, implores, “Attention must be paid.”

TRYING

By Joanna McClelland Glass

May 24 - June 9, 2024

Stephen Brown & Jamie Stern

In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. The brilliant Biddle is now frail, sometimes befuddled, and always irascible. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people navigating their vast differences to form a bond of mutual admiration, consideration, and respect.

Executive Producer Mrs. Roberta Golub

WORLD PREMIERE

Executive Producers

WORLD PREMIERE Executive Producers

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songs for a new world

Producing Artistic Director

William Hayes

Managing Director

Sue Ellen Beryl Director

Gary Cadwallader

Assistant Director

Elizabeth Dimon

Music Director

Joshua Lubben

Vocal Director

Paul Tine

Costume Designer

Brian O’Keefe

Lighting Designer

Addie Pawlick

Sound Engineer/Designer

Roger Arnold

Production Stage Manager

Tyler B. Osgood

Stage Manager

Caroline Castleman

Original

June 30 at 7pm

July 1 at 7pm

July 2 at 2pm

Theatre To Think About

Assistant Stage Managers

Alivia Adams

Jacob Quartell

Songs for a New World is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Any video/and or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.

Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

Originally produced by WPA Theatre, New York City, 1995

Kyle Renick, Producing Artistic Director

Orchestrations by Brian Besterman and Jason Robert Brown

presents

Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

CAST

Isabela Aronson

Nicolette Clivio

Nisa Guvenilir

Connor Hullender

JJ Korkin

MUSICIANS

Joshua Lubben: Piano

Michael Lubben: Violin, Guitar

Tom Lubben: Violin, Viola, Bass

Jorge Sebastian: Drums/Percussion

MUSICAL NUMBERS

ACT 1

“The New World”

“On the Deck of a Spanish Sailing Ship, 1492”

“Just One Step”

“I’m Not Afraid of Anything”

“The River Won’t Flow”

“Stars and the Moon”

“She Cries”

“The Steam Train”

ACT 2

“The World Was Dancing”

“Surabaya-Santa”

“Christmas Lullaby”

“King of the World”

“I’d Give It All for You”

“The Flagmaker, 1775”

“Flying Home”

“Final Transition”

“Hear My Song”

ISABELA ARONSON is a rising senior musical theatre major at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. She has previously appeared in productions of The Lion King (dance ensemble), Beauty and the Beast (Belle), The Little Mermaid (Ariel), The Drowsy Chaperone (Trix), Pippin (featured ensemble), and worked on technical aspects of Pride and Prejudice, Lost Girl, and Shakespeare in Love. Isabela is incredibly excited to be in this production!

NICOLETTE CLIVIO is 17, and an incoming senior at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. You may have seen her in Dreyfoos’ mainstage productions of Pippin and Little Shop of Horrors. Nicolette also attends French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts, where she has appeared in shows including Guys and Dolls and Damn Yankees. This is Nicolette’s first production at PBD, and she is thrilled to be involved in such an amazing show. She would like to thank her wonderful cast, crew, and creative team for all of their hard work and dedication to this production.

NISA GUVENILIR is appearing in her first show with PBD. She has been doing theatre for about seven years, and her recent notable appearances were as Caroline in The Theory of Relativity and Ernestina in Hello, Dolly! at Boca Raton Community High School. She is most grateful to be a part of Songs for a New World and has learned so much from the rehearsal process. She thanks her friends and family and cannot wait for you all to enjoy the show!

CONNOR HULLENDER started his theatre career at the age of six, and has appeared in many shows over the years. Favorite roles include Adolpho in The Drowsy Chaperone, Leaf Coneybear in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and John Brooke in Little Women, all at the Performing

Arts Academy of Jupiter, as well as Cinderella’s Prince in Into The Woods and Mike Costa in A Chorus Line, both at Bak MSOA. This is his first time working with PBD and his first professional production.

