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Spring 4-7-2017

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Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & FilmAngell Blackfriars Theatre, Smith Center for the Arts

Into the WoodsMusic and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Book by James Lapine

SCENIC DESIGNTrevor Elliott

COSTUME DESIGNDavid Costa-Cabral

WIG & MAKE-UP DESIGNMichael Dates

LIGHTING DESIGNAmy Parise

CHOREOGRAPHERKatrina Z. Pavao

SOUND DESIGNGabriel Luxton

Directed by Jimmy CalitriMusic Direction by Lila Kane

Into the Woods is presented by special arrangement with Music Theatre International, 421 West 54th Street New York, NY 10019

212.541.4684

VOICE AND DIALECT COACHMegan Chang

CASTNarrator

CinderellaCinderella’s Prince

JackJack’s Mom

BakerBaker’s Wife

Cinderella’s StepmotherFlorindaLucinda

Little Red RidinghoodWitch

Mysterious ManWolf 1

Cinderella’s Father/Wolf 2Cinderella’s Mother/Granny/Giant

RapunzelRapunzel’s Prince

StewardMilky White

Dancing Spirit of Cinderella’s MotherSleeping Beauty/Ensemble

Snow White/EnsembleJasmine/Ensemble

Aladdin

Cinderella’s UnderstudyBaker/Princes’ Understudy

Jack’s UnderstudyRapunzel’s Understudy

Baker’s Wife’s UnderstudyLittle Red’s Understudy

Witch/Florinda’s Understudy

Jonathan CoppeJennifer DornDaniel CarrollBryan SabbagCatherine CapolongoTeddy KiritsyCourteney OlenzakBrittany PriceAisling SheahanEmily ClarkElizabeth JancsyJoey MacariThomas EdwardsMichael IzzoWilliam OserDeirdre LahiffGabriella SanchezSteven SawanAnne RodriguezDiane LaMattinaAmanda PiechotaEmily SmithCaprial HarrisEdy MaceraDaniel Munoz

Aisling SheahanThomas EdwardsWilliam OserDeidre LahiffAnne RodriguezCaprial HarrisEdy Macera

MUSICAL NUMBERS

Act One PrologueCinderella at the Grave

Hello, Little GirlThe Spell is On My House (Reprise)

I Guess This is GoodbyeMaybe They’re Magic

Our Little WorldMaybe They’re Magic (Reprise)

I Know Things NowA Very Nice Prince

First MidnightGiants in the Sky

AgonyA Very Nice Prince

It Takes TwoSecond Midnight

Stay with MeOn the Steps of the Palace

Act One Finale

Act INarrator, and CompanyCinderella and Cinderella’s MotherWolf and Little Red RidinghoodBaker and Baker’s WifeJackBaker and Baker’s WifeWitch and RapunzelBakerLittle Red RidinghoodCinderella and Baker’s WifeCompanyJack Cinderella’s Prince and Rapunzel’s PrinceCinderella and Baker’s WifeBaker and Baker’s WifeWitch, Cinderella’s Prince, Rapunzel’s Prince, Stepmother, Florinda and LucindaRapunzel and WitchCinderella Narrator and Company

There will be a 10 minute intermission

Act II PrologueAgony (Reprise)Witch’s Lament

Any MomentAny Moment (Reprise)Moments in the Woods

Your Fault

Last MidnightNo More

No One is Alone (Part 1)No One is Alone (Part 2)

Act Two Finale

Act IINarrator and CompanyCinderella’s Prince and Rapunzel’s PrinceWitchCinderella’s Prince and Baker’s WifeCinderella’s Prince and Baker’s WifeBaker’s WifeJack, Baker, Cinderella, Little Red Ridinghood and WitchWitchBaker and Mysterious ManCinderella and Little Red RidinghoodCinderella, Baker, Little Red Ridinghood and JackCompany

MUSICIANSKeyboard and Conductor

FluteClarinet

TrumpetTrombone

BassPercussion

Lila KaneKatie WatersMegan SimeoneDan HealeyKevin KaneBrian GrochowskiDan Hann

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Ocean State Theatre Company Costume ShopUniversity of Rhode Island Theatre DepartmentProv. College Department of Art & Art History

Theatre Development Fund Costume Collection, New York

All the Volunteer Scenic PaintersChristine BrittonSpencer Crockett

Steve McLellan Andrew Ike Iocavelle

Eric Sung

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TEXT MESSAGING IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE THEATRE during the performance out of respect to the performers and as a courtesy to those seated near you.

