little shop of horrors
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Columbia Musical Theater Society presented Little Shop of Horrors in the Spring of 2009 in the Lerner Hall Black Box Theatre.TRANSCRIPT
Lerner facTi Box eater
Columbia Musical Theatre Society Presents
LITTLe SIlOP OF IlOllOas Book amp Lyrics Music
Howard Ashman Alan Menken
Based on a film by Roger Corman Screenplay by Charles Griffith
With Sarah Dooley Justin Grace Tobin Mitnick Eva Peskin
Sophie Ragir Michael Seaman Austin Smith Connor Spahn Jenny Vallancourt and Benjamin Velez
Light Design Light Board Sound Design Bill Sheehan Edwin Mercedes Joel Kennedy
Costume Design Make-Up Design Props Design Madeleine Compagnon Sydney Kump Emily Cheesman
Ope Omojola
Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Producer Assistant Director Caroline Gleason Hillary Kritt Rebecca Victor
Sarah Probber
The Stage is Managed fy Leslie Skalak
Technical Director Choreograpfy fy Jimmy Fry Gilli Messer
Alex Shaw
Musical Direction Art Direction Melanie Michel Caroline Englander
Caroline Ott Heather Englander
Produced fy Erin Byrne
Directed fy Emily Kaplan
Seymour Krelborn Audrey Mr Mushnzk Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Wino 1) Audrey II (Volce) Audrey II (Manzpulatzon) Onn Smvello Custome0 Mr Bernstein) Mrs Luce)
Sktp Snip) Patnck Martm
Benjamm Velez Sarah Dooley Justin Grace
Eva Peskln Jenny Vallancourt
Sophle Raglr Austin Smlth
Michael Seaman Tobm Mitnick
Connor Spahn
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited
LITILE SHOP OF HORRORS is presented through special arrangement with
Musical Theatre International 01TI) All authorized performance materials
are also supplied by MTI 421 West 54th Street New York NY 10019
Phone 212-541-4684 Fax 212-397-4684 wwwMTIShowscom
Act I
PrologueLittle Shop ofHorrors Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Skid Row (Downtown) Company Da-Doo Seymour Chiffon Crystal Ronnette GrowforMe Seymour Ya Never Know Mushnik Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Seymour Somewhere Thats Green Audrey Ciosedfor Renol)ation Seymour Audrey Mushnik Dentist Orin Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Mushnik amp Son Mushnik Seymour Sudden Changes Seymour Feed Me (Git It) Audrey II Seymour Now (Its Just the Gas) Orin Seymour Act I Finale Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Audrey II
Act II
Call Back in the Morning Seymour Audrey SuddenJ) 5rymour Seymour Audrey Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Suppertime Audrey II Chiffon Crystal Ronnette The Meek Shall Inherit Seymour Bernstein Mrs Luce
Skip Snip Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Sominex Suppertime II Audrey Audrey II Somewhere Thats Green (Reprise) Audrey Finale Ultimo (Dont Feed the Plants) Company
~ije BAIID Piano Caroline Ott Kryboard David Shimel Guztar Joe Barakat Bass Matt Star
Drums Richard Quatrano
Its a tricky dilemma--how do you stage a piece of theatre that has been produced countlessecttimes before Im not attempting to say that Little Shop of Horror~is Shakespeare or the Greeks but it has been done a lot A LOT This famWarity oft~n leads to a pressure to
take the piece and rework it Wheit I first decided to direct Little Shop (or LSOH) people kept asking me what I was going to do with it I would say Im doing LSOH and they would repeat Yes but what are you going to do with it Over the years there has seemed to be an underlying competition between productions of this showmiddot how lifeshylike and spectacular can the plant be How thick and cartoonlsh can Audreys accent become How much like the movie musical can this piece of theatre be What we wanted to accomplish with this production was the exact opposite--from the start our team has set out to return to the heart of the story The performers have been extremely supportive of this idea and plunged into intense work with the script and score finding the emotion of each individual moment and working to develop something at least partially real within an environment that seems in many ways absurd
I have been incredibly lucky to work with both a cast and creative team in which each member is unbelievably creative responsible and passionate about his or her individual position With their support my focus has been able to rest solely on storytelling finding the core aspects of LSOH I truly believe that not every restaging of a theatrical work has to approach it frorn a new angle (although sometimes it does fantastically) It is the main job of any production to tell the story in the best way possible and this is what we have worked towards Now I ask of you the audience the same thing that I have continually asked of the production team and cast put aside your ideas of what this piece should be and allow yourselves simply to watch engage and enjoy For those of you who already know LSOH I hope you fall in love all over again as I have For fIrst-timers youre in for a treat Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this production It has been a onceshyin-a-lifetime collaboration for me and I ~axe been affected and inspired by all of your brilliance Enjoy the show and thank you for your support
--Emily Kaplan
0 1f
I
Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
QmT~ ~paInG 2009
Columbia Musical Theatre Society Presents
LITTLe SIlOP OF IlOllOas Book amp Lyrics Music
Howard Ashman Alan Menken
Based on a film by Roger Corman Screenplay by Charles Griffith
With Sarah Dooley Justin Grace Tobin Mitnick Eva Peskin
Sophie Ragir Michael Seaman Austin Smith Connor Spahn Jenny Vallancourt and Benjamin Velez
Light Design Light Board Sound Design Bill Sheehan Edwin Mercedes Joel Kennedy
Costume Design Make-Up Design Props Design Madeleine Compagnon Sydney Kump Emily Cheesman
Ope Omojola
Assistant Stage Manager Assistant Producer Assistant Director Caroline Gleason Hillary Kritt Rebecca Victor
Sarah Probber
The Stage is Managed fy Leslie Skalak
Technical Director Choreograpfy fy Jimmy Fry Gilli Messer
Alex Shaw
Musical Direction Art Direction Melanie Michel Caroline Englander
Caroline Ott Heather Englander
Produced fy Erin Byrne
Directed fy Emily Kaplan
Seymour Krelborn Audrey Mr Mushnzk Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Wino 1) Audrey II (Volce) Audrey II (Manzpulatzon) Onn Smvello Custome0 Mr Bernstein) Mrs Luce)
Sktp Snip) Patnck Martm
Benjamm Velez Sarah Dooley Justin Grace
Eva Peskln Jenny Vallancourt
Sophle Raglr Austin Smlth
Michael Seaman Tobm Mitnick
Connor Spahn
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited
LITILE SHOP OF HORRORS is presented through special arrangement with
Musical Theatre International 01TI) All authorized performance materials
are also supplied by MTI 421 West 54th Street New York NY 10019
Phone 212-541-4684 Fax 212-397-4684 wwwMTIShowscom
Act I
PrologueLittle Shop ofHorrors Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Skid Row (Downtown) Company Da-Doo Seymour Chiffon Crystal Ronnette GrowforMe Seymour Ya Never Know Mushnik Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Seymour Somewhere Thats Green Audrey Ciosedfor Renol)ation Seymour Audrey Mushnik Dentist Orin Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Mushnik amp Son Mushnik Seymour Sudden Changes Seymour Feed Me (Git It) Audrey II Seymour Now (Its Just the Gas) Orin Seymour Act I Finale Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Audrey II
Act II
Call Back in the Morning Seymour Audrey SuddenJ) 5rymour Seymour Audrey Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Suppertime Audrey II Chiffon Crystal Ronnette The Meek Shall Inherit Seymour Bernstein Mrs Luce
Skip Snip Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Sominex Suppertime II Audrey Audrey II Somewhere Thats Green (Reprise) Audrey Finale Ultimo (Dont Feed the Plants) Company
~ije BAIID Piano Caroline Ott Kryboard David Shimel Guztar Joe Barakat Bass Matt Star
Drums Richard Quatrano
Its a tricky dilemma--how do you stage a piece of theatre that has been produced countlessecttimes before Im not attempting to say that Little Shop of Horror~is Shakespeare or the Greeks but it has been done a lot A LOT This famWarity oft~n leads to a pressure to
take the piece and rework it Wheit I first decided to direct Little Shop (or LSOH) people kept asking me what I was going to do with it I would say Im doing LSOH and they would repeat Yes but what are you going to do with it Over the years there has seemed to be an underlying competition between productions of this showmiddot how lifeshylike and spectacular can the plant be How thick and cartoonlsh can Audreys accent become How much like the movie musical can this piece of theatre be What we wanted to accomplish with this production was the exact opposite--from the start our team has set out to return to the heart of the story The performers have been extremely supportive of this idea and plunged into intense work with the script and score finding the emotion of each individual moment and working to develop something at least partially real within an environment that seems in many ways absurd
