Season 11 – 2022

PETER AND THE STARCATCHER CAST

Boy/Peter A.R. ROSSOMANDO
Black Stache CHARLIE ROPPOLO
Molly Aster THERESA JOHNSON
Mrs. Bumbrake TYLER GARRETT
Bill Slank/Hawking Clam EMMA GREER
Alf CHANNING HALL
Prentiss CAMREN HOHN
Grempkin/Fighting Prawn CASSIDY JONES
Captain Robert Falcon Scott CHRISTIAN PERKINS
Ted KALLIE PIERCE
Smee SABRINA SCOTT
Lord Leonard Aster TUCKER “PJ” SOUTHER

ABOUT PETER AND THE STARCATCHER

Opened: March 17, 2022
Closed: March 20, 2022
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Based on the best-selling novels, Peter and the Starcatcher is the “absurdly funny, fantastical story” (Entertainment Weekly) that upends the century-old tale of how a miserable orphan boy becomes the legendary Peter Pan. In this 5 time Tony®-winning play, a dozen brilliant actors play more than 100 unforgettable characters using their enormous talent, ingenious stagecraft and the limitless possibilities of imagination. This swashbuckling grownup prequel to Peter Pan will have you hooked from the moment you let your imagination take flight.

A Play By | RICK ELICE
with Music By | WAYNE BARKER
Based on the Novel By Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

Originally produced on Broadway by Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price, Tom Smedes,
and Disney Theatrical Productions.

Chair, Centenary Theater Program | DON HOOPER
Producer | LOGAN SLEDGE
Direction & Movement | JARED WATSON
Musical Direction & Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Technical Direction | ALAN BERRY
Choreography | KATIE LERCHIE
Lighting Design | DANIEL SALAZAR
Puppet & Costume Design | CANDY HUGGINS
Sound Design | BARRY BUTLER

DESCENDANTS CAST
Mal BELLA MAINIERO
Evie CELESTE MALMAY
Jay DARION ELIE
Carlos FORDHAM HAMMOND
Maleficent ANNA MARIA SPARKE
Grimhilde KATIE LERCHIE
Jafar SAMUEL COPELAND
Cruella de Vil CARA DERRICK
Ben CHRISTIAN PERKINS
King Beast ARMS BROWN
Queen Belle KEZIA PIGFORD
Fairy Godmother JAYA McSHARMA
Jane CAROLANNE ADAMS
Chad BRYCE TURNER
Audrey CLAIRE KEVIL
Doug DANE BOGOSIAN
Royal Page RAY EVANS
Maurice BRIAN SMITH
Coach TIANNA ANDREWS
Snow White KAITLYN BUNDRICK-BROWN
Tinker Bell MANDY HAMMOND
Aurora GLENDA JOHNSON
Cinderella KASIE MAINIERO
Pocahontas MINNIE MALMAY
Ensemble SHAY BEATTY, CHARLEY BOOTH, ANNASYN BURLISON, NATALIE DAVIS, NICHOLE DONAHOE, MAC DENHAM, AMELIA DOWNEY, EMERSON FITE, EMERSON JONES, BRYANNA LACEY, SAMUEL MENARD, ALYSON PEYTON, JULIANA PORTIE, JERSEY SHADOIN, ELIZABETH SHOUP, AVA SMITH, ABIGAIL WEYERMULLER

 

ABOUT DESCENDANTS

Opened: May 19, 2022
Closed: May 22, 2022
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Based on the popular Disney Channel Original Movies, Descendants is a brand-new musical comedy featuring the beloved characters and hit songs from the films!
It is present-day, and in the kingdom of Auradon, all of Disney’s beloved heroes and royalty are living happily ever after, safe from the terrifying villains and troublesome sidekicks they have banished to the magic-free Isle of the Lost. That is until Ben, the benevolent teenage son of Belle and King Adam (The Beast), offers a chance of redemption for the troublemaking offspring of the evilest villains. Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos – the children of Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Cruella De Vil, and Jafar – are welcomed to Auradon Prep to attend school with the children of their parents’ sworn enemies. Now entering a completely foreign world and way of life, the four Villain Kids have a difficult choice to make: should they follow in their parents’ wicked footsteps or learn to be good?