JJ KORKIN is a rising junior at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, and is delighted to be making her debut with PBD. Her credits include The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona), Pippin (Berthe), Grease (Rizzo), The Drowsy Chaperone (Drowsy Chaperone), Little Women (Jo), In the Heights (Abuela Claudia), The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy), and many others! JJ is vocally trained by Ricky Nahas. She would like to thank her family and friends for all their love and support.

JASON ROBERT BROWN (Composer/Lyricist) is a gifted multi-hyphenate: a skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director, and performer. He won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score for his seminal Parade – a new Broadway production recently won the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival – and Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestration for The Bridges of Madison County in 2014. Songs for a New World, staged Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in 1995, was his first produced show. He also wrote the scores for The Last Five Years, 13, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Mr. Saturday Night, and composed the music for The Trumpet of the Swan, an acclaimed children’s symphony based on E.B. White’s classic novel, which he adapted with playwright Marsha Norman. Jason has performed in concerts around the world, as a soloist or with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, and has released several albums. He spent ten years teaching at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, and has also taught at Harvard University, Princeton University, and Emerson College. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802. jasonrobertbrown.com.

GARY CADWALLADER

(Director) has been the director of education and community engagement at PBD since 2016. He created PBD’s theAcademy@pbd, the One Humanity Tour program, the Young Playwrights 10-Minute Play Contest and 1-Minute Play Contest, Dramawise, and more. As an actor, Gary has appeared at PBD in Twelve Angry Men (Juror 4), Arcadia (Captain Brice), and 1776 (John Adams). He has performed and directed around the country: highlights include Inherit the Wind (Hornbeck) at Northern Stage; Kabuki Medea, M. Butterfly, and The Great Gatsby at Chicago’s Wisdom Bridge Theater; the Emcee in the national tour of Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story; and roles at ZACH Theatre. Film and TV: A League of Their Own and numerous national commercials. He has a BA in theatre from St. Edward’s University, and an MFA in acting from Western Illinois University. Gary is the immediate past president of Florida Theatre Conference, and is a proud member of SAGAFTRA and AEA.

ELIZABETH DIMON

(Assistant Director) is happy to be back working with Gary Cadwallader and Josh Lubben, bringing stories to musical life with these talented and dedicated students. She was also Gary’s assistant director on the Academy’s production of Edges, and the Young Playwrights Festival. Beth is more familiar to PBD audiences as an actor, having appeared in many productions here since 2003, including Ordinary Americans, Souvenir, All My Sons, The Spitfire Grill, Berlin to Broadway, and Picnic, among others. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity, a multiple Carbonell winner, and a current fellow with the Cultural Council of the Palm Beaches.

JOSHUA LUBBEN (Music Director) is an award-winning, multi-instrumentalist music director, and composer/singer-songwriter. He performs nationally while writing, recording, and developing new music. His favorite theatre credits include PBD’s productions of Woody Guthrie’s American Song (actor, musician) and The Spitfire Grill (music director, musician), Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival’s Twelfth Night (composer, actor, musician), and Palm Beach

Atlantic University’s Modou, an adaptation of Macbeth set during the Haitian revolution (composer, musician). He has also written the score for a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, a piano score for PBD’s production of Intimate Apparel, and multiple musicals and scores in collaboration with his brothers, Michael and Tom. The Lubben Brothers’ original recordings have been featured on Netflix, NPR’s Live from Here, and on radio throughout the country. Their newest album, “’Bout Time,” is currently in production and will release to all digital platforms later this year.

PAUL TINE (Vocal Director) is a Carbonell and Silver Palm Award-winning music director from Connecticut, who currently teaches private voice and piano lessons at North Broward Preparatory School in Coconut Creek. He studied piano, voice, and politics at Ithaca College and sang with Ithacappella. As a baritone with the professional choir CONCORA, he was a featured soloist in symphonic concerts under the baton of Dr. Chris Shepard. Passionate about helping bring new works to life, Paul recently conducted the staged reading of the musical Dr. Silver as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival in Costa Mesa, CA, and music directed the 2019 world premiere of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover at Faena Hotel Miami Beach.

