Fame: The Musical
February 17-19, 2012
Friday at 7:30pm | Saturday at 2:00pm & 7:30pm | Sunday at 3:00pm
The Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts
40 Stow Street | Concord, MA
Conceived and Developed by David De Silva
Book by Jose Fernandez
Lyrics by Jacques Levy
Music by Steve Margoshes
Title Song “Fame” Written by Dean Pitchford & Michael Gore
Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler & Steve Margoshes
Originally Produced at The Coconut Grove Playhouse
Fame - The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
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 | www.MTIShows.com
Friday at 7:30pm | Saturday at 2:00pm & 7:30pm | Sunday at 3:00pm
The Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts
40 Stow Street | Concord, MA
Conceived and Developed by David De Silva
Book by Jose Fernandez
Lyrics by Jacques Levy
Music by Steve Margoshes
Title Song “Fame” Written by Dean Pitchford & Michael Gore
Orchestrations by Harold Wheeler & Steve Margoshes
Originally Produced at The Coconut Grove Playhouse
Fame - The Musical is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).
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 | www.MTIShows.com
Cast of Characters
DANCE DEPARTMENT
Ms. Bell — Michelle Oakland
Tyrone Jackson — Darnell Kenney
Carmen Diaz — Stephanie Malis
Iris Kelly — Elana Israel
Mabel Washington — Emma Bergman* / Mary Goode †
Dance Students — Nicole Albanese, Gabby Boucher, Briana Cohen, Gabrielle Corsino, Miranda Degen-Portnoy, Amanda Gregorio, Elana Schlansky, Monica Whitlock (Dance Captain)
THEATRE DEPARTMENT
Ms. Meyers — Tori Forelli
Serena Katz — Paige Winn* / Jessica Newman †
Nick Piazza — John Morgan Adams
Joe “Jose” Vegas — Jeremy Sutherland
Theatre Students — Claire Banse, Katherine Binney, Dahlilah Degen-Portnoy, Catherine Gladstone, Erika Hedden, Emily Waters, Lily Young
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Mr. Sheinhopf — Luke McDonough
Grace “Lambchops” Lamb — Alex Mahoney* / Lily Oksanen †
Schlomo Metzenbaum — Larson Miller* / Geoffrey Binney †
Goodman “Goody” King — Michael LaFerriere
Music Students — Michael Audet, Natalie Boucher, Rebecca Kelly-Bowditch, Kate Carpenter, Nathalie Danizio, Rebecca Jarrell, Sarah Hession Kunz
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ms. Sherman — Emma Stewart* / Maggie Whitlock †
* Performs Friday evening and Saturday afternoon (Cast A)
† Performs Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon (Cast B)
Ms. Bell — Michelle Oakland
Tyrone Jackson — Darnell Kenney
Carmen Diaz — Stephanie Malis
Iris Kelly — Elana Israel
Mabel Washington — Emma Bergman* / Mary Goode †
Dance Students — Nicole Albanese, Gabby Boucher, Briana Cohen, Gabrielle Corsino, Miranda Degen-Portnoy, Amanda Gregorio, Elana Schlansky, Monica Whitlock (Dance Captain)
THEATRE DEPARTMENT
Ms. Meyers — Tori Forelli
Serena Katz — Paige Winn* / Jessica Newman †
Nick Piazza — John Morgan Adams
Joe “Jose” Vegas — Jeremy Sutherland
Theatre Students — Claire Banse, Katherine Binney, Dahlilah Degen-Portnoy, Catherine Gladstone, Erika Hedden, Emily Waters, Lily Young
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Mr. Sheinhopf — Luke McDonough
Grace “Lambchops” Lamb — Alex Mahoney* / Lily Oksanen †
Schlomo Metzenbaum — Larson Miller* / Geoffrey Binney †
Goodman “Goody” King — Michael LaFerriere
Music Students — Michael Audet, Natalie Boucher, Rebecca Kelly-Bowditch, Kate Carpenter, Nathalie Danizio, Rebecca Jarrell, Sarah Hession Kunz
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
Ms. Sherman — Emma Stewart* / Maggie Whitlock †
* Performs Friday evening and Saturday afternoon (Cast A)
† Performs Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon (Cast B)
Box Office Information
Tickets are available now on TicketStage or by calling 781-899-4467.