THE MAIN RESTROOMS are located down the stairs in the lower lobby.

ACCESSIBLE RESTROOMS are located at either end of the main lobby. If you are a person with a disability and require an assistive device, service, or other accommodation to participate in events in the Smith Center, please contact the Central Reservations Coordinator (401-865-2070; M-F 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) well in advance.

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THE BOX OFFICE AT THE SMITH CENTER FOR THE ARTS is open for walk-up sales 1:30-5:00 PM Monday through Friday when classes are in session, and one hour prior to curtain on performance days. Cash, check, or credit cards are accepted for walk-up sales.

ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL AND CANNOT BE REFUNDED. You may exchange tickets for a different performance of the same production by returning your tickets to the Box Office up to 24 hours prior to curtain, subject to seat availability.

STAGE MANAGERGaby DeParis

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERSTimothy Brown

Grace DolanKohl Peasley

LIGHT BOARD OPERATORJulia DiBari

SOUND MIXER Timothy Brown

SOUND BOARD OPERATOR Gaby DeParis

SCENIC PAINTERMiranda Friel

WARDROBE RUNNING CREWKelly AtkinsonDaniel Munoz

FOLLOW SPOT OPERATORGrace Dolan

Elissa Stagliano

PROPERTIES PROCUREMENTJosh Cape

ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHYGabrielle Marks

MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHYGabi Dess

BOX OFFICE MANAGERSAlexandra Chasse

Joanna McDonough

BOX OFFICE & PUBLICITYAlexandra Chasse

Emily ClarkGabi Dess

Olivia FerriJoanna McDonough

Laura Rostkowski

HOUSE MANAGERSOlivia Ferri

Laura Rostkowski

COSTUME SHOP CREWKristen Coffey Carly FurbushAshley Lewis

Samantha MarcheseMaggie Oaks

SCENE SHOW CREWMireya LopezAngel MoralesMaria Munar

Annie Rodriguez

USHERSThe Friars Club

POSTER Coyote Hill

PRODUCTION STAFF

Resident & Guest ArtistsJimmy Calitri (Director) Jimmy holds the position of Managing Director of Theatre/ Assistant Professor of Theatre at Providence College. In past seasons at Providence College Jimmy directed The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Lend Me a Tenor (which was nominated for two Motif Magazine awards for Best Director and Best Production for 2012), Curtains: The Musical, What Dreams May Come, The Addams Family, and Into the Woods. Jimmy also directed A Lie of the Mind and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Perishable Theater; the latter was named ‘Best of Theater in 2010’ by The Phoenix Newspaper and ‘Best Professional Production of 2010‘ by Motif Magazine.Favorite past directing jobs include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Miss Julie, The Taming of the Shrew, and A-MIRROR-CA: A Critical Burlesque on America’s Media-Driven Culture, which was recently revived at RIC and received multiple awards at the KCACTF National Acting Competition. In past summer seasons at ‘Festival 56’ (outside of Chicago in Princeton Illinois) Jimmy directed Songs for a New World, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, White Christmas, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Seussical the Musical. Jimmy directed The Miracle Worker at Rhode Island College which was revived in Plymouth MA in condensed form at an International Fundraiser honoring Helen Keller, and The Wiz at The Narragansett Pier Middle School which was recently awarded the ‘Moss Hart’ award for ‘Best Youth Production’ in New England.For the past four years Jimmy has served as a director and teacher of theatre arts at The Dreamland in Nantucket where he directed Beauty and the Beast, Seussical the Musical, Dreams of a New Year Cabaret, Shrek and The Wizard of Oz. He directed Assassins last year at the Contemporary Theatre which was nominated for best Musical of 2016 by Motif Magazine. This summer Jimmy was hired by Ten31 Productions to direct a musical touring production of Alice in Wonderland, scheduled to travel to Dubai and throughout New England. Ten31’s production of Alice in Wonderland was revived in August of 2016 and again in January of 2017. Jimmy also wrote the adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for Ten31. Jimmy would like to thank the amazing cast, crew, production team and actors for their dedication to Into the Woods!

Megan Chang (Voice and Dialect Coach)Megan is Assistant Professor of Voice & Diction at Providence College and the Core Curriculum Faculty Fellow for Oral Communication. Previously, she served as vocal coach for The Laramie Project, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Playhouse Creatures, The Addams Family, Marie Antoinette: the Color of Flesh, and Imaginary Invalid at Providence College. She also teaches a variety of workshops around campus and to local professionals and recently presented her paper, “Webster-based Phonetic Spelling”, at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education conference in Montreal. She received her MFA in Vocal Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University with a certification in Oxyrhythms, a breath, body, and voice warm-up and conditioning system designed for actors. Previous

coaching credits include: The 39 Steps, A Christmas Carol, Dial M for Murder (Triad Stage, North Carolina); The Winter’s Tale, Serjeant Musgrave’s Dance, Deadly Sins: A Sword Play, Hoodoo Love, The Blood Knot, August: Osage County, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! (University of North Carolina School of the Arts); The Glass Menagerie, Cabaret, Dracula, Psycho Beach Party (Virginia Commonwealth University); and The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Appomattox Regional Governors School).

David Costa-Cabral (Costume Design)David received his BA in Theatre from Rhode Island College, and his MFA in Theatrical Design from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He joined Providence College in the fall of 1984 and is currently a tenured, Full Professor. Among the classes he teaches are American Musical Theatre, Introduction to Theatrical Design, Theatre Appreciation and the History of Costume and Fashion. In recent seasons here at Providence College he has been responsible for costume designs for The Laramie Project, The Addams Family, The Imaginary Invalid, Funny Girl, Little Women, Amadeus, The Importance of Being Earnest, Charlie’s Aunt, A Flea in Her Ear and Macbeth. David continues to work professionally outside of the college at such venues as Theatre By The Sea in Matunuck, R.I. (Annie, The Sound Of Music, West Side Story, The Buddy Holly Story, How To Succeed in Business), Ocean State Theatre Company in Warwick R.I. (The King and I), North Shore Music Theatre in Beverly, (Grease, West Side Story), The Lyric Stage of Boston (Noises Off, A Little Night Music, Souvenir, Adrift in Macao). Quite regularly he is the costume designer at The Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston, Massachusetts. Among his recent BOCO shows are Side Show(twice), Red Noses, Catch Me If You Can, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Oklahoma, The Way of the World, Follies (twice), Kismet, The Three Sisters, The Reimers of Eldritch, Curtains, and 42nd Street. David was recently knighted in a ceremony in Boston and is now a Knight of the Holy Sepulcher (Equestrian Order).

Susan Dansereau (Set Design Apprentice)Susan Dansereau is an independent artist and commercial designer at the award winning design firm Morris Nathanson Design. Her work as an artist includes painting, mixed media, and printmaking. Latest exhibits, news and works can be found at www.SusanDansereau.com

Michael Dates (Hair and Make Up Design)Michael is a costume, wig, and makeup designer from Providence, RI. Recent work includes costume design for: … Always, Patsy Cline (Ocean State Theater Company), Arsenic and Old Lace (Rhode Island College), The Mountain Top (Central Square Theater), 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (Elemental Theater Collective), Vacancy (Elemental Theater Collective), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Perishable/Trinity). Recent wig design credits include Ivanov, (Trinity Rep) Intimate Apparel (Trinity Rep), Vanya and Sonia and Masha, and Spike (Trinity Rep), Annie (Theatre By the Sea), La Cage Aux Folles (Theatre by the Sea), Winter Wonderettes (OSTC), Blithe Spirit and The Addams Family (Providence College), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Boston Conservatory). Michael is a graduate from Miami’s New World School of the Arts and holds a B.A. in Theatre from Rhode Island College.

Trevor Elliott (Scenic Design)Trevor Elliott is excited to be back designing sets for Providence College. Previous designs at PC include The Addams Family and Playhouse Creatures. Trevor is a freelance set designer and builds sets for theatre, commercial photo shoots and is a member of IATSE 481 building sets for movies shot in New England. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Trevor got started in theater at the Zeiterion in New Bedford. He went on to become technical director at Roger Williams University and resident designer at 2nd Story Theatre. Love to my wife Erin and son Emmett.

Lila Kane (Music Director)Lila is originally from New York City where she received her Bachelor’s degree in music from Brooklyn College Conservatory. Since then, she has worked at Bel Canto Opera of New York, dinner theatre in Virginia, national educational touring theatre and various summer stock theatres including Theatre-By-The-Sea in Matunuck, where she also directed the Cabaret. Lila has worked at many of the local venues including Newport Playhouse, City Nights Dinner Theatre, the Community Players in Pawtucket, Barker Playhouse, Academy Players, Fantasy Works and the Courthouse Center for the Arts. On the local educational scene, Lila has directed and played at Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island, Providence College and at the Community College of Rhode Island. She has well over one hundred productions to her credit. In addition, she is a Special Guest Artist in the Theatre Department at URI, an Adjunct theatre faculty member at RIC, and Staff Accompanist and piano instructor at RIC. She freelances as an accompanist and music director and also maintains a private piano studio.

Gabriel Luxton (Sound Design)Gabriel is thrilled to be joining the team at PC for this production. A Sound Designer and Audio Engineer based out of Providence, RI, Gabriel works at Trinity Repertory Company as resident Sound Technician. Selected design credits include; Two Gentlemen of Verona (Eastern Connecticut State University), Voices of We (Boston Playwrights Theater), On The Verge (ECSU), Spring Awakening (Sharon Playhouse), 13 The Musical (Seven Angels Theater), Something Intangible (Gulfshore Playhouse),Venus in Fur (Gulfshore Playhouse), The Crimson Thread (Seven Angels Theater), and Doubt: A Parable (Sharon Playhouse). Gabriel has spent his last two summers in Poughkeepsie, NY as the Sound Supervisor for New York Stage and Film and Vassar College’s Powerhouse Theater. Gabriel is a graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University and holds a BA in Theatre and History.

Chibi Nguyen (Assistant Director)Chibi was born and raised in Vietnam. After graduating from Providence College (PC) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy in May 2016, she continues to follow PC’s MBA program. Into The Woods is her first experience as an Assistant Director as well as her first major involvement in theater. She would like to thank director Jimmy Calitri for giving her an opportunity to work alongside him and the talented cast and crew at PC’s Theater, Dance, and Film Department.

Amy Parise (Lighting Design)Amy is excited to be working with Providence College for the first time. Amy has spent many years touring with Broadway shows such as Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls, and Legally Blonde. Amy has currently been working as event lighting designer and production manager at High Output Rhode Island. Amy is a member of IATSE 260.

Katrina Z. Pavao (Choreographer) Katrina graduated from Providence College in May 2016 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. She is very honored and happy to be back working alongside Jimmy, the cast, and crew to create this beautiful and innovative version of Into the Woods. Since graduating, Katrina has performed and choreographed professionally with the Wilbury Theatre Group and has become a founding member of the Mutiny Theatre Project. Katrina is also working full- time as a Teaching Artist at Trinity Repertory Theatre Company and the Sandra-Feinstein Gamm Theatre. During her time at PC, she was seen on stage in Playhouse Creatures (Nell Gwyn), The Addams Family (Wednesday Addams), Blithe Spirit (Elvira), The Imaginary Invalid (Angelica), Lysistrata (Lysistrata), These Shining Lives (Pearl), The Good Doctor (Julia), and Curtains (Carmen Bernstein). Katrina will next be seen on stage as Wendla in Spring Awakening at the Wilbury Theatre Group in Providence, R.I. In Fall 2017, she will be attending the Boston Conservatory at Berklee for her M.F.A. in Musical Theatre.

ACADEMICWendy Oliver, Professor, Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Dance & Film

Kate Ambrosini, Adjunct Faculty-Theatre

Ali Angelone, Adjunct Faculty- Oral Communication

Ali Boyd, Administrative Coordinator

James M. Calitri, Assistant Professor

Megan Chang, Assistant Professor

David Costa-Cabral, Professor

Ann Ditmars Huyck, Adjunct Faculty-Dance

Bill Evans, Adjunct Faculty-Dance

Mary Farrell, Professor

John Garrity, Associate Professor

Rev. Kenneth Gumbert, O.P., Professor

Kate Lohman, Adjunct Faculty- Oral Communications

Jennifer Madden, Adjunct Faculty-Theatre

Kat Nasti, Adjunct Faculty- Dance

Rachel Smith, Adjunct Faculty- Oral Communications

Linda Sutherland, Adjunct Faculty-Theatre

Ben Sweeney, Adjunct Faculty-Film

PRODUCTION James M. Calitri, Managing Director, Theatre

Trevor Elliott, Assistant Technical Director

George Marks, Technical Director

Susan Werner, Production Office Assistant

Maxine Wheelock, Costume Shop Supervisor

Department of Theatre, Dance, & Film

Spring Dance Concert

April 29 2 pm & 8 pm