BRIAN O’KEEFE (Costume Design) began designing for PBD in 2009, became costume shop manager and resident designer in 2015, and has designed over 60 shows here. He has received 11 Carbonell Award nominations, winning for Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Lion in Winter, and A Doll’s House, and was a Silver Palm Award recipient in 2022. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, he spent his earlier career as a patternmaker for the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC and major costume houses in New York, including Barbara Matera, Ltd., Parsons-Meares, Michael-Jon Costumes, and Eaves-Brooks. He was later resident designer, principal patternmaker, and shop manager for Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach, spending 16 years designing over 75 productions and supervising 90 more. Other regional design credits: Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Winter Park Playhouse, St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, University of Central Florida. Other regional patterning credits: Alabama and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, and Stages St. Louis.

ADDIE PAWLICK (Lighting Designer) is in her second season with PBD as head electrician. Houston lighting design credits include The Landing Theatre Company: Wanda, Daisy and the Great Rapture (Laura Award for Exceptional Service in Lighting Design) and CAUGHT; Rec Room: Pass Over, The Children, and Woyzeck; A.D. Players: Unplugged and Stuart Little. At Virginia’s Mill Mountain Theatre: Legally Blonde and High School Musical. Assistant lighting design credits include The Realistic Joneses (4th Wall Theatre Company); Elf (Theatre Under The Stars); The Hiding Place and Tuesdays With Morrie (A.D. Payers); Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Hamlet, and The Comedy of Errors (Houston Shakespeare Festival); On the Exhale, Hansel and Gretel, and The Royale (Rec Room). University of Houston lighting design credits include Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Dear Charlotte, The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls, Three Sisters, and Topdog/Underdog (finalist for Best Lighting Design, Houston Theatre Awards). addiepawlick.com

ROGER ARNOLD (Sound Engineer/Designer) has been a freelance sound engineer and designer for over 35 years. He is a voting member of both NARAS (the Grammys) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES.org). Roger became an educator of music technology in 2006 and was the senior music technology professor at the University of New Haven. During his tenure there, he designed and provided sound for The Rocky Horror Show, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Spring Awakening. In 2018, he relocated to South Florida, and in 2019 he became sound engineer and resident sound designer for PBD, where his credits include Topdog/Underdog, August: Osage County, The Science of Leaving Omaha, Twelve Angry Men, 4000 Miles, The Belle of Amherst, Intimate Apparel, The Duration, Almost, Maine, The People Downstairs, and Skylight. BA in music and sound recording, University of New Haven. MA in music technology, University of Newcastle.

TYLER B. OSGOOD (Production Stage Manager) is in his second season at PBD as the resident assistant stage manager. Regional credits include The Sound of Music, Songs Under the Stars, The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show, Holiday Heroes 2019, A Christmas Carol 2019, and Sunday in the Park with George at ZACH Theatre; A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol 2018, Detroit ’67, and The Age of Innocence at McCarter Theatre. Tyler is a proud graduate of Texas State University, where he earned his BFA in theatre technology and production.

CAROLINE CASTLEMAN (Stage Manager) is excited to bring you this show with some wonderful students. Credits include the Young Playwrights 10-Minute and 1-Minute Play Contests (2023) and the One Humanity Tour (2022) at PBD; Ripcord, Pride and Prejudice, and Hazardous Materials at Creede Repertory Theatre. Thank you!

ALIVIA ADAMS (Assistant Stage Manager) is an upcoming junior at A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, and majors in technical theatre. Alivia has stage managed Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, and assistant stage managed Shakespeare in Love and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She also participates in costume, scenic, lighting, and prop crews at DSOA. She is excited to be working with the talented cast and production team on this show.