PREMIUM (first 6 rows center)
Adult: $20 | Student / Senior Citizen: $18
REGULAR
Adult: $17 | Student / Senior Citizen: $15
Students through high school, Seniors age 65+
PREMIUM (first 6 rows center)
Adult: $20 | Student / Senior Citizen: $18
REGULAR
Adult: $17 | Student / Senior Citizen: $15
Students through high school, Seniors age 65+
Production Staff
Director — Sharon Bisantz
Musical Director — Brent Kincaid
Choreographer — Lenni Kmiec
Executive Producer — Stephanie C. Mavrides
Producer — James Forbes Sheehan
Founding Directors — Stephanie C. Mavrides and Jan Kmiec
Business Manager, Advertising — Nancy Malis
Director of Marketing & Communications — James Forbes Sheehan
Educational Programs, Workshops — Lenni Kmiec
Production Stage Manager — Kelly Hanley Goode
Scenic Design — Allen Bantly
Costume Design — Kristin Lundin
Lighting Design — Matthew Morin
Sound Design & Engineering — Jan Kmiec
Wigs — Jake O'Hara
Assistant Stage Manager / Props — Catherine Goode
Musical Director — Brent Kincaid
Choreographer — Lenni Kmiec
Executive Producer — Stephanie C. Mavrides
Producer — James Forbes Sheehan
Founding Directors — Stephanie C. Mavrides and Jan Kmiec
Business Manager, Advertising — Nancy Malis
Director of Marketing & Communications — James Forbes Sheehan
Educational Programs, Workshops — Lenni Kmiec
Production Stage Manager — Kelly Hanley Goode
Scenic Design — Allen Bantly
Costume Design — Kristin Lundin
Lighting Design — Matthew Morin
Sound Design & Engineering — Jan Kmiec
Wigs — Jake O'Hara
Assistant Stage Manager / Props — Catherine Goode
Who's Who on the Production Staff
SHARON BISANTZ (Director) previously
directed ACTS’ productions of Children of Eden, Anything Goes (also
co-choreographer), and Oklahoma! Her training began at the Martha
Graham School in New York. However, over 30 years ago, she left the world of
modern dance and began to work in theatre as a director and choreographer
throughout the Boston area. She has directed and choreographed at numerous area
theatres including Turtle Lane Playhouse, Vokes Theatre, Newton Country
Players, the Concord Players, and Hovey Players. For over fifteen years, she
has directed and been on the theatre staff at Middlesex School Summer Arts
(MSSA). For several years, she was the Show Choir Choreographer for Lowell High
School and is now their Drama Advisor. She is also a middle school English
teacher. Sharon is the proud mother of Kate and Max—both grown up. She and her
husband, Jerry, are now empty-nesters, living in Lowell with their dog, Gracie.
BRENT KINCAID (Musical Director) is excited to music direct ACTS’s production of Fame! He was last seen music directing Salem State’s Summer Theatre program productions of Into the Woods, Footloose! and Grease. He is a rehearsal accompanist and pit accompanist for many theaters in the Boston region, which include such shows as Godspell, Altar Boyz, The Wedding Singer, West Side Story, CATS, Hairspray, and Miss Saigon. Enjoy the Show!
LENNI KMIEC (Choreographer) received an EMACT/DASH Award nomination for 'Best Choreography' for her recreation of Bob Fosse’s original dances for ACTS’ 2010 production of Chicago. Lenni also directed last fall’s production of Little Women: The Musical. Lenni is a professional actress in the Boston area, currently working with the American Repertory Theatre in both the Donkey Show (dir. Diane Paulus) and The Rocky Horror Show, and in Wheelock Family Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz. Other Boston credits include A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre), Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera (OBERON), Sarah in BEDS (Fort Points Theatre Channel), Petra in A Little Night Music (Metro Stage), Lou Ann in Hairspray (Reagle), Winnie in No, No, Nanette (Reagle, starring Tony® winner Donna McKechnie), Cousin Fan in Mame (Reagle, starring Lee Meriwether), and Maria in West Side Story (Footlight Club). A recent graduate of Wagner College, her previous college credits include Beth March in Little Women, Maggie Anderson in Brigadoon, Susan in Tick Tick Boom, and Pitti-Sing in The Mikado.
STEPHANIE C. MAVRIDES (Founding Director, Executive Producer) is the Founding Director of International Dance Project and Co-Founder of ACTS. A graduate of Suffolk University and Emerson College, Stephanie has performed with Edward Villella, the National Ballet Of Greece, The Athens Ballet, Dimitri Ivanov Ballet, Boston Chamber Dance Ensemble, Bay State Ballet, Copley Square Ballet Company, as well as in numerous musicals, cabarets, television specials, concerts and fashion shows. She has also coordinated and produced major seminars, dance concerts and musicals with renown artists both domestically and abroad. Stephanie is a recipient of the Capezio Award for Excellence for Choreography. Since 1999, the Alexander Children's Theatre School (named in loving memory of the late Stephen Alexander) has been producing high-quality, full-scale theatrical productions in the Greater Boston area, performed by students and directed and designed by professionals.
