Tuesdays with Morrie Playbill

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Mitch Albom’s TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE

by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Albom

Based on the book by Mitch

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Original New York production produced by David S. Singer, Elizabeth Ireland McCann, Joey Parnes, Amy & Scott Nederlander, Harold Thau, Moira Wilson, Shadowcatcher Entertainment.

Originally presented by New York Stage and Film Company and the Powerhouse Theatre at Vassar College, 2002.

Tuesdays with Morrie was supported by a playwright's residency and public staged readings at the 2001 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT

“The Very Thought of You”

Words and Music by Ray Noble

All rights in the USA administered by Range Road Music, Inc. (ASCAP) All rights in Canada administered by Redwood Music Ltd (PRS)

Presented by Arrangement with Dramatists Play Service www.Dramatists.com

Theatre dramatizes life by compressing time, space, and action.

One of the many reasons Tuesday with Morrie is successful, as both a novel and a play, is its masterful reduction of a 20-year friendship into 90-minutes. The play strips away the mundane of everyday life (all external characters are reduced to offstage references or voiceovers) and exposes those rare moments of connection where love, understanding, and humanity remain central, even transformative.

It is important to understand that Tuesdays with Morrie was not an immediate commercial success. It was rejected by most major publishing houses and its reviews were widely mixed until public opinion and Oprah’s Book Club set it on a record setting course with nearly four years on the New York Times Best Seller list and over 18-million copies sold making it the #1 Best Selling Memoir of all time. Audiences knew what experts didn’t...that a genuine glimpse of human connection would always outweigh commercial success.

The lessons of Morrie Schwartz are universal. “Love is a rational act.” We should all be so lucky to prioritize similarly.

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-Justin Ball

Dan Reichard as Morrie Schwartz

Dan is delighted to be returning to Stage Door Theatre for its 50th Season! Most recently, he appeared as Thomas in 3Some (PushPush Theatre), and as Frank Napoli in the premier of Zaglada (North Carolina Ensemble Stage). Dan has also worked with: Theatrical Outfit, Gainesville Theatre Alliance, Aris Theatre, Stages, and more! Roles include: James in Circle Mirror Transformation, Captain Keller in The Miracle Worker, Joe Keller in All My Sons, Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet, John Merrick in The Elephant Man, The Merchant in Canterbury Tales, Michael in The Freedom of the City, Dr Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Stan in The Tone, Dan’s original one-man show. Thank you for supporting live theatre!

John Romanski as Mitch Albom

John Romanski is thrilled to be returning to Stage Door Theatre for their production of Tuesdays with Morrie. John is a native New Yorker and alumna of the University of South Carolina. After spending two years as a TV News producer – he moved to Atlanta to pursue acting on the stage and screen Previous stage credits include A Christmas Carol, Romeo & Juliet, The Three Musketeers, and Shakespeare in Love. In his free time, you can find John working with a production company he helped co-found called Famously Hot Films, writing music, watching New York Giants football and learning about all things cooking. He thanks his family and friends for their continued support and hopes you enjoy this powerful show!

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Nicholas Gilomen as Mitch (U/S)

Stage Door Debut! Atlanta: Prayer For the French Republic and Jesus Hopped The ‘A’ Train (Actor's Express), Guys and Dolls (Atlanta Lyric Theatre), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Contemporary Classics)

Spongebob The Musical, The Spitfire Grill, Bring It On: The Musical, 24-hour Play Festival, The Coming Out Monologues (Kennesaw State University). Film/TV: Tunnel of Luv, Running the Rat Race, Hidden. Audiobooks: Voice of the Gods books 1-4

Education: BA, Theatre & Performance Studies, Kennesaw State University and Actor’s Express 2022-2023 Apprentice Company.nicholasgilomen.com

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Justin Ball (Director)

Justin Ball is an accomplished producer, educator, director, and theatre manager with over 20 years of leadership experience He has produced shows and events for Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Writers Theatre, Penguin/Random House, and Google. For over a decade, Justin taught theatre management and directing at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts Most recently, Justin served as Managing Director for the Sharon Playhouse helping to transform a local community theatre into a small professional summer stock theatre featuring the industries top talent including Tony Winners Bryce Pinkham, Lindsay Mendez, Karen Ziemba and Academy Award winner Glenn Close. He moved to Atlanta in 2017 where he was a stay-at-home Dad for his now 5-year old daughter Josephine He holds a BFA in Theatre & Dance from Trinity College and an MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College

Juniper Lee Fowler (Stage Manager)

Juniper (They/Them) is honored to be making their Stage Door debut with Tuesdays. Previous shows include: The Wishing Place, Rooted (rehearsal SM/ASM), and Malicious Compliance at Burning Bones Physical Theatre as part of the Alliance’s Resier Arts program IG: CaffeinatedCueCaller96

Sophie Hansuh Im (Set Designer/Prop Master)

Sophie is a Korean-born set and props designer based in Atlanta She specializes in understanding stories, bringing texts and information into tactical and visual presentation, gifting experiences, always working with different minds of creatives who share the same passion in visual storytelling Sophie immerses herself in works that benefit from set, props, puppetry, floral design and she continues to explore more opportunities to expand her portfolio in diverse styles and directions She graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a production design degree in concentration of set design

Lilly Baxley (Sound Designer/Intimacy Coordinator)

Lilly is a Georgia native and stage manager at heart with over ten years of experience leading productions Lilly was the resident assistant stage manager with the Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse for six years before joining Stage Door and works as a freelance artist with the Aurora. Lilly loves stage managing as well as production managing, Intimacy direction, directing, and scenic painting. Her favorite recent project was assistant stage-managing Mary Poppins at the Aurora

David Reingold (Lighting Designer)

David is thrilled to be working on his debut production at Stage Door on a story that he’s loved ever since he read the book in his 9th grade literature class. A recent graduate of Penn State with a BFA in Lighting Design, you may have seen his work around Atlanta with companies including Georgia Ensemble Theatre (Women in Jeopardy; Almost Heaven), Out Front Theatre (Kinky Boots; Ruthless), Atlanta Contemporary Dance Company (Breathe) and Horizon Theatre (Support Group for Men; Rooted) In October David will be designing Counterpoint with Monica Hogan DanceWorks followed by The Prom at Out Front Theatre. davidreingold.net.

Abby Bowers (Costume Designer)

Abby is a costume designer from Atlanta, Georgia She recently graduated from the University of Montevallo in 2022 with a BFA in Costume Design and has worked on shows like (Anon)ymous, The Lightning Thief: A Percy Jackson Musical, and A New Brain She has loved designing for this show and loves the message and heart of it. She hopes to bring more heart into theatre by working on more shows like this.

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