JACOB QUARTELL (Assistant Stage Manager) is a rising sophomore at G-Star High School of the Arts, where he is doing both theatre and film. He began his theatre career in the third grade as an actor, but found his true love in tech during his time at Bak Middle School of the Arts. While there, he went to the Junior International Thespian Society, where he won an award for Outstanding Stage Manager for She Kills Monsters. In the past, Jacob stage managed The Cagebirds and assistant stage managed Once Upon a Mattress. Jacob is excited to help stage manage Songs for a New World!

Palm Beach Dramaworks Staff

Executive

Producing Artistic Director

Managing Director

Chief Financial & Operating Officer

Administrative

Business & HR Director

Development Manager

Director of Education & Community Engagement

Marketing Coordinator

Company & House Manager

The Dramaworkshop Manager

Box Office & Group Sales Manager

Assistant Box Office & House Manager

Box Office Associate

Box Office Associate

Production

Production Manager

Sound Engineer/Designer

Costume Shop Manager/Resident Costume Designer

Resident Director

Resident Lighting Designer

Head of Properties

Charge Scenic Artist/Carpenter

Wardrobe Supervisor

Associates

Writer/Editor

Marketing Consultant

Bookkeeper

Poster Artwork

Graphic Designers

William Hayes

Sue Ellen Beryl

Rudina Toro

Lara Garcia

Linda Berman

Gary Cadwallader

Kenzie Frysztak

Pierre Tannous

Bruce Linser

Mark Sullivan

Darius Rivera

Desmond Lewis

Joseph Montagnino

Michael Amico

Roger Arnold

Brian O'Keefe

J. Barry Lewis

Kirk Bookman

Doug Wilkinson

Rebecca Pancoast

John Santillan

Sheryl Flatow

Jennifer Sardone-Shiner

Themis Quiros

Paul Gaschler

Brad Brett, Jackie D'Onofrio

Young Playwrights Contest

10-Minute: Our goal is to introduce the joy of writing for the live theatre to young people, and to give teens a creative voice in expressing their thoughts and ideas. Our program encourages students to write about subjects that are meaningful to them, and to give educators tools to incorporate playwriting into their theatre or language arts classrooms.

1-Minute: Our mission is to motivate young people to learn about themselves and their individuality, and to inspire creativity by giving them a voice in fashioning their own unique stories. Our program recognizes how important it is for students to write pieces that reflect who they are and what they’re thinking at this moment in time.

The One Humanity Tour

The One Humanity Tour is a free, professional touring program for middle school students created exclusively for the School District of Palm Beach County. This program was designed to use storytelling to develop informed, thoughtful, and compassionate citizens, and provides a stimulating discussion following the performance.

Free Student Matinees

Free school-day performances to our season productions include a post-performance talkback, a teacher resource guide with curriculum connections, and bus transportation, if needed.

PBD is committed to offering rigorous, professional-level training for both teen actors and stage managers, and creating a safe and positive environment for optimal learning.

The ‘Lit’ Theatre Project

Essay competition presented by Palm Beach Dramaworks.

Underwritten by Kids’ Dreams.

Kids’ Dreams proudly underwrites a special production of the play Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan for students from various Title 1 Palm Beach County high schools.

Students will read the play as part of their high school curriculum, thereby satisfying specific Florida credit requirements. The play focuses on the issues of responsible decision-making; ethics; corruption and bias based upon social and economic status. After reading the play, students will each write an essay on the themes as related to their lives.

Five winners of the essay competition will be announced at the special matinee performance for the students. Each classroom with a winning student will also be presented with an award for classroom supplies.

The Legacy Project

Each year, mature members of the LGBTQ community are paired with LGBTQ youth from the Compass Youth Program. The youth interview their partners and then compile the interviews into digital stories. Those digital stories are combined with live stage performances at Palm Beach Dramaworks to produce a highly memorable and emotional night.

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