JAMES FORBES SHEEHAN (Producer, Director of Marketing and Communications) has been working with ACTS in various capacities since 2006. He also works for Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston (Graphic Designer), Turtle Lane Playhouse (Playbill & Graphic Designer), and the Concord Players (Social Media). At ACTS, he won a 2011 EMACT DASH Award for his performance as Amos Hart in Chicago last year, and was also nominated for his performance as Archibald in The Secret Garden. He is a student at Wagner College in New York, studying Theatre Arts Administration. He will appear in their February/March production of Urinetown (Various Roles, u/s Bobby Strong), directed by two-time Tony® Award nominee John Carrafa. Thank you Stephanie, Kelly, and Nancy for all you do.
KELLY HANLEY GOODE (Stage Manager) is an Emmy Award-winning television producer whose work includes the WGBH children’s drama Willoughby’s Wonders, the public television documentary When A Kid is Gay, and the ABC After School Special In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story. Kelly’s recent theatre management credits include The Nantucket Dreamland’s The Sound of Music and Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventure, and last spring’s Concord Middle School production of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. Fame is Kelly’s second show with ACTS, having previously stage managed 13: The Musical in June.
ALLEN BANTLY (Scenic Design) and his crews have built the Concord Players’ productions of West Side Story, The Lion in Winter, Cabaret and The Scarlet Pimpernel, all of which won EMACT DASH Awards for ‘Best Set Design’. He was also set designer and head builder for Concord’s The Man Who Came to Dinner, Crossing Delancey, and the upcoming Amateurs, as well as head of set construction for The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Breaking Legs, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (EMACT DASH nomination – ‘Best Set Design’), To Kill a Mockingbird and Hay Fever. Allen previously designed the scenery for ACTS’ productions of Oklahoma!, The Secret Garden (with Peter Watson), and 13.
KRISTIN LUNDIN (Costumes) has designed costumes for numerous ACTS productions, most recently Chicago and The Wedding Singer. Some favorite costuming achievements have been Once on this Island with Newton Country Players, and 42nd Street and Les Misérables with ACTS.
MATT MORIN (Lighting Design) previously designed lighting for ACTS’ 13 and worked tech for Seussical and Little Women. He has tech directed and done lighting design for High School Musical, Suessical and Alice in Wonderland at the Kennedy Middle School in Waltham. At his school he did sound and lighting for their productions of Aladdin and Peter Pan.
JAN KMIEC (Sound Design, Co-Founder) received his B.S. in Mass Communications and Filmmaking while enrolled at Emerson College and Suffolk University on their Co-op. program. It was there that he met with his future business partner and life-long friend, Stephen Alexander, and his wife, Stephanie Mavrides. Eleni Kmiec, Paul Kmiec and ACTS are a direct result of Jan’s association with these two special people and the three things of which he is most proud. Jan has served as audio-visual director for numerous theatre and dance companies in the area, as well as for corporate and professional events. He was nominated for a 2011 EMACT DASH Award for ‘Best Sound Design’ of Ragtime produced by the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts (winner – ‘Best Musical’).
BRENT KINCAID (Musical Director) is excited to music direct ACTS’s production of Fame! He was last seen music directing Salem State’s Summer Theatre program productions of Into the Woods, Footloose! and Grease. He is a rehearsal accompanist and pit accompanist for many theaters in the Boston region, which include such shows as Godspell, Altar Boyz, The Wedding Singer, West Side Story, CATS, Hairspray, and Miss Saigon. Enjoy the Show!
LENNI KMIEC (Choreographer) received an EMACT/DASH Award nomination for 'Best Choreography' for her recreation of Bob Fosse’s original dances for ACTS’ 2010 production of Chicago. Lenni also directed last fall’s production of Little Women: The Musical. Lenni is a professional actress in the Boston area, currently working with the American Repertory Theatre in both the Donkey Show (dir. Diane Paulus) and The Rocky Horror Show, and in Wheelock Family Theatre’s The Wizard of Oz. Other Boston credits include A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre), Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera (OBERON), Sarah in BEDS (Fort Points Theatre Channel), Petra in A Little Night Music (Metro Stage), Lou Ann in Hairspray (Reagle), Winnie in No, No, Nanette (Reagle, starring Tony® winner Donna McKechnie), Cousin Fan in Mame (Reagle, starring Lee Meriwether), and Maria in West Side Story (Footlight Club). A recent graduate of Wagner College, her previous college credits include Beth March in Little Women, Maggie Anderson in Brigadoon, Susan in Tick Tick Boom, and Pitti-Sing in The Mikado.