I have been incredibly lucky to work with both a cast and creative team in which each member is unbelievably creative responsible and passionate about his or her individual position With their support my focus has been able to rest solely on storytelling finding the core aspects of LSOH I truly believe that not every restaging of a theatrical work has to approach it frorn a new angle (although sometimes it does fantastically) It is the main job of any production to tell the story in the best way possible and this is what we have worked towards Now I ask of you the audience the same thing that I have continually asked of the production team and cast put aside your ideas of what this piece should be and allow yourselves simply to watch engage and enjoy For those of you who already know LSOH I hope you fall in love all over again as I have For fIrst-timers youre in for a treat Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this production It has been a onceshyin-a-lifetime collaboration for me and I ~axe been affected and inspired by all of your brilliance Enjoy the show and thank you for your support
--Emily Kaplan
0 1f
I
Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
QmT~ ~paInG 2009
Seymour Krelborn Audrey Mr Mushnzk Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Wino 1) Audrey II (Volce) Audrey II (Manzpulatzon) Onn Smvello Custome0 Mr Bernstein) Mrs Luce)
Sktp Snip) Patnck Martm
Benjamm Velez Sarah Dooley Justin Grace
Eva Peskln Jenny Vallancourt
Sophle Raglr Austin Smlth
Michael Seaman Tobm Mitnick
Connor Spahn
The videotaping or other video or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited
LITILE SHOP OF HORRORS is presented through special arrangement with
Musical Theatre International 01TI) All authorized performance materials
are also supplied by MTI 421 West 54th Street New York NY 10019
Phone 212-541-4684 Fax 212-397-4684 wwwMTIShowscom
Act I
PrologueLittle Shop ofHorrors Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Skid Row (Downtown) Company Da-Doo Seymour Chiffon Crystal Ronnette GrowforMe Seymour Ya Never Know Mushnik Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Seymour Somewhere Thats Green Audrey Ciosedfor Renol)ation Seymour Audrey Mushnik Dentist Orin Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Mushnik amp Son Mushnik Seymour Sudden Changes Seymour Feed Me (Git It) Audrey II Seymour Now (Its Just the Gas) Orin Seymour Act I Finale Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Audrey II
Act II
Call Back in the Morning Seymour Audrey SuddenJ) 5rymour Seymour Audrey Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Suppertime Audrey II Chiffon Crystal Ronnette The Meek Shall Inherit Seymour Bernstein Mrs Luce
Skip Snip Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Sominex Suppertime II Audrey Audrey II Somewhere Thats Green (Reprise) Audrey Finale Ultimo (Dont Feed the Plants) Company
~ije BAIID Piano Caroline Ott Kryboard David Shimel Guztar Joe Barakat Bass Matt Star
Drums Richard Quatrano
Its a tricky dilemma--how do you stage a piece of theatre that has been produced countlessecttimes before Im not attempting to say that Little Shop of Horror~is Shakespeare or the Greeks but it has been done a lot A LOT This famWarity oft~n leads to a pressure to
take the piece and rework it Wheit I first decided to direct Little Shop (or LSOH) people kept asking me what I was going to do with it I would say Im doing LSOH and they would repeat Yes but what are you going to do with it Over the years there has seemed to be an underlying competition between productions of this showmiddot how lifeshylike and spectacular can the plant be How thick and cartoonlsh can Audreys accent become How much like the movie musical can this piece of theatre be What we wanted to accomplish with this production was the exact opposite--from the start our team has set out to return to the heart of the story The performers have been extremely supportive of this idea and plunged into intense work with the script and score finding the emotion of each individual moment and working to develop something at least partially real within an environment that seems in many ways absurd
I have been incredibly lucky to work with both a cast and creative team in which each member is unbelievably creative responsible and passionate about his or her individual position With their support my focus has been able to rest solely on storytelling finding the core aspects of LSOH I truly believe that not every restaging of a theatrical work has to approach it frorn a new angle (although sometimes it does fantastically) It is the main job of any production to tell the story in the best way possible and this is what we have worked towards Now I ask of you the audience the same thing that I have continually asked of the production team and cast put aside your ideas of what this piece should be and allow yourselves simply to watch engage and enjoy For those of you who already know LSOH I hope you fall in love all over again as I have For fIrst-timers youre in for a treat Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this production It has been a onceshyin-a-lifetime collaboration for me and I ~axe been affected and inspired by all of your brilliance Enjoy the show and thank you for your support
--Emily Kaplan
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I
Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
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Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
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Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
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1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
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Speci~l thanks
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Act I
PrologueLittle Shop ofHorrors Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Skid Row (Downtown) Company Da-Doo Seymour Chiffon Crystal Ronnette GrowforMe Seymour Ya Never Know Mushnik Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Seymour Somewhere Thats Green Audrey Ciosedfor Renol)ation Seymour Audrey Mushnik Dentist Orin Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Mushnik amp Son Mushnik Seymour Sudden Changes Seymour Feed Me (Git It) Audrey II Seymour Now (Its Just the Gas) Orin Seymour Act I Finale Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Audrey II
Act II
Call Back in the Morning Seymour Audrey SuddenJ) 5rymour Seymour Audrey Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Suppertime Audrey II Chiffon Crystal Ronnette The Meek Shall Inherit Seymour Bernstein Mrs Luce
Skip Snip Chiffon Crystal Ronnette Sominex Suppertime II Audrey Audrey II Somewhere Thats Green (Reprise) Audrey Finale Ultimo (Dont Feed the Plants) Company
~ije BAIID Piano Caroline Ott Kryboard David Shimel Guztar Joe Barakat Bass Matt Star
Drums Richard Quatrano
Its a tricky dilemma--how do you stage a piece of theatre that has been produced countlessecttimes before Im not attempting to say that Little Shop of Horror~is Shakespeare or the Greeks but it has been done a lot A LOT This famWarity oft~n leads to a pressure to
take the piece and rework it Wheit I first decided to direct Little Shop (or LSOH) people kept asking me what I was going to do with it I would say Im doing LSOH and they would repeat Yes but what are you going to do with it Over the years there has seemed to be an underlying competition between productions of this showmiddot how lifeshylike and spectacular can the plant be How thick and cartoonlsh can Audreys accent become How much like the movie musical can this piece of theatre be What we wanted to accomplish with this production was the exact opposite--from the start our team has set out to return to the heart of the story The performers have been extremely supportive of this idea and plunged into intense work with the script and score finding the emotion of each individual moment and working to develop something at least partially real within an environment that seems in many ways absurd
I have been incredibly lucky to work with both a cast and creative team in which each member is unbelievably creative responsible and passionate about his or her individual position With their support my focus has been able to rest solely on storytelling finding the core aspects of LSOH I truly believe that not every restaging of a theatrical work has to approach it frorn a new angle (although sometimes it does fantastically) It is the main job of any production to tell the story in the best way possible and this is what we have worked towards Now I ask of you the audience the same thing that I have continually asked of the production team and cast put aside your ideas of what this piece should be and allow yourselves simply to watch engage and enjoy For those of you who already know LSOH I hope you fall in love all over again as I have For fIrst-timers youre in for a treat Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this production It has been a onceshyin-a-lifetime collaboration for me and I ~axe been affected and inspired by all of your brilliance Enjoy the show and thank you for your support
--Emily Kaplan
0 1f
I
Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
QmT~ ~paInG 2009
Its a tricky dilemma--how do you stage a piece of theatre that has been produced countlessecttimes before Im not attempting to say that Little Shop of Horror~is Shakespeare or the Greeks but it has been done a lot A LOT This famWarity oft~n leads to a pressure to
take the piece and rework it Wheit I first decided to direct Little Shop (or LSOH) people kept asking me what I was going to do with it I would say Im doing LSOH and they would repeat Yes but what are you going to do with it Over the years there has seemed to be an underlying competition between productions of this showmiddot how lifeshylike and spectacular can the plant be How thick and cartoonlsh can Audreys accent become How much like the movie musical can this piece of theatre be What we wanted to accomplish with this production was the exact opposite--from the start our team has set out to return to the heart of the story The performers have been extremely supportive of this idea and plunged into intense work with the script and score finding the emotion of each individual moment and working to develop something at least partially real within an environment that seems in many ways absurd
I have been incredibly lucky to work with both a cast and creative team in which each member is unbelievably creative responsible and passionate about his or her individual position With their support my focus has been able to rest solely on storytelling finding the core aspects of LSOH I truly believe that not every restaging of a theatrical work has to approach it frorn a new angle (although sometimes it does fantastically) It is the main job of any production to tell the story in the best way possible and this is what we have worked towards Now I ask of you the audience the same thing that I have continually asked of the production team and cast put aside your ideas of what this piece should be and allow yourselves simply to watch engage and enjoy For those of you who already know LSOH I hope you fall in love all over again as I have For fIrst-timers youre in for a treat Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this production It has been a onceshyin-a-lifetime collaboration for me and I ~axe been affected and inspired by all of your brilliance Enjoy the show and thank you for your support
--Emily Kaplan
0 1f
I
Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
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1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
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Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
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Sarah Dooley (Audrey BCll) is the happiest girl in Morningside Heights to be a part of this show She has performed in XMAS LateNite Fruit Paunch and last years Varsiry Show She wants to thank her fantastic FANTASTIC cast for being so boss and also Emily Kaplan for being her little jellybean
Justin Grace (Mushnik CC10) loves everyone here with a furious passion He has performed in Brighton Beach Memoirs The Sublet Experiment and has written and acted in various LateNite and Chowdah shows He would like to thank all of EC 1406 for being the prettiest and nicest and funnest suite in the world
Tobin Mitnick (Orin CC 10) has performed and directed with LateNite Barnard Departmental Theatre CUPlayers Nomads KCST and the 114th Varsiry Show He is a member of Fruit Paunch improv troupe and an as-yet-to-be-named sketch group with Sarah Dooley Thanks to everyone involved
Eva Peskin (Chiffon BC09) finally gets to play Chiffon at long last after understudying the same part six years ago Previous endeavors in Columbia theater include XMAS LateNite Into the Woods The Varsiry Show and the KCST One Acts Thanks to everyone involved for making this finale a grand one
Sophie Ragir (BC 11) is so proud and excited to be a part of the brilliant and talented cast of Little Shop as Ronnette Other shows at Columbia include I Am My Own Wife the 114th Annual Varsiry Show and XMAS 3 Eva and Jeni my agents of the plant-thank you for everything To my incredible friends (the cast and creative team)shythanks a million for making the magic you do
Michael Seaman (Audrey II Puppeteer SEAS10) is thrilled to be a part of Little Shop He has previously performed in XMAS 3 V114 XMAS 2 and Into the Woods He would like to thank his family and friends for theIr support Enjoy the show and dont feed the plants
Austin Smith (Wino lVoice of Audrey II CC10) Previous Columbia productions Hotel 8 Rooms Ow Ow Stop Amazing Me Much Ado About Nothinamp Into the Woods Edges Twelfth Night As Five Years Pass and XMAS Thanks to this AMAZING cast and crew for all of their hard work and making this an incredible process Love you all
Connor Spahn (Mr Man CC12) is so happy to be a part 0 f the amazing Little Shop ofHorrors team He would like to thank anyone who came to see the show for supporting the cast himself and The Arts and entreats all audience members to go to the Uptown Vocal Final Concert on April 25
Jenny Vallancourt (Crystal BC 11) is so happy to be here Previous Columbia theater performances include [114 I Am My Own Wife and XMAS She has also appeared in world premieres of October 1962 and Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Theater
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
QmT~ ~paInG 2009
and a bunch of other things Thanks to everyone especially ChiffEva and RonSophie
Benjamin Velez (Seymour CC 10) is so honored to be working with this amazingly talented cast and crew Previous Coluinbia Theater Urinetown (Bobby) Into the Woods Oack) XMAS I II and the 113h Variry Show Be was also a composetlyricist for the 114th Vamry Show Thanks to everyone forthe mogs and the sweet sweet lovin
Erin Byrne (Producer BC09) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (2005-2009) The Varsiry Show (V114 Vl13) Into The Woods Two Weeks The Wild Parry and YOIIre A Good Man Charlie Brown She could not be prouder of this cast or this team Thank you for making this her hands down favorite Columbia producing experience
Caroline Englander (Co-Art DirectiorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia Life Under Water (Set Design) As Five Years Pass (Stage Manager) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) XMAS 2 A SeClliar Spectaclilar SeqlleJ (Co-Set Design) and CMTS Into the Woods (ASM) Thanks and LOVE to the entire cast production and design teams
Heather Englander (Co-Art DirectorSet Design BC 10) At Columbia LateNite Theatre (SM Apprentice) The 113th and 114th Annllal Varsiry Show (Stage Manager) Statements Barnard Senior Thesis Festival 2008 (Set Design) XMAS 2 (Co-Set Design) CMTS Into the Woods (PSM) Barnard TheatreDance ENDZONE (prop MasterASM) Love and thanks to cast design and production teams
Jimmy Fry (Technical Director CC 09) has worked on many productions in various capacities throughout his time here at Columbia and is very excited to have this one be his last hurrah He would like to thank everyone he has worked with over the years
Emily Kaplan (Director BCll) has participated in numerous productions on campus both onstage and off As a director A New Brain As a performer Songs for A New World (Woman 2) XMAS 3 (Tiny Tim) PIppin (Berthe) SnOlv White Thank you to a spectacularly talented cast and production team
Gilli Messer (Co-Choreographer BC10) returns to CMTS after studying abroad at the Moscow Art Theater in the fall She would like to thank everyone involved in this endeavor and extend extra snaps to Alex Shaw Gilli also wishes to thank Diana Ross for having fabulous hands which inspired much of this choreography and Justin for C-ing to the H of her
Melanie Michel (Co-Musical Director BC09) is thrilled to be contributing to her fmal production with CMTS Past music directing credits include Songs for a New World Pippin and Plan B She would like to thank her friends and roommates fOLtheir love and support and the cast crew and band for all of their hard work
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
QmT~ ~paInG 2009
1
Caroline Ott (BC09 Co-Musical Directotis thrilled to be working on Little Shop of Horrors during her fmal semester at Columbia Past music directing experiences include Into The Woods Hotel 8 R~omJ and Urinetown The Musical Caroline has also played flute clarinet and saxophone for many CMTS shows Thanks and love to Mom Dad Nay and Kenny
Alex Shaw (Co-Choreographer CC11) is ecstatic to work with CMTS for the first time Previous campus productions Twelfth Night AJ Five Yearr Pass Thanks to an incredible cast and to the oh so talented and beautiful Gilli Messer
Leslie Skalak (Stage Manager BC 09) is happy to have worked with the Columbia Musical Theatre Society the semester She has worked as stage manager for three seasons with the Croton Harmon Teen Theatre It has been a pleasure to work with the cast directors producers and entire creative design team Congratulations to everyone and break a leg
Rebecca Victor (Assistant Director CC12) is thrilled to be part of Little Shop This is her first production at Columbia You can see her in CMTSs Cinderella next month Thanks for the fantastic experience
Hillary Kritt (Asst Producer BC12) is thrilled to be part of LittleShop of Horrors At Columbia she assistant stage managed XMAS and will be in this semesters LateNite show Shes had a blast working on Little Shop and cant wait for more Columbia theater to come
Madeleine Compagnon (Costume Designer CC10) has previously worked on The 114th Vorriry Show and Tommy
Emily Cheesman (props BC 10) has art directed in the past for I Am My Own Wife and Cowboys and Indians Little Shop is her first musical and she had a great time watching the whole thing come together to everyone youre all just too much Love you mean it
Caroline Gleason (Asst Stage Manager BCl2)has done publicity for many shows includirig Into the Woods Sweet Chariry and AIrything Goes Shes so excited to be a part of this production and hopes that you enjoy the show
Sydney Kump (Make-UpHair DesignBC10) worked as the hairmakeup designer for the 114th Varriry Show last year and h~~~d out for this years XMAS and is thrilled to be a part of the Little Shop design team She is so proud of her crew and ever-50-talented cast and so grateful to be a part of this incredible production
Edwin Mercedes (ljght Board) has been working in the AudioVisual department for University Event Management here at Columbia for the past year His interest in
II
I -
theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
QO-SPOQSOllS amp lJIlAQJS
Activities Board at Columbia Columbia Musical Theatre Society
The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
One Dream Sound
The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
Congratulations to the entire cast andmiddot production team
Professor Ester Fuchs and Daniel Victor
Tell the truth Emily Was directing more fun y
The Dentist -
CDngrats to the L ~bullLs-
I
I
Break a leg Michael and the cast of
Little Shop
Wish we could be there Love
MomampDad
Break a leg Toby amp cast of Little Shop
Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
Mitnick
Jimmy Fry amp friends
Congratulations
From your 1 fans amp eaders
Mom Dad Lynn amp Katherine
Way to listen Sarah No seriously we love
u
1 4~t and crew ~ ~r~i0~
(])H 1HEHORROR
Best of luck cast amp crew -Tim ampPatricia
SEYMOURS OUR MAN Congratulations to Benjamin Velez
Congratulations to the cast and crew of
Little Shop of Horrors
From the family of Emily Kaplan
(Feed us a great show Emily)
Pods 1 2 3 amp Specialty Props provided by
BAR TELD 1 TheatricalProdl1cliolJJ lJcl ~~
r bull
Speci~l thanks
goes to
L
1~ ij~t I ~ ~ ~ I
~~Im~jj ~l~ Ilm~n U~~
From the cast and crew
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theatrical stage lighting has led him to become a lead technician in the Black Box Theatre for all student productions He will begin his design work in Spring 09
Ope Omojola (Costume Design CC12) helped with costumes This is her first time being involved in a Columbia production and she hopes you enjoy tJe show
Sarah Probber (Asst Stage Manager BC12) worked on crew throughout high school This is her first experience with the Columbia theatre program
Bill Sheehan (Light Design) has been a lighting designer for the past twenty-five years in Los Angeles and New York with over 100 designs He has served as a filmmaker at UCLA and a lighting designer at Cal State Northridge He has a PhD in communications and has authored a childrens novel and many professional articles on lighting and design He currently lives in New York and is a graduate student in Film Studies School of the Arts
BAnD Joseph Michael Barakat (Guitar SEAS12) Previous Work High School Jazz Band played guitar for the pit band in high school productions of Cinderella and Once Upon a Mattress Im excited about this production the cast is top-notch and the rest of the band is on the ball I hope I get to work with all of them again in the future
Matt Star (Bass CC12) played lead guitar in Tommy and played bass in the Off-O ff Broadway production Plan B The Musical Thanks Grandma
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The Presidents and Provosts Student Event Fund Funding Made Possible by a Generous Gift from the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
Columbia Musical Theatre Society David Milch Stacey Berman Michael Seaman Martha Phtips-Walker Joel Kennedy Rachel Karp Lisa fertkins Olig Balitskiy KleyTodd Briih Barteld ElienK Barbara K Corey-Alic~ Artdre-J ohnson David Valentine Max Pensack Stephanie Neel Lerner amp UEM
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The Endless Support ofour Wondeiful Families and Friends
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Dad Ellen Ethan Ali Delaney Johnny
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