Book & Additional Lyrics | NICK BLAEMIRE
Music Adaptation, Vocal and Incidental Arrangements | MADELINE SMITH
Music Producer & Orchestrations | MATTHEW TISHLER
Songs | JOHAN ALKENAS, ADAM ANDERS, ARISTEIDIS ARCHONTIS, ANTONINA ARMATO, HOWARD ASHMAN, PAR ASTROM, STEPHEN MARK CONLEY, DOUG DAVIS, CHARITY DAW, ANDREW C. DODD, JOSH EDMONDSON, PIPO FERNANDEZ, NIKKI HASSMAN, SAMUEL HOLLANDER, BEN HOSTELER, TIM JAMES PRICE, HANNA JONES, JACK KUGELL, CRAIG LASHLEY, ANDREW LIPPA, JEANNIE LURIE, ALAN MENKEN, GRANT PHILLIP MICHAELS, ANTHONY MIRABELLA, SHAYNA MORDUE, CHEN NEEMAN, SUSAN PAROFF, SHELLY M. PEIKEN, JOACIM PERSSON, JAMES K. PETRIE, ADAM SCHLESINGER, ADAM SCHMALHOLZ, TYLER SHAMY, JODIE SHIHADEH, NIKKI ANNE SORRENTINO, THOMAS ARMATO STURGES, ALI DEE THEODORE, MATTHEW WONG, DAVID ZIPPEL
Based on the Disney Channel Original Movies

Direction | JARED WATSON
Choreography | KATIE LERCHIE
Musical Direction | SETH TAYLOR
Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR & JARED WATSON
Lighting Design | SAMUEL COPELAND
Costume Design | CANDY HUGGINS
Sound Design | BARRY BUTLER & BRYAN GRISHAM

KINKY BOOTS CAST
Charlie Price CADE OSTERMEYER
Young Charlie MAXIMUS WOOLEY
Lola/Simon CORDARA NEWSON
Young Lola/Simon LACEE SMITH
Nicola MARY GRACE HUMPHRIES
Lauren SELENA SIMMONS
Don JASON SHIDISKIS
Pat KEZIA PIGFORD
Trish HEATHER BRYSON
George JIM COWLES
The Angels BRANDON CRIST
DARION ELIE
FORDHAM HAMMOND
CAMREN HOHN
JACKSON LaCOUR
CHRISTIAN PERKINS
Mr. Price BRIAN SMITH
Simon Sr. ARMS BROWN
Harry TUCKER “PJ” SOUTHER
Richard Bailey SAMUEL COPELAND
Ensemble TIANNA ANDREWS
COURTNEI GABRIEL
TYLER GARRETT
JOSIE HODGES
THERESA JOHNSON

ABOUT KINKY BOOTS

Opened: July 14, 2022
Closed: July 17, 2022
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Winner! Six Tony Awards, including Best Original Score & Best Musical
Kinky Boots features a joyous, Tony-winning score by Cyndi Lauper, and a hilarious, uplifting book by four-time Tony winner, Harvey Fierstein. Charlie Price has reluctantly inherited his father’s shoe factory, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Trying to live up to his father’s legacy and save his family business, Charlie finds inspiration in the form of Lola. A fabulous entertainer in need of some sturdy stilettos, Lola turns out to be the one person who can help Charlie become the man that he is meant to be. As they work to turn the factory around, this unlikely pair find that they have more in common than they ever dreamed possible… and discover that, when you change your mind about someone, you can change your whole world.

Music & Lyrics | CYNDI LAUPER
Book | HARVEY FIERSTEIN
Based on the Miramax motion picture Kinky Boots, written by Geoff Deane and Tim Firth

Original Broadway production Directed & Choreographed by JERRY MITCHELL
Orchestrations by STEPHEN OREMUS
Original Broadway Production Produced by Daryl Roth and Hal Luftig

Direction | JARED WATSON
Choreography | KATIE LERCHIE
Musical Direction & Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | SAMEUL COPELAND
Costume Design | FORDHAM HAMMOND & CANDY HUGGINS
Sound Design | BRYAN GRISHAM

THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED CAST
Mitchell LOGAN SLEDGE*
Diane JAMIE KIIHNL
Alex ERIC MASON KIRTON
Ellen SABRINA SCOTT

*Mr. Sledge appeared courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

 

ABOUT THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED

Opened: August 19, 2022
Closed: August 21, 2022
Location: Marjorie Lyons Playhouse

Yes, we love the cinema for its great auteurs, its glorious faces and its daring images. But in this tabloid age where big stars go on Oprah and jump around like heartsick schoolboys, what we really love is all that dish! The players here include a hard-driving Hollywood agent, her budding screen idol client, a sexy young drifter, and the drifter’s naive, needy girlfriend. THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED follows the adventures of Mitchell Green, a movie star who could hit big if it weren’t for one teensy-weensy problem. His agent, Diane, can’t seem to keep him in the closet. Trying to help him navigate Hollywood’s choppy waters, the devilish Diane is doing all she can to keep Mitchell away from the cute rent boy who’s caught his eye and the rent boy’s girlfriend (wait, the rent boy has a girlfriend?). Will there be a happy ending as the final credits roll?

Written | DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE
Costume Design & Direction | JARED WATSON
Scenic Design | SETH TAYLOR
Lighting Design | SAMEUL COPELAND
Original Music & Sound Design | LEWIS FLINN
Assistant Director & Production Stage Manager | ARDEN MILLER