STEPHANIE C. MAVRIDES (Founding Director, Executive Producer) is the Founding Director of International Dance Project and Co-Founder of ACTS. A graduate of Suffolk University and Emerson College, Stephanie has performed with Edward Villella, the National Ballet Of Greece, The Athens Ballet, Dimitri Ivanov Ballet, Boston Chamber Dance Ensemble, Bay State Ballet, Copley Square Ballet Company, as well as in numerous musicals, cabarets, television specials, concerts and fashion shows. She has also coordinated and produced major seminars, dance concerts and musicals with renown artists both domestically and abroad. Stephanie is a recipient of the Capezio Award for Excellence for Choreography. Since 1999, the Alexander Children's Theatre School (named in loving memory of the late Stephen Alexander) has been producing high-quality, full-scale theatrical productions in the Greater Boston area, performed by students and directed and designed by professionals.
JAMES FORBES SHEEHAN (Producer, Director of Marketing and Communications) has been working with ACTS in various capacities since 2006. He also works for Reagle Music Theatre of Greater Boston (Graphic Designer), Turtle Lane Playhouse (Playbill & Graphic Designer), and the Concord Players (Social Media). At ACTS, he won a 2011 EMACT DASH Award for his performance as Amos Hart in Chicago last year, and was also nominated for his performance as Archibald in The Secret Garden. He is a student at Wagner College in New York, studying Theatre Arts Administration. He will appear in their February/March production of Urinetown (Various Roles, u/s Bobby Strong), directed by two-time Tony® Award nominee John Carrafa. Thank you Stephanie, Kelly, and Nancy for all you do.
KELLY HANLEY GOODE (Stage Manager) is an Emmy Award-winning television producer whose work includes the WGBH children’s drama Willoughby’s Wonders, the public television documentary When A Kid is Gay, and the ABC After School Special In the Shadow of Love: A Teen AIDS Story. Kelly’s recent theatre management credits include The Nantucket Dreamland’s The Sound of Music and Gooney Bird Greene and Her True Life Adventure, and last spring’s Concord Middle School production of You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown. Fame is Kelly’s second show with ACTS, having previously stage managed 13: The Musical in June.
ALLEN BANTLY (Scenic Design) and his crews have built the Concord Players’ productions of West Side Story, The Lion in Winter, Cabaret and The Scarlet Pimpernel, all of which won EMACT DASH Awards for ‘Best Set Design’. He was also set designer and head builder for Concord’s The Man Who Came to Dinner, Crossing Delancey, and the upcoming Amateurs, as well as head of set construction for The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Breaking Legs, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (EMACT DASH nomination – ‘Best Set Design’), To Kill a Mockingbird and Hay Fever. Allen previously designed the scenery for ACTS’ productions of Oklahoma!, The Secret Garden (with Peter Watson), and 13.
KRISTIN LUNDIN (Costumes) has designed costumes for numerous ACTS productions, most recently Chicago and The Wedding Singer. Some favorite costuming achievements have been Once on this Island with Newton Country Players, and 42nd Street and Les Misérables with ACTS.
MATT MORIN (Lighting Design) previously designed lighting for ACTS’ 13 and worked tech for Seussical and Little Women. He has tech directed and done lighting design for High School Musical, Suessical and Alice in Wonderland at the Kennedy Middle School in Waltham. At his school he did sound and lighting for their productions of Aladdin and Peter Pan.
JAN KMIEC (Sound Design, Co-Founder) received his B.S. in Mass Communications and Filmmaking while enrolled at Emerson College and Suffolk University on their Co-op. program. It was there that he met with his future business partner and life-long friend, Stephen Alexander, and his wife, Stephanie Mavrides. Eleni Kmiec, Paul Kmiec and ACTS are a direct result of Jan’s association with these two special people and the three things of which he is most proud. Jan has served as audio-visual director for numerous theatre and dance companies in the area, as well as for corporate and professional events. He was nominated for a 2011 EMACT DASH Award for ‘Best Sound Design’ of Ragtime produced by the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts (winner – ‘Best